diff --git a/bin/release b/bin/release
index 24e8502f3..8410567bb 100755
--- a/bin/release
+++ b/bin/release
@@ -170,9 +170,9 @@ publish() {
 
     if [ "$RELEASE_TYPE" = 'PRERELEASE' ]; then
         echo "== Tagging and pushing images on docker hub as user $DOCKERHUB_USER"
-        $SUDO docker tag -f "$DOCKERHUB_USER"/scope "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION"
+        $SUDO docker tag "$DOCKERHUB_USER"/scope "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION"
         $SUDO docker push "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION"
-        $SUDO docker tag -f "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION" "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:latest_release"
+        $SUDO docker tag "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION" "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:latest_release"
         $SUDO docker push "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:latest_release"
         echo "** Docker images tagged and pushed"
 
@@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ publish() {
         echo '** Sanity checks OK for publishing tag' "$LATEST_TAG" as "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION"
 
         echo "== Tagging and pushing images on docker hub as user $DOCKERHUB_USER"
-        $SUDO docker tag -f "$DOCKERHUB_USER"/scope "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION"
+        $SUDO docker tag "$DOCKERHUB_USER"/scope "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION"
         $SUDO docker push "$DOCKERHUB_USER"/scope:$"VERSION"
-        $SUDO docker tag -f "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION" "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:latest_release"
+        $SUDO docker tag "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:$VERSION" "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:latest_release"
         $SUDO docker push "$DOCKERHUB_USER/scope:latest_release"
         echo "** Docker images tagged and pushed"