diff --git a/.github/workflows/bench-release.yml b/.github/workflows/bench-release.yml
index aea0510..1d15de8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bench-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bench-release.yml
@@ -7,10 +7,8 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   bench_release:
+    if: ${{ startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'bump:') }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
     steps:
     - name: Check out
       uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -20,9 +18,8 @@ jobs:
     - name: Setup python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        python-version: '3.13'
         architecture: x64
-
     - name: Set Cache
       uses: actions/cache@v4
       id: cache  # name for referring later
diff --git a/.github/workflows/bumpversion.yml b/.github/workflows/bumpversion.yml
index 262de20..b9c5c30 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bumpversion.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bumpversion.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   bump-version:
-    if: ${{ !startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'bump:') || !startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'bench:') }}
+    if: |
+     !startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'bump:') ||
+     !startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'bench:')
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: "Bump version and create changelog with commitizen"
     steps: