diff --git a/.github/workflows/create-release.yml b/.github/workflows/create-release.yml
index 2e279f8..0f4082a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/create-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/create-release.yml
@@ -44,19 +44,15 @@ jobs:
             exit 1
           fi
 
-      - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: '3.x'
-      - name: Install build tool (Hatch)
-        run: |
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          pip install hatch
-      - name: Build package with Hatch
+      - name: Install uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v5
+      # `uv build` drives the `hatchling` backend `[build-system]` declares, so
+      # this is the same sdist and wheel `uv build` produces locally. `uv`
+      # resolves an interpreter matching `requires-python` on its own, so there
+      # is no separate Python to set up.
+      - name: Build package
         id: build
-        run: |
-          hatch clean
-          hatch build
+        run: uv build
       - name: Publish package
         # No user/password: an explicit password disables Trusted Publishing,
         # and with it the build attestations this action produces by default.
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 85cf008..503aee9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Changed
+
+- The release workflow builds with `uv build` instead of installing `hatch`
+  with `pip`. It was the only workflow not going through `uv`, and the second
+  way to reach the same `hatchling` backend was a way for the release build to
+  drift from the one every other job and every developer runs.
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - The GitHub release no longer depends on the PyPI upload succeeding. It was