utgivelsessyklus
Utgivelsessyklus, or release cycle, is the process by which a product's new versions are planned, built, tested, released, and maintained. It applies primarily to software and digital services but can also apply to hardware and content publications. The cycle begins with planning and scoping, defining features, requirements, and release goals. Next is development and integration, where code and assets are created and merged. This is followed by quality assurance, including automated tests, manual testing, and security checks. Release preparation involves packaging, documentation, and versioning, creating release notes. Deployment moves the build into production, with strategies such as rolling updates, blue-green deployment, or canary releases. After release, monitoring, incident response, and maintenance address issues and plan subsequent improvements. The cycle then repeats, often on a fixed cadence or continuously in iterative methodologies.
In practice, release cycles vary: in waterfall models the cycle is sequential; in agile and DevOps contexts
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