diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index 42ecd3e4..b8ebe8ce 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,25 @@
 Version 1.1.0
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+08 Apr. 2014    Nasos Iliopoulos
+
+    * Bugfix:
+      Introduced an additional swap implementation for index_pair_array and
+      index_triple_array to allow proper compilation of sparse containers
+      with g++>4.8 (4.7 also?) in C++11 mode.
+
 02 Apr. 2014    Nasos Iliopoulos    
 
     * Added changelog
         
-    * Corrected a big number of warnings coming from stray typedefs. Other 
-      issues may be present that are not triggered by the unit tests
+    * Bugfix:
+      Corrected a big number of warnings coming from stray typedefs. Other
+      similar issues may be present that are not triggered by the unit tests
           
-    * Corrected the banded matrix bug 
+    * Bugfix:
+      Corrected the banded matrix bug
       (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7549) and updated appropriate 
       unit tests. To enable the old (incorrect though) behaviour one should 
       define BOOST_UBLAS_LEGACY_BANDED.
+
+
diff --git a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/storage.hpp b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/storage.hpp
index 5f3f05cb..d43c1ab8 100644
--- a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/storage.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/storage.hpp
@@ -1727,6 +1727,13 @@ namespace boost { namespace numeric { namespace ublas {
             std::swap(lhs().data2_[i1], rhs().data2_[i2]);
         }
 
+        // This refers to index_pair<>&, but [gcc4.8, C++11] can't deduce the type to correctly dispatch the swap
+        // Fixme: find a more elegant solution
+        BOOST_UBLAS_INLINE
+        friend void swap( typename iterator::reference lhs, typename iterator::reference rhs) { // This referes to index_pair<>&, but gcc4.8 can't deduce the type to correctly dispatch the swap
+                lhs.swap(rhs);
+        }
+
     private:
         size_type size_;
         V1& data1_;
@@ -1903,6 +1910,13 @@ namespace boost { namespace numeric { namespace ublas {
             std::swap(lhs().data3_[i1], rhs().data3_[i2]);
         }
 
+        // This refers to index_pair<>&, but [gcc4.8, C++11] can't deduce the type to correctly dispatch the swap
+        // Fixme: find a more elegant solution
+        BOOST_UBLAS_INLINE
+        friend void swap( typename iterator::reference lhs, typename iterator::reference rhs) {
+                lhs.swap(rhs);
+        }
+
     private:
         size_type size_;
         V1& data1_;