diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 90b830c1cdd..febe57d52c3 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 HBase Change Log
+Release 0.20.0 - Unreleased
+  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
+
+  BUG FIXES
+   HBASE-1136   HashFunction inadvertently destroys some randomness
+
 Release 0.19.0 - Unreleased
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
    HBASE-885   TableMap and TableReduce should be interfaces
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 96d5c684394..a55819446f3 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 -->
 
 <project name="hbase" default="jar">
-  <property name="version" value="0.19.0"/>
+  <property name="version" value="0.20.0-dev"/>
   <property name="Name" value="HBase"/>
   <property name="final.name" value="hbase-${version}"/>
   <property name="year" value="2008"/>
diff --git a/src/java/org/onelab/filter/HashFunction.java b/src/java/org/onelab/filter/HashFunction.java
index a0c26964e2f..cf97c7bcaa2 100644
--- a/src/java/org/onelab/filter/HashFunction.java
+++ b/src/java/org/onelab/filter/HashFunction.java
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ public final class HashFunction {
       }
       int[] result = new int[nbHash];
       for (int i = 0, initval = 0; i < nbHash; i++) {
-        initval = result[i] = Math.abs(hashFunction.hash(b, initval) % maxValue);
+	  initval = hashFunction.hash(b, initval);
+	  result[i] = Math.abs(initval) % maxValue;
       }
       return result;
   }//end hash()