YouTrack

What’s new in YouTrack V3.0?

• Customizable Workflow - Now you can define the life cycle of your issues according to your process needs. For example, you can setup the rule to assign an issue to QA team or specific QA person automatically when issue state is changed to Fixed, or require to define build number when closing an issue, or setup to receive notifications about issues that haven't been proceed during specific time period. Generally, customizable workflow combined with the customizable attributes gives you the ability to completely customize your issue tracking process.
• Issue from E-mail - Submit new issues without even opening the bug tracker. Now you can integrate YouTrack with your mailbox (IMAP, POP3) and report issues right from your e-mail client. You can even set up any command to be applied to a created issue, or add comments by replying to a notification email you received.
• Mobile UI - Optimized the Login and Full Issue View screens specifically for mobile platforms. Now you can comfortably read, comment, add tags, view attachments, and update issue attributes from your iPhone, iPod, Blackberry, Android or Windows Mobile handheld.
• Applying Commands from VCS Commit Comment - Now you can just type a command right in the VCS commit comment, and it will be applied to the issue associated with this commit. For example, if you commit files with a comment like #JT-1787 fixed tag to be documented, issue JT-1787 will be closed and tagged as "to be documented."
• Customizable Attributes - All the predefined issue attributes are now converted into customizable.This required adding new custom attribute types: User, Group, Version, State, Build and Subsystem. As a result, you are free to populate any issue attributes with the exact values you need. For example, you'll be able to define your own states, types or priorities, set default values, highlight attribute values with different colors, or even allow multiple selection of assignees. Of course, all custom attribute types are supported in search queries, commands and matrix reports.
• Add Watcher - Sometimes it's crucial to notify another user of an issue that was created or updated. Simply use Star on behalf of command to add users to the list of issue watchers at any time. This will help prevent duplicate issues and keep everyone involved aware of any changes made.
• Customizable sidebar - Previously, your list of shared tags and saved searches could get overloaded and difficult to use. Now you can choose which tags and saved searches are visible (pinned) in your sidebar by pinning/unpinning items from the list. Organize your sidebar to have all the tags and saved searches you need right in front of you, or simply hide the whole sidebar when you need more space on the issue list.
• JetBrains Database - YouTrack 3.0 is supplied with the new built-in JetBrains Database. This is a database system created by JetBrains that has undergone a lot of development and testing. Moving from Berkeley DB to JetBrains DB improved YouTracks performance by over 50%.

What’s new in YouTrack V2.1?

New Features:

• You can now import issues from Trac
• You can now import from a CSV file
• Added an option not to send notifications for the rest api method, that changes issues
• Implement integration between TestLink and YouTrack

Bug fixes:

• Screenshot maker window should have a meaningful title instead of empty
• Wiki lists formatting is broken.
• Adding an attachment using the REST API incorrectly updates the updated and updaterName fields
• Very slow scroll in JetShot
• Filtering 'by' user group works only for one user from the group

What's new in YouTrack V2.0?

• Custom Attributes - Want to describe your issue in more detail? YouTrack 2.0 gives you the freedom to define which attributes to use and which type each of them should have. Define your own custom attributes to add additional information about your issue, such as due date, complexity, hardware specifications, operating system, etc. Customize attribute visibility: show certain attributes to everyone or to members of a specific group only. Custom attributes are a true first-class citizen in YouTrack: all the functionality provided for predefined attributes is available for custom attributes as well, including import from JIRA, export to Excel, support in search queries and commands, and administration via REST API.
• 'Create Issue' Bookmarklet - Why bother opening a new browser tab just to file an issue? With YouTrack 2.0, you can add a "Create Issue" bookmarklet to the bookmarks toolbar in your browser and post new issues while staying exactly where you found them.
• YouTrack REST API - YouTrack introduces new functionality that helps you perform various actions programmatically via its RESTful API, you can import issues from your current bug tracking system - for smoother migration to YouTrack. Create, modify, and perform other operations programmatically - so you can seamlessly integrate YouTrack into your environment. For example, via automated issue submission from third-party applications. Manipulate projects, users, groups, roles, issue link types, and custom attributes.
• Issue Visibility - YouTrack 2.0 introduces flexible access control by letting you strengthen permissions for individual issues that might contain non-public data. This is very useful for public tracker administration: from now on, if your users sometimes submit data that isn't meant to be public, no need to make the whole project private - just modify permissions on a per-issue level instead.
• Attachment Preview - Full attachment preview is now available from the Issue List on mouse over the attachment clip. You no longer need to open a separate window to view an attached screenshot or Flash movie.
• User Visualization - To make your communication more effective and personalized, we've added some visual markers to the current user representation. You can now view the current status (online or offline) of any YouTrack user, such as issue reporter, assignee or commenter, right next to his or her user name. Visual association is established between users and groups by adding the group icon to user avatars. By looking at any avatar, you can see exactly which group that user belongs to.

YouTrack Features

• Search Box - YouTrack provides a single search box to find issues by their attributes and/or with full-text search. That's essentially all you need to search for any issues. No checkboxes, combo boxes, drop-down lists or whatever else usually bloats your screen space when you're trying to filter out existing issues. To make your search experience even more comfortable, YouTrack provides query completion and highlighting, recent searches, saved searches, and tags.
• Search Queries - Search queries consist of keywords and values representing issue attributes. You can also omit unambiguous keywords and use special shortcut keywords that are used without values. When you enter a search query, rely on YouTrack's query completion to make things fast, then press Enter, and grab your search results.
• Query Completion and Highlighting - YouTrack provides query completion in the search box to help you choose appropriate keywords and values. More than that, it inserts symbols such as hash marks, colons and curly braces where required. Query completion is invoked automatically while you type but you can also display the completion list at will, by pressing Ctrl+Space or Alt+Down. While you're entering a query in the search box, keywords are underlined with grey and values with black. If you've entered an incorrect query, YouTrack uses red dotted underline to highlight errors.
• Recent Searches - YouTrack displays your 10 latest queries in the query completion list, along with other suggestions. If you expect to use a certain query on a regular basis, there's another option - you can save it.
• Filters - After executing a search query, YouTrack displays the Filters box to the left of the list of found issues where it shows different attributes and values that these attributes have within the set of found issues.
• Issue Area - YouTrack provides a common Issue Area for both creating and editing issues. To create a new issue, press Alt+Ins from anywhere within YouTrack, or click New Issue in the toolbar. The Issue Area will display, letting you specify project, description, summary, priority and other issue attributes. Tag, Link and Attach buttons in the toolbar just above the Issue area let you assign a tag to the issue, link it to another issue, or attach a file. You can also use wiki markup for special text formatting. After you have created an issue, click Submit, or press Ctrl+Enter to submit it. To display the Issue Area to edit an issue, highlight it in the list of issues, and press F2. If you have to modify attributes of multiple issues, don't open them one by one - use the Command window instead.
• Command Window - The Command window lets you modify attributes of an issue or a set of issues using commands similar to search queries. Before opening the Command window, highlight an issue in the list of issues, or select multiple issues by pressing Space. Then click the Command button in the toolbar, press Ctrl+Alt+J, or start typing a command right away. In the Command window, enter a command consisting of one or more space-delimited keyword-value pairs (no colons, curly braces, or hash marks - as opposed to search queries).
• Wiki Markup - You can use special wiki markup in issue description, including links to other issues or external resources, code blocks, headers and text formatting. A link to the wiki reference page is available from the Issue Area. The page provides a sandbox window for you to experiment with the markup and copy the resulting text into your issue.
• Commenting Issues - You can comment for issues in several ways — for example, from the list of issues or from full issue view. Another valuable option is to comment multiple issues using the Command window: select issues, press Ctrl+Alt+C or Ctrl+Alt+J, type your comment in the Comment text box, and press Ctrl+Enter.
• Voting for Issues - Do you want a certain feature implemented faster? Vote for it using a square button below issue ID in the list of issues or full issue view. Changed your mind? Click the button again to withdraw your vote.
• Watching Issues - Clicking the Watch issue button  below an issue ID subscribes you to updates of this issue that you can receive via jabber or e-mail, dependent on how you have configured notifications. Issues become watched automatically when you comment, update, or vote for them. Use the Watched issues tag to review issues that you're watching.
• Favorite Issues - Clicking the Add to Favorites button  below an issue ID marks the issue as one of your favorites. Unlike watched issues, you don't receive notifications on your favorite tags — this is just an express way of marking issues with a predefined tag that you can see right at the top of the Tags area.
• Sharing Tags - When you create a tag or at any time afterwards, you can configure who is able to use the tag. Specifically, you can choose which groups are allowed to view the tag and which are able to add new issues to it. Both settings are configurable through the Edit tag dialog box that you can open through the Tags area.
• Sharing Searches - You can share saved searches similar to sharing tags — that is, you can allow a group to view your saved search and/or change its name.
• Notifications - You can receive notifications on various issue events using your e-mail and/or jabber account. In your user profile, you can configure notifications precisely how you want to get them - specifically.
• Avatars - Personalize yourself by choosing an avatar in your user profile. You can upload an image from your computer, or grab it from Gravatar.
• List of Issues - After you have searched for issues, search results are displayed as a list that you can easily handle using mouse or keyboard. First, to switch from the search box to the list of issues and back, press Esc. Then, navigate to any issue using Up and Down arrows, and expand or collapse issues with Right and Left arrows. By the way, you can configure how much detail you want to see in the issue list by default: use buttons in the toolbar. To change issue attributes, select issues with Space, and modify them immediately using the Command window. If you want to work with an issue individually (for example, change its summary or description), double-click or press F2 to edit it in the Issue Area, or click the issue's summary to switch to the full issue view. You can change how much issues YouTrack displays in a single page using the navigation bar below the list of issues, and to go to the next or previous page, press Ctrl+Right or Ctrl+Left respectively.
• Full Issue View - Clicking the summary of an issue in the issue list brings you to full issue view. In addition to what you see in the issue list
• Visibility Settings - In the list of issues, you can choose whether or not to show different issue attributes as buttons. Just click in the toolbar, and specify which issue attributes to display for every issue. In addition, you can opt to display tags to the left of issue summaries, and the Add comment button.
• Tags - Tags allow you to group issues the way you like, irrelevant of their attributes. For example, you can create a tag fix it today and associate it with issues from different projects, subsystems etc. Tags can be assigned to any number of issues through the Command window or using the Tag button in the toolbar. Existing tags are shown in the Tags area to the left of the list of issues. Along with user-defined tags, it shows two predefined tags: Favorites and Watched Issues, for issues that you mark as favorites and subscribe to watch, respectively. Any user-defined tag can be set to untag on resolve, that is, as soon as you fix an issue associated with the tag, the association automatically ends. In addition, you can assign different colors to mark tags, and share tags — that is, choose whether to allow other users to view and update your tags.
• Linking Issues - You can link issues to one another using various dependency types, including "relates to", "depends on", "duplicates", etc. You can set links for multiple issues simultaneously. Click Link in the toolbar, and when the Command window shows up, specify the destination issue. You can execute full-text search among issues instead of specifying the exact issue ID - for example, type "toolbar" to filter out all issues containing the word "toolbar" and choose one of them.
• Saved Searches - You can save a search query for future use. To create a saved search, click Save this search under the search box, enter a name for the query and, optionally, share it with other users, just like you do with tags. Existing saved searches are displayed in the Saved Searches area to the left of the list of issues. In addition, you can type saved search: in the search box, and choose a saved search using query completion.
• Matrix Reports - For any set of issues found, you can create a report as a matrix, choosing different issue attributes for the two axes. To configure a report, click Create matrix report under the search box.
• Administrator's Area - In the Administrator's Area, you can configure access using four entities: permissions, roles, groups and users. You can create new projects or import existing projects from JIRA and more.
• JIRA Integration - If you have an existing JIRA installation, consider importing your JIRA projects to YouTrack. Just get a YouTrack plug-in for JIRA, choose a project and types of bugs to import, and make your issues available from YouTrack. If you choose to work with JIRA and YouTrack concurrently, you can update issue changes from JIRA at any time.
• TeamCity Integration - By integrating with JetBrains TeamCity, you synchronize changes submitted through TeamCity with issue attributes in YouTrack. For example, if a comment submitted with a TeamCity change contains an issue ID, the issue can be automatically marked as fixed and the Fixed in build attribute is filled with a corresponding build number.