We are giving developers more flexibility to manage environments by making it possible to clone any environment. Previously all environments were a copy of the master environment.

This feature enables adavanced development and deployment workflows:

• Update QA or staging environments from feature environments (allows multi-stage workflows)
• Manage a different set of content for development and testing purposes in an environment which can act as a blue-print for all development work
• Easier integration of feature environments into CI/CD pipelines
• Backup environments before running migration scripts or automated tasks
• Rename an environment by cloning it

The release affects multiple areas:

• Contentful web app
• Content Management API: added additonal X-Contentful-Source-Environment header for environment creation (documentation)
• SDKs: JS, Java, Ruby, Python (support for .Net and PHP coming soon)
• Contentful CLI: added additonal source parameter for creating an environment (documentation)