diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index f2c3815..794d7c4 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
   <body>
     <release version="1.4" date="TBA" description=
 "TBA">
+      <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-244" dev="sebb" type="fix">DiskFileItem.readObject fails to close FileInputStream</action>
       <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-246" dev="sebb" type="update">FileUpload should use IOUtils.closeQuietly where relevant</action>
       <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-245" dev="sebb" type="fix">DiskFileItem.get() may not fully read the data</action>
       <action issue="FILEUPLOAD-243" dev="sebb" type="update" due-to="Ville Skyttä">Make some MultipartStream private fields final</action>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java
index f56ebd4..0eb56b4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@
         } else {
             FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(dfosFile);
             IOUtils.copy(input, output);
+            input.close();
             dfosFile.delete();
             dfosFile = null;
         }