diff --git a/core.cfg b/core.cfg
index 0da4bce6ca..3902e25a7e 100644
--- a/core.cfg
+++ b/core.cfg
@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ eggs =
     zest.pocompile
 
 
+[releaser:python36]
+# Jenkins node 4 has trouble with Python 3.6 and non-ascii.
+# You see this when generating bin/rst2html5.py, among probably others.
+dependent-scripts = false
+
+
 [z3c_checkversions]
 # run this via bin/checkversions -l 2 versions.cfg
 recipe = zc.recipe.egg