diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 4385aa73c2e..b549e4b3f3b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,10 @@ CHANGES
 
 - Server has 75 seconds keepalive timeout now, was non-keepalive by default.
 
-- Application doesn't accept `**kwargs` anymore (#243). 
+- Application doesn't accept `**kwargs` anymore (#243).
+
+- Request is inherited from dict now for making per-request storage to
+  middlewares (#242).
 
 
 0.13.1 (12-31-2014)
diff --git a/aiohttp/web.py b/aiohttp/web.py
index eb8ce08915c..5c805712fc1 100644
--- a/aiohttp/web.py
+++ b/aiohttp/web.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def content_length(self, _CONTENT_LENGTH=hdrs.CONTENT_LENGTH):
 ############################################################
 
 
-class Request(HeadersMixin):
+class Request(dict, HeadersMixin):
 
     def __init__(self, app, message, payload, transport, reader, writer, *,
                  _HOST=hdrs.HOST):
diff --git a/tests/test_web_request.py b/tests/test_web_request.py
index 68175374b57..11aab0e35b3 100644
--- a/tests/test_web_request.py
+++ b/tests/test_web_request.py
@@ -161,3 +161,9 @@ def test_match_info(self):
         match = {'a': 'b'}
         req._match_info = match
         self.assertIs(match, req.match_info)
+
+    def test_request_is_dict(self):
+        req = self.make_request('GET', '/')
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(req, dict))
+        req['key'] = 'value'
+        self.assertEqual('value', req['key'])