diff --git a/docs/profanity.1 b/docs/profanity.1
index 915f85bb..629312e3 100644
--- a/docs/profanity.1
+++ b/docs/profanity.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH Profanity 1 "August 2012" "Profanity XMPP client"
+.TH Profanity 1 "July 2013" "Profanity XMPP client"
 .SH NAME
 Profanity \- a simple console based XMPP chat client.
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ or with a Github account by logging issues on the issue tracker at:
 .PP
 <https://github.com/boothj5/profanity>
 .SH LICENSE
-Copyright (C) 2012 James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com>.
+Copyright (C) 2012, 2013 James Booth <boothj5web@gmail.com>.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
@@ -77,3 +77,9 @@ Colin Bradley
 Dmitry Podgorny <pasis.ua@gmail.com>
 .br
 Dolan O'Toole
+.br
+Kieran Thandi
+.br
+Sam Whited
+.br
+Florent Peterschmitt
diff --git a/src/xmpp/stanza.c b/src/xmpp/stanza.c
index e1178ccf..4d7d1f9d 100644
--- a/src/xmpp/stanza.c
+++ b/src/xmpp/stanza.c
@@ -115,8 +115,6 @@ stanza_create_message(xmpp_ctx_t *ctx, const char * const recipient,
     const char * const type, const char * const message,
     const char * const state, const char * const id)
 {
-    char *encoded_xml = encode_xml(message);
-
     xmpp_stanza_t *msg, *body, *text;
 
     msg = xmpp_stanza_new(ctx);
@@ -131,7 +129,7 @@ stanza_create_message(xmpp_ctx_t *ctx, const char * const recipient,
     xmpp_stanza_set_name(body, STANZA_NAME_BODY);
 
     text = xmpp_stanza_new(ctx);
-    xmpp_stanza_set_text(text, encoded_xml);
+    xmpp_stanza_set_text(text, message);
     xmpp_stanza_add_child(body, text);
     xmpp_stanza_release(text);
     xmpp_stanza_add_child(msg, body);
@@ -145,8 +143,6 @@ stanza_create_message(xmpp_ctx_t *ctx, const char * const recipient,
 	xmpp_stanza_release(chat_state);
     }
 
-    g_free(encoded_xml);
-
     return msg;
 }