diff --git a/docs/releasing.md b/docs/releasing.md
index 05c50f978..b1862ca7c 100644
--- a/docs/releasing.md
+++ b/docs/releasing.md
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ The releaser accepts these flags:
 - `--tag <tag>` -- publish with a specific npm dist-tag (e.g., `canary`, `snapshot`); defaults to `latest`
 - `--version <version>` -- override the version read from `package.json`
 
-All publishes are idempotent -- the script checks the registry before publishing and skips already-published versions, and a publish that npm rejects because the version already exists counts as done. The check reads the per-version document (`registry.npmjs.org/<name>/<version>`), which the registry CDN does not cache, so a version published seconds earlier is visible right away. Before publishing the `clerk` wrapper, the script waits (up to five minutes) for every platform package to be readable. If one platform publish fails, the others still run to completion before the job exits, so a re-run only has to publish what is actually missing.
+All publishes are idempotent -- the script checks the registry before publishing and skips already-published versions, and a publish that npm rejects because the version already exists counts as done. The check reads the per-version document (`registry.npmjs.org/<name>/<version>`), which the registry CDN does not cache, but npm can still take several minutes to serve a new version back. Before publishing the `clerk` wrapper, the script waits up to two minutes for every platform package to be readable; if one is still unreadable after that, it logs a warning and publishes the wrapper anyway, because npm already accepted every platform publish. If one platform publish fails, the others still run to completion before the job exits, so a re-run only has to publish what is actually missing.
 
 #### Environment Variables
 
diff --git a/scripts/releaser.ts b/scripts/releaser.ts
index 527d352c3..27e24f1ff 100644
--- a/scripts/releaser.ts
+++ b/scripts/releaser.ts
@@ -105,12 +105,21 @@ await publishDependenciesBeforePackage(
       waitUntilAvailable: dryRun
         ? undefined
         : async () => {
+            // Best effort. npm accepted the publish, so the version exists; the
+            // registry can take several minutes to serve it back (observed
+            // >5 min on the uncached per-version endpoint). Failing here only
+            // strands the wrapper, which is subject to the same read lag.
             console.log(`Waiting for ${name}@${version} to become available on npm...`);
-            await waitUntilPublished(name, version, {
-              intervalMs: 5_000,
-              timeoutMs: 300_000,
-              isPublished,
-            });
+            try {
+              await waitUntilPublished(name, version, {
+                intervalMs: 5_000,
+                timeoutMs: 120_000,
+                isPublished,
+              });
+            } catch (error) {
+              const reason = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+              console.log(`::warning::${reason}; continuing because npm accepted the publish`);
+            }
           },
     };
   }),