diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dbad020a..9e61a2ed 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -16,9 +16,13 @@
 - add vips_hough base class and vips_hough_line()
 - add "mode" param to vips_draw_image()
 - add vips_hough_circle()
+- reduce default cache size to 1,000 operations
 
 6/3/14 started 7.38.6
 - grey ramp minimum was wrong
+- vipsthumbnail --crop could fail for very non-square images, thanks
+  Alessandro
+- fix a crash in vips_rawsave(), thanks Andrea
 
 24/2/14 started 7.38.5
 - jpeg load from buffer could write to input, thanks Lovell
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/rawsave.c b/libvips/foreign/rawsave.c
index 0ab34125..14679878 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/rawsave.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/rawsave.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ vips_rawsave( VipsImage *in, const char *filename, ... )
 	int result;
 
 	va_start( ap, filename );
-	result = vips_call_split( "rawsave", ap, filename );
+	result = vips_call_split( "rawsave", ap, in, filename );
 	va_end( ap );
 
 	return( result );
diff --git a/libvips/iofuncs/cache.c b/libvips/iofuncs/cache.c
index b25f5949..40cdbcdc 100644
--- a/libvips/iofuncs/cache.c
+++ b/libvips/iofuncs/cache.c
@@ -77,10 +77,12 @@ char *vips__cache_max_files = NULL;
 gboolean vips__cache_dump = FALSE;
 gboolean vips__cache_trace = FALSE;
 
-/* Max number of cached operations. We are likely to trim due to memuse or
- * file use before we hit this limit.
+/* Max number of cached operations. 
+ *
+ * It was 10,000, but this was too high for batch-style applications with
+ * little reuse. 
  */
-static int vips_cache_max = 10000;
+static int vips_cache_max = 1000;
 
 /* How many tracked open files we allow before we start dropping cache.
  */