diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e720234c4..c3e7ef637 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,3 +4,11 @@ members =[
     "packages/hurlfmt",
     "packages/hurl_core",
 ]
+
+
+[profile.release]
+lto = true          # Enable Link Time Optimization
+codegen-units = 1   # Reduce number of codegen units to increase optimizations.
+panic = "abort"     # Abort on panic
+strip = true        # Automatically strip symbols from the binary.
+
diff --git a/bin/release/release.sh b/bin/release/release.sh
index ee0af26eb..cf933b643 100755
--- a/bin/release/release.sh
+++ b/bin/release/release.sh
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ set -e
 PATH="$HOME"/.cargo/bin:$PATH
 export PATH
 cargo build --release --verbose --locked
-strip target/release/hurl
-strip target/release/hurlfmt
 
 target/release/hurl --version