diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 21c28d78961..3c211ae9d2f 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -214,7 +214,33 @@ Apache Lucene trunk
 Apache Tika 0.8
 Carrot2 3.4.2
 
-(No Changes)
+
+Upgrading from Solr 3.1
+----------------------
+
+Detailed Change List
+----------------------
+
+New Features
+----------------------
+
+Optimizations
+----------------------
+
+Bug Fixes
+----------------------
+
+* SOLR-2445: Register "standard" search handler. (koji)
+
+Other Changes
+----------------------
+
+Build
+----------------------
+
+Documentation
+----------------------
+
 
 ==================  3.1.0-dev ==================
 Versions of Major Components
diff --git a/solr/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/RequestHandlers.java b/solr/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/RequestHandlers.java
index ddd6b3aa8f4..ef672625269 100644
--- a/solr/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/RequestHandlers.java
+++ b/solr/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/RequestHandlers.java
@@ -17,18 +17,6 @@
 
 package org.apache.solr.core;
 
-import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
-import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException.ErrorCode;
-import org.apache.solr.common.util.NamedList;
-import org.apache.solr.common.util.SimpleOrderedMap;
-import org.apache.solr.request.SolrQueryRequest;
-import org.apache.solr.request.SolrRequestHandler;
-import org.apache.solr.response.SolrQueryResponse;
-import org.apache.solr.util.plugin.SolrCoreAware;
-import org.apache.solr.util.plugin.PluginInfoInitialized;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -36,6 +24,21 @@ import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException.ErrorCode;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonParams;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.CommonParams.EchoParamStyle;
+import org.apache.solr.common.util.NamedList;
+import org.apache.solr.common.util.SimpleOrderedMap;
+import org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler;
+import org.apache.solr.request.SolrQueryRequest;
+import org.apache.solr.request.SolrRequestHandler;
+import org.apache.solr.response.SolrQueryResponse;
+import org.apache.solr.util.plugin.PluginInfoInitialized;
+import org.apache.solr.util.plugin.SolrCoreAware;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
 /**
  */
 final class RequestHandlers {
@@ -68,6 +71,18 @@ final class RequestHandlers {
   
   public RequestHandlers(SolrCore core) {
       this.core = core;
+      register(DEFAULT_HANDLER_NAME, getStandardHandler());
+  }
+  
+  private SolrRequestHandler getStandardHandler(){
+    SolrRequestHandler standard = core.createRequestHandler(SearchHandler.class.getName());
+    NamedList defParams = new NamedList();
+    defParams.add(CommonParams.HEADER_ECHO_PARAMS, EchoParamStyle.EXPLICIT.toString());
+    defParams.add(CommonParams.ROWS, 10);
+    NamedList nl = new NamedList();
+    nl.add("defaults", defParams);
+    standard.init(nl);
+    return standard;
   }
 
   /**