diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ba39d73e..e82d7f3d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ ver. 0.9.2 (2014/XX/XXX) - wanna-be-released
      details. Thanks bes.internal
    * filter.d/postfix-sasl.conf - failregex is now case insensitive
    * filters.d/postfix.conf - add 'Client host rejected error message' failregex
+   * fail2ban/__init__.py - add strptime thread safety hack-around
 
 - New Features:
    - New interpolation feature for config readers - `%(known/parameter)s`.
diff --git a/fail2ban/__init__.py b/fail2ban/__init__.py
index cbaaf757..b7906099 100644
--- a/fail2ban/__init__.py
+++ b/fail2ban/__init__.py
@@ -68,3 +68,7 @@ logging.notice = _root_notice
 
 # add NOTICE to the priority map of all the levels
 logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.priority_map['NOTICE'] = 'notice'
+
+from time import strptime
+# strptime thread safety hack-around - http://bugs.python.org/issue7980
+strptime("2012", "%Y")