diff --git a/src/Core/Settings.h b/src/Core/Settings.h
index 55ea2d43713..b3e25d61034 100644
--- a/src/Core/Settings.h
+++ b/src/Core/Settings.h
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ class IColumn;
     M(ParquetVersion, output_format_parquet_version, "2.latest", "Parquet format version for output format. Supported versions: 1.0, 2.4, 2.6 and 2.latest (default)", 0) \
     M(ParquetCompression, output_format_parquet_compression_method, "zstd", "Compression method for Parquet output format. Supported codecs: snappy, lz4, brotli, zstd, gzip, none (uncompressed)", 0) \
     M(Bool, output_format_parquet_compliant_nested_types, true, "In parquet file schema, use name 'element' instead of 'item' for list elements. This is a historical artifact of Arrow library implementation. Generally increases compatibility, except perhaps with some old versions of Arrow.", 0) \
-    M(Bool, output_format_parquet_use_custom_encoder, false, "Use a faster Parquet encoder implementation.", 0) \
+    M(Bool, output_format_parquet_use_custom_encoder, true, "Use a faster Parquet encoder implementation.", 0) \
     M(Bool, output_format_parquet_parallel_encoding, true, "Do Parquet encoding in multiple threads. Requires output_format_parquet_use_custom_encoder.", 0) \
     M(UInt64, output_format_parquet_data_page_size, 1024 * 1024, "Target page size in bytes, before compression.", 0) \
     M(UInt64, output_format_parquet_batch_size, 1024, "Check page size every this many rows. Consider decreasing if you have columns with average values size above a few KBs.", 0) \
diff --git a/src/Core/SettingsChangesHistory.h b/src/Core/SettingsChangesHistory.h
index f4a51bc64a7..4a651811a2a 100644
--- a/src/Core/SettingsChangesHistory.h
+++ b/src/Core/SettingsChangesHistory.h
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ static std::map<ClickHouseVersion, SettingsChangesHistory::SettingsChanges> sett
               {"azure_allow_parallel_part_upload", "true", "true", "Use multiple threads for azure multipart upload."},
               {"max_recursive_cte_evaluation_depth", DBMS_RECURSIVE_CTE_MAX_EVALUATION_DEPTH, DBMS_RECURSIVE_CTE_MAX_EVALUATION_DEPTH, "Maximum limit on recursive CTE evaluation depth"},
               {"query_plan_convert_outer_join_to_inner_join", false, true, "Allow to convert OUTER JOIN to INNER JOIN if filter after JOIN always filters default values"},
-              }},
+              {"output_format_parquet_use_custom_encoder", false, true, "Enable custom Parquet encoder."},
+    }},
     {"24.3", {{"s3_connect_timeout_ms", 1000, 1000, "Introduce new dedicated setting for s3 connection timeout"},
               {"allow_experimental_shared_merge_tree", false, true, "The setting is obsolete"},
               {"use_page_cache_for_disks_without_file_cache", false, false, "Added userspace page cache"},