diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
index ed86efcaa..d49ac37fc 100644
--- a/config/application.rb
+++ b/config/application.rb
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 module Samson
   class Application < Rails::Application
     # Initialize configuration defaults for originally generated Rails version.
-    config.load_defaults 7.0
+    config.load_defaults 6.1
 
     # the new default of `true` breaks test/models/user_test.rb see https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/40867
     config.active_record.has_many_inversing = false