diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
index d949566d8..5e21e7090 100644
--- a/IkiWiki.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki.pm
@@ -1295,6 +1295,7 @@ sub lockwiki () { #{{{
 } #}}}
 
 sub unlockwiki () { #{{{
+	POSIX::close($ENV{IKIWIKI_CGILOCK_FD}) if exists $ENV{IKIWIKI_CGILOCK_FD};
 	return close($wikilock) if $wikilock;
 	return;
 } #}}}
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm b/IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm
index 7a2d4381a..31e30ad2e 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm
@@ -72,12 +72,16 @@ EOF
 		# Avoid more than one ikiwiki cgi running at a time by
 		# taking a cgi lock. Since ikiwiki uses several MB of
 		# memory, a pile up of processes could cause thrashing
-		# otherwise.
+		# otherwise. The fd of the lock is stored in
+		# IKIWIKI_CGILOCK_FD so unlockwiki can close it.
 		$pre_exec=<<"EOF";
 	{
 		int fd=open("$config{wikistatedir}/cgilock", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666);
-		if (fd != -1)
-			flock(fd, LOCK_EX);
+		if (fd != -1 && flock(fd, LOCK_EX) == 0) {
+			char *fd_s;
+			asprintf(&fd_s, "%i", fd);
+			setenv("IKIWIKI_CGILOCK_FD", fd_s, 1);
+		}
 	}
 EOF
 	}
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2088b07ec..99f35482e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
-ikiwiki (2.69) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ikiwiki (2.69) unstable; urgency=low
 
+  * Avoid multiple ikiwiki cgi processes piling up, eating all memory,
+    and thrashing, by making the cgi wrapper wait on a cgilock.
+    If you had to set apache's MaxClients low to avoid ikiwiki thrashing your
+    server, you can now turn it up to a high value.
+  * Stop busy-waiting in lockwiki, as this could delay ikiwiki from waking up
+    for up to one second. The bailout code is no longer needed after above
+    change.
+  * Remove support for unused optional wait parameter from lockwiki.
   * aggregate: Try to query XML::Feed for the base url when derelevatising
     links. Since this needs the just released XML::Feed 0.3, as well 
     as a not yet released XML::RSS, it will fall back to the old method
@@ -14,16 +22,8 @@ ikiwiki (2.69) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * tag: Normalize tagbase so leading/trailing slashes in it don't break
     things.
   * bzr: Fix dates for recentchanges.
-  * Avoid multiple ikiwiki cgi processes piling up, eating all memory,
-    and thrashing, by making the cgi wrapper wait on a cgilock.
-    If you had to set apache's MaxClients low to avoid ikiwiki thrashing your
-    server, you can now turn it up to a high value.
-  * Stop busy-waiting in lockwiki, as this could delay ikiwiki from waking up
-    for up to one second. The bailout code is no longer needed after above
-    change.
-  * Remove support for unused optional wait parameter from lockwiki.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:01:00 -0500
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:35:55 -0500
 
 ikiwiki (2.68) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/po/ikiwiki.pot b/po/ikiwiki.pot
index 8cf3853e0..feb36c742 100644
--- a/po/ikiwiki.pot
+++ b/po/ikiwiki.pot
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2008-11-11 15:36-0500\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2008-11-11 20:48-0500\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
@@ -910,19 +910,19 @@ msgstr ""
 
 #. translators: The first parameter is a filename, and the second is
 #. translators: a (probably not translated) error message.
-#: ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm:93
+#: ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm:97
 #, perl-format
 msgid "failed to write %s: %s"
 msgstr ""
 
 #. translators: The parameter is a C filename.
-#: ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm:150
+#: ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm:154
 #, perl-format
 msgid "failed to compile %s"
 msgstr ""
 
 #. translators: The parameter is a filename.
-#: ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm:170
+#: ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm:174
 #, perl-format
 msgid "successfully generated %s"
 msgstr ""
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "preprocessing loop detected on %s at depth %i"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki.pm:1672
+#: ../IkiWiki.pm:1673
 msgid "yes"
 msgstr ""