diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3bd7f8cc0..e6a659ae6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+## [5.3.2](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/compare/5.3.1...5.3.2) (2019-05-03)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* no trace message on empty app.css ([#7135](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/issues/7135)) ([170d2a8](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/commit/170d2a8))
+* **ios:** application.displayedEvent does not depend on trace to fire ([#7141](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/issues/7141)) ([f6f7b51](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/commit/f6f7b51))
+* **ios:** flat action bar incorrect layout after navigation ([#7077](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/issues/7077)) ([1dc3952](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/commit/1dc3952))
+* **ios-http-get:** http failure during parsing xml ([#7175](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/issues/7175)) ([c227c50](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/commit/c227c50))
+
+
+
 ## [5.3.1](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/compare/5.3.0...5.3.1) (2019-03-28)
 
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f65b9780f..f0f559373 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
     "grunt-simple-mocha": "0.4.1",
     "grunt-ts": "6.0.0-beta.11",
     "grunt-typedoc": "0.2.4",
-    "http-server": "^0.9.0",
     "madge": "^2.2.0",
     "markdown-snippet-injector": "0.2.2",
     "mocha": "^3.5.0",
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/http/http-request/http-request.ios.ts b/tns-core-modules/http/http-request/http-request.ios.ts
index ad53e823c..d00269c3a 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/http/http-request/http-request.ios.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/http/http-request/http-request.ios.ts
@@ -197,11 +197,21 @@ export function request(options: httpModule.HttpRequestOptions): Promise<httpMod
 }
 
 function NSDataToString(data: any, encoding?: HttpResponseEncoding): string {
-    let code = 4; //UTF8
+    let code = NSUTF8StringEncoding; // long:4
+
     if (encoding === HttpResponseEncoding.GBK) {
-        code = 1586;
+        code = CFStringEncodings.kCFStringEncodingGB_18030_2000; // long:1586
     }
-    return NSString.alloc().initWithDataEncoding(data, code).toString();
+
+    let encodedString = NSString.alloc().initWithDataEncoding(data, code);
+
+    // If UTF8 string encoding fails try with ISO-8859-1
+    if (!encodedString) {
+        code = NSISOLatin1StringEncoding; // long:5
+        encodedString = NSString.alloc().initWithDataEncoding(data, code);
+    }
+
+    return encodedString.toString();
 }
 
 export function addHeader(headers: httpModule.Headers, key: string, value: string): void {