diff --git a/.woodpecker/binaries.yaml b/.woodpecker/binaries.yaml
index cd1e08930..3e84dff31 100644
--- a/.woodpecker/binaries.yaml
+++ b/.woodpecker/binaries.yaml
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-depends_on:
-  - test
-  - web
-
-# TODO: upload build artifacts for pushes to ${CI_REPO_DEFAULT_BRANCH}
 when:
   event: tag
 
@@ -26,6 +21,13 @@ steps:
     commands:
       - go mod vendor
 
+  code-gen:
+    image: *golang_image
+    depends_on:
+      - vendor
+    commands:
+      - make generate
+
   cross-compile-server:
     depends_on:
       - vendor
@@ -42,6 +44,14 @@ steps:
       XGO_VERSION: *xgo_version
       TARGZ: '1'
 
+  build-tarball:
+    depends_on:
+      - code-gen
+      - build-web
+    image: *golang_image
+    commands:
+      - make build-tarball
+
   build-agent:
     depends_on:
       - vendor
@@ -71,6 +81,7 @@ steps:
       - build-agent
       - build-cli
       - build-deb-rpm
+      - build-tarball
     image: *golang_image
     commands:
       - make release-checksums
diff --git a/.woodpecker/docker.yaml b/.woodpecker/docker.yaml
index cd3d16ae1..2ba617d5a 100644
--- a/.woodpecker/docker.yaml
+++ b/.woodpecker/docker.yaml
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ when:
       - release/*
       - renovate/*
 
-depends_on:
-  - test
-  - web
-
 variables:
   - &golang_image 'docker.io/golang:1.21.6'
   - &node_image 'docker.io/node:21-alpine'
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0ef22575e..0b0f700f5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -196,6 +196,17 @@ build-agent: ## Build agent
 build-cli: ## Build cli
 	CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=${TARGETOS} GOARCH=${TARGETARCH} go build -ldflags '${LDFLAGS}' -o dist/woodpecker-cli${BIN_SUFFIX} go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker/v2/cmd/cli
 
+build-tarball: ## Build tar archive
+	mkdir -p dist && tar chzvf dist/woodpecker-src.tar.gz \
+	  --exclude="*.exe" \
+	  --exclude="./.pnpm-store" \
+	  --exclude="node_modules" \
+	  --exclude="./dist" \
+	  --exclude="./data" \
+	  --exclude="./build" \
+	  --exclude="./.git" \
+	  .
+
 .PHONY: build
 build: build-agent build-server build-cli ## Build all binaries