diff --git a/gitstatus/bin/gitstatusd-linux-x86_64 b/gitstatus/bin/gitstatusd-linux-x86_64
index 4537545c..2b02cd76 100755
Binary files a/gitstatus/bin/gitstatusd-linux-x86_64 and b/gitstatus/bin/gitstatusd-linux-x86_64 differ
diff --git a/gitstatus/gitstatus.plugin.zsh b/gitstatus/gitstatus.plugin.zsh
index b5e71097..3f971139 100644
--- a/gitstatus/gitstatus.plugin.zsh
+++ b/gitstatus/gitstatus.plugin.zsh
@@ -213,7 +213,9 @@ function gitstatus_start() {
     }
     zle -F $resp_fd _gitstatus_process_response_${name}
 
-    log=$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"/gitstatus.$$.log.XXXXXXXXXX)
+    [[ ${GITSTATUS_ENABLE_LOGGING:-0} == 1 ]] &&
+      log=$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"/gitstatus.$$.log.XXXXXXXXXX) ||
+      log=/dev/null
 
     # We use `zsh -c` instead of plain {} or () to work around bugs in zplug. It hangs on startup.
     zsh -c "