diff --git a/apache-commons-beanutils.changes b/apache-commons-beanutils.changes
index 9ccd110..8d9d4af 100644
--- a/apache-commons-beanutils.changes
+++ b/apache-commons-beanutils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Feb 22 07:14:51 UTC 2024 - Fridrich Strba <fstrba@suse.com>
+
+- Fix build with SLE12
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Feb 20 10:24:45 UTC 2024 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/apache-commons-beanutils.spec b/apache-commons-beanutils.spec
index 7af604f..4b352f8 100644
--- a/apache-commons-beanutils.spec
+++ b/apache-commons-beanutils.spec
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ BeanUtils Package.
 
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1 -n %{short_name}-%{version}-src
+
+# The previous empty line needs to be maintained for sle12 compatibility
 sed -i 's/\r//' *.txt
 # bug in ant build
 touch README.txt