diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 6850b3d21..508c808d4 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ version 1.4.13beta04 [January 1, 2014]
 
 version 1.4.13beta05 [January 10, 2014]
   Rebuilt the configure scripts with autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.14.1
-  Revised png_check_IHDR() to use PNG_SIZE_MAX instead of PNG_UINT_32_MAX
-    in the test for potential overflow in PNG_ROWBYTES.
+  Removed potentially misleading warning from png_check_IHDR().
 
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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 06aefc593..3f47e6aa9 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2895,8 +2895,7 @@ version 1.4.13beta04 [January 1, 2014]
 
 version 1.4.13beta05 [January 10, 2014]
   Rebuilt the configure scripts with autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.14.1
-  Revised png_check_IHDR() to use PNG_SIZE_MAX instead of PNG_UINT_32_MAX
-    in the test for potential overflow in PNG_ROWBYTES.
+  Removed potentially misleading warning from png_check_IHDR().
 
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diff --git a/png.c b/png.c
index 7720c772b..b031ce8f7 100644
--- a/png.c
+++ b/png.c
@@ -823,17 +823,6 @@ png_check_IHDR(png_structp png_ptr,
       error = 1;
    }
 
-   /* Check for potential overflow in PNG_ROWBYTES calculation */
-   if (error == 0 && width > (PNG_SIZE_MAX
-                 >> 3)      /* 8-byte RGBA pixels */
-                 - 64       /* bigrowbuf hack */
-                 - 1        /* filter byte */
-                 - 7*8      /* rounding of width to multiple of 8 pixels */
-                 - 8        /* extra max_pixel_depth pad */
-                 - error)   /* to prevent always-false compiler warning */
-      png_warning(png_ptr,
-          "Width may be too large for libpng to process pixels");
-
    /* Check other values */
    if (bit_depth != 1 && bit_depth != 2 && bit_depth != 4 &&
        bit_depth != 8 && bit_depth != 16)