diff --git a/020-fence_watchdog.patch b/020-fence_watchdog.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76abe27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/020-fence_watchdog.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 46dd1118cae948649e000b2159e8e92623520ad9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Klaus Wenninger <klaus.wenninger@aon.at>
+Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:28:54 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix: fence_watchdog: fix malformed xml in metadata
+
+---
+ daemons/fenced/fence_watchdog.in | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/daemons/fenced/fence_watchdog.in b/daemons/fenced/fence_watchdog.in
+index 700065e0e..eefa7395e 100755
+--- a/daemons/fenced/fence_watchdog.in
++++ b/daemons/fenced/fence_watchdog.in
+@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ def metadata(avail_opt, options):
+     for option, dummy in sorted_options(avail_opt):
+         if "shortdesc" in ALL_OPT[option]:
+             print('    <parameter name="' + option +
+-                  'required="' + ALL_OPT[option]["required"] + '">')
++                  '" required="' + ALL_OPT[option]["required"] + '">')
+ 
+             default = ""
+             default_name_arg = "-" + ALL_OPT[option]["getopt"][:-1]
+-- 
+2.27.0
+
diff --git a/pacemaker.spec b/pacemaker.spec
index 4b5f500..b493a07 100644
--- a/pacemaker.spec
+++ b/pacemaker.spec
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 ## can be incremented to build packages reliably considered "newer"
 ## than previously built packages with the same pcmkversion)
 %global pcmkversion 2.1.0
-%global specversion 10
+%global specversion 11
 
 ## Upstream commit (full commit ID, abbreviated commit ID, or tag) to build
 %global commit 7c3f660707a495a1331716ad32cd3ac9d9f8ff58
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ Patch16:       016-cts.patch
 Patch17:       017-watchdog-fixes.patch
 Patch18:       018-controller.patch
 Patch19:       019-crm_resource.patch
+Patch20:       020-fence_watchdog.patch
 
 Requires:      resource-agents
 Requires:      %{pkgname_pcmk_libs}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -863,6 +864,10 @@ exit 0
 %license %{nagios_name}-%{nagios_hash}/COPYING
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Aug 20 2021 Ken Gaillot <kgaillot@redhat.com> - 2.1.0-11
+- Fix XML issue with fence_watchdog meta-data
+- Resolves: rhbz1988568
+
 * Thu Aug 12 2021 Ken Gaillot <kgaillot@redhat.com> - 2.1.0-10
 - Fix minor issue with crm_resource error message change
 - Resolves: rhbz1983196