diff --git a/libftxr.changes b/libftxr.changes
index a9b626a..3216cc2 100644
--- a/libftxr.changes
+++ b/libftxr.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan 19 10:31:43 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libftxr.spec b/libftxr.spec
index 423f4fe..8c0cbc9 100644
--- a/libftxr.spec
+++ b/libftxr.spec
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ applications that want to make use of libftxr.
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi
-%configure --disable-static
+# see libcdata for version-sc
+echo "V_%version { global: *; };" >v.sym
+%configure --disable-static LDFLAGS="-Wl,--version-script=$PWD/v.sym"
 %make_build
 
 %install