diff --git a/config/defaults.yml b/config/defaults.yml
index d1f9932a6..ee35209c2 100644
--- a/config/defaults.yml
+++ b/config/defaults.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 defaults:
   version:
     number: "0.0.1.0"
-    release: false # Do not touch unless in a merge conflict on doing a release, master should have a commit setting this to true which is not backported to the develop branch.
+    release: true # Do not touch unless in a merge conflict on doing a release, master should have a commit setting this to true which is not backported to the develop branch.
   heroku: false
   environment:
     url: "http://localhost:3000/"