# Releases

### Overview

Ozone releases are an abstraction over pipelines and proprietary approval stages. With releases, you can add gated approval steps prior to or after the execution of a pipeline. 

In addition you can listen to external events such as pushes to a git repository and have them triggered automatically

A typical scenario for a release is as follows:

* A developer commits to a git repository
* The system builds and starts automation scans
* A possible manual approval step is needed to be sent to an external system
* The image is promoted manually to the next environment

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For more information, check the section on [using approvals within releases](https://docs.ozone.one/ozone-end-user-guide/faq/broken-reference)
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