Unleash 7.2
Managing feature flags at scale isn’t just about turning features on and off—it’s about guiding each flag through its full lifecycle. From rollout to cleanup, you need predictable processes that keep your codebase healthy, reduce risk, and prevent technical debt from piling up.
That’s why Feature Lifecycle Management has been a major focus for us, and with Unleash 7.2 we’re taking a big step forward. This release introduces Release templates, along with improvements to change requests, lifecycle metrics, and flag cleanup.
Together, these updates help you standardize how features move through their lifecycle—so you can ship faster, safer, and with more confidence.
Let’s get into it.
What’s new in Unleash 7.2?
Release templates: a new way to standardize rollouts
Release templates give you a structured way to roll out features with reusable plans and milestones. Instead of reinventing strategies across teams and flags, you can apply a template that defines the stages of your release and move through them with confidence.
Why it matters:
- Consistency at scale – roll out features the same way across teams, projects, and environments
- Less repetitive work – configure once, reuse everywhere
- Lower release risk – move fast without the fear of big-bang releases
And this is just the beginning. Release templates lay the groundwork for more exciting tools, automation, and insights coming soon.
While release templates set the foundation for standardized rollouts, the rest of 7.2 is packed with updates that strengthen every stage of the feature flag lifecycle.
Change request improvements
You now receive an email notification when you’re added as a reviewer to a change request. This helps you maintain momentum by speeding up the approval process.
Change requests also display a cleaner, formatted JSON diff that highlights only the changed values while still letting you expand for the full object. In the new View diff tab, you can review the changes in detail, and easily copy them without relying on tooltips.
In addition, to give you a clear timeline of progress, every state update to a change request now includes a timestamp.
Flag performance and lifecycle updates
We’ve added lifecycle metrics to the Analytics dashboard so you can see a snapshot of how many flags are currently in each major lifecycle stage: Develop, Production, and Cleanup. Each stage shows how many flags are new this week, how many have been there for more than a week, and the median time flags spend in that stage. You can also compare this to the historical median to spot outliers.
This gives you a clear picture of where flags may be stuck, helps you reduce technical debt, and connects engineering work to business outcomes.
To help reduce technical debt, Unleash now also suggests flags that are safe to archive. By analyzing usage, the platform highlights flags in the cleanup stage that haven’t been used for seven days so you can confidently archive them in bulk.
Project list improvements
The Project list view has been redesigned to make it easier to scan, even with a large number of projects. You can now switch between card and list views depending on which format you prefer, making navigation more flexible.
Unknown flag checker
Unleash now highlights any flags your SDKs try to evaluate that Unleash doesn’t recognize. You’ll see these in the Flags overview under Unknown flags, where you can review the full list to spot typos, fix misconfigurations, or remove stale references in your code. This helps keep your setup clean and in sync.
Join us at UnleashCon 2025
Join us on September 9 for our annual virtual user conference, UnleashCon. Hear how engineering leaders from the world’s largest companies are solving their toughest challenges, with deep-dive sessions including:
- Wayfair / Kirti Dhanai – From flags to Releases: How We Use FeatureOps to Standardize and Scale Delivery
- Yousician / Adam Kapos – Experimentation Without Limits: Lessons from 600 Full-Stack Experiments
- Prudential / Joseph Garcia & Peter Ho – Beyond the Toggle: Feature Flags in Enterprise Compliance
- Mercadona / Sergio Revilla Velasco & Emilio Carrión – FeatureOps: A Cultural and Technical Lever for Fearless Delivery
- Lenovo / Sitarama Maruvada – Implementing FeatureOps at Lenovo
- ASAPP / Ivan Lee & Tomas Piantanida – Supercharging LLM Experimentation with Unleash
Expect deep-dive sessions, live demos, trivia (with prizes!), and exciting announcements from Unleash.
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In our latest article, we break down how runtime controls like feature flags are essential for mitigating the risks of AI-assisted development, and why full-stack experimentation is the answer to turning that speed into real impact.
Read the full article here.
