diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js
index ec64eb9b7ad..8b9d7812ca7 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ var BasicModel = AbstractModel.extend({
                             });
                             record._changes[name] = rec.id;
                         }
-                    } else if (field.type === 'one2many') {
+                    } else if (field.type === 'one2many' || field.type === 'many2many') {
                         record._changes = record._changes || {};
                         var listId = record._changes[name] || record.data[name];
                         var list = self.localData[listId];
diff --git a/addons/web/static/test/views/form_tests.js b/addons/web/static/test/views/form_tests.js
index 1295282732c..b3a8652ab30 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/test/views/form_tests.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/test/views/form_tests.js
@@ -1731,4 +1731,46 @@ QUnit.module('Views', {
         form.destroy();
     });
 
-});});
+    QUnit.test('properly apply onchange on many2many fields', function (assert) {
+        assert.expect(3);
+
+        this.data.partner.onchanges = {
+            foo: function (obj) {
+                obj.timmy = [
+                    [5],
+                    [1, 12, {display_name: "gold"}],
+                ];
+            },
+        };
+        var form = createView({
+            View: FormView,
+            model: 'partner',
+            data: this.data,
+            arch: '<form string="Partners">' +
+                    '<group><field name="foo"/></group>' +
+                    '<field name="timmy">' +
+                        '<tree>' +
+                            '<field name="display_name"/>' +
+                        '</tree>' +
+                    '</field>' +
+                '</form>',
+            res_id: 2,
+        });
+
+        assert.strictEqual(form.$('.o_form_field_many2many .o_data_row').length, 0,
+            "there should be no many2many record linked at first");
+
+        // switch to edit mode
+        form.$buttons.find('.o_form_button_edit').click();
+        form.$('.o_form_input').val('let us trigger an onchange').trigger('input');
+        assert.strictEqual(form.$('.o_form_field_many2many .o_data_row').length, 1,
+            "there should be one linked record");
+        assert.strictEqual(form.$('.o_form_field_many2many .o_data_row td:first').text(), 'gold',
+            "the 'display_name' of the many2many record should be correctly displayed");
+
+        form.destroy();
+    });
+
+});
+
+});