diff --git a/actionpack/CHANGELOG b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
index fb79d417c7..dc6395aefd 100644
--- a/actionpack/CHANGELOG
+++ b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 * Fixed Form.disable in Prototype #1317 [Wintermute]
 
-* Added accessors to logger, params, response, session, and headers from the view, so you can write <% logger.info "stuff" %> instead of <% @logger.info "others" %> -- more consistent with the preferred way of accessing these attributes and collections from the controller
+* Added accessors to logger, params, response, session, flash, and headers from the view, so you can write <% logger.info "stuff" %> instead of <% @logger.info "others" %> -- more consistent with the preferred way of accessing these attributes and collections from the controller
 
 * Added support for POST data in form of YAML or XML, which is controller through the X-POST_DATA_MARSHAL header. Example request:
 
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb
index 998578e35b..fa51ec2947 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ module ActionView #:nodoc:
     attr_accessor :base_path, :assigns, :template_extension
     attr_accessor :controller
     
-    attr_reader :logger, :params, :response, :session, :headers
+    attr_reader :logger, :params, :response, :session, :headers, :flash
 
     # Turn on to cache the reading of templates from the file system. Doing so means that you have to restart the server
     # when changing templates, but that rendering will be faster.