diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate-python-release.yaml b/.github/workflows/validate-python-release.yaml
index b4dee61..2aa9d08 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate-python-release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate-python-release.yaml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: 📥 Check out repository
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
           persist-credentials: false
           ref: ${{ github.sha }}
       - name: 🐍 Install uv and Python
diff --git a/changelog.d/+build-fetch-depth.bugfix.md b/changelog.d/+build-fetch-depth.bugfix.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1ec91a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/+build-fetch-depth.bugfix.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Check out the full history in the `validate-python-release` build job again, so version tools such as hatch-vcs and
+setuptools-scm see the release tag. 6.0.0 built `0.1.dev1+g<sha>` instead of the tagged version.