diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4b536bb..caa8cc6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,3 +17,7 @@ tokio = "1"
 chrono = "0.4"
 async-std = "1.12"
 
+[profile.release]
+strip = true  # Automatically strip symbols from the binary.
+lto = true # Enable link-time-optimizations, which might reduce dead code and provide smaller binaries.
+panic = "abort" # Don't include unwinding code for realease builds, panics just abort execution.
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