diff --git a/alex.changes b/alex.changes
index 7a6242f..d5377cd 100644
--- a/alex.changes
+++ b/alex.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov 28 10:15:25 UTC 2018 - Guillaume GARDET <guillaume.gardet@opensuse.org>
+
+- Disable tests on aarch64 as they are broken. 
+  See: https://github.com/simonmar/alex/issues/130
+
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 Sat Oct 20 11:31:04 UTC 2018 - Peter Simons <psimons@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/alex.spec b/alex.spec
index 6922e24..e6a9ab5 100644
--- a/alex.spec
+++ b/alex.spec
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@
 #
 
 
+# Disable tests on aarch64. See: https://github.com/simonmar/alex/issues/130
+%ifarch aarch64
+%bcond_with tests
+%else
 %bcond_without tests
+%endif
 Name:           alex
 Version:        3.2.4
 Release:        0