diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 2ea901f196..3c7163aa62 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 1.1.5
+ * increase stack size under Java7 to 180K
  * Log(info) schema changes (CASSANDRA-4547)
 
 
diff --git a/conf/cassandra-env.sh b/conf/cassandra-env.sh
index 6ae28a086d..ff3fc865ee 100644
--- a/conf/cassandra-env.sh
+++ b/conf/cassandra-env.sh
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ if [ "`uname`" = "Linux" ] ; then
     # supported.
     if startswith "$JVM_VERSION" '1.7.'
     then
-        JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xss160k"
+        JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xss180k"
     else
         JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xss128k"
     fi