diff --git a/CHANGES.current b/CHANGES.current
index cd91b3607..78eb605a4 100644
--- a/CHANGES.current
+++ b/CHANGES.current
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ the issue number to the end of the URL: https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/
 Version 4.0.0 (in progress)
 ===========================
 
+2017-05-25: asibross
+            [Java] #370 #417 Missing smart pointer handling in Java director extra methods
+            swigReleaseOwnership() and swigTakeOwnership().
+
 2017-05-23: wsfulton
             [Java] #230 #759 Fix Java shared_ptr and directors for derived classes java compilation
             error.
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/java/director_smartptr_runme.java b/Examples/test-suite/java/director_smartptr_runme.java
index ba2bfc8c4..53d68f995 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/java/director_smartptr_runme.java
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/java/director_smartptr_runme.java
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ public class director_smartptr_runme {
     check(director_smartptr.FooDerived.callPong(myBarFooDerived), "director_smartptr_MyBarFooDerived.pong();director_smartptr_MyBarFooDerived.ping()");
     check(director_smartptr.FooDerived.callUpcall(myBarFooDerived, fooBar), "overrideDerived;Bar::Foo2::Foo2Bar()");
 
+    director_smartptr.Foo myFoo3 = myBarFoo.makeFoo();
+    myFoo3.swigReleaseOwnership();
+    myFoo3.swigTakeOwnership();
+    director_smartptr.FooDerived myBarFooDerived2 = new director_smartptr_MyBarFooDerived();
+    myBarFooDerived2.swigReleaseOwnership();
+    myBarFooDerived2.swigTakeOwnership();
+
   }
 }