diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index ada2a08956..2bb797ed32 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ env:
 
 stages:
   - name: test
-    if: commit_message !~ /\[skip tests\]/ AND commit_message !~ /\[force[^\]]*\]/
+    if: commit_message !~ /\[skip tests\]/
   - name: release
     if: commit_message !~ /\[no release\]/ AND (branch = master OR branch =~ /release\/.*/) AND type != pull_request AND fork = false
   - name: update_downstream
diff --git a/scripts/travis/update_downstream.sh b/scripts/travis/update_downstream.sh
index b4316a0307..c81e0ac547 100644
--- a/scripts/travis/update_downstream.sh
+++ b/scripts/travis/update_downstream.sh
@@ -33,11 +33,7 @@ git status
 git --no-pager diff pom.xml
 git add pom.xml
 
-if [[ "${TRAVIS_COMMIT_MESSAGE}" =~ \[force[^\]]*\] ]]; then
-  FORCE_TOKEN=$(echo "${TRAVIS_COMMIT_MESSAGE}" | sed "s|^.*\(\[force[^]]*\]\).*$|\1|g")
-  git commit --allow-empty -m "${FORCE_TOKEN} Update upstream version to ${VERSION}"
-  git push
-elif git status --untracked-files=no --porcelain | grep -q '^' ; then
+if git status --untracked-files=no --porcelain | grep -q '^' ; then
   git commit -m "Update upstream version to ${VERSION}"
   git push
 else