diff --git a/SDL2.changes b/SDL2.changes
index e9ca13a..8193c35 100644
--- a/SDL2.changes
+++ b/SDL2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jan 10 22:48:16 UTC 2018 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Add sdl2-symvers.patch.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Oct 28 21:01:17 UTC 2017 - adam@mizerski.pl
 
diff --git a/SDL2.spec b/SDL2.spec
index 72f6470..34bd02d 100644
--- a/SDL2.spec
+++ b/SDL2.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package SDL2
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2017 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2018 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Source:         http://libsdl.org/release/%name-%version.tar.gz
 Source2:        http://libsdl.org/release/%name-%version.tar.gz.sig
 Source3:        %name.keyring
 Source4:        baselibs.conf
+Patch1:         sdl2-symvers.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  cmake
 BuildRequires:  dos2unix
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ library.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch -P 1 -p1
 dos2unix WhatsNew.txt
 dos2unix TODO.txt
 dos2unix BUGS.txt
diff --git a/sdl2-symvers.patch b/sdl2-symvers.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2bddd6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdl2-symvers.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+Date: 2018-01-10 23:56:12.245827883 +0100
+
+Scrape the SDL announcements since 2.0.3 (version in Leap 42.3) and add
+some symvers so that zypper knows when to upgrade SDL.
+---
+ Makefile.in |    2 -
+ sdl2.sym    |   61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+Index: SDL2-2.0.7/Makefile.in
+===================================================================
+--- SDL2-2.0.7.orig/Makefile.in
++++ SDL2-2.0.7/Makefile.in
+@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ LT_AGE      = @LT_AGE@
+ LT_CURRENT  = @LT_CURRENT@
+ LT_RELEASE  = @LT_RELEASE@
+ LT_REVISION = @LT_REVISION@
+-LT_LDFLAGS  = -no-undefined -rpath $(libdir) -release $(LT_RELEASE) -version-info $(LT_CURRENT):$(LT_REVISION):$(LT_AGE)
++LT_LDFLAGS  = -no-undefined -rpath $(libdir) -release $(LT_RELEASE) -version-info $(LT_CURRENT):$(LT_REVISION):$(LT_AGE) -Wl,--version-script=sdl2.sym
+ 
+ all: $(srcdir)/configure Makefile $(objects) $(objects)/$(TARGET) $(objects)/$(SDLMAIN_TARGET) $(objects)/$(SDLTEST_TARGET)
+ 
+Index: SDL2-2.0.7/sdl2.sym
+===================================================================
+--- /dev/null
++++ SDL2-2.0.7/sdl2.sym
+@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
++SUSE_2.0.5 {
++global:
++	SDL_DequeueAudio;
++	SDL_GetHintBoolean;
++	SDL_RenderSetIntegerScale;
++	SDL_CreateRGBSurfaceWithFormat;
++	SDL_CreateRGBSurfaceWithFormatFrom;
++	SDL_GetDisplayUsableBounds;
++	SDL_GetWindowBordersSize;
++	SDL_SetWindowResizable;
++	SDL_SetWindowOpacity;
++	SDL_SetWindowModalFor;
++};
++SUSE_2.0.6 {
++global:
++	SDL_Vulkan_LoadLibrary;
++	SDL_Vulkan_GetVkGetInstanceProcAddr;
++	SDL_Vulkan_GetInstanceExtensions;
++	SDL_Vulkan_CreateSurface;
++	SDL_Vulkan_GetDrawableSize;
++	SDL_Vulkan_UnloadLibrary;
++	SDL_ComposeCustomBlendMode;
++	SDL_HasNEON;
++	SDL_JoystickGetDeviceVendor;
++	SDL_JoystickGetDeviceProduct;
++	SDL_JoystickGetDeviceProductVersion;
++	SDL_JoystickGetDeviceType;
++	SDL_JoystickGetDeviceInstanceID;
++	SDL_JoystickGetVendor;
++	SDL_JoystickGetProduct;
++	SDL_JoystickGetProductVersion;
++	SDL_JoystickGetType;
++	SDL_JoystickGetAxisInitialState;
++	SDL_GameControllerGetVendor;
++	SDL_GameControllerGetProduct;
++	SDL_GameControllerGetProductVersion;
++	SDL_GameControllerNumMappings;
++	SDL_GameControllerMappingForIndex;
++	SDL_LoadFile;
++	SDL_LoadFile_RW;
++	SDL_DuplicateSurface;
++} SUSE_2.0.5;
++SUSE_2.0.7 {
++global:
++	SDL_NewAudioStream;
++	SDL_AudioStreamPut;
++	SDL_AudioStreamGet;
++	SDL_AudioStreamAvailable;
++	SDL_AudioStreamFlush;
++	SDL_AudioStreamClear;
++	SDL_FreeAudioStream;
++	SDL_GetMemoryFunctions;
++	SDL_SetMemoryFunctions;
++	SDL_GetNumAllocations;
++	SDL_LockJoystick;
++	SDL_UnlockJoystick;
++	SDL_SetEventFilter;
++	SDL_GetEventFilter;
++	SDL_AddEventWatch;
++	SDL_DelEventWatch;
++} SUSE_2.0.6;