diff --git a/.github/workflows/changelog.yml b/.github/workflows/changelog.yml
index 9ad52c937d5..d59d1712bc0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/changelog.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/changelog.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v5
         with:
           fetch-depth: 2
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version-file: .nvmrc
       - name: Check changelogs
         run: |
           ./scripts/check_changelogs.sh \
diff --git a/scripts/check_changelogs.sh b/scripts/check_changelogs.sh
index 35ea67fc631..99fc0f29c41 100755
--- a/scripts/check_changelogs.sh
+++ b/scripts/check_changelogs.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 set -e
 
+# Enable corepack to expose the correct yarn cli command
+corepack enable
+
 # Pull request ID
 PR_NUMBER="$1"
 # Pipe-separated PR labels