diff --git a/lib/layouts/article-beamer.layout b/lib/layouts/article-beamer.layout
index 66ea0ebd5b..f25064aa12 100644
--- a/lib/layouts/article-beamer.layout
+++ b/lib/layouts/article-beamer.layout
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Format 11
 # Includes
 Input beamer.layout
 
+# override settings inherited from beamer.layout (Paul Rubin <rubin@msu.edu>)
+Provides geometry 0
+Provides hyperref 0
+
 Preamble
 	\usepackage{beamerarticle,pgf}
 	% this default might be overridden by plain title style
diff --git a/status.16x b/status.16x
index 3247060fb2..9aa2c3dcb7 100644
--- a/status.16x
+++ b/status.16x
@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ What's new
 
 - Enable the possibility to read documents from a path containing a
   $-character (bug 4177).
+
+- Enable document margin settings and hyperref settings in the
+  article (beamer) class.
   
 
 * USER INTERFACE