doc/news.texi             |  3 +++
 t/goredo-executable-rel.t | 17 +++++++++++++++++

diff --git a/doc/news.texi b/doc/news.texi
index 9edbc995441ebb9458223df9eaf2e0f281cc798cd51073e8941ced791f4cc5d1..72cfc3a79a507ef4f36384145be307e045ae65686d68dee762e3f1a511dd6fc9 100644
--- a/doc/news.texi
+++ b/doc/news.texi
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ @anchor{Release 2_6_5}
 @section Release 2.6.5
 @itemize
 @item
+    Fix file's executable bit check, which may lead to inadmissible
+    @command{/bin/sh} run in case of symbolic links presence.
+@item
     Fix proper @command{mtime}'s nanoseconds storage.
 @end itemize
 
diff --git a/t/goredo-executable-rel.t b/t/goredo-executable-rel.t
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1278a22ce063bb8b75cea05292915c13f48af55761a4f2b746ac8a8f50c2ea4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/goredo-executable-rel.t
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description="Check that relative executable target through symlink is run"
+. $SHARNESS_TEST_SRCDIR/sharness.sh
+export REDO_TOP_DIR="`pwd`" REDO_NO_PROGRESS=1
+
+cat >foo.do <<EOF
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use strict;
+EOF
+chmod +x foo.do
+mkdir -p a/b
+ln -s a/b b
+cd b
+test_expect_success "succeeds" 'redo "$REDO_TOP_DIR"/foo'
+
+test_done