diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/release/cibuildwheel_ubuntu.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab/ci/release/cibuildwheel_ubuntu.gitlab-ci.yml
index e22b5ee4b7140d5e1a3f860a11646bd3ee51dcd5..a11f593beb6590c061b2eebc6d7fb68249305430 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/release/cibuildwheel_ubuntu.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/release/cibuildwheel_ubuntu.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ include:
 
 release:pip:ubuntu:
   extends: .release:pip:template
-  needs: 
-    - build:ubuntu_python 
-    - test:ubuntu_python   
+  needs:
+    - build:ubuntu_python
+    - test:ubuntu_python
   # make a docker daemon available for cibuildwheel to use
   services:
     - name: docker:dind
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ release:pip:ubuntu:
     DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker:2375/
     DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay2
     # See https://github.com/docker-library/docker/pull/166
-    DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: "" 
+    DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: ""
 
   before_script:
     - !reference [.retrieve_deps:apt, script]
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ release:pip:ubuntu:
 
   parallel:
     matrix:
-      - CIBW_BUILD: "cp38-manylinux_x86_64"
-      - CIBW_BUILD: "cp39-manylinux_x86_64"
+      # - CIBW_BUILD: "cp38-manylinux_x86_64"
+      # - CIBW_BUILD: "cp39-manylinux_x86_64"
       - CIBW_BUILD: "cp310-manylinux_x86_64"
       - CIBW_BUILD: "cp311-manylinux_x86_64"
       - CIBW_BUILD: "cp312-manylinux_x86_64"
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ release:pip:ubuntu:
   script:
     - set -x
     - python --version
-    - python -m pip install cibuildwheel==2.22.0 
+    - python -m pip install cibuildwheel==2.22.0
     - cibuildwheel --output-dir wheelhouse
     - set +x
 
 deploy:pip:ubuntu:
-  extends: 
+  extends:
     - .deploy:pip:ubuntu:template
diff --git a/.gitlab/ci/release/cibuildwheel_windows.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab/ci/release/cibuildwheel_windows.gitlab-ci.yml
index ae371b2d774eb7210796e500a6f91dbd7647c01c..ebbe971163398b56862cb7d986c7e1550385c2ac 100644
--- a/.gitlab/ci/release/cibuildwheel_windows.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/ci/release/cibuildwheel_windows.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ release:pip:windows:
 
   parallel:
     matrix:
-      - CIBW_BUILD: "cp38-win_amd64"
-      - CIBW_BUILD: "cp39-win_amd64"
+      # - CIBW_BUILD: "cp38-win_amd64"
+      # - CIBW_BUILD: "cp39-win_amd64"
       - CIBW_BUILD: "cp310-win_amd64"
       - CIBW_BUILD: "cp311-win_amd64"
       - CIBW_BUILD: "cp312-win_amd64"