diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 916e15b9..1255325a 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1899,9 +1899,12 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   See INSTALL for information how to do this. Some function descriptions have
   already been adapted to Doxygen, more will follow.
 
-2002-12-22: Version 1.1.21
+2002-12-23: Version 1.1.21
 
 - Fixed the 'channels.conf' entries for "Studio Universal" and "Disney Channel".
 - Fixed handling channels in the "Channels" menu in case there are ':@nnn' group
   separators without names (thanks to Guy Roussin for reporting this one).
 - The SVDRP command CHAN now also accepts channel IDs.
+- Increased the timeout until an index file is considerd no longer to be written
+  (sometimes in time shift with heavy system load the index file was closed too
+  early by the replay thread).
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index d09729e7..7cf7d917 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 1.144 2002/12/13 13:41:55 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 1.145 2002/12/22 15:29:45 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #include "device.h"
 #include "tools.h"
 
-#define VDRVERSION "1.1.20"
+#define VDRVERSION "1.1.21"
 
 #define MAXPRIORITY 99
 #define MAXLIFETIME 99
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index ba85ded1..ebeaf763 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 1.70 2002/10/20 11:54:29 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 1.71 2002/12/23 12:41:20 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ void cRecordingUserCommand::InvokeCommand(const char *State, const char *Recordi
 #define MAXINDEXCATCHUP   2 // seconds
 
 // The minimum age of an index file for considering it no longer to be written:
-#define MININDEXAGE      10 // seconds
+#define MININDEXAGE      60 // seconds
 
 cIndexFile::cIndexFile(const char *FileName, bool Record)
 :resumeFile(FileName)