diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f263238a9f..b1bffacf59 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ jobs:
           - ~/.npm
 
       before_install:
+        - .travis/channel_restriction.sh edge beta || travis_terminate 0
         - .travis/affects.sh docs/ .travis || travis_terminate 0
         - cd docs/
         - source .travis/before_install.sh
diff --git a/.travis/channel_restriction.sh b/.travis/channel_restriction.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..637bfc9ed3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis/channel_restriction.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Only proceed if we are on one of the channels passed in when calling this file
+#
+
+set -ex
+
+eval "$(ci/channel-info.sh)"
+
+for acceptable_channel in "$@"; do
+  if [[ "$CHANNEL" == "$acceptable_channel" ]]; then
+    exit 0
+  fi
+done
+
+echo "Not running from one of the following channels: $*"
+exit 1
diff --git a/docs/set-solana-release-tag.sh b/docs/set-solana-release-tag.sh
index 58b6e04c0e..68bab795c1 100755
--- a/docs/set-solana-release-tag.sh
+++ b/docs/set-solana-release-tag.sh
@@ -3,25 +3,9 @@ set -e
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 
-if [[ -n $CI_TAG ]]; then
-  LATEST_SOLANA_RELEASE_VERSION=$CI_TAG
-elif [[ -z $CI_PULL_REQUEST ]]; then
-  LATEST_SOLANA_RELEASE_VERSION=$(\
-    curl -sSfL https://api.github.com/repos/solana-labs/solana/releases/latest \
-    | grep -m 1 tag_name \
-    | sed -ne 's/^ *"tag_name": "\([^"]*\)",$/\1/p' \
-  )
-else
-  # Don't bother the `api.github.com` on pull requests to avoid getting rate
-  # limited
-  LATEST_SOLANA_RELEASE_VERSION=unknown-version
-fi
-
-if [[ -z "$LATEST_SOLANA_RELEASE_VERSION" ]]; then
-  echo Error: release version not defined
-  exit 1
-fi
+eval "$(../ci/channel-info.sh)"
 
+LATEST_SOLANA_RELEASE_VERSION=$BETA_CHANNEL_LATEST_TAG
 VERSION_FOR_DOCS_RS="${LATEST_SOLANA_RELEASE_VERSION:1}"
 
 set -x