diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index fd17855b..fe859ed6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Explicitly require 'stringio' in copy_test [mislav]
+
 * When Subversion#query_revision fails, give a more sane error [Jamis Buck]
 
 * Don't run the upgrade:revisions task on non-release servers [Jamis Buck]
diff --git a/test/deploy/strategy/copy_test.rb b/test/deploy/strategy/copy_test.rb
index 69932d85..b53ec8aa 100644
--- a/test/deploy/strategy/copy_test.rb
+++ b/test/deploy/strategy/copy_test.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../../utils"
 require 'capistrano/logger'
 require 'capistrano/recipes/deploy/strategy/copy'
+require 'stringio'
 
 class DeployStrategyCopyTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   def setup