diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 62a99f59..940ee0f2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Version counting is based on semantic versioning (Major.Feature.Patch)
 * Fixed going forward history navigation.
 * Continue Reading view that it is shown for the root folder.
 * UI gets updated when YACReaderLibrary gets updates from YACReader or YACReader for iOS.
+* Linux: Add fallback for dynamically loading libqrencode on distros that don't provide unversioned library symlinks
 
 ## 9.9.2
 
diff --git a/YACReaderLibrary/server_config_dialog.cpp b/YACReaderLibrary/server_config_dialog.cpp
index 813905bb..d16211eb 100644
--- a/YACReaderLibrary/server_config_dialog.cpp
+++ b/YACReaderLibrary/server_config_dialog.cpp
@@ -303,6 +303,13 @@ QrEncoder::QrEncoder()
     QLibrary encoder(QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() + "/utils/libqrencode.dylib");
 #else
     QLibrary encoder("qrencode");
+#ifdef Q_OS_UNIX
+    encoder.load();
+    // Fallback - this loads libqrencode.4.x.x.so when libqrencode.so is not available
+    if (!encoder.isLoaded()) {
+        encoder.setFileNameAndVersion("qrencode", 4);
+    }
+#endif
 #endif
     QRcode_encodeString8bit = (_QRcode_encodeString8bit)encoder.resolve("QRcode_encodeString8bit");
     QRcode_free = (_QRcode_free)encoder.resolve("QRcode_free");