# Updating environment variables does not cause a new AWS Lambda version to be published

**URL:** <https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/updating-environment-variables-does-not-cause-a-new-aws-lambda-version-to-be-published/2268>\
**Category:** Terraform\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/updating-environment-variables-does-not-cause-a-new-aws-lambda-version-to-be-published/2268 "2019-08-06T17:26:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![vasilij-icabbi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hashicorp/user_avatar/discuss.hashicorp.com/vasilij-icabbi/32/1191_2.png) [@vasilij-icabbi](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/vasilij-icabbi)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/updating-environment-variables-does-not-cause-a-new-aws-lambda-version-to-be-published/2268/1 "2019-08-06T17:26:29Z")

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There is an open ticket on this for over 2 years with no progress:

> <https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/issues/601>

Question I have, does anyone have a workaround for this in mind? How you would overcome this missing behaviour?