diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c1c707dcb8..7d0ee15751 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 Changes with Apache 2.0.26-dev
 
+  *) Eliminate the depreciated r->content_language, in favor of the array
+     r->content_languages introduced many years ago.  Module authors must
+     substantially overhaul their modules, so this needs to be upgraded
+     if the module still relied on backwards-brokeness.  [William Rowe]
+
   *) Allow configure help strings to work with autoconf 2.50+ and 2.13.
      [Justin Erenkrantz]
 
diff --git a/include/ap_mmn.h b/include/ap_mmn.h
index b9eee6dd79..eb9f8d94ff 100644
--- a/include/ap_mmn.h
+++ b/include/ap_mmn.h
@@ -79,12 +79,13 @@
  * 20010726 (2.0.22-dev) more big API changes
  * 20010808 (2.0.23-dev) dir d_is_absolute bit introduced, bucket changes, etc
  * 20010825 (2.0.25-dev) removed d_is_absolute, introduced map_to_storage hook
+ * 20011002 (2.0.26-dev) removed 1.3-depreciated request_rec.content_language
  */
 
 #define MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE 0x41503230UL /* "AP20" */
 
 #ifndef MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER_MAJOR
-#define MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER_MAJOR 20010825
+#define MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER_MAJOR 20011002
 #endif
 #define MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER_MINOR 0                     /* 0...n */
 #define MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER_MAJOR	/* backward compat */
diff --git a/include/httpd.h b/include/httpd.h
index fbd6fb717a..17ba9ea9ff 100644
--- a/include/httpd.h
+++ b/include/httpd.h
@@ -806,9 +806,9 @@ struct request_rec {
     /** Notes from one module to another */
     apr_table_t *notes;
 
-    /* content_type, handler, content_encoding, content_language, and all
-     * content_languages MUST be lowercased strings.  They may be pointers
-     * to static strings; they should not be modified in place.
+    /* content_type, handler, content_encoding, and all content_languages 
+     * MUST be lowercased strings.  They may be pointers to static strings;
+     * they should not be modified in place.
      */
     /** The content-type for the current request */
     const char *content_type;	/* Break these out --- we dispatch on 'em */
@@ -817,8 +817,6 @@ struct request_rec {
 
     /** How to encode the data */
     const char *content_encoding;
-    /** for back-compat. only -- do not use */
-    const char *content_language;
     /** array of (char*) representing the content languages */
     apr_array_header_t *content_languages;
 
diff --git a/modules/http/http_protocol.c b/modules/http/http_protocol.c
index d38e2a1cca..ce93ad346b 100644
--- a/modules/http/http_protocol.c
+++ b/modules/http/http_protocol.c
@@ -1097,10 +1097,6 @@ AP_CORE_DECLARE_NONSTD(apr_status_t) ap_http_header_filter(
             apr_table_mergen(r->headers_out, "Content-Language", languages[i]);
         }
     }
-    else if (r->content_language) {
-        apr_table_setn(r->headers_out, "Content-Language",
-		       r->content_language);
-    }
 
     /*
      * Control cachability for non-cachable responses if not already set by
@@ -1774,7 +1770,6 @@ AP_DECLARE(void) ap_send_error_response(request_rec *r, int recursive_error)
             }
         }
 
-        r->content_language = NULL;
         r->content_languages = NULL;
         r->content_encoding = NULL;
         r->clength = 0;
diff --git a/modules/http/http_request.c b/modules/http/http_request.c
index e381da59d7..f7dec6aeb5 100644
--- a/modules/http/http_request.c
+++ b/modules/http/http_request.c
@@ -424,7 +424,6 @@ AP_DECLARE(void) ap_internal_fast_redirect(request_rec *rr, request_rec *r)
     r->content_type = rr->content_type;
     r->content_encoding = rr->content_encoding;
     r->content_languages = rr->content_languages;
-    r->content_language = rr->content_language;
     r->finfo = rr->finfo;
     r->per_dir_config = rr->per_dir_config;
     /* copy output headers from subrequest, but leave negotiation headers */
diff --git a/modules/http/mod_mime.c b/modules/http/mod_mime.c
index dc36b12218..9f5fa873be 100644
--- a/modules/http/mod_mime.c
+++ b/modules/http/mod_mime.c
@@ -754,12 +754,11 @@ static int find_ct(request_rec *r)
                 found = 1;
             }
             if (exinfo->language_type) {
-                r->content_language = exinfo->language_type; /* back compat. */
                 if (!r->content_languages)
                     r->content_languages = apr_array_make(r->pool, 2,
                                                           sizeof(char *));
-                *((const char **) apr_array_push(r->content_languages)) =
-                    exinfo->language_type;
+                    *((const char **) apr_array_push(r->content_languages))
+                                          = exinfo->language_type;
                 found = 1;
             }
             if (exinfo->encoding_type) {
@@ -863,7 +862,6 @@ static int find_ct(request_rec *r)
     if (!r->content_languages && conf->default_language) {
         const char **new;
 
-        r->content_language = conf->default_language; /* back compat. only */
         if (!r->content_languages)
             r->content_languages = apr_array_make(r->pool, 2, sizeof(char *));
         new = (const char **) apr_array_push(r->content_languages);
diff --git a/modules/metadata/mod_mime_magic.c b/modules/metadata/mod_mime_magic.c
index 02bf459892..932f7e9d67 100644
--- a/modules/metadata/mod_mime_magic.c
+++ b/modules/metadata/mod_mime_magic.c
@@ -2370,9 +2370,15 @@ static int revision_suffix(request_rec *r)
 	if (sub->content_encoding)
 	    r->content_encoding =
 		apr_pstrdup(r->pool, sub->content_encoding);
-	if (sub->content_language)
-	    r->content_language =
-		apr_pstrdup(r->pool, sub->content_language);
+        if (sub->content_languages) {
+            int n;
+	    r->content_languages = apr_array_copy(r->pool, 
+                                                  sub->content_languages);
+            for (n = 0; n < r->content_languages->nelts; ++n) {
+                char **lang = ((char **)r->content_languages->elts) + n;
+                *lang = apr_pstrdup(r->pool, *lang);
+            }
+        }
 	result = 1;
     }