YouTrack Issue & Bug Tracker

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.

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!

We have revamped YouTrack login form to make it prettier and handier.

You can now log into YouTrack with an OpenID from one of five providers:

Ever attempted logging in from your smartphone? This is much easier now. Actually, it’s easier from anywhere: a single button click, and your Gmail (or Yahoo or whatever) credentials let you get in!

The new login form is available in YouTrack EAP starting from build 67.

Enjoy!

We have reopened YouTrack Early Access Program, and here’s the first post-beta EAP build:

• New features
• Fixed issues

Download build 67 now!

Found a bug? Need a feature? Report!

Some important news today.

First, you can now follow us on twitter for quick development updates.

Second, YouTrack FAQ has been published in response to feedback that we have received this month. Particularly, it explains:

• How to create new users when they don’t create themselves.
• What’s wrong (or not) with YouTrack when you’re unable to assign an issue to yourself.
• How to simulate subtasks in YouTrack with issue linking.
• Whether it’s possible to visually distinguish between different types of issues.
• Whether YouTrack integrates with version control systems.

That’s not all FAQ is about: see if there are answers to questions you’ve been afraid to ask. If not, ask on, and we’ll answer!

We’ve got a double dose of breaking news for you today.

First, some of you may have noticed that we had changed logo at our own tracker. This is not without a reason: due to copyright restrictions, we can’t keep the Charisma code name as a long-standing name of the product. Therefore, we’re introducing a new name for JetBrains issue tracker: YouTrack. Yes, it’s official, and effective today.

Second, after two years of development and 2.5 months of EAP, we feel we’re ready for a serious milestone. With that in mind, YouTrack goes beta today! Of course, as a full-rate beta product, it gets its very own section at the JetBrains web site. You can download the beta version here — as before, choose between jar and war formats.

If everything goes fine, we should be ready for YouTrack 1.0 release before New Year, but we still need your feedback to go firmly ahead:

• If you have found a bug or two, please report into our own YouTrack instance.
• If you’re ready to share your experience with Charisma/YouTrack in a less formal manner, please leave your feedback at the web site.

Thank you for staying with us, and don’t you leave without downloading!

We’ve published a new EAP build which introduces a couple of major syntactic changes in the way you search for issues. We’ve made the transition with two goals in mind:

• To streamline full-text search.
• To provide a way to clearly separate attributes and values from other query items.

Here’s a simple query to summarize the modified syntax:

The following list describes the changes in more detail:

• Colon after attributes. When you specify an attribute (for, state, priority etc.), it should be followed by a colon:
  

  state:

  If you use query completion, the colon is inserted automatically.

• Curly braces around attribute values that contain spaces. When you specify an attribute value that contains more than a single word, use curly braces ({}) to surround it:
  

  in: {JetBrains Tracker}

  Again, the braces are added automatically when you choose attribute values using query completion.

• # as prefix for values without attributes. When you specify an attribute value without the corresponding attribute, it should be preceded by the hash mark (#):
  

  #unresolved

In addition, we’ve extended your search toolset to include the following features:

• “-” operator is introduced to subtract a subset from a set of search query results. For example,
  

  #unresolved -critical

  displays all unresolved issues excluding those with critical priority. Note that you shouldn’t put the hash mark before a lonely attribute value when you use the “-” operator, as in the example above.

• Sort order for “sort by”. Using the new asc and desc keywords, you can now specify whether to sort the list of found issues in ascending or descending order:
  

  priority: critical sort by: updated asc

See the list of other implemented features and fixed bugs, and download the latest EAP build (#54).