diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e914904021a31d25bf1c7bd1cf4f7b682bad6588
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+Git v1.7.4.4 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.4.3
+--------------------
+
+ * Compilation of sha1_file.c on BSD platforms were broken due to our
+   recent use of getrlimit() without including <sys/resource.h>.
+
+ * "git config" did not diagnose incorrect configuration variable names.
+
+ * "git format-patch" did not wrap a long subject line that resulted from
+   rfc2047 encoding.
+
+ * "git instaweb" should work better again with plackup.
+
+ * "git log --max-count=4 -Sfoobar" now shows 4 commits that changes the
+   number of occurrences of string "foobar"; it used to scan only for 4
+   commits and then emitted only matching ones.
+
+ * "git log --first-parent --boundary $c^..$c" segfaulted on a merge.
+
+ * "git pull" into an empty branch should have behaved as if
+   fast-forwarding from emptiness to the version being pulled, with
+   the usual protection against overwriting untracked files.
+
+ * "git status" spent all the effort to notice racily-clean index entries
+   but didn't update the index file to help later operations go faster in
+   some cases.
+
+And other minor fixes and documentation updates.
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.7.4.3-22-g8c8674f
+echo O=$(git describe maint)
+git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 49b50eec86828066c90b6165c35ec21cb51e85ce..40498b33c9f09ef9cac1f7340a9a1ceb2ffcd50d 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@
 #endif
 #ifndef __MINGW32__
 #include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #include <termios.h>