diff --git a/vtk.changes b/vtk.changes
index 937dbb0..10a9fc6 100644
--- a/vtk.changes
+++ b/vtk.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Feb  4 00:41:17 UTC 2018 - stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de
+
+- Use split libboost*-devel BuildRequires for TW and Leap/SLE 15
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jan 24 11:28:47 UTC 2018 - fstrba@suse.com
 
diff --git a/vtk.spec b/vtk.spec
index 173bf98..4088437 100644
--- a/vtk.spec
+++ b/vtk.spec
@@ -43,7 +43,14 @@ Patch1:         vtk-fix-file-contains-date-time.patch
 Patch3:         0001-Allow-compilation-on-GLES-platforms.patch
 BuildRequires:  Mesa-libGL-devel
 BuildRequires:  R-base-devel
+%if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1500
+BuildRequires:  libboost_graph-devel
+BuildRequires:  libboost_graph_parallel-devel
+BuildRequires:  libboost_mpi-devel
+BuildRequires:  libboost_serialization-devel
+%else
 BuildRequires:  boost-devel
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  chrpath
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 3.4
 BuildRequires:  doxygen