diff --git a/libfwevt.changes b/libfwevt.changes
index e9431a2..e9d53e6 100644
--- a/libfwevt.changes
+++ b/libfwevt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jul 24 07:36:56 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libfwevt.spec b/libfwevt.spec
index 947b99b..6081792 100644
--- a/libfwevt.spec
+++ b/libfwevt.spec
@@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ applications that want to make use of libfwevt.
 
 %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