diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index c3e47dab..366bf76d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ on:
             codeflare-repository-organization:
               type: string
               default: "project-codeflare"
-
-env:
-  PR_BRANCH_NAME: snyk-tag-monitoring-${{ github.run_id }}
+            release-branch:
+              type: string
+              description: 'Branch to release from (default: main)'
+              required: false
+              default: 'main'
 
 jobs:
     release:
@@ -42,6 +44,7 @@ jobs:
             - name: Checkout the repository
               uses: actions/checkout@v4
               with:
+                  ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.release-branch }}
                   token: ${{ secrets.GH_CLI_TOKEN }}
             - name: Install Python
               uses: actions/setup-python@v5
@@ -59,7 +62,7 @@ jobs:
               run: |
                 gh workflow run publish-documentation.yaml \
                   --repo ${{ github.event.inputs.codeflare-repository-organization }}/codeflare-sdk \
-                  --ref ${{ github.ref }} \
+                  --ref ${{ github.event.inputs.release-branch }} \
                   --field codeflare_sdk_release_version=${{ github.event.inputs.release-version }}
               env:
                 GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODEFLARE_MACHINE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN }}
@@ -81,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
               run: |
                 gh workflow run odh-notebooks-sync.yml \
                   --repo ${{ github.event.inputs.codeflare-repository-organization }}/codeflare-sdk \
-                  --ref ${{ github.ref }} \
+                  --ref ${{ github.event.inputs.release-branch }} \
                   --field upstream-repository-organization=opendatahub-io \
                   --field codeflare-repository-organization=${{ github.event.inputs.codeflare-repository-organization }} \
                   --field codeflare_sdk_release_version=${{ github.event.inputs.release-version }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/update-versions.yaml b/.github/workflows/update-versions.yaml
index 1eb253fb..7ac70d59 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/update-versions.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/update-versions.yaml
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ on:
         required: false
         type: string
         default: ''
+      target-branch:
+        type: string
+        description: 'Target branch to update and create PR against (default: main)'
+        required: false
+        default: 'main'
 
 env:
   PR_BRANCH_NAME: ray-version-update-${{ github.run_id }}
@@ -60,8 +65,8 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           git config --local user.email "action@github.com"
           git config --local user.name "GitHub Action"
-          git checkout main
-          git pull origin main
+          git checkout ${{ github.event.inputs.target-branch }}
+          git pull origin ${{ github.event.inputs.target-branch }}
           git checkout -b ${{ env.PR_BRANCH_NAME }}
 
       - name: Update constants.py
@@ -323,7 +328,7 @@ jobs:
           gh pr create \
             --title "$PR_TITLE" \
             --body "$PR_BODY" \
-            --base main \
+            --base ${{ github.event.inputs.target-branch }} \
             --head ${{ env.PR_BRANCH_NAME }}
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}