diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2829200c61995aa6aac25c95df095a494ef66816..def3ced731b28d651494ed77ba89826745df096b 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -37,12 +37,14 @@ build:
   stage: build
   resource_group: ${CI_COMMIT_BRANCH} # this prevents parallel (potentially racy) pipeline runs
   script:
+    - ls -l
+    - rm -r latest
     - mkdir -p latest
     - "(curl -LsS --header 'PRIVATE-TOKEN: ${CI_JOB_TOKEN}' https://${CI_SERVER_HOST}/${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}/${CI_PROJECT_NAME}/-/jobs/artifacts/${CI_COMMIT_BRANCH}/download?job=build | bsdtar -xf - -C latest) || true"
     - test -d latest/dist && export LATEST_UTIL_VERSION=$(cd latest/dist; ls *.whl | sed -r 's/.*\+([a-z0-9.]+)-.*/\1/g')
     - test -d latest/dist && export LATEST_API_VERSION=$(cd latest/dist; ls *.whl | sed -r 's/netdb_client-([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+).*/\1/g')
     - test -d latest/dist && export POST_NUM=$(cd latest/dist; ls *.whl | sed -r 's/.*\.post([0-9]+).*/\1/g')
-    - env | sort
+    - env | sort | grep -v GITLAB_FEATURES
     - python3 -m build
     - TWINE_PASSWORD=${CI_JOB_TOKEN} TWINE_USERNAME=gitlab-ci-token python3 -m twine upload --verbose --repository-url ${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/packages/pypi --skip-existing dist/*
   artifacts: