diff --git a/dev/DevelopmentAdmin.php b/dev/DevelopmentAdmin.php
index 55584cb20..5458a71de 100644
--- a/dev/DevelopmentAdmin.php
+++ b/dev/DevelopmentAdmin.php
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ class DevelopmentAdmin extends Controller {
 		// Backwards compat: Default to "draft" stage, which is important
 		// for tasks like dev/build which call DataObject->requireDefaultRecords(),
 		// but also for other administrative tasks which have assumptions about the default stage.
-		Versioned::reading_stage('Stage');
+		Versioned::reading_stage(Versioned::DRAFT);
+		Versioned::set_default_reading_mode(Versioned::get_reading_mode());
 	}
 
 	public function index() {