diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.1+20181013.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.1+20181013.bb
index 928c477..ef6ca98 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.1+20181013.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.1+20181013.bb
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@
 SRCREV = "7a97a7f937762ba342d5b2fd7cd090885a809835"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-abi-version=5 --cache-file=${B}/config.cache"
-UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "upstream/(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+(\+\d+)*)"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+(\+\d+)*)"