diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index be8d5d75d4..3c71f444ba 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Sat Jan  7 22:46:36 2012  Kouhei Sutou  <kou@cozmixng.org>
+
+	* lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb: use private instead of _xxx
+	  method name. This is Ruby code not Python code.
+	  refs #5696
+
 Tue Jan 03 23:57:37 2012  Ayumu AIZAWA  <ayumu.aizawa@gmail.com>
 
 	* lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb: rexml BaseParser uses
diff --git a/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb b/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb
index 44b7f1639c..612245fb73 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb
@@ -180,14 +180,14 @@ module REXML
 
       # Returns the next event.  This is a +PullEvent+ object.
       def pull
-        _pull_inner.tap do |event|
+        pull_event.tap do |event|
           @listeners.each do |listener|
             listener.receive event
           end
         end
       end
 
-      def _pull_inner
+      def pull_event
         if @closed
           x, @closed = @closed, nil
           return [ :end_element, x ]
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ module REXML
         end
         return [ :dummy ]
       end
+      private :pull_event
 
       def entity( reference, entities )
         value = nil
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index 162e57b1ff..67d74d1d15 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "1.9.3"
-#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 20
+#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 21
 
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2012-01-07"
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_YEAR 2012