diff --git a/version.go b/version.go
index e87df69..f2447dd 100644
--- a/version.go
+++ b/version.go
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ var (
 // of a version.
 const (
 	VersionRegexpRaw string = `v?([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)*?)` +
-		`(-([0-9]+[0-9A-Za-z\-~]*(\.[0-9A-Za-z\-~]+)*)|(-?([A-Za-z\-~]+[0-9A-Za-z\-~]*(\.[0-9A-Za-z\-~]+)*)))?` +
-		`(\+([0-9A-Za-z\-~]+(\.[0-9A-Za-z\-~]+)*))?` +
+		`(-([0-9]+[0-9A-Za-z\-~_]*(\.[0-9A-Za-z\-~_]+)*)|(-?([A-Za-z\-~_]+[0-9A-Za-z\-~_]*(\.[0-9A-Za-z\-~_]+)*)))?` +
+		`(\+([0-9A-Za-z\-~_]+(\.[0-9A-Za-z\-~_]+)*))?` +
 		`?`
 
 	// SemverRegexpRaw requires a separator between version and prerelease
diff --git a/version_test.go b/version_test.go
index 08cbf01..ff73e93 100644
--- a/version_test.go
+++ b/version_test.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ func TestNewVersion(t *testing.T) {
 		{"1.2.0-x.Y.0+metadata", false},
 		{"1.2.0-x.Y.0+metadata-width-hyphen", false},
 		{"1.2.3-rc1-with-hyphen", false},
+		{"1.2.3-rc2-with_underscore", false},
 		{"1.2.3.4", false},
 		{"1.2.0.4-x.Y.0+metadata", false},
 		{"1.2.0.4-x.Y.0+metadata-width-hyphen", false},