diff --git a/blender-278c-openvdb3-abi.patch b/blender-278c-openvdb3-abi.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..593c75e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blender-278c-openvdb3-abi.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -Naur blender-2.78c.old/CMakeLists.txt blender-2.78c/CMakeLists.txt
+--- blender-2.78c.old/CMakeLists.txt	2017-04-24 09:21:40.471125097 +0200
++++ blender-2.78c/CMakeLists.txt	2017-04-24 09:26:45.583477649 +0200
+@@ -250,6 +250,10 @@
+ option(WITH_OPENVDB       "Enable features relying on OpenVDB" OFF)
+ option(WITH_OPENVDB_BLOSC "Enable blosc compression for OpenVDB, only enable if OpenVDB was built with blosc support" OFF)
+ 
++if(WITH_OPENVDB)
++    add_definitions(-DOPENVDB_3_ABI_COMPATIBLE)
++endif()
++
+ # GHOST Windowing Library Options
+ option(WITH_GHOST_DEBUG   "Enable debugging output for the GHOST library" OFF)
+ mark_as_advanced(WITH_GHOST_DEBUG)
diff --git a/blender.spec b/blender.spec
index d5222ad..8f803ec 100644
--- a/blender.spec
+++ b/blender.spec
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Patch6:     %{name}-2.78a-linux-definition-ppc64.patch
 # GPU: Consider latest Gallium driver an official ATI/AMD
 # https://developer.blender.org/rB927a168b077fa5182168068315c4fb0ea998edb6
 Patch7:     %{name}-2.78b-amd-gpu-support.patch
+Patch8:     %{name}-278c-openvdb3-abi.patch
 
 # Development stuff
 BuildRequires:  boost-devel
@@ -99,10 +100,8 @@ BuildRequires:  OpenColorIO-devel
 BuildRequires:  OpenEXR-devel
 BuildRequires:  OpenImageIO-devel
 BuildRequires:  openjpeg-devel
-%{?_with_openvdb:
 BuildRequires:  openvdb-devel
 BuildRequires:  tbb-devel
-}
 
 # Audio stuff
 BuildRequires:  freealut-devel
@@ -199,8 +198,8 @@ export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -mno-altivec"
     -DWITH_MOD_OCEANSIM=ON \
     -DWITH_OPENCOLLADA=ON \
     -DWITH_OPENCOLORIO=ON \
-    %{?_with_openvdb:-DWITH_OPENVDB=ON} \
-    %{?_with_openvdb:-DWITH_OPENVDB_BLOSC=ON} \
+    -DWITH_OPENVDB=ON \
+    -DWITH_OPENVDB_BLOSC=ON \
     -DWITH_PLAYER=ON \
     -DWITH_PYTHON=ON \
     -DWITH_PYTHON_INSTALL=OFF \
@@ -234,7 +233,6 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}/*
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{macrosdir}
 sed -e 's/@VERSION@/%{blender_api}/g' %{SOURCE10} > %{buildroot}%{macrosdir}/macros.%{name}
 
-
 # AppData
 install -p -m 644 -D %{SOURCE6} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/appdata/%{name}.appdata.xml
 install -p -m 644 -D %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/metainfo/%{name}-fonts.metainfo.xml
@@ -303,8 +301,8 @@ fi
 %{_fontbasedir}/%{name}/
 
 %changelog
-* Sun Apr 23 2017 Simone Caronni <negativo17@gmail.com> - 1:2.78c-4
-- Enable rebuilding of the package with OpenVDB support enabled.
+* Mon Apr 24 2017 Simone Caronni <negativo17@gmail.com> - 1:2.78c-4
+- Enable OpenVDB support.
 
 * Fri Apr 21 2017 Simone Caronni <negativo17@gmail.com> - 1:2.78c-3
 - Remove redundant fonts directory in blender-fonts package.