diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/libgeos.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/libgeos.py
index e73fcdb4d9..a4f5adf4d0 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/libgeos.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/libgeos.py
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ 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', or '3.0.0-CAPI-1.4.1'
-version_regex = re.compile(r'^(?P<version>(?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<subminor>\d+))(rc(?P<release_candidate>\d+))?-CAPI-(?P<capi_version>\d+\.\d+\.\d+)$')
+# '3.0.0rc4-CAPI-1.3.3', '3.0.0-CAPI-1.4.1' or '3.4.0dev-CAPI-1.8.0'
+version_regex = re.compile(r'^(?P<version>(?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<subminor>\d+))((rc(?P<release_candidate>\d+))|dev)?-CAPI-(?P<capi_version>\d+\.\d+\.\d+)$')
 def geos_version_info():
     """
     Returns a dictionary containing the various version metadata parsed from
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py b/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py
index 9b241e6164..a8372b4f69 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/geos/tests/test_geos.py
@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ class GEOSTest(unittest.TestCase, TestDataMixin):
             # Keeping line-noise down by only printing the relevant
             # warnings once.
             warnings.simplefilter('once', UserWarning)
-            warnings.simplefilter('once', FutureWarning)    
+            warnings.simplefilter('once', FutureWarning)
 
             g = GEOSGeometry('POINT (-104.609 38.255)', srid=None)
             g.transform(2774)
@@ -1049,6 +1049,18 @@ class GEOSTest(unittest.TestCase, TestDataMixin):
 
         print "\nEND - expecting GEOS_NOTICE; safe to ignore.\n"
 
+    def test28_geos_version(self):
+        "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)
+
+
 def suite():
     s = unittest.TestSuite()
     s.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(GEOSTest))