Another 2.4 release

[Mike Alexander]

--On December 7, 2013 7:15:08 PM +0100 Geert Janssens 
<janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> I went through the recent bug fixes on trunk and back ported several
> to 2.4. If I have  skipped commits on trunk that you think should be
> back ported as well please go ahead and  do so or give me a shout and
> I'll try to do it.

I just backported my recent fix for bug 653594 in r23497, or at least I 
think I did.  I haven't done this before, so if I did something wrong, 
let me know and I'll fix it.

             Mike