diff --git a/changelog.d/20093.misc b/changelog.d/20093.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..60c745eb47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/20093.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Update release script to check more often for actions being completed so you don't have to wait around as much.
diff --git a/scripts-dev/release.py b/scripts-dev/release.py
index f78c2c0ab0..58d36f7dcc 100755
--- a/scripts-dev/release.py
+++ b/scripts-dev/release.py
@@ -600,9 +600,15 @@ def _wait_for_actions(gh_token: str | None) -> None:
         headers["authorization"] = f"token {gh_token}"
     req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers)
 
+    # Initially, wait 10 minutes as we know the CI typically takes 15m+ anyway (no need
+    # to check over and over when we know it won't be finished yet)
     time.sleep(10 * 60)
     while True:
-        time.sleep(5 * 60)
+        # Then check once every minute. Short enough to not have to wait around too long
+        # while not spamming the GitHub API and running into the unauthenticated API
+        # request rate limit (60 requests per hour so 1 request/minute perfectly aligns
+        # to not run into any problems)
+        time.sleep(1 * 60)
         response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
         resp = json.loads(response.read())