diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5990e4960a..dba863fc7c 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 language: c++
+
 branches:
   only:
   - master
-cache:
-  ccache: true
-  directories:
-   - $CARGO_PATH
-   - $RUSTUP_PATH
-   - third_party/v8/build/linux/debian_sid_amd64-sysroot/
-   - third_party/v8/third_party/llvm-build/
+
 env:
   global:
     - CARGO_PATH=$HOME/.cargo/
@@ -20,23 +15,56 @@ env:
     - DENO_BUILD_ARGS="is_debug=false use_allocator=\"none\" use_custom_libcxx=false use_sysroot=false"
     - DENO_BUILD_PATH=$HOME/out/Default
     - DENO_BUILD_MODE=debug
-before_install: |
+    # ccache needs the custom LLVM to be in PATH and other variables.
+    - PATH=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/third_party/llvm-build/Release+Asserts/bin:$CARGO_PATH/bin:$PATH
+    - CCACHE_CPP2=yes
+    - CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=time_macros
+
+cache:
+  ccache: true
+  directories:
+   - $CARGO_PATH
+   - $RUSTUP_PATH
+   - third_party/v8/build/linux/debian_sid_amd64-sysroot/
+   - third_party/v8/third_party/llvm-build/
+
+install: |
   # Install Rust.
   # TODO(ry) Include rustc in third_party https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/386
-  export PATH=$CARGO_PATH/bin:$PATH
   rustc --version
   if [ $? != 0 ]; then
     curl -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
   fi
-install:
- # ccache needs the custom LLVM to be in PATH and other variables.
- - export PATH=`pwd`/third_party/llvm-build/Release+Asserts/bin:$PATH
- - export CCACHE_CPP2=yes
- - export CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=time_macros
- - ccache -s
- - ./tools/setup.py
- # Travis hangs without -j2 argument to ninja.
- - ./tools/build.py -j2
+before_script:
+  - ccache -s
+  - ./tools/setup.py
 script:
- - ./tools/lint.py
- - ./tools/test.py $DENO_BUILD_PATH
+  - ./tools/lint.py
+  - ./tools/build.py -j2
+  - ./tools/test.py $DENO_BUILD_PATH
+
+jobs:
+  include:
+    - stage: test
+
+    - stage: release
+      if: tag IS present
+      script: |
+        # build release binary
+        env DENO_BUILD_ARGS="use_custom_libcxx=false use_sysroot=false" \
+          DENO_BUILD_MODE=release \
+          ./tools/build.py -j2
+        # test release binary
+        env DENO_BUILD_MODE=release ./tools/tests.py
+      before_deploy: |
+        # gzip and name release to denote platform
+        gzip -c $DENO_BUILD_PATH/deno > $DENO_BUILD_PATH/deno_linux_x64.gz
+      deploy:
+        provider: releases
+        skip_cleanup: true
+        api_key:
+          secure: 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
+        file: "$DENO_BUILD_PATH/deno_linux_x64.gz"
+        on:
+          tags: true
+          repo: denoland/deno