diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog
index 10c6188203..4ff6c6660f 100644
--- a/lib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
+2006-08-08  Georg Baum  <Georg.Baum@post.rwth-aachen.de>
+
+	* external_templates (XFig): Require the color package, since xfig
+	generates LaTeX code with \color (bug 2716)
+
 2006-08-06  Bo Peng <ben.bob@gmail.com>
+
 	* lib/configure.py: display latex package checking result faster.
 
 2006-07-17  Bo Peng <ben.bob@gmail.com>
+
 	* Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15
 	  to iso-8859-1.
 
 2006-07-15  Bo Peng <ben.bob@gmail.com>
+	
 	* replace all .sh scripts under scripts/ by their python version
 	  (changeset 14462-14465)
 
diff --git a/lib/external_templates b/lib/external_templates
index f58404e641..f6ad4cce23 100644
--- a/lib/external_templates
+++ b/lib/external_templates
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ Template XFig
 		Product "$$RotateFront$$ResizeFront\\input{$$AbsOrRelPathMaster$$Basename.pstex_t}$$ResizeBack$$RotateBack"
 		UpdateFormat pstex
 		UpdateResult "$$AbsPath$$Basename.pstex_t"
+		Requirement "color"
 		Requirement "graphicx"
 		# Preamble WarnNotFound
 		# Preamble InputOrWarn
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ Template XFig
 		Product "$$RotateFront$$ResizeFront\\input{$$AbsOrRelPathMaster$$Basename.pdftex_t}$$ResizeBack$$RotateBack"
 		UpdateFormat pdftex
 		UpdateResult "$$AbsPath$$Basename.pdftex_t"
+		Requirement "color"
 		Requirement "graphicx"
 		# Preamble WarnNotFound
 		# Preamble InputOrWarn
diff --git a/status.14x b/status.14x
index 266b004307..45d616641e 100644
--- a/status.14x
+++ b/status.14x
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ What's new
 - Ignore definition of lyxgreyout environment when re-importing a LyX
   generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420)
 
+- When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
+  require the color package, since xfig generates LaTeX code with
+  \color (bug 2716).
+
 * User Interface:
 
 - Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.