diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5d5378258..9857ad4ab 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name          = "smol_k8s_lab"
-version       = "2.0.0b2"
+version       = "2.0.0b3"
 description   = "Bootstrap simple projects on Kubernetes with kind, k3d, and k3s. this is an alpha release"
 authors       = ["Jesse Hitch <jessebot@linux.com>",
                  "Max Roby <emax@cloudydev.net>"]
diff --git a/smol_k8s_lab/tui/apps_screen.py b/smol_k8s_lab/tui/apps_screen.py
index 765425b3a..ef845da6d 100755
--- a/smol_k8s_lab/tui/apps_screen.py
+++ b/smol_k8s_lab/tui/apps_screen.py
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ def create_new_app_in_yaml(self, app_name: str, app_description: str = "") -> No
                 "path": "",
                 "revision": "",
                 "namespace": "",
+                "directory_recursion": False,
                 "project": {
                     "source_repos": [""],
                     "destination": {