diff --git a/pkg/setting/setting.go b/pkg/setting/setting.go
index c820fafaf84..95a2581f4b6 100644
--- a/pkg/setting/setting.go
+++ b/pkg/setting/setting.go
@@ -1491,10 +1491,6 @@ func (cfg *Cfg) GetContentDeliveryURL(prefix string) string {
 		url := *cfg.CDNRootURL
 		preReleaseFolder := ""
 
-		if strings.Contains(cfg.BuildVersion, "pre") || strings.Contains(cfg.BuildVersion, "alpha") {
-			preReleaseFolder = "pre-releases"
-		}
-
 		url.Path = path.Join(url.Path, prefix, preReleaseFolder, cfg.BuildVersion)
 		return url.String() + "/"
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/setting/setting_test.go b/pkg/setting/setting_test.go
index 486dd6ef47d..2336c780648 100644
--- a/pkg/setting/setting_test.go
+++ b/pkg/setting/setting_test.go
@@ -413,8 +413,8 @@ func TestGetCDNPathWithPreReleaseVersionAndSubPath(t *testing.T) {
 	cfg.BuildVersion = "v7.5.0-11124pre"
 	cfg.CDNRootURL, err = url.Parse("http://cdn.grafana.com/sub")
 	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.Equal(t, "http://cdn.grafana.com/sub/grafana-oss/pre-releases/v7.5.0-11124pre/", cfg.GetContentDeliveryURL("grafana-oss"))
-	require.Equal(t, "http://cdn.grafana.com/sub/grafana/pre-releases/v7.5.0-11124pre/", cfg.GetContentDeliveryURL("grafana"))
+	require.Equal(t, "http://cdn.grafana.com/sub/grafana-oss/v7.5.0-11124pre/", cfg.GetContentDeliveryURL("grafana-oss"))
+	require.Equal(t, "http://cdn.grafana.com/sub/grafana/v7.5.0-11124pre/", cfg.GetContentDeliveryURL("grafana"))
 }
 
 // Adding a case for this in case we switch to proper semver version strings
@@ -424,6 +424,6 @@ func TestGetCDNPathWithAlphaVersion(t *testing.T) {
 	cfg.BuildVersion = "v7.5.0-alpha.11124"
 	cfg.CDNRootURL, err = url.Parse("http://cdn.grafana.com")
 	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.Equal(t, "http://cdn.grafana.com/grafana-oss/pre-releases/v7.5.0-alpha.11124/", cfg.GetContentDeliveryURL("grafana-oss"))
-	require.Equal(t, "http://cdn.grafana.com/grafana/pre-releases/v7.5.0-alpha.11124/", cfg.GetContentDeliveryURL("grafana"))
+	require.Equal(t, "http://cdn.grafana.com/grafana-oss/v7.5.0-alpha.11124/", cfg.GetContentDeliveryURL("grafana-oss"))
+	require.Equal(t, "http://cdn.grafana.com/grafana/v7.5.0-alpha.11124/", cfg.GetContentDeliveryURL("grafana"))
 }