diff --git a/common.json b/common.json
index 369e9048..95763516 100644
--- a/common.json
+++ b/common.json
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@
     "labsjdk-ee-21-llvm": {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ee-21.0.2+13-jvmci-23.1-b33-sulong", "platformspecific": true },
     "graalvm-ee-21":      {"name": "graalvm-java21", "version": "23.1.3", "platformspecific": true },
 
-    "oraclejdk-latest":       {"name": "jpg-jdk",   "version": "23",      "build_id": "jdk-23+22", "platformspecific": true, "extrabundles": ["static-libs"]},
-    "labsjdk-ce-latest":      {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ce-23+22-jvmci-b01", "platformspecific": true },
-    "labsjdk-ce-latestDebug": {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ce-23+22-jvmci-b01-debug", "platformspecific": true },
-    "labsjdk-ce-latest-llvm": {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ce-23+22-jvmci-b01-sulong", "platformspecific": true },
-    "labsjdk-ee-latest":      {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ee-23+22-jvmci-b01", "platformspecific": true },
-    "labsjdk-ee-latestDebug": {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ee-23+22-jvmci-b01-debug", "platformspecific": true },
-    "labsjdk-ee-latest-llvm": {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ee-23+22-jvmci-b01-sulong", "platformspecific": true }
+    "oraclejdk-latest":       {"name": "jpg-jdk",   "version": "23",      "build_id": "jdk-23+23", "platformspecific": true, "extrabundles": ["static-libs"]},
+    "labsjdk-ce-latest":      {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ce-23+23-jvmci-b01", "platformspecific": true },
+    "labsjdk-ce-latestDebug": {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ce-23+23-jvmci-b01-debug", "platformspecific": true },
+    "labsjdk-ce-latest-llvm": {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ce-23+23-jvmci-b01-sulong", "platformspecific": true },
+    "labsjdk-ee-latest":      {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ee-23+23-jvmci-b01", "platformspecific": true },
+    "labsjdk-ee-latestDebug": {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ee-23+23-jvmci-b01-debug", "platformspecific": true },
+    "labsjdk-ee-latest-llvm": {"name": "labsjdk",   "version": "ee-23+23-jvmci-b01-sulong", "platformspecific": true }
   },
 
   "eclipse": {
diff --git a/src/mx/_impl/mx.py b/src/mx/_impl/mx.py
index aff051f3..1580229b 100755
--- a/src/mx/_impl/mx.py
+++ b/src/mx/_impl/mx.py
@@ -18173,7 +18173,7 @@ def alarm_handler(signum, frame):
 _CACHE_DIR = get_env('MX_CACHE_DIR', join(dot_mx_dir(), 'cache'))
 
 # The version must be updated for every PR (checked in CI) and the comment should reflect the PR's issue
-version = VersionSpec("7.25.4")  # GR-54113
+version = VersionSpec("7.25.5")  # [GR-54154] Relax IO encoding check
 
 _mx_start_datetime = datetime.utcnow()
 
diff --git a/src/mx/_impl/support/logging.py b/src/mx/_impl/support/logging.py
index 7abe85b3..cc74c90b 100644
--- a/src/mx/_impl/support/logging.py
+++ b/src/mx/_impl/support/logging.py
@@ -60,8 +60,12 @@
 
 def _check_stdout_encoding():
     # Importing here to avoid broken circular import
+    from .envvars import env_var_to_bool
     from .system import is_continuous_integration
 
+    if not env_var_to_bool("MX_CHECK_IOENCODING", "1"):
+        return
+
     encoding = sys.stdout.encoding
 
     if "utf" not in encoding:
@@ -69,7 +73,8 @@ def _check_stdout_encoding():
             "Python's stdout does not use a unicode encoding.\n"
             "This may cause encoding errors when printing special characters.\n"
             "Please set up your system or console to use a unicode encoding.\n"
-            "When piping mx output, you can force UTF-8 encoding with the environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8"
+            "When piping mx output, you can force UTF-8 encoding with the environment variable PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8\n"
+            "This check can be disabled by setting MX_CHECK_IOENCODING=0 environment variable"
         )
         if is_continuous_integration():
             abort(msg)