Is it ok to set up gzip compression with https?

Hello,

I'm new to Nginx and taking a course on it. The course recommends turning on gzip compression and using caching. I see that in the Nginx configuration file it makes a note of a bug from 2014. The bug seems to note a security issue when using Nginx with ssl and gzip for compression. Is this bug still a problem? Is it save to use gzip compression with ssl? [I'm planning on implementing a lets encrypt cert down the road.]

Bug from the debian bug tracker
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773332

I'm using ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS and nginx version
nginx/xenial,xenial,now 1.12.0-1+xenial1 all [installed]

in my nginx.conf
user www-data;
worker_processes auto;

pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

#log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
# '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
# '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
error_log /var/log/nginx_error.log error;
#access_log logs/access.log main;

sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;

keepalive_timeout 65;

# SSL
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # no sslv3 (poodle etc.)
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

# Gzip Settings
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_vary on;
gzip_min_length 512;
gzip_types text/plain text/html application/json application/javascript application/xml application/xml+rss application/x-javascript text/javascript application/javascript text/xml text/css application/font-sfnt;

fastcgi_cache_path /usr/share/nginx/cache/fcgi levels=1:2 keys_zone=microcache:10m max_size=1024m inactive=1h;

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}


Thanks!