diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/changelog/ChangeLog.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/changelog/ChangeLog.java
index 7302973..3ba76b1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/changelog/ChangeLog.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/changelog/ChangeLog.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.Reader;
@@ -76,7 +77,9 @@
 
         List<ChangeLogSet> changeLogSets = new ArrayList<ChangeLogSet>();
 
-        parser.parse( new InputSource( reader ), new ChangeLogHandler( changeLogSets ) );
+        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( reader, 8192 );
+
+        parser.parse( new InputSource( br ), new ChangeLogHandler( changeLogSets ) );
 
         return changeLogSets;
     }