diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index ef140703c..a86cdab84 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Other changes:
  * merged the BZIP2 package from Commons Compress, it can now
    optionally read files that contain multiple streams properly.
 
+ * <bunzip2> will now properly expand files created by pbzip2 and
+   similar tools that create files with multiple bzip2 streams.
+
 Changes from Ant 1.8.3 TO Ant 1.8.4
 ===================================
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BUnzip2.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BUnzip2.java
index 2f13626b9..0129fea2f 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BUnzip2.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BUnzip2.java
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ public class BUnzip2 extends Unpack {
                 if (b != 'Z') {
                     throw new BuildException("Invalid bz2 file.", getLocation());
                 }
-                zIn = new CBZip2InputStream(bis);
+                zIn = new CBZip2InputStream(bis, true);
                 byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
                 int count = 0;
                 do {
diff --git a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/bunzip2-test.xml b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/bunzip2-test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a9ca42376
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/bunzip2-test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project default="antunit" xmlns:au="antlib:org.apache.ant.antunit">
+  <import file="../antunit-base.xml" />
+
+  <target name="testExpandArchiveWithMultipleStreams">
+    <mkdir dir="${output}"/>
+    <bunzip2  src="bzip2/multiple.bz2" dest="${output}"/>
+    <au:assertFilesMatch expected="bzip2/expected"
+                         actual="${output}/multiple"/>
+  </target>
+
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/bzip2/expected b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/bzip2/expected
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9ae9e86b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/bzip2/expected
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ab
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/bzip2/multiple.bz2 b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/bzip2/multiple.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..26dc3a750
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/bzip2/multiple.bz2 differ