diff --git a/0001-kio_help-Fix-crash-in-QCoreApplication-when-accessin.patch b/0001-kio_help-Fix-crash-in-QCoreApplication-when-accessin.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1bf59c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-kio_help-Fix-crash-in-QCoreApplication-when-accessin.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+From cf3b0d102855a4a90db3fb65a99e0009fcdd3755 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Michael Pyne <mpyne@kde.org>
+Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 19:09:50 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] kio_help: Fix crash in QCoreApplication when accessing
+ help://.
+
+A recent commit d428fc8e6447ede81f1e1911d0b66b39265672f3 removed old
+custom crash handling code in favor of KCrash. But this actually adds a
+dependency on there being a valid QCoreApplication object.
+
+I took from the example of the similar kio_file to simply create the
+QCoreApplication here.
+
+BUG:399709
+
+Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16189
+---
+ src/ioslaves/help/main.cpp | 4 ++++
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/ioslaves/help/main.cpp b/src/ioslaves/help/main.cpp
+index f09987aa..f800a9d0 100644
+--- a/src/ioslaves/help/main.cpp
++++ b/src/ioslaves/help/main.cpp
+@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ extern "C" int xmlLoadExtDtdDefaultValue;
+ 
+ #include <QDebug>
+ 
++#include <QCoreApplication>
+ #include <QString>
+ 
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+@@ -40,6 +41,9 @@ extern "C"
+ {
+     Q_DECL_EXPORT int kdemain(int argc, char **argv)
+     {
++        QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);   // needed for KCrash
++        app.setApplicationName(QStringLiteral("kio_help"));
++
+         KDocTools::setupStandardDirs();
+ 
+         //qDebug() << "Starting " << getpid();
+-- 
+2.19.0
+
diff --git a/kio.changes b/kio.changes
index 201387a..1c3dfc2 100644
--- a/kio.changes
+++ b/kio.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Oct 18 14:40:57 UTC 2018 - Fabian Vogt <fabian@ritter-vogt.de>
+
+- Add patch to fix kio_help crashing on start:
+  * 0001-kio_help-Fix-crash-in-QCoreApplication-when-accessin.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Oct 16 08:02:19 UTC 2018 - Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame@kde.org>
 
diff --git a/kio.spec b/kio.spec
index 68ba72a..f1f94fb 100644
--- a/kio.spec
+++ b/kio.spec
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ Source:         http://download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/%{_tar_path}/%{name}-%
 Source1:        baselibs.conf
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE kio_help-fallback-to-kde4-docs.patch -- allow kio_help to see into kde4 documentation, needed especially for khelpcenter5
 Patch0:         kio_help-fallback-to-kde4-docs.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM
+Patch1:         0001-kio_help-Fix-crash-in-QCoreApplication-when-accessin.patch
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 3.0
 BuildRequires:  extra-cmake-modules >= %{_kf5_bugfix_version}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes