diff --git a/Jenkinsfile b/Jenkinsfile
index 90096ffa9..1d8465c17 100644
--- a/Jenkinsfile
+++ b/Jenkinsfile
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ pipeline {
 	stages {
 		stage("test: baseline (jdk8)") {
 			when {
+				beforeAgent(true)
 				anyOf {
-					branch 'main'
+					branch(pattern: "main|(\\d\\.\\d\\.x)", comparator: "REGEXP")
 					not { triggeredBy 'UpstreamCause' }
 				}
 			}
@@ -44,8 +45,9 @@ pipeline {
 
 		stage("Test other configurations") {
 			when {
+				beforeAgent(true)
 				allOf {
-					branch 'main'
+					branch(pattern: "main|(\\d\\.\\d\\.x)", comparator: "REGEXP")
 					not { triggeredBy 'UpstreamCause' }
 				}
 			}
@@ -102,8 +104,9 @@ pipeline {
 
 		stage('Release to artifactory') {
 			when {
+				beforeAgent(true)
 				anyOf {
-					branch 'main'
+					branch(pattern: "main|(\\d\\.\\d\\.x)", comparator: "REGEXP")
 					not { triggeredBy 'UpstreamCause' }
 				}
 			}
@@ -133,35 +136,6 @@ pipeline {
 				}
 			}
 		}
-
-		stage('Publish documentation') {
-			when {
-				branch 'main'
-			}
-			agent {
-				label 'data'
-			}
-			options { timeout(time: 20, unit: 'MINUTES') }
-
-			environment {
-				ARTIFACTORY = credentials('02bd1690-b54f-4c9f-819d-a77cb7a9822c')
-			}
-
-			steps {
-				script {
-					docker.withRegistry('', 'hub.docker.com-springbuildmaster') {
-						docker.image('adoptopenjdk/openjdk8:latest').inside('-v $HOME:/tmp/jenkins-home') {
-							sh 'MAVEN_OPTS="-Duser.name=jenkins -Duser.home=/tmp/jenkins-home" ./mvnw -s settings.xml -Pci,distribute -Dmaven.repo.local=/tmp/jenkins-home/.m2/spring-data-jdbc-non-root ' +
-									'-Dartifactory.server=https://repo.spring.io ' +
-									"-Dartifactory.username=${ARTIFACTORY_USR} " +
-									"-Dartifactory.password=${ARTIFACTORY_PSW} " +
-									"-Dartifactory.distribution-repository=temp-private-local " +
-									'-Dmaven.test.skip=true clean deploy -U -B'
-						}
-					}
-				}
-			}
-		}
 	}
 
 	post {