diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 9d557a6cabb..bb037ed48ed 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -917,6 +917,7 @@ Samuele Pedroni
 Justin Peel
 Marcel van der Peijl
 Berker Peksag
+Andreas Pelme
 Steven Pemberton
 Bo Peng
 Santiago Peresón
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 07c86db10f7..a2777cede5b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -945,6 +945,9 @@ Tests
 Build
 -----
 
+- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
+  SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
+
 - Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc.
 
 - Issue #3718: Use AC_ARG_VAR to set MACHDEP in configure.ac.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4fd8efc4d2c..144767fbb83 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ class db_found(Exception): pass
                 with open(f) as file:
                     incf = file.read()
                 m = re.search(
-                    r'\s*.*#\s*.*define\s.*SQLITE_VERSION\W*"(.*)"', incf)
+                    r'\s*.*#\s*.*define\s.*SQLITE_VERSION\W*"([\d\.]*)"', incf)
                 if m:
                     sqlite_version = m.group(1)
                     sqlite_version_tuple = tuple([int(x)