diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index e60761ae5d..d886bcaa6d 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+#### 0.27.16 - 13.02.2015
+* COSMETICS: Paket should not reformat app/web.config files while changing assembly redirects - https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket/issues/597
+
 #### 0.27.15 - 13.02.2015
 * BUGFIX: Parsing of conditional dependencies should detect portable case - https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket/issues/594
 
diff --git a/src/Paket.Core/BindingRedirects.fs b/src/Paket.Core/BindingRedirects.fs
index 3822c5a38e..c27cc71953 100644
--- a/src/Paket.Core/BindingRedirects.fs
+++ b/src/Paket.Core/BindingRedirects.fs
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ let internal setRedirect (doc:XDocument) bindingRedirect =
 
 /// Applies a set of binding redirects to a single configuration file.
 let private applyBindingRedirects bindingRedirects (configFilePath:string) =
-    let config = XDocument.Load configFilePath
+    let config = XDocument.Load(configFilePath, LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace)
     let config = Seq.fold setRedirect config bindingRedirects
     config.Save configFilePath