diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 9e1f54ba..0e308265 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ jobs:
       - restore_cache:
           keys:
             - go-mod-v1-{{ checksum "go.sum" }}
-      - run: curl -sL http://git.io/goreleaser | bash
+      - run: test/goreleaser.sh --skip-validate --skip-publish
 
   e2e-istio-testing:
     machine: true
diff --git a/.goreleaser.yml b/.goreleaser.yml
index dcf3d925..03d56489 100644
--- a/.goreleaser.yml
+++ b/.goreleaser.yml
@@ -12,5 +12,9 @@ archive:
   name_template: "{{ .Binary }}_{{ .Version }}_{{ .Os }}_{{ .Arch }}"
   files:
   - none*
+changelog:
+  filters:
+    exclude:
+      - '^CircleCI'
 snapshot:
   name_template: SNAPSHOT-{{.Commit}}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/goreleaser.sh b/test/goreleaser.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..41a30578
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/goreleaser.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+TAR_FILE="/tmp/goreleaser.tar.gz"
+RELEASES_URL="https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/releases"
+test -z "$TMPDIR" && TMPDIR="$(mktemp -d)"
+
+last_version() {
+  curl -sL -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} "$RELEASES_URL/latest" |
+    rev |
+    cut -f1 -d'/'|
+    rev
+}
+
+download() {
+  test -z "$VERSION" && VERSION="$(last_version)"
+  test -z "$VERSION" && {
+    echo "Unable to get goreleaser version." >&2
+    exit 1
+  }
+  rm -f "$TAR_FILE"
+  curl -s -L -o "$TAR_FILE" \
+    "$RELEASES_URL/download/$VERSION/goreleaser_$(uname -s)_$(uname -m).tar.gz"
+}
+
+download
+tar -xf "$TAR_FILE" -C "$TMPDIR"
+"${TMPDIR}/goreleaser" "$@"