diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 4e1148772..75214e0b9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -157,6 +157,12 @@ amd64:
     name: "pleroma-$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME-$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA-$CI_JOB_NAME"
     paths:
       - release/*
+    # Ideally it would be never for master branch and with the next commit for develop,
+    # but Gitlab does not support neither `only` for artifacts
+    # nor setting it to never from .gitlab-ci.yml
+    # nor expiring with the next commit
+    expire_in: 42 yrs
+
   cache: &release-cache
     key: $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME-$CI_JOB_NAME
     paths: