Welcome

Create a release based workflow that is built on the foundations of the GitHub flow. When your team uses a release-based workflow, GitHub makes it easy to collaborate with deployable iterations of your project that you can package and make available for a wider audience to download and use.

GitHub releases allow your team to package and provide software to your users based on a specific point in the history of your project.

• Who is this for: Developers, DevOps Engineers, IT Operations, managers, and teams.
• What you'll learn: How to follow a release-based workflow.
• What you'll build: You will create tags, releases, and release notes.
• Prerequisites: If you need to learn about branches, commits, and pull requests, take Introduction to GitHub first.
• How long: This course takes less than 1 hour to complete.

• Create a beta release
• Add a feature to a release
• Open a release pull request
• Add release notes and merge
• Finalize a release
• Commit a hotfix
• Create a hotfix release

How to start this course

• Right-click Start course and open the link in a new tab.
• In the new tab, most of the prompts will automatically fill in for you.

• For owner, choose your personal account or an organization to host the repository.

• We recommend creating a public repository, as private repositories will use Actions minutes.

• Scroll down and click the Create repository button at the bottom of the form.
• After your new repository is created, wait about 20 seconds, then refresh the page. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the new repository's README.