diff --git a/libewf.changes b/libewf.changes
index 6eb351a..3991bf2 100644
--- a/libewf.changes
+++ b/libewf.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 21 18:25:58 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libewf.spec b/libewf.spec
index 1e20529..257e5e7 100644
--- a/libewf.spec
+++ b/libewf.spec
@@ -120,9 +120,12 @@ autoreconf -fi
 # OOT builds are presently broken, so we have to install
 # within each python iteration now, not in %%install.
 %{python_expand #
+# see libcdata for version-sc
+echo "V_%version { global: *; };" >v.sym
 %configure --disable-static --disable-rpath \
 	--enable-wide-character-type \
-	--enable-python PYTHON_VERSION="%{$python_bin_suffix}"
+	--enable-python PYTHON_VERSION="%{$python_bin_suffix}" \
+	LDFLAGS="-Wl,--version-script=$PWD/v.sym"
 %make_build
 %make_install DESTDIR="%_builddir/rt"
 %make_build clean