diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 41d8cfdb..6cb17dde 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.2.1 (2012-11-04 19:29:10) stable
+Version 2.2.1 (2012-11-04 19:55:09) stable
diff --git a/gluon/contrib/rss2.py b/gluon/contrib/rss2.py
index 155de0e7..a39f15a1 100644
--- a/gluon/contrib/rss2.py
+++ b/gluon/contrib/rss2.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ __author__ = "Andrew Dalke <dalke@dalkescientific.com>"
 _generator_name = __name__ + "-" + ".".join(map(str, __version__))
 
 import datetime
+
 import sys
 
 if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
@@ -519,25 +520,3 @@ class RSSItem(WriteXmlMixin):
         # Derived classes can hook into this to insert
         # output after the title and link elements
         pass
-
-
-def dumps(rss, encoding='utf-8'):
-    s = StringIO()
-    rss.write_xml(s, encoding)
-    return s.getvalue()
-
-
-def test():
-    rss = RSS2(title='web2py feed', link='http://www.web2py.com',
-               description='About web2py',
-               lastBuildDate=datetime.datetime.now(),
-               items=[RSSItem(title='web2py and PyRSS2Gen-0.0',
-               link='http://www.web2py.com/examples/simple_examples/getrss',
-               description='web2py can now make rss feeds!',
-               guid=Guid('http://www.web2py.com/'),
-               pubDate=datetime.datetime(2007, 11, 14, 10, 30))])
-    return dumps(rss)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    print test()
diff --git a/gluon/serializers.py b/gluon/serializers.py
index b50ab994..ea9611d3 100644
--- a/gluon/serializers.py
+++ b/gluon/serializers.py
@@ -114,4 +114,4 @@ def rss(feed):
                            description=str(entry.get('description', '')),
                            pubDate=entry.get('created_on', now)
                            ) for entry in feed.get('entries', [])])
-    return rss2.dumps(rss)
+    return rss.to_xml(rss,encoding='utf-8')