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Releases

You can use the Releases activity to manage GitHub releases.

To show the Releases activity, click its activity-bar icon or click DevOps > Releases.

Releases are listed chronologically and display the following information.

  • Name: The name of the release.
  • Status badge: A badge that indicates if a release is a Draft, Pre-release, or the Latest release.
  • Label: The label attached to the release.
  • Timestamp: How long ago the release was published.
  • Release notes: A snippet of the release notes.

Create a release

To create a new release, complete the following steps.

  1. Click DevOps > New Release.
  2. In the New Release tab, enter the tag of the release in the Tag field.
    If a new tag is created, enter the destination branch of the tag in the Target branch (for new tag) field.
  3. In the Release title field, enter the title of the release.
  4. In the Release notes field, enter the description of the release.
  5. Select This is a pre-release to mark the release as a pre-release. Select Set as the latest release to mark the release as the latest release.
  6. Click Publish Release. Click Save as draft to save the release as a Draft.

Filter releases

You can filter the Releases activity to include All, Published, Drafts, or Pre-releases releases. You can also filter releases by name in the Filter releases field.

Release view

Click a release to open the release in Release view. The Release view displays the full release notes, release tag, the author of the release, the date the release was published, and all release assets.

Release actions

In the Release view, click the Edit icon to edit the release title and release notes. For pre-releases, click the Promote icon to mark the release as the latest release. For published releases, click the Pre-release icon to mark the release as a pre-release. Click the Delete release icon to delete the current release.

In the Assets sections, click the Upload Asset icon to add an asset to the release. Each asset lists the file size and the amount of times the asset was downloaded.

Click the Open icon to open the asset in a web browser. Click the Delete asset icon next to an asset to delete the asset.

Click the Download icon next to a source code asset to download the source code.