> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.canary.effectiveai.app/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Release an uploaded program bundle > Create a release: a version number that names one uploaded bundle. The response’s `endpoints` lists the operations the release serves, derived from what the bundle contains. Send `releaseVersion` and the `bundleId` that [Upload a program bundle](/api-reference/your-programs/upload-a-program-bundle) returned. To make the release the latest, use a version above the program’s `latestReleaseVersion`. A release is permanent. A version that names another bundle or other notes returns 409 `release_exists`; choose a higher version. Repeating an identical request is safe: it returns 200 with the release. A new release that serves at once returns 201 with `state` `ready`. A release Effective still prepares to serve returns 202 with `state` `provisioning`. Poll [Get a program release](/api-reference/your-programs/get-a-program-release) at `Location` until it returns 200. Until then the release is not the latest. Needs edit permission on the program. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.json post /rsl/{id}/releases openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: Effective API version: 2.0.0 description: The public Effective REST API. Authenticate using an Effective API key. servers: - url: https://api.canary.effectiveai.app/api/v2 description: Canary security: - bearerAuth: [] paths: /rsl/{id}/releases: post: tags: - Your programs summary: Release an uploaded program bundle description: >- Create a release: a version number that names one uploaded bundle. The response’s `endpoints` lists the operations the release serves, derived from what the bundle contains. Send `releaseVersion` and the `bundleId` that [Upload a program bundle](/api-reference/your-programs/upload-a-program-bundle) returned. To make the release the latest, use a version above the program’s `latestReleaseVersion`. A release is permanent. A version that names another bundle or other notes returns 409 `release_exists`; choose a higher version. Repeating an identical request is safe: it returns 200 with the release. A new release that serves at once returns 201 with `state` `ready`. A release Effective still prepares to serve returns 202 with `state` `provisioning`. Poll [Get a program release](/api-reference/your-programs/get-a-program-release) at `Location` until it returns 200. Until then the release is not the latest. Needs edit permission on the program. operationId: createProgramRelease parameters: - schema: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 128 pattern: ^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9._-]{0,127}$ description: >- Your organization’s ID for the program, chosen at its first upload: lowercase letters, digits, dots, underscores and hyphens. A rater’s program ID is its rater ID. required: true description: >- Your organization’s ID for the program, chosen at its first upload: lowercase letters, digits, dots, underscores and hyphens. A rater’s program ID is its rater ID. name: id in: path requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2ProgramReleaseCreate' responses: '200': description: The identical release already existed. Nothing changed. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2ProgramRelease' '201': description: The new release, ready to serve. headers: Location: schema: type: string required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2ProgramRelease' '202': description: >- The new release, still provisioning. Poll Location until it returns 200; Retry-After gives the interval in seconds. headers: Location: schema: type: string required: true Retry-After: schema: type: string required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2ProgramRelease' '400': description: Invalid request. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2CodedError' '401': description: Authentication required. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2CodedError' '403': description: You lack edit permission on the program, or are a read-only member. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2CodedError' '404': description: >- program_not_found, or bundle_not_found: the bundle was never uploaded for this program. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2CodedError' '409': description: >- release_exists: the version already names another bundle or other notes. Choose a higher version. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2CodedError' '413': description: The body exceeds 64 KiB. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2CodedError' '415': description: The request body is not application/json. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2CodedError' '500': description: Unexpected failure. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2CodedError' '503': description: Temporarily unavailable; retry later. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2CodedError' security: - bearerAuth: [] components: schemas: V2ProgramReleaseCreate: type: object properties: releaseVersion: type: integer minimum: 0 exclusiveMinimum: true maximum: 2147483647 description: >- Version number for the new release. It must be unused for this program. bundleId: type: string pattern: ^[a-f0-9]{64}$ description: An uploaded bundle of this program, from uploadProgram. notes: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 20000 description: Markdown release notes, stored as metadata.notes. required: - releaseVersion - bundleId additionalProperties: false V2ProgramRelease: type: object properties: programId: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 128 pattern: ^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9._-]{0,127}$ description: >- Your organization’s ID for the program, chosen at its first upload: lowercase letters, digits, dots, underscores and hyphens. A rater’s program ID is its rater ID. releaseVersion: type: integer minimum: 0 exclusiveMinimum: true bundleId: type: string pattern: ^[a-f0-9]{64}$ description: SHA-256 identity of the immutable program bundle. component: type: string enum: - rater - guideline description: >- What the program’s entry file is, as its `spec` states. A rater prices a risk. A guideline decides a submission step by step, and prices it with the raters it uses. The first upload fixes it: every bundle of one program has the same component. uses: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2ProgramUse' description: The raters this release’s guideline uses. Empty for a rater. endpoints: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2ProgramEndpoint' description: >- The operations this release serves, derived from what its own bundle contains. A rater’s release serves its contract and rating. A guideline’s release lists none yet. latest: type: boolean description: >- True for the latest release: the highest version whose state is ready. state: type: string enum: - provisioning - ready - failed description: >- provisioning while Effective prepares the release to serve; ready once it serves; failed if its bundle cannot be served. Only a ready release becomes the latest. failure: type: string description: >- Why the release failed, when state is failed. Upload a fixed bundle and release it. metadata: type: object additionalProperties: nullable: true description: Release metadata, such as notes. createdAt: type: string format: date-time createdBy: type: string updatedAt: type: string format: date-time updatedBy: type: string required: - programId - releaseVersion - bundleId - component - uses - endpoints - latest - state - metadata - createdAt - createdBy - updatedAt - updatedBy additionalProperties: false V2CodedError: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/V2Error' - type: object properties: code: type: string minLength: 1 description: Stable error code. Clients must tolerate unknown future codes. details: type: array items: type: object properties: location: type: string enum: - path - query - header - body path: type: array items: type: string maxLength: 64 maxItems: 12 code: type: string enum: - required - invalid_type - invalid_value - unknown_field message: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 200 required: - location - path - code - message minItems: 1 maxItems: 20 description: Bounded safe validation issues; may omit some invalid fields. requestId: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 128 description: >- Existing server correlation for this HTTP attempt, when available. dataset: type: string enum: - naic - osha description: Dataset needed for dataset_not_enabled. businessCode: type: string description: The rater’s own refusal code, for business_rejection. violations: type: array items: type: object properties: code: type: string description: Authored or built-in constraint code message: type: string description: Authored message for the failed constraint path: type: string description: Input path of the offending value; empty for the request value: nullable: true description: Offending input value, size-bounded by the runtime constraint: type: string description: The constraint the value failed, as text cite: type: string nullable: true description: >- Filing citation of the constraint, when the source cites one required: - code - message - path - value - constraint - cite additionalProperties: false maxItems: 256 description: >- Each input constraint the submission failed, for invalid_inputs and business_rejection. violationsTruncated: type: boolean description: >- True when the rater reported more violations than violations holds. executionId: type: string description: >- The recorded execution of a failed rating, for rater rating failures. accessUrl: type: string nullable: true format: uri description: Not currently returned. required: - code V2ProgramUse: type: object properties: alias: type: string description: The name the guideline gives the rater in its `use` line. path: type: string description: The rater’s source file in the bundle. programFingerprint: type: string description: Fingerprint of the rater’s rating program, compiled alone. required: - alias - path - programFingerprint additionalProperties: false V2ProgramEndpoint: type: object properties: operationId: type: string description: The operation, by its ID in this reference. method: type: string enum: - GET - POST path: type: string description: The path to call, with this program and release filled in. required: - operationId - method - path additionalProperties: false V2Error: type: object properties: error: type: string minLength: 1 description: Human-readable explanation of the failure. required: - error securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: 'Effective API key. Send Authorization: Bearer sk-eai-...' ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.