diff --git a/change_log.txt b/change_log.txt
index cf6130bf..3abb9505 100644
--- a/change_log.txt
+++ b/change_log.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
  ===== trunk =====
+  11.01.2014
+ - bugfix "* }" (spaces before right delimiter) was interpreted by mistake as comment end tag (Issue 170)
+ 
  08.01.2014
- - bugfix Smarty_CacheResource_Custom did not handle template resource type specifications on clearCache() calls (Issue 161)
+ - bugfix Smarty_CacheResource_Custom did not handle template resource type specifications on clearCache() calls (Issue 169)
  - bugfix SmartyBC.class.php should use require_once to load Smarty.class.php (forum topic 24683)
  
  ===== 3.1.16 =====
diff --git a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatelexer.php b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatelexer.php
index aeb1bd4d..1661166d 100644
--- a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatelexer.php
+++ b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatelexer.php
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ class Smarty_Internal_Templatelexer
         if ($this->counter >= ($this->mbstring_overload ? mb_strlen($this->data,'latin1'): strlen($this->data))) {
             return false; // end of input
         }
-        $yy_global_pattern = "/\G(\\{\\})|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*\\*([\S\s]*?)\\*\\s*".$this->rdel.")|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*strip\\s*".$this->rdel.")|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*\/strip\\s*".$this->rdel.")|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*literal\\s*".$this->rdel.")|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*(if|elseif|else if|while)\\s+)|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*for\\s+)|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*foreach(?![^\s]))|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*setfilter\\s+)|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*\/)|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*)|\G(<\\?(?:php\\w+|=|[a-zA-Z]+)?)|\G(\\?>)|\G(\\s*".$this->rdel.")|\G(<%)|\G(%>)|\G([\S\s])/iS";
+        $yy_global_pattern = "/\G(\\{\\})|\G(".$this->ldel."\\*([\S\s]*?)\\*".$this->rdel.")|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*strip\\s*".$this->rdel.")|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*\/strip\\s*".$this->rdel.")|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*literal\\s*".$this->rdel.")|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*(if|elseif|else if|while)\\s+)|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*for\\s+)|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*foreach(?![^\s]))|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*setfilter\\s+)|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*\/)|\G(".$this->ldel."\\s*)|\G(<\\?(?:php\\w+|=|[a-zA-Z]+)?)|\G(\\?>)|\G(\\s*".$this->rdel.")|\G(<%)|\G(%>)|\G([\S\s])/iS";
 
         do {
             if ($this->mbstring_overload ? preg_match($yy_global_pattern, mb_substr($this->data, $this->counter,2000000000,'latin1'), $yymatches) : preg_match($yy_global_pattern,$this->data, $yymatches, null, $this->counter)) {