diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 43b6db53..2091ac84 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ History
 0.10.3 (2012-02-20)
 +++++++++++++++++++
 
+* HEAD requests don't follow redirects anymore.
+* raise_for_status() doesn't raise for 3xx anymore.
 * Make Session objects picklable.
 * ValueError for invalid schema URLs.
-* raise_for_status() doesn't raise for 3xx anymore.
 
 0.10.2 (2012-01-15)
 +++++++++++++++++++
diff --git a/requests/api.py b/requests/api.py
index b7d4158d..b079eedd 100644
--- a/requests/api.py
+++ b/requests/api.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def head(url, **kwargs):
     :param **kwargs: Optional arguments that ``request`` takes.
     """
 
-    kwargs.setdefault('allow_redirects', True)
+    kwargs.setdefault('allow_redirects', False)
     return request('head', url, **kwargs)