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title: "How do I remove a production date"
canonical: "https://docs.vaultspeed.com/space/VPD/3403907351/How%20do%20I%20remove%20a%20production%20date"
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> ℹ️ ### General Rules for Removing a Production Date
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> ℹ️ - <span style="color: #bf2600">Do </span><span style="color: #bf2600">**NOT delete a Production Date**</span><span style="color: #bf2600"> when that release is running in Production.</span>
> ℹ️ - <span style="color: #006644">**Always create a new release**</span><span style="color: #006644"> when a Production Date is removed from a Data Vault Release, and there is a Locked Data Vault release after the Data Vault Release with the removed Production Date.</span>

Removing a production date from a data vault release can be done using the ‘Downgrade' button which is available on the data vaults → Releases screen when a release has a production date.

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> ⚠️ CAUTION : Don’t remove the Production date for a release in VaultSpeed that is deployed to your running Production System.

More details and example cases can be found on this page: [https://docs.vaultspeed.com/space/VPD/3011641397/Data+Vault+Releases#Removing-a-production-date](https://docs.vaultspeed.com/space/VPD/3011641397/Data+Vault+Releases#Removing-a-production-date)