diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index dc61713b9cb..9e2a0cfff65 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ jetty-7.1.0.RC1-SNAPSHOT
  + 311154 Use Appendable in preference to StringBuilder/StringBuffer in APIs
  + 308865 Update test suite to JUnit4 - Module jetty-start
  + 309153 Hide extracted WEB-INF/lib when running a non-extracted war
+ + 309686 Fixed response buffers usage
  + 311362 Optional org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.stderr.SOURCE 
 
 jetty-7.1.0.RC0 27 April 2010
diff --git a/jetty-http/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/http/HttpBuffers.java b/jetty-http/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/http/HttpBuffers.java
index 95bcdf84ab1..351ef15938c 100644
--- a/jetty-http/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/http/HttpBuffers.java
+++ b/jetty-http/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/http/HttpBuffers.java
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ public abstract class HttpBuffers extends AbstractLifeCycle
 
     public Buffers getResponseBuffers()
     {
-        return _requestBuffers;
+        return _responseBuffers;
     }
     
     /**