diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 51d6e05..cc9ccef 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Change log for iftop
 $Id$
 
+0.5 
+
+Added support for monitoring PPP interfaces
+Converted longs to double longs in various places to avoid overflow problems
+
 0.4 16/04/02
 
 No code changes
diff --git a/iftop.h b/iftop.h
index 60cb53f..7eda33a 100644
--- a/iftop.h
+++ b/iftop.h
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 typedef struct {
     long recv[HISTORY_LENGTH];
     long sent[HISTORY_LENGTH];
-    long total_sent;
-    long total_recv;
+    double long total_sent;
+    double long total_recv;
     int last_write;
 } history_type;
 
diff --git a/ui.c b/ui.c
index 7ff5a02..d8507d1 100644
--- a/ui.c
+++ b/ui.c
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ int history_divs[HISTORY_DIVISIONS] = {1, 5, 20};
 
 typedef struct host_pair_line_tag {
     addr_pair ap;
-    long recv[HISTORY_DIVISIONS];
-    long sent[HISTORY_DIVISIONS];
+    double long recv[HISTORY_DIVISIONS];
+    double long sent[HISTORY_DIVISIONS];
 } host_pair_line;