diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 81c49c5b43..d437a81285 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ The minor version will be incremented upon a breaking change and the patch versi
 ### Features
 
 * cli: Add `--program-keypair` to `anchor deploy` ([#1786](https://github.com/project-serum/anchor/pull/1786)).
+* cli: Add compilation optimizations to cli template ([#1807](https://github.com/project-serum/anchor/pull/1807)).
 
 ### Fixes
 
diff --git a/cli/src/template.rs b/cli/src/template.rs
index fcf1aa8236..bcdcd7a3e8 100644
--- a/cli/src/template.rs
+++ b/cli/src/template.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ members = [
 
 [profile.release]
 overflow-checks = true
+lto = "fat"
+codegen-units = 1
+[profile.release.build-override]
+opt-level = 3
+incremental = false
+codegen-units = 1
 "#
 }