diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index cfd4a35..bdee17f 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ group :acceptance_testing do
   gem 'beaker', *location_for(ENV.fetch('BEAKER_VERSION', '~> 4.0'))
 end
 
-group :release do
-  gem 'github_changelog_generator', require: false
+group :release, optional: true do
+  gem 'faraday-retry', '~> 2.1', require: false
+  gem 'github_changelog_generator', '~> 1.16.4', require: false
 end