diff --git a/.gitlab/README.md b/.gitlab/README.md
index b43aa9b42a75e227a9edfe1847b61a87db643452..dd18943a1d2bbab280efbecdf5cb731617ffea96 100644
--- a/.gitlab/README.md
+++ b/.gitlab/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ A concrete example may look like this:
 ```yaml
 # Using `latest`
 include:
-  - component: gitlab.com/components/opentofu/full-pipeline@latest
+  - component: gitlab.com/components/opentofu/full-pipeline@~latest
     inputs:
       # The version must currently be specified explicitly as an input,
       # to find the correctly associated images. # This can be removed 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a58044bba752bb24ebfe66eb023988fba978ac4e..0d5a75d03b4b8cb0f326990a88df61483520272a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ A concrete example may look like this:
 ```yaml
 # Using `latest`
 include:
-  - component: gitlab.com/components/opentofu/full-pipeline@latest
+  - component: gitlab.com/components/opentofu/full-pipeline@~latest
     inputs:
       # The version must currently be specified explicitly as an input,
       # to find the correctly associated images. # This can be removed