diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index dd338c7c6f..6a70f99a14 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Release 1.5.1 (in development)
 Bugs fixed
 ----------
 
+* #3195: Can not build in parallel.
 
 
 Release 1.5 (released Dec 5, 2016)
diff --git a/sphinx/application.py b/sphinx/application.py
index baca1c8f15..25244ef665 100644
--- a/sphinx/application.py
+++ b/sphinx/application.py
@@ -532,6 +532,12 @@ class Sphinx(object):
             # special-case for compatibility
             if extension == 'rst2pdf.pdfbuilder':
                 ext_meta = {'parallel_read_safe': True}
+            elif extension in builtin_extensions:
+                ext_meta = {
+                    'version': 'builtin',
+                    'parallel_read_safe': True,
+                    'parallel_write_safe': True,
+                }
         try:
             if not ext_meta.get('version'):
                 ext_meta['version'] = 'unknown version'