diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cfe4870787..e515da43aa 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-Thu Oct  4 16:52:20 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+Thu Oct  4 16:54:00 2007  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* re.c (kcode_setter): Perl-ish global variable `$=' no longer
 	  effective.
 
 	* io.c (Init_IO): remove obsolete variables: $defout, $deferr.
 
+	* re.c (Init_Regexp): remove obsolete const alias: MatchingData.
+
 Thu Oct  4 16:28:33 2007  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* encoding.c (rb_obj_encoding): returns encoding of the given object.
diff --git a/re.c b/re.c
index d6983295b3..00d2839727 100644
--- a/re.c
+++ b/re.c
@@ -2442,7 +2442,6 @@ Init_Regexp(void)
     rb_global_variable(&reg_cache);
 
     rb_cMatch  = rb_define_class("MatchData", rb_cObject);
-    rb_define_global_const("MatchingData", rb_cMatch);
     rb_define_alloc_func(rb_cMatch, match_alloc);
     rb_undef_method(CLASS_OF(rb_cMatch), "new");