diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fa9face9..4d821e39 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 * Issue #861: Potential fix
 * Issue #867: STLink make it so that user has to enable `-shared` if needed. Before it was automatically added to the command-line and there was no (good) way to remove it
 * Issue #882: Potential fix. In some cases the extension would crash while single stepping
+* Issue #896: Bug in handling of OS specific overrides (like `cortex-debug.gdbPath.linux`)
 
 # V1.11.2
 * Minor bug fix to guard against invalid expressions (watch and live watch)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c1a522f3..07e88450 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-    "version": "1.11.3-pre4",
+    "version": "1.11.3-pre5",
     "preview": false,
     "activationEvents": [
         "onDebugResolve:cortex-debug",
diff --git a/src/frontend/configprovider.ts b/src/frontend/configprovider.ts
index d5c808c5..4f28f33d 100644
--- a/src/frontend/configprovider.ts
+++ b/src/frontend/configprovider.ts
@@ -411,10 +411,18 @@ export class CortexDebugConfigurationProvider implements vscode.DebugConfigurati
 
     private setOsSpecficConfigSetting(config: vscode.DebugConfiguration, dstName: string, propName: string = '') {
         if (!config[dstName]) {
-            const configuration = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('cortex-debug');
-            const osName = os.platform();
-            const osOverride = (propName || dstName) + '.' + ((osName === 'win32') ? 'windows' : (osName === 'darwin') ? 'osx' : 'linux');
-            config[dstName] = configuration.get(osOverride, configuration.get(propName || dstName, ''));
+            propName = propName || dstName;
+            const settings = vscode.workspace.getConfiguration('cortex-debug');
+            const obj = settings[propName];
+            if (obj) {
+                if (typeof obj === 'object') {
+                    const osName = os.platform();
+                    const osOverride = ((osName === 'win32') ? 'windows' : (osName === 'darwin') ? 'osx' : 'linux');
+                    config[dstName] = obj[osOverride] || '';
+                } else {
+                    config[dstName] = obj;
+                }
+            }
         }
     }