diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 3c5adb7e5..61abbee62 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -463,6 +463,11 @@ post_to_2.4.30() {
   POSTVERSION=2.4.30
 }
 
+post_to_2.4.40() {
+  echo "Removing Curator close files"
+  rm -f /opt/so/conf/curator/files/action/*-close.y*ml
+}
+
 repo_sync() {
   echo "Sync the local repo."
   su socore -c '/usr/sbin/so-repo-sync' || fail "Unable to complete so-repo-sync."