diff --git a/SPECS/cups-filters.spec b/SPECS/cups-filters.spec
index 48382e3..5f471ae 100644
--- a/SPECS/cups-filters.spec
+++ b/SPECS/cups-filters.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Summary: OpenPrinting CUPS filters and backends
 Name:    cups-filters
 Version: 1.20.0
-Release: 23%{?dist}
+Release: 24%{?dist}
 
 # For a breakdown of the licensing, see COPYING file
 # GPLv2:   filters: commandto*, imagetoraster, pdftops, rasterto*,
@@ -103,7 +103,10 @@ Requires: cups-filesystem
 # poppler required for banner printing and with ghostscript needed when project
 # is configured with --with-pdftops=hybrid
 Requires: poppler-utils
-Requires: ghostscript
+# 1894543 - just to make sure our filter will work if there is a case when cups-filters
+# is updated alone and ghostscript isn't updated. This requirement will make sure we will
+# bring along a new ghostscript too.
+Requires: ghostscript%{?_isa} >= 0:9.27-1
 
 # texttopdf
 Requires: liberation-mono-fonts
@@ -330,6 +333,9 @@ make check
 %{_libdir}/libfontembed.so
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Dec 14 2020 Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@redhat.com> - 1.20.0-24
+- require the explicit gs version
+
 * Tue Dec 08 2020 Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal@redhat.com> - 1.20.0-23
 - 1894543 - Fix '.setfilladjust' usage after gs upgrade to 9.27