diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0e7cc5e7..6ecf9a62 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ bash-completion (2.x)
   [ Freddy Vulto ]
   * Added _get_pword() helper function, thanks to Sung Pae (Alioth: #312030)
 
+  [ Ted Stern ]
+  * Fix modules completion for "(default)" entries.
+
  -- David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>  Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:11:57 +0200
 
 bash-completion (1.1)
diff --git a/contrib/modules b/contrib/modules
index 07b2d699..acc4fb6f 100644
--- a/contrib/modules
+++ b/contrib/modules
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ _module_avail ()
     local modules="$( \
         module avail 2>&1 | \
         egrep -v '^(-|$)' | \
-        xargs printf '%s\n' | sort )"
+        xargs printf '%s\n' | sed -e 's/(default)//g' | sort )"
 
     compgen -W "$modules" -- $1
 }