diff --git a/docs/rh-log.txt b/docs/rh-log.txt
index 20053ca44..3f12a453c 100644
--- a/docs/rh-log.txt
+++ b/docs/rh-log.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-April 4, 2009
+April 6, 2009  (Changes by Graf Zahl)
+- Fixed: The UDMF textmap readbuffer was never freed.
+
+April 4, 2009
 - Fixed: GetPlayerInput() died if you tried to get the input of the activator
   and the activator was the world.
 
diff --git a/src/p_udmf.cpp b/src/p_udmf.cpp
index 1e5403392..7a82e6564 100644
--- a/src/p_udmf.cpp
+++ b/src/p_udmf.cpp
@@ -1107,6 +1107,7 @@ struct UDMFParser
 
 		map->Read(ML_TEXTMAP, buffer);
 		sc.OpenMem(Wads.GetLumpFullName(map->lumpnum), buffer, map->Size(ML_TEXTMAP));
+		delete [] buffer;
 		sc.SetCMode(true);
 		if (sc.CheckString("namespace"))
 		{
@@ -1232,7 +1233,6 @@ struct UDMFParser
 
 		// Create the real linedefs and decompress the sidedefs
 		ProcessLineDefs();
-
 	}
 };