# Releases

A release is a frozen application state, that allows you to package and ship a certain state of your application to a certain environment.

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Releases are only available on Pro Projects and not on Free Tier.
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## Creating a new Release

1. Navigate to **Application Layer -> Releases**.
2. Click on **Review & Deploy**.
3. Select the latest changes you would want to deploy and click **Next**.
4. Chose the environment you want to deploy on, pass the version tag (**such as v1.0.0**) and click **Deploy**.

Your release your be instantly live on the environment you have released on.

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For more information on Instant Deployments, [<mark style="color:blue;">**check here**</mark>](https://docs.cosmocloud.io/advanced-guide/performance-considerations/instant-deployments).
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## Promoting a release to another Environment

Often, you would want to bump your release X from one environment to another, for example from staging to production. To do this -

1. Click on the **3 dot menu button** of the release you want to bump.
2. Select **Promote release**.
3. Select the environment you want to promote the release to, and click **Promote**.