diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bfacb6a..2ca2b60 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <groupId>com.testrail</groupId>
     <artifactId>testrail-junit-extensions</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <version>0.1.1</version>
+    <version>0.1.2</version>
     <name>testrail-junit-extensions</name>
     <description>Improvements for JUnit that allow you to take better advantage of JUnit 5 (jupiter engine)</description>
     <url>https://github.com/gurock/testrail-junit-extensions</url>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/XmlReportWriter.java b/src/main/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/XmlReportWriter.java
index 0b27f50..aac8781 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/XmlReportWriter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/XmlReportWriter.java
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ private void writeXmlReport(TestIdentifier testIdentifier, Map<TestIdentifier, A
 			Writer out) throws XMLStreamException {
 
 		XMLOutputFactory factory = XMLOutputFactory.newInstance();
+		factory.setProperty("escapeCharacters", false);
 		XMLStreamWriter xmlWriter = factory.createXMLStreamWriter(out);
 		xmlWriter.writeStartDocument("UTF-8", "1.0");
 		newLine(xmlWriter);
@@ -299,7 +300,7 @@ private void writeTestcase(TestIdentifier testIdentifier, AggregatedTestResult t
 		List<ReportEntry> entries = this.reportData.getReportEntries(testIdentifier);
 		Map<String, String> testrunProperties = getTestRunProperties(entries);
 		for (Map.Entry<String, String> property : testrunProperties.entrySet()) {
-			addProperty(writer, property.getKey(), property.getValue());
+			addPropertyAndEscapeValue(writer, property.getKey(), property.getValue());
 		}
 
 		writer.writeEndElement(); // properties
@@ -316,6 +317,12 @@ private void addProperty(XMLStreamWriter writer, String name, String value) thro
 		newLine(writer);
 	}
 
+
+	private void addPropertyAndEscapeValue(XMLStreamWriter writer, String name, String value) throws XMLStreamException {
+		writer.writeCharacters(String.format("<property name=\"%s\" value=\"%s\"/>", name, escapeIllegalCharsForAttributes(value)));
+		newLine(writer);
+	}
+
 	private void addPropertyWithInnerContent(XMLStreamWriter writer, String name, String value)
 			throws XMLStreamException {
 		writer.writeStartElement("property");
@@ -502,6 +509,11 @@ private void writeAttributeSafely(XMLStreamWriter writer, String name, String va
 		writer.writeAttribute(name, escapeIllegalChars(value));
 	}
 
+
+	private void writeAttributeSafelyEncodingSomeChars(XMLStreamWriter writer, String name, String value) throws XMLStreamException {
+		writer.writeAttribute(name, escapeIllegalCharsForAttributes(value));
+	}
+
 	private void writeCDataSafely(XMLStreamWriter writer, String data) throws XMLStreamException {
 		for (String safeDataPart : CDATA_SPLIT_PATTERN.split(escapeIllegalChars(data))) {
 			writer.writeCData(safeDataPart);
@@ -533,6 +545,28 @@ private static boolean isAllowedXmlCharacter(int codePoint) {
 				|| (codePoint >= 0x10000 && codePoint <= 0x10FFFF);
 	}
 
+	static String escapeIllegalCharsForAttributes(String text) {
+		if (text.codePoints().allMatch(XmlReportWriter::isAllowedXmlCharacterForAttributes)) {
+			return text;
+		}
+		StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(text.length() * 2);
+		text.codePoints().forEach(codePoint -> {
+			if (isAllowedXmlCharacterForAttributes(codePoint)) {
+				result.appendCodePoint(codePoint);
+			} else { // use a Character Reference (cf. https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-CharRef)
+				result.append("&#").append(codePoint).append(';');
+			}
+		});
+		return result.toString();
+	}
+
+	private static boolean isAllowedXmlCharacterForAttributes(int codePoint) {
+		// source: https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charsets with a workaround for enconding some characters, such as tab, newline, carriage return
+		return  (codePoint >= 0x20 && codePoint <= 0xD7FF) //
+				|| (codePoint >= 0xE000 && codePoint <= 0xFFFD) //
+				|| (codePoint >= 0x10000 && codePoint <= 0x10FFFF);
+	}
+
 	private void newLine(XMLStreamWriter xmlWriter) throws XMLStreamException {
 		xmlWriter.writeCharacters("\n");
 	}
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/EnhancedLegacyXmlTest.java b/src/test/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/EnhancedLegacyXmlTest.java
index 84f23b0..a0cbdea 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/EnhancedLegacyXmlTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/EnhancedLegacyXmlTest.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 import static org.joox.JOOX.$;
+import static org.joox.JOOX.attr;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.fail;
 import static org.junit.platform.engine.discovery.DiscoverySelectors.selectMethod;
@@ -378,6 +379,16 @@ public void shouldStoreTestRunPropertiesMultiple() throws Exception {
         assertThat(testcase.child("properties").children("property").matchAttr("name", "my_property2").attr("value")).isEqualTo("world");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void shouldStoreMultilineTestRunProperties() throws Exception {
+        String testMethodName = "testWithTestRunPropertyMultiline";
+        executeTestMethodWithParams(TEST_EXAMPLES_CLASS, testMethodName, "com.testrail.junit.customjunitxml.TestRailTestReporter");
+        Match testsuite = readValidXmlFile(tempDirectory.resolve(REPORT_NAME));
+        Match testcase = testsuite.child("testcase");
+        assertThat(testcase.attr("name", String.class)).isEqualTo(testMethodName);
+        assertThat(testcase.child("properties").children("property").matchAttr("name", "testrail_case_field").attr("value")).isEqualTo("custom_steps:1. First step\n2. Second step\n3. Third step");
+    }
+
 	private Match readValidXmlFile(Path xmlFile) throws Exception {
 		assertTrue(Files.exists(xmlFile), () -> "File does not exist: " + xmlFile);
 		try (BufferedReader reader = Files.newBufferedReader(xmlFile)) {
@@ -398,6 +409,15 @@ static void assertValidAccordingToJenkinsSchema(Document document) throws Except
 		}
 	}
 
+    private void dumpJunitXMLReport(Path reportPath) {
+        System.out.println("Junit XML report: " + reportPath);
+        try {
+            Files.lines(reportPath).forEach(System.out::println);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+
 	private enum CachedSchema {
 
 		JENKINS("/enhanced-jenkins-junit.xsd");
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/ExamplesTestRailEnabledTestExamples.java b/src/test/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/ExamplesTestRailEnabledTestExamples.java
index f87e1f9..247bcd4 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/ExamplesTestRailEnabledTestExamples.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/testrail/junit/customjunitxml/ExamplesTestRailEnabledTestExamples.java
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ public void testWithMultipleTestRunProperties(TestRailTestReporter customReporte
         customReporter.setProperty("my_property2", "world");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testWithTestRunPropertyMultiline(TestRailTestReporter customReporter) {
+        customReporter.setProperty("testrail_case_field", "custom_steps:1. First step\n2. Second step\n3. Third step");
+    }
+
+
     @Test
     @TestRail(id = "myCustomId")
     public void annotatedTestWithCustomId() {