What's New
We deliver updates and improvements to YouTrack on a continuous basis. Here's an overview of changes that are available in YouTrack 2018.4.
New Features
Feature | Description | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Custom Project Templates | You can now use an existing project as a template for new projects. Projects that are marked as templates are added to the set of available project types on the Create Project page. | 2018.4 |
| Clone Project Action | This action lets you open an existing project and clone it as a new project. A new action lets you clone existing projects. The new project inherits settings from the original, including its project team, access scheme, custom fields, time tracking, workflows, integrations, and agile boards. | 2018.4 |
| Timesheet Report | This report shows you how your team allocated their spent time in a calendar-based spreadsheet. | 2018.4 |
| Search by User Mentions | You can now search for issues that contain @mention references for specific users. Use the | 2018.4 |
| IdP-initiated SSO for SAML | We’ve updated the SAML 2.0 authentication module to let you initiate single sign-on requests from the identity provider side. | 2018.4 |
Updates and Enhancements
Feature | Description | Availability |
|---|---|---|
We added a setting to your YouTrack profile that lets you choose how to display values that are stored in period fields. This makes it easier to perform calculations and compare values at a glance. | 2018.4.49852 | |
| Anonymous SMTP Server Connections | YouTrack can now connect to an SMTP server without sending a login and password. This lets you connect to an SMTP server that does not require authentication. | 2018.4.49852 |
| Favorite Agile Boards | A new control in the list of agile boards let you mark an agile board as a favorite. Your favorite boards are always shown at the top of the list. | 2018.4.49168 |
| System-wide Dark Theme | There's a new option in the general settings of your YouTrack profile that lets you apply a dark theme to every page in YouTrack except the Issues list. A nighttime-friendly version of the Issues list will be added in an upcoming release. You'll also find a Dark Theme toggle in the menu that opens when you click your avatar. | 2018.4.49168 |
| Syntax Highlighting Improvements in Markdown | Improvements to the handling for language-specific syntax highlights in Markdown improve compatibility with similar features in GitHub and add support for code blocks without highlighting. | 2018.4.48733 |
| Quick Access to Project Settings | We've added a control that lets you jump directly from an issue to the settings for its project. Users with the Update Project permission can access project settings by clicking the icon next to the project name in the fields panel. | 2018.4.48733 |
| Aggregation Options for Reports | A new Show totals for option in the settings for several reports lets you show aggregate totals for votes and other fields that store values as an integer, float, or period. Create reports that show the total number of votes, estimations, spent time, and more. This option is available in all of the issue distribution reports except for Advanced Issue per Project and is also available for the Cumulative Flow report. | 2018.4 |
| Issue Link Improvements | Tab-based navigation in the issue links panel lets you quickly find linked issues by link type. We’ve also moved links panel just below the issue summary. | 2018.4 |
| Streamlined VCS Integration | We’ve dramatically simplified the process for integrating with a version control system. Integrate your YouTrack projects directly with repositories in GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. | 2018.4 |
| Create Issue Macro for Confluence Integration | The latest version of our YouTrack Integration app lets you create issues directly from pages in Confluence. | 2018.4 |
| Updated Interface for Project Teams | The new interface for managing project teams lets you add or remove users and groups in a single step. You also have the ability to change the default role that is assigned to the project team. | 2018.4 |
| Links to Agile Boards from Project Pages | New links to agile boards are available from the Administration menu for each project in the Projects list and the sidebar for project overviews. These links provide direct access to agile boards that display issues in the related project. | 2018.4 |
| Tabular Layout for Spent Time in Activity Stream | Work item data that is shown as spent time in the activity stream is now presented in a series of columns. This improvement helps you scan and calculate the total spent time at a glance. | 2018.4 |
New options in the settings for time reports let you group work items by parent issue, show comments in work items, and show the total spent time collected from subtasks as a summary for parent tasks. | 2018.4 | |
| Shortcuts for Issue Links | We've added support for two new keyboard shortcuts in single issue view. These let you expand or collapse the panel for linked issues and open a dialog to add links to target issues. | 2018.4 |
| Custom Reply-to Address for Notifications | New options added to the Global Settings and Edit Project pages let you specify dedicated email addresses for handling replies to notifications that are sent by YouTrack. | 2018.4 |
| RTL Language Support in New Issue Views | The updated views for new and single issues now support languages that are written from right to left. As a result, installations and instances that have enabled this option are no longer restricted to older issue views. | 2018.4 |
| New Notification Templates | The templates that are used to generate notifications for integration-related problems are now available on the Notification Templates page. This means that you can customize the message content at the server and project level. | 2018.4 |
| Add Cards to Multiple Sprints | A new option in the Card configuration for agile boards lets you remove the restriction that limits cards to single sprints. | 2018.4 |
| Relative Parameter for Last Working Day | We've added a pre-defined parameter that lets you search for date values for the last working day. When you use this parameter in search queries instead of | 2018.4 |
| LDAP Group Mappings | You can now map groups from a directory service to groups in YouTrack. These configuration options are available for the Active Directory, LDAP, and Open LDAP auth modules. | 2018.4 |
| Allowed Organizations for GitHub Auth Module | A new setting for the GitHub auth module lets you restrict logins to members of specific GitHub organizations. If your YouTrack installation is accessible over the internet, you can let users who belong to your organization sign in with their GitHub accounts. | 2018.4 |
Experimental Features
Feature | Description | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Single Term Search Optimization | When this feature is enabled, text searches that contain single terms assign higher relevance scores to words that exactly match the specified word form. Search queries that contain single terms in quotation marks only return exact matches for the specified word form. | 2018.4 |
This feature adds an option to the settings panel for an agile board that lets you clone the board. | 2018.4.49168 |
Discontinued Features
Feature | Description | Availability |
|---|---|---|
New Workflows in the YouTrack Workflow Editor | 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. | Removed in 2018.3 |
| Old YouTrack REST API | With the initial publication of endpoints for our current REST API in YouTrack 2018.3, we encourage developers to start migrating from the previous version. Once we have published newer versions for the endpoints that were supported in the previous API, it will be officially deprecated. We will continue to support the old REST API for a fixed period after its deprecation to allow adequate time for migrating applications that use it. | In transition |