diff --git a/MODULE.bazel b/MODULE.bazel
index eec026a..4854935 100644
--- a/MODULE.bazel
+++ b/MODULE.bazel
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ register_toolchains(
 # To allow /tools to be built from source
 # NOTE: when publishing to BCR, we patch this to be dev_dependency, as we publish pre-built binaries
 # along with our releases.
-IS_RELEASE = False
+IS_RELEASE = True

 bazel_dep(
     name = "gazelle",