diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index f967e75aa9c..ffea4834b0b 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ New features
   SegmentInfosReader to allow customization of SegmentInfos data.
   (Andrzej Bialecki)
 
+* LUCENE-2559: Added SegmentReader.reopen methods (John Wang via Mike
+  McCandless)
+
 Optimizations
 
 * LUCENE-2410: ~20% speedup on exact (slop=0) PhraseQuery matching.
diff --git a/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/SegmentReader.java b/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/SegmentReader.java
index b216cd976e9..601de789562 100644
--- a/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/SegmentReader.java
+++ b/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/SegmentReader.java
@@ -611,6 +611,18 @@ public class SegmentReader extends IndexReader implements Cloneable {
     return reopenSegment(si, true, openReadOnly);
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public synchronized IndexReader reopen()
+    throws CorruptIndexException, IOException {
+    return reopenSegment(si, false, readOnly);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public synchronized IndexReader reopen(boolean openReadOnly)
+    throws CorruptIndexException, IOException {
+    return reopenSegment(si, false, openReadOnly);
+  }
+
   synchronized SegmentReader reopenSegment(SegmentInfo si, boolean doClone, boolean openReadOnly) throws CorruptIndexException, IOException {
     boolean deletionsUpToDate = (this.si.hasDeletions() == si.hasDeletions()) 
                                   && (!si.hasDeletions() || this.si.getDelFileName().equals(si.getDelFileName()));