Work With Releases

📄️ Release Overview

The release overview shows the list of releases that you have permission to view and that are planned, active (including releases that are in progress, paused, failing, or failed), or completed (including aborted).

📄️ Release Lifecycle

This topic explains the different stages and states a release goes through during its lifecycle in Digital.ai Release.

📄️ Configure Release Properties

This topic covers Release properties, which are configurable attributes that influence the behavior and execution of a release.

📄️ Release Views

The Release user interface includes multiple release planning and management views to accommodate all of the types of users that participate in the release process:

📄️ Risk Awareness

Release calculates a risk level for each release based on different factors such as flags, failed or failing states, or due dates. You can see the releases with a high risk level and take the appropriate actions.

📄️ Release Flow Editor

The Flow Editor shows the phases and tasks in a release or a template. You can use this view to add, move, edit, and delete phases and tasks.

📄️ Release Table View

The Release table view provides an alternative view of a template or release that is optimized for working with tasks.

📄️ Release History

This topic describes Release History, which records all the events occurring in a release, providing a detailed audit trail of user actions with corresponding dates and times.

📄️ Create Release in Another Folder

This topic introduces the new functionality for creating releases from templates in a shared folder, allowing teams to create releases in their respective folders. It explains the permissions required for source and target folders and the steps to create a release, including methods from the Release Overview and Create Release task.

📄️ Start a Release From an Archived Release

This topic explains how to start a new release from an archived release by using the original template and variable values

📄️ Start a Release From Another Release

With the Create Release task type you can automatically create and start a release based on a configured template. You can use the Create Release task for several different release orchestration scenarios.

📄️ Create a Release From a Git Repository

Using a Git trigger you can start a release that will execute an External Script task that contains a DSL. The External Script task should point to a file from a Git repository. You must provide HTTP/HTTPS access to the file with a direct link. HTTP authentication provides security.

📄️ Code Releases Using the Releasefile

This topic explains how Digital.ai Release can define a release from a Groovy-based DSL script, that describes all the phases, tasks, and task-groups in the release. This enables you to store release definitions as code in version control and gives you programmatic control over a release when creating it.

📄️ Release Groups

You can group releases together and manage a collection of releases as one group. Releases can be added to multiple release groups, and into multiple folders. The release group feature also provides estimates on when the release group will start and finish, based on the schedule and other tasks that are being executing at the same time.

📄️ Load Test Data During a Release

Release can help you prepare your environments for testing through tasks that load test data in environments.

📄️ Restart a Phase in an Active Release

In an active release, you can abort the current phase and restart the execution from any past phase. This can be required if some parts of the release procedure must be repeated. For example, QA rejects a version of the application for release and the test phase must be repeated with an updated version.

📄️ Schedule Releases

In Release, you can schedule your releases by setting start dates and times, end dates and times, and durations on templates, releases, phases, and tasks. When you set dates and durations on phases and tasks, Release automatically adjusts other phases and calculates the release duration and end date.