diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
index c676427ee..daeab0112 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Changes since 4.1.1
 
+* [HTTPCLIENT-1078] Decompressing entities (DeflateDecompressingEntity, GzipDecompressingEntity) 
+  do not close content stream in #writeTo() method.
+  Contributed by Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk at apache.org>
+
 * [HTTPCLIENT-1075] Decompressing entities (DeflateDecompressingEntity, GzipDecompressingEntity) 
   do not correctly handle content streaming.
   Contributed by James Abley <james.abley at gmail.com> 
diff --git a/httpclient/src/main/java/org/apache/http/client/entity/DecompressingEntity.java b/httpclient/src/main/java/org/apache/http/client/entity/DecompressingEntity.java
index 5e5b9e350..06272a6e7 100644
--- a/httpclient/src/main/java/org/apache/http/client/entity/DecompressingEntity.java
+++ b/httpclient/src/main/java/org/apache/http/client/entity/DecompressingEntity.java
@@ -85,15 +85,17 @@ abstract class DecompressingEntity extends HttpEntityWrapper {
         if (outstream == null) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Output stream may not be null");
         }
-
         InputStream instream = getContent();
+        try {
+            byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
 
-        byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
+            int l;
 
-        int l;
-
-        while ((l = instream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
-            outstream.write(buffer, 0, l);
+            while ((l = instream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
+                outstream.write(buffer, 0, l);
+            }
+        } finally {
+            instream.close();
         }
     }