diff --git a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/messages/impact_release_config.json b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/messages/impact_release_config.json
index e53051cc9..d96edc890 100644
--- a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/messages/impact_release_config.json
+++ b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/messages/impact_release_config.json
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
   "commandDescription": "Figures out impacted release configurations of a project, due to a change,from the last known tags",
   "releaseConfigFileFlagDescription":"Path to the directory containing release defns",
   "baseCommitOrBranchFlagDescription": "The base branch on which the git tags should be used from",
-  "filterByFlagDescription": "Filter by a specific release config name"
+  "filterByFlagDescription": "Filter by a specific release config name",
+  "explictDependencyCheckFlagDescription": "Activate to consider dependencyOn attribut while handling impact"
 }
diff --git a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/resources/schemas/releasedefinitiongenerator.schema.json b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/resources/schemas/releasedefinitiongenerator.schema.json
index c06ece086..9a7f2cc7c 100644
--- a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/resources/schemas/releasedefinitiongenerator.schema.json
+++ b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/resources/schemas/releasedefinitiongenerator.schema.json
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@
                 "type": "string"
             }
         },
+        "dependencyOn": {
+            "type": "array",
+            "title": "Include the below artifacts as dependencies of this release definition,usefor for validation",
+            "items": {
+                "type": "string"
+            }
+        },
         "releasedefinitionProperties":{
             "type": "object",
             "title": "Properties that need to be set in the generated definition file",
diff --git a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/commands/impact/releaseconfig.ts b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/commands/impact/releaseconfig.ts
index 8a133a43c..c3dac0b9d 100644
--- a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/commands/impact/releaseconfig.ts
+++ b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/commands/impact/releaseconfig.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ export default class ReleaseConfig extends SfpowerscriptsCommand {
             description: messages.getMessage('releaseConfigFileFlagDescription'),
             default: 'config',
         }),
+        explictDependencyCheck: Flags.boolean({
+            description: messages.getMessage('explictDependencyCheckFlagDescription'),
+            default: false,
+        }),
         filterBy: Flags.string({
             description: messages.getMessage('filterByFlagDescription'),
         }),
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ export default class ReleaseConfig extends SfpowerscriptsCommand {
         let impactedReleaseConfigs = impactedReleaseConfigResolver.getImpactedReleaseConfigs(
             packagesToBeBuilt,
             this.flags.releaseconfig,
+            this.flags.explictDependencyCheck,
             this.flags.filterBy
         );
 
diff --git a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/impact/ImpactedReleaseConfig.ts b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/impact/ImpactedReleaseConfig.ts
index 6a21ce73a..1af8798bc 100644
--- a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/impact/ImpactedReleaseConfig.ts
+++ b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/impact/ImpactedReleaseConfig.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import path from 'path';
 
 export default class ImpactedRelaseConfigResolver {
 
-    public getImpactedReleaseConfigs(impactedPackages, configDir, filterBy?: string) {
+    public getImpactedReleaseConfigs(impactedPackages, configDir,isExplicitDependencyCheckEnabled:boolean=false, filterBy?: string) {
         const impactedReleaseDefs = [];
 
         fs.readdirSync(configDir).forEach((file) => {
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ export default class ImpactedRelaseConfigResolver {
                     );
                 }
 
+
+                // handle dependencyOn, only do impact if there is atleast one package that is impacted
+                if (releaseImpactedPackages.length>0 && isExplicitDependencyCheckEnabled && releaseConfig.dependencyOn) {
+                    releaseImpactedPackages = releaseConfig.dependencyOn.filter((artifact) =>
+                        impactedPackages.includes(artifact)
+                    );
+                }
+
+
                 if (releaseImpactedPackages.length > 0) {
                     if (filterBy) {
                         if (releaseConfig.releaseName.includes(filterBy)) {
diff --git a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/release/ReleaseConfig.ts b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/release/ReleaseConfig.ts
index 55910eb19..299152d12 100644
--- a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/release/ReleaseConfig.ts
+++ b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/release/ReleaseConfig.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ export default class ReleaseConfig {
         return lodash.cloneDeep(this._releaseDefinitionGeneratorSchema);
     }
 
-    public constructor(private logger: Logger, pathToReleaseDefinition: string) {
+    public constructor(private logger: Logger, pathToReleaseDefinition: string, private isExplicitDependencyCheckEnabled:boolean=false) {
         this._releaseDefinitionGeneratorSchema = yaml.load(fs.readFileSync(pathToReleaseDefinition, 'utf8'));
         this.validateReleaseDefinitionGeneratorConfig(this._releaseDefinitionGeneratorSchema);
 
@@ -55,6 +55,16 @@ export default class ReleaseConfig {
             }
         }
 
+        if(packages.length>0)
+        {
+            for (const sfdxPackage of sfdxPackages) {
+                if (this.getPackageDependencyPredicate(sfdxPackage)) {
+                    packages.push(sfdxPackage);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+
         return packages;
     }
 
@@ -91,6 +101,15 @@ export default class ReleaseConfig {
             return this.releaseDefinitionGeneratorConfigSchema.includeOnlyArtifacts?.includes(artifact);
         } else if (this.releaseDefinitionGeneratorConfigSchema.excludeArtifacts) {
             return !this.releaseDefinitionGeneratorConfigSchema.excludeArtifacts?.includes(artifact);
-        } else return true;
+        } else if(this.isExplicitDependencyCheckEnabled && this.releaseDefinitionGeneratorConfigSchema.dependencyOn) {
+            return this.releaseDefinitionGeneratorConfigSchema.dependencyOn?.includes(artifact);
+        }
+        else return true;
+    }
+
+    private getPackageDependencyPredicate(artifact: string): boolean {
+        if(this.isExplicitDependencyCheckEnabled && this.releaseDefinitionGeneratorConfigSchema.dependencyOn) {
+            return this.releaseDefinitionGeneratorConfigSchema.dependencyOn?.includes(artifact);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/validate/ValidateImpl.ts b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/validate/ValidateImpl.ts
index cf320350a..c01d52f7f 100644
--- a/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/validate/ValidateImpl.ts
+++ b/packages/sfpowerscripts-cli/src/impl/validate/ValidateImpl.ts
@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ export default class ValidateImpl implements PostDeployHook, PreDeployHook {
 				let releaseConfig: ReleaseConfig = new ReleaseConfig(
 					logger,
 					props.releaseConfigPath,
+					true
 				);
 				return releaseConfig.getPackagesAsPerReleaseConfig();
 			}