diff --git a/contrib/gcc-changelog/git_update_version.py b/contrib/gcc-changelog/git_update_version.py
index 0a21a748e72..0508f194084 100755
--- a/contrib/gcc-changelog/git_update_version.py
+++ b/contrib/gcc-changelog/git_update_version.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def prepend_to_changelog_files(repo, folder, git_commit, add_to_git):
             repo.git.add(full_path)
 
 
-active_refs = ['master', 'releases/gcc-8', 'releases/gcc-9', 'releases/gcc-10',
+active_refs = ['master', 'releases/gcc-9', 'releases/gcc-10',
                'releases/gcc-11']
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Update DATESTAMP and generate '
diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/crontab b/maintainer-scripts/crontab
index 8f2c0d8efc9..93612a3ca13 100644
--- a/maintainer-scripts/crontab
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/crontab
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 16  0 * * * sh /home/gccadmin/scripts/update_version_git
 50  0 * * * sh /home/gccadmin/scripts/update_web_docs_git
 55  0 * * * sh /home/gccadmin/scripts/update_web_docs_libstdcxx_git
-32 22 * * 3 sh /home/gccadmin/scripts/gcc_release -s 8:releases/gcc-8 -l -d /sourceware/snapshot-tmp/gcc all
 32 22 * * 4 sh /home/gccadmin/scripts/gcc_release -s 9:releases/gcc-9 -l -d /sourceware/snapshot-tmp/gcc all
 32 22 * * 5 sh /home/gccadmin/scripts/gcc_release -s 10:releases/gcc-10 -l -d /sourceware/snapshot-tmp/gcc all
 32 22 * * 6 sh /home/gccadmin/scripts/gcc_release -s 11:releases/gcc-11 -l -d /sourceware/snapshot-tmp/gcc all