General settings

To configure Release, select Settings > General from the top menu. The General settings page is only available to users who have the Admin global permission.

Track changes in version control

To enable the track changes feature:

  1. Go to Settings > General.
  2. In the Track changes in template version control section, select the Enable track changes checkbox.

Track changes

Release header color

You can configure the color scheme of the Release header and menu bar items. For each type of your Release instance, you can define an associated color.

Select a color from the list and specify the name of you environment (for example: Production, Development). You can set a short description for the selected Release instance.

Header color

Reports

Use the Reports section to configure thresholds used in the release value stream screen.

Reports Settings

Polling

Use the Polling section to configure the polling interval to automatically refresh screens when task status changes (Status interval), or when tasks are added or deleted (List interval).

Polling Settings

In Release 8.6.0 and later, you can configure your company’s logo.

Release has an option to upload your company’s logo. Users with admin permission can upload a 26 x 26 pixel logo.

To enable the custom logo in XL-Release 8.6.0 and later:

  1. Go to Settings > General.
  2. Click the Choose file option under the Release header settings section.
  3. Choose your file and click the Save button.
  4. The logo is now displayed in the top header section.

These are the supported file formats:

  • gif
  • jpeg
  • png
  • svg+xml
  • tiff
  • x-icon (ico)

Custom Logo

Once configured, all notification emails from Release will display this logo in the footer.

Note: It is not possible to replace the XebiaLabs Release logo through this setting.

Archiving

Use the Archiving section to archive finished (that is, completed and aborted) releases. These releases are moved to a separate internal archive database so that the active repository can be kept relatively small.

Archived releases are available in reports and you can search for them from them Release Value Stream Mapping screen.

You can configure the time after which Release will archive a completed release. This is an amount of time since the release was completed or aborted.

Archiving Settings

For more information, see How archiving works.

Note: Release reports related to finished releases only use data from the archive database. Therefore, if you configure a very long period before releases are archived, then your reports will not be up-to-date. Also, having a large number of releases that are not archived negatively affects performance. For more information about the configuration of the database, see Configure the archive database.

The archiving feature was introduced as a replacement of the purging mechanism since Release 4.7.0.

Trigger data purging

This section is use to purge the Release Trigger execution data. These execution data will be removed from the database table.

To enable the trigger data purging:

  1. Go to Settings > General
  2. In the Trigger data purging section, select the Enable purging of trigger data checkbox.

You can configure the time after which Release will purge trigger data. This is an amount of time since the release was executed.

Trigger data purging

Release audit reports

In Release, the generated release audit reports are stored as temporary files on a shared file system. These reports are available for a default period of 10 days after they are generated.

To configure the retention period for the generated reports in Release:

  1. Go to Settings > General.
  2. Under Release audit reports, in the Delete release audit report older than field, specify the maximum number of days the reports can be stored before automatically deleting them.