diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9e868373b3..0ac0115732 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 - Fix some of YAML date parsing
 - Fix feed generation for languages not working in some cases (it was taking the value from the root of the config for
 feed_filenames)
+- Ignore `.bck` files in `zola serve`
 
 ## 0.19.1 (2024-06-24)
 
diff --git a/components/utils/src/fs.rs b/components/utils/src/fs.rs
index 4aa13994b8..85982478a3 100644
--- a/components/utils/src/fs.rs
+++ b/components/utils/src/fs.rs
@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ pub fn is_temp_file(path: &Path) -> bool {
             x if x.ends_with("jb_bak___") => true,
             // vim & jetbrains
             x if x.ends_with('~') => true,
+            // helix
+            x if x.ends_with("bck") => true,
             _ => {
                 if let Some(filename) = path.file_stem() {
                     // emacs
diff --git a/src/fs_utils.rs b/src/fs_utils.rs
index 693b4e535f..64f8f86412 100644
--- a/src/fs_utils.rs
+++ b/src/fs_utils.rs
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ mod tests {
             Path::new("hello.html~"),
             Path::new("#hello.html"),
             Path::new(".index.md.kate-swp"),
+            Path::new("smtp.md0HlVyu.bck"),
         ];
 
         for t in test_cases {