diff --git a/packages/api/src/router/release-deploy.ts b/packages/api/src/router/release-deploy.ts
index 9be9199f3..d2da4019d 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/router/release-deploy.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/router/release-deploy.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import {
   createJobApprovals,
   createReleaseJobTriggers,
   dispatchReleaseJobTriggers,
-  isPassingAllPolicies,
+  isPassingAllPoliciesExceptNewerThanLastActive,
   isPassingLockingPolicy,
   isPassingReleaseStringCheckPolicy,
 } from "@ctrlplane/job-dispatch";
@@ -91,7 +91,9 @@ export const releaseDeployRouter = createTRPCRouter({
       await dispatchReleaseJobTriggers(ctx.db)
         .releaseTriggers(releaseJobTriggers)
         .filter(
-          input.isForcedRelease ? isPassingLockingPolicy : isPassingAllPolicies,
+          input.isForcedRelease
+            ? isPassingLockingPolicy
+            : isPassingAllPoliciesExceptNewerThanLastActive,
         )
         .then(cancelOldReleaseJobTriggersOnJobDispatch)
         .dispatch();
@@ -160,7 +162,9 @@ export const releaseDeployRouter = createTRPCRouter({
       await dispatchReleaseJobTriggers(ctx.db)
         .releaseTriggers(releaseJobTriggers)
         .filter(
-          input.isForcedRelease ? isPassingLockingPolicy : isPassingAllPolicies,
+          input.isForcedRelease
+            ? isPassingLockingPolicy
+            : isPassingAllPoliciesExceptNewerThanLastActive,
         )
         .then(cancelOldReleaseJobTriggersOnJobDispatch)
         .dispatch();
diff --git a/packages/job-dispatch/src/policies/release-sequencing.ts b/packages/job-dispatch/src/policies/release-sequencing.ts
index 4ad9e0e3b..bbfaa31c2 100644
--- a/packages/job-dispatch/src/policies/release-sequencing.ts
+++ b/packages/job-dispatch/src/policies/release-sequencing.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
+import type { Tx } from "@ctrlplane/db";
+import { isAfter } from "date-fns";
 import _ from "lodash";
+import { isPresent } from "ts-is-present";
 
-import { and, eq, inArray, notExists, sql } from "@ctrlplane/db";
+import { and, eq, inArray, ne, notExists, sql } from "@ctrlplane/db";
 import * as schema from "@ctrlplane/db/schema";
-import { activeStatus } from "@ctrlplane/validators/jobs";
+import { activeStatus, JobStatus } from "@ctrlplane/validators/jobs";
 
 import type { ReleaseIdPolicyChecker } from "./utils.js";
 
@@ -65,3 +68,92 @@ export const isPassingNoActiveJobsPolicy: ReleaseIdPolicyChecker = async (
     .map((rjt) => rjt.release_job_trigger)
     .value();
 };
+
+const latestActiveReleaseSubQuery = (db: Tx) =>
+  db
+    .select({
+      id: schema.release.id,
+      deploymentId: schema.release.deploymentId,
+      version: schema.release.version,
+      createdAt: schema.release.createdAt,
+      name: schema.release.name,
+      config: schema.release.config,
+      environmentId: schema.releaseJobTrigger.environmentId,
+      rank: sql<number>`ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ${schema.release.deploymentId}, ${schema.releaseJobTrigger.environmentId} ORDER BY ${schema.release.createdAt} DESC)`.as(
+        "rank",
+      ),
+    })
+    .from(schema.release)
+    .innerJoin(
+      schema.releaseJobTrigger,
+      eq(schema.releaseJobTrigger.releaseId, schema.release.id),
+    )
+    .innerJoin(schema.job, eq(schema.releaseJobTrigger.jobId, schema.job.id))
+    .where(ne(schema.job.status, JobStatus.Pending))
+    .as("active_releases");
+
+/**
+ * This policy checks if the release is newer than the last release that was deployed for a deployment/environment.
+ * i.e. you can only dispatch a release if every release later than it is pending.
+ * @param db
+ * @param releaseJobTriggers
+ */
+export const isPassingNewerThanLastActiveReleasePolicy: ReleaseIdPolicyChecker =
+  async (db, releaseJobTriggers) => {
+    if (releaseJobTriggers.length === 0) return [];
+
+    const activeRelease = latestActiveReleaseSubQuery(db);
+
+    const releaseIds = releaseJobTriggers.map((rjt) => rjt.releaseId);
+    const releases = await db
+      .select()
+      .from(schema.release)
+      .where(inArray(schema.release.id, releaseIds));
+
+    const deploymentIds = _.uniq(releases.map((r) => r.deploymentId));
+    const deployments = await db
+      .select()
+      .from(schema.deployment)
+      .leftJoin(
+        activeRelease,
+        and(
+          eq(activeRelease.deploymentId, schema.deployment.id),
+          eq(activeRelease.rank, 1),
+        ),
+      )
+      .where(inArray(schema.deployment.id, deploymentIds))
+      .then((rows) =>
+        _.chain(rows)
+          .groupBy((r) => r.deployment.id)
+          .map((r) => ({
+            ...r[0]!.deployment,
+            activeReleases: r.map((r) => r.active_releases).filter(isPresent),
+          }))
+          .value(),
+      );
+
+    return _.chain(releaseJobTriggers)
+      .groupBy((rjt) => {
+        const release = releases.find((r) => r.id === rjt.releaseId);
+        if (!release) return null;
+        return [release.deploymentId, rjt.environmentId];
+      })
+      .filter(isPresent)
+      .map((triggers) => _.maxBy(triggers, (t) => t.createdAt)!)
+      .map((t) => {
+        const release = releases.find((r) => r.id === t.releaseId);
+        if (!release) return null;
+        const deployment = deployments.find(
+          (d) => d.id === release.deploymentId,
+        );
+        if (!deployment) return null;
+        const activeRelease = deployment.activeReleases.find(
+          (r) => r.environmentId === t.environmentId,
+        );
+        if (!activeRelease) return t;
+        if (release.id === activeRelease.id) return t;
+        return isAfter(release.createdAt, activeRelease.createdAt) ? t : null;
+      })
+      .filter(isPresent)
+      .value();
+  };
diff --git a/packages/job-dispatch/src/policy-checker.ts b/packages/job-dispatch/src/policy-checker.ts
index b9e252f0f..a0558f85d 100644
--- a/packages/job-dispatch/src/policy-checker.ts
+++ b/packages/job-dispatch/src/policy-checker.ts
@@ -8,13 +8,39 @@ import { isPassingConcurrencyPolicy } from "./policies/concurrency-policy.js";
 import { isPassingJobRolloutPolicy } from "./policies/gradual-rollout.js";
 import { isPassingApprovalPolicy } from "./policies/manual-approval.js";
 import { isPassingReleaseDependencyPolicy } from "./policies/release-dependency.js";
-import { isPassingNoActiveJobsPolicy } from "./policies/release-sequencing.js";
+import {
+  isPassingNewerThanLastActiveReleasePolicy,
+  isPassingNoActiveJobsPolicy,
+} from "./policies/release-sequencing.js";
 import { isPassingReleaseWindowPolicy } from "./policies/release-window.js";
 import { isPassingCriteriaPolicy } from "./policies/success-rate-criteria-passing.js";
 
 export const isPassingAllPolicies = async (
   db: Tx,
   releaseJobTriggers: schema.ReleaseJobTrigger[],
+) => {
+  if (releaseJobTriggers.length === 0) return [];
+  const checks: ReleaseIdPolicyChecker[] = [
+    isPassingLockingPolicy,
+    isPassingApprovalPolicy,
+    isPassingCriteriaPolicy,
+    isPassingConcurrencyPolicy,
+    isPassingReleaseDependencyPolicy,
+    isPassingJobRolloutPolicy,
+    isPassingNoActiveJobsPolicy,
+    isPassingNewerThanLastActiveReleasePolicy,
+    isPassingReleaseWindowPolicy,
+  ];
+
+  let passingJobs = releaseJobTriggers;
+  for (const check of checks) passingJobs = await check(db, passingJobs);
+
+  return passingJobs;
+};
+
+export const isPassingAllPoliciesExceptNewerThanLastActive = async (
+  db: Tx,
+  releaseJobTriggers: schema.ReleaseJobTrigger[],
 ) => {
   if (releaseJobTriggers.length === 0) return [];
   const checks: ReleaseIdPolicyChecker[] = [
diff --git a/packages/job-dispatch/src/release-sequencing.ts b/packages/job-dispatch/src/release-sequencing.ts
index aac742e57..bc321bf99 100644
--- a/packages/job-dispatch/src/release-sequencing.ts
+++ b/packages/job-dispatch/src/release-sequencing.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { Tx } from "@ctrlplane/db";
 
-import { inArray, sql } from "@ctrlplane/db";
+import { inArray, isNull, sql } from "@ctrlplane/db";
 import * as schema from "@ctrlplane/db/schema";
 import { JobStatus } from "@ctrlplane/validators/jobs";
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ export const cancelOldReleaseJobTriggersOnJobDispatch = async (
     inner join ${schema.release} on ${schema.releaseJobTrigger.releaseId} = ${schema.release.id}
     inner join ${schema.deployment} on ${schema.release.deploymentId} = ${schema.deployment.id}
     inner join ${schema.environment} on ${schema.releaseJobTrigger.environmentId} = ${schema.environment.id}
-    inner join ${schema.environmentPolicy} on ${schema.environment.policyId} = ${schema.environmentPolicy.id}
+    left join ${schema.environmentPolicy} on ${schema.environment.policyId} = ${schema.environmentPolicy.id}
     inner join (${triggersSubquery}) as triggers on 
       ${schema.deployment.id} = triggers.cancelDeploymentId
       and ${schema.releaseJobTrigger.environmentId} = triggers.cancelEnvironmentId
@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@ export const cancelOldReleaseJobTriggersOnJobDispatch = async (
       schema.releaseJobTrigger.id,
       releaseJobTriggers.map((t) => t.id),
     )}
-    and ${schema.environmentPolicy.releaseSequencing} = ${schema.releaseSequencingType.enumValues.at(1)}
+    and (
+      ${schema.environmentPolicy.releaseSequencing} = ${schema.releaseSequencingType.enumValues.at(1)} 
+      or ${isNull(schema.environmentPolicy.releaseSequencing)}
+    )
   `;
 
   const jobsToCancel = await db