diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
index 2229cb01f1..7fc6c896d2 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1999-12-23  Havoc Pennington  <hp@pobox.com>
+
+	* gdk-pixbuf/io-gif.c (image_load): Stuff that should have been
+	set to NULL here (specifically context->animation) was not being
+	set to NULL. use g_new0() to alloc the struct.
+
 1999-12-20  Jonathan Blandford  <jrb@redhat.com>
 
 	* gdk-pixbuf/io-gif.c: finished work to make animated gifs load
diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/io-gif.c b/gdk-pixbuf/io-gif.c
index 1a0fc963cb..c36809ba0a 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/io-gif.c
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/io-gif.c
@@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ new_context (void)
 {
 	GifContext *context;
 
-	context = g_new (GifContext, 1);
+	context = g_new0 (GifContext, 1);
 	context->pixbuf = NULL;
 	context->file = NULL;
 	context->state = GIF_START;