diff --git a/dapps/ui/Cargo.toml b/dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
index 2ab128ad5..17fc2d448 100644
--- a/dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ rustc_version = "0.1"
 
 [dependencies]
 parity-ui-dev = { path = "../../js", optional = true }
-parity-ui-precompiled = { git = "https://github.com/ethcore/js-precompiled.git", optional = true }
+# This is managed by the js/scripts/release.sh script on CI - keep it in a single line
+parity-ui-precompiled = { git = "https://github.com/ethcore/js-precompiled.git", optional = true, branch = "master" }
 
 [features]
 no-precompiled-js = ["parity-ui-dev"]
diff --git a/js/scripts/release.sh b/js/scripts/release.sh
index 80c0fc819..be19e217e 100755
--- a/js/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/js/scripts/release.sh
@@ -89,11 +89,13 @@ fi
 
 echo "*** Updating cargo parity-ui-precompiled#$PRECOMPILED_HASH"
 git submodule update
+sed -i "/^parity-ui-precompiled/ { s/branch = \".*\"/branch = \"$BRANCH\"/g; }" dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
 cargo update -p parity-ui-precompiled
 # --precise "$PRECOMPILED_HASH"
 
 echo "*** Committing updated files"
 git add js
+git add dapps/ui/Cargo.toml
 git add Cargo.lock
 git commit -m "[ci skip] js-precompiled $UTCDATE"
 git push origin HEAD:refs/heads/$BRANCH 2>$GITLOG