diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 849c7fdea..6a12cf82c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Wed Dec 22 12:04:00 1999  Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk>
 	* Source/NSImage.m: When creating an off-screen cache, fill with
 	the background color (so having multiple caches for different
 	backgrounds will work).
+	Set 'NSImageDoesCaching' to 'YES' by default - we do image caching
+	as standard now.
 
 Wed Dec 22 10:08:00 1999  Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk>
 
diff --git a/Source/NSImage.m b/Source/NSImage.m
index 52d9c5241..d843e7c72 100644
--- a/Source/NSImage.m
+++ b/Source/NSImage.m
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 #include <AppKit/NSScreen.h>
 #include <AppKit/NSColor.h>
 
-BOOL	NSImageDoesCaching = NO;	/* enable caching	*/
+BOOL	NSImageDoesCaching = YES;	/* enable caching	*/
 BOOL	NSImageForceCaching = NO;	/* use on missmatch	*/
 
 // Resource directories