diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index a74b1ce..f2c3815 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-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>
     </release>
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 192e065..97f83c2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/fileupload/disk/DiskFileItem.java
@@ -316,13 +316,7 @@
         } catch (IOException e) {
             fileData = null;
         } finally {
-            if (fis != null) {
-                try {
-                    fis.close();
-                } catch (IOException e) {
-                    // ignore
-                }
-            }
+            IOUtils.closeQuietly(fis);
         }
 
         return fileData;
@@ -418,20 +412,8 @@
                                 new FileOutputStream(file));
                         IOUtils.copy(in, out);
                     } finally {
-                        if (in != null) {
-                            try {
-                                in.close();
-                            } catch (IOException e) {
-                                // ignore
-                            }
-                        }
-                        if (out != null) {
-                            try {
-                                out.close();
-                            } catch (IOException e) {
-                                // ignore
-                            }
-                        }
+                        IOUtils.closeQuietly(in);
+                        IOUtils.closeQuietly(out);
                     }
                 }
             } else {