diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 527f728d5c..e403b62fa9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ Overview of changes since NetworkManager-1.46
   when IPv6 device address was not explicitly passed on by ModemManager
 * Fix a performance issue that was leading to 100% CPU usage by NetworkManager
   if external programs were doing a big amount of routes updates.
+* Patch-level development releases (i.e. 1.48.1-dev) won't be used anymore.
+  From now on, all the patch releases whithin a stable branch will be normal
+  releases, like 1.48.0, 1.48.1, 1.48.2, 1.48.3 and so on.
+  Odd numbers in the minor version number still indicates if it's a development
+  branch like 1.49 or a stable one like 1.48.
 
 =============================================
 NetworkManager-1.46
diff --git a/contrib/fedora/rpm/release.sh b/contrib/fedora/rpm/release.sh
index 809810f097..fd48f487d4 100755
--- a/contrib/fedora/rpm/release.sh
+++ b/contrib/fedora/rpm/release.sh
@@ -14,12 +14,11 @@
 #  - "rc"    : further release candidates on RC branch (e.g. from "nm-1-26" branch
 #              tag "1.26-rc2" with version number 1.25.91).
 #  - "major" : on stable branch do a major release (e.g. on "nm-1-26" branch
-#              release "1.26.0", followed by "1.26.1-dev").
+#              release "1.26.0").
 #              You should do a "major-post" release right a "major" release.
 #  - "major-post": after a "major" release, merge the release branch with main and
 #              do another devel snapshot on main (e.g. do "1.27.1-dev" release).
-#  - "minor" : on a stable branch do a minor release (e.g. "1.26.4" on "nm-1-26"
-#              branch and bump to "1.26.5-dev").
+#  - "minor" : on a stable branch do a minor release (e.g. "1.26.4" on "nm-1-26").
 #
 # Requisites:
 #
@@ -296,8 +295,7 @@ RC_VERSION=
 RELEASE_BRANCH=
 case "$RELEASE_MODE" in
     minor)
-        number_is_even "${VERSION_ARR[1]}" &&
-        number_is_odd  "${VERSION_ARR[2]}" || die "cannot do minor release on top of version $VERSION_STR"
+        number_is_even "${VERSION_ARR[1]}" || die "cannot do minor release on top of version $VERSION_STR"
         [ "$CUR_BRANCH" != main ] || die "cannot do a minor release on main"
         ;;
     devel)
@@ -431,19 +429,13 @@ case "$RELEASE_MODE" in
     minor)
         set_version_number "${VERSION_ARR[0]}" "${VERSION_ARR[1]}" $(("${VERSION_ARR[2]}" + 1))
         git commit -m "release: bump version to ${VERSION_ARR[0]}.${VERSION_ARR[1]}.$(("${VERSION_ARR[2]}" + 1))" -a || die "failed to commit release"
-        set_version_number "${VERSION_ARR[0]}" "${VERSION_ARR[1]}" $(("${VERSION_ARR[2]}" + 2))
-        git commit -m "release: bump version to ${VERSION_ARR[0]}.${VERSION_ARR[1]}.$(("${VERSION_ARR[2]}" + 2)) (development)" -a || die "failed to commit devel version bump"
 
         b="${VERSION_ARR[0]}.${VERSION_ARR[1]}.$(("${VERSION_ARR[2]}" + 1))"
-        git tag -s -a -m "Tag $b" "$b" HEAD~ || die "failed to tag release"
+        git tag -s -a -m "Tag $b" "$b" HEAD || die "failed to tag release"
         BRANCHES+=("$b")
         CLEANUP_REFS+=("refs/tags/$b")
         BUILD_TAG="$b"
-        b="${VERSION_ARR[0]}.${VERSION_ARR[1]}.$(("${VERSION_ARR[2]}" + 2))"
-        git tag -s -a -m "Tag $b (development)" "$b-dev" HEAD || die "failed to tag devel version"
-        BRANCHES+=("$b-dev")
-        CLEANUP_REFS+=("refs/tags/$b-dev")
-        TAR_VERSION="$BUILD_TAG"
+        TAR_VERSION="$b"
         ;;
     devel)
         set_version_number "${VERSION_ARR[0]}" "${VERSION_ARR[1]}" $(("${VERSION_ARR[2]}" + 1))
@@ -482,20 +474,12 @@ case "$RELEASE_MODE" in
         ;;
     major)
         b="${VERSION_ARR[0]}.$((${VERSION_ARR[1]} + 1)).0"
-        b2="${VERSION_ARR[0]}.$((${VERSION_ARR[1]} + 1)).1"
-
         set_version_number "${VERSION_ARR[0]}" "$((${VERSION_ARR[1]} + 1))" 0
         git commit -m "release: bump version to $b" -a || die "failed to commit major version bump"
+
         git tag -s -a -m "Tag $b" "$b" HEAD || die "failed to tag release"
         BRANCHES+=("$b")
         CLEANUP_REFS+=("refs/tags/$b")
-
-        set_version_number "${VERSION_ARR[0]}" "$((${VERSION_ARR[1]} + 1))" 1
-        git commit -m "release: bump version to $b2 (development)" -a || die "failed to commit another bump after major version bump"
-        git tag -s -a -m "Tag $b (development)" "$b2-dev" HEAD || die "failed to tag release"
-        BRANCHES+=("$b2-dev")
-        CLEANUP_REFS+=("refs/tags/$b2-dev")
-
         BUILD_TAG="$b"
         TAR_VERSION="$b"
         ;;