Beginning on June 15, 2020 Netlify will start a gradual rollout of adding the environment variable CI to build environments, with the value of true . This environment variable, short for Continuous Integration, is commonly set in various CI environments like Travis CI and Github Actions, among ma…

Just a reminder that we are starting to roll this out today.

I should start paying attention to netlify marketing emails :frowning: Lost 30 mins to find out whats wrong.

At least you found us now; that’s the important bit!

I added CI= to my build command and it’s still failing

I’ve tried running CI= npm run build on the command line and it’s still failing for me when trying to deploy to production.

Hi, Just a few clarifications on how to disable this. If your build command is npm run build, then you can disable it by setting a custom build command in the UI under your site’s Build Settings to: CI= npm run build or if you are using netlify.toml to set the build command, update it as such: .…

@mheffner this broke about a dozen projects. we don’t pay you to break our stuff.

hi @jacobs , were you able to remediate issues with building given the steps outlined above? If not, please do let us know so we can assist.

No. I set an environment variable for CI to false, but that does not do it. This would have been a fairly quick fix. If I have to go and change the build command for all of our projects, I will absolutely be demanding a refund for my time you have wasted. Edit: I was trying to set the environment v…

Hi there, as outlined above, the steps to remediate would either be to edit the netlify.toml file for the sites, or add the build command to the 12 sites in question as outlined above - let us know if you need more clarification on that, please! I realize that making changes can disrupt workflows -…

New CI=true build configuration, "Treating warnings as errors because process.env.CI = true"

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New CI=true build configuration, "Treating warnings as errors because process.env.CI = true"

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