Injected build settings env var: DEPRECATED

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Hi, checking in to see what might be the cause of some new dev-breaking behavior we are seeing when running netlify dev – it seems like none of the environmental variables that are registered in the Netlify UI admin for our site (https://paverops.netlify.app/) are being pulled on dev.

The stage and prod versions both seem to run fine, but in dev the same env vars are returning undefined. Looking closely, I can see that where normally we would see env var loading confirmation, there is a deprecation message instead:

◈ Netlify Dev ◈
◈ Injected build settings env var: DEPRECATED
◈ Ignored general context env var: LANG (defined in process)
◈ Loaded function clear-visible-areas-background.
◈ Loaded function export-layer-background.
◈ Loaded function generate-views-background.
◈ Loaded function get-app-token.
◈ Loaded function get-s3-file.
◈ Loaded function get-s3-presigned.
◈ Loaded function post-process-data-background.
◈ Loaded function publish-data.
◈ Loaded function schedule-index-rebuild-background.
◈ Loaded function send-email.
◈ Loaded function update-visible-areas-background.
◈ Loaded function upload-data-background.
◈ Loaded function upload-drawing.
◈ Loaded function verify-user.
◈ Functions server is listening on 52953
◈ Starting Netlify Dev with Gatsby

Any idea what I’m doing wrong here?

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Update: running netlify env:list shows this output:

netlify env:list
site: paverops
.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
|                                                             Environment variables                                                             |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    Key     |                                                              Value                                                               |
|------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| GATSBY_ENV | prod                                                                                                                             |
| DEPRECATED | Please use the new environment variable endpoints outlined here: https://docs.netlify.com/api/get-started/#environment-variables |
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'

And that link from the DEPRECATED line drops me at a page that describes how to use the Netlify API to request env vars. Surely this doesn’t mean I need to request each individual env var from the API does it? It would be easier just to keep a separate .env file, even though that seems like bad practice.

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What version of Netlify CLI are you using?

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netlify-cli/6.14.16 darwin-x64 node-v14.16.0

Would an upgrade potentially solve this?

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Netlicy CLI v6 is ancient. Current latest is 15. Please upgrade!

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@ewags I’m having similar issues and upgraded Netlify CLI also…but still the environment variables aren’t happy…have you had any luck? If so, what did you do?

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When you try upgrading what happens? Can you post a screenshot? Here is some documentation on how to.