Comment 4 for bug 1064725

> ohh.. sorry i guess i meant 0.48.2, you are right that this happens in
> 0.48.3, i forgot that i had done most my editing in 0.48.2, and only
> upgraded to 0.48.3 a day or so before i started using the dev versions
> from bzr..

There is no difference between 0.48.2 and 0.48.3.1 with regard to garbage-collection of unreferenced gradients either. This is not a new feature (nor was it introduced in a bug-fix release.