diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index b896f22e6b..61558a3900 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Luke Plant <http://lukeplant.me.uk/>
     plisk
     Daniel Poelzleithner <http://poelzi.org/>
+    J. Rademaker
     Brian Ray <http://brianray.chipy.org/>
     Oliver Rutherfurd <http://rutherfurd.net/>
     David Schein
diff --git a/django/core/template/defaulttags.py b/django/core/template/defaulttags.py
index 8d3865660a..1438b9f74a 100644
--- a/django/core/template/defaulttags.py
+++ b/django/core/template/defaulttags.py
@@ -121,12 +121,7 @@ class IfChangedNode(Node):
     def render(self, context):
         content = self.nodelist.render(context)
         if content != self._last_seen:
-            firstloop = (self._last_seen == None)
             self._last_seen = content
-            context.push()
-            context['ifchanged'] = {'firstloop': firstloop}
-            content = self.nodelist.render(context)
-            context.pop()
             return content
         else:
             return ''