We have added release markers and release jobs to CircleCI Releases!
Release markers provide a lightweight way for users to generate a changelog and easily track their releases without requiring a full CircleCI Releases setup (no agent install needed!). Release markers can be configured for releases to any deployment target (ie. ECS, EC2, VMs, k8s, etc). See our documentation for information on setting up release markers.
Release jobs replace kubernetes manifest annotations as the way to configure deployment triggers. Release jobs also allow users to monitor their kubernetes release process as part of the overall deployment workflow in CircleCI, making it easier to find releases for a given pipeline. Users can also use release jobs to orchestrate releases across multiple environments (for example, deploy to production only after a successful release in a staging environment). See our documentation for information on setting up release jobs.