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Release candidate

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, release candidate means: A nearly final software build that should become the public release unless testing finds an important remaining problem.

In Turkish: sürüm adayı

How it is used

Used at the end of the release process. Teams check stability, upgrade paths, packaging, and documentation before promoting it to a final release.

Example sentences

  1. The team signed off on the release candidate after the upgrade tests passed in both the cloud and on-premise environments.

    Here the term refers to the build being treated as the probable final version, pending the last release checks.

  2. We found a localization bug in the release candidate, so marketing delayed the release announcement by two days.

    In this example, the build is still changeable because a meaningful issue was discovered before public publication.

Common collocations

  • release candidate build
  • promote the release candidate
  • release candidate testing
  • releaseA version of a product that is made available to users, or the act of making it available. Also a verb: to release a new version.
  • buildThe process of turning source code into a program or package that can run, or the result of that process. Also a verb: to build the project.

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