diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a7385ee155..dd038356fc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-04-18  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@gnome.org>
+
+	* gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c (gtk_recent_manager_lookup_item): Fix
+	a leak by not increasing the refcount of the GtkRecentInfo
+	object when returning it (thanks to Matthias Clasen).
+
 2007-04-16  Alexander Larsson  <alexl@redhat.com>
 
 	* gtk/gtkprintoperation.c (gtk_print_operation_run):
diff --git a/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c b/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c
index cc52a02ed6..05104737d0 100644
--- a/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c
+++ b/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.c
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ gtk_recent_manager_lookup_item (GtkRecentManager  *manager,
       return NULL;
     }
  
-  return gtk_recent_info_ref (info);
+  return info;
 }
 
 /**