diff --git a/lib/Devscripts/Uscan/WatchFile.pm b/lib/Devscripts/Uscan/WatchFile.pm
index 5958127d3479e5ad0215fb90cb94f076fe212ca9..06ab61df88966130c1f3ba5c9b3a4b4aa218b52e 100644
--- a/lib/Devscripts/Uscan/WatchFile.pm
+++ b/lib/Devscripts/Uscan/WatchFile.pm
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ use List::Util qw/first/;
 use Moo;
 
 use constant {
-    ANY_VERSION => '(?:[-_]?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*))',
+    ANY_VERSION => '(?:[-_]?v?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*))',
     ARCHIVE_EXT =>
       '(?i)(?:\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|tar\.zstd?|zip|tgz|tbz|txz))',
     DEB_EXT => '(?:[\+~](debian|dfsg|ds|deb)(\.)?(\d+)?$)',
diff --git a/po4a/po/de.po b/po4a/po/de.po
index e5d4fde8698cc6eedf77272bd9c81b0dba640223..8e3fa43ffbefd61989bdf30bd6dd4887434ebb71 100644
--- a/po4a/po/de.po
+++ b/po4a/po/de.po
@@ -23690,10 +23690,10 @@ msgstr ""
 #: ../scripts/uscan.pl:289
 #, no-wrap
 msgid ""
-"  [-_]?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
+"  [-_]?v?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
 "\n"
 msgstr ""
-"  [-_]?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
+"  [-_]?v?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
 "\n"
 
 #. type: =item
diff --git a/po4a/po/devscripts.pot b/po4a/po/devscripts.pot
index ec297acb683b5d335317d8280b7b7d7ad1c206f7..803042aa1f6ecdcd3ec15a9f816d22e239f526eb 100644
--- a/po4a/po/devscripts.pot
+++ b/po4a/po/devscripts.pot
@@ -19322,7 +19322,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #: ../scripts/uscan.pl:289
 #, no-wrap
 msgid ""
-"  [-_]?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
+"  [-_]?v?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
 "\n"
 msgstr ""
 
diff --git a/po4a/po/fr.po b/po4a/po/fr.po
index e521904cdc09d12da3361eb354d141439941ed33..385b64b975e4811795b7027b58bf6d5655f9bd73 100644
--- a/po4a/po/fr.po
+++ b/po4a/po/fr.po
@@ -23976,10 +23976,10 @@ msgstr ""
 #: ../scripts/uscan.pl:289
 #, no-wrap
 msgid ""
-"  [-_]?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
+"  [-_]?v?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
 "\n"
 msgstr ""
-"  [-_]?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
+"  [-_]?v?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
 "\n"
 
 #. type: =item
diff --git a/po4a/po/pt.po b/po4a/po/pt.po
index 427bac1e18dba380559d4cb4f30bd2bc231ad4fc..a47df32a742a13a7dca2530f6bd0a934a2c4c100 100644
--- a/po4a/po/pt.po
+++ b/po4a/po/pt.po
@@ -23613,10 +23613,10 @@ msgstr ""
 #: ../scripts/uscan.pl:289
 #, no-wrap
 msgid ""
-"  [-_]?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
+"  [-_]?v?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
 "\n"
 msgstr ""
-"  [-_]?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
+"  [-_]?v?(\\d[\\-+\\.:\\~\\da-zA-Z]*)\n"
 "\n"
 
 #. type: =item
diff --git a/scripts/uscan.pl b/scripts/uscan.pl
index 6cc486a0bd5f71bdbba2da8916583030a5e4a5a3..c7011ad13d2a8b9da05e82f21c502db436347614 100755
--- a/scripts/uscan.pl
+++ b/scripts/uscan.pl
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ F<debian/changelog> file.
 
 This is substituted by the legal upstream version regex (capturing).
 
-  [-_]?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*)
+  [-_]?v?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*)
 
 =item B<@ARCHIVE_EXT@>