diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e5ced98c49..aaf2655dcd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
   another task (#2552, #363 by @trulede).
 - Fixed Zsh completion not suggesting global tasks when using `-g`/`--global`
   flag (#1574, #2574 by @vmaerten).
+- Fixed Fish completion failing to parse task descriptions containing colons
+  (e.g., URLs or namespaced functions) (#2101, #2573 by @vmaerten).
 
 ## v3.45.5 - 2025-11-11
 
diff --git a/completion/fish/task.fish b/completion/fish/task.fish
index b2b9b045cb..325be7210a 100644
--- a/completion/fish/task.fish
+++ b/completion/fish/task.fish
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ function __task_get_tasks --description "Prints all available tasks with their d
   end
 
   # Grab names and descriptions (if any) of the tasks
-  set -l output (echo $rawOutput | sed -e '1d; s/\* \(.*\):\s*\(.*\)\s*(\(aliases.*\))/\1\t\2\t\3/' -e 's/\* \(.*\):\s*\(.*\)/\1\t\2/'| string split0)
+  set -l output (echo $rawOutput | sed -e '1d; s/\* \(.*\):\s\{2,\}\(.*\)\s\{2,\}(\(aliases.*\))/\1\t\2\t\3/' -e 's/\* \(.*\):\s\{2,\}\(.*\)/\1\t\2/'| string split0)
   if test $output
     echo $output
   end