diff --git a/docs/publish.sh b/docs/publish.sh
index 3655b72..dee65db 100755
--- a/docs/publish.sh
+++ b/docs/publish.sh
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ echo "building site"
 set -e
 sphinx-versioning build \
    --show-banner \
+   --whitelist-branches 'master' \
+   --whitelist-tags '(v)?\d+\.\d+\.\d+$' \
+   --whitelist-tags '0.1.0-rc(3|4)$' \
    docs ./public_git \
    -- -c sphinxconf # older conf.py throw errors because they used
                     # version = subprocess.show_output(["git", "describe"])