diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS
index f219e0be..648154e8 100644
--- a/docs/NEWS
+++ b/docs/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+   * Make it possible for plugins to let the core skip the check
+     whether trackbacks are already sent, with 
+     $serendipity['skip_trackback_check']
+   * Add the original image to the response images srcset when
+     the original image is small, to avoid upscaling
+
 Version 2.4-alpha1 ()
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diff --git a/plugins/serendipity_event_responsiveimages/serendipity_event_responsiveimages.php b/plugins/serendipity_event_responsiveimages/serendipity_event_responsiveimages.php
index 80bb46a9..edfc5597 100644
--- a/plugins/serendipity_event_responsiveimages/serendipity_event_responsiveimages.php
+++ b/plugins/serendipity_event_responsiveimages/serendipity_event_responsiveimages.php
@@ -216,6 +216,12 @@ class serendipity_event_responsiveimages extends serendipity_event
                 $srcset .= "{$thumbnailHttp} {$breakpoint}w,";
             }
         }
+        // 2 == there is the original thumbnail without a dimension, and one thumbnail for the smallest breakpoint
+        if (count($thumbnails) == 2) {
+            // When the smallest thumbnail is the only responsive thumbnail our original image will be needed to as part of the srcset, otherwise we too often upscale the small thumbnail
+            $srcset .= "$imagePath {$origImage['dimensions_width']}w,";
+        }
+        
         if (substr($srcset, -strlen(',')) === ',') {
             // we don't want to have the trailing comma
             $srcset = substr($srcset, 0, -1);