diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index c48963015..886416176 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 		"MIT",
 		"Apache-2.0"
 	],
-	"minimum-stability": "stable",
 	"type": "library",
 	"keywords": [
 		"QR code", "qrcode", "qr", "qrcode-generator", "phpqrcode", "qrcode-reader", "qr-reader"
@@ -34,6 +33,8 @@
 			"homepage":"https://github.com/chillerlan/php-qrcode/graphs/contributors"
 		}
 	],
+	"minimum-stability": "stable",
+	"prefer-stable": true,
 	"require": {
 		"php": "^7.4 || ^8.0",
 		"ext-mbstring": "*",