As we reevaluate how to best support and maintain Staging Ref in the future, we encourage development teams using this environment to highlight their use cases in the following issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/software-delivery/framework/software-delivery-framework-issue-tracker/-/issues/36.
Releases are based on Git tags and mark specific points in a project's development history. They can contain information about the type of changes and can also deliver binaries, like compiled versions of your software.
