# HG changeset patch
# User Marcin Kuzminski <marcin@rhodecode.com>
# Date 2018-09-18 08:01:06
# Node ID ffbe1931e15415e65c7a01f8b0ac5d1e8afd9556
# Parent  30102673506d6ace391470d78021170d8f5c00b2

docs: added 4.13 release note about potential encoding problems

diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-4.13.0.rst b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-4.13.0.rst
--- a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-4.13.0.rst
+++ b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-4.13.0.rst
@@ -131,3 +131,7 @@ Upgrade notes
   generated rhodecode.template.ini file. This file is stored next to rhodecode.ini
 - SVN 1.10.2 was introduced in this release. Please make sure to update your
   mod_dav to the same version for best compatibility.
+- This release brings new Database drivers. We discovered that in some setups it is now
+  required to explicitly define a encoding charset in the database connection string.
+  If you're getting a permanent exception such as `"UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 15: invalid start byte"`
+  please follow a fix from here: https://community.rhodecode.com/t/unicodedecodeerror-utf8-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xfc-in-position-15-invalid-start-byte/246