Release Strategy

Definitions

1. The intentional plan for how a project versions, packages, stages, communicates, and rolls out software changes over time. Release strategy includes decisions about stability channels, support windows, compatibility promises, and deployment risk.

   In plain English: The overall approach a project uses for shipping versions and managing release risk.

   Example: "The project’s release strategy matured once it separated experimental features from the long-term support branch."

Related Terms

• Changesets
• GitHub Release
• LTS Release
• Major Version
• Minor Version
• Point Release
• Release Cadence
• Release Cycle
• Rolling Release
• Semver Convention
• Unstable Branch
• Version Bump
• Version Policy
• Versioning Strategy
• Feature Freeze
• Package Version
• Release Tag