GitHub Essentials - Second Edition

Making a draft of a release

If you tend to provide a detailed description with each release, you may find the draft feature quite useful. You can repeatedly edit a release while adding the required information and then save it as a draft. This way, you can spend less time on it when you need to publish it.

In order to make a draft of a release, do not click Publish release, but rather click the Save draft button. Back on the Releases page, you can see the draft release you just created:

You can edit it as many times as you want, and when the time comes to publish it, just click Public release. To delete a draft, click on the Discard draft ...