diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 537f317c6..b2575a9b0 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -13,10 +13,7 @@
 # from .travis.yml. For releases triggered with the REST API we could use the "merge mode", but
 # not when triggering from the web UI. Anyway, `before_install` works well.
 
-# we need rpmbuild but it's unlikely to be whitelisted, according to
-# https://github.com/travis-ci/apt-package-whitelist/pull/1700
-sudo: required
-dist: xenial
+dist: noble
 install:
   - sudo apt-get -qq update
   - sudo apt-get install -y rpm
diff --git a/scripts/jobs/release/website/archives b/scripts/jobs/release/website/archives
index 88c16111e..f3c2fdc83 100755
--- a/scripts/jobs/release/website/archives
+++ b/scripts/jobs/release/website/archives
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash -ex
 
-url="https://downloads.lightbend.com/scala/$version"
+url="https://github.com/scala/scala/releases/download/v$version"
 
 if [[ "$version" =~ ^.*-(bin|pre)-[0-9a-f]+$ ]]
 then archivesDir="~linuxsoft/archives/scala/nightly/2.12.x"