diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c4a4d54d..45e3a587 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     * CHANGED: Improved mobile UI - obscured send button and hard to click shortener button (#477)
     * CHANGED: Enhanced URL shortener integration (#479)
     * CHANGED: Improved file upload drag & drop UI (#317)
+    * CHANGED: Increased default size limit from 2 to 10 MiB, switch data from BLOB to MEDIUMBLOB in MySQL (#458)
     * CHANGED: Upgrading libraries to: DOMpurify 2.0.1
     * FIXED: Enabling browsers without WASM to create pastes and read uncompressed ones (#454)
     * FIXED: Cloning related issues (#489, #491, #493, #494)
diff --git a/cfg/conf.sample.php b/cfg/conf.sample.php
index 0f2d50d5..91616b84 100644
--- a/cfg/conf.sample.php
+++ b/cfg/conf.sample.php
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ defaultformatter = "plaintext"
 ; (optional) set a syntax highlighting theme, as found in css/prettify/
 ; syntaxhighlightingtheme = "sons-of-obsidian"
 
-; size limit per paste or comment in bytes, defaults to 2 Mebibytes
-sizelimit = 2097152
+; size limit per paste or comment in bytes, defaults to 10 Mebibytes
+sizelimit = 10485760
 
 ; template to include, default is "bootstrap" (tpl/bootstrap.php)
 template = "bootstrap"
diff --git a/lib/Configuration.php b/lib/Configuration.php
index 67ecc234..d0258e12 100644
--- a/lib/Configuration.php
+++ b/lib/Configuration.php
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class Configuration
             'burnafterreadingselected' => false,
             'defaultformatter'         => 'plaintext',
             'syntaxhighlightingtheme'  => null,
-            'sizelimit'                => 2097152,
+            'sizelimit'                => 10485760,
             'template'                 => 'bootstrap',
             'notice'                   => '',
             'languageselection'        => false,