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YouTrack 2018.3 is Released!
Please welcome YouTrack 2018.3!
New Features:
- Visual Redesign
- Project Overview Pages
- Group Logos for Users in Selection Menus
- Delete Issue Condition for On-change Rules in Workflows
- Supplemental Fields for Text
- Embedded Content from Google Apps
- Push Notifications in YouTrack Mobile for YouTrack InCloud
- Jenkins Integration
- Two-factor Authentication
- Application Passwords
- Global Password Change Requests
Updates and Enhancements:
- Redesigned Presentation for Linked Issues
- Period Values for Hours per Day
- Custom Order for Favorite Dashboards
- Find Similar Issues Action
- New REST API
- Access Interface Updates
- Access Token Timeout
Visual Redesign
YouTrack 2018.3 comes with a fresh new look! We’ve redesigned the controls and polished the theme to deliver a more intuitive way to manage your issues.
Some time ago we announced a new design for issue creation and issue view pages as a part of the experimental features. Thanks to the feedback that we got from our users, we were able to improve the functionality of the pages before they went public. Starting from this release, these new pages are now enabled by default.
The new theme uses components from the latest version of JetBrains’ library for web-based products, Ring UI. By using standard components from this library, you enjoy more consistent and predictable behavior when you use YouTrack.
Project Overview Pages
New project overview pages give you a more convenient way to view information related to the project. They also serve as a landing page or “home base” for each project.
These pages display the project description and provide direct links to project settings. They also provide a dashboard-like interface where you can add widgets that let you monitor the activity in your projects.
Group Logos for Users in Selection Menus
Everywhere you see the option to select a user from a drop-down list, the user avatars are shown with group logos. This includes the selectors for issue and comment visibility, suggestions in @mentions and commands, watchers, and assignees. Add icons to groups to help you quickly distinguish between different sets of users.
Delete Issue Condition for On-change Rules in Workflows
A new runOn property for on-change rules lets you specify whether a workflow is triggered when issues are updated, deleted or both. Use this condition to script rules that prevent accidental deletion of important issues.
exports.rule = require('@jetbrains/youtrack-scripting-api/entities').Issue.onChange({
action: function(ctx) {
ctx.issue.links['relates to'].forEach(function (iss) {
iss.fields.State = 'Fixed';
});
},
runOn: {
change: false,
removal: true
}
});
Supplemental Fields for Text
YouTrack now supports supplemental fields that store data as text, formatted in Markdown. Fields with this type appear just below the issue description. Create dedicated input fields to classify information that goes beyond the issue description.
Use it together with the conditional custom fields feature to add useful information on different conditions. For example, for the issue type bug, you can show the supplemental field to describe the steps to reproduce the bug.
Embedded Content from Google Apps
You can now embed content from Google Apps. Supported apps include Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms. The content must be published to the web. This makes the content visible to anyone over the internet. Sharing a file with other members of your organization doesn’t publish the content to the web. Note that if the issue is public, the content is visible to everyone as well.
Push Notifications in YouTrack Mobile for YouTrack InCloud
If you use a cloud version of YouTrack, you can now enable push notifications in the YouTrack Mobile app. All of the notifications that are generated for your account are shown directly in your connected mobile devices.
Jenkins Integration
A new integration with Jenkins is built directly into YouTrack and ready for configuration. Pull build numbers from Jenkins to set the fix version for issues in YouTrack, mention issues in commits, and update issues with commands from commit messages.
Two-factor Authentication
We’ve built in support for two-factor authentication directly into your account. Pair your account with an identity verification app on your mobile device and add an extra layer of security.
Application Passwords
To help you stay connected to third-party services that don’t support two-factor authentication, we’ve also added support for application passwords. Use these randomly generated passwords to give an app or device permission to access your Hub account.
Global Password Change Requests
A new action in the authentication module lets an administrator request that all users change the passwords for their accounts. When you believe that a malicious user has obtained unauthorized access, use this feature to keep your installation secure.
Updates and Enhancements
Redesigned Presentation for Linked Issues
The updated interface for issue links lets you quickly add links to other issues and browse the collection of issues that are linked to the current issue. You can now watch, vote, and see how many votes and comments there are in each linked issue.
Period Values for Hours per Day
The global time tracking setting for hours per day now stores a period value instead of integer. This lets you use a value like “7h30m” to define your work day and calculate your spent time accordingly.
Custom Order for Favorite Dashboards
You can now apply a custom order to your list of favorite dashboards. Place your dashboards in the desired sequence and page through them in logical order.
Find Similar Issues Action
You can now open a list of issues that are similar to the current issue in single issue view from the issue toolbar. This replicates the functionality that was supported on the Similar Issues tab in the old issue view.
New REST API
We’ve published documentation for a collection of endpoints that are supported in the current version of our REST API. These endpoints cover the most common methods for updating issues programmatically.
Access Interface Updates
We’ve added a dedicated Access tab to your project profiles. This view gives you better insight into the roles that are assigned to users and groups in your projects beyond the access that is granted to members of your project team. You also have direct access to all of the operations that allow you to revoke access rights on one page.
The updated layout has also been applied to the Roles tabs for users and groups.
Access Token Timeout
A new setting for authentication modules lets you specify the maximum lifetime for access tokens. Use this setting to limit the amount of time a malicious user can access the application.
Discontinued Features
This release we also stop supporting several features.
Old Views for New and Single Issues
Since we’ve released a new version for new and single issues, the option to use old views for new and single issues has been removed from the user profile settings.
New Workflows in the YouTrack Workflow Editor
As we’ve previously announced, we no longer support new workflows that are written in the external YouTrack Workflow Editor. We will continue to support workflows that were written in this editor through the first YouTrack release in 2019. After that point in time, we will only support workflows in JavaScript. If you’re still working with old workflows, we encourage you to rewrite them in JavaScript as soon as possible. For details, see Converting Old Workflows to JavaScript.
Old YouTrack REST API
With the initial publication of endpoints for our current REST API, we begin to deprecate the previous version. Once we have published newer versions for the endpoints that were supported in the previous API, it will be officially deprecated.
If you have an existing application or integration that uses the old API, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with the updated version. If you’re using any endpoints that are not supported in the new API, join our YouTrack Community in Slack and let us know what you’re working with.
If this sounds good, give YouTrack 2018.3 a try!
We highly appreciate all your feedback, so please share it with us in the comment section below.
For more details about the release, please see the Release Notes. To learn more about configuring the new features, check the latest documentation.
If you are using YouTrack in the cloud, your instance will be upgraded to the latest version automatically according to our Maintenance Calendar.
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