Versions and releases

Let's start with versions and releases. In this section, you'll learn what versions and releases are, and how they interact with one another. We'll discuss how to create and manage versions, how to assign work to versions, how to perform a release, and finally, how to view the contents of a release once we've created it.

Versions come from the concept of software. We're all familiar with the major and minor versions of a software (for example, version 2.0 versus version 2.1). These represent a large amount of value, so that's a way to think about it—a version represents a chunk of value that's being deployed. Versions can be released, so once we've determined what's in a version and we've completed it, we can release ...

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