# Verify and publish a release

Verify a frozen candidate against its reference cases and canonical proofs, then publish it to the site's PrintStation station.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/labels/guides/publish-release

Audience: Reviewer

## Verify and publish a release

1. **Open the release candidate for review**

   Open the release candidate for review.

   An author froze this candidate from the prepared template. Its reference cases and expectations are fixed. Verify them before anything is published.

2. **Verify every frozen reference case**

   Verify every frozen reference case.

   Verification uses the real rule engine and canonical renderer. Inspect each allowed-case proof and each blocked case before publication.

3. **Check the German customer label**

   Check the German customer label.

   Check the mapped customer SKU, all three labels and the recycling decoration for Germany.

4. **Check the minimum-quantity label**

   Check the minimum-quantity label.

   Check one unit, its exact leading-zero customer code and the default decoration for Britain.

5. **Check the standard label**

   Check the standard label.

   Check the standard template and its default content for Britain. The customer-specific layout change must not affect this workflow.

6. **Check the unrelated German workflow**

   Check the unrelated German workflow.

   The Germany decoration still applies in its approved standard workflow. An unrelated template must retain its expected output.

7. **Check the missing-code refusal**

   Check the missing-code refusal.

   A missing required customer code must block the label. This expected refusal produces no canonical proof.

8. **Check the unreleased-job refusal**

   Check the unreleased-job refusal.

   An unreleased source job must not produce a label. Check the expected refusal before approving the candidate.

9. **Record the reviewer's publication review**

   Record the reviewer's publication review.

   Record what was checked and where this release should apply: this site's PrintStation station and its qualified printer.

10. **Confirm the canonical proof review**

   Confirm the canonical proof review.

   Only confirm after checking every canonical proof. Publication changes future preparations; accepted labels retain their original document bytes.

11. **Publish the reviewed release to PrintStation**

   Publish the reviewed release to PrintStation.

   The publication receipt records the reviewer, release and note. New preparations use this release and print through PrintStation on the qualified printer; accepted jobs keep their original labels.

[Watch or practise this chapter](https://help.smartfact.ai/labels/demo?guide=publish-release&chapter=publish-release&audience=office)