diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index a328528dc8..c99ba658e8 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "5.11.6"
+  ".": "5.12.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7b96ae66a2..8b998f8043 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [5.12.0](https://github.com/opennextjs/opennextjs-netlify/compare/v5.11.6...v5.12.0) (2025-07-31)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* restore NETLIFY_NEXT_PLUGIN_SKIP ([#3017](https://github.com/opennextjs/opennextjs-netlify/issues/3017)) ([0b51c47](https://github.com/opennextjs/opennextjs-netlify/commit/0b51c4741ee82a230987122c222a14415f65dfd9))
+
 ## [5.11.6](https://github.com/opennextjs/opennextjs-netlify/compare/v5.11.5...v5.11.6) (2025-07-14)
 
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index fc85a0730e..8bbdcddbff 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@netlify/plugin-nextjs",
-  "version": "5.11.6",
+  "version": "5.12.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 2,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@netlify/plugin-nextjs",
-      "version": "5.11.6",
+      "version": "5.12.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "devDependencies": {
         "@fastly/http-compute-js": "1.1.5",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d1e661a626..d869493268 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@netlify/plugin-nextjs",
-  "version": "5.11.6",
+  "version": "5.12.0",
   "description": "Run Next.js seamlessly on Netlify",
   "main": "./dist/index.js",
   "type": "module",
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index ce109ef501..27d9c1ff7b 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -24,9 +24,17 @@ import {
   verifyPublishDir,
 } from './build/verification.js'
 
+const skipPlugin =
+  process.env.NETLIFY_NEXT_PLUGIN_SKIP === 'true' || process.env.NETLIFY_NEXT_PLUGIN_SKIP === '1'
+const skipText = 'Skipping Next.js plugin due to NETLIFY_NEXT_PLUGIN_SKIP environment variable.'
 const tracer = wrapTracer(trace.getTracer('Next.js runtime'))
 
 export const onPreDev = async (options: NetlifyPluginOptions) => {
+  if (skipPlugin) {
+    console.warn(skipText)
+    return
+  }
+
   await tracer.withActiveSpan('onPreDev', async () => {
     const context = new PluginContext(options)
 
@@ -36,6 +44,11 @@ export const onPreDev = async (options: NetlifyPluginOptions) => {
 }
 
 export const onPreBuild = async (options: NetlifyPluginOptions) => {
+  if (skipPlugin) {
+    console.warn(skipText)
+    return
+  }
+
   await tracer.withActiveSpan('onPreBuild', async () => {
     // Enable Next.js standalone mode at build time
     process.env.NEXT_PRIVATE_STANDALONE = 'true'
@@ -53,6 +66,11 @@ export const onPreBuild = async (options: NetlifyPluginOptions) => {
 }
 
 export const onBuild = async (options: NetlifyPluginOptions) => {
+  if (skipPlugin) {
+    console.warn(skipText)
+    return
+  }
+
   await tracer.withActiveSpan('onBuild', async (span) => {
     const ctx = new PluginContext(options)
 
@@ -86,12 +104,22 @@ export const onBuild = async (options: NetlifyPluginOptions) => {
 }
 
 export const onPostBuild = async (options: NetlifyPluginOptions) => {
+  if (skipPlugin) {
+    console.warn(skipText)
+    return
+  }
+
   await tracer.withActiveSpan('onPostBuild', async () => {
     await publishStaticDir(new PluginContext(options))
   })
 }
 
 export const onSuccess = async () => {
+  if (skipPlugin) {
+    console.warn(skipText)
+    return
+  }
+
   await tracer.withActiveSpan('onSuccess', async () => {
     const prewarm = [process.env.DEPLOY_URL, process.env.DEPLOY_PRIME_URL, process.env.URL].filter(
       // If running locally then the deploy ID is a placeholder value. Filtering for `https://0--` removes it.
@@ -102,6 +130,11 @@ export const onSuccess = async () => {
 }
 
 export const onEnd = async (options: NetlifyPluginOptions) => {
+  if (skipPlugin) {
+    console.warn(skipText)
+    return
+  }
+
   await tracer.withActiveSpan('onEnd', async () => {
     await unpublishStaticDir(new PluginContext(options))
   })
diff --git a/tests/utils/fixture.ts b/tests/utils/fixture.ts
index 5f42864932..3ddd787dcb 100644
--- a/tests/utils/fixture.ts
+++ b/tests/utils/fixture.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ import { BLOB_TOKEN } from './constants.mjs'
 import { type FixtureTestContext } from './contexts.js'
 import { setNextVersionInFixture } from './next-version-helpers.mjs'
 
-const bootstrapURL = 'https://edge.netlify.com/bootstrap/index-combined.ts'
+const bootstrapURL =
+  'https://6877afcf20679a00086bab1c--edge.netlify.com/bootstrap/index-combined.ts'
 const actualCwd = await vi.importActual<typeof import('process')>('process').then((p) => p.cwd())
 const eszipHelper = join(actualCwd, 'tools/deno/eszip.ts')