diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5ed638cee92ca5f6f58dfea9b3031faada939c6b..d84605dd3349cb7636c1ed9c6b68681731c7c240 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ dnl
 AC_INIT([The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System], [7.2.2], [glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org], [ghc])
 
 # Set this to YES for a released version, otherwise NO
-: ${RELEASE=YES}
+: ${RELEASE=NO}
 
 # The primary version (e.g. 6.7, 6.6.1) is set in the AC_INIT line
 # above.  If this is not a released version, then we will append the