diff --git a/scripts/prepareDeploy.sh b/scripts/prepareDeploy.sh
index 707e4d233bc..7705f226046 100755
--- a/scripts/prepareDeploy.sh
+++ b/scripts/prepareDeploy.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ getLatest() {
 
    stable=`echo "$releases" | grep '<version>' | cut -d '>' -f2 |cut -d '<' -f1 | grep "^$base" | tail -1`
    [ -n "$stable" ] && echo $stable && return
-   pre=`echo "$prereleases" | grep '<version>' | cut -d '>' -f2 |cut -d '<' -f1 | grep "^$base" | egrep 'alpha|beta|rc' | tail -1`
+   pre=`echo "$prereleases" | grep '<version>' | cut -d '>' -f2 |cut -d '<' -f1 | grep "^$base" | grep -v "SNAPSHOT" | egrep 'alpha|beta|rc' | tail -1`
    [ -z "$pre" ] && pre=`echo "$prereleases" | grep '<version>' | cut -d '>' -f2 |cut -d '<' -f1 | egrep 'alpha|beta|rc' | tail -1`
    [ -z "$pre" ] && pre="$2"
    expr "$pre" : ".*SNAPSHOT" >/dev/null && echo "Releases cannot depend on SNAPSHOT: $1 - $pre" && exit 1 || echo $pre