diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7624157e..560fe5f0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 - add "password" option to pdfload
 - improve the pixel rng
 - add meson build system [tintou]
+- improve introspection annotations [tintou]
 
 26/11/21 started 8.12.3
 - better arg checking for hist_find_ndim [travisbell]
diff --git a/libvips/iofuncs/header.c b/libvips/iofuncs/header.c
index f1bd137d..92dad899 100644
--- a/libvips/iofuncs/header.c
+++ b/libvips/iofuncs/header.c
@@ -1878,21 +1878,21 @@ vips_image_get_as_string( const VipsImage *image,
 /**
  * vips_image_print_field:
  * @image: image to get the header field from
- * @field: field name
+ * @name: field name
  *
  * Prints field @name to stdout as ASCII. Handy for debugging. 
  */
 void
-vips_image_print_field( const VipsImage *image, const char *field )
+vips_image_print_field( const VipsImage *image, const char *name )
 {
 	char *str;
 
-	if( vips_image_get_as_string( image, field, &str ) ) {
+	if( vips_image_get_as_string( image, name, &str ) ) {
 		printf( "vips_image_print_field: unable to read field\n" );
 		return;
 	}
 
-	printf( ".%s: %s\n", field, str );
+	printf( ".%s: %s\n", name, str );
 
 	g_free( str ); 
 }
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 6174e0be..b5a98d8e 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ option('deprecated', type : 'boolean', value : true, description: 'Build depreca
 option('doxygen', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'Build C++ documentation')
 option('gtk_doc', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'Build GTK-doc documentation')
 option('modules', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Build dynamic modules')
-option('introspection', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'Build GObject Introspection')
+option('introspection', type : 'boolean', value : true, description: 'Build GObject Introspection')
 option('vapi', type : 'boolean', value : false, description: 'Build VAPI')
 # External libraries
 option('cfitsio', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description: 'Build with cfitsio')