diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3b73bc65..6ae09390 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -20954,3 +20954,6 @@
 2022-11-15 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
 	* Fixed a bug in rdcatchd(8) that caused record events to be
 	captured with the incorrect sampling rate.
+2022-11-21 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
+	* Fixed a bug in the podcasting subsystem that broke validation
+	of the 'direct' name space.
diff --git a/lib/rdrssschemas.cpp b/lib/rdrssschemas.cpp
index e6584722..4613d78c 100644
--- a/lib/rdrssschemas.cpp
+++ b/lib/rdrssschemas.cpp
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ RDRssSchemas::RDRssSchemas()
   c_header_templates.push_back("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<rss version=\"2.0\" xmlns:itunes=\"http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd\" xmlns:content=\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\" xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\" xmlns:direct=\"http://www.rivendellaudio.org/dtds/direct-0.1.dtd\">");
 
   // AppleSuperfeedSchema
-  c_header_templates.push_back("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<rss version=\"2.0\" xmlns:itunes=\"http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd\" xmlns:content=\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\" xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\" xmlns:superfeed=\"http://www.rivendellaudio.org/dtds/superfeed-0.1.dtd\"> xmlns:direct=\"http://www.rivendellaudio.org/dtds/direct-0.1.dtd\">");
+  c_header_templates.push_back("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<rss version=\"2.0\" xmlns:itunes=\"http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd\" xmlns:content=\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\" xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\" xmlns:superfeed=\"http://www.rivendellaudio.org/dtds/superfeed-0.1.dtd\" xmlns:direct=\"http://www.rivendellaudio.org/dtds/direct-0.1.dtd\">");
 
   //
   // Channel Templates