diff --git a/piet-gpu-hal/src/vulkan.rs b/piet-gpu-hal/src/vulkan.rs
index f5d8c19..2a5abd9 100644
--- a/piet-gpu-hal/src/vulkan.rs
+++ b/piet-gpu-hal/src/vulkan.rs
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ pub struct QueryPool {
 #[derive(Clone, Copy)]
 pub struct MemFlags(vk::MemoryPropertyFlags);
 
-#[cfg(debug_assertions)]
 unsafe extern "system" fn vulkan_debug_callback(
     message_severity: vk::DebugUtilsMessageSeverityFlagsEXT,
     message_type: vk::DebugUtilsMessageTypeFlagsEXT,