diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bcff91f..6065747 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     Spotted by Vitaly Kruglikov, Vitaly dot Kruglikov at palm dot com
   * optimizations to json_tokener_parse_ex(), printbuf_memappend()
     Brent Miller, bdmiller at yahoo dash inc dot com
+  * Disable REFCOUNT_DEBUG by default in json_object.c
   * Don't use this as a variable, so we can compile with a C++ compiler
   * Add casts from void* to type of assignment when using malloc 
   * Add #ifdef __cplusplus guards to all of the headers
diff --git a/json_object.c b/json_object.c
index e412e4f..f52445c 100644
--- a/json_object.c
+++ b/json_object.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   char* strndup(const char* str, size_t n);
 #endif /* !HAVE_STRNDUP */
 
-#define REFCOUNT_DEBUG 1
+/* #define REFCOUNT_DEBUG 1 */
 
 const char *json_number_chars = "0123456789.+-eE";
 const char *json_hex_chars = "0123456789abcdef";