diff --git a/change_log.txt b/change_log.txt
index 44cc8330..2e1168cb 100644
--- a/change_log.txt
+++ b/change_log.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   - bugfix a filepath starting with '/' or '\' on windows should normalize to the root dir
     of current working drive https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/134
   - optimization of filepath normalization
+  - bugfix {strip} must remove all blanks between html tags https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/136
   
  ===== 3.1.29 ===== (21.12.2015)
  21.12.2015
diff --git a/libs/Smarty.class.php b/libs/Smarty.class.php
index 7b821895..3c1ba153 100644
--- a/libs/Smarty.class.php
+++ b/libs/Smarty.class.php
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class Smarty extends Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase
     /**
      * smarty version
      */
-    const SMARTY_VERSION = '3.1.30-dev/2';
+    const SMARTY_VERSION = '3.1.30-dev/3';
 
     /**
      * define variable scopes
diff --git a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
index 6c3ea5f5..35ca0a4e 100644
--- a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
+++ b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ abstract class Smarty_Internal_TemplateCompilerBase
 
                     $expressions = array(// replace multiple spaces between tags by a single space
                                          // can't remove them entirely, becaue that might break poorly implemented CSS display:inline-block elements
-                                         '#(:SMARTY@!@|>)\s+(?=@!@SMARTY:|<)#s'                                    => '\1 \2',
+                                         '#(:SMARTY@!@|>)\s+(?=@!@SMARTY:|<)#s'                                    => '\1\2',
                                          // remove spaces between attributes (but not in attribute values!)
                                          '#(([a-z0-9]\s*=\s*("[^"]*?")|(\'[^\']*?\'))|<[a-z0-9_]+)\s+([a-z/>])#is' => '\1 \5',
                                          '#^\s+<#Ss'                                                               => '<',