Preparing a Release
To open a release, you can:
Select the PR indicator to the right of the Integration stage, or
Select the Integration environment and open the Release creation tab.
This shows you all the pending features for your next release. In Gitflow, releases include all changes merged into your integration/develop branch. This means you cannot pick individual PRs to include the release.
Optional: Excluding the latest PRs from a 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.
Creating a Release
Once ready, click Create release:
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.