diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
index 62910972f..3b49152f4 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ sub import {
 	# Hook to change to do pinging since it's called late.
 	# This ensures each page only pings once and prevents slow
 	# pings interrupting page builds.
-	hook(type => "change", id => "inline", call => \&IkiWiki::pingurl);
+	hook(type => "rendered", id => "inline", call => \&IkiWiki::pingurl);
 }
 
 sub getopt () {
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/pinger.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/pinger.pm
index ea4f3e0dc..588f7a42a 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/pinger.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/pinger.pm
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ sub import {
 	hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "pinger", call => \&needsbuild);
 	hook(type => "preprocess", id => "ping", call => \&preprocess);
 	hook(type => "delete", id => "pinger", call => \&ping);
-	hook(type => "change", id => "pinger", call => \&ping);
+	hook(type => "rendered", id => "pinger", call => \&ping);
 }
 
 sub getsetup () {
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/po.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/po.pm
index 287b5aa11..26c6463da 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/po.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/po.pm
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ sub import {
 	hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "po", call => \&pagetemplate, last => 1);
 	hook(type => "rename", id => "po", call => \&renamepages, first => 1);
 	hook(type => "delete", id => "po", call => \&mydelete);
-	hook(type => "change", id => "po", call => \&change);
+	hook(type => "rendered", id => "po", call => \&rendered);
 	hook(type => "checkcontent", id => "po", call => \&checkcontent);
 	hook(type => "canremove", id => "po", call => \&canremove);
 	hook(type => "canrename", id => "po", call => \&canrename);
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ sub mydelete (@) {
 	map { deletetranslations($_) } grep istranslatablefile($_), @deleted;
 }
 
-sub change (@) {
+sub rendered (@) {
 	my @rendered=@_;
 
 	my $updated_po_files=0;
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/rsync.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/rsync.pm
index e38801e4a..1b85ea000 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/rsync.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/rsync.pm
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use IkiWiki 3.00;
 
 sub import {
 	hook(type => "getsetup", id => "rsync", call => \&getsetup);
-	hook(type => "change", id => "rsync", call => \&postrefresh);
+	hook(type => "rendered", id => "rsync", call => \&postrefresh);
 	hook(type => "delete", id => "rsync", call => \&postrefresh);
 }
 
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm.example b/IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm.example
index 7974d5e53..956c52201 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm.example
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm.example
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ sub import {
 	hook(type => "templatefile", id => "skeleton", call => \&templatefile);
 	hook(type => "pageactions", id => "skeleton", call => \&pageactions);
 	hook(type => "delete", id => "skeleton", call => \&delete);
-	hook(type => "change", id => "skeleton", call => \&change);
+	hook(type => "rendered", id => "skeleton", call => \&rendered);
+	hook(type => "changes", id => "skeleton", call => \&changes);
 	hook(type => "cgi", id => "skeleton", call => \&cgi);
 	hook(type => "auth", id => "skeleton", call => \&auth);
 	hook(type => "sessioncgi", id => "skeleton", call => \&sessioncgi);
@@ -167,10 +168,16 @@ sub delete (@) {
 	debug("skeleton plugin told that files were deleted: @files");
 }
 
-sub change (@) {
+sub rendered (@) {
 	my @files=@_;
 
-	debug("skeleton plugin told that changed files were rendered: @files");
+	debug("skeleton plugin told that files were rendered: @files");
+}
+
+sub changes (@) {
+	my @files=@_;
+
+	debug("skeleton plugin told that files were changed: @files");
 }
 
 sub cgi ($) {
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/transient.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/transient.pm
index c0ad5fc11..4ea4317d4 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/transient.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/transient.pm
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use IkiWiki 3.00;
 sub import {
 	hook(type => "getsetup", id => "transient",  call => \&getsetup);
 	hook(type => "checkconfig", id => "transient", call => \&checkconfig);
-	hook(type => "change", id => "transient", call => \&change);
+	hook(type => "rendered", id => "transient", call => \&rendered);
 }
 
 sub getsetup () {
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ sub checkconfig () {
 	}
 }
 
-sub change (@) {
+sub rendered (@) {
 	foreach my $file (@_) {
 		# If the corresponding file exists in the transient underlay
 		# and isn't actually being used, we can get rid of it.
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Render.pm b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
index adb39a983..98aab8204 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Render.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
@@ -829,8 +829,13 @@ sub refresh () {
 		run_hooks(delete => sub { shift->(@$del, @$internal_del) });
 	}
 	if (%rendered) {
-		run_hooks(change => sub { shift->(keys %rendered) });
+		run_hooks(rendered => sub { shift->(keys %rendered) });
+		run_hooks(change => sub { shift->(keys %rendered) }); # back-compat
 	}
+	run_hooks(difference => sub {
+		shift->(@$new, @$changed, @$del,
+			@$internal_new, @$internal_changed, @$internal_del);
+	});
 }
 
 sub clean_rendered {
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 90e619cd1..861679b4e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ ikiwiki (3.20120204) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     them.
   * meta: Export author information in html <meta> tag. Closes: #664779
     Thanks, Martin Michlmayr
-  * changemail: New plugin, sends emails about changed pages.
+  * notifyemail: New plugin, sends email notifications about new and 
+    changed pages.
+  * Added a "changes" hook. Renamed the "change" hook to "rendered", but
+    the old hook name is called for now for back-compat.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:33:14 -0400
 
diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index cc5f6e5ed..4c66e51f8 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -376,17 +376,28 @@ the second is a log message resembling
 
 	hook(type => "delete", id => "foo", call => \&delete);
 
-Each time a page or pages is removed from the wiki, the referenced function
+After a page or pages is removed from the wiki, the referenced function
 is called, and passed the names of the source files that were removed.
 
-### change
+### rendered
 
-	hook(type => "change", id => "foo", call => \&render);
+	hook(type => "rendered", id => "foo", call => \&rendered);
 
-Each time ikiwiki renders a change or addition (but not deletion) to the
+After ikiwiki renders a change or addition (but not deletion) to the
 wiki, the referenced function is called, and passed the names of the
 source files that were rendered.
 
+(This hook used to be called "change", but that was not accurate.
+For now, plugins using the old hook name will still work.)
+
+### changes
+
+	hook(type => "changes", id => "foo", call => \&changes);
+
+After ikiwiki renders changes to the wiki, the referenced function is
+called, and passed the names of the source files that were added, modified,
+or deleted.
+
 ### cgi
 
 	hook(type => "cgi", id => "foo", call => \&cgi);