diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 19661c2b69..a45b9d7016 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@
           <version>${tycho-version}</version>
           <configuration>
           	<updateEmptyVersion>false</updateEmptyVersion>
+          	<mavenRulesUri>${project.basedir}/update-rules.xml</mavenRulesUri>
           </configuration>
 	 </plugin>
 	<plugin>
diff --git a/releng/org.eclipse.linuxtools.target/update-rules.xml b/releng/org.eclipse.linuxtools.target/update-rules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..91fe92e24a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releng/org.eclipse.linuxtools.target/update-rules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<ruleset comparisonMethod="maven"
+	xmlns="https://www.mojohaus.org/VERSIONS/RULE/2.1.0"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="https://www.mojohaus.org/VERSIONS/RULE/2.1.0 https://www.mojohaus.org/versions/versions-model/xsd/rule-2.1.0.xsd">
+	<!-- see https://www.mojohaus.org/versions/versions-maven-plugin/version-rules.html -->
+	<ignoreVersions>
+		<ignoreVersion type="regex">.+[-.](alpha|beta|M|RC|rc|pre.1)\d*$</ignoreVersion>
+	</ignoreVersions>
+	
+</ruleset>
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