diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 15a315029f..9e601fc5e6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Wed Mar 30 01:54:30 2016  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* tool/redmine-backporter.rb: add given revision to current changests
+	  on associating the revision to the related ticket.
+
+Wed Mar 30 01:53:17 2016  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* tool/merger.rb: update revision.h before merge.
+
 Tue Mar 29 19:33:54 2016  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* addr2line.c: define toupper for its use. fix r54391.
diff --git a/tool/redmine-backporter.rb b/tool/redmine-backporter.rb
index 72046e2498..aedd2d3d36 100755
--- a/tool/redmine-backporter.rb
+++ b/tool/redmine-backporter.rb
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ eom
 
   "rel" => proc{|args|
     # this feature requires custom redmine which allows add_related_issue API
-    raise CommandSyntaxError unless /\A(\d+)\z/ =~ args
+    raise CommandSyntaxError unless /\Ar?(\d+)\z/ =~ args
     unless @issue
       puts "ticket not selected"
       next
@@ -420,9 +420,10 @@ eom
         res.value
       rescue
         $stderr.puts "deployed redmine doesn't have https://github.com/ruby/bugs.ruby-lang.org/commit/01fbba60d68cb916ddbccc8a8710e68c5217171d\nask naruse or hsbt"
-        return
+        raise
       end
       puts res.body
+      @changesets << rev
       class << @changesets
         remove_method(:validated) rescue nil
       end