diff --git a/libfole.changes b/libfole.changes
index cceced6..16d1399 100644
--- a/libfole.changes
+++ b/libfole.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jan 16 19:02:04 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libfole.spec b/libfole.spec
index 7160262..962d7b4 100644
--- a/libfole.spec
+++ b/libfole.spec
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ applications that want to make use of libfole.
 
 %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