diff --git a/spdlog.changes b/spdlog.changes
index 945adee..d95889a 100644
--- a/spdlog.changes
+++ b/spdlog.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Dec 30 16:58:29 UTC 2023 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update symbol versioning pattern to actually match symbols
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Dec 14 09:47:07 UTC 2023 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/spdlog.spec b/spdlog.spec
index 8f3f1b2..5e6dc0f 100644
--- a/spdlog.spec
+++ b/spdlog.spec
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ export CXX=g++
 test -x "$(type -p g++-8)" && export CXX=g++-8
 
 # spdlog embodies fmt ABI; add some symvers so both ld.so and rpm notice the change.
-v=$(rpm -q --qf="%%{VERSION}" --whatprovides "pkgconfig(fmt)" | sed -e 's/\..*//')
-echo "FMT_$v { global: _ZN6spdlog*N3fmt${#v}v${v}; };" >spdlog.sym
+v=v$(rpm -q --qf="%%{VERSION}" --whatprovides "pkgconfig(fmt)" | sed -e 's/\..*//')
+echo "FMT_$v { global: _ZN6spdlog*N3fmt${#v}${v}*; };" >spdlog.sym
 v="$PWD/spdlog.sym"
 
 %cmake -G Ninja \