diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ef359d4e4..d44865ec4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-08-10  Ludovic Marcotte  <lmarcotte@inverse.ca>
+
+	* Changed OpenChange/SOGoMAPIDBObject.m so we use
+	GNUstep's binary encoding - which is an order or
+	magnitude faster at encoding data than any other formats.
+
 2012-08-10  Wolfgang Sourdeau  <wsourdeau@inverse.ca>
 
 	* OpenChange/MAPIStoreSOGo.m (sogo_folder_move_folder)
diff --git a/OpenChange/SOGoMAPIDBObject.m b/OpenChange/SOGoMAPIDBObject.m
index b80af8fc5..f5014dd52 100644
--- a/OpenChange/SOGoMAPIDBObject.m
+++ b/OpenChange/SOGoMAPIDBObject.m
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static EOAttribute *textColumn = nil;
     {
       content = [NSPropertyListSerialization
                       dataFromPropertyList: properties
-                                    format: NSPropertyListBinaryFormat_v1_0
+                                    format: NSPropertyListGNUstepBinaryFormat
                           errorDescription: NULL];
       propsValue = [adaptor formatValue: [content stringByEncodingBase64]
                            forAttribute: textColumn];