diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore
index b7f3c20ce..3449e6efa 100644
--- a/.hgignore
+++ b/.hgignore
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ www_files
 html/*
 prosody.lua
 prosody.cfg.lua
+prosody.version
 config.unix
 *.patch
 *.orig