diff --git a/change_log.txt b/change_log.txt
index 6ef2b7da2..f0fcdcee1 100644
--- a/change_log.txt
+++ b/change_log.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
  ===== 3.1.30-dev ===== (xx.xx.xx)
+ 20.02.2016
+  - bugfix {strip} must keep space between hmtl tags. Broken by changes of 10.2.2016 https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/184
+  
  19.02.2016
   - revert output buffer flushing on display, echo content again because possible problems when PHP files had 
     characters (newline} after ?> at file end https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/187
diff --git a/libs/Smarty.class.php b/libs/Smarty.class.php
index b1f7a03c6..6d81d44b6 100644
--- a/libs/Smarty.class.php
+++ b/libs/Smarty.class.php
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ class Smarty extends Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase
     /**
      * smarty version
      */
-    const SMARTY_VERSION = '3.1.30-dev/45';
+    const SMARTY_VERSION = '3.1.30-dev/46';
 
     /**
      * define variable scopes
diff --git a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
index a091d90ba..38bfc799b 100644
--- a/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
+++ b/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatecompilerbase.php
@@ -818,14 +818,13 @@ public function processText($text)
                             $_store ++;
                         }
                     }
-
                     $expressions = array(// replace multiple spaces between tags by a single space
                                          // can't remove them entirely, becaue that might break poorly implemented CSS display:inline-block elements
-                                         '#(:SMARTY@!@|>)\s+(?=@!@SMARTY:|<)#s' => '\1\2',
+                                         '#(:SMARTY@!@|>)\s+(?=@!@SMARTY:|<)#s' => '\1 \2',
                                          // remove spaces between attributes (but not in attribute values!)
                                          '#(([a-z0-9]\s*=\s*("[^"]*?")|(\'[^\']*?\'))|<[a-z0-9_]+)\s+([a-z/>])#is' => '\1 \5',
-                                         '#^\s+<#Ss' => $this->has_output ? ' <' : '<', '#>[\040\011]+$#Ss' => '> ',
-                                         '#>[\040\011]*[\n]\s*$#Ss' => '>', $this->stripRegEx => '',);
+                                         '#>[\040\011]+$#Ss' => '> ', '#>[\040\011]*[\n]\s*$#Ss' => '>',
+                                         $this->stripRegEx => '',);
 
                     $text = preg_replace(array_keys($expressions), array_values($expressions), $text);
                     $_offset = 0;
@@ -844,7 +843,6 @@ public function processText($text)
                     $text = preg_replace($this->stripRegEx, '', $text);
                 }
             }
-            $this->has_output = false;
             return new Smarty_Internal_ParseTree_Text($text);
         }
         return null;