diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2f11b0d4f..43c3a8e0a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Role Variables
     symfony2_project_env: prod
     symfony2_project_console_opts: ''
     symfony2_project_composer_opts: '--no-dev --optimize-autoloader'
+    symfony2_project_keep_releases: 5
 ```
 
 Dependencies
diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index 40bbbc3bc..26eb43f22 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 symfony2_project_release: 1
 symfony2_project_branch: master
 symfony2_project_php_path: php
+symfony2_project_keep_releases: 5
diff --git a/tasks/main.yml b/tasks/main.yml
index acf2a0051..6aecf4ed0 100644
--- a/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tasks/main.yml
@@ -32,3 +32,5 @@
   shell: cd {{symfony2_project_root}}/releases/{{symfony2_project_release}} && if $(grep doctrine-migrations-bundle composer.json); then {{symfony2_project_php_path}} app/console doctrine:migrations:migrate -n; fi
 - name: Create symlink
   file: state=link src={{symfony2_project_root}}/releases/{{symfony2_project_release}} path={{symfony2_project_root}}/current
+- name: Cleanup releases.
+  shell: cd {{symfony2_project_root}}/releases && ls -t1 | tail -n +$(({{symfony2_project_keep_releases}}+1)) | xargs -n1 rm -rf