diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 2760e0f7d8..c77695a0f9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -124,62 +124,63 @@ jobs:
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl repository -Dtest=SearchTestSuite -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5433/alfresco -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco -Dindex.subsystem.name=solr6
 
     - name: "Repository - MariaDB 10.2.18 tests"
-      if: commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/
       before_script:
         - docker run -d -p 3307:3306 --name mariadb -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=alfresco -e MYSQL_USER=alfresco -e MYSQL_DATABASE=alfresco -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=alfresco mariadb:10.2.18 --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --max-connections=300 --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
         - docker run -d -p 61616:61616 -p 5672:5672 alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.16.1
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl repository -Dtest=AllDBTestsTestSuite -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3307/alfresco?useUnicode=yes\&characterEncoding=UTF-8 -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco -Ddb.driver=org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
 
     - name: "Repository - MariaDB 10.4 tests"
-      if: commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/
       before_script:
         - docker run -d -p 3307:3306 --name mariadb -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=alfresco -e MYSQL_USER=alfresco -e MYSQL_DATABASE=alfresco -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=alfresco mariadb:10.4 --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --max-connections=300 --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
         - docker run -d -p 61616:61616 -p 5672:5672 alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.16.1
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl repository -Dtest=AllDBTestsTestSuite -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3307/alfresco?useUnicode=yes\&characterEncoding=UTF-8 -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco -Ddb.driver=org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
 
     - name: "Repository - MariaDB 10.5 tests"
-      if: commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/
       before_script:
         - docker run -d -p 3307:3306 --name mariadb -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=alfresco -e MYSQL_USER=alfresco -e MYSQL_DATABASE=alfresco -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=alfresco mariadb:10.5 --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --max-connections=300 --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
         - docker run -d -p 61616:61616 -p 5672:5672 alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.16.1
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl repository -Dtest=AllDBTestsTestSuite -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3307/alfresco?useUnicode=yes\&characterEncoding=UTF-8 -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco -Ddb.driver=org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
 
     - name: "Repository - MySQL 5.7.23 tests"
-      if: commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/
       before_script:
         - docker run -d -p 3307:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=alfresco -e MYSQL_USER=alfresco -e MYSQL_DATABASE=alfresco -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=alfresco  mysql:5.7.23 --transaction-isolation='READ-COMMITTED'
         - docker run -d -p 61616:61616 -p 5672:5672 alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.16.1
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl repository -Dtest=AllDBTestsTestSuite -Ddb.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3307/alfresco -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco
 
     - name: "Repository - MySQL 8 tests"
-      if: commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/
       before_script:
         - docker run -d -p 3307:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=alfresco -e MYSQL_USER=alfresco -e MYSQL_DATABASE=alfresco -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=alfresco  mysql:8 --transaction-isolation='READ-COMMITTED'
         - docker run -d -p 61616:61616 -p 5672:5672 alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.16.1
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl repository -Dtest=AllDBTestsTestSuite -Ddb.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3307/alfresco -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco
 
     - name: "Repository - PostgreSQL 10.9 tests"
-      if: commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/
       before_script:
         - docker run -d -p 5433:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=alfresco -e POSTGRES_USER=alfresco -e POSTGRES_DB=alfresco postgres:10.9 postgres -c 'max_connections=300'
         - docker run -d -p 61616:61616 -p 5672:5672 alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.16.1
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl repository -Dtest=AllDBTestsTestSuite -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5433/alfresco -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco
 
     - name: "Repository - PostgreSQL 11.7 tests"
-      if: commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/
       before_script:
         - docker run -d -p 5433:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=alfresco -e POSTGRES_USER=alfresco -e POSTGRES_DB=alfresco postgres:11.7 postgres -c 'max_connections=300'
         - docker run -d -p 61616:61616 -p 5672:5672 alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.16.1
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl repository -Dtest=AllDBTestsTestSuite -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5433/alfresco -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco
 
     - name: "Repository - PostgreSQL 12.4 tests"
-      if: commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/
       before_script:
         - docker run -d -p 5433:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=alfresco -e POSTGRES_USER=alfresco -e POSTGRES_DB=alfresco postgres:12.4 postgres -c 'max_connections=300'
         - docker run -d -p 61616:61616 -p 5672:5672 alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.16.1
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl repository -Dtest=AllDBTestsTestSuite -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5433/alfresco -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco
 
     - name: "Repository - PostgreSQL 13.1 tests"
+      # We only run DB tests on the latest version of PostgreSQL on feature branches
       if: commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/
       before_script:
         - docker run -d -p 5433:5432 -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=alfresco -e POSTGRES_USER=alfresco -e POSTGRES_DB=alfresco postgres:13.1 postgres -c 'max_connections=300'
@@ -231,6 +232,7 @@ jobs:
       script: travis_wait 20 mvn -B test -pl remote-api -Dtest=AppContextExtraTestSuite -Ddb.driver=org.postgresql.Driver -Ddb.name=alfresco -Ddb.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5433/alfresco -Ddb.username=alfresco -Ddb.password=alfresco
 
     - name: "REST API TAS tests part1"
+      # TAS tests are generally skipped on feature branches as they will be repeated on the enterprise repo or community packaging builds
       if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip tas\]/) OR commit_message =~ /\[tas\]/
       before_script:
         - ${TAS_SCRIPTS}/start-compose.sh ${TAS_ENVIRONMENT}/docker-compose-minimal+transforms.yml