diff --git a/cgit.changes b/cgit.changes
index 1151948..895724e 100644
--- a/cgit.changes
+++ b/cgit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon May 20 13:15:12 UTC 2019 - Christophe Giboudeaux <christophe@krop.fr>
+
+- Add the missing zlib requirement.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Dec  6 09:21:03 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/cgit.spec b/cgit.spec
index b2484f7..a18ae8f 100644
--- a/cgit.spec
+++ b/cgit.spec
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libopenssl-devel
 BuildRequires:  libxslt
 BuildRequires:  libzip-devel
 BuildRequires:  xz
+BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(zlib)
 BuildRoot:      %_tmppath/%name-%version-build
 Provides:       bundled(git) = %version