Releasing projects on GitHub

You can create a release to package software, along with release notes and links to binary files, for other people to use.

You can create releases to bundle and deliver iterations of a project to users.

You can view the chronological history of your repository by release name or tag version number.

You can use keywords, tags, and other qualifiers to search for particular releases in a repository.

You can share every release you create on GitHub with a unique URL.

You can compare release tags to see changes to your repository between different releases.

You can automatically generate release notes for your GitHub releases

To quickly create releases by auto-populating the new release form with customized information, you can add query parameters to the URL for the release form page.