diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d24cfd47..76921748 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -73,10 +73,12 @@ package:
   when: manual
   stage: package
   script:
+    - apt-get update
+    - apt-get install zip unzip
     - cd api
     - composer install --no-dev
     - cd ../ci
-    - bash build_release.sh
+    - bash build_zip.sh
   artifacts:
     paths:
-      - release/
+      - release.zip
diff --git a/ci/build_release.sh b/ci/build_release.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index c32361df..00000000
--- a/ci/build_release.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-cd ../
-mkdir release
-TARGETDIR=release;for file in *;do test "$file" != "$TARGETDIR" && cp -r "$file" "$TARGETDIR/";done
-
-# Remove files that we don't want to bundle
-cd release
-rm -rf ci
-rm -rf .git
-rm apidoc.json
-rm CONTRIBUTING.md
-
-cd ../
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diff --git a/ci/build_zip.sh b/ci/build_zip.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..be8868c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/build_zip.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cd ../
+mkdir $VERSION_NUMBER
+TARGETDIR=$VERSION_NUMBER;for file in *;do test "$file" != "$TARGETDIR" && cp -r "$file" "$TARGETDIR/";done
+
+# Remove files that we don't want to bundle
+cd $VERSION_NUMBER
+rm -rf ci
+rm -rf .git
+rm apidoc.json
+rm CONTRIBUTING.md
+
+cd ../
+zip -r release.zip $VERSION_NUMBER
+rm -rf $VERSION_NUMBER
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