Releases represent key delivery milestones and are defined by a date. They help teams understand how work aligns with planned delivery points and can be visualized across timelines and backlogs.

Releases are created as release markers on timelines.

Managing releases

You create and manage releases on timelines using release markers.

From a timeline, you can:

Add a release at a specific date
Rename a release
Move a release to reschedule it
Delete a release

Release names must be unique within the timeline where they are created.

Any updates to a release are reflected wherever that release is shown.

Add a release

Hover over the top of the timeline and click the plus (+) icon that appears.
Enter a name for the release.
- Release names must be unique within the timeline and less than 100 characters in length.
Click Add marker, or click X to cancel.

The release marker will appear on the timeline at the date where you created it.

Edit a release

To edit the name of a release, do one of the following:

Right click the release marker and select Rename.
Hover over the marker's name and click the pencil icon to rename it inline.

Move a release

To reschedule a release, drag the marker left or right along the timeline. The marker will snap to gridlines and timebox boundaries based on the current zoom level.

Delete a release

Right click the release marker and select Delete.

Releases in team backlogs

Releases can be surfaced in team backlogs to help with planning and prioritization. How releases appear depends on the methodology used by the team.

Show or hide releases

You can toggle the display of releases in a team backlog.

Open the team backlog.
Click the Settings (gear icon) menu in the header.
Select or clear the Releases checkbox.

Releases in Scrum backlogs

In Scrum backlogs, releases show where delivery milestones fall relative to sprints.

When releases are enabled:

Each release is shown as horizontal rows between sprints.
Releases are placed after the sprint they fall within.

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A release is shown after the sprint whose end date is on or before the release date.

Releases in Kanban backlogs

In Kanban backlogs, you select a single release to highlight items projected to complete within that release window.

Select a release

Open a Kanban team backlog.
In the header, use the release dropdown to select a release.

When a release is selected:

Items expected to complete by the selected release are highlighted.
The highlighted range updates as items are reprioritized.

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Items are highlighted if their estimated completion date falls after the previous release and on or before the selected release date.