diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 674e46e..88412a5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # `cargo-aur` Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
+#### Changed
+
+- Run `strip` on the release binary before `tar`ring it.
+
 ## 1.1.1 (2020-08-11)
 
 #### Fixed
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index e289036..6573564 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ fn tarball(musl: bool, package: &Package) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
         format!("target/release/{}", package.name)
     };
 
+    strip(&binary)?;
     fs::copy(binary, &package.name)?;
     Command::new("tar")
         .arg("czf")
@@ -165,6 +166,13 @@ fn tarball(musl: bool, package: &Package) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+/// Strip the release binary, so that we aren't compressing more bytes than we
+/// need to.
+fn strip(path: &str) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    Command::new("strip").arg(path).status()?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 fn sha256sum(package: &Package) -> anyhow::Result<String> {
     let bytes = fs::read(package.tarball())?;
     let digest = Hash::hash(&bytes);