diff --git a/actix-web/CHANGES.md b/actix-web/CHANGES.md
index fbe812259..9d09bacbe 100644
--- a/actix-web/CHANGES.md
+++ b/actix-web/CHANGES.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 - Improve handling of non-UTF-8 header values in `Logger` middleware.
 - Add `HttpServer::shutdown_signal()` method.
 - Mark `HttpServer` as `#[must_use]`.
+- Allow SVG images to be compressed by the `Compress` middleware.
 - Re-export `mime` dependency.
 - Update `brotli` dependency to `8`.
 
@@ -28,7 +29,6 @@
 - On Windows, an error is now returned from `HttpServer::bind()` (or TLS variants) when binding to a socket that's already in use.
 - Update `brotli` dependency to `7`.
 - Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) is now 1.75.
-- Fix Svg images not being compressed by the `Compress` middleware.
 
 ## 4.9.0
 
diff --git a/actix-web/src/middleware/compress.rs b/actix-web/src/middleware/compress.rs
index fccfaffee..7f0d8a4fb 100644
--- a/actix-web/src/middleware/compress.rs
+++ b/actix-web/src/middleware/compress.rs
@@ -191,13 +191,10 @@ where
                             None => true,
                             Some(hdr) => {
                                 match hdr.to_str().ok().and_then(|hdr| hdr.parse::<Mime>().ok()) {
-                                    Some(mime)
-                                        if mime.type_().as_str() == "image"
-                                            && mime.subtype().as_str() != "svg+xml" =>
-                                    {
-                                        false
+                                    Some(mime) if mime.type_() == mime::IMAGE => {
+                                        matches!(mime.subtype(), mime::SVG)
                                     }
-                                    Some(mime) if mime.type_().as_str() == "video" => false,
+                                    Some(mime) if mime.type_() == mime::VIDEO => false,
                                     _ => true,
                                 }
                             }