diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ba0c0530b90816..b8959a1fe2219f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Jul 22 13:55:59 2011  Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net>
+
+	* lib/net/http.rb:  Net::HTTP#finish is used to manually close
+	  connections.  [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5045]
+
 Fri Jul 22 13:51:29 2011  Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net>
 
 	* ext/readline/readline.c:  Add examples for Readline.completion_proc=.
diff --git a/lib/net/http.rb b/lib/net/http.rb
index f89858836f8c5a..7c9032aaa6ba9f 100644
--- a/lib/net/http.rb
+++ b/lib/net/http.rb
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class HTTPHeaderSyntaxError < StandardError; end
   # If you wish to re-use a connection across multiple HTTP requests without
   # automatically closing it you can use ::new instead of ::start.  #request
   # will automatically open a connection to the server if one is not currently
-  # open.  You can manually close the connection with #close.
+  # open.  You can manually close the connection with #finish.
   #
   # === Response Data
   #