diff --git a/README.html b/README.html
index efed2652..30d9f83e 100644
--- a/README.html
+++ b/README.html
@@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ and LuaForge:
 
 <tr valign="top"><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3.0-alpha3</b></td><td><ul>
 <li>Fix bug 3597515 memory leak due to string caching by simplifying caching logic.</li>
+<li>Fix bug 3565008 so that short substrings are backed by short arrays.</li>
 
 </ul></td></tr>
 </table></td></tr></table>
diff --git a/src/core/org/luaj/vm2/LoadState.java b/src/core/org/luaj/vm2/LoadState.java
index f753394a..46c27287 100644
--- a/src/core/org/luaj/vm2/LoadState.java
+++ b/src/core/org/luaj/vm2/LoadState.java
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ public class LoadState {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Load lua in either binary or text form from an input stream.
+	 * Load lua in either binary or text from an input stream.
 	 * @param firstByte the first byte of the input stream
 	 * @param stream InputStream to read, after having read the first byte already
 	 * @param name Name to apply to the loaded chunk
@@ -390,6 +390,19 @@ public class LoadState {
 		}
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Load lua in the default mode "bt" from an input stream.
+	 * @param firstByte the first byte of the input stream
+	 * @param stream InputStream to read, after having read the first byte already
+	 * @param name Name to apply to the loaded chunk
+	 * @return {@link Prototype} that was loaded
+	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the signature is bac
+	 * @throws IOException if an IOException occurs
+	 */
+	public static LuaFunction load( InputStream stream, String name, LuaValue env ) throws IOException {
+		return load(stream, name, "bt", env);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Load lua thought to be a binary chunk from its first byte from an input stream.
 	 * @param firstByte the first byte of the input stream
diff --git a/src/core/org/luaj/vm2/LuaString.java b/src/core/org/luaj/vm2/LuaString.java
index db4d4891..b7cc6641 100644
--- a/src/core/org/luaj/vm2/LuaString.java
+++ b/src/core/org/luaj/vm2/LuaString.java
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.DataOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
-import java.util.Hashtable;
 
 import org.luaj.vm2.lib.MathLib;
 import org.luaj.vm2.lib.StringLib;
@@ -131,7 +129,7 @@ public class LuaString extends LuaValue {
 			// Short result relative to the source.  Copy only the bytes that are actually to be used.
 			final byte[] b = new byte[len];
 			System.arraycopy(bytes, off, b, 0, len);
-			return valueOf(bytes);
+			return valueOf(b, 0, len);  // To possibly use cached version.
 		}
 	}
 	
@@ -257,7 +255,7 @@ public class LuaString extends LuaValue {
 		byte[] b = new byte[lhs.m_length+this.m_length];
 		System.arraycopy(lhs.m_bytes, lhs.m_offset, b, 0, lhs.m_length);
 		System.arraycopy(this.m_bytes, this.m_offset, b, lhs.m_length, this.m_length);
-		return new LuaString(b, 0, b.length);
+		return valueOf(b, 0, b.length);
 	}
 
 	// string comparison 
@@ -370,7 +368,7 @@ public class LuaString extends LuaValue {
 	}
 	
 	public LuaString substring( int beginIndex, int endIndex ) {
-		return new LuaString( m_bytes, m_offset + beginIndex, endIndex - beginIndex );
+		return valueOf( m_bytes, m_offset + beginIndex, endIndex - beginIndex );
 	}
 	
 	public int hashCode() {