diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 1c1a8dd42a4..0a64b12a80d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -8,10 +8,38 @@ on:
       - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
 
 jobs:
+  unittests:
+    name: Unit tests
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Support longpaths
+        run: git config --global core.longpaths true
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Setup dotnet 3.1
+        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
+        with:
+          dotnet-version: '3.1' # SDK Version to use.
+      - run: dotnet restore --configfile Nuget.config --packages ../packages
+        working-directory: ./commercetools.Sdk
+      - run: dotnet build --no-restore --source ../packages -c Release
+        working-directory: ./commercetools.Sdk
+      - run: dotnet test --verbosity=normal Tests/commercetools.Api.Serialization.Tests --no-build -c Release
+        working-directory: ./commercetools.Sdk
+      - run: dotnet test --verbosity=normal Tests/commercetools.Sdk.Api.Tests --no-build -c Release
+        working-directory: ./commercetools.Sdk
+      - run: dotnet test --verbosity=normal Tests/commercetools.Sdk.ImportApi.Tests --no-build -c Release
+        working-directory: ./commercetools.Sdk
+      - run: dotnet test --verbosity=normal Tests/commercetools.Sdk.MLApi.Tests --no-build -c Release
+        working-directory: ./commercetools.Sdk
+      - run: dotnet test --verbosity=normal Tests/commercetools.Sdk.HistoryApi.Tests --no-build -c Release
+        working-directory: ./commercetools.Sdk
   artifacts:
     name: Release
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-#    needs: [unittests, integrationtests]
+    needs: [unittests]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       # Authenticates packages to push to GPR
@@ -46,13 +74,3 @@ jobs:
           path: pack
       - name: Push generated package to NuGet
         run: dotnet nuget push "pack/*.nupkg" --api-key ${{ secrets.NUGET_TOKEN }} -s https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json --skip-duplicate --no-symbols true
-      - name: Create GH Release
-        id: create_release
-        uses: actions/create-release@v1
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        with:
-          tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
-          release_name: ${{ github.ref }}
-          draft: false
-          prerelease: false