diff --git a/release/new_prerelease.sh b/release/new_prerelease.sh
index 5d9b2649a7780c27d54b7379cf93c7c788a79e04..bd5d78caa6a0c3d2b6612f3200e4011a9bb6e2e1 100755
--- a/release/new_prerelease.sh
+++ b/release/new_prerelease.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ REMOTE_TAG=`git ls-remote --tags origin | grep -Fo "$TAG"`
 
 if [[ -z $REMOTE_TAG ]]; then
   echo "The '$TAG' tag does not exist on 'origin' repository. Use command ./release/new_version.sh to create a new version and use 'git push origin --tags' to share the tag."
-#  exit 2
+  exit 2
 fi
 
 echo "Remote tag: $REMOTE_TAG"
diff --git a/release/new_version.sh b/release/new_version.sh
index a7d5186f62d8331ad415f1279f02a64605e4a252..b2e2ad10614a37060e38bb9bbf1820e17bff4b9c 100755
--- a/release/new_version.sh
+++ b/release/new_version.sh
@@ -1,13 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-### Control that the script is run on `dev` branch
-branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
-if [[ ! "$branch" = "dev" ]];
-then
-  echo ">> This script must be run under \`dev\` branch"
-  exit
-fi
-
 ### Releasing
 current=`grep -P "version\": \"\d+.\d+.\d+(\w*)" package.json | grep -oP "\d+.\d+.\d+(\w*)"`
 echo "Current version: $current"