Introduction

Overview

Release App is a management tool that allows you to:

• Receive the latest updates from the service provider (B3Networks).
• Manage the updated version to a selected group of users.
• Keep tracking the software development lifecycle.

Release Channels

Types

There are 5 different release channels in the following order that you need to be aware of:

1. **Experimental:**Channel for Development testing
2. **Quality Assurance:**Channel for QA team testing
3. **Release Candidate:**Channel for ready-for-production releases (In this channel, the early candidates can opt-in in advance for testing and approving purposes.)
4. **Stable:**Channels for production releases
5. **Enterprise:**Channels for customers who want a fixed 1 release per quarter

The following table will represent the differences of each channel.

Terminology

Term	Definition
Release	a software update.
Version	a particular release of a piece of the software followingSemantic Versioning.
Release type - Optional without expired	all users will receive updates immediately when engineer apply the release for these users
Release type - Applied_since time	a release applied_since time is set to the current time, the release will supersede the previous release and be applied immediately to all customers.

Checklist

The Release App will contain the following tabs:

• Deployment
• All Apps
• Early Access
• Enterprise Access
• Settings