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title: "Apply specific environment variable values to all branches with a prefix | Netlify Changelog"
description: "Get the latest updates on Netlify products and features to meet your developer needs."
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last_updated: "2026-07-04T22:16:47.000Z"
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We now support configuring your environment variables to apply a value to groups of branches with a given prefix. Explore the new functionality in Site configuration > Environment variables. When adding a branch value for your environment variable, add a wildcard at the end to apply the value to all branches beginning with the prefix. For example setting the branch name to `release/*` will apply the supplied value to branches named `release/1.2`, `release/alpha-0.0.1`, and so on.

Combine with the ability to [configure your site to deploy branches matching selected prefixes](https://docs.netlify.com/site-deploys/overview/#branch-deploy-controls) to super-charge your branch workflows!