diff --git a/.ci/ci-script.sh b/.ci/ci-script.sh
index 9d8d486379dd..b84504ab8edf 100755
--- a/.ci/ci-script.sh
+++ b/.ci/ci-script.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 #    This file is part of darktable.
-#    Copyright (C) 2016-2023 darktable developers.
+#    Copyright (C) 2016-2024 darktable developers.
 #
 #    darktable is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 #    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #   INSTALL_DIR - the installation prefix
 #   SRC_DIR - directory with the source code to be compiled
 #   CC, CXX, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS are optional, but make sense for build
-#   TARGET - either build, skiptest, nofeatures or nofeatures_nosse
+#   TARGET - either build or skiptest
 #   ECO - some other flags for cmake
 
 set -ex
@@ -94,59 +94,6 @@ case "$TARGET" in
       $ECO "$SRC_DIR" || (cat "$BUILD_DIR"/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log; cat "$BUILD_DIR"/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log)
     target_notest
     ;;
-  "nofeatures")
-    cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$INSTALL_PREFIX" \
-      -G"$GENERATOR" \
-      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="$CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" \
-      -DUSE_OPENMP=OFF \
-      -DUSE_OPENCL=OFF \
-      -DUSE_LUA=OFF \
-      -DUSE_GAME=OFF \
-      -DUSE_CAMERA_SUPPORT=OFF \
-      -DUSE_NLS=OFF \
-      -DUSE_GRAPHICSMAGICK=OFF \
-      -DUSE_OPENJPEG=OFF \
-      -DUSE_JXL=OFF \
-      -DUSE_WEBP=OFF \
-      -DUSE_AVIF=OFF \
-      -DUSE_HEIF=OFF \
-      -DUSE_XCF=OFF \
-      -DBUILD_CMSTEST=OFF \
-      -DUSE_OPENEXR=OFF \
-      -DBUILD_PRINT=OFF \
-      -DBUILD_RS_IDENTIFY=OFF \
-      -DUSE_GMIC=OFF \
-      -DUSE_LIBSECRET=OFF \
-      $ECO "$SRC_DIR" || (cat "$BUILD_DIR"/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log; cat "$BUILD_DIR"/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log)
-    target_notest
-    ;;
-  "nofeatures_nosse")
-    cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$INSTALL_PREFIX" \
-      -G"$GENERATOR" \
-      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="$CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE" \
-      -DUSE_OPENMP=OFF \
-      -DUSE_OPENCL=OFF \
-      -DUSE_LUA=OFF \
-      -DUSE_GAME=OFF \
-      -DUSE_CAMERA_SUPPORT=OFF \
-      -DUSE_NLS=OFF \
-      -DUSE_GRAPHICSMAGICK=OFF \
-      -DUSE_OPENJPEG=OFF \
-      -DUSE_JXL=OFF \
-      -DUSE_WEBP=OFF \
-      -DUSE_AVIF=OFF \
-      -DUSE_HEIF=OFF \
-      -DUSE_XCF=OFF \
-      -DBUILD_CMSTEST=OFF \
-      -DUSE_OPENEXR=OFF \
-      -DBUILD_PRINT=OFF \
-      -DBUILD_RS_IDENTIFY=OFF \
-      -DUSE_GMIC=OFF \
-      -DUSE_LIBSECRET=OFF \
-      -DBUILD_SSE2_CODEPATHS=OFF \
-      $ECO "$SRC_DIR" || (cat "$BUILD_DIR"/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log; cat "$BUILD_DIR"/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log)
-    target_notest
-    ;;
   *)
     exit 1
     ;;
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 6de1d8972f53..b086867aeb6a 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ CMAKE_OPTIONS_FROM_CMDLINE=""
 
 PRINT_HELP=0
 
-FEATURES="CAMERA COLORD GAME GRAPHICSMAGICK IMAGEMAGICK JXL KWALLET LIBSECRET LUA MAC_INTEGRATION MAP NLS OPENCL OPENEXR OPENMP UNITY WEBP"
+FEATURES="CAMERA COLORD GRAPHICSMAGICK IMAGEMAGICK JXL KWALLET LIBSECRET LUA MAC_INTEGRATION MAP NLS OPENCL OPENEXR OPENMP UNITY WEBP"
 
 # prepare a lowercase version with a space before and after
 # it's very important for parse_feature, has no impact in for loop expansions
diff --git a/data/darktableconfig.xml.in b/data/darktableconfig.xml.in
index d759d58b0eac..f84f944c9e85 100644
--- a/data/darktableconfig.xml.in
+++ b/data/darktableconfig.xml.in
@@ -203,12 +203,6 @@
     <default>5</default>
     <shortdescription>waiting time between each picture in slideshow</shortdescription>
   </dtconfig>
-  <dtconfig>
-    <name>ui_last/no_april1st</name>
-    <type>bool</type>
-    <default>true</default>
-    <shortdescription>do not show april 1st game</shortdescription>
-  </dtconfig>
 <!-- be sure to keep the code in sync when changing this enum, see common/darktable.c void dt_get_sysresource_level() -->
   <dtconfig prefs="processing" section="cpugpu">
     <name>resourcelevel</name>