diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2b9b3dab8204da9c79757458592596d1129eae01..ed650ea104d399c9f1f17b14c3cc8cb9c82e9a26 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -36,33 +36,6 @@ unit_test1:
     - '[[ $(sed -nr "/^\s*Version:\s+([[:digit:]]\.){2}[[:digit:]]\s*\$/p" ${CI_PROJECT_NAME}/${APP_PAGE} | wc -l) -eq 1 ]]
         || { echo "[error] Version string badly formatted or not found"; exit 1; }'
 
-unit_test2:
-  stage: test
-  script:
-    - echo "This job shall test that the version string in '${APP_PAGE}' is only incremented"
-    - git clone --depth=1 ${CLONE_URL_TOK}/${CI_PROJECT_PATH}
-    - cd ${CI_PROJECT_NAME}
-    - |
-      # Find the commit hash before the current commit where ${APP_PAGE} was changed
-      LAST_COMMIT_HASH=$(git rev-list HEAD -- ${APP_PAGE} | sed -n '2p')
-
-      # Extract the version string from that commit for ${APP_PAGE}
-      PREVIOUS_VERSION_STRING=$(git show ${LAST_COMMIT_HASH}:${APP_PAGE} | sed -nr "/^\s*Version:\s+([[:digit:]]\.){2}[[:digit:]]\s*\$/p" | cut -d" " -f2)
-      PREVIOUS_PATCH_NUMBER=$(echo $PREVIOUS_VERSION_STRING | cut -d"." -f3)
-
-      # Extract the current version string from ${APP_PAGE}
-      CURRENT_VERSION_STRING=$(sed -nr "/^\s*Version:\s+([[:digit:]]\.){2}[[:digit:]]\s*\$/p" ${APP_PAGE} | cut -d" " -f2)
-      CURRENT_PATCH_NUMBER=$(echo $CURRENT_VERSION_STRING | cut -d"." -f3)
-
-      echo "Previous version string: ${PREVIOUS_VERSION_STRING}"
-      echo "Current version string: ${CURRENT_VERSION_STRING}"
-
-      # Check if the current patch number is one more than the previous patch number
-      if [[ $((CURRENT_PATCH_NUMBER)) -ne $((PREVIOUS_PATCH_NUMBER + 1)) ]]; then
-        echo "[error] Version string not incremented correctly"
-        exit 1
-      fi
-
 deploy_prod:
   stage: deploy
   environment: