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title: "Disable Release Creation"
description: "Learn how to stop Sentry from automatically creating releases from ingested events so you can manage releases yourself."
url: https://docs.sentry.io/product/releases/usage/disable-auto-release-creation/
---

# Disable Release Creation

This feature is currently in early access. To access it, enable the Early Adopter flag in your [organization settings](https://sentry.io/orgredirect/organizations/:orgslug/settings/).

By default, Sentry creates a release the first time it sees a new release identifier in ingested events. If you'd rather manage releases yourself, you can turn this off in **Project Settings > General Settings > Event Settings** by disabling **Enable release auto-creation from telemetry**.

When this setting is disabled:

* Sentry no longer creates releases from ingested events.
* Events are still ingested as normal. If the release doesn't already exist, the event just won't have an associated release.
* Events still associate with releases that already exist, so you keep creating releases explicitly, for example using the [Sentry CLI](https://docs.sentry.io/cli/releases.md).

This is useful when you want release names to match exactly what your deploy pipeline creates and don't want extra releases generated from telemetry.