diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cd582679f..0782818e9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Enhancements
  - moved the DN cache to SOGoCache - avoiding sogod restarts after RDN operations
  - don't use the HTML editor with Internet Explorer 7
  - add message-id header to appointment notifications (#2535)
+ - detect URLs in popup of events
 
 Bug fixes
  - don't load 'background' attribute (#2437)
diff --git a/UI/Scheduler/UIxAppointmentEditor.m b/UI/Scheduler/UIxAppointmentEditor.m
index 2c371c5fe..5f40e2396 100644
--- a/UI/Scheduler/UIxAppointmentEditor.m
+++ b/UI/Scheduler/UIxAppointmentEditor.m
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@
                        [[event summary] stringByEscapingHTMLString], @"summary",
                        [[event location] stringByEscapingHTMLString], @"location",
 		       [created_by stringByEscapingHTMLString], @"created_by",
-                       [[event comment] stringByEscapingHTMLString], @"description",
+                       [[[event comment] stringByEscapingHTMLString] stringByDetectingURLs], @"description",
                        nil];
   
   [result appendContentString: [data jsonRepresentation]];