diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ee493a372b6079ac88a9a32441275f2be137fa76..042f643351e43dcdf7b8ef3b101e7d3e60585703 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed 
+
+- Add hyphen to regex for schema version to enable issue branches 
+
 ## [v0.1.0] - 2023-03-24
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/src/protocol/index.js b/src/protocol/index.js
index e1f35d334f0a3b3b42c42e23f09c87d7cd991f48..0dc039b5c96b90b4d5e919be4ea1e44cd541f232 100644
--- a/src/protocol/index.js
+++ b/src/protocol/index.js
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ export class GenericSoarProtocol extends GenericProtocol {
    * @returns {object}
    */
   createValidator(schema) {
-    if (typeof schema === 'string' && schema.match(/^[\w.]+$/)) {
+    if (typeof schema === 'string' && schema.match(/^[\w.-]+$/)) {
       this.loadSchema(schema).then((schema) => {
         this.validator = new Validator(schema);
       });