Understanding Token Release

You can release a token manually if you decide you do not need to modify an object. Additionally, you can release the token if you want to allow the next person in the token queue to check out the object for development. If you have made changes to an object and checked it in, another developer in another project must refrain from checking in the object until after your project has been promoted to a status where the system transfers the object to the next path code, or your changes will not be transferred.