diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ec4b047a..e4e3c475 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+3/7/13 started 7.34.2
+- lower priority for Matlab load to reduce segvs from Mat_Open(), thanks
+  Michael
+
 28/6/13 started 7.34.1
 - fix morphological operators on non-uchar images
 - remove any ICC profile when we use vips to go to srgb
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 18ba33c3..df67eb25 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # also update the version number in the m4 macros below
 
-AC_INIT([vips], [7.34.1], [vipsip@jiscmail.ac.uk])
+AC_INIT([vips], [7.34.2], [vipsip@jiscmail.ac.uk])
 # required for gobject-introspection
 AC_PREREQ(2.62)
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 # user-visible library versioning
 m4_define([vips_major_version], [7])
 m4_define([vips_minor_version], [34])
-m4_define([vips_micro_version], [1])
+m4_define([vips_micro_version], [2])
 m4_define([vips_version],
           [vips_major_version.vips_minor_version.vips_micro_version])
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ VIPS_VERSION_STRING=$VIPS_VERSION-`date`
 #   binary interface changes not backwards compatible?: reset age to 0
 
 LIBRARY_CURRENT=34
-LIBRARY_REVISION=4
+LIBRARY_REVISION=5
 LIBRARY_AGE=3
 
 # patched into include/vips/version.h
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/matload.c b/libvips/foreign/matload.c
index 04c0ef6a..c066b110 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/matload.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/matload.c
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
  *
  * 5/12/11
  * 	- from tiffload.c
+ * 3/7/13
+ * 	- lower priority to reduce segvs from Mat_Open()
  */
 
 /*
@@ -118,6 +120,11 @@ vips_foreign_load_mat_class_init( VipsForeignLoadMatClass *class )
 
 	foreign_class->suffs = vips__mat_suffs;
 
+	/* We need to be lower priority than the jpeg loader, since some jpegs
+	 * can make libmatio segv on Mat_Open(). 
+	 */
+	foreign_class->priority = -50;
+
 	load_class->is_a = vips__mat_ismat;
 	load_class->get_flags_filename = 
 		vips_foreign_load_mat_get_flags_filename;