diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b2f9c4b3a66..12cc50d0648 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
   . Fixed bug #55451 (substr_compare NULL length interpreted as 0). (Lauri
     Kenttä)
   . Fixed bug #72278 (getimagesize returning FALSE on valid jpg). (cmb)
+  . Fixed bug #65550 (get_browser() incorrectly parses entries with "+" sign).
+    (cmb)
 
 - Streams:
   . Fixed bug #72853 (stream_set_blocking doesn't work). (Laruence)
diff --git a/ext/standard/browscap.c b/ext/standard/browscap.c
index f47478a2415..8ad55829c8a 100644
--- a/ext/standard/browscap.c
+++ b/ext/standard/browscap.c
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ static void convert_browscap_pattern(zval *pattern, int persistent) /* {{{ */
 				t[j++] = '\\';
 				t[j] = '~';
 				break;
+			case '+':
+				t[j++] = '\\';
+				t[j] = '+';
+				break;
 			default:
 				t[j] = lc_pattern[i];
 				break;
diff --git a/ext/standard/tests/misc/bug65550.phpt b/ext/standard/tests/misc/bug65550.phpt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..41967426fa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/standard/tests/misc/bug65550.phpt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+--TEST--
+Bug #65550 (get_browser() incorrectly parses entries with "+" sign)
+--INI--
+browscap={PWD}/browscap.ini
+--SKIPIF--
+<?php
+if (!is_readable(ini_get('browscap'))) die('skip browscap.ini file ' . ini_get('browscap') . ' not readable');
+?>
+--FILE--
+<?php
+$user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/522+ (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/522) OmniWeb/v613';
+$caps = get_browser($user_agent, true);
+var_dump($caps['browser'], $caps['version']);
+?>
+==DONE==
+--EXPECT--
+string(7) "OmniWeb"
+string(3) "5.6"
+==DONE==