YouTrack 2020.5 is now available! This is a specific update devoted to the discontinuation of legacy workflows and enhancing the overall workflows experience. If your team relies on YouTrack workflows written in 2018 or earlier, please show this post to your system administrators and project administrators to make sure your daily operations will not be affected. The next major update will bring more exciting new features, and we plan to release it before the end of 2020. If you joined YouTrack before 2019, please read on to learn more about the changes to legacy workflows. (more…)

We are here to tell you that YouTrack 2020.4 comes with a welcome pack, which is full of onboarding features to help get started with YouTrack easier than ever. Following their smooth and simple migration to YouTrack with the new imports interface, newcomers will be able both to review a preconfigured demo project to see what YouTrack is capable of and to use the new onboarding tips to familiarize themselves with YouTrack. Experienced users can also expect some improvements in the form of the new Organizations feature - large companies can now group related projects under an umbrella organizat

Welcome back to our Make It Workflow series! We have received several requests from the community to discuss YouTrack features that can be utilized by the QA team. Today we would like to take a look at how to maintain test management scenarios (TMS) in YouTrack. This article will demonstrate how YouTrack can be set up so that you can maintain test management functionality within YouTrack itself, allowing you to avoid having to use third-party solutions. This approach helps you save on licence costs and makes the test management process flow more smoothly. This article is for test managers and

If your team joined YouTrack in 2018 or earlier, please show this post to your system administrators and project administrators. Some YouTrack customers still rely on legacy workflows, which will be deprecated in November 2020. We kindly recommend checking whether if this affects you and, if it does, taking action. Please read on to learn more. (more…)

Watch on demand the online demo for YouTrack Administrators. You can see in action how to set up and adjust YouTrack to manage your team tasks and projects, and to play nice for the needs of your team and the whole company. The demo is followed by a live Q&A session. You’ll get an overview of how to: Create and set up projects for various teams Make sure project settings and YouTrack workflows reflect your business processes Manage user roles so that every team member gets the most of YouTrack Set up integrations with external tools Create and manage Agile boards that follow your team’s

"Your summer YouTrack" Playlist 8 features we love + bonus track Enjoy our curated summer playlist with hidden gems from this year – small features that brighten up our customers’ days. (more…)

Lots of development, marketing, product, and project teams are using YouTrack to deliver great products. This requires an effective process for managing product requirements. The typical process involves creating user stories and epics, using a project overview with Gantt charts, tracking feature requests publicly and internally, fixing bugs, and collaborating with other teams on issues. Now, there is another way. You can manage product requirements right in Knowledge Base, using YouTrack to create, manage, and track your product requirements documentation. Let’s see how this works! (more&hel

We are happy to announce that YouTrack Mobile has been completely reworked with a new design and new features. (more…)

Watch on demand our YouTrack Essentials demonstration, where you can get an overview of how to manage your tasks and projects easily, keep a Knowledge Base, work with your team’s Agile boards, use the time tracking feature effectively, and monitor everything with reports and dashboards. You'll get to see real examples of how JetBrains YouTrack can organize your teamwork in any environment – whether your team members work from home, from multiple offices, or all in one location. The demo is followed by a live Q&A session. Join us online to see how your team can get ahead of the game! What?

You can read this post in English, French, Russian, German, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. We are excited to announce that starting from YouTrack 2020.3, software development teams will be able to view pull requests alongside commits right in the issues activity stream. In today’s blog post, we’ll show you how to enhance the development process with this new feature and how to make it more transparent. This release also introduces a time tracking widget for dashboards, as well as several more improvements for anyone working with issues and the Knowledge Base: a

You can read this post in English, French, German, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. Last year we undertook a major study of the global issue tracking tools market. In the process, we gained some valuable insights about our own issue tracker, YouTrack, as well as about other tools and the state of the market itself. Our study set out to identify the most popular issue tracking tools are and to learn what criteria determine their popularity among organizations and teams, how likely their users are to recommend them to others, and what features are

You can read this post in English, French, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. We are excited to announce the release of YouTrack 2020.2 which comes with a built-in Knowledge Base! Now you can build a public knowledge base and keep internal documentation right inside YouTrack, alongside your tasks and projects. YouTrack can keep your team’s collective knowledge together in one place. Other enhancements for project administrators include field type conversions and the ability to set a default visibility group for your projects. For better cross-te