FieldValidationException: Version Id is not a number

When importing issues via the Jelly Runner, non-number versions fail the field validation. This makes no sense since in the Project administration, you can add any text you please as a version (there's no validation there). So things such as "3.2a", "Future", "NEXT", "3.3.1b" all fail the importer.

(ex. in the middle of an exception stack trace: Caused by: com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.FieldValidationException: Version Id is not a number '1.1 beta 2')

sample stack trace:
2006-08-09 11:18:29,529 ERROR [web.action.issue.CreateIssueDetails] com.atlassian.jira.exception.DataAccessException: com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfie
lds.impl.FieldValidationException: Version Id is not a number '1.1 beta 2'
com.atlassian.jira.exception.DataAccessException: com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.FieldValidationException: Version Id is not a number '1.1 b
eta 2'
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomFieldImpl.updateIssue(CustomFieldImpl.java:717)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.issue.IssueCreationHelperBeanImpl.updateIssueFromFieldValuesHolder(IssueCreationHelperBeanImpl.java:154)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.issue.CreateIssueDetails.doExecute(CreateIssueDetails.java:107)
at webwork.action.ActionSupport.execute(ActionSupport.java:153)
at com.atlassian.jira.action.JiraActionSupport.execute(JiraActionSupport.java:58)
at webwork.dispatcher.GenericDispatcher.executeAction(GenericDispatcher.java:132)
at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.WebWorkAdaptor.mapJellyTagToAction(WebWorkAdaptor.java:97)
at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.ActionTagSupport.runTagAndPostTag(ActionTagSupport.java:150)
at com.atlassian.jira.jelly.ActionTagSupport.doTag(ActionTagSupport.java:131)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:247)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:186)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.ForEachTag.doTag(ForEachTag.java:150)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:247)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:186)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTag.doTag(StaticTag.java:65)
at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.StaticTagScript.run(StaticTagScript.java:102)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.util.JellyRunner.doExecute(JellyRunner.java:96)
at webwork.action.ActionSupport.execute(ActionSupport.java:153)
at com.atlassian.jira.action.JiraActionSupport.execute(JiraActionSupport.java:58)
at webwork.dispatcher.GenericDispatcher.executeAction(GenericDispatcher.java:132)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.dispatcher.JiraServletDispatcher.service(JiraServletDispatcher.java:185)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.AccessLogFilter.doFilter(AccessLogFilter.java:51)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:119)
at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:55)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.SitemeshExcludePathFilter.doFilter(SitemeshExcludePathFilter.java:38)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:182)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.LoginFilter.doFilter(LoginFilter.java:177)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.util.profiling.filters.ProfilingFilter.doFilter(ProfilingFilter.java:132)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.ProfilingAndErrorFilter.doFilter(ProfilingAndErrorFilter.java:25)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.ActionCleanupDelayFilter.doFilter(ActionCleanupDelayFilter.java:39)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.johnson.filters.JohnsonFilter.doFilter(JohnsonFilter.java:91)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.jira.web.filters.gzip.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.java:72)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEncodingFilter.java:37)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
Caused by: com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.FieldValidationException: Version Id is not a number '1.1 beta 2'
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.VersionCFType.getLongFromString(VersionCFType.java:427)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.VersionCFType.access$000(VersionCFType.java:37)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.VersionCFType$1.transform(VersionCFType.java:114)
at org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils.collect(CollectionUtils.java:629)
at org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils.collect(CollectionUtils.java:607)
at org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils.collect(CollectionUtils.java:572)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.customfields.impl.VersionCFType.getValueFromCustomFieldParams(VersionCFType.java:109)
at com.atlassian.jira.issue.fields.CustomFieldImpl.updateIssue(CustomFieldImpl.java:711)
... 67 more