YouTrack: 10 Tips for Your Pleasure and Profit

Update from December 29, 2021, 16:00 (GMT +0).  The latest YouTrack and Hub versions (2021.4.36872 and 2021.1.14127 respectively) released on December 21st include log4j 2.17. To the best of our knowledge, these YouTrack and Hub versions are not affected by any known log4j-related vulnerabilities discovered to date (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-44832 and CVE-2021-45105). Feel free to d

YouTrack 2021.4 makes automation easy with the new Workflow Constructor, a drag-and-drop visual editor that lets you create workflows without writing a single line of code. Other updates include user access management improvements, new Mailbox Integration features, a new domain for YouTrack InCloud users, and the ability to embed Figma designs and Google calendars in tasks, comments, and articles.

All jobs have some kind of routine to them, especially when you work in a team: close a user story when all its subtasks are resolved; remind your teammates about upcoming deadlines; create a release task and a bunch of subtasks and assign them to the responsible individuals. Do these steps sound familiar? Doing tasks like this manually wastes time and increases the chances that something importan

In this blog series, we introduce you to useful features inside YouTrack and show you how to use them effectively. In this post, we’ll show you how to set up dashboards for executive overview, team view, personal backlogs, and guest landing pages. Dashboards can be used to provide a running report, so you are always informed about the current state of your projects and tasks in YouTrack. The

Are you and your team currently using or looking for a help desk tool for working with support tickets from customers or internal users? Are you already using a mailbox integration with YouTrack for that purpose? If so, we would like to invite you to participate in a study designed to improve our understanding of what teams expect from the tools they use for dealing with support tickets. Qualif

Good news, international teams! We’ve localized YouTrack into Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese. These official translations are maintained by JetBrains, and they will be updated with all future releases of YouTrack in addition to the current languages (English, Russian, German, French, Japanese, and Spanish). Here's a quick refresher on how the YouTrack language settings

YouTrack 2021.3 comes with Timesheets, a major new time-tracking feature that makes it easier than ever to track, manage, and report time spent on tasks and projects. We’ve also added GitLab to the import wizard and fully localized YouTrack into three more languages.We are now discontinuing the legacy REST API, so please make sure all your custom integrations are migrated to the new REST API. Read

Time tracking is vitally important for productivity, but there is no single time tracking method that works perfectly for everyone. Some prefer to have their time tracked automatically, others want to manually record their time entries, and there are even people who need to create reports from time tracking data and analyze them. The good news is that YouTrack can help you maintain accurate tim

Usually, issue trackers and IDEs go hand in hand, which is why we’ve revamped the YouTrack plugin for IntelliJ-based IDEs. The plugin integrates with your favorite JetBrains IDEs – AppCode, CLion, DataGrip, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm, Rider, RubyMine, and WebStorm, as well as with Android Studio, and provides you with access to your issues and notifications right from the IDE. We hav

For software development teams YouTrack 2021.2 brings improvements to integration with GitLab. In addition to fetching commits and merge requests, YouTrack now integrates with GitLab CI/CD to give you more opportunities to organize your process. Now your YouTrack issues can be updated automatically based on the outcome of automated jobs that build and test your software using GitLab CI/CD. Besi

The very first release of this year, YouTrack 2021.1 brings with it several incredible new features. There is the new Notification Center – a place where you can keep track of all the important updates to your work in YouTrack. Then there is the new time tracking functionality we have added to YouTrack Lite. Other enhancements include links support for custom fields, custom attributes for user pro

Have you tried YouTrack Mobile yet? It’s a great way to get instant notifications and manage your tasks on the go from your iOS or Android device. (more…)