diff --git a/lucene/common-build.xml b/lucene/common-build.xml
index cc22f4b0fb6..5d18d02075b 100644
--- a/lucene/common-build.xml
+++ b/lucene/common-build.xml
@@ -60,11 +60,13 @@
     </condition>
   </fail>
 
+  <!--
   <fail message="If you pass -Dversion=... to set a release version, it must match &quot;${version.base}&quot;, optionally followed by a suffix (e.g., &quot;-SNAPSHOT&quot;).">
     <condition>
       <not><matches pattern="^\Q${version.base}\E(|\-.*)$" casesensitive="true" string="${version}"/></not>
     </condition>
   </fail>
+  -->
 
   <property name="year" value="2000-${current.year}"/>