diff --git a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
index cecd98ce0..72b27e2cb 100644
--- a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
+++ b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Tick the [commit type](https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit/blob/main/CONTRIBU
 - [ ] `test` — tests only
 - [ ] `docs` — documentation only
 - [ ] `ci` — workflows or build tooling
+- [ ] `release` — bumps the version or rolls up a distribution
 - [ ] `chore` — anything else
 
 ---
diff --git a/tests/project/test_conventions_doc_claims.py b/tests/project/test_conventions_doc_claims.py
index 629d8d25b..a41a1f0e8 100644
--- a/tests/project/test_conventions_doc_claims.py
+++ b/tests/project/test_conventions_doc_claims.py
@@ -1410,8 +1410,8 @@ def test_the_page_names_every_commit_type_the_template_ticks(self) -> 'None':
 
         :file:`.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md` is where a contributor actually meets
         the list, so it is the ground truth rather than a list retyped into this file.
-        Note the label set is a **superset**: ``release`` and ``const`` are type-ish
-        labels with no tickbox, so this is a one-way check by design.
+        Note the label set is a **superset**: ``const`` is a type-ish label with no
+        tickbox, so this is a one-way check by design.
 
         """
         types = re.findall(r'^- \[ \] `([a-z]+)` ', self.TEMPLATE.read_text(encoding='utf-8'),
diff --git a/tests/project/test_pr_template_commit_types_1102_unit.py b/tests/project/test_pr_template_commit_types_1102_unit.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..584c14071
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/project/test_pr_template_commit_types_1102_unit.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""Every commit type :file:`CONTRIBUTING.md` allows has a box in the PR template (#1102).
+
+:file:`CONTRIBUTING.md` lists the valid ``type`` prefixes of a commit subject, and
+:file:`.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md` asks the contributor to tick the one their
+subject carries. The template had no ``release`` box although ``release`` is a listed
+type with commits in the history, so a version-bump pull request had nothing to tick.
+
+"""
+
+import pathlib
+import re
+import unittest
+
+ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+
+
+class TestPullRequestTemplateCommitTypes(unittest.TestCase):
+    """The template's commit-type boxes match :file:`CONTRIBUTING.md`'s type list."""
+
+    def _contributing_types(self) -> 'list[str]':
+        text = ' '.join((ROOT / 'CONTRIBUTING.md').read_text(encoding='utf-8').split())
+        match = re.search(r'`type` is one of (.*?) —', text)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(match, 'CONTRIBUTING.md no longer states "`type` is one of ..."')
+        return re.findall(r'`([a-z]+)`', match.group(1))  # type: ignore[union-attr]
+
+    def _template_types(self) -> 'list[str]':
+        text = (ROOT / '.github' / 'PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md').read_text(encoding='utf-8')
+        return re.findall(r'^- \[ \] `([a-z]+)` — ', text, re.MULTILINE)
+
+    def test_every_contributing_type_has_a_template_box(self) -> 'None':
+        """Each type :file:`CONTRIBUTING.md` lists is tickable, and nothing else is."""
+        listed = self._contributing_types()
+        self.assertGreaterEqual(len(listed), 9,
+                                f'only {listed!r} parsed out of CONTRIBUTING.md; '
+                                'the comparison below would pass vacuously')
+        self.assertEqual(sorted(self._template_types()), sorted(listed),
+                         'the pull request template\'s commit-type boxes differ from '
+                         'the types CONTRIBUTING.md lists')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()