diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index d311973e0ac52743b6fcc75c10c405df466d170b..06dfbc774e0ca672df9f3c343027eb1dd9272c10 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4 Change Log
 
 OpenLDAP 2.4.11 Engineering
 	Added slapo-nssov contrib module
+	Build Environment
+		Fixed test048 to skip if threads is not available (ITS#5529)
 
 OpenLDAP 2.4.10 Release (2008/06/08)
 	Fixed libldap file descriptor leak with SELinux (ITS#5507)
diff --git a/tests/scripts/test048-syncrepl-multiproxy b/tests/scripts/test048-syncrepl-multiproxy
index 5e8afe987900afe217f4c97faf37de97bb2205df..4d2b67501f1bf89442f327111a4c93503f142bb2 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/test048-syncrepl-multiproxy
+++ b/tests/scripts/test048-syncrepl-multiproxy
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ if test $MONITORDB = no; then
 	exit 0
 fi 
 
+if test $THREADS = threadsno ; then
+	echo "Need threads support, test skipped"
+	exit 0
+fi
+
 mkdir -p $TESTDIR $DBDIR1 $DBDIR2 $DBDIR3
 
 #