diff --git a/release/release_files.py b/release/release_files.py
index 23e56d3543..f312b50a24 100755
--- a/release/release_files.py
+++ b/release/release_files.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ whitelist = [
   "tinygrad_repo/tinygrad/runtime/ops_disk.py",
   "tinygrad_repo/tinygrad/runtime/ops_gpu.py",
   "tinygrad_repo/tinygrad/shape/*",
-  "tinygrad_repo/tinygrad/*.py",
+  "tinygrad_repo/tinygrad/.*.py",
 ]
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":