diff --git a/docs/developer/doit.md b/docs/developer/doit.md
index a461d96..bf8fb16 100644
--- a/docs/developer/doit.md
+++ b/docs/developer/doit.md
@@ -44,20 +44,6 @@ doit <task>
 * You can run `doit list --all -s` to see the full list of tasks, their
   dependencies, and whether they are up to date.
 * You can run `doit info <task>` to see which dependencies are missing.
-* You can change this line in `pyproject.toml` to `true`, to allow using the
-  Docker/Podman build cache:
-
-  ```
-  use_cache = true
-  ```
-
-  > [!WARNING]
-  > Using caching may speed up image builds, but is not suitable for release
-  > artifacts. The ID of our base container image (Alpine Linux) does not change
-  > that often, but its APK package index does. So, if we use caching, we risk
-  > skipping the `apk upgrade` layer and end up with packages that are days
-  > behind.
-
 * You can pass the following environment variables to the script, in order to
   affect some global parameters:
   - `CONTAINER_RUNTIME`: The container runtime to use. Either `podman` (default)
diff --git a/dodo.py b/dodo.py
index d2f3ad1..2022ffa 100644
--- a/dodo.py
+++ b/dodo.py
@@ -27,16 +27,6 @@ PARAM_APPLE_ID = {
     "help": "The Apple developer ID that will be used to sign the .dmg",
 }
 
-PARAM_USE_CACHE = {
-    "name": "use_cache",
-    "long": "use-cache",
-    "help": (
-        "Whether to use cached results or not. For reproducibility reasons,"
-        " it's best to leave it to false"
-    ),
-    "default": False,
-}
-
 ### File dependencies
 #
 # Define all the file dependencies for our tasks in a single place, since some file
@@ -205,11 +195,10 @@ def task_build_image():
 
     return {
         "actions": [
-            f"python install/common/build-image.py --use-cache=%(use_cache)s --runtime={CONTAINER_RUNTIME}",
+            f"python install/common/build-image.py --runtime={CONTAINER_RUNTIME}",
             ["cp", img_src, img_dst],
             ["cp", img_id_src, img_id_dst],
         ],
-        "params": [PARAM_USE_CACHE],
         "file_dep": IMAGE_DEPS,
         "targets": [img_src, img_dst, img_id_src, img_id_dst],
         "task_dep": ["init_release_dir", "check_container_runtime"],
diff --git a/install/common/build-image.py b/install/common/build-image.py
index e2e3b01..fb1b55f 100644
--- a/install/common/build-image.py
+++ b/install/common/build-image.py
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ def main():
         "--use-cache",
         type=str2bool,
         nargs="?",
-        default=False,
+        default=True,
         const=True,
-        help="Use the builder's cache to speed up the builds (not suitable for release builds)",
+        help="Use the builder's cache to speed up the builds",
     )
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 05a57b8..d56c6c6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-    [tool.poetry]
+[tool.poetry]
 name = "dangerzone"
 version = "0.8.1"
 description = "Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs"
@@ -73,11 +73,6 @@ httpx = "^0.27.2"
 [tool.doit]
 verbosity = 3
 
-[tool.doit.tasks.build_image]
-# DO NOT change this to 'true' for release artifacts, else we risk building
-# images that are a few days behind. See also: docs/developer/doit.md
-use_cache = false
-
 [tool.ruff.lint]
 select = [
     # isort