diff --git a/versions-rules.xml b/versions-rules.xml
index 095de7c2..2a6c8a42 100644
--- a/versions-rules.xml
+++ b/versions-rules.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ limitations under the License.
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0 http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/xsd/rule-2.0.0.xsd">
   <ignoreVersions>
     <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-alpha.*</ignoreVersion>
-    <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-beta.*</ignoreVersion>
     <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-b[0-9]*</ignoreVersion>
     <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-pre.*</ignoreVersion>
     <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*public_draft</ignoreVersion>
@@ -32,6 +31,14 @@ limitations under the License.
         <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*</ignoreVersion>
       </ignoreVersions>
     </rule>
+    <!-- MySQL connector should not be manually updated.
+         Version 5.x needs to be used for Java 7 support.
+         https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples/pull/456#discussion_r92676013 -->
+    <rule groupId="mysql" artifactId="mysql-connector-java" comparisonMethod="maven">
+      <ignoreVersions>
+        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*</ignoreVersion>
+      </ignoreVersions>
+    </rule>
     <!-- SendGrid 3 libraries are broken in App Engine standard environment -->
     <rule groupId="com.sendgrid" artifactId="sendgrid-java" comparisonMethod="maven">
       <ignoreVersions>
@@ -44,5 +51,23 @@ limitations under the License.
         <ignoreVersion type="regex">v2.*</ignoreVersion>
       </ignoreVersions>
     </rule>
+    <!-- Ignore beta versions of the App Engine Maven plugin -->
+    <rule groupId="com.google.cloud.tools" artifactId="appengine-maven-plugin" comparisonMethod="maven">
+      <ignoreVersions>
+        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-beta.*</ignoreVersion>
+      </ignoreVersions>
+    </rule>
+    <!-- Ignore beta versions of Mockito -->
+    <rule groupId="org.mockito" artifactId="mockito-all" comparisonMethod="maven">
+      <ignoreVersions>
+        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-beta.*</ignoreVersion>
+      </ignoreVersions>
+    </rule>
+    <!-- Ignore beta versions of Xmemcached-->
+    <rule groupId="com.googlecode.xmemcached" artifactId="xmemcached" comparisonMethod="maven">
+      <ignoreVersions>
+        <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-beta.*</ignoreVersion>
+      </ignoreVersions>
+    </rule>
   </rules>
 </ruleset>