diff --git a/ci/docker-compose.yml b/ci/docker-compose.yml
index d0cdbe4af816..26a51f4f0c9e 100644
--- a/ci/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/ci/docker-compose.yml
@@ -115,6 +115,16 @@ services:
       - ..:/risingwave
 
   release-env:
+    # build binaries on a earlier Linux distribution (therefore with earlier version GLIBC)
+    # See https://github.com/risingwavelabs/risingwave/issues/4556 for more details
+    # 
+    # GLIBC versions on some systems:
+    # Amazon Linux 2: 2.26 (EOL 2025-06-30)
+    # AL2023: 2.34
+    # Ubuntu 18.04: 2.27 (Already EOL 2023-05-31)
+    # Ubuntu 20.04: 2.31
+    # 
+    # manylinux2014: CentOS 7 (EOL 2024-06-30), GLIBC 2.17
     image: quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64
     working_dir: /mnt
     volumes:
diff --git a/ci/scripts/release.sh b/ci/scripts/release.sh
index b222e49c0826..39b4c6e4eead 100755
--- a/ci/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/ci/scripts/release.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 
 REPO_ROOT=${PWD}
+BUILDKITE_SOURCE=""
+BINARY_NAME=xxtest
+BUILDKITE_TAG=""
 
 echo "--- Check env"
 if [ "${BUILDKITE_SOURCE}" != "schedule" ] && [ "${BUILDKITE_SOURCE}" != "webhook" ] && [[ -z "${BINARY_NAME+x}" ]]; then
@@ -11,7 +14,7 @@ if [ "${BUILDKITE_SOURCE}" != "schedule" ] && [ "${BUILDKITE_SOURCE}" != "webhoo
 fi
 
 echo "--- Install java and maven"
-yum install -y java-11-openjdk wget python3 cyrus-sasl-devel
+yum install -y java-11-openjdk wget python3 cyrus-sasl-devel perl-IPC-Cmd
 pip3 install toml-cli
 wget https://ci-deps-dist.s3.amazonaws.com/apache-maven-3.9.3-bin.tar.gz && tar -zxvf apache-maven-3.9.3-bin.tar.gz
 export PATH="${REPO_ROOT}/apache-maven-3.9.3/bin:$PATH"
diff --git a/ci/workflows/docker.yml b/ci/workflows/docker.yml
index 3fe1cb5db67e..722e64f14fa7 100644
--- a/ci/workflows/docker.yml
+++ b/ci/workflows/docker.yml
@@ -5,44 +5,44 @@ auto-retry: &auto-retry
       limit: 3
 
 steps:
-  - label: "docker-build-push: amd64"
-    command: "ci/scripts/docker.sh"
-    key: "build-amd64"
-    plugins:
-      - seek-oss/aws-sm#v2.3.1:
-          env:
-            GHCR_USERNAME: ghcr-username
-            GHCR_TOKEN: ghcr-token
-            DOCKER_TOKEN: docker-token
-            GITHUB_TOKEN: github-token
-    retry: *auto-retry
+  # - label: "docker-build-push: amd64"
+  #   command: "ci/scripts/docker.sh"
+  #   key: "build-amd64"
+  #   plugins:
+  #     - seek-oss/aws-sm#v2.3.1:
+  #         env:
+  #           GHCR_USERNAME: ghcr-username
+  #           GHCR_TOKEN: ghcr-token
+  #           DOCKER_TOKEN: docker-token
+  #           GITHUB_TOKEN: github-token
+  #   retry: *auto-retry
 
-  - label: "docker-build-push: aarch64"
-    command: "ci/scripts/docker.sh"
-    key: "build-aarch64"
-    plugins:
-      - seek-oss/aws-sm#v2.3.1:
-          env:
-            GHCR_USERNAME: ghcr-username
-            GHCR_TOKEN: ghcr-token
-            DOCKER_TOKEN: docker-token
-            GITHUB_TOKEN: github-token
-    agents:
-      queue: "linux-arm64"
-    retry: *auto-retry
+  # - label: "docker-build-push: aarch64"
+  #   command: "ci/scripts/docker.sh"
+  #   key: "build-aarch64"
+  #   plugins:
+  #     - seek-oss/aws-sm#v2.3.1:
+  #         env:
+  #           GHCR_USERNAME: ghcr-username
+  #           GHCR_TOKEN: ghcr-token
+  #           DOCKER_TOKEN: docker-token
+  #           GITHUB_TOKEN: github-token
+  #   agents:
+  #     queue: "linux-arm64"
+  #   retry: *auto-retry
 
-  - label: "multi-arch-image-create-push"
-    command: "ci/scripts/multi-arch-docker.sh"
-    depends_on:
-      - "build-amd64"
-      - "build-aarch64"
-    plugins:
-      - seek-oss/aws-sm#v2.3.1:
-          env:
-            GHCR_USERNAME: ghcr-username
-            GHCR_TOKEN: ghcr-token
-            DOCKER_TOKEN: docker-token
-    retry: *auto-retry
+  # - label: "multi-arch-image-create-push"
+  #   command: "ci/scripts/multi-arch-docker.sh"
+  #   depends_on:
+  #     - "build-amd64"
+  #     - "build-aarch64"
+  #   plugins:
+  #     - seek-oss/aws-sm#v2.3.1:
+  #         env:
+  #           GHCR_USERNAME: ghcr-username
+  #           GHCR_TOKEN: ghcr-token
+  #           DOCKER_TOKEN: docker-token
+  #   retry: *auto-retry
 
   - label: "pre build binary"
     command: "ci/scripts/release.sh"