Aha! Roadmaps | Create a release

You can choose to either create a blank release to manage your work, or create one from a release template.

Click any of the following links to skip ahead:

• Create a new release

• Create a release from a release template

Create a new release

Navigate to the Releases section of Aha! Roadmaps to get started. By default, you will open the Releases Gantt page, which shows you a Gantt chart view of any existing releases. Gantt charts make it easy to visualize dependencies and manage dates, so most release management happens on this page.

Click Add release to create a release.

You can also create a release from the Features Board page, if you want to start adding features from a parking lot immediately.

• The Release name is the name of your release.

• You can choose to Create a new release or Copy an existing release.

• Choose the workspace where you want to Add new release to.

• Select a Release date. This is the date when every item in your release should be complete. You can create release phases or milestones for important stages in the release later.

Release dates are not associated with a timezone.

• If you have enabled capacity planning, choose how you want to track the progress of your release, in hours or story points.

• Use the Theme field to enter a description of your release.

• Select a release Owner. This user will receive notifications about everything happening in the release.

• Select a Release template, if you are using one. You can create a release template elsewhere.

When you have added all the necessary details, click Create release. You will see it appear on the Gantt chart (and as a column on your Features Board). By default, the Start date for a release is one month before its Release date. You can always adjust this if you need to.

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Create releases from a release template

When you add new releases, you can choose from the following release phase template options:

• Default: You can select the default release template for your workspace or workspace line by navigating to Settings ⚙️ Workspace line Release templates or Settings ⚙️ Workspace Release templates, hovering over a release template, and selecting Make default. The default you select will show up as the preselected option on the list of available Release phase templates with the name you have set.

• A custom template: Any template that you created for your workspace line or workspace.

• No template: Choose to create a release and enter all of the phases and milestones manually.

If you create a release from a template, its release phases' dates will be set to Enter manually.

You can also apply a new release template to an existing release by opening a release's detail view and selecting More options Apply new release phase template. There are two options when doing so: keep all existing phases and milestones and add the ones from your new template or delete all existing phases and milestones and replace them with the ones from your new template.

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