diff --git a/kbd.changes b/kbd.changes
index afc563b..074235e 100644
--- a/kbd.changes
+++ b/kbd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Nov  4 13:06:35 CET 2008 - sndirsch@suse.de
+
+- added arabic console keyboard link ( arabic -> us ) (bnc #441432)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Oct 14 10:50:34 CEST 2008 - mmarek@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/kbd.spec b/kbd.spec
index 8ef6a2d..33292d2 100644
--- a/kbd.spec
+++ b/kbd.spec
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ License:        GPL v2 or later
 Group:          System/Console
 AutoReqProv:    on
 Version:        1.14.1
-Release:        14
+Release:        15
 Summary:        Keyboard and Font Utilities
 Source:         kbd-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source1:        kbd_fonts.tar.bz2
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ install -m 755 %SOURCE4 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/init.d/kbd
 ln -sf ../etc/init.d/kbd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/sbin/rckbd
 ln -sf us.map.gz $K/keymaps/i386/qwerty/khmer.map.gz
 ln -sf us.map.gz $K/keymaps/i386/qwerty/korean.map.gz
+ln -sf us.map.gz $K/keymaps/i386/qwerty/arabic.map.gz
 # Compatability links; don't know what the first three are good for.
 # The others are for yast/langselection and should be removed as soon as
 # yast knows about it.
@@ -302,6 +303,8 @@ install -m 644 %SOURCE12 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_mandir}/man8/
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Nov 04 2008 sndirsch@suse.de
+- added arabic console keyboard link ( arabic -> us ) (bnc #441432)
 * Tue Oct 14 2008 mmarek@suse.cz
 - fix case when multiple keymaps are found (bnc#259694)
 - allow to specify a path such as 'i386/es.map.gz' in KEYTABLE
@@ -570,7 +573,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 - Tentative fix for dumpkeys, using the large NR_KEYS from 2.6
   kernel but running on 2.4 [#28339]
 - Use RPM_OPT_FLAGS (with -Os appended)
-* Thu Jul 31 2003 garloff@suse.de
+* Wed Jul 30 2003 garloff@suse.de
 - Update to kbd-1.08:
   * loadkeys: fix for bison 1.50
   * Makefile cleanups
@@ -670,7 +673,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 * Mon Mar 18 2002 garloff@suse.de
 - Changed init script to accept a keymap that is specified by
   absolute path. (Bug #14997)
-* Mon Mar 18 2002 garloff@suse.de
+* Sun Mar 17 2002 garloff@suse.de
 - Add some missing third (AltGr) functions to the number keys
   for fr_CH/de_CH-latin and sg-latin1. (Adresses bug #9368)
 * Tue Mar 12 2002 olh@suse.de
@@ -853,7 +856,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
   (Bugzilla #4468)
 * Tue Nov 28 2000 kukuk@suse.de
 - New initscript in /etc/init.d
-* Sat Oct 21 2000 kukuk@suse.de
+* Fri Oct 20 2000 kukuk@suse.de
 - Fix filelist on SPARC
 * Thu Oct 05 2000 olh@suse.de
 - remove mac-de2-ext.map, obsolete
@@ -863,7 +866,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 - mount proc on ppc, needed for runlevel S
 * Tue Aug 22 2000 olh@suse.de
 - update spec file and use only one dif, add mac-pt map, fix maps
-* Sun Aug 06 2000 garloff@suse.de
+* Sat Aug 05 2000 garloff@suse.de
 - Only include kbdrate in kbd package, if it's not already in util
   If not, install it in /sbin, just like util did before.
 - Remove the README files and ERRORS from /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts
@@ -920,7 +923,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 - Add openvt to the file list
 * Sun Feb 27 2000 kukuk@suse.de
 - Move /usr/man -> /usr/share/man
-* Fri Dec 10 1999 olh@suse.de
+* Thu Dec 09 1999 olh@suse.de
 - Added i386 keys to mac-de.map, @|\~
   make Symlink mac -> ppc relative
 * Thu Nov 11 1999 kukuk@suse.de
@@ -981,7 +984,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 - added the following keymaps: br-abnt2, Pl02, sk-qwerty
 - added the new version of iso07 fonts with SuSE extensions including
   unicode map file
-* Mon Dec 14 1998 bs@suse.de
+* Sun Dec 13 1998 bs@suse.de
 - removed /var/adm/setup/setup.fontconfig
 * Sat Dec 05 1998 bs@suse.de
 - let start script say, that a "keymap" is loaded.