diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e7d44feb16..0756d48d25 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 * [BUGFIX] Ring: Fix ring token conflict resolution only applied to updated instance and make constantly token conflict check during instance observe period.
 * [BUGFIX] Distributor: Fix a panic (`slice bounds out of range`) in the stream push path when the context deadline expires while the worker goroutine is still marshalling a `WriteRequest`. #7541
 * [BUGFIX] Query Frontend: Fix native histogram responses not being handled correctly in `minTime()` sort ordering for split_by_interval merge. #7555
+* [BUGFIX] Distributor: Release the push worker pool goroutines on shutdown by stopping the async executor during the stopping phase when `-distributor.num-push-workers` is set. #7602
 * [BUGFIX] Querier: Fix unbounded resource leak in the bucket-scan blocks finder (used when the bucket index is disabled). Per-tenant metadata fetchers, their Prometheus registries, and on-disk meta caches are now evicted once a tenant is no longer active, instead of being retained for the lifetime of the process. #7573
 
 ## 1.21.0 2026-04-24
diff --git a/pkg/distributor/distributor.go b/pkg/distributor/distributor.go
index 21abf9f8a4..b8c0d52c45 100644
--- a/pkg/distributor/distributor.go
+++ b/pkg/distributor/distributor.go
@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@ func (d *Distributor) cleanupInactiveUser(userID string) {
 
 // Called after distributor is asked to stop via StopAsync.
 func (d *Distributor) stopping(_ error) error {
+	d.asyncExecutor.Stop()
 	return services.StopManagerAndAwaitStopped(context.Background(), d.subservices)
 }