diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 621bc7ac..9b1a6b62 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Updated migrate action to use db:migrate task in Rails instead of the deprecated migrate task [DHH]
+
 * Allow SSH user and port to be encoded in the hostname strings [Ezra Zygmuntowicz]
 
 * Fixed that new checkouts were not group-writable [DHH, Jamis Buck]
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/recipes/standard.rb b/lib/capistrano/recipes/standard.rb
index 59825983..62fa2d4a 100644
--- a/lib/capistrano/recipes/standard.rb
+++ b/lib/capistrano/recipes/standard.rb
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ task :migrate, :roles => :db, :only => { :primary => true } do
   end
 
   run "cd #{directory} && " +
-      "#{rake} RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} #{migrate_env} migrate"
+      "#{rake} RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} #{migrate_env} db:migrate"
 end
 
 desc <<-DESC