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title: "Combine existing releases into a cross-project release"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/SRTFJ/637960197/Combine%20existing%20releases%20into%20a%20cross-project%20release"
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Swanly treats all releases from Jira projects as single-project releases, even if they have identical names. Therefore, Swanly doesn’t automatically synchronize single project releases from different projects into one cross-project release. 

## Combine existing releases and issues into a cross-project release

1. In Swanly, create a cross-project release with all the projects and give it a unique name.
2. In Jira, merge each single-project release into the cross-project release you just created in Swanly.   
:warning: You must have permission to delete releases in each project.
3. In Swanly, refresh the page to see all the issues from those merged projects under the newly created cross-project release.  
✅ You can now rename the cross-project release back to its desired name.


> 📝 To find out more about Cross-project releases, see: [Cross-project releases](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SRTFJ/pages/603259421).

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