diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 7019dcdb2..c4ffef07f 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-Libpng 1.6.10beta02 - February 16, 2014
+Libpng 1.6.10beta02 - February 17, 2014
 
 This is not intended to be a public release.  It will be replaced
 within a few weeks by a public version or by another test version.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Version 1.6.10beta01 [February 9, 2014]
     and it adds corresponding code to pngimage.c to handle such options
     by not attempting to test them.
 
-Version 1.6.10beta02 [February 16, 2014]
+Version 1.6.10beta02 [February 17, 2014]
   Moved redefines of png_error(), png_warning(), png_chunk_error(),
     and png_chunk_warning() from pngpriv.h to png.h to make them visible
     to libpng-calling applications.
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ Version 1.6.10beta02 [February 16, 2014]
     compile and link on Android by using /proc/cpuinfo, and the old linux code
     is in contrib/arm-neon/linux-auxv.c.  The new code avoids POSIX and Linux
     dependencies apart from opening /proc/cpuinfo and is C90 compliant.
+  Check for info_ptr == NULL early in png_read_end() so we don't need to
+    run all the png_handle_*() and depend on them to return if info_ptr == NULL.
+    This improves the performance of png_read_end(png_ptr, NULL) and makes
+    it more robust against future programming errors.
 
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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 3b9dd6ad4..3d1fa89f5 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4829,7 +4829,7 @@ Version 1.6.10beta01 [February 9, 2014]
     and it adds corresponding code to pngimage.c to handle such options
     by not attempting to test them.
 
-Version 1.6.10beta02 [February 16, 2014]
+Version 1.6.10beta02 [February 17, 2014]
   Moved redefines of png_error(), png_warning(), png_chunk_error(),
     and png_chunk_warning() from pngpriv.h to png.h to make them visible
     to libpng-calling applications.
@@ -4840,6 +4840,10 @@ Version 1.6.10beta02 [February 16, 2014]
     compile and link on Android by using /proc/cpuinfo, and the old linux code
     is in contrib/arm-neon/linux-auxv.c.  The new code avoids POSIX and Linux
     dependencies apart from opening /proc/cpuinfo and is C90 compliant.
+  Check for info_ptr == NULL early in png_read_end() so we don't need to
+    run all the png_handle_*() and depend on them to return if info_ptr == NULL.
+    This improves the performance of png_read_end(png_ptr, NULL) and makes
+    it more robust against future programming errors.
 
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diff --git a/pngread.c b/pngread.c
index 25a04f866..e459ed6cb 100644
--- a/pngread.c
+++ b/pngread.c
@@ -781,11 +781,14 @@ png_read_end(png_structrp png_ptr, png_inforp info_ptr)
       png_uint_32 length = png_read_chunk_header(png_ptr);
       png_uint_32 chunk_name = png_ptr->chunk_name;
 
-      if (chunk_name == png_IHDR)
+      if (chunk_name == png_IEND)
+         png_handle_IEND(png_ptr, info_ptr, length);
+
+      else if (chunk_name == png_IHDR)
          png_handle_IHDR(png_ptr, info_ptr, length);
 
-      else if (chunk_name == png_IEND)
-         png_handle_IEND(png_ptr, info_ptr, length);
+      else if (info_ptr == NULL)
+         png_crc_finish(png_ptr, length);
 
 #ifdef PNG_HANDLE_AS_UNKNOWN_SUPPORTED
       else if ((keep = png_chunk_unknown_handling(png_ptr, chunk_name)) != 0)
diff --git a/pngrutil.c b/pngrutil.c
index 1a223f644..73d6c0b1c 100644
--- a/pngrutil.c
+++ b/pngrutil.c
@@ -1436,7 +1436,7 @@ png_handle_iCCP(png_structrp png_ptr, png_inforp info_ptr, png_uint_32 length)
                               (sizeof local_buffer), &length,
                               profile + (sizeof profile_header), &size, 0);
 
-                           /* Still expect a a buffer error because we expect
+                           /* Still expect a buffer error because we expect
                             * there to be some tag data!
                             */
                            if (size == 0)