diff --git a/pipelines/reconfigure.yml b/pipelines/reconfigure.yml
index 8a885458..68a3ef6e 100644
--- a/pipelines/reconfigure.yml
+++ b/pipelines/reconfigure.yml
@@ -337,39 +337,6 @@ jobs:
           cni: '*'
           runc: '*'
           containerd: '*'
-    - set_pipeline: release
-      file: pipelines-and-tasks/pipelines/release.yml
-      instance_vars:
-        version: 7.9.x
-      vars:
-        gcp_image: ubuntu-2204-lts-cgroups-v1
-        release_major: '7'
-        release_minor: '7.9'
-        latest_release: '7.8'
-        concourse_smoke_deployment_name: concourse-smoke-7-9
-        slack_hook: ((slack_hooks.concourse-private))
-        stemcell_name: jammy
-        ci_branch: master
-        resource_type_versions:
-          bosh-io-release: ~1.1.3
-          bosh-io-stemcell: ~1.1.2
-          cf: ~1.1.4
-          docker-image: ~1.7.1
-          git: ~1.14.7
-          github-release: ~1.8.0
-          hg: ~1.2.7
-          mock: ~0.12.4
-          pool: ~1.3.2
-          registry-image: ~1.7.1
-          s3: ~1.2.1
-          semver: ~1.5.1
-          time: ~1.6.3
-          tracker: ~1.0.8
-        dep_bin_versions:
-          gdn: ~1.22.5
-          cni: ~1.1.1
-          runc: ~1.1.4
-          containerd: ~1.6.12
     - set_pipeline: release
       file: pipelines-and-tasks/pipelines/release.yml
       instance_vars: