diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ec8b4298..37d9bb0f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # SAS Viya Monitoring for Kubernetes
 
 ## unreleased
-
 * **Metrics**
   * [CHANGE] Removed temporary fix (added w/1.2.27) replacing a small number of Grafana dashboards
 inherited from the Kube-Prometheus Stack Helm chart that did not work with Grafana 11.x due to Angular 
@@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ deployment of the (generally unused) `Node Exporter/MacOS` dashboard within Graf
 some special characters.
   * [CHANGE] A minor tweak to an internal function, `populateValuesYAML`, was made to sort the list of
 files in the USER_DIR directory captured as part of deploying the V4M Helm Chart.
+  * [FIX] Use locally-scoped IFS variable within the `display_notices` function
 
 
 ## Version 1.2.33 (14JAN2025)
diff --git a/bin/log-include.sh b/bin/log-include.sh
index 64020141..1fcc237d 100644
--- a/bin/log-include.sh
+++ b/bin/log-include.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ function add_notice {
 
 function display_notices {
   if [ -f "$TMP_DIR/notices.txt" ]; then
-     IFS=''
+     local IFS=''
      cat $TMP_DIR/notices.txt | while read line || [[ -n "$line" ]];
      do
        log_notice "$line"