diff --git a/CHANGES/3254.misc b/CHANGES/3254.misc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e1eb8ead
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/3254.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add support for reading zstd metadata.
diff --git a/pulp_rpm/app/tasks/publishing.py b/pulp_rpm/app/tasks/publishing.py
index 580de1dcf..f10c71e78 100644
--- a/pulp_rpm/app/tasks/publishing.py
+++ b/pulp_rpm/app/tasks/publishing.py
@@ -454,9 +454,9 @@ def generate_repo_metadata(
     mod_yml_path = os.path.join(cwd, "modules.yaml")
     comps_xml_path = os.path.join(cwd, "comps.xml")
 
-    pri_xml = cr.PrimaryXmlFile(pri_xml_path)
-    fil_xml = cr.FilelistsXmlFile(fil_xml_path)
-    oth_xml = cr.OtherXmlFile(oth_xml_path)
+    pri_xml = cr.PrimaryXmlFile(pri_xml_path, compressiontype=cr.GZ)
+    fil_xml = cr.FilelistsXmlFile(fil_xml_path, compressiontype=cr.GZ)
+    oth_xml = cr.OtherXmlFile(oth_xml_path, compressiontype=cr.GZ)
     upd_xml = None
 
     if publication.sqlite_metadata:
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ def generate_repo_metadata(
     update_records = UpdateRecord.objects.filter(pk__in=content).order_by("id", "digest")
     for update_record in update_records.iterator():
         if not upd_xml:
-            upd_xml = cr.UpdateInfoXmlFile(upd_xml_path)
+            upd_xml = cr.UpdateInfoXmlFile(upd_xml_path, compressiontype=cr.GZ)
         upd_xml.add_chunk(cr.xml_dump_updaterecord(update_record.to_createrepo_c()))
 
     # Process modulemd, modulemd_defaults and obsoletes
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4c5c20bf9..7a88383d2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-createrepo_c~=0.20.1
+createrepo_c~=1.0.1
 django_readonly_field~=1.1.1
 jsonschema>=4.6,<5.0
 libcomps>=0.1.15.post1,<0.2