[dglass]

Hard to say without know how your team cuts a new release, but my guess is you'll want to track all these changes in your project management software. How do tickets move through your system from planning -> analysis -> dev -> QA -> production?

Your release process should in theory only be picking up changes for tickets that have made it to QA and are tagged as QA or passed QA in your project management system.

[samgville]

Thanks for your help, this does make a lot of sense. Going to try to fix some stuff and then will reply to everyone who offered their advice.