diff --git a/inpgen/set_inp.f90 b/inpgen/set_inp.f90
index ec54f533756aca7be5026018a76d30de8baf3252..655bf8b1512e01be06e70d1391636bd546110f99 100644
--- a/inpgen/set_inp.f90
+++ b/inpgen/set_inp.f90
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
       banddos%sig_dos = 0.015 ; vacuum%tworkf = 0.0 ; scale = 1.0 ; scpos = 1.0 
       zc = 0.0 ; vacuum%locx(:) = 0.0 ;  vacuum%locy(:) = 0.0
       kpts%numSpecialPoints = 0
-      input%ldauLinMix = .FALSE. ; input%ldauMixParam = -1.0 ; input%ldauSpinf = 1.0
+      input%ldauLinMix = .FALSE. ; input%ldauMixParam = 0.05 ; input%ldauSpinf = 1.0
 
 !+odim
       oneD%odd%mb = 0 ; oneD%odd%M = 0 ; oneD%odd%m_cyl = 0 ; oneD%odd%chi = 0 ; oneD%odd%rot = 0
diff --git a/io/r_inpXML.F90 b/io/r_inpXML.F90
index 05bcb1a4e3b89ca73b03ef62d2de360572d05b2b..e9eb6b7009fff53e020868c41dc5ed555fbef26a 100644
--- a/io/r_inpXML.F90
+++ b/io/r_inpXML.F90
@@ -642,14 +642,12 @@ SUBROUTINE r_inpXML(&
 
   ! Read in optional general LDA+U parameters
 
-  IF (TRIM(ADJUSTL(versionString)).EQ.'0.29') THEN
-     xPathA = '/fleurInput/calculationSetup/ldaU'
-     numberNodes = xmlGetNumberOfNodes(xPathA)
-     IF (numberNodes.EQ.1) THEN
-        input%ldauLinMix = evaluateFirstBoolOnly(xmlGetAttributeValue(TRIM(ADJUSTL(xPathA))//'/@l_linMix'))
-        input%ldauMixParam = evaluateFirstOnly(xmlGetAttributeValue(TRIM(ADJUSTL(xPathA))//'/@mixParam'))
-        input%ldauSpinf = evaluateFirstOnly(xmlGetAttributeValue(TRIM(ADJUSTL(xPathA))//'/@spinf'))
-     END IF
+  xPathA = '/fleurInput/calculationSetup/ldaU'
+  numberNodes = xmlGetNumberOfNodes(xPathA)
+  IF (numberNodes.EQ.1) THEN
+     input%ldauLinMix = evaluateFirstBoolOnly(xmlGetAttributeValue(TRIM(ADJUSTL(xPathA))//'/@l_linMix'))
+     input%ldauMixParam = evaluateFirstOnly(xmlGetAttributeValue(TRIM(ADJUSTL(xPathA))//'/@mixParam'))
+     input%ldauSpinf = evaluateFirstOnly(xmlGetAttributeValue(TRIM(ADJUSTL(xPathA))//'/@spinf'))
   END IF
 
   ! Read in optional q point mesh for spin spirals
diff --git a/tests/tests/NiO_ldauXML/test.run1 b/tests/tests/NiO_ldauXML/test.run1
index 32d91206ec4a9fd0eaef2ca48bd6687e68bbbf5f..d9eb99dcc0af826a7edddea1ae578582ea1a7817 100644
--- a/tests/tests/NiO_ldauXML/test.run1
+++ b/tests/tests/NiO_ldauXML/test.run1
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ jt::testrun("$executable -xmlInput",$workdir);
 #now test output
 $result=jt::test_grepexists("$workdir/out","it=  9  is completed");
 $result+=jt::test_grepnumber("$workdir/out","new fermi energy",".*: *([^ ]*)",0.263,0.001);
-$result+=jt::test_grepnumber("$workdir/out","total energy=",".*= *([^ ]*)",-3192.0110,0.001);
-$result+=jt::test_grepnumber("$workdir/out","distance of charge densities for it= *9",": *([^ ]*)",0.361,0.01);
-$result+=jt::test_grepnumber("$workdir/out","mm       1",".*mm       1 *([^ ]*)",1.83,0.03);
+$result+=jt::test_grepnumber("$workdir/out","total energy=",".*= *([^ ]*)",-3191.9707,0.001);
+$result+=jt::test_grepnumber("$workdir/out","distance of charge densities for it= *9",": *([^ ]*)",1.439,0.01);
+$result+=jt::test_grepnumber("$workdir/out","mm       1",".*mm       1 *([^ ]*)",1.75,0.03);
 
 jt::stageresult($workdir,$result,"1");