diff --git a/doc/chm/VeraCrypt User Guide.chm b/doc/chm/VeraCrypt User Guide.chm
index ca95617f..7315ec21 100644
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diff --git a/doc/html/Release Notes.html b/doc/html/Release Notes.html
index 8064a949..09e5d1ed 100644
--- a/doc/html/Release Notes.html	
+++ b/doc/html/Release Notes.html	
@@ -40,11 +40,12 @@
 <span style="color:#ff0000;">To avoid hinting whether your volumes contain a hidden volume or not, or if you depend on plausible deniability when using hidden volumes/OS, then you must recreate both the outer and hidden volumes including system encryption and hidden OS, discarding existing volumes created prior to 1.18a version of VeraCrypt.</span></li>
 </p>
 
-<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.24-Hotfix1 </strong>(October 25<sup>rd</sup>, 2019):</p>
+<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.24-Hotfix1 </strong>(October 27<sup>rd</sup>, 2019):</p>
 <ul>
 <li><strong>Windows:</strong>
 <ul>
 <li>Fix 1.24 regression that caused system favorites not to mount at boot if VeraCrypt freshly installed.</li>
+<li>Fix failure to encrypt system if the current Windows username contains a Unicode non-ASCII character.</li>
 <li>Make VeraCrypt Expander able to resume expansion of volumes whose previous expansion was aborted before it finishes.</li>
 <li>Add "Quick Expand" option to VeraCrypt Expander to accelarate the expansion of large file containers.</li>
 <li>Add several robustness checks and validation in case of system encryption to better handle some corner cases.</li>
diff --git a/src/Common/Tcdefs.h b/src/Common/Tcdefs.h
index 22e8b58a..b9f3756f 100644
--- a/src/Common/Tcdefs.h
+++ b/src/Common/Tcdefs.h
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ extern unsigned short _rotl16(unsigned short value, unsigned char shift);
 #define VERSION_NUM						0x0124
 
 // Release date
-#define TC_STR_RELEASE_DATE			L"October 25, 2019"
+#define TC_STR_RELEASE_DATE			L"October 27, 2019"
 #define TC_RELEASE_DATE_YEAR			2019
 #define TC_RELEASE_DATE_MONTH			 10