diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index eac2fa3ef5..9e6046e1a5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ phpMyAdmin - ChangeLog
 - bug #3997 Error handling in case MySQL extension is missing
 - bug #4089 Moving Columns will alter column definition
 - bug #4091 Insert ignore option does not work
+- bug #4090 Downloading BLOB downloads page template
 
 4.0.6.0 (2013-09-05)
 - bug #4036 Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding (clarify the doc)
diff --git a/tbl_get_field.php b/tbl_get_field.php
index e5ec269235..060b28e4cc 100644
--- a/tbl_get_field.php
+++ b/tbl_get_field.php
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 /**
  * Common functions.
  */
+// we don't want the usual PMA_Response-generated HTML above the column's data
+define('PMA_BYPASS_GET_INSTANCE', 1);
 require_once 'libraries/common.inc.php';
 require_once 'libraries/mime.lib.php';