How to create a release in JIRA

[DarkKnightess]

I am new to JIRA and looking for the release option to create release for my project. We want to do a release after sprint 5 and then a second release with few other stories after sprint 8 or 9. I have administrator access but still I do not see the Create Release option. I can see a create version option though but I am not sure if both would mean the same thing. Can someone please help me with this. Any lead or help would be really helpful. Thanks

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

Version is JIRA's equivalent of releases. When you see the "release" action, it is done on the JIRA version.

A project admin can create the versions. Users will see those versions in their scrum boards and while editing a story.

You can also create a release and move the stories to it directly from a Kanban board.

[DarkKnightess]

Thank you Jobin.

I was able to create version and move the stories to each of the versions

[Cameron McKenzie]

The Jira tool has changed quite a bit since this was first answered.

There are a few different ways to create a Jira release, or milestone, or version, or whatever you want to call it.

DIRECTLY FROM THE KANBAN BOARD

The easiest? Do it right from Jira's Kanban board and everything in the Done column gets cleared out and goes into the release. Here's a video outlining how to do exactly that:

https://youtube.com/shorts/k2uiHmduZ1k?feature=share

USE THE BOARD'S RELEASES TAB

A better way is to create a release from the Releases tab of your Jira Scrum or Kanban Board, plan the dates and give a description. This video outlines exactly how to do that:

https://youtube.com/shorts/MXwdu_uPLIQ?feature=share

Jira's Release page is quite handsome, and is pretty self-explanatory once you get to it: