diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a7eb5387a1..aec4443abf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+Sat Mar  1 11:08:00 2014  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
+
+	* ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb: support dumping Encoding
+	  objects.
+
+	* ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb: support loading Encoding
+	  objects.
+
+	* test/psych/test_encoding.rb: add test
+
+	* ext/psych/lib/psych.rb: add version
+
 Sat Mar  1 10:52:34 2014  Zachary Scott  <e@zzak.io>
 
 	* README.EXT.ja: [DOC] Fix typo "macro macro" @utenmiki [Fixes GH-551]
diff --git a/ext/psych/lib/psych.rb b/ext/psych/lib/psych.rb
index 2e2b74a085..22772b6fcf 100644
--- a/ext/psych/lib/psych.rb
+++ b/ext/psych/lib/psych.rb
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ require 'psych/class_loader'
 
 module Psych
   # The version is Psych you're using
-  VERSION         = '2.0.3'
+  VERSION         = '2.0.4'
 
   # The version of libyaml Psych is using
   LIBYAML_VERSION = Psych.libyaml_version.join '.'
diff --git a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb
index 42b328a4bf..2f84b100d2 100644
--- a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb
+++ b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/to_ruby.rb
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ module Psych
           class_loader.date_time
           require 'date'
           @ss.parse_time(o.value).to_datetime
+        when '!ruby/encoding'
+          ::Encoding.find o.value
         when "!ruby/object:Complex"
           class_loader.complex
           Complex(o.value)
diff --git a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb
index f89fcbb8f1..ff0fcd204c 100644
--- a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb
+++ b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb
@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ module Psych
         @emitter.end_sequence
       end
 
+      def visit_Encoding o
+        tag = "!ruby/encoding"
+        @emitter.scalar o.name, nil, tag, false, false, Nodes::Scalar::ANY
+      end
+
       def visit_Object o
         tag = Psych.dump_tags[o.class]
         unless tag
diff --git a/test/psych/test_encoding.rb b/test/psych/test_encoding.rb
index e370606c77..517cae2069 100644
--- a/test/psych/test_encoding.rb
+++ b/test/psych/test_encoding.rb
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ module Psych
       @emitter = Psych::Emitter.new @buffer
     end
 
+    def test_dump_load_encoding_object
+      assert_cycle Encoding::US_ASCII
+      assert_cycle Encoding::UTF_8
+    end
+
     def test_transcode_shiftjis
       str = "こんにちは！"
       loaded = Psych.load("--- こんにちは！".encode('SHIFT_JIS'))