diff --git a/clog2markdown b/clog2markdown
index 938953d..0acb69e 100755
--- a/clog2markdown
+++ b/clog2markdown
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ echo
 curl --silent -n "http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/$1/CHANGES" | \
 sed -n "
 /^#/d;
-/^Version $1/,/^Version /{
+/^Version ${1/-rc*/}/,/^Version /{
 /, from \/branches/d;
 /repos\/asf\/subversion\/tags/d;
 s,#\([0-9]*\),[SVN-\1](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-\1),;