diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index ab8bebc5b..59a4f78d9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -264,6 +264,23 @@ flatpak:
 nightly:
   extends: '.publish_nightly'
 
+distinfo:
+  stage: deploy
+  needs:
+    - build
+  script:
+    - .gitlab-ci/export-artifact-path build > dist.env
+  artifacts:
+    reports:
+      dotenv: dist.env
+    paths:
+      - build
+      - mutter
+      - subprojects/jasmine-gjs
+      - dist.env
+  rules:
+    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'
+
 dist:
   variables:
     XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/runtime-dir"
@@ -282,13 +299,16 @@ dist:
         - "**/meson.build"
         - meson/*
 
-
 dist-tarball:
   extends: dist
+  needs:
+    - distinfo
   artifacts:
     expose_as: 'Get tarball here'
     paths:
-      - build/meson-dist/$CI_PROJECT_NAME-$CI_COMMIT_TAG.tar.xz
+      - $TARBALL_ARTIFACT_PATH
+    reports:
+      dotenv: dist.env
   rules:
     - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'
 
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/export-artifact-path b/.gitlab-ci/export-artifact-path
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f9a7534fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/export-artifact-path
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/gjs -m
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Florian Müllner <fmuellner@gnome.org>
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+import Gio from 'gi://Gio';
+import {programArgs, programInvocationName, exit} from 'system';
+
+const [buildDir] = programArgs;
+if (!buildDir) {
+    printerr(`usage: ${programInvocationName} <build-dir>`);
+    exit(1);
+}
+
+const subprocess = Gio.Subprocess.new(
+    ['meson', 'introspect', '--projectinfo', buildDir],
+    Gio.SubprocessFlags.STDOUT_PIPE);
+const [, out] = subprocess.communicate_utf8(null, null);
+
+const {descriptive_name, version} = JSON.parse(out);
+print(`TARBALL_ARTIFACT_PATH=${buildDir}/meson-dist/${descriptive_name}-${version}.tar.xz`);