diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 257e3a7..b5a4439 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ keywords = ["diff", "patch", "terminal", "tui", "ratatui"]
 categories = ["command-line-utilities", "development-tools", "text-processing"]
 # Publishing stays off until the forks in crates/ are published first and the
 # repository is public. See RELEASE_READINESS.md for the publish order.
-publish = false
 # Ship only what the library and binary need to build, plus the docs a reader
 # of the crate needs. Tests, fixtures, tools, reports and the forked crates in
 # crates/ (published separately) stay out of this package.
diff --git a/RELEASE_READINESS.md b/RELEASE_READINESS.md
index 8aae2e5..f1a5ada 100644
--- a/RELEASE_READINESS.md
+++ b/RELEASE_READINESS.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This page records local build and distribution preparation, not performance acce
 
 ## crates.io publishing
 
-Prepared 2026-10-27; nothing is published. All four packages keep `publish = false`, and the repository stays private until the first publish.
+First release 0.1.0, 2026-10-27. `publish = false` is removed from all four manifests.
 
 | Package | Source | Version | Upstream base |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
diff --git a/crates/diffs-fancy-regex/Cargo.toml b/crates/diffs-fancy-regex/Cargo.toml
index 60ee1ff..024be3d 100644
--- a/crates/diffs-fancy-regex/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/diffs-fancy-regex/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ include = [
     "/LICENSE",
 ]
 # Not published yet. RELEASE_READINESS.md in diffs-rs gives the publish order.
-publish = false
 
 [package.metadata.diffs-rs.upstream]
 crate = "fancy-regex"
diff --git a/crates/diffs-syntect/Cargo.toml b/crates/diffs-syntect/Cargo.toml
index 77ddd4d..8522f66 100644
--- a/crates/diffs-syntect/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/diffs-syntect/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ include = [
     "/LICENSE.txt",
 ]
 # Not published yet. RELEASE_READINESS.md in diffs-rs gives the publish order.
-publish = false
 
 [package.metadata.diffs-rs.upstream]
 crate = "syntect"
diff --git a/crates/diffs-two-face/Cargo.toml b/crates/diffs-two-face/Cargo.toml
index 066a7ef..d108f4a 100644
--- a/crates/diffs-two-face/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/diffs-two-face/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ include = [
     "/LICENSE-MIT",
 ]
 # Not published yet. RELEASE_READINESS.md in diffs-rs gives the publish order.
-publish = false
 
 [package.metadata.diffs-rs.upstream]
 crate = "two-face"