diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7c2fd023..1bc93bf2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ members = [
 bottlerocket-settings-plugin = { path = "./bottlerocket-settings-plugin", version = "0.1" }
 bottlerocket-settings-derive = { path = "./bottlerocket-settings-derive", version = "0.1" }
 bottlerocket-settings-sdk = { path = "./bottlerocket-settings-sdk", version = "0.1" }
-bottlerocket-defaults-helper = { path = "./bottlerocket-defaults-helper", version = "0.1" }
+bottlerocket-defaults-helper = { path = "./bottlerocket-defaults-helper", version = "0.1.1" }
 bottlerocket-template-helper = { path = "./bottlerocket-template-helper", version = "0.1" }
 
 # Settings Models
diff --git a/bottlerocket-defaults-helper/Cargo.toml b/bottlerocket-defaults-helper/Cargo.toml
index a7f3fdce..0fe7de9b 100644
--- a/bottlerocket-defaults-helper/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bottlerocket-defaults-helper/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "bottlerocket-defaults-helper"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.1"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "Apache-2.0 OR MIT"
 repository = "https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket-settings-sdk"
diff --git a/bottlerocket-defaults-helper/src/lib.rs b/bottlerocket-defaults-helper/src/lib.rs
index 34b012ea..85062936 100644
--- a/bottlerocket-defaults-helper/src/lib.rs
+++ b/bottlerocket-defaults-helper/src/lib.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ pub fn generate_defaults_toml() -> Result<()> {
     })?);
     defaults_dir.push("defaults.d");
 
+    // Reflect that we need to rerun if any of the default settings files have changed.
+    println!("cargo::rerun-if-changed={}", defaults_dir.display());
+
     // Find TOML config files specified by the variant.
     let walker = WalkDir::new(&defaults_dir)
         .follow_links(true) // we expect users to link to shared files
@@ -39,9 +42,6 @@ pub fn generate_defaults_toml() -> Result<()> {
     for entry in walker {
         let entry = entry.context(error::ListFilesSnafu { dir: &defaults_dir })?;
 
-        // Reflect that we need to rerun if any of the default settings files have changed.
-        println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed={}", entry.path().display());
-
         let data = fs::read_to_string(entry.path()).context(error::FileSnafu {
             op: "read",
             path: entry.path(),