diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index 0a6cdbc44d4f560c0947c90e8bb4800b7a51d536..9e1471e4d2646697ba54411cfc2d2e36e136cdcb 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@ variables:
   # clean the local repo on the build agents
   Build.Repository.Clean: true
 
-# only trigger ci builds for the master branch
+# only trigger ci builds for the master and release branches
 trigger:
 - master
+- release/3.0
 
 # To be added in the future when VSTS supports this feature
 # only trigger pull request builds for the master branch
@@ -26,4 +27,4 @@ jobs:
       # agent pool can't be read from a user-defined variable (Azure DevOps limitation)
       agentPool: dotnet-internal-temp-vs2019
       # runAsPublic is used in expressions, which can't read from user-defined variables
-      runAsPublic: false
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+      runAsPublic: false