diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
index eb5b379..47e2b75 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,11 @@ jobs:
         run: go vet ./...
 
       - name: Test with the race detector
-        run: go test -race ./...
+        # Under the job's limit, so a package that hangs panics with the
+        # test it was in and where every goroutine waited, rather than the
+        # job ending at its deadline with nothing said: from 2026-10-15 every
+        # run did, printing nothing after internal/release.
+        run: go test -race -timeout 12m ./...
 
       - name: Build
         run: go build ./...