In Gitflow, releases typically include all changes merged into develop. This means you cannot pick individual PRs for the release.
However, Gearset allows you to exclude recent PRs in a linear sequence starting from the most recent one. In the example below:
You can select all PRs up to PR #3 by selecting it. This means PRs #4 and #8 will be excluded from the release (greyed out):
If this does not apply to you, then you do not need to take any steps here.
Once ready, click Create release:
Naming and opening the release branch
You can choose a release name (unless you have configured a release naming convention in your pipeline settings) and view a summary of included features:
Select Create release to open the release branch. The name of the release will now appear on the node in the Release & Testing stage:
The next article will describe how to view and validate a release.