diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 3fd4436..e3901bb 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -83,7 +83,12 @@ set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR ON)
 
 # generate DBus interfaces
 qt5_add_dbus_interfaces(SRC_FILES ${DBUS_FILES})
-add_definitions(-DCMAKE_BUILD)
+
+# disable new ABI (can't catch ios_base::failure with new ABI)
+add_definitions(
+    -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD
+)
 
 # executable and linking
 add_executable(${META_PROJECT_NAME} ${HEADER_FILES} ${SRC_FILES} ${RES_FILES} ${WINDOWS_ICON_PATH})
diff --git a/general.pri b/general.pri
index 7072941..f417d7d 100644
--- a/general.pri
+++ b/general.pri
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ RCC_DIR = ./res
 QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -std=c++11
 QMAKE_LFLAGS += -std=c++11
 
+# disable new ABI (can't catch ios_base::failure with new ABI)
+DEFINES += _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0
+
 # variables to check target architecture
 win32-g++:QMAKE_TARGET.arch = $$QMAKE_HOST.arch
 win32-g++-32:QMAKE_TARGET.arch = x86