A complete, frozen build of the software stack proposed for production release, built reproducibly from tagged sources and subjected to final validation before approval and signing.
Release package Work product in the Firmware and software stack lifecycle
It fixes exactly what will be released so validation, approval and signing all apply to the same build. Last-minute changes slipped in after testing mean the released software is not what was validated.
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