diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 724148761..5be8e640d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ branches:
   only:
   - master
   - devel
+  - /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+(-SNAPSHOT)?$/ # trigger builds on tags which are semantically versioned to ship the SDK.
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