A release calendar in Confluence is a document. ArcRelease makes it a control: freeze windows enforce themselves at deploy time, and two teams heading for the same service in the same week find out at planning rather than at merge.
An enforced freeze window is a change-freeze that the deploy path actually respects. ArcRelease builds the calendar from your Jira fix versions, adds freezes owned by a named team, and flags a release that would ship inside one before it goes out.
The freeze was in a Confluence page nobody deploying at 22:00 had open.
Two teams booked the same service in the same window and only found out at merge.
Finance owns the quarter-end freeze, but engineering is the one who breaks it.
A calendar you have to remember to check is not a control. ArcRelease turns the timeline into something the release process enforces on its own.
Fix versions become the release calendar; you add the freezes your business needs.
Each freeze has a named owner — finance for quarter-end, security for an incident freeze.
A release aimed inside a freeze is flagged before it ships, with the freeze and its owner named.
Two releases in the same window get a suggested new order at planning, not a collision at merge.
ArcRelease reads the calendar from your tools and is never in the deploy path.
From your Jira fix versions, so it reflects the release plan your teams already maintain. You layer freeze windows on top of it.
If you wire the advisory check into branch protection, yes. Otherwise it warns loudly and records any exception with an owner and a reason.
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