diff --git a/bindings/rust/generate.sh b/bindings/rust/generate.sh
index 5890e97fa7d..47f2e1ef043 100755
--- a/bindings/rust/generate.sh
+++ b/bindings/rust/generate.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-set -e
+set -xe
 
 # cd into the script directory so it can be executed from anywhere
 pushd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
@@ -52,19 +52,6 @@ cargo publish --dry-run --allow-dirty
 cargo publish --dry-run --allow-dirty --all-features
 popd
 
-# if this version has already been published we can run
-# additional validation to ensure there won't be build
-# problems when a new version is published
-if ! ./scripts/detect-new-release; then
-  pushd s2n-tls
-  cargo publish --dry-run --allow-dirty
-  popd
-
-  pushd s2n-tls-tokio
-  cargo publish --dry-run --allow-dirty
-  popd
-fi
-
 pushd integration
 cargo run
 popd
diff --git a/bindings/rust/scripts/detect-new-release b/bindings/rust/scripts/detect-new-release
deleted file mode 100755
index 482f7ad5041..00000000000
--- a/bindings/rust/scripts/detect-new-release
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-#
-# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-#
-
-set -e
-
-# cd into the script directory so it can be executed from anywhere
-pushd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
-
-LOCAL_VERSION=$(cargo metadata --manifest-path ../Cargo.toml --no-deps --format-version 1 | jq --raw-output -c '.packages[] | select(.name == "s2n-tls").version')
-CRATES_IO_VERSION=$(cargo search "s2n-tls" --limit 1 | head -n 1 | cut -d'"' -f2)
-
-# Exits with 0 if the local version has not been published to crates.io yet, otherwise exits with 1
-[[ "$LOCAL_VERSION" != "$CRATES_IO_VERSION" ]]