diff --git a/admin-system/renovate.yaml b/admin-system/renovate.yaml
index 3e71dd9..d612f31 100644
--- a/admin-system/renovate.yaml
+++ b/admin-system/renovate.yaml
@@ -91,10 +91,9 @@ data:
           "automerge": false
         },
         {
-          "description": "termix: non-semver release- tag",
+          "description": "termix: non-semver release-X.Y.Z tag (regex versioning parses the whole tag incl. prefix; loose+extractVersion silently skips because currentValue fails the loose parser before extractVersion is applied)",
           "matchPackageNames": ["ghcr.io/lukegus/termix"],
-          "versioning": "loose",
-          "extractVersion": "^release-(?<version>.+)$"
+          "versioning": "regex:^release-(?<major>\\d+)\\.(?<minor>\\d+)\\.(?<patch>\\d+)$"
         },
         {
           "description": "wanderer: db + web update together in one PR",