diff --git a/appstream-glib.changes b/appstream-glib.changes
index b4c4799..87a7814 100644
--- a/appstream-glib.changes
+++ b/appstream-glib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Sep  1 06:55:23 UTC 2015 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- openSUSE-appstream-process: compress the status html files
+  (boo#942985). 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jul 23 14:11:53 UTC 2015 - zaitor@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/openSUSE-appstream-process b/openSUSE-appstream-process
index 6b9a772..270e130 100644
--- a/openSUSE-appstream-process
+++ b/openSUSE-appstream-process
@@ -27,8 +27,13 @@ URL=https://static.opensuse.org/appstream/tumbleweed
   ${DEST}/appdata.xml.gz 	\
   ${DEST}/appdata.html
 
+# compress the HTML file (boo#942985)
+xz -9 ${DEST}/appdata.html
+
 /usr/bin/appstream-util 	\
   status-html			\
   ${DEST}/appdata-failed.xml.gz \
   ${DEST}/appdata-failed.html
 
+# compress the HTML file (boo#942985)
+xz -9 ${DEST}/appdata-failed.html