--- a/mercurial/configitems.py	Mon Oct 09 17:33:03 2017 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/configitems.py	Mon Oct 09 16:31:43 2017 +0200
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
     default='follow',
 )
 coreconfigitem('phases', 'new-commit',
-    default=dynamicdefault,
+    default='draft',
 )
 coreconfigitem('phases', 'publish',
     default=True,