YouTrack Issue & Bug Tracker

We are happy to announce that YouTrack 3.1 is released! We did our best to make a nice Christmas present for you and cheer you up! It’s been a while since the last YouTrack update, and this time we prepared a huge amount of great new features you definitely need to try. Check out what we’ve got for you this time!

Intelligent Duplicates Management

1. Keep focus and all details in one place. Getting lost in hundreds of duplicates? Now when you close an issue as duplicate, all its votes and watchers are automatically transferred to the main issue. And if you decide to unlink the duplicate issue, all its votes and watchers are transferred back to the original issue.
   
2. Filtering duplicates with comments and attachments. Now you can filter all duplicates that contain comments or attachments right from the main issue. You can also see the number of issues with comments or attachments. Simply navigate to the Linked Issues tab, then click ‘with attachments’ or ‘with comments’ as appropriate to navigate straight to the issues you need (instead of browsing the whole list of duplicates).
   

Change Custom Field Type

1. Need more than one Assignee or Build value? In YouTrack 3.1 you can change the existing custom field type from single value to multi values. This applies to Enumeration, Version, Build, User and Group custom field types.

View Changes History in Related Comment

1. Changes history is now merged with the related comment. You can see all the changes made at the same time right below the comment. If you normally comment the changes you make, now it’s much easier to go through the comments along with the changes made. And that’s not all - attachments can now be added or previewed from comments as well.

‘Has’ Search Keyword

1. YouTrack’s search syntax now allows you to filter issues with a specific attribute, such as attachments, comments, links, or none of these. For example, enter: has: comments has: votes to find all issues that have comments and at least one vote.

Paint States & Attach Multiple Files at Once

1. In YouTrack 3.1 you can attach as many files as you want to an issue or comment in one step, as well as paint your issue statuses with different colors.

Improvements

Mailbox Integration

1. If you use mailbox integration, you’ve probably noticed that all messages with the same subject are collected in one thread and are added as comments to the issue created from the original email. Now these comments contain only the reply itself, without the original message text.
   One more addition concerns the visibility of issues created from email. In YouTrack 3.1, a new issue is created from the reply if its author does not have access to the original issue.

Administration

We’ve added the following enhancements to make your administration process even easier:
1. A custom workflow that allows you to specify the default user/group visibility for all new issues on project level.
2. ‘Send test email’ option in now available while configuring e-mail notifications.
3. Log in and restore your password using an email address.

TeamCity Integration

YouTrack and TeamCity make a perfect combination! We keep improving the integration of our tools by adding these goodies:
1. Multiple build configurations support in integration mapping.
2. Choose whether to receive notifications on changes pulled from TeamCity, such as adding Fixed in Build values or any command applied.
3. Configurable polling interval.

Customizable Workflow

We keep enriching our workflow language to give you more freedom and power, on one side, while on the other side, enhancing the workflow editor to keep your customization process easy and comfortable. In YouTrack 3.1 you can:
1. Find a tag by name, star/unstar issue for a specific user, create a new tag for a user.
2. Use code completion for Group and Version.
3. Perform string operations, including length, indexOf, contains, trim, split, etc.
4. Iterate users of group.
5. Show pop-up messages.
6. Check that collection contains an element.

REST API

1. We extended YouTrack REST API by adding the ability to get issues history.

Please check the Release Notes for more details. Download YouTrack 3.1 now or Sign up for YouTrack InCloud with the latest YouTrack version already available! By the way, YouTrack InCloud is free to use all winter!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
JetBrains YouTrack Team

We are happy to announce the release of YouTrack InCloud, a cloud-based version of YouTrack, offering up to three months of free use. We would like to say thanks to all beta-testers who joined us in the early phase and gave us extremely valuable feedback!

So, what’s so good about YouTrack InCloud?

Introductory period offer

As an introductory period offer, you get the maximum available plan including 2,000 Users + 20,000 Reporters, free to use all winter. Get started now>>

Who are Users and who are Reporters?

We’re introducing a new concept of user accounts - Users and Reporters. User accounts have the full set of permissions, while Reporter accounts have a basic set of permissions including issue reporting, commenting, linking, searching and viewing issues. A set of Reporter accounts is included in every commercial plan free of charge, which allows you to create additional accounts for your external users.

Get YouTrack InCloud and enjoy it free all winter or take a quick feature tour. If you are not ready yet, check YouTrack InCloud Pricing.

Enjoy your issue tracking as we host it for you!
JetBrains YouTrack Team

JetBrains team just came back from the Agile by Example conference in Warsaw, Poland. We really enjoyed the conference and would like to thank all participants we had a chance to meet and talk with. We also would like to thank the organizers of this event, as it was really unusual and creative. The venue tells a lot about the spirit of the event — this was the first time we’ve been to a conference taking place in what used to be a swimming pool and currently is a theater. A refreshing change! Thanks a lot!

We would also like to announce once more the winners of the Free License Drawing. Just as a reminder, we held a YouTrack and TeamCity license drawing at the conference. In case you missed the closing keynote, here are our winners:

Congratulations! Your licenses have already been emailed to you. Thanks everyone for participating!

Best regards,
JetBrains Team

Do you miss back-to-school rush time? Do you remember how it felt?
We would like to remind you about the wonderful time we all spent preparing for a new school year by announcing Back to School Office Sale! Start new business year with the best tools for your development team!
During the entire month of September you are entitled to special promotion that allows you to get up to 50% OFF when purchasing YouTrack, and 50% OFF PyCharm personal license - our Python IDE with support for Django.
We offer the variety of choices when purchasing YouTrack packs:

Hurry up, the offer is valid until September 30 only. Start the new year with the most intelligent issue & bug tracker.

Best Regards,
JetBrains Team

It’s been a while since we’ve introduced native integration with GitHub. Today we invite you to watch a short screencast showing how to set up an integration between YouTrack and GitHub and how to use it in action:

Watch more YouTrack screencasts on JetBrains TV.

Integrate and track with pleasure!
JetBrains YouTrack Team

Please welcome the latest update for the cutest bug tracker - YouTrack 3.0.2, featuring an improved YouTrack Workflow Editor. This build contains important bug fixes along with enhanced workflow functionality, with more workflow samples included in the YouTrack installation.

Custom Workflow enhancements include changes in the administration. We’ve added a new role - Project Admin, which can be used to create/edit and attach workflows to specific project.
To help you get started with workflow customization, we’ve included some useful workflow scenarios in the current build:

• Provide Issue description template for external reporters. Issue description template includes steps to reproduce, expected result and actual result. This template will help your external reporters to submit new issues providing all the details you need. And of course, you are welcome to create your own templates based on this workflow.
• Example of duplicates management:
  • Make impossible to mark bugs in current builds as duplicates of bugs in older builds.This workflow regulates the process of marking bugs found in the current build as duplicates of the bugs fixed in previous builds.
  • When linking issue A as duplicate of issue B, all changes to A’s assignee should be reflected in B’s assignee.
  • Display last submitted date for duplicated exceptions. This workflow rule adds the last submitted date to the original issue when closing the new issue as ‘duplicate’.

These are just some examples that you are welcome to customize and enrich according to your specific process needs. Get Youtrack Workflow Editor 3.0.2 and see it in action. Please refer to the complete release notes to get more details about all the changes included, download YouTrack 3.0.2, and enjoy your issue tracking!

Regards,
JetBrains YouTrack Team

YouTrack 3.0 has just been released and we’ve got so much feedback already! Thanks everyone, we really appreciate your interest, so keep sharing your thoughts and ideas with us.
And today, we’ve got a new YouTrack 3.0.1 build containing some hot fixes. You are welcome to download YouTrack 3.0.1 and share your feedback with us:

1. Submit issues and feature requests in our bug tracker.
2. Speak out at our community forum.
3. Submit private feedback using our feedback form.

Keep tracking with pleasure!
JetBrains YouTrack Team

Good news, YouTrack 3.0 release is only few days away, and today we are introducing YouTrack 3.0 Release Candidate. If you are desperate to see a new YouTrack in action, this build is definitely for you. It does not contain any new features compare to the latest EAP build, but includes important bug fixes. YouTrack 3.0 RC comes along with the fresh version of YouTrack Workflow Editor. Now you can fully enjoy creating your own workflows and editing the existing ones.
Please, check the full list of issues included in this build, download YouTrack 3.0 RC, and do not hesitate to share your feedback with us.

Keep tracking with pleasure!
JetBrains YouTrack Team

YouTrack Energy release is coming very soon! Since EAP builds are already available and contain most of Energy functionality. Considering that YouTrack Hosted also uses them, we would like to share a very useful demo with you.

The story is that after we converted all default issue attributes to customizable, we’ve received a lot of questions about configuring issue assignees when creating new projects. Please, watch the demo to learn the only true way to do it.

Watch demo on JetBrains TV

On the 5th May, in collaboration with our partners Pluralsight, we will be doing a webcast on Agile environments:

- What exactly is an Agile environment

- Best practices for setting up environments with TeamCity, YouTrack and an OSS stack

This webcast is completely free and open to all. Please check out Pluralsight’s website for more information and registration information.