diff --git a/.github/changeset-version.js b/.github/changeset-version.js
index e1b4cef66..ea1fc05e6 100644
--- a/.github/changeset-version.js
+++ b/.github/changeset-version.js
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 // ORIGINALLY FROM CLOUDFLARE WRANGLER:
 // https://github.com/cloudflare/wrangler2/blob/main/.github/changeset-version.js
 
-import { exec } from "child_process"
+import { execSync } from "child_process"
 
 // This script is used by the `release.yml` workflow to update the version of the packages being released.
-// The standard step is only to run `changeset version` but this does not update the package-lock.json file.
-// So we also run `npm install`, which does this update.
+// The standard step is only to run `changeset version` but this does not update the pnpm-lock.yaml file.
+// So we also run `pnpm install`, which does this update.
 // This is a workaround until this is handled automatically by `changeset version`.
 // See https://github.com/changesets/changesets/issues/421.
-exec("npx changeset version")
-exec("npm install")
+execSync("npx changeset version", { stdio: "inherit" })
+execSync("pnpm install --lockfile-only", { stdio: "inherit" })