diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint-docs-weekly.yml b/.github/workflows/lint-docs-weekly.yml
index 0f2b9e5f9c5e..7bfe993f69f5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint-docs-weekly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint-docs-weekly.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ name: Weekly check all Markdown links
 
 on:
   schedule:
+    # Cron for every Thursday at 12:00 UTC.
     - cron: "0 12 * * 4"
 
 # Remove all permissions from GITHUB_TOKEN except metadata.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-release-weekly.yml b/.github/workflows/test-release-weekly.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d62109459901
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-release-weekly.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+name: Release test
+
+# Note: This workflow does not build for releases. It attempts to build release binaries daily to ensure the repo
+# is in a good state.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Cron for every Thursday at 12:00 UTC.
+    - cron: "0 12 * * 4"
+
+# Remove all permissions from GITHUB_TOKEN except metadata.
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  daily-release-build:
+    name: Broken Links
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        branch: [ main, release-1.3, release-1.2 ]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@ac593985615ec2ede58e132d2e21d2b1cbd6127c # tag=v3.3.0
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ matrix.branch }}
+      - name: Set env
+        run: echo "RELEASE_TAG=v0.0-fake" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      - name: build release binaries
+        run: |
+          make release
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