diff --git a/scripts/changelog_to_json.sh b/scripts/changelog_to_json.sh
index df43b2d4..45175630 100755
--- a/scripts/changelog_to_json.sh
+++ b/scripts/changelog_to_json.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 sed -i "s/\"/'/g" CHANGELOG.md # change double to single quotes
-cat CHANGELOG.md | tr -d "\n" | sed 's/- /\\n- /g'
+#cat CHANGELOG.md | tr -d "\n" | sed 's/- /\\n- /g'
+sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\\n/g' CHANGELOG.md
+