diff --git a/tools/build/onos-validate-change-version.excludes b/tools/build/onos-validate-change-version.excludes
index 32fb1e8..de38b8a 100755
--- a/tools/build/onos-validate-change-version.excludes
+++ b/tools/build/onos-validate-change-version.excludes
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 \./build.log
 \./.git
-\./target/
+/target/
+\.iml$
+\./buck-out/
+\./lib/BUCK
+\./lib/deps.json
+\./bucklets/maven_jar\.bucklet
+\./tools/build/libgen
+\./utils/osgiwrap/
 \./tools/build/onos-validate-change-version
 \./tools/build/onos-change-version
 \./tools/build/onos-release
@@ -18,4 +25,7 @@
 \./apps/vrouter/pom.xml
 \./protocols/ospf/
 \./protocols/snmp/
-\./providers/snmp/
\ No newline at end of file
+\./providers/snmp/
+\./providers/bmv2/
+\./drivers/bmv2/
+\./apps/kafka-integration/
\ No newline at end of file