diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/3488.documentation.md b/doc/changelog.d/3488.documentation.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed1b85597f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/3488.documentation.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ci: avoiding linkcheck on changelog page
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index d4e73a7a0b..235c3db45b 100755
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
     rst_epilog += f.read()
 
 # Broken anchors:
-linkcheck_exclude_documents = ["index"]
+linkcheck_exclude_documents = ["index", "changelog"]
 linkcheck_anchors_ignore_for_url = ["https://docs.pyvista.org/api/*"]
 linkcheck_ignore = [
     "https://github.com/ansys/pymapdl/*",