diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 15a605e3..63b164a6 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1069,6 +1069,8 @@ Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe@cc.hut.fi>
  for setting the thread name, so that it can be seen in 'top -H'
  for replacing the Finnish language code "smi" with "suo"
  for adding cap_sys_nice to the capabilities that are not dropped
+ for making VDR no longer check for deleted recordings to be removed from the
+ foreground thread, to avoid blocking the main loop for too long
 
 Ralf Klueber <ralf.klueber@vodafone.com>
  for reporting a bug in cutting a recording if there is only a single editing mark
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 086c92af..d5712866 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6030,3 +6030,8 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - No longer writing the video type into channels.conf if VPID is 0 (thanks to
   Oliver Endriss for reporting this).
 - Improved efficiency of cEIT::cEIT() (thanks to Tobias Bratfisch).
+
+2009-04-12: Version 1.7.6
+
+- No longer checking for deleted recordings to be removed from the foreground
+  thread, to avoid blocking the main loop for too long (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index 6e15ba4a..8dae4563 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.h 2.7 2009/01/30 16:05:34 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 2.8 2009/04/12 14:20:52 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@
 
 // VDR's own version number:
 
-#define VDRVERSION  "1.7.5"
-#define VDRVERSNUM   10705  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
+#define VDRVERSION  "1.7.6"
+#define VDRVERSNUM   10706  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
 
 // The plugin API's version number:
 
-#define APIVERSION  "1.7.5"
-#define APIVERSNUM   10705  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
+#define APIVERSION  "1.7.6"
+#define APIVERSNUM   10706  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
 
 // When loading plugins, VDR searches them by their APIVERSION, which
 // may be smaller than VDRVERSION in case there have been no changes to
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 2b44b1a4..22df5b6c 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 2.9 2009/01/30 16:27:19 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 2.10 2009/04/12 14:04:22 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -114,15 +114,8 @@ void RemoveDeletedRecordings(void)
 {
   static time_t LastRemoveCheck = 0;
   if (time(NULL) - LastRemoveCheck > REMOVECHECKDELTA) {
-     if (!RemoveDeletedRecordingsThread.Active()) {
-        cThreadLock DeletedRecordingsLock(&DeletedRecordings);
-        for (cRecording *r = DeletedRecordings.First(); r; r = DeletedRecordings.Next(r)) {
-            if (r->deleted && time(NULL) - r->deleted > DELETEDLIFETIME) {
-               RemoveDeletedRecordingsThread.Start();
-               break;
-               }
-            }
-        }
+     if (!RemoveDeletedRecordingsThread.Active())
+        RemoveDeletedRecordingsThread.Start();
      LastRemoveCheck = time(NULL);
      }
 }