diff --git a/HISTORY.asc b/HISTORY.asc
index b0894da..08fcd1e 100644
--- a/HISTORY.asc
+++ b/HISTORY.asc
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+STABLE
+------
+== Fix `pgtle.sh` rejecting non-numeric version aliases like `stable`
+`extract_version_from_filename()` required every version segment to start
+with a digit, so extensions using a persistent `stable` pseudo-version
+(`default_version = 'stable'`) failed with "Cannot parse version from
+filename". Widened to accept any non-empty, `--`-free version string,
+matching how pg_tle itself treats extension versions.
+
 2.1.0
 -----
 == Fix setup.sh / pgxntool-sync.sh / update-setup-files.sh inside a git worktree
diff --git a/pgtle.sh b/pgtle.sh
index 124ca84..e6229fd 100755
--- a/pgtle.sh
+++ b/pgtle.sh
@@ -593,10 +593,18 @@ extract_version_from_filename() {
     # Match patterns:
     # - ext--1.0.0 → FROM_VERSION=1.0.0, TO_VERSION=""
     # - ext--1.0.0--2.0.0 → FROM_VERSION=1.0.0, TO_VERSION=2.0.0
+    # - ext--stable → FROM_VERSION=stable, TO_VERSION="" (pg_tle treats
+    #   versions as opaque strings; see check_valid_version_name() in
+    #   pg_tle's tleextension.c, which only forbids empty strings, "--",
+    #   and leading/trailing "-" — no numeric requirement)
+    #
+    # Each version segment is [^-]+(-[^-]+)* : one or more non-dash runs
+    # joined by single dashes, so a segment can't be empty, start/end with
+    # "-", or contain "--" (which is reserved as the FROM/TO delimiter).
 
-    if [[ "$basename" =~ ^${EXTENSION}--([0-9][0-9.]*)(--([0-9][0-9.]*))?$ ]]; then
+    if [[ "$basename" =~ ^${EXTENSION}--([^-]+(-[^-]+)*)(--([^-]+(-[^-]+)*))?$ ]]; then
         FROM_VERSION="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
-        TO_VERSION="${BASH_REMATCH[3]}"  # Empty for non-upgrade files
+        TO_VERSION="${BASH_REMATCH[4]}"  # Empty for non-upgrade files
         return 0
     else
         die 1 "Cannot parse version from filename: $filename