diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 413ac05..979f422 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Jobs are submitted to the queue by `batch-launcher.sh`. Currently this is:
 * One build-and-test cycle for each supported operating system
 * One build-and-test cycle on Ubuntu LTS with asan and ubsan enabled
 * cppcheck and clang-analyzer static analysis on Ubuntu LTS
+* Tarball generation on debian-stable
 
 Each job is submitted to a SLURM partition corresponding to the desired runner type. Partitions all have a single SLURM node in them, with the exception of ubuntu-lts which has two.
 
diff --git a/batch-launcher.sh b/batch-launcher.sh
index 902ae04..642b4e2 100755
--- a/batch-launcher.sh
+++ b/batch-launcher.sh
@@ -44,11 +44,15 @@ sbatch-wrapper.sh -L rikers:1 -p ubuntu-lts run-task job-ubuntu-analyze.sh 2>&1
 JOB7=`sbatch-wrapper.sh -L macmini:1 -p macos run-task-macos job-macos.sh`
 JOB8=`sbatch-wrapper.sh -L macmini:1 -p debian-stable-aarch64 run-task job-debian.sh`
 
+########################################################################################################################
+#Tarball generation shouldn't use any real resources, so not requesting license for it
+JOB9=`sbatch-wrapper.sh -p debian-stable run-task job-tarball.sh`
+
 ########################################################################################################################
 # When all jobs that can generate artifacts have finished, run a job that processes their results
 
 # This job uses negligible CPU so while it runs on sanquentin doesn't request a vCPU license
 sbatch-wrapper.sh \
 	-p postprocess \
-	--dependency=$JOB0,$JOB1,$JOB2,$JOB3,$JOB4,$JOB5,$JOB6,$JOB7,$JOB8 \
-	/home/ci/scopehal-ci-scripts/postprocess.sh $JOB0 $JOB1 $JOB2 $JOB3 $JOB4 $JOB5 $JOB6 $JOB7 $JOB8
+	--dependency=$JOB0,$JOB1,$JOB2,$JOB3,$JOB4,$JOB5,$JOB6,$JOB7,$JOB8,$JOB9 \
+	/home/ci/scopehal-ci-scripts/postprocess.sh $JOB0 $JOB1 $JOB2 $JOB3 $JOB4 $JOB5 $JOB6 $JOB7 $JOB8 $JOB9
diff --git a/ci-jobs/job-tarball.sh b/ci-jobs/job-tarball.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f622b68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci-jobs/job-tarball.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+export BRANCH=$1
+export COMMIT=$2
+
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps
+cd scopehal-apps
+git checkout $COMMIT
+./test-scripts/test-driver-create-tarballs.sh