diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index ae3fd664e..488a549cb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -80,8 +80,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: df -h
       - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4
         with:
-          fetch-depth: 1000 # never anything near had that many commits in a release anyway.
-          fetch-tags: true
+          fetch-depth: 0
       - uses: arduino/setup-task@b91d5d2c96a56797b48ac1e0e89220bf64044611 # v1
         with:
           version: 3.x