diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/upstream-stable-release-point.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/upstream-stable-release-point.bbclass
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+#
+# Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+
+#
+# This bbclass is expected to be inherited by recipes explicitly.
+# If a recipe's version is separated by point and we know for sure
+# which parts of the version represent the stable part, then the
+# recipe could inherit this bbclass.
+#
+
+STABLE_VERSION_PARTS ?= "2"
+def get_majmin_version_regex(d):
+    pv = d.getVar('PV')
+    stable_parts = pv.split('.')[:int(d.getVar('STABLE_VERSION_PARTS'))]
+    return '\.'.join(stable_parts)
+
+STABLE_VERSION_REGEX = "${@get_majmin_version_regex(d)}"
+UPSTREAM_STABLE_RELEASE_REGEX = "${STABLE_VERSION_REGEX}\..+"