diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7c55f37d3d..5ef6c799cc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-06-04  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* INSTALL: updated GEGL version and also mention babl.
+
+	* app/gegl/gimp-gegl.c (gimp_gegl_init): configure the GEGL tile
+	size to match the GIMP tile size.
+
 2008-06-04  Michael Natterer  <mitch@gimp.org>
 
 	* configure.in: depend on GEGL >= 0.0.17, add check for
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 76bd2b3ace..cb8e228c97 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -28,9 +28,12 @@ header files installed.
   1. You need to have installed a recent version of pkg-config available
      from http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/.  
 
-  2. You need to have GEGL version 0.0.16 or newer. You can get it from
-     http://gegl.org/ or check it out from the subversion repository:
-     http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gegl/trunk
+  2. You need to have GEGL version 0.0.17 or newer and babl version
+     0.0.21 or newer. You can get it from http://gegl.org/ or check
+     it out from the subversion repository:
+
+       http://svn.gnome.org/svn/babl/trunk
+       http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gegl/trunk
 
   3. You need to have installed GTK+ version 2.12.1 or newer.  GIMP
      also need a recent versions of GLib (>= 2.16.1) and Pango (>= 1.18.0).
diff --git a/app/gegl/gimp-gegl.c b/app/gegl/gimp-gegl.c
index f1332abd2f..52e02833c7 100644
--- a/app/gegl/gimp-gegl.c
+++ b/app/gegl/gimp-gegl.c
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 
 #include "gegl-types.h"
 
+#include "base/tile.h"
+
 #include "gimp-gegl.h"
 #include "gimpoperationcolorbalance.h"
 #include "gimpoperationcolorize.h"
@@ -41,6 +43,11 @@
 void
 gimp_gegl_init (void)
 {
+  g_object_set (gegl_config (),
+                "tile-width",  TILE_WIDTH,
+                "tile-height", TILE_HEIGHT,
+                NULL);
+
   g_type_class_ref (GIMP_TYPE_OPERATION_COLOR_BALANCE);
   g_type_class_ref (GIMP_TYPE_OPERATION_COLORIZE);
   g_type_class_ref (GIMP_TYPE_OPERATION_CURVES);