diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4dbae76b..d334f897 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Aug 18 19:15:27 PDT 2004 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
+
+	* parser.c: fixed missing line numbers on entity as reported
+	  on the list by Steve Cheng
+
 Wed Aug 18 14:04:31 PDT 2004 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
 
 	* configure.in globals.c include/libxml/xmlversion.h.in
diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
index f0198c68..c01c9de5 100644
--- a/parser.c
+++ b/parser.c
@@ -10382,6 +10382,7 @@ xmlParseCtxtExternalEntity(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctx, const xmlChar *URL,
     ctxt->dictNames = ctx->dictNames;
     ctxt->attsDefault = ctx->attsDefault;
     ctxt->attsSpecial = ctx->attsSpecial;
+    ctxt->linenumbers = ctx->linenumbers;
 
     xmlParseContent(ctxt);