diff --git a/.github/scripts/VERSIONS b/.github/scripts/VERSIONS
index 8bbe6aa343..90ce6ec506 100644
--- a/.github/scripts/VERSIONS
+++ b/.github/scripts/VERSIONS
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
 
-# renovate: datasource=github-tags depName=wolfSSL/wolfssl versioning=semver registryUrl=https://github.com
+# renovate: datasource=github-tags depName=wolfSSL/wolfssl versioning=semver extractVersion=^v?(?<version>.+)-stable$ registryUrl=https://github.com
 WOLFSSL_VER=5.6.0
 
-# renovate: datasource=github-tags depName=wolfSSL/wolfssh versioning=semver registryUrl=https://github.com
+# renovate: datasource=github-tags depName=wolfSSL/wolfssh versioning=semver extractVersion=^v?(?<version>.+)-stable$ registryUrl=https://github.com
 WOLFSSH_VER=1.4.12