diff --git a/IkiWiki/Render.pm b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
index eb01a4227..3422024d1 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Render.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
@@ -156,10 +156,6 @@ sub scan ($) { #{{{
 		my $page=pagename($file);
 		will_render($page, htmlpage($page), 1);
 
-		# Always needs to be done, since filters might add links
-		# to the content.
-		$content=filter($page, $page, $content);
-	
 		if ($config{discussion}) {
 			# Discussion links are a special case since they're
 			# not in the text of the page, but on its template.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d80f78062..5e833d090 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ ikiwiki (2.49) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * inline: The optimisation in 2.41 broke nested inlines. Detect those
     and avoid overoptimising.
   * search: Converted to use xapian-omega.
+  * Filter hooks are no longer called during the scan phase. This will
+    prevent wikilinks added by filters from being scanned properly. But
+    no known filter hook does that, and calling filters unncessarily during
+    scan slowed down complex filters such as the one used to update the xapian
+    index.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 30 May 2008 19:08:54 -0400