diff --git a/hunspell-1.6.patch b/hunspell-1.6.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71d7297
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hunspell-1.6.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+From: Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer@tmo.at>
+Subject: support hunspell up to 1.6
+
+Necessary to have spellchecking support in Tumbleweed and Leap 15.0, which
+have hunspell 1.6.2 that wasn't found and spellchecking got disabled...
+---
+diff -Nru a/cmake/modules/FindHUNSPELL.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindHUNSPELL.cmake
+--- a/cmake/modules/FindHUNSPELL.cmake	2012-04-10 22:17:07.000000000 +0200
++++ b/cmake/modules/FindHUNSPELL.cmake	2016-04-26 13:59:20.473641707 +0200
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
+ #Based on examples at http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake:How_To_Find_Libraries
+ 
+ FIND_PATH(HUNSPELL_INCLUDE_DIR hunspell/hunspell.hxx )
+-FIND_LIBRARY(HUNSPELL_LIBRARIES NAMES hunspell-1.3 hunspell-1.2 PATHS /opt/local/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/lib )
++FIND_LIBRARY(HUNSPELL_LIBRARIES NAMES hunspell-1.6 hunspell-1.5 hunspell-1.4 hunspell-1.3 hunspell-1.2 PATHS /opt/local/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/lib )
+ 
+ INCLUDE(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+ # handle the QUIETLY and REQUIRED arguments and set HUNSPELL_FOUND to TRUE
diff --git a/scribus.changes b/scribus.changes
index e30dae0..18f90fc 100644
--- a/scribus.changes
+++ b/scribus.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar 27 14:53:05 UTC 2018 - wbauer@tmo.at
+
+- Add hunspell-1.6.patch to fix spellchecking support in Tumbleweed
+  and Leap 15.0
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan  4 17:18:39 UTC 2018 - wbauer@tmo.at
 
diff --git a/scribus.spec b/scribus.spec
index c840122..c4c2ab0 100644
--- a/scribus.spec
+++ b/scribus.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ Source3:        %{name}-icon64.png
 Source4:        %{name}-icon128.png
 Source5:        %{name}-icon256.png
 Source6:        %{name}.appdata.xml
+# PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE
+Patch:          hunspell-1.6.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1325
 BuildRequires:  libboost_headers-devel
@@ -95,7 +97,8 @@ for developing scribus plugins.
 
 %prep
 
-%setup -q 
+%setup -q
+%patch -p1
 
 %build
 # Delete non-free colour swatches (bnc#763586)