diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 0faddf7b4e..41010ebe6b 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -305,26 +305,3 @@ jobs:
         - CONFIG="--disable-containers --disable-tcg --enable-kvm
                   --disable-tools --host-cc=clang --cxx=clang++"
         - UNRELIABLE=true
-
-    # Release builds
-    # The make-release script expect a QEMU version, so our tag must start with a 'v'.
-    # This is the case when release candidate tags are created.
-    - name: "Release tarball"
-      if: tag IS present AND tag =~ /^v\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)?(-\S*)?$/
-      env:
-        # We want to build from the release tarball
-        - BUILD_DIR="release/build/dir" SRC_DIR="../../.."
-        - BASE_CONFIG="--prefix=$PWD/dist"
-        - CONFIG="--target-list=x86_64-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu,armeb-linux-user,ppc-linux-user"
-        - TEST_CMD="make install -j${JOBS}"
-        - QEMU_VERSION="${TRAVIS_TAG:1}"
-        - CACHE_NAME="${TRAVIS_BRANCH}-linux-gcc-default"
-      script:
-        - make -C ${SRC_DIR} qemu-${QEMU_VERSION}.tar.bz2
-        - ls -l ${SRC_DIR}/qemu-${QEMU_VERSION}.tar.bz2
-        - tar -xf ${SRC_DIR}/qemu-${QEMU_VERSION}.tar.bz2 && cd qemu-${QEMU_VERSION}
-        - mkdir -p release-build && cd release-build
-        - ../configure ${BASE_CONFIG} ${CONFIG} || { cat config.log meson-logs/meson-log.txt && exit 1; }
-        - make install
-  allow_failures:
-    - env: UNRELIABLE=true