diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index eb43331ff..4fee22d35 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ version 1.5.0beta20 [April 24, 2010]
   Relaxed more overly-restrictive permissions of some files.
 
 version 1.5.0beta21 [April 25, 2010]
-  Trivial editing; changed CRLF to NEWLINE in the new vstudio project files.
+  Removed some unwanted binary bytes and changed CRLF to NEWLINE in the new
+    vstudio project files, and some trivial editing of some files in the
+    scripts directory.
 
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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0387c14c5..3c9dc0ae7 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2672,7 +2672,9 @@ version 1.5.0beta20 [April 24, 2010]
   Relaxed more overly-restrictive permissions of some files.
 
 version 1.5.0beta21 [April 25, 2010]
-  Trivial editing; changed CRLF to NEWLINE in the new vstudio project files.
+  Removed some unwanted binary bytes and changed CRLF to NEWLINE in the new
+    vstudio project files, and some trivial editing of some files in the
+    scripts directory.
 
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diff --git a/projects/vstudio/libpng/libpng.vcxproj b/projects/vstudio/libpng/libpng.vcxproj
index e70d68b80..892e63247 100644
--- a/projects/vstudio/libpng/libpng.vcxproj
+++ b/projects/vstudio/libpng/libpng.vcxproj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-‹½¨<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <Project DefaultTargets="Build" ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
   <ItemGroup Label="ProjectConfigurations">
     <ProjectConfiguration Include="Debug Library|Win32">
diff --git a/projects/vstudio/pngtest/pngtest.vcxproj b/projects/vstudio/pngtest/pngtest.vcxproj
index 3e1ddd718..21dcf7f64 100644
--- a/projects/vstudio/pngtest/pngtest.vcxproj
+++ b/projects/vstudio/pngtest/pngtest.vcxproj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-‹½¨<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <Project DefaultTargets="Build" ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
   <ItemGroup Label="ProjectConfigurations">
     <ProjectConfiguration Include="Debug Library|Win32">
diff --git a/projects/vstudio/vstudio.sln b/projects/vstudio/vstudio.sln
index 2ce71bc1b..b288ab6bb 100644
--- a/projects/vstudio/vstudio.sln
+++ b/projects/vstudio/vstudio.sln
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-‹½¨
+
 Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00
 # Visual C++ Express 2010
 Project("{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}") = "libpng", "libpng\libpng.vcxproj", "{D6973076-9317-4EF2-A0B8-B7A18AC0713E}"
diff --git a/projects/vstudio/zlib.props b/projects/vstudio/zlib.props
index 4152ea2a7..e21a1c20e 100644
--- a/projects/vstudio/zlib.props
+++ b/projects/vstudio/zlib.props
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-‹½¨<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <!--
  * zlib.props - location of zlib source and build
  *
diff --git a/projects/vstudio/zlib/zlib.vcxproj b/projects/vstudio/zlib/zlib.vcxproj
index 613b9e6a0..94d75a3ed 100644
--- a/projects/vstudio/zlib/zlib.vcxproj
+++ b/projects/vstudio/zlib/zlib.vcxproj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-‹½¨<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <Project DefaultTargets="Build" ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
   <ItemGroup Label="ProjectConfigurations">
     <ProjectConfiguration Include="Debug Library|Win32">