diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 4a34df5ea..3b93a5fee 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -87,9 +87,12 @@
     <action issue="COLLECTIONS-671" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Gary Gregory">
       Add org.apache.commons.collections4.IterableUtils.first(Iterable).
     </action>
-    <action issue="COLLECTIONS-675" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="">
+    <action issue="COLLECTIONS-675" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Matthew Knight">
       Modify IteratorUtils.peekingIterator signature to return PeekingIterator.
     </action>
+    <action issue="COLLECTIONS-676" dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Matthew Knight">
+      Modify IteratorUtils.pushbackIterator signature to return PushbackIterator.
+    </action>
   </release>
   <release version="4.1" date="2015-11-28" description="This is a security and minor release.">
     <action issue="COLLECTIONS-508" dev="tn" type="add">
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/IteratorUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/IteratorUtils.java
index 8863cd31d..f0d2ba268 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/IteratorUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/IteratorUtils.java
@@ -873,8 +873,9 @@ public class IteratorUtils {
      * @return a pushback iterator
      * @throws NullPointerException if the iterator is null
      * @since 4.0
+     * @since 4.2 returns a {@link PushbackIterator} instead of a {@link Iterator}.
      */
-    public static <E> Iterator<E> pushbackIterator(final Iterator<? extends E> iterator) {
+    public static <E> PushbackIterator<E> pushbackIterator(final Iterator<? extends E> iterator) {
         return PushbackIterator.pushbackIterator(iterator);
     }