diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5ab883176c..fbe453e383 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ jobs:
       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 10.6 tests"
-      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/ AND type != pull_request) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/ OR commit_message =~ /\[latest db\]/
+      # We run tests on the latest version of MariaDB on pull requests plus the normal master and release branches - ignored on feature branches
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/                         ) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/ OR commit_message =~ /\[latest db\]/
       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:10.6 --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
@@ -159,7 +160,8 @@ jobs:
       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: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/ AND type != pull_request) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/ OR commit_message =~ /\[latest db\]/
+      # We run tests on the latest version of MySQL on pull requests plus the normal master and release branches - ignored on feature branches
+      if: (branch =~ /(release\/.*$|master)/ AND commit_message !~ /\[skip db\]/                         ) OR commit_message =~ /\[db\]/ OR commit_message =~ /\[latest db\]/
       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