diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0ead631..2f6f9f4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   "description": "http://leaverou.github.io/awesomplete/",
   "main": "awesomplete.js",
   "scripts": {
+    "release": "release-it",
     "test": "karma start --single-run"
   },
   "repository": "LeaVerou/awesomplete",
@@ -27,7 +28,8 @@
     "karma-fixture": "^0.2.5",
     "karma-html2js-preprocessor": "^0.1.0",
     "karma-jasmine": "^0.3.6",
-    "karma-jasmine-def": "^0.1.0"
+    "karma-jasmine-def": "^0.1.0",
+    "release-it": "^17.6.0"
   },
   "overrides": {
     "graceful-fs": "^4.2.11"