diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index a0d412901c..4ce48af643 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -2616,7 +2616,7 @@ pairwise:
 backports:
   <<: *post_merge
   rules:
-    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push" && ($CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^security-(main|bind-9\.[0-9]+)$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^bind-9.[0-9]+$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH)'
+    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push" && ($CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^security-(main|bind-9\.[0-9]+)$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^bind-9\.[0-9]+$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH)'
   script:
     # CI job token is not sufficient for push operations
     - git remote get-url origin | sed -e "s/gitlab-ci-token:$CI_JOB_TOKEN/oauth2:$BIND_TEAM_WRITE_TOKEN/" | xargs git remote set-url --push origin
@@ -2626,7 +2626,7 @@ backports:
 merged-metadata:
   <<: *post_merge
   rules:
-    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push" && ($CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^security-(main|bind-9\.[0-9]+)$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^bind-9.[0-9]+(-sub)?$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^v9.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-release$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH)'
+    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push" && ($CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^security-(main|bind-9\.[0-9]+)$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^bind-9\.[0-9]+(-sub)?$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME =~ /^v9\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+-release$/ || $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH)'
   script:
     - >
       "$CI_PROJECT_DIR"/bind9-qa/releng/after_merge.py "$CI_PROJECT_ID" "$MERGE_REQUEST_ID"