diff --git a/doc/CHANGES.txt b/doc/CHANGES.txt
index f1d2257845e3819cb8bedbed70b25bc09a5e5093..3eb988b8b474f7ff4d4555c480af6e8f228de2b7 100755
--- a/doc/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/doc/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Zope Changes
   Change information for previous versions of Zope can be found in the
   file HISTORY.txt.
 
+    Bugs Fixed
+
+      - Collector #433: Fixed broken Splitter backwards compatiblity
+        issue caused by code cleanup.
+
+
   Zope 2.6.0 alpha 1
 
     Features Added
@@ -120,7 +126,7 @@ Zope Changes
         enables retrieval of the document source for dedicated WebDAV 
         clients (see ENVIRONMENT.txt for usage)
 
-      - Collector #272: Optimisations for RESPONSE.write
+      - Collector #272: Optimizations for RESPONSE.write
 
       - Collector #271: New environment variables are now used
         to send the access log into syslog. ZSYSLOG_ACCESS,
diff --git a/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ISO_8859_1_Splitter/__init__.py b/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ISO_8859_1_Splitter/__init__.py
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..5dcbcc20b162fc1cc2b1f3bdd63ce1744eaa418d 100644
--- a/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ISO_8859_1_Splitter/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ISO_8859_1_Splitter/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+from ISO_8859_1_Splitter import ISO_8859_1_Splitter
+
+def Splitter(txt,stopwords=None,encoding='latin1'):
+    return ISO_8859_1_Splitter(txt,stopwords)
diff --git a/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/UnicodeSplitter/__init__.py b/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/UnicodeSplitter/__init__.py
index 8b137891791fe96927ad78e64b0aad7bded08bdc..6ad7659badcb51fc883137566772451e3a814373 100644
--- a/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/UnicodeSplitter/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/UnicodeSplitter/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-
+from UnicodeSplitter import UnicodeSplitter as Splitter
diff --git a/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ZopeSplitter/__init__.py b/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ZopeSplitter/__init__.py
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..2e8cb7bc9cd490fd04faeae345f10abe8d1b7a29 100644
--- a/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ZopeSplitter/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/TextIndex/Splitter/ZopeSplitter/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+from ZopeSplitter import ZopeSplitter 
+
+def Splitter(txt,stopwords={},encoding="latin1"):
+    return ZopeSplitter(txt,stopwords)