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YouTrack Introduces a New Design
The YouTrack 2025.1 release introduces a bold new design that helps you navigate your projects and tasks more quickly. This new look and feel reflects years of learning about how teams work on projects.
The new design introduces:
- A new navigation panel on the left-hand side that makes all the key sections of YouTrack more accessible. It also reduces clicks, making your work faster, and it leaves more space for you to add even more pages in YouTrack with apps.
- A redesigned Issues page that gives you more ways to organize your issue views. Work within the familiar task-browsing experience or quickly switch between different views to add or hide details.
- A project hierarchy path for tasks, tickets, and articles so you can always remain in a project’s context. It gives you a new hierarchical and clickable way through the context of the project you’re working on.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of teams count on YouTrack to drive their business forward. We understand that even the smallest change can have a big impact on your daily routines, which is why we’ve put immense care into ensuring every change is worthwhile and keeps your tasks flowing.
Whether you’re managing a single task, a complex project, or hundreds of projects simultaneously, the new YouTrack experience is designed to make your work not just easier but also smarter. Providing instant access to an ever-growing suite of tools, YouTrack helps you focus on what truly matters to you and your team.
We hope the revamped YouTrack brings a new level of productivity. Now, let’s explore the new design.
New navigation to streamline your work
Access key YouTrack features from the left-hand panel
Everything you used to find in the YouTrack main menu at the top of the page – from Issues to Gantt Charts – has moved to a new menu panel on the left-hand side of the screen. Creating new issues, articles, and even projects is now much faster – with the relevant buttons always available on the panel. The settings and notification center are now also easily accessible here, as well.
We tested and refined this approach based on feedback from thousands of new design adopters, and we believe that this update benefits both experienced and new users. Those who are used to working with YouTrack will have more options available, helping them work faster with fewer clicks, and those who are just starting with YouTrack will enjoy smoother onboarding with a more intuitive experience.
Keep everything you need in view or focus on your work
The new design helps you find what you need faster in the way that suits you best. The menu is expanded by default, giving you immediate access to a range of functionality. But a dedicated button allows you to collapse it whenever you want more room to focus on the task at hand.
YouTrack apps expand functionality, including by adding entirely new pages, and the new left-hand panel provides more room for you to put the new functionality on the main menu. For example, the Diagram Editor app helps you visualize your processes. When you enable the app, a new Diagrams menu section will be added to the panel.
Add your company logo
YouTrack’s new design still has a space for your company logo in YouTrack instances with paid subscriptions. The custom logo is now available in two formats – a larger one when the panel is expanded and a smaller one when the panel is collapsed. Administrators need to add the two formats of company logos in the system settings.
Start with the new YouTrack right away
The new navigation panel is enabled by default for all YouTrack users. While everyone can temporarily switch between the new left-hand panel scheme and the old top menu scheme in the Workspace settings, we recommend adopting the new interface. We hope it will become the standard starting from version 2025.2, without the option to switch back to the legacy menu.
You can learn more about all changes in the YouTrack documentation.
Redesigned Issues page experience
Organize your issue views
A new approach to issue views provides more options when you need them.
First, when your YouTrack is updated to the new version, you will still be working with whichever issue view you are used to. If you use YouTrack Classic, with issues presented in a list view with or without the tree-like structure enabled, this will be your default mode after the update. If you are a YouTrack Lite user, with issues displayed in a table view of tasks with columns, you’ll have this enabled in the new YouTrack version.
The unified approach to issue views allows you to easily change the way your tasks are presented. Settings are available for you to switch between list or table views, enable the tree-like structure, and add or hide task details. You can also choose to preview tasks directly on the Issues page, allowing you to quickly browse their contents or edit details.
Focus on the work at hand
The Issues sidebar has also been redesigned to help you focus on the work at hand. Your projects, saved searches, and tags are now only a click away. You are able to customize the Issues sidebar’s content and expand or collapse it so you can focus on what’s important. It’s now easier to rearrange the order of your sidebar projects, saved searches, and tags – just drag and drop them.
The sidebar can be used to start your search requests. For example, you can add a list of projects in which you regularly view tasks and use the project list to browse tasks for those projects faster. Alternatively, you can type your search request first and then use the sidebar to add the project, saved search, or tag.
Once you’ve configured an issue view, you can drag and drop tasks to rearrange them in any order. You can also filter the tasks, customize the order in which results are presented, and save this view as a saved search to come back to it later or share it with your team so you all have access to the same custom order.
Starting from the 2025.1 version, the new approach to issue views will be the unified experience for all YouTrack users.
Project hierarchy path for tasks, tickets, and articles
YouTrack now helps you remain in the context of the project you’re working with. Hierarchical, clickable paths for tasks, tickets, and articles allow you to navigate through related project information effortlessly. You can easily access it from the top of each page. For those who prefer to navigate to tasks and articles from the Projects page, we also added this navigation option to the project sidebar.
Tasks and tickets
Access information in a new streamlined way without switching between several menu sections. From a single task or ticket, you can now navigate to all tasks within a project, a project page, and a list of all projects. The issue or ticket ID can be found and copied with a single click at the top of the page.
It’s also possible to navigate to tasks and tickets within the selected project starting from the Issues or Helpdesk pages. You can now view a list of all projects and select the required one at the top of the page to navigate to its context.
Articles
The project hierarchy path for articles provides even more details you can use to navigate. You can go from a sub-article to the parent article, from a project-related Knowledge Base to its project, and from a single project to a list of all projects.
Breadcrumbs were also added to other parts of YouTrack to help you manage your work more intuitively. For example, you can view a list of all accessible dashboards on the Dashboards page by navigating to the hierarchy path at the top of the page. The same experience is available for the Agile Boards, Reports, and Gantt Charts pages.
Improved search experience
When searching, you can switch between filter and query modes at any time. In filter mode, you can easily search for text or use the enhanced dynamic filters that suggest possible details to search for as you type. You can search within tasks created in all your projects or within specific projects, with the next suggested filters automatically customized to the project’s context.
You can also combine multiple filters in a single search request. After selecting a filter, just refine its value, for example, specifying the State filter as Fixed. A dynamic list of possible values is also suggested. You can add as many values as you want. For date or time filters, such as Created or Resolved at, you can select either a specific value or a range.
Query mode is still available for those who are used to typing complex search requests. This mode also supports dynamic search suggestions and gives more flexibility when managing large lists of tasks. For example, you can add has: -boards to your query search request to find tasks that do not belong to any board.
Other changes
YouTrack Helpdesk improvements
Add up to 10 reporters in the ticket CC
In helpdesk projects, reporters, along with agents, can now add up to 10 reporters to a ticket’s CCs field, ensuring they stay informed about request updates. The number of agents and other internal team members that the support team can add remains unlimited. However, reporters will see only other added reporters and agents in the CCs field.
Filtering by ticket state for reporters
Additionally, reporters can now search for their submitted tickets on the Tickets page using the State filter. This improvement enables reporters to easily view a list of all their open or closed tickets. They can also combine multiple filters in their searches, for example, to find tickets with a specific state that were submitted within a select timeframe.
User management enhancements
Our upgraded authentication modules let you import groups and user accounts from Okta and Microsoft Entra ID to YouTrack and keep them in sync.
New build server integration
YouTrack has expanded its integration support for developer tools to include GitHub Actions. The build number and link will be added automatically to your issue fields.
Discontinuation of .zip distribution support for YouTrack Server
We have discontinued YouTrack Server’s .zip distribution support. The installation and upgrade of server instances will be available via Docker image. As containerized deployments offering secure and isolated environments become the IT standard, we aim to align with industry best practices by focusing exclusively on containerized solutions.
Administrators who installed YouTrack Server using the .zip archive can reference the documentation to migrate to Docker images when upgrading their instance to the 2025.1 version.
Let’s shape the future of YouTrack together
We’re excited for you to get your hands on the new YouTrack, and we can’t wait to hear your thoughts. Please feel free to share them here in the comments and don’t hesitate to contact our Support team if you have any questions. We’re always here to help!
Meanwhile, we’re already working on enhancing the new design to help you focus on the project at hand. Revamped project pages that help teams stay connected to their work context and advanced project-centric navigation are already included in YouTrack’s 2025 roadmap.
Onboarding for new team members will also be improved to guide them more easily through YouTrack’s features and help them be productive from day one.
Check out the release notes for the full technical details and a comprehensive list of this release’s bug fixes and improvements. For details on configuring the latest features, see the documentation.
If you use YouTrack Cloud, you’ll automatically be upgraded to YouTrack 2025.1 in accordance with our Maintenance Calendar.
If you have an active YouTrack Server subscription, you can upgrade to YouTrack 2025.1 today.
If you don’t have active YouTrack subscription, you can use the free YouTrack for up to 10 users to test out the new version before you commit to buying!
For more information about the licensing options available for YouTrack, please visit our Buy page.
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