diff --git a/virt-manager.changes b/virt-manager.changes
index 00c002a3..3602609a 100644
--- a/virt-manager.changes
+++ b/virt-manager.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan  5 14:23:21 MST 2018 - carnold@suse.com
+
+- bsc#1072012 - openSUSE Tumbleweed, virt-manager: Opening VM GUI
+  fails with "ordinal not in range" (bart.vanassche+novell@gmail.com)
+- bsc#1074808 - [beta4+maintain update][virt-manager] Error
+  launching details:'ascii' codec can't decode byte
+  virtman-python2-to-python3-conversion.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jan  2 12:45:56 MST 2018 - carnold@suse.com
 
diff --git a/virtman-python2-to-python3-conversion.patch b/virtman-python2-to-python3-conversion.patch
index 27af5245..6936592c 100644
--- a/virtman-python2-to-python3-conversion.patch
+++ b/virtman-python2-to-python3-conversion.patch
@@ -827,3 +827,25 @@ Index: virt-manager-1.4.3/virtManager/createnet.py
  
  PAGE_MAX = PAGE_MISC
  
+Index: virt-manager-1.4.3/virtManager/baseclass.py
+===================================================================
+--- virt-manager-1.4.3.orig/virtManager/baseclass.py
++++ virt-manager-1.4.3/virtManager/baseclass.py
+@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
+ # MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ #
+ 
++import io
+ import logging
+ import os
+ import sys
+@@ -220,7 +221,8 @@ class vmmGObjectUI(vmmGObject):
+ 
+             self.builder = Gtk.Builder()
+             self.builder.set_translation_domain("virt-manager")
+-            self.builder.add_from_string(open(uifile).read())
++            ui = io.open(uifile, mode="r", encoding="utf-8").read()
++            self.builder.add_from_string(ui)
+ 
+             if not topwin:
+                 self.topwin = self.widget(windowname)