diff --git a/core/test/functional/routes/frontend_spec.js b/core/test/functional/routes/frontend_spec.js
index bca011c248..3f0bd6dab8 100644
--- a/core/test/functional/routes/frontend_spec.js
+++ b/core/test/functional/routes/frontend_spec.js
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ describe('Frontend Routing', function () {
                     should.not.exist(res.headers['set-cookie']);
                     should.exist(res.headers.date);
                     // The remainder of the XML is tested in the unit/xml_spec.js
-                    res.text.should.match(/^<\?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"\?>\n<rss/);
+                    res.text.should.match(/^<\?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"\?><rss/);
 
                     done();
                 });
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 848b3925e2..702aab3942 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     "passport-oauth2-client-password": "0.1.2",
     "path-match": "1.2.3",
     "request": "2.65.0",
-    "rss": "1.1.1",
+    "rss": "1.2.0",
     "semver": "5.0.3",
     "showdown-ghost": "0.3.6",
     "sqlite3": "3.1.0",