diff --git a/libfdatetime.changes b/libfdatetime.changes
index 0855b55..0f83e64 100644
--- a/libfdatetime.changes
+++ b/libfdatetime.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jan 17 02:13:04 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libfdatetime.spec b/libfdatetime.spec
index 1585b81..31668ac 100644
--- a/libfdatetime.spec
+++ b/libfdatetime.spec
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ applications that want to make use of libfdatetime.
 
 %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