diff --git a/docs/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index df1224b..e53720d 100644
--- a/docs/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Add option for forcing a specific language ([#742](https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/742))
 - Add translation for Turkish language ([#751](https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/751))
 - Allow [Common Crawl](https://commoncrawl.org/) by default so scrapers have less incentive to scrape
+- The [bbolt storage backend](./admin/policies.mdx#bbolt) now runs its cleanup every hour instead of every five minutes.
 
 ### Potentially breaking changes
 
diff --git a/lib/store/bbolt/bbolt.go b/lib/store/bbolt/bbolt.go
index c077deb..e27c868 100644
--- a/lib/store/bbolt/bbolt.go
+++ b/lib/store/bbolt/bbolt.go
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ func (s *Store) cleanup(ctx context.Context) error {
 }
 
 func (s *Store) cleanupThread(ctx context.Context) {
-	t := time.NewTicker(5 * time.Minute)
+	t := time.NewTicker(time.Hour)
 	defer t.Stop()
 
 	for {