diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 77eacda4941..d10c20b624d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ Changes in runtime behavior
 Optimizations
 
 Bug Fixes
+ 1. Make TextField respect sortMissingFirst and sortMissingLast fields.
+    (J.J. Larrea via yonik)
 
 Other Changes
  1. SOLR-135: Moved common classes to org.apache.solr.common and altered the
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TextField.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TextField.java
index 2066e717417..1803fe278af 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TextField.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TextField.java
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public class TextField extends CompressableField {
   }
 
   public SortField getSortField(SchemaField field, boolean reverse) {
-    return new SortField(field.name,SortField.STRING, reverse);
+    return getStringSort(field, reverse);
   }
 
   public void write(XMLWriter xmlWriter, String name, Fieldable f) throws IOException {