diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-test.yml b/.github/workflows/release-test.yml
index a7b1660b84..887c07e799 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-test.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: Release tests
 on: pull_request
 
 jobs:
-  if:  startsWith(github.head_ref, 'dev-') # TODO: settle on standard prefix
+  if:  startsWith(github.head_ref, 'sw-provider-') # TODO: settle on standard prefix
   oqs-provider-release-test: # TODO: this is highly coupled to oqs-provider structure. Might be better downstream?
     container:
       image: openquantumsafe/ci-ubuntu-jammy:latest