Releases appear in scope wizard even tho there are no issues in scope tied to the release

[Lopes_ Bonnie]

This is on the Server version using Jira Server version 8.14.1

Releases appear in scope wizard even tho there are no issues in scope tied to the releases.

I have hundreds of releases in the scope wizzard that are not associated to any issue that is in scope.  Why is that and how can I narrow the releases down to auto select only releases that are tied to the issues that I have in scope.

Trying to de-select all of these is extremely time consuming, as I need to filter on all the issues to find the unique set of releases and then make sure they are the only releases selected.  Otherwise, my Release tab is a nightmare with hundreds of releases.

Does anyone know the logic for bringing in the releases, perhaps i could perform some data clean-up in or env, if I knew what drives the releases showing up and what drives them being selected or not by default going through the wizard.

Appreciate any insight.

Thank you