YouTrack Issue Tracker

We’re jubilant to announce that YouTrack 1.0 has been finally released!!

You can download YouTrack 1.0 right away, and request an evaluation license to try it out for 60 days.

When you’re ready to purchase, choose between two YouTrack editions:

• Enterprise Edition provides unlimited YouTrack functionality for $1,200, or $600 if purchased before the New Year 2010.
• Professional Edition is limited to 10 projects and 20 user accounts, and doesn’t support LDAP authentication. On the upside, it’s up for grabs at $300, or a mere $150 if purchased before the New Year.

For both editions, you will receive 1 year of free technical support and upgrades.

To request new features and report bugs, please use YouTrack’s own issue tracker instance.

Track with Pleasure!

The time has come and we’re releasing YouTrack 1.0 Release Candidate today.

To sum things up, the RC build introduces a pack of new features, bug fixes, and usability improvements compared to YouTrack Beta, including:

• OpenID support via 5 providers to log in with a single click.
• Select All to modify more issues than you have in a single page.
• Restructured permissions for clear administration.
• “Verified” state for use by your quality assurance department.
• Filter hints for better understanding or your current filter selection.
• E-mail threading to prevent YouTrack notifications from flooding your inbox.
• Merging related changes in e-mail notifications (and no more subscriptions to tags and saved searches that you haven’t ever touched!).
• Direct links to comments and new issue form.
• Release notes support (for example, see RC 2 release notes view for everything (except exceptions) that we’ve fixed since YouTrack Beta).
• Collapsed view and “Show all” links for tags and saved searches.
• Support for IE6+ via Google Chrome Frame.
• New shortcuts for toggling issue list views (Ctrl+Alt+plus/minus), and getting back from full issue view to the issue list (Ctrl+Up).
• Link to registration form from Admin Area | Users tab.
• And so on!

Download YouTrack RC and try it out! Should the build contain serious bugs, please report them into our YouTrack instance.

Are you tied with Internet Explorer 6? Do you like vintage style? Anyway, here’s a solution for you: YouTrack now supports Chrome Frame. Once you enter YouTrack with IE 6, you’ll be automatically redirected to Chrome Frame installation page.

Of course, if you have already installed Chrome Frame, it should work with YouTrack out of the box.

However, don’t forget that Chrome Frame is still unstable and we disclaim any guarantees regarding running YouTrack with it.

We have finally come up with a pricing policy for YouTrack. To make long story short, we’ve got two editions, and we’re giving them away at 50% discount.

Enterprise Edition provides essentially everything that YouTrack is capable of, with no limitations whatsoever. Its regular price tag is set at $1200 but we’ve got an introductory offer for you: by ordering YouTrack Enterprise Edition before New Year, you receive it at a price that is twice less than it’s worth. In other words, you’re getting a keyboard-centric, full-featured, fast-flying, AJAX-based, state-of-the-art bug and issue tracking system at as low as $600!

Now what if you’re a small to medium team? There’s an alternative offer for you: Professional Edition. It’s restricted to 10 projects and 20 user accounts, and doesn’t support LDAP authentication. However, how can you resist buying a keyboard-centric… (see above for other superlatives)… bug and issue tracker for only $150? Hurry up though: it will cost $300 after New Year.

Before you make a decision, you’ll be able to evaluate YouTrack for an entire 2 months. Whichever edition you choose, you will receive 1 year of free technical support and upgrades (meaning that you will most likely upgrade to our next major version without paying a buck). Any subsequent updates will be paid again.

We have published a new EAP build number 76.

Download it, and don’t forget to update your license.

• New features
• Fixed issues
• All together as HTML

The following improvements get honorable mentions:

• You can now replace YouTrack logo with your own logo (JT-1385).
• You can navigate from full issue view back to the list of issues by pressing Ctrl+Up (JT-2324).

We have covered YouTrack usage extensively, and we’re still trying to ensure that end users understand what they’re doing when they work with the application.

However, the administrative part has been somewhat overlooked - up until today.

Please welcome YouTrack Administrator’s Guide that currently provides details on the following:

• General Admin area overview: shows how you can use different pages in YouTrack Admin area.
• Initial setup: steps you’re supposed to take when running YouTrack for the first time.
• Administering projects: guidelines on creating, configuring, and importing projects from JIRA.
• Administering user access: procedures for configuring roles, groups, and users.
• Integrating YouTrack with external tools, including JIRA, TeamCity, LDAP, and OpenID.

If there’s something you need to know about YouTrack administration that is not covered in the Administrator’s Guide, please let us know!

The best way to find something in YouTrack is to search for it using our search box. However, if you don’t feel comfortable with our search syntax, you can use filters to the left of the list of issues.

As you select filters, YouTrack calculates the number of issues that match your current selection and displays it in a pop-up. For example, when you select “Major” for priority and “Bug” for type, YouTrack immediately tells that this particular selection includes 2 major bugs:

Now, just click “Show” to display these matching issues.