diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.html b/RELEASE-NOTES.html
index 2f9c74f7f..645b52368 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.html
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.html
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ If this causes major headaches to anyone please contact commons-dev at jakarta.a
 <ul>
 <li>Flat3Map - Fix setValue in MapIterator and EntrySetIterator to work correctly [COLLECTIONS-217]</li>
 <li>ExtendedProperties - Include property name had confused static/instance semantics [COLLECTIONS-214]</li>
+<li>CollectionUtils - Fix removeAll() method which was completely broken [COLLECTIONS-219]</li>
 </ul>
 
 <center><h3>JAVADOC</h3></center>
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections/CollectionUtils.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections/CollectionUtils.java
index 43a2f0cdf..25ec7193e 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections/CollectionUtils.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/collections/CollectionUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- *  Copyright 2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *  Copyright 2001-2006 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -1115,10 +1115,10 @@ public class CollectionUtils {
      * @return a <code>Collection</code> containing all the elements of <code>collection</code> except
      * any elements that also occur in <code>remove</code>.
      * @throws NullPointerException if either parameter is null
-     * @since Commons Collections 3.2
+     * @since Commons Collections 3.3 (method existed in 3.2 but was completely broken)
      */
     public static Collection removeAll(Collection collection, Collection remove) {
-        return ListUtils.retainAll(collection, remove);
+        return ListUtils.removeAll(collection, remove);
     }
 
     //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/commons/collections/TestCollectionUtils.java b/src/test/org/apache/commons/collections/TestCollectionUtils.java
index e3a2d6f7c..d74bce6f8 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/commons/collections/TestCollectionUtils.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/commons/collections/TestCollectionUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- *  Copyright 2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *  Copyright 2001-2006 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -1237,8 +1237,70 @@ public class TestCollectionUtils extends TestCase {
         assertEquals(eltb,eltc);
         assertEquals(eltc,eltb);
     }
-    
-     public void testTransformedCollection() {
+
+    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    public void testRetainAll() {
+        List base = new ArrayList();
+        base.add("A");
+        base.add("B");
+        base.add("C");
+        List sub = new ArrayList();
+        sub.add("A");
+        sub.add("C");
+        sub.add("X");
+        
+        Collection result = CollectionUtils.retainAll(base, sub);
+        assertEquals(2, result.size());
+        assertEquals(true, result.contains("A"));
+        assertEquals(false, result.contains("B"));
+        assertEquals(true, result.contains("C"));
+        assertEquals(3, base.size());
+        assertEquals(true, base.contains("A"));
+        assertEquals(true, base.contains("B"));
+        assertEquals(true, base.contains("C"));
+        assertEquals(3, sub.size());
+        assertEquals(true, sub.contains("A"));
+        assertEquals(true, sub.contains("C"));
+        assertEquals(true, sub.contains("X"));
+        
+        try {
+            CollectionUtils.retainAll(null, null);
+            fail("expecting NullPointerException");
+        } catch(NullPointerException npe){} // this is what we want
+    }
+
+    public void testRemoveAll() {
+        List base = new ArrayList();
+        base.add("A");
+        base.add("B");
+        base.add("C");
+        List sub = new ArrayList();
+        sub.add("A");
+        sub.add("C");
+        sub.add("X");
+        
+        Collection result = CollectionUtils.removeAll(base, sub);
+        assertEquals(1, result.size());
+        assertEquals(false, result.contains("A"));
+        assertEquals(true, result.contains("B"));
+        assertEquals(false, result.contains("C"));
+        assertEquals(3, base.size());
+        assertEquals(true, base.contains("A"));
+        assertEquals(true, base.contains("B"));
+        assertEquals(true, base.contains("C"));
+        assertEquals(3, sub.size());
+        assertEquals(true, sub.contains("A"));
+        assertEquals(true, sub.contains("C"));
+        assertEquals(true, sub.contains("X"));
+        
+        try {
+            CollectionUtils.removeAll(null, null);
+            fail("expecting NullPointerException");
+        } catch(NullPointerException npe){} // this is what we want
+    }
+
+    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+    public void testTransformedCollection() {
         Transformer transformer = TransformerUtils.nopTransformer();
         Collection collection = 
             CollectionUtils.transformedCollection(new ArrayList(), transformer);
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/commons/collections/TestListUtils.java b/src/test/org/apache/commons/collections/TestListUtils.java
index 2d0d16b5a..69abaea8d 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/commons/collections/TestListUtils.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/commons/collections/TestListUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- *  Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *  Copyright 2001-2004,2006 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ public class TestListUtils extends BulkTest {
         assertTrue(retained.equals(fullList));
         
         try {
-            List list = ListUtils.retainAll(null, null);
+            ListUtils.retainAll(null, null);
             fail("expecting NullPointerException");
         } catch(NullPointerException npe){} // this is what we want
     }
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ public class TestListUtils extends BulkTest {
         assertTrue(remainder.equals(fullList));
         
         try {
-            List list = ListUtils.removeAll(null, null);
+            ListUtils.removeAll(null, null);
             fail("expecting NullPointerException");
         } catch(NullPointerException npe) {} // this is what we want
     }