diff --git a/docs/topics/release-notes.md b/docs/topics/release-notes.md
index 4fa3d6271..88780c3fb 100644
--- a/docs/topics/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/topics/release-notes.md
@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ You can determine your currently installed version using `pip freeze`:
 
 ## 2.4.x series
 
+### 2.4.4
+
+**Date**: [3rd November 2014](https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=milestone%3A%222.4.4+Release%22+).
+
+* **Security fix**: Escape URLs when replacing `format=` query parameter, as used in dropdown on `GET` button in browsable API to allow explicit selection of JSON vs HTML output.
+* Maintain ordering of URLs in API root view for `DefaultRouter`.
+* Fix `follow=True` in `APIRequestFactory`
+* Resolve issue with invalid `read_only=True`, `required=True` fields being automatically generated by `ModelSerializer` in some cases.
+* Resolve issue with `OPTIONS` requests returning incorrect information for views using `get_serializer_class` to dynamically determine serializer based on request method. 
+
 ### 2.4.3
 
 **Date**: [19th September 2014](https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues?q=milestone%3A%222.4.3+Release%22+).
diff --git a/rest_framework/templatetags/rest_framework.py b/rest_framework/templatetags/rest_framework.py
index 7251f0711..f1825a24b 100644
--- a/rest_framework/templatetags/rest_framework.py
+++ b/rest_framework/templatetags/rest_framework.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def replace_query_param(url, key, val):
     query_dict = QueryDict(query).copy()
     query_dict[key] = val
     query = query_dict.urlencode()
-    return escape(urlparse.urlunsplit((scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment)))
+    return urlparse.urlunsplit((scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment))
 
 
 # Regex for adding classes to html snippets
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def add_query_param(request, key, val):
     """
     iri = request.get_full_path()
     uri = iri_to_uri(iri)
-    return replace_query_param(uri, key, val)
+    return escape(replace_query_param(uri, key, val))
 
 
 @register.filter