diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fd5b181d6a..35085cdd47 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Sat Jan 22 11:33:04 2011  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
+
+	* ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb: merge keys are actually
+	  part of YAML 1.1, so they should be supported.  Remove warning and
+	  merge keys to parent.  [ruby-core:34679]
+
+	* test/psych/test_merge_keys.rb: test for merge keys
+
 Sat Jan 22 11:21:40 2011  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
 
 	* ext/psych/parser.c (parse): fixing off-by-one error on line numbers
diff --git a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb
index 745338ad99..b5bec54af5 100644
--- a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb
+++ b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb
@@ -188,13 +188,7 @@ module Psych
             key = accept(k)
 
             if key == '<<' && Nodes::Alias === v
-              # FIXME: remove this when "<<" syntax is deprecated
-              if $VERBOSE
-                where = caller.find { |x| x !~ /psych/ }
-                warn where
-                warn "\"<<: *#{v.anchor}\" is no longer supported, please switch to \"*#{v.anchor}\""
-              end
-              return accept(v)
+              hash.merge! accept(v)
             else
               hash[key] = accept(v)
             end
diff --git a/test/psych/test_merge_keys.rb b/test/psych/test_merge_keys.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9aadcc85e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/psych/test_merge_keys.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+require_relative 'helper'
+
+module Psych
+  class TestMergeKeys < TestCase
+    # [ruby-core:34679]
+    def test_merge_key
+      yaml = <<-eoyml
+foo: &foo
+  hello: world
+bar:
+  << : *foo
+  baz: boo
+      eoyml
+
+      hash = {
+        "foo" => { "hello" => "world"},
+        "bar" => { "hello" => "world", "baz" => "boo" } }
+      assert_equal hash, Psych.load(yaml)
+    end
+  end
+end