diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index ac1bb9044..aeb943999 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ This is a minor release: It combines bug fixes and new features.
   Changes to existing features were made in a backwards-compatible
   way such as to allow drop-in replacement of the v3.1[.1] JAR file.
 ">
+      <action dev="luc" type="update" issue="MATH-955" due-to="Evan Ward">
+        Fixed loading of test file when path contains a space.
+      </action>
       <action dev="luc" type="update" issue="MATH-954" due-to="Charles Cooper">
         Improved speed of FastMath.abs methods for all signatures, by removing branching.
       </action>
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/math3/random/EmpiricalDistributionTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/math3/random/EmpiricalDistributionTest.java
index 184f8d768..766a92d16 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/math3/random/EmpiricalDistributionTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/math3/random/EmpiricalDistributionTest.java
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ public final class EmpiricalDistributionTest extends RealDistributionAbstractTes
         checkDistribution();
         
         // Load again from a file (also verifies idempotency of load)
-        File file = new File(url.getFile());
+        File file = new File(url.toURI());
         empiricalDistribution.load(file);
         checkDistribution();
     }