diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 39863cf972..5db725caa7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-04-07  Andy Wingo  <wingo@pobox.com>
+
+	* gst/gst.defs (element_make_from_uri): Element name is optional
+	and can be None. It defaults to None.
+
 2006-04-05  Edward Hervey  <edward@fluendo.com>
 
 	* testsuite/test_message.py:
diff --git a/common b/common
index 623fe1c2cc..1783855e98 160000
--- a/common
+++ b/common
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 623fe1c2cce45bc30d5823c05716349874ae994e
+Subproject commit 1783855e983a5294434673694e8a57e44980b6f1
diff --git a/gst/gst.defs b/gst/gst.defs
index 185a7df11e..315142975b 100644
--- a/gst/gst.defs
+++ b/gst/gst.defs
@@ -6167,7 +6167,7 @@
   (parameters
     '("GstURIType" "type")
     '("const-gchar*" "uri")
-    '("const-gchar*" "elementname")
+    '("const-gchar*" "elementname" (null-ok) (default "NULL"))
   )
 )