diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 28cbcc872f..753c6aae19 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
 
 2. A regression in v1.13.0 resulted in installation on Mac often failing with `shared object 'datatable.so' not found`, and FreeBSD always failing with `expr: illegal option -- l`, [#4652](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4652) [#4640](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4640) [#4650](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4650). Thanks to many for assistance including Simon Urbanek, Brian Ripley, Wes Morgan, and @ale07alvarez. There were no installation problems on Windows or Linux.
 
-3. Operating on columns of type `list`, e.g. `dt[, listCol[[1]], by=id]`, suffered a performance regression in v1.13.0, [#4646](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4646) [#4658](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4658). Thanks to @fabiocs8 and @sandoronodi for the detailed reports, and to Cole Miller for substantial debugging, investigation and proposals at C level which enabled the root cause to be fixed. Related, and also fixed, was a segfault revealed by package POUMM, [#4746](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4746), when grouping a list column where each item has an attribute; e.g., `coda::mcmc.list`. Detected thanks to CRAN's ASAN checks. Thanks to Venelin Mitov for assistance in tracing the memory fault.
+3. Operating on columns of type `list`, e.g. `dt[, listCol[[1]], by=id]`, suffered a performance regression in v1.13.0, [#4646](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4646) [#4658](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4658). Thanks to @fabiocs8 and @sandoronodi for the detailed reports, and to Cole Miller for substantial debugging, investigation and proposals at C level which enabled the root cause to be fixed. Related, and also fixed, was a segfault revealed by package POUMM, [#4746](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4746), when grouping a list column where each item has an attribute; e.g., `coda::mcmc.list`. Detected thanks to CRAN's ASAN checks, and thanks to Venelin Mitov for assistance in tracing the memory fault. Thanks also to Hongyuan Jia and @ben-schwen for assistance in debugging the fix in dev to pass reverse dependency testing which highlighted, before release, that package `eplusr` would fail. Its good usage has been added to `data.table`'s test suite.
 
-4. `fread("1.2\n", colClasses='integer')` would segfault when creating the warning message due to no column names in the output, [#4644](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4644). It now warns with `Attempt to override column 1 of inherent type 'float64' down to 'int32' ignored.` When column names are present, the warning message includes the name as before; i.e., `fread("A\n1.2\n", colClasses='integer')` produces `Attempt to override column 1 <<A>> of inherent type 'float64' down to 'int32' ignored.`. Thanks to Kun Ren for reporting.
+4. `fread("1.2\n", colClasses='integer')` (note no columns names in the data) would segfault when creating a warning message, [#4644](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4644). It now warns with `Attempt to override column 1 of inherent type 'float64' down to 'int32' ignored.` When column names are present however, the warning message includes the name as before; i.e., `fread("A\n1.2\n", colClasses='integer')` produces `Attempt to override column 1 <<A>> of inherent type 'float64' down to 'int32' ignored.`. Thanks to Kun Ren for reporting.
 
 5. `dplyr::mutate(setDT(as.list(1:64)), V1=11)` threw error `can't set ALTREP truelength`, [#4734](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/4734). Thanks to @etryn for the reproducible example, and to Cole Miller for refinements.
 
diff --git a/inst/tests/tests.Rraw b/inst/tests/tests.Rraw
index c981f3e739..f5f7136641 100644
--- a/inst/tests/tests.Rraw
+++ b/inst/tests/tests.Rraw
@@ -17178,3 +17178,11 @@ DT = data.table(A=rnorm(100), B=rep(c("a","b"),c(47,53)), C=rnorm(20), D=1:20)
 test(2157, DT[, head(setorderv(.SD, "A")), by=B]$D,
            INT(18,6,3,8,9,6,12,17,18,5,20,4))
 
+# .SD list column itself needs copy, #4761
+DT = data.table(value=as.list(1:2), index=1:2)
+test(2158.1, DT[, .(value = list(value)), index],
+             data.table(index=1:2, value=list( list(1L), list(2L) )))
+DT = data.table(value=as.list(1:6), index=rep(1:2, each=3))
+test(2158.2, DT[, by="index", list(value=list(value))],
+             data.table(index=1:2, value=list(as.list(1:3), as.list(4:6))))
+
diff --git a/src/dogroups.c b/src/dogroups.c
index 15962e697c..6ef4cb9815 100644
--- a/src/dogroups.c
+++ b/src/dogroups.c
@@ -46,9 +46,13 @@ static bool anySpecialStatic(SEXP x) {
     return false;
   if (isVectorAtomic(x))
     return ALTREP(x) || TRUELENGTH(x)<0;
-  if (isNewList(x)) for (int i=0; i<n; ++i) {  
-    if (anySpecialStatic(VECTOR_ELT(x,i)))
-      return true;
+  if (isNewList(x)) {
+    if (TRUELENGTH(x)<0)
+      return true;  // test 2158
+    for (int i=0; i<n; ++i) {  
+      if (anySpecialStatic(VECTOR_ELT(x,i)))
+        return true;
+    }
   }
   return false;
 }