diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 287e6a25b..8ab5736b3 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@
     "frontend:build:watch": "webpack --watch --progress",
     "i18n:test": "./missing-translations.sh",
     "prerelease": "./is-clean.sh && npm run test",
-    "release": "standard-version -a",
-    "release-test": "standard-version -a -t t",
+    "release": "./release.sh",
     "postrelease": "git push --follow-tags origin master",
     "parse-changelog": "changelog-parser ./CHANGELOG.md > changelog.json"
   },
diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..80b2f17f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Sarah Vaupel <sarah.vaupel@uniworx.de>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+set -e
+
+case "$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)" in
+  "master" | "main")
+    standard-version -a
+    ;;
+  "test")
+    standard-version -a -t t
+    ;;
+  *)
+    echo "Current branch not supported for release!"
+    exit 1
+    ;;
+esac