diff --git a/changelog.html b/changelog.html
index 72021854aa8667746584a02856c6f3149f51023a..29d4d219d72e36301da641a0cbedd6b761b476ab 100644
--- a/changelog.html
+++ b/changelog.html
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ Upcoming changes</a>
   <li class='bug'>
     "projects tied to slave" shows unrelated maven module jobs
     (<a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-17451">issue 17451</a>)
+  <li class='bug'>
+    sort order of plugin list is not working by default.
+    (<a href="https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-17039">issue 17039</a>)
 </ul>
 </div><!--=TRUNK-END=-->
 
diff --git a/war/src/main/webapp/scripts/sortable.js b/war/src/main/webapp/scripts/sortable.js
index e298b6975e77d58e577ffda2ec5b8b7f014728f3..a640d9be0cee038af46680669957344b6ff49275 100644
--- a/war/src/main/webapp/scripts/sortable.js
+++ b/war/src/main/webapp/scripts/sortable.js
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ function ts_makeSortable(table) {
             cell.firstChild.lastChild.sortdir = initialSortDir;
     }
     ts_loadDirection(table);
+    ts_refresh(table);
 }
 
 function ts_getInnerText(el) {