diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-charts.yaml b/.github/workflows/release-charts.yaml
index 42878efc6..5df51a77f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-charts.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-charts.yaml
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       charts_ref:
-        description: "Submit PR against the following rancher/charts branch (eg: dev-v2.10)"
+        description: "Submit PR against the following rancher/charts branch (eg: dev-v2.11)"
         required: true
         default: "dev-v2.11"
       prev_webhook:
-        description: "Previous Webhook version (eg: v0.5.0-rc.13)"
+        description: "Previous Webhook version (eg: v0.7.0-rc.13)"
         required: true
         default: ""
       new_webhook:
-        description: "New Webhook version (eg: v0.5.0-rc.14)"
+        description: "New Webhook version (eg: v0.7.0-rc.14)"
         required: true
         default: ""
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-rancher.yaml b/.github/workflows/release-rancher.yaml
index b64679d8c..d4b01d91e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-rancher.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-rancher.yaml
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       rancher_ref:
-        description: "Submit PR against the following rancher/rancher branch (eg: main)"
+        description: "Submit PR against the following rancher/rancher branch (eg: release/v2.11)"
         required: true
-        default: "main"
+        default: "release/v2.11"
       prev_webhook:
-        description: "Previous Webhook version (eg: v0.5.0-rc.13)"
+        description: "Previous Webhook version (eg: v0.7.0-rc.13)"
         required: true
         default: ""
       new_webhook:
-        description: "New Webhook version (eg: v0.5.0-rc.14)"
+        description: "New Webhook version (eg: v0.7.0-rc.14)"
         required: true
         default: ""
 
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ jobs:
       # Required for vault
       id-token: write
     steps:
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: sudo snap install yq --channel=v4/stable
+
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: "${{ env.WEBHOOK_REF }}"
@@ -59,6 +62,36 @@ jobs:
           # Allow making git push request later on
           persist-credentials: true
 
+      - name: Find charts branch
+        id: find_charts_branch
+        run: |
+          cd rancher
+          # Extract dev-v2.9 out of the following line:
+          #     ChartDefaultBranch                  = NewSetting("chart-default-branch", "dev-v2.9")
+          charts_branch=$(grep '"chart-default-branch"' pkg/settings/setting.go | cut -d'"' -f4)
+          echo "charts_branch=$charts_branch" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          repository: ${{ github.repository_owner }}/charts
+          ref: "${{ steps.find_charts_branch.outputs.charts_branch }}"
+          path: charts
+
+      # Prevents the Rancher CI to continuously fail while the webhook RC is not
+      # yet added to charts' index.yaml file due to caching.
+      - name: Verify RC exists
+        env:
+          CHARTS_BRANCH: "${{ steps.find_charts_branch.outputs.charts_branch }}"
+        run: |
+          cd charts
+          new_webhook_short=$(echo "$NEW_WEBHOOK" | sed 's|^v||')  # e.g. 0.5.2-rc.3
+          # Empty output if the version is not found, otherwise the version will be outputed.
+          found=$(yq ".entries.rancher-webhook[].version | select(. == \"*$new_webhook_short\")" index.yaml)
+          if [ -z "$found" ]; then
+            echo "rancher-webhook RC version $NEW_WEBHOOK not found in charts (branch=$CHARTS_BRANCH). Aborting."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
       - name: Configure the committer
         run: |
           cd rancher
@@ -69,9 +102,6 @@ jobs:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
           APP_USER: "${{ steps.app-token.outputs.app-slug }}[bot]"
 
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: sudo snap install yq --channel=v4/stable
-
       - name: Run release script
         run: |
           cd rancher