diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index df0b69b..c9a0f8d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,3 +13,6 @@
 
 - 1.0.3 -- 2025-08-18
   - update required TF to 1.5.7 (from submodule requirements)
+
+- 1.0.4 -- 2025-08-19
+  - change dlq_event_age default from 3600 to 300
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5c7e6d7..d4ab523 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ This uses a number of internal and external modules.  Here are references for th
 | <a name="input_account_id"></a> [account\_id](#input\_account\_id) | AWS Account ID (default will pull from current user) | `string` | `""` | no |
 | <a name="input_api_client_id"></a> [api\_client\_id](#input\_api\_client\_id) | Salesforce API Client Id | `string` | n/a | yes |
 | <a name="input_api_client_secret"></a> [api\_client\_secret](#input\_api\_client\_secret) | Salesforce API Client Secreet | `string` | n/a | yes |
-| <a name="input_dlq_event_age"></a> [dlq\_event\_age](#input\_dlq\_event\_age) | Dead Letter Queue maximum\_event\_age\_in\_seconds (default: 3600) | `number` | `3600` | no |
+| <a name="input_dlq_event_age"></a> [dlq\_event\_age](#input\_dlq\_event\_age) | Dead Letter Queue maximum\_event\_age\_in\_seconds (default: 3600) | `number` | `300` | no |
 | <a name="input_dlq_retry_attempts"></a> [dlq\_retry\_attempts](#input\_dlq\_retry\_attempts) | Dead Letter Queue maxium\_retry\_attempts (default: 3) | `number` | `3` | no |
 | <a name="input_environment_label"></a> [environment\_label](#input\_environment\_label) | Label to be used as the environment | `string` | n/a | yes |
 | <a name="input_input_resource_label"></a> [input\_resource\_label](#input\_input\_resource\_label) | Label to be used on input components (in, clean, quarantine and related resources) | `string` | n/a | yes |
diff --git a/variables.tf b/variables.tf
index 880ca51..adf6f1a 100644
--- a/variables.tf
+++ b/variables.tf
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ variable "dlq_retry_attempts" {
 variable "dlq_event_age" {
   description = "Dead Letter Queue maximum_event_age_in_seconds (default: 3600)"
   type        = number
-  default     = 3600
+  default     = 300
 }
 
 variable "input_resource_tags" {
diff --git a/version.tf b/version.tf
index 5dd3258..aacb4bc 100644
--- a/version.tf
+++ b/version.tf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 locals {
   _module_name    = "aws-app-ditd-darhts-s3-transfer"
-  _module_version = "1.0.3"
+  _module_version = "1.0.4"
 }