diff --git a/dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py b/dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py
index 0f57b5df01b..876f98962a6 100755
--- a/dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py
+++ b/dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ def verifyUnpacked(java, project, artifact, unpackPath, gitRevision, version, te
     # TODO: clean this up to not be a list of modules that we must maintain
     extras = ('analysis', 'backward-codecs', 'benchmark', 'classification', 'codecs', 'core', 'demo', 'docs', 'expressions', 'facet', 'grouping', 'highlighter', 'join', 'luke', 'memory', 'misc', 'monitor', 'queries', 'queryparser', 'replicator', 'sandbox', 'spatial-extras', 'spatial3d', 'suggest', 'test-framework', 'licenses')
     if isSrc:
-      extras += ('build.xml', 'common-build.xml', 'module-build.xml', 'top-level-ivy-settings.xml', 'default-nested-ivy-settings.xml', 'ivy-versions.properties', 'ivy-ignore-conflicts.properties', 'version.properties', 'tools', 'site')
+      extras += ('build.xml', 'common-build.xml', 'module-build.xml', 'top-level-ivy-settings.xml', 'default-nested-ivy-settings.xml', 'ivy-versions.properties', 'ivy-ignore-conflicts.properties', 'version.properties', 'tools', 'site', 'dev-docs')
   else:
     extras = ()