Features

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

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…)

It's the start of a new year, and what better time than now to tell you about the plans we have for it. We’re constantly looking into feedback from more than 50,000 teams that are using YouTrack. This input helps us understand the current trends in project management and what features we should focus on developing this year. The features we are considering include: Notification Center, out-of-the-

YouTrack 2020.6 comes with an alternative Lite interface that provides a table view for your issues, a handy WYSIWYG text editor, and the ability to access recently viewed issues and articles. If you work simultaneously with multiple issues, or you find the Classic interface is a bit overloaded, or you don’t use software development-related features like VCS integrations in your daily work, you de

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 mo