diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/libgeos.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/libgeos.py
index f011208ea0..05e5d1209b 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/libgeos.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/libgeos.py
@@ -108,8 +108,11 @@ geos_version.argtypes = None
 geos_version.restype = c_char_p
 
 # Regular expression should be able to parse version strings such as
-# '3.0.0rc4-CAPI-1.3.3', '3.0.0-CAPI-1.4.1' or '3.4.0dev-CAPI-1.8.0'
-version_regex = re.compile(r'^(?P<version>(?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<subminor>\d+))((rc(?P<release_candidate>\d+))|dev)?-CAPI-(?P<capi_version>\d+\.\d+\.\d+)$')
+# '3.0.0rc4-CAPI-1.3.3', '3.0.0-CAPI-1.4.1', '3.4.0dev-CAPI-1.8.0' or '3.4.0dev-CAPI-1.8.0 r0'
+version_regex = re.compile(
+    r'^(?P<version>(?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<subminor>\d+))'
+    r'((rc(?P<release_candidate>\d+))|dev)?-CAPI-(?P<capi_version>\d+\.\d+\.\d+)( r\d+)?$'
+)
 def geos_version_info():
     """
     Returns a dictionary containing the various version metadata parsed from
@@ -119,8 +122,10 @@ def geos_version_info():
     """
     ver = geos_version().decode()
     m = version_regex.match(ver)
-    if not m: raise GEOSException('Could not parse version info string "%s"' % ver)
-    return dict((key, m.group(key)) for key in ('version', 'release_candidate', 'capi_version', 'major', 'minor', 'subminor'))
+    if not m:
+        raise GEOSException('Could not parse version info string "%s"' % ver)
+    return dict((key, m.group(key)) for key in (
+        'version', 'release_candidate', 'capi_version', 'major', 'minor', 'subminor'))
 
 # Version numbers and whether or not prepared geometry support is available.
 _verinfo = geos_version_info()
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py
index de9471211e..66d890d8cb 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py
@@ -1080,15 +1080,17 @@ class GEOSTest(unittest.TestCase, TestDataMixin):
         self.assertEqual(mls.interpolate(17), Point(10, 7))
 
     def test_geos_version(self):
-        "Testing the GEOS version regular expression."
+        """Testing the GEOS version regular expression."""
         from django.contrib.gis.geos.libgeos import version_regex
-        versions = [ ('3.0.0rc4-CAPI-1.3.3', '3.0.0'),
-                     ('3.0.0-CAPI-1.4.1', '3.0.0'),
-                     ('3.4.0dev-CAPI-1.8.0', '3.4.0') ]
-        for v, expected in versions:
-            m = version_regex.match(v)
-            self.assertTrue(m)
-            self.assertEqual(m.group('version'), expected)
+        versions = [('3.0.0rc4-CAPI-1.3.3', '3.0.0', '1.3.3'),
+                    ('3.0.0-CAPI-1.4.1', '3.0.0', '1.4.1'),
+                    ('3.4.0dev-CAPI-1.8.0', '3.4.0', '1.8.0'),
+                    ('3.4.0dev-CAPI-1.8.0 r0', '3.4.0', '1.8.0')]
+        for v_init, v_geos, v_capi in versions:
+            m = version_regex.match(v_init)
+            self.assertTrue(m, msg="Unable to parse the version string '%s'" % v_init)
+            self.assertEqual(m.group('version'), v_geos)
+            self.assertEqual(m.group('capi_version'), v_capi)
 
 
 def suite():