diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 7eb21da74fc..238618130fa 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ API Changes
     so Lucene can read its date fields from old indexes
     (Yonik Seeley & Grant Ingersoll)
 
+ 2. DisjunctionSumScorer is no longer public.
+    (Paul Elschot via Otis Gospodnetic)
+
 Bug fixes
 
  1. LUCENE-330: Fix issue of FilteredQuery not working properly within
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/DisjunctionSumScorer.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/DisjunctionSumScorer.java
index 2d47830f252..d853b31d3eb 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/DisjunctionSumScorer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/DisjunctionSumScorer.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package org.apache.lucene.search;
 
 /**
- * Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright 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.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.util.PriorityQueue;
 /** A Scorer for OR like queries, counterpart of Lucene's <code>ConjunctionScorer</code>.
  * This Scorer implements {@link Scorer#skipTo(int)} and uses skipTo() on the given Scorers. 
  */
-public class DisjunctionSumScorer extends Scorer {
+class DisjunctionSumScorer extends Scorer {
   /** The number of subscorers. */ 
   private final int nrScorers;