diff --git a/release.toml b/release.toml
index 644e43ad..47902d02 100644
--- a/release.toml
+++ b/release.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # we don't have a crate yet, so
-publish = true
+publish = false
 # change when we all have gpg keys
 sign-commit = false
 dev-version-ext = 'dev'