Release may refer to:

• Art release, the public distribution of an artistic production, such as a film, album, or song
• Legal release, a legal instrument
• News release, a communication directed at the news media
• Release (ISUP), a code to identify and debug events in ISUP signaling
• Release (phonetics), the opening of the closure of a stop consonant
• Release from imprisonment
• Release, in medical classification, a root operation in the ICD-10 Procedure Coding System
• Software release, a distribution of a computer software in the software release life cycle

• Release (film), a 2010 British film starring Daniel Brocklebank
• "Release" (Angel), a television episode
• "Release" (Law & Order), a television episode
• "Release" (The X-Files), a television episode
• "The Release" (Animorphs), a television episode
• "The Release" (Entourage), a television episode

• Release, part of the envelope of a musical note
• Release, a bridge in thirty-two-bar form
• Release Entertainment, a subsidiary label of Relapse Records

• Release (Cop Shoot Cop album), 1994
• Release (Damon Johnson album) or the title song, 2010
• Release (David Knopfler album), 1983
• Release (Pet Shop Boys album), 2002
• Release (Sister Hazel album) or the title song, 2009

• "Release" (The Tea Party song), 1998
• "Release" (Timbaland song), 2008
• "Release (The Tension)", by Patti LaBelle, 1980
• "Release", by Afro Celt Sound System from Volume 2: Release, 1999
• "Release", by George from Polyserena, 2002
• "Release", by Imagine Dragons from Smoke + Mirrors, 2015
• "Release", by Paul McCartney from Standing Stone, 1997
• "Release", by Pearl Jam from Ten, 1991
• "Release, Release", by Yes from Tormato, 1978

• Release (agency), a UK agency that provides legal services for young people charged with drug possession
• Release International, an organization for monitoring persecution of Christians
• Release Magazine, a Swedish alternative music online magazine

• Delayed release (disambiguation)
• Flash release, a grape-pressing technique
• Dismissal (employment), termination of employment
• Release time, in US public schools, time set aside for students' private religious education
• Released (disambiguation)