diff --git a/apparmor.changes b/apparmor.changes
index 9e92552..21993b2 100644
--- a/apparmor.changes
+++ b/apparmor.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May 24 12:15:19 UTC 2016 - suse-beta@cboltz.de
+
+- add profiles-ping-inet6-r3449.diff - latest ping also does IPv6 (boo#980596)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Apr 22 20:49:24 UTC 2016 - suse-beta@cboltz.de
 
diff --git a/apparmor.spec b/apparmor.spec
index 733c33a..7459a55 100644
--- a/apparmor.spec
+++ b/apparmor.spec
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ Patch6:         apparmor-abstractions-no-multiline.diff
 # bug 906858 - confine lessopen.sh (submitted upstream 2014-12-21)
 Patch7:         apparmor-lessopen-profile.patch
 
+# boo#980596 - latest ping includes IPv6 (commited upstream trunk r3449  / 2.10 branch r3331 / 2.9 branch r3009)
+Patch8:         profiles-ping-inet6-r3449.diff
+
 Url:            https://launchpad.net/apparmor
 PreReq:         sed
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
@@ -439,6 +442,7 @@ SubDomain.
 
 %patch6
 %patch7 -p1
+%patch8
 
 # search for left-over multiline rules
 test -z "$(grep -r '^\s*\(unix\|dbus\)[^,]\(([^)]*)\)*[^,]*$' profiles/apparmor.d/)"
diff --git a/profiles-ping-inet6-r3449.diff b/profiles-ping-inet6-r3449.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f117bec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/profiles-ping-inet6-r3449.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+------------------------------------------------------------
+revno: trunk r3449  / 2.10 branch r3331 / 2.9 branch r3009
+committer: Christian Boltz <apparmor@cboltz.de>
+branch nick: apparmor
+timestamp: Wed 2016-05-18 21:18:10 +0200
+message:
+  allow inet6 in ping profile
+  
+  The latest iputils merged ping and ping6 into a single binary that does
+  both IPv4 and IPv6 pings (by default, it really does both).
+  This means we need to allow network inet6 raw in the ping profile.
+  
+  References: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=980596
+              (contains more details and example output)
+  
+  
+  Acked-by: Steve Beattie <steve@nxnw.org> for trunk, 2.10 and 2.9
+
+
+=== modified file 'profiles/apparmor.d/bin.ping'
+--- profiles/apparmor.d/bin.ping	2015-10-20 21:12:35 +0000
++++ profiles/apparmor.d/bin.ping	2016-05-18 19:18:10 +0000
+@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
+   capability net_raw,
+   capability setuid,
+   network inet raw,
++  network inet6 raw,
+ 
+   /{,usr/}bin/ping mixr,
+   /etc/modules.conf r,
+
+
+vim:ft=diff