diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1e371ea..b21b5be 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ Each release is tagged in Git and on the Docker repository
 *   fix [#184](https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/184):
     Moonfire NVR would stop recording on a camera that hit the live555 stale
     file descriptor bug, rather than waiting for the stale session to expire.
+*   progress on [#70](https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/issues/184):
+    shrink the binary from 154 MiB to 70 MiB by reducing debugging information.
 
 ## `v0.7.1` (2021-10-27)
 
diff --git a/server/Cargo.toml b/server/Cargo.toml
index 08391c5..58cde79 100644
--- a/server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server/Cargo.toml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ tempfile = "3.2.0"
 opt-level = 2
 
 [profile.release]
-debug = true
+debug = 1
 
 [profile.bench]
-debug = true
+debug = 1