diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6ddb2a9b..9695fd92 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ clap_complete = "4.2.0"
 lto = true
 
 [package.metadata.release]
+release = true
 pre-release-replacements = [
     # Update version and release date in manpage
     { file="mdcat.1.adoc", search="(?m)^:revnumber:.*$", replace = ":revnumber: {{version}}" },
@@ -80,3 +81,4 @@ pre-release-commit-message = "Release {{version}}"
 tag-prefix = "mdcat-"
 tag-name = "{{prefix}}{{version}}"
 tag-message = "mdcat {{version}}"
+sign-tag = true
diff --git a/mdcat-http-reqwest/Cargo.toml b/mdcat-http-reqwest/Cargo.toml
index b3ba0a41..ba11eaa7 100644
--- a/mdcat-http-reqwest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/mdcat-http-reqwest/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,3 +29,6 @@ hyper = { version="0.14.26", default-features = false, features = ["server", "ht
 once_cell = { version = "1.17.1", default-features = false }
 syntect = { version = "5.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["regex-fancy", "default-syntaxes"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.27", default-features = false, features = ["time"] }
+
+[package.metadata.release]
+release = true
diff --git a/pulldown-cmark-mdcat/Cargo.toml b/pulldown-cmark-mdcat/Cargo.toml
index 860e6de0..1b0c7a91 100644
--- a/pulldown-cmark-mdcat/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pulldown-cmark-mdcat/Cargo.toml
@@ -58,3 +58,5 @@ rustix = { version = "0.37.11", default-features = false, features = ['termios',
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
 terminal_size = "0.2.6"
 
+[package.metadata.release]
+release = true