diff --git a/.prettierignore b/.prettierignore
index 7bedf88..3ba132e 100644
--- a/.prettierignore
+++ b/.prettierignore
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ node_modules
 bun.lock
 next-env.d.ts
 credentials
+# towncrier generates the changelog on release; fragments are still checked.
+CHANGELOG.md
diff --git a/changelog.d/changelog-format-check.fixed.md b/changelog.d/changelog-format-check.fixed.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2450e71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/changelog-format-check.fixed.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Release commits pass the format check again: Prettier now skips the towncrier-generated `CHANGELOG.md`, whose blank lines between releases it rejected, so 0.2.1 was never tagged or deployed. Changelog fragments are still checked.