diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 5b0c9b3638..cc64ef1740 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ require_once('library/Mobile_Detect/Mobile_Detect.php');
 require_once('include/features.php');
 
 define ( 'FRIENDICA_PLATFORM',     'Friendica');
-define ( 'FRIENDICA_VERSION',      '3.1.1547' );
+define ( 'FRIENDICA_VERSION',      '3.1.1549' );
 define ( 'DFRN_PROTOCOL_VERSION',  '2.23'    );
 define ( 'DB_UPDATE_VERSION',      1157      );
 
diff --git a/include/onepoll.php b/include/onepoll.php
index a50d234e22..8fabede11c 100644
--- a/include/onepoll.php
+++ b/include/onepoll.php
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ function onepoll_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 
 	if($contact['network'] === NETWORK_DFRN) {
 
+		
 		$idtosend = $orig_id = (($contact['dfrn-id']) ? $contact['dfrn-id'] : $contact['issued-id']);
 		if(intval($contact['duplex']) && $contact['dfrn-id'])
 			$idtosend = '0:' . $orig_id;
@@ -120,6 +121,12 @@ function onepoll_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 		// they have permission to write to us. We already filtered this in the contact query.
 		$perm = 'rw';
 
+		// But this may be our first communication, so set the writable flag if it isn't set already.
+
+		if(! intval($contact['writable']))
+			q("update contact set writable = 1 where id = %d limit 1", intval($contact['id']));
+
+
 		$url = $contact['poll'] . '?dfrn_id=' . $idtosend 
 			. '&dfrn_version=' . DFRN_PROTOCOL_VERSION 
 			. '&type=data&last_update=' . $last_update 
diff --git a/util/messages.po b/util/messages.po
index ea730a5a32..0310bbfa28 100644
--- a/util/messages.po
+++ b/util/messages.po
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 #, fuzzy
 msgid ""
 msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: 3.0.1547\n"
+"Project-Id-Version: 3.1.1549\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2012-12-04 10:00-0800\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2012-12-06 10:00-0800\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"