diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 4387f947..87b3053f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Version 0.27.0 (2024-12-19)
+---------------------------
+Redshift: use zstd compression encoding instead text255 with the columns for enum fields (#215)
+
 Version 0.26.0 (2024-11-25)
 ---------------------------
 Preserve original field order when merging parquet Fields (#213)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a348f734..e12b7768 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Schema DDL itself does not provide any CLI and expose only Scala API.
 Schema DDL is compiled against Scala 2.12 and 2.13 and available on Maven Central. In order to use it with SBT, include following module:
 
 ```scala
-libraryDependencies += "com.snowplowanalytics" %% "schema-ddl" % "0.25.0"
+libraryDependencies += "com.snowplowanalytics" %% "schema-ddl" % "0.27.0"
 ```
 
 
@@ -64,5 +64,5 @@ limitations under the License.
 [contributing]: https://docs.snowplow.io/docs/contributing/
 [contributing-image]: https://d3i6fms1cm1j0i.cloudfront.net/github/images/contributing.png
 
-[api-reference]: https://snowplow.github.io/schema-ddl/0.25.0/com/snowplowanalytics/iglu/schemaddl/index.html
+[api-reference]: https://snowplow.github.io/schema-ddl/0.27.0/com/snowplowanalytics/iglu/schemaddl/index.html
 [api-reference-image]: https://d3i6fms1cm1j0i.cloudfront.net/github/images/techdocs.png
diff --git a/modules/core/src/main/scala/com.snowplowanalytics/iglu.schemaddl/redshift/ShredModelEntry.scala b/modules/core/src/main/scala/com.snowplowanalytics/iglu.schemaddl/redshift/ShredModelEntry.scala
index 5a72dfba..4912c3d5 100644
--- a/modules/core/src/main/scala/com.snowplowanalytics/iglu.schemaddl/redshift/ShredModelEntry.scala
+++ b/modules/core/src/main/scala/com.snowplowanalytics/iglu.schemaddl/redshift/ShredModelEntry.scala
@@ -35,11 +35,9 @@ case class ShredModelEntry(
     .flatMap(_.apply(subSchema))
     .getOrElse(ShredModelEntry.ColumnType.RedshiftVarchar(ShredModelEntry.VARCHAR_SIZE))
 
-  lazy val compressionEncoding: ShredModelEntry.CompressionEncoding = (subSchema.`enum`, columnType) match {
-    case (Some(_), ShredModelEntry.ColumnType.RedshiftVarchar(size)) if size <= 255 =>
-      ShredModelEntry.CompressionEncoding.Text255Encoding
-    case (_, ShredModelEntry.ColumnType.RedshiftBoolean) => ShredModelEntry.CompressionEncoding.RunLengthEncoding
-    case (_, ShredModelEntry.ColumnType.RedshiftDouble) => ShredModelEntry.CompressionEncoding.RawEncoding
+  lazy val compressionEncoding: ShredModelEntry.CompressionEncoding = columnType match {
+    case ShredModelEntry.ColumnType.RedshiftBoolean => ShredModelEntry.CompressionEncoding.RunLengthEncoding
+    case ShredModelEntry.ColumnType.RedshiftDouble => ShredModelEntry.CompressionEncoding.RawEncoding
     case _ => ShredModelEntry.CompressionEncoding.ZstdEncoding
   }
 
@@ -169,7 +167,6 @@ object ShredModelEntry {
 
     implicit val compressionEncodingShow: Show[CompressionEncoding] = Show.show {
       case RawEncoding => s"ENCODE RAW"
-      case Text255Encoding => s"ENCODE TEXT255"
       case ZstdEncoding => s"ENCODE ZSTD"
       case RunLengthEncoding => "ENCODE RUNLENGTH"
     }
@@ -178,8 +175,6 @@ object ShredModelEntry {
 
     case object RunLengthEncoding extends CompressionEncoding
 
-    case object Text255Encoding extends CompressionEncoding
-
     case object ZstdEncoding extends CompressionEncoding
   }
 
diff --git a/modules/core/src/test/scala/com/snowplowanalytics/iglu/schemaddl/redshift/internal/ShredModelEntrySpec.scala b/modules/core/src/test/scala/com/snowplowanalytics/iglu/schemaddl/redshift/internal/ShredModelEntrySpec.scala
index 3d4e6408..cd23d0d9 100644
--- a/modules/core/src/test/scala/com/snowplowanalytics/iglu/schemaddl/redshift/internal/ShredModelEntrySpec.scala
+++ b/modules/core/src/test/scala/com/snowplowanalytics/iglu/schemaddl/redshift/internal/ShredModelEntrySpec.scala
@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ class ShredModelEntrySpec extends Specification {
   }
 
   "suggest compression" should {
-    "suggest Text255Encoding for enums less then 255 in length" in {
+    "suggest zstd for enums less then 255 in length" in {
       val props = json"""{"type": "string", "enum": ["one", "two"], "maxLength": 42}""".schema
-      ShredModelEntry(dummyPtr, props).compressionEncoding must beEqualTo(Text255Encoding)
+      ShredModelEntry(dummyPtr, props).compressionEncoding must beEqualTo(ZstdEncoding)
     }
 
     "suggest RunLengthEncoding for booleans" in {