Codefresh recently introduced an approval pipeline step, enhancing the distinction between Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery by allowing human intervention before production deployment. This step provides flexibility in Continuous Delivery by enabling pauses for approvals, which can be implemented with minimal code addition and queried for results. It facilitates various tasks, such as preventing destructive actions unless explicitly approved, and enables binary decision-making within pipelines, such as selecting deployment targets between production and staging. The approval step can be integrated into Slack channels and is available across all Codefresh plans without consuming pipeline resources during the approval phase.