diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 448c7f4e..7946f4fd 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ m4_define([year_version], [2017])
 m4_define([release_version], [7])
 m4_define([package_version], [year_version.release_version])
 AC_INIT([libostree], [package_version], [walters@verbum.org])
-is_release_build=no
+is_release_build=yes
 AC_CONFIG_HEADER([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([buildutil])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
diff --git a/src/libostree/libostree-devel.sym b/src/libostree/libostree-devel.sym
index 6616432b..01f182f6 100644
--- a/src/libostree/libostree-devel.sym
+++ b/src/libostree/libostree-devel.sym
@@ -18,11 +18,6 @@
 ***/
 
 /* Add new symbols here.  Release commits should copy this section into -released.sym. */
-LIBOSTREE_2017.7 {
-global:
-  ostree_sysroot_repo;
-  ostree_sysroot_query_deployments_for;
-} LIBOSTREE_2017.6;
 
 /* Stub section for the stable release *after* this development one; don't
  * edit this other than to update the last number.  This is just a copy/paste
diff --git a/src/libostree/libostree-released.sym b/src/libostree/libostree-released.sym
index b201dcab..5fc8a9b1 100644
--- a/src/libostree/libostree-released.sym
+++ b/src/libostree/libostree-released.sym
@@ -401,3 +401,13 @@ global:
   ostree_async_progress_get_variant;
   ostree_async_progress_set_variant;
 } LIBOSTREE_2017.4;
+
+LIBOSTREE_2017.7 {
+global:
+  ostree_sysroot_repo;
+  ostree_sysroot_query_deployments_for;
+} LIBOSTREE_2017.6;
+
+/* NOTE: Only add more content here in release commits!  See the
+ * comments at the top of this file.
+ */
diff --git a/tests/test-symbols.sh b/tests/test-symbols.sh
index 9018e6f3..d22231d0 100755
--- a/tests/test-symbols.sh
+++ b/tests/test-symbols.sh
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ echo 'ok documented symbols'
 
 # ONLY update this checksum in release commits!
 cat > released-sha256.txt <<EOF
-1cacda8ca5f9622da8c36565f58f76d3437f86b276e266a0d4cb531449153404  ${released_syms}
+42f98d8816acbe22e925d18bf76ea2c6f7e12ee5d7a381979e6ed07bb6a1f755  ${released_syms}
 EOF
 sha256sum -c released-sha256.txt