diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1d01ce65e..b8014dd06 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## 0.4.0 (March 30, 2017)
+## 0.4.0 (TBD)
 
 BREAKING CHANGES:
 
-- CLI now uses Cobra
+- CLI now uses Cobra, which forced changes to some of the flag names and orderings
 
 IMPROVEMENTS:
 
diff --git a/cmd/commands/utils.go b/cmd/commands/utils.go
index 18b856f4d..5dd9635fa 100644
--- a/cmd/commands/utils.go
+++ b/cmd/commands/utils.go
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ func BasecoinRoot(rootDir string) string {
 func ExecuteWithDebug(RootCmd *cobra.Command) {
 
 	var debug bool
+	RootCmd.SilenceUsage = true
 	RootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVar(&debug, "debug", false, "enables stack trace error messages")
 
 	//note that Execute() prints the error if encountered, so no need to reprint the error,