diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 6cad03c1b..a645b6fd7 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ The required Doxygen version for documentation generation is now version 1.13.
 - (wifi) #2368 - Fix various issues related to Content Channels and RU allocation. Fixes mostly covers cases where OFDMA is used with central 26 tones, where a single user is being assigned the whole PPDU bandwidth or where a RU is larger than 20 MHz.
 - (zigbee) !2383 - Fix malformed RREP command with missing command options field.
 - (mobility) !2397 - Fix Rectangle::GetClosestSideOrCorner. It could assign the incorrect side when the checked position was outside the rectangle.
+- (bindings) #1187 - Fix library filtering to skip non-ns-3 libraries with "ns3" in their names.
 
 ## Release 3.44
 
diff --git a/bindings/python/ns__init__.py b/bindings/python/ns__init__.py
index 6cd864645..546791ef5 100644
--- a/bindings/python/ns__init__.py
+++ b/bindings/python/ns__init__.py
@@ -351,6 +351,9 @@ def get_newest_version(versions: list) -> str:
 def find_ns3_from_search() -> (str, list, str):
     libraries = search_libraries("ns3")
 
+    # Filter in libraries prefixed with libns3
+    libraries = list(filter(lambda x: "libns3" in x, libraries))
+
     if not libraries:
         raise Exception("ns-3 libraries were not found.")