diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 78e96b95c..6e05032b8 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ $Source$
       latin1_spanish_ci (introduced with MySQL 4.1.2) is now described
       correctly.
     * lang/german-*.inc.php: Updates.
+    * scripts/create-release.sh: Create backup config file (RFE #968177).
 
 2004-06-06 Garvin Hicking <me@supergarv.de>
     * libraries/display_tbl.lib.php, libraries/functions.js,
diff --git a/scripts/create-release.sh b/scripts/create-release.sh
index 2473c9366..98c585699 100755
--- a/scripts/create-release.sh
+++ b/scripts/create-release.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 #
 # $Id$
 #
+# 2004-06-07  rabus@users.sourceforge.net
+# - create backup config file
+#
 # 2004-04-29, lem9@users.sourceforge.net:
 # - keep only the previous cvs directory created
 #
@@ -165,6 +168,9 @@ find phpMyAdmin \( -name '*.sh' -o -name '*.pl' \) -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
 # Building Documentation.txt
 lynx --dont_wrap_pre --nolist --dump phpMyAdmin/Documentation.html > phpMyAdmin/Documentation.txt
 
+# Creating a backup config.inc.php
+cp phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php phpMyAdmin/config.default
+
 # Renaming directory
  mv phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin-$target