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@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ PlatformIO Core 4.0
 * Fixed security issue when extracting items from TAR archive (`issue #2995 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/2995>`_)
 * Fixed an issue with project generator when ``src_build_flags`` were not respected (`issue #3137 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3137>`_)
 * Fixed an issue when booleans in "platformio.ini" are not parsed properly (`issue #3022 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3022>`_)
+* Fixed an issue with invalid encoding when generating project for Visual Studio (`issue #3183 <https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/3183>`_)
 
 4.0.3 (2019-08-30)
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