diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 1f1391181..29f5db14c 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Provided by Anope Dev. <dev@anope.org> - 2005
 02/13 A Internal Event support, see EVENTS in the doc folder for help     [ #00]
 02/05 A Support for Unreal 3.2 +I channel mode.                           [ #00]
 02/03 A Merged anope-win32 branch into the main, now Win32 ready.         [ #00]
+03/02 F Fixed LogUser message, normalizes the "realname" on nick change.  [#306]
 03/02 F ircd protocol support for owner and admin taken from proto. files.[ #00]
 03/02 F /ns alist output.                                                 [#288]
 02/28 F normalizeBuffer() now strips two digit color codes                [#303]
diff --git a/src/users.c b/src/users.c
index 825b9d4fd..cd89bf0db 100644
--- a/src/users.c
+++ b/src/users.c
@@ -661,10 +661,14 @@ User *do_nick(const char *source, char *nick, char *username, char *host,
             alog("debug: %s changes nick to %s", source, nick);
 
         if (LogUsers) {
+            logrealname = normalizeBuffer(user->realname);
             if (ircd->vhost) {
-                alog("LOGUSERS: %s (%s@%s => %s) (%s) changed his nick to %s (%s).", user->nick, user->username, user->host, (user->vhost ? user->vhost : "(none)"), user->realname, nick, user->server->name);
+                alog("LOGUSERS: %s (%s@%s => %s) (%s) changed his nick to %s (%s).", user->nick, user->username, user->host, (user->vhost ? user->vhost : "(none)"), logrealname, nick, user->server->name);
             } else {
-                alog("LOGUSERS: %s (%s@%s) (%s) changed his nick to %s (%s).", user->nick, user->username, user->host, user->realname, nick, user->server->name);
+                alog("LOGUSERS: %s (%s@%s) (%s) changed his nick to %s (%s).", user->nick, user->username, user->host, logrealname, nick, user->server->name);
+            }
+            if (logrealname) {
+                free(logrealname);
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/version.log b/version.log
index 5a78aad68..35764d080 100644
--- a/version.log
+++ b/version.log
@@ -8,10 +8,14 @@
 VERSION_MAJOR="1"
 VERSION_MINOR="7"
 VERSION_PATCH="8"
-VERSION_BUILD="590"
+VERSION_BUILD="591"
 
 # $Log$
 #
+# BUILD : 1.7.8 (591)
+# BUGS  : 306
+# NOTES : Fixed LogUser message, normalizes the "realname" on nick change.
+#
 # BUILD : 1.7.8 (590)
 # BUGS  : 288 / N/A
 # NOTES : Fixed 288, moved updated all set/unset admin/owner calls to use the ircd protocol files. This needs a fair good test, but it seems all ok, and i cant see anything wrong with it :)