diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
index a76c86b..42a2f86 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
@@ -13,13 +13,7 @@ jobs:
   release:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - name: Fetch RELEASE_NOTES.md only
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          sparse-checkout: RELEASE_NOTES.md
-          sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
-
-      - name: Checkout full repo for Docker build
+      - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Extract version from tag