diff --git a/libxkbcommon.changes b/libxkbcommon.changes
index e826bdf..1bd2395 100644
--- a/libxkbcommon.changes
+++ b/libxkbcommon.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jul 24 15:46:08 UTC 2014 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Add symbol versioning to xkbcommon
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 21 12:28:41 UTC 2014 - hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/libxkbcommon.spec b/libxkbcommon.spec
index ed068aa..ebf7fb2 100644
--- a/libxkbcommon.spec
+++ b/libxkbcommon.spec
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ License:        MIT
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Url:            http://xkbcommon.org/
 
-#Git-Clone:	git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxkbcommon
-#Git-Web:	http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxkbcommon/
+#Git-Clone:	git://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon
 Source:         http://xkbcommon.org/download/%name-%version.tar.xz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 #git#BuildRequires:  autoconf >= 2.62
@@ -116,7 +115,10 @@ extra_opts=--disable-x11
 %endif
 # Ensure people will use pkgconfig to locate headers.
 %configure --disable-static --includedir="%_includedir/pkg/%name" $extra_opts
-make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1;
+# libxkbcommon has added symbols between 0.2.0..0.4.2 without maintenance;
+# force some versioning.
+echo "V_%version { global: *; };" >xkb.sym
+make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1 LDFLAGS="-Wl,--version-script=$PWD/xkb.sym"
 
 %install
 make install DESTDIR="%buildroot";