diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5a86ab32..b9990482 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 ### Fixed
 
 - update latest version text file manually [#674](https://github.com/JLLeitschuh/ktlint-gradle/pull/674)
+- decrease plugin build workers to 4 to prevent thrashing [#675](https://github.com/JLLeitschuh/ktlint-gradle/pull/675)
 
 ## [11.4.0] - 2023-06-06
 
diff --git a/plugin/gradle.properties b/plugin/gradle.properties
index 9013e6c9..b96faf08 100644
--- a/plugin/gradle.properties
+++ b/plugin/gradle.properties
@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ org.gradle.configureondemand=false
 org.gradle.vfs.watch=true
 # Shadow plugin does not fully support configuration cache: https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow/issues/687
 #org.gradle.unsafe.configuration-cache=true
+
+org.gradle.workers.max = 4