diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 0d30eac8..de701da9 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -3318,6 +3318,7 @@ Thomas Reufer <thomas@reufer.ch>
  for suggesting to add some comment to cPixmap about the relation between OSD,
  ViewPort and DrawPort
  for suggesting to reduce the priority of the "video directory scanner" thread
+ for making the 'newplugin' script create the 'po' subdirectory for translations
 
 Eike Sauer <EikeSauer@t-online.de>
  for reporting a problem with channels that need more than 5 TS packets for detecting
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 09febc55..dd449295 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -8809,3 +8809,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   is currently recording.
 - The character 0x0D is now stripped from EPG texts (reported by Janne Pänkälä).
 - The EPG scanner no longer moves the dish if there is a positioner.
+- The 'newplugin' script now creates the 'po' subdirectory for translations (thanks
+  to Thomas Reufer).
diff --git a/newplugin b/newplugin
index 8f7087e9..d8e9243c 100755
--- a/newplugin
+++ b/newplugin
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
 # how to reach the author.
 #
-# $Id: newplugin 3.2 2014/01/01 13:29:54 kls Exp $
+# $Id: newplugin 4.1 2015/09/10 11:11:14 kls Exp $
 
 $PLUGIN_NAME = $ARGV[0] || die "Usage: newplugin <name>\n";
 
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ $PLUGINDIR = "$PLUGINS_SRC/$PLUGIN_NAME";
 die "The directory $PLUGINS_SRC doesn't exist!\n" unless (-d "$PLUGINS_SRC");
 die "A plugin named '$PLUGIN_NAME' already exists in $PLUGINS_SRC!\n" if (-e "$PLUGINDIR");
 mkdir("$PLUGINDIR") || die "$!";
+mkdir("$PLUGINDIR/po") || die "$!";
 
 CreateFile("README", $README);
 CreateFile("HISTORY", $HISTORY);