diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8732b78b6..3cf9df520 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ endif()
 
 
 option(SLS_USE_HDF5 "HDF5 File format" OFF)
-option(SLS_BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARIES "Build shared libaries" ON)
+option(SLS_BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARIES "Build shared libaries" OFF)
 option(SLS_USE_TEXTCLIENT "Text Client" ON)
 option(SLS_USE_DETECTOR "Detector libs" ON)
 option(SLS_USE_RECEIVER "Receiver" ON)
diff --git a/RELEASE.txt b/RELEASE.txt
index 8bf25a615..a0e86380e 100644
--- a/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/RELEASE.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ This document describes the differences between vx.x.x and vx.0.2
 1 New, Changed or Resolved Features
 =====================================
 
+Building shared libraries is disabled by default. If you need to link 
+against any of the libSls*.so libraries, you can enable this by passing
+ -DSLS_BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARIES=ON to CMake.
+ 
 Added SLS_USE_SYSTEM_ZMQ option (default OFF) to use the libzmq of the host
 instead of the one included in our repo.