diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
index adfd688a6..0890830a7 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
 	}
 	elsif ($key eq 'permalink') {
 		$permalink{$page}=$value;
+		$meta{$page}.="<link rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"".encode_entities($value)."\" />\n";
 	}
 	else {
 		$meta{$page}.="<meta name=\"".encode_entities($key).
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 02638688e..c6de974c6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ ikiwiki (1.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Various CSS and formatting changes.
   * Encode link and guid urls in rss feeds to avoid illegal utf8 slipping in.
   * Add xhtml files to the default prune regexp.
+  * Also generate rel=bookmark links for permalinks.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Aug 2006 22:35:11 -0400
 
diff --git a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
index cacb462c9..de04dcdd5 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ You can use any field names you like, but here are some predefined ones:
 
 * permalink
 
-  Specifies the permalink to the page, for use in RSS feeds.
+  Specifies a perminent link to the page, if different than the page
+  generated by ikiwiki.
 
 If the field is not treated specially (as the link and title fields are),
 the metadata will be written to the generated html page as a &lt;meta&gt;