diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 478e19e9c1..be21ac4bc7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-01-17  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@gnome.org>
+
+	* gtk/gtkrecentchoosermenu.c: Fix a wrong free() call. (Thanks
+	to Thomas Wood for catching that)
+
 2007-01-17  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
 	* modules/printbackends/cups/gtkprintbackendcups.c: Don't use
diff --git a/gtk/gtkrecentchoosermenu.c b/gtk/gtkrecentchoosermenu.c
index ed9397ea6e..6492e16a77 100644
--- a/gtk/gtkrecentchoosermenu.c
+++ b/gtk/gtkrecentchoosermenu.c
@@ -941,6 +941,8 @@ gtk_recent_chooser_menu_create_item (GtkRecentChooserMenu *menu,
       item = gtk_image_menu_item_new_with_label (text);
     }
 
+  g_free (text);
+
   label = GTK_BIN (item)->child;
   if (label)
     {
@@ -962,9 +964,6 @@ gtk_recent_chooser_menu_create_item (GtkRecentChooserMenu *menu,
   		    G_CALLBACK (item_activate_cb),
   		    menu);
 
-out:
-  g_free (label);
-
   return item;
 }