diff --git a/CHANGLELOG.md b/CHANGLELOG.md
index f4ac9676..79c3c404 100644
--- a/CHANGLELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGLELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### Objects
 <!-- ? Support for State and Part properties -->
 - Set default line_width of new `line` objects to 1
+- Allow line and block comments in pages.jsonl
 
 ### Fonts
 - Firmware files include the bitmapped font sizes 12, 16, 24 and 32pt
diff --git a/platformio.ini b/platformio.ini
index 17a3fd22..fb04a4f4 100644
--- a/platformio.ini
+++ b/platformio.ini
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ build_flags =
     ; -- ESP build options ------------------------------------
     -D SPIFFS_TEMPORAL_FD_CACHE     ; speedup opening recent files
     ; -- ArduinoJson build options ----------------------------
-    -D ARDUINOJSON_DECODE_UNICODE=1 ; for utf-8 symbols
-    
+    -D ARDUINOJSON_DECODE_UNICODE=1  ; for utf-8 symbols
+    -D ARDUINOJSON_ENABLE_COMMENTS=1 ; enable comments
     ; -- StreamUtils build options ----------------------------
     -D STREAMUTILS_ENABLE_EEPROM=1  ; for STM32, it also supports EEPROM