diff --git a/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/template b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/template
index 39398ef6cdd..d99001257e7 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/template
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ maintainer="Dominik Honnef <dominik@honnef.co>"
 # BSD, LGPL-2 and MIT. In combination, that makes this package GPL.
 license="GPL"
 homepage="http://sabnzbd.org/"
-update_ignore="*RC*"
 short_desc="SABnzbd is an Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/sabnzbdplus/SABnzbd-${version}-src.tar.gz"
 checksum=20b3a4613a0ecdede4fdfeb628ae806e458ac1a6fb684306328dd4ed1faf8742
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/update b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..667700bc719
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sabnzbd/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ignore="*RC*"