diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bbefc336..ac577451 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+    - made clear_cache() ignore compile_id, when clearing cache-groups (this
+      is when no $tpl_file is supplied) (messju)
+    - made onmouseout XHTML-compliant in function.popup.php (messju)
     - applied local-var-naming-scheme to fetch() (messju)
     - renamed $localvars to $_localvars in cache-file-handling-functions,
       added _get_auto_id()-function (messju)
diff --git a/libs/Smarty.class.php b/libs/Smarty.class.php
index c75da676..338adbf2 100644
--- a/libs/Smarty.class.php
+++ b/libs/Smarty.class.php
@@ -911,6 +911,9 @@ class Smarty
         if (!isset($compile_id))
             $compile_id = $this->compile_id;
 
+	if (!isset($tpl_file))
+	    $compile_id = null;
+
 	$_auto_id = $this->_get_auto_id($cache_id, $compile_id);
 
         if (!empty($this->cache_handler_func)) {