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June 27, 2024:​​

TeamCity 2024.03.3 Bug Fix Is Now Available

The 2024.03.3 bug fix for TeamCity On-Premises is now available for download! 

This release includes a few performance and security fixes. Among others, we addressed the following issues:

• Some AWS EC2 instance agents couldn’t authorize on start.

• Agents running from Windows 2024.03-nanoserver-2022 Docker images were incompatible with some runners after a restart.

• Agent service under Windows didn’t use the bundled JRE and failed to start if JAVA_HOME wasn’t defined.

For the full list of the issues fixed in this version, please refer to our release notes.

As with other minor updates, TeamCity 2024.03.3 shares the same data format with all 2024.03.x releases, allowing you to easily upgrade or downgrade within these versions without the need to back up or restore.

We recommend upgrading to apply the latest improvements and security fixes to your TeamCity server.

Before you start, read our upgrade notes and use one of the following options to upgrade:

• Upgrade from your recent version with our automatic update.

• Download the new version from the JetBrains website.

• Pull the TeamCity Docker image.

Thank you for submitting issues and voting on them. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us improve TeamCity.

If you encounter any problems or have suggestions, please report them via our forum or issue tracker.

Happy building!

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June 25, 2024:

What’s New in Datalore 2024.3: Quality Improvements

Following a feature-rich 2024.2 release, we’ve focused on enhancing the quality and reliability of Datalore in our 2024.3 update. Datalore Community, Professional, and Team customers have already received the new update automatically, and Datalore Enterprise customers can upgrade by following these instructions.

Enhanced file handling for scheduled runs

We’ve added an option that lets you save files generated by scheduled runs directly to /data/notebook_files, just like you can for files generated during regular notebook sessions. This new feature allows files to be overwritten, and you can easily find files from all of your previous runs in one directory. The option to save files to isolated artifacts still exists, giving you more flexibility for your scheduled workflows. 

Smoother environment setup for R and Scala

From now on, the necessary environment setup for R and Scala will be completed before the execution of init.sh, ensuring a smoother initial run. This enhancement allows you to make meaningful changes to init.sh scripts with the knowledge that they will be applied correctly, streamlining environment configuration.

Early terminal access during setup

The terminal is now accessible before environment setup is complete, allowing for early troubleshooting.

Other improvements and bug fixes

1. Exported workspaces now include both notebooks and their associated reports in the downloaded .zip file. 

2. Datalore now supports ipydatagrid versions 1.3.0 and 1.3.1. 

3. A new reportLink field has been added to the top-level metadata of downloaded notebooks. 

4. When refreshing a database schema, you will now see a spinner during the refresh process and receive a clear notification when it is finished, alerting you to any errors. 

5. For improved security, Git repository pulls are now limited to 100 MB for Datalore Community, Professional, and Team plans. Datalore Enterprise customers can configure the maximum pull size via the GIT_REPOSITORY_SIZE_LIMIT environment variable.

6. Notebooks created by non-owners of a workspace no longer have incorrect report links in the workspace view. 

7. The correlation chart in the Visualize tab no longer blinks. 

8. In scenarios where PyPi servers are not accessible, Datalore now provides clear messages to admins about connectivity issues, prevents infinite loading, and offers an improved troubleshooting process. Only Enterprise plan users were affected.

9. We’ve fixed a rendering issue that was causing ipywidgets outputs to shake in the report builder and on the report page. Only Community, Professional, and Team plans were affected. 

10. Scheduled reports now update variables in Markdown cells. 

 

Datalore Community, Professional, and Team customers have already received these updates automatically.

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June 25, 2024:

PyCharm 2024.1.4: What’s New!

PyCharm 2024.1.4 is here! View and navigate to URLs directly from the Editor tab, and enjoy smart code assistance for TypedDict (PEP 692).

You can download the latest version from our download page, or update your current version through our free Toolbox App. 

Download PyCharm 2024.1.4

Key Features 

Gutter actions and inlay hints for URLs

New gutter icons provide an easy way to manage URLs in Flask, FastAPI, and Django projects. In just a few clicks, you can test an endpoint by running the request in the HTTP Client, view all lower-level endpoints, and more.

Furthermore, new inlay hints with endpoint URLs further contribute to code readability for Python web frameworks.

PEP 692: Smart code assistance for TypedDict

With support for PEP 692, keyword arguments defined as TypedDict are now available when you invoke parameter info (⌘P / Ctrl+P), in code completion, and in the quick documentation popup (F1 / Ctrl+Q). Now you have access to yet another tool that lets you use the latest type hinting capabilities in Python to develop an easy-to-understand codebase.

Learn more

Warnings for uninstalled packages in requirements.txt

PyCharm now underlines packages that are listed in requirements.txt but that are not installed on the current Python interpreter with a yellow squiggly line. Hover over the package name and click Install all missing packages to immediately set up your development environment.

Download PyCharm 2024.1.4

Get all of the details in our release notes so you don’t miss out on anything new!

If you come across any bugs, please let us know in our issue tracker so we can fix them right away. Connect with us on X (formerly Twitter) and share your thoughts on PyCharm 2024.1.4! 

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June 12, 2024:

YouTrack Introduces Free Writing Assistance, Powered by JetBrains AI

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Writing assistance powered by JetBrains AI is now included in YouTrack 2024.2. All cloud and server customers with active subscriptions can use it for free to automatically check grammar, spelling, and punctuation and add precision and flair to their writing.

We’ve also added improvements based on the most popular requests from teams using various parts of YouTrack on a daily basis. In YouTrack Helpdesk, you can now create online forms with conditional fields that allow for enhanced customization of your reporters’ tickets, while also allowing agents to clone tickets in order to work on them in other, non-helpdesk projects. Also, agents now know when other agents add comments. Additional improvements include streamlined setup for new projects, major performance and scalability boosts, and more.

Free AI-powered writing assistance for everyone

AI assistance in YouTrack now comes with even more features to enhance your teams’ efficiency. It can now help you with real-time proofreading of texts everywhere in YouTrack. The currently supported languages include English and German, with more to be added in the future. 

You can rely on the AI to help describe your tasks, write articles, or participate in discussions. It will automatically check grammar, spelling, and punctuation as you write, and you can check the suggestions one by one or apply all corrections at once.

These proofreading features supplement the functionality of AI Assistant in YouTrack, which has been available since 2023 – generating at-a-glance summaries of content in tasks, articles, or support tickets, as well as making suggestions when composing replies.

To make the functionality available to your team members, your administrators should enable the AI-powered features on your YouTrack Cloud or Server, and then turn on the writing assistance feature. Both of the options rely on JetBrains AI credits, which are now replenished weekly for free. Later on, we’ll add the opportunity to purchase more JetBrains AI credits in case your team runs out.

Helpdesk improvements for support teams

Create online ticket collection forms with conditional fields

Online forms, which users fill out to file tickets in your helpdesk projects, have become more flexible. You can now use conditional fields to help you collect relevant information based on what reporters have provided in another field. For example, after the customer selects a request type, subsequent fields will present only the options that are relevant to this kind of request.

Project administrators in helpdesk projects can set the dependency between fields. One or several conditional fields can be shown based on a previously selected field. Then, you can add as many such fields as you need to the form, and they will be shown to reporters based on the settings you define. That way, you can ask for various data based on the product, type of request, and so on.

Know when other agents add comments 

Sometimes, multiple people are involved in resolving the same support request. Now, support agents and your team members can see when other agents or team members are in the process of adding a comment to a ticket. This helps avoid duplicating efforts and lets you know who is working on an answer to the customer right now. A simple note showing your colleague is typing something will help agents to coordinate their work.

Clone tickets to non-helpdesk projects

This enhancement is also based on one of the most popular scenarios experienced by support teams using YouTrack. Sometimes, based on the information in your ticket, you want to continue working on it in one of your internal projects and convert the request into a feature or some other type of issue. Now, you can use the Copy to issue tracker command to easily create a copy of the ticket in another selected project. The newly created task will also automatically be linked as “relates to” the ticket in the helpdesk project, helping you track the source of the new issue.

Convenience in working with tasks and articles for everyone

View the history of text changes in tasks, articles, and comments

Based on your feedback, we’ve added the ability to review the edits applied to issue descriptions and comments to issues and articles (in addition to the previously available option to check on the history of changes for articles). This allows you to access a list of previous updates with information about who made each change and when. Highlights of the changed lines should help you navigate through texts easily. If the change was made in error or should be reverted, you can restore a previous version at any time. Use the settings or the activity stream to start working with the history of changes.

Convenience in working with attachments 

For administration, legal, and other project teams, we’ve made it easier to deal with multiple document attachments. You can now choose how to view attachments – as file previews or as a list with details about each document. Attachments are also grouped into those added to the task description and files that were uploaded later in the comments. Finally, when you need to minimize distraction, you can just collapse the whole attachment section.

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Improvements for dark theme lovers

We’ve significantly improved our dark mode for better visibility and convenience. We won’t try to describe the changes, but we hope they make a difference for many of you who prefer working in dark mode. Just check out the mode in YouTrack, as a picture is worth a thousand words.

Export articles as Markdown files

A new feature, also based on a very popular request, lets you export articles as Markdown files. This makes it easier for you to transfer your content from the YouTrack Knowledge Base to other platforms, applications, or systems without losing formatting and structure. Choose whether you want to export individual articles or all of their sub-articles, comments, and attachments.

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Support for Mermaid diagrams for developers, technical writers, and project managers

Support for Mermaid syntax is a long-awaited feature for teams and project leaders who prefer a text-based, code-friendly approach to creating their visualizations. YouTrack now supports diagrams and charts created using Mermaid markup. You can add them to your tasks or articles and share them in comments – even inline comments in a Knowledge Base. Just embed the diagram as a code block with Mermaid syntax, and it will then be rendered automatically.

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Easier creation of new projects for project administrators

We have updated the project wizard in YouTrack to help your project managers navigate the project creation process more easily. You can start with a project template and customize it to the team’s needs. Choose between the Default, Helpdesk, Scrum, and Kanban templates to kick off. The project wizard will lead you through the process of configuring each project and task template. In the next steps, you can invite your team members, enable time tracking, and select other settings.

The default project template would be a good place to start to configure everything based on your specific team’s scenario. In addition to that, for teams working in time-boxed iterations, for example, a Scrum project would provide preconfigured tasks with fields and two preconfigured Agile Boards with sprints – one for project managers and another for the development team.

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If you want to experiment with various YouTrack configurations, you can also choose the Demo project template. It contains a preconfigured set of sample tasks, a collection of Agile Boards, reports, and a dashboard.

YouTrack has become faster for everyone

Both the cloud and server versions of YouTrack have undergone major performance and scalability improvements. Being able to do what you need to do quickly is always a priority and something that many teams mention as a key advantage of YouTrack over other trackers. This is why we’ve made YouTrack work significantly faster for the most frequently performed actions.

YouTrack is now able to handle more issues, articles, and files with fewer CPU cores and less RAM. The main pages, such as the issue pages, issue lists, and many more now load noticeably faster, with less traffic and lower server response times, especially for bigger YouTrack installations with thousands of users.

Other enhancements

YouTrack workflows now include more options related to articles, comments, and attachments. This release also includes upgrades to VCS and Build Server integrations, import configurations, and more.

 

 

Check out the Release Notes for the full technical details and a comprehensive list of bug fixes and improvements in this release. For details on configuring the latest features, see the documentation.

If you use YouTrack Cloud, you’ll automatically be upgraded to YouTrack 2024.2 in accordance with our Maintenance Calendar. If you have an active YouTrack Server subscription, you can download YouTrack 2024.2 today. If you don’t already have a license, you can use the free trial 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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​May 21, 2024:

Deploying to Multiple Targets With Ease

Have you ever been faced with a situation where you needed to deploy your system to many different environments? For many of us, this is probably just staging or production. When using TeamCity to do this, we just create a build chain as follows:

But what if the number of deployment targets is higher, like ten or more? 

In this case, we might end up with a build chain ending with a set of Publish to env* deployment build configurations:

In such cases, it’s always better to have a combining build configuration that has dependencies on all the Publish tasks:

Unfortunately, due to the current limitations of TeamCity, this combined Publish build configuration can’t be both composite and deployment at the same time. We’ve already had this feature requested by some users.

In this case, the build won’t be shown as running if any of the Publish to env* dependencies are still running, which is a bit inconvenient.

Maintaining the configuration

If we’re using the Kotlin DSL, we can program such a build chain relatively easily, as we can just create a loop that will generate all these Publish to env* build configurations. You can see an example of similar Kotlin DSL code in one of our previous posts.

If we’re not using the Kotlin DSL, then we have to create the build configurations via the UI. Usually, in such cases, creating a template first would be quite helpful. Maintaining this type of deployment configuration is much simpler with templates. However, even with a template, it still takes a lot of clicks to change anything in the configuration.

Moreover, whenever we add a new environment, we still need to create a new build configuration and add a dependency to it from the Publish build configuration. 

All of this feels cumbersome, especially if the number of deployment targets is quite large. Is there really no better way?

Using Matrix builds

If we’ve already defined a template for the actual Publish to env* build configurations, then we’ve already generalized our publishing scripts such that they now accept a parameter denoting a particular environment and perform publishing based on that. In this case, a much better approach would be to use the Matrix Build feature.

To do this, we can add a Matrix Build feature to the Publish build configuration with a matrix parameter with the desired name and an array of values:

The Publish build configuration won’t need dependencies on Publish to env* build configurations anymore. Instead, it will have a dependency on Test. The deployment steps will be copied from a Publish to env* template. 

In regards to the configuration of the dependencies, the resulting build chain will look the same as in the beginning:

However, if we trigger a Publish build configuration, its build will be transformed into a composite build with automatically generated dependencies on a set of parallel [env*] tasks, one for each value of the matrix parameter:

If you look closer at this screenshot, you can see that the Publish build is shown as running even though its dependencies are not finished yet. So, apparently a build can be both composite and deployment at the same time. This looks like a nice solution, at least for some of the users who voted for the composite deployment build feature ticket.

With the Matrix Build feature, the settings become much simpler. Now, there’s no need to have a template or a dedicated build configuration for each environment. 

At the same time, adding a new environment is as simple as adding a new value to the matrix parameter (provided that our scripts understand this value). 

The presentation of the results looks nicer too:

Matrix Builds also allow us to retain flexibility. For instance, if an [env*] build fails, we can retry this individual build or better yet, we can rerun the Publish build itself with the Rebuild failed dependencies option:

If our publish build requires an artifact prepared by the Build package task, we can just add an artifact dependency to the Publish build itself. When it is executed, the same dependency will be copied to the auto-generated [env*] builds so they all use the same artifact.

Finally, these [env*] build configurations won’t clutter our view as they won’t be visible by default. If necessary, one can always navigate to them and analyze their history.

Once again, the Matrix Build feature proves to be quite useful. If you’re using TeamCity 2023.11+, please give it a try and tell us how it can be improved!

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​May 17, 2024:

TeamCity Pipelines Pulse, Issue #1: YAML-y Good News

TeamCity Pipelines, our new product that offers a brand-new approach to the CI/CD process, is currently in Beta. We’d like to share product news with our users on a more regular basis. That’s why we’re starting a new initiative—the TeamCity Pipelines Pulse newsletter, and you’re now reading the very first issue.

Here’s what’s been keeping us busy since the release in March!

YAML autocompletion

YAML autocompletion for values – need we say more?

Ability to disable job reuse

TeamCity Pipelines is smart. It tries to reuse jobs and their results as much as possible. Sometimes, however, you don’t want that, so we’ve added the option to turn job reuse off.

Easter egg hunt

Waiting for your build to finish executing doesn’t have to be boring. 2048 is an egg-celent time killer, and we’ve brought it into TeamCity Pipelines.

Can you find it and beat your highest score on your instance? 🐰

Teaser: Dependency visual editor

In our ideal world, defining dependencies between jobs should be a visual process. Think Miro or Figma. 

Currently you can only define dependencies by checking or unchecking boxes, but we’re working on new drag-and-drop style pipeline editing options. Stay tuned!

Crafting TeamCity Pipelines: The Art of Pitch DesignWe spent over a year fine-tuning our processes so we can adopt a better design approach that puts our customers first. Here’s how we go about designing new features for TeamCity Pipelines.

Bug fixes and improvements

We fixed a bunch of bugs for this release. Here are our favorites, in no particular order.

• UI glitch: The side toolbar used to remain open after the creation of a pipeline, overlapping with the job creation interface. Not anymore!

• You can now add any public repository to your pipeline. When you copy-paste an SSH link, TeamCity Pipelines will automatically convert it into HTTPS – sleek and easy.

• A couple hiccups were affecting the agent terminal when switching pages. Those are gone for good.

• YAML, YAML, YAML: We’ve implemented instant validation improvements and a couple fixes for some minor, but nasty, YAML syntax issues.

That’s it for today!

If you’re not part of the TeamCity Pipelines tribe yet, you can sign up here. The product is completely free while in public Beta.

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April 23, 2024:

What’s New in Datalore 2024.2: Evolution of Datalore AI, New Homepage Design, and More

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The new version brings AI Assistant to on-premises installations and features the evolution of Datalore AI, a revamped homepage design, support for variables in Markdown cells, and more. 

From now on, we will specify the pricing tiers for which a particular feature is available. If no tier has been specified, the feature is available across the board. 

Datalore Community, Professional, and Team customers will receive these updates automatically. Datalore Enterprise customers can upgrade by following these instructions.

Introducing Autopilot and revamping Ask AI

As the next step in the evolution of Datalore AI Assistant, we are introducing Datalore Autopilot. Get advice from AI or set an explicit research goal and receive tailored suggestions for your analysis. Autopilot can analyze notebook data in your preferred language – whether Python, Kotlin, R, or Scala. 

If you want to generate SQL or Markdown code, add a new cell and use the Ask AI option by clicking on the AI Assistant icon in the upper-right corner of the cell. 

Additionally, you can now access the AI prompt history, making it convenient to reuse or modify previously used prompts. 

Datalore AI now available for Enterprise customers

Datalore AI is now available for on-premises installations, providing AI-powered coding assistance in Python, Kotlin, SQL, R, and Scala, along with text generation in Markdown cells. Automate routine code generation and fix errors – all without context switching. Admins have full control and can choose whether to enable the feature or not. Learn more about how it works in our documentation.

New homepage for effortless navigation

We’ve redesigned the homepage to streamline your navigation through Datalore workspaces. With the new layout, it takes fewer steps to reach any critical workspace artifact – from notebooks to databases, and everything in between. 

Customize your workspace with an intuitive color coding system that allows for rapid identification and selection. Recent, shared, and active notebooks are now immediately accessible, ensuring that your ongoing work is always just a click away. Additionally, the new notebook unfolding feature provides you with a quick glimpse of the associated data, streamlining your workflow without the need for deep dives into content.

Revamped UI colors

We’ve updated Datalore’s UI colors with a focus on readability and accessibility. The updated palette is slightly more vibrant while maintaining familiarity. Enjoy the new tones in the notebook editor, reports, file systems, and more.

Support for variables in Markdown cells

Embed your variables in Markdown cells with double curly brackets. Variables will dynamically convert to their live values within your text.

Get code syntax highlighting in Markdown cells

Wrap your code with triple backticks and Datalore will highlight the syntax to make it clear and easy to follow.

Migration of Git repositories and SSH keys

Enterprise

As part of reworking Git integration, we are deprecating the current way of attaching Git repositories to notebooks. To automatically migrate existing Git repositories to the new implementation, Datalore admins need to follow these instructions. After migrating, Git repositories will become available as workspace resources along with related SSH keys. This change provides a more flexible and secure way of working with packages available via Git repositories in Datalore.

Custom PyPI server configuration support

Enterprise

You can now set up custom PyPI server configurations in Datalore. This allows you to explore custom repositories via Datalore’s environment manager, extending beyond the default pypi.org server, directly facilitating package installation for users. Find more details in our documentation.

Improvements and bug fixes

• We now support connections to Snowflake using Azure OAuth 2.0 authentication.

• We have added the ability to connect to Microsoft SQL Server using native Windows authentication and authorization.

• When publishing a report, you can now choose if you want to let others make and download copies of the associated notebook.

• Datalore Enterprise admins can now configure the permitted size for imported notebooks.

• Datalore Enterprise admins can now limit the number of GPUs connected to an agent. 

• Datalore Enterprise admins will now be able to receive warnings about user storage running out of space. Find more info in our documentation.

• It is now possible to see reports linked to each notebook within the workspace view.

• We fixed the bug preventing SVG files from properly rendering in Markdown cells.

• We resolved the inconsistency with MultiIndex DataFrames rendering in code cell outputs.

• We corrected the issue with the last row of the DataFrame not appending correctly to existing tables via the Export to database cell.

• We fixed the scrolling error that occurred when using ⌘F to find a code cell within the notebook.

• It is now possible to access a database from a running notebook without pre-entering the database login credentials. After logging in, you can use the database for the duration of your session without saving the login details permanently.

• As part of the migration from secrets to environment variables, we’ve deprecated adding new secrets to an environment. 

• We fixed a bug that prevented notebook owners from setting up email notifications for collaborators on scheduled runs.

• We updated the Lets-Plot version from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0.

 

Datalore Community, Professional, and Team customers will receive these updates automatically. 

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April 11, 2024:

Django Learning Resources

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Are you new to Django development? Are you already familiar with it and want to expand your knowledge? PyCharm has Django learning resources for everyone. 

In this article, you’ll find a compilation of all the Django-related resources created by the experts at PyCharm to help you navigate through them all. From creating a new Django Python project in PyCharm to using different APIs and Frameworks, you’ll find a wealth of valuable information here. 

Let’s start with the PyCharm guide first.  

PyCharm Guide:

We have an in-depth tutorial on the PyCharm Guide named, ‘Developing Django Application using AWS,’ that starts from the basics of Django to helping you create your very first Django application.

Here’s a breakdown of the tutorial:

1. Introduction

In this chapter, you’ll be introduced to Django – what it is, when, and how it was created. You will also learn about other popular Python frameworks like FastAPI, Pyramid, and Flask.

2. Creating a new Django Project in PyCharm

Here you will learn how to create a new Django project in PyCharm. This chapter comes with a detailed step-by-step guide in both video and image formats so you can easily follow the instructions to create a Django project!

3. Setup AWS RDS in PyCharm 

In this chapter, we’ll walk you through the process of connecting Postgres with a Django application using PyCharm. This tutorial comes in video or image-supported text formats. 

4. Developing Django Applications using AWS

In this guide, we’ll explore the process of developing a Python Django application using AWS in PyCharm. You’ll find all of the resources developed by PyCharm in this guide, from an introduction to creating Django applications using AWS to how to properly test them.

5. Implementing Rest APIs

In this Django tutorial, we’ll explore the powerful combination of Django and DRF, enabling you to create robust and scalable APIs effortlessly. From setting up your development environment to implementing endpoints and handling authentication, you’ll learn it all. 

6. Secure REST APIs with JWT 

In this chapter, we’ll explore how to enhance the security of your Django REST APIs using JSON Web Tokens (JWT). 

7. Unit Tests in Django 

From installing a package to executing a test, you’ll learn all about how to create your first test in Django. You’ll find a detailed video tutorial as well as a step-by-step breakdown with images to help you easily follow the Django tutorial. 

8. Exploring Django with Docker

Discover how to leverage Docker’s flexibility and Django’s robust features to build scalable and portable web applications in PyCharm. There is a video tutorial as well as a detailed breakdown of instructions. 

Other tutorials in our PyCharm guide include:

1. Autocomplete Django Settings Strings 

This short video demonstrates PyCharm’s autocomplete capabilities for Django Python code.

2. Creating CRUD APIs (TODO App)

In this tutorial, we’ll explore the process of building robust CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) APIs using Django Rest Framework. From initializing to debugging your API, you’ll learn it all. 

3. Build Django Apps on Google Cloud With PyCharm and Cloud Code

In this tutorial, you will discover how to leverage PyCharm and Google Cloud’s Cloud Code extension to streamline your development workflow and deploy your Django apps with ease. 

Start developing Django apps with PyCharm

PyCharm Professional is the best-in-class IDE for Django development. It allows you to code faster with Django-specific code assistance, project-wide navigation and refactoring, and full support for Django templates. You can connect to your database in a single click and work on TypeScript, JavaScript, and frontend frameworks. PyCharm also supports Flask and FastAPI out of the box.

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PyCharm YouTube: 

1. Django Support in PyCharm with Ilya and Alexei

In this video, you’ll get to know why PyCharm is the ideal IDE for Django development and how you can benefit from it. Learn all about Django support in PyCharm, including code insight, navigation between views and models, built-in manage.py utility, from the PyCharm team itself!

2. Writing REST With Django and Ninja

In this Django tutorial, we’ll explore the powerful combination of Django and Ninja frameworks for building RESTful APIs. Discover how these tools can simplify your development process and enhance the functionality of your applications.

3. Database Performance Tips with Django

In this tutorial, we’ll explore database performance tips with Django with Andrew Brookins. Learn how to optimize queries, leverage caching techniques, fine-tune database settings, and more.

4. Django-in-PyCharm Tips: Reloaded

Here we provide you with more valuable tips to maximize your productivity and efficiency while working with Django in PyCharm. From configuring the Django project settings to utilizing powerful PyCharm features to make Django development a breeze, we’ve got you covered.

5. Faster Django Coding with Live Templates

In this quick tutorial, you’ll find out how to write code fast by using live templates and skipping boilerplate code. This way you can increase your productivity, reduce errors, and stay consistent.

6. Django Templates in 3 Minutes: A Quick Guide to Template Creation

Learn how to create a Django template in PyCharm with this quick and easy to follow tutorial.

7. Django-in-PyCharm Tips: Reloaded

Looking for a single place where you can find all the tips for Django in PyCharm? This is it! Learn from the best about what PyCharm can do for you when it comes to Django development and code like a pro in no time.

PyCharm Blog:

1. How To Learn Django: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

Are you struggling to learn Django? Or maybe you want to add Django to your technology stack but don’t know where to start. This blog dives into all the details on how to learn Django, from the prerequisites to helpful resources, you’l find everything you need here.

2. What is the Django Web Framework?

This is another great introductory article if you’re just starting out in Django. This blog post takes you to the very basics of what is Django, its origin, features, and anything else you would possibly want to know in order to get familiar with Django.

3. Create a Django App in PyCharm

In this detailed Django tutorial, you’ll find out everything you need to know before creating a Django app in PyCharm. From prerequisites to setup to building a sample application, you’ll learn all the basics including writing models and views, connecting to the database, and making API calls.

4. How to use Materialized Views in Django 

In this Django tutorial, you’ll learn how to create, recreate, and query Materialized Views within your Django application, enabling you to optimize performance and streamline your data processing workflows. 

5. Building APIs With Django REST Framework

In this Django REST framework tutorial, you will learn how to create a rental platform API. The tutorial demonstrates how to use Python and Django REST framework in PyCharm to develop APIs. By the time you’re done with the tutorial, you’ll be equipped with how to write and test your APIs.

6. How to Connect Django With MongoDB

If you’re someone who regularly uses databases with Django, then you know then connecting Django with MongoDB is not as simple as it looks. This in-depth article will guide you from the very beginning- From informing about the prerequisites to step-by-step tutorial complete with images, you’ll have all the tools in your arsenal to connect Django with MongoDB.

7. Django vs FastAPI: Which is the Best Python Web Framework?

This article explores the strengths and weaknesses of Django and FastAPI, two of the most popular Python web frameworks, to determine which is better suited for different project requirements. You’ll also find out how to install them, and how PyCharm supports each framework.

8. Django vs Flask: Which is the Best Python Web Framework?

Confused between Django and Flask? This blog give you an in-depth view of how each framework differs from each other in different aspect like architecture, learning curve, testing, databases, and so much more. After you’re done reading the articles, you’ll know the key differences between Django and Flask, as well as which one to choose for your next project.

So there you have it, all Django learning resources by PyCharm in one place. Check out our blog post, “How To Learn Django: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners”, for more actionable insights!

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April 4, 2024:

YouTrack Roadmap 2024

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We’re getting lots of feedback from teams that have recently started using YouTrack, and we’re adjusting our product development plan for YouTrack in response. This flexibility with regard to our medium-term plans is possible for us since, in the longer term, we remain committed to our product’s core values and our vision for it.

We kicked off the new year with the first major update of 2024, which used your feedback to enhance the experience of working with Helpdesk agents. In this post, we’d like to highlight what’s next on the agenda in our YouTrack roadmap for 2024 and confirm our longer-term plans.

Growth trends confirm our long-term commitments

Reflecting on the past year, we’re thrilled to see the YouTrack customer base growing rapidly; we’ve recorded a double-digit percent increase in the number of teams who’ve started to manage their projects in YouTrack. We’re seeing a great deal of traction across a variety of company types and sizes – from enterprises with thousands of team members completing huge migration projects to small startups who are still in the process of getting their teams together.  

The adoption of project management practices is rapidly increasing within companies. For example, when one department starts using YouTrack, team members from other groups often quickly follow suit, and the overall number of YouTrack users in the company typically grows 3–5 times within several months. Lots of teams beyond product management and software development need a powerful project management system to facilitate their workflows, which is helping YouTrack expand to numerous other departments, such as legal and compliance, HR, marketing and design, finance, administration, support, and more.

In 2024, we aim to further enhance YouTrack’s ability to manage a wide array of tasks and workflows – accommodating a range of needs, from the simplicity welcomed by new teams and team members to the complexity and flexibility required by multinational corporations. 

We remain committed to giving you the freedom to choose where your applications and data are hosted. That’s why we’re continuing to develop YouTrack Cloud and Server in tandem, so teams can easily migrate between cloud and on-premises hosting as needed.

What we’re working on in 2024

AI assistance

As of December 2023, AI assistance is available for free to all teams using YouTrack, offering the ability to summarize content and create multiple replies. AI-powered functionality is going to be a big part of the product’s future development. Firstly, we’re working to add more features to facilitate your work with tasks, such as the ability to have AI create, autocomplete, and proofread texts for you on the go. Secondly, the search functionality will be AI-powered across all your content, meaning that YouTrack will be able to show you relevant results even as you adjust the phrasing of your searches and replace filters and queries with your own words. Going forward, we’d like to offer AI assistance for creating tasks and filling in their details, making to-do lists and dividing tasks, setting up projects, easily reviewing activity and updates in your projects with curated digests, facilitating no-code automation, and more.

The team behind JetBrains AI is focused on making it more powerful every day, and the YouTrack team is working hard to bring its power to your projects in YouTrack. The AI functionality in YouTrack is now free, but it consumes resources. When AI-powered features start to consume more resources than you have available, we will give you an option to pay for JetBrains AI credits that you will be able to use in YouTrack. 

The roadmap we published a year ago did not mention AI, but it nevertheless became available by the end of 2023. This year we’re also open to the ways in which new AI capabilities could redefine the way you work with YouTrack, with a view towards putting AI at the center of your project management experience. As always, we’ll keep you posted on our progress, but we won’t pause our work on the functionalities most teams use in YouTrack every day.

Welcoming new teams and new team members to YouTrack easily

Organize multiple tasks and projects with new navigation sidebar

As YouTrack continues to gain traction with a wider variety of non-technical teams and projects, we’re actively looking for ways to simplify the organization of tasks and projects for all team members. At the same time, YouTrack remains a very powerful project management solution with extensive built-in functionality that is designed for enterprises but also available to small teams for no additional cost. Since we want to keep YouTrack flexible in order to meet the needs of any team regardless of its size or complexity, we’re planning a major redesign of the UI/UX, including the introduction of a new sidebar navigation option that places all of YouTrack’s features at your fingertips while also allowing you to focus on individual projects more easily.

Start all kinds of new projects and onboard team members

We’re planning to change the process of setting up new projects with the release of a step-by-step wizard. It will give project administrators the ability to use various project templates and tailor them to the needs of specific teams, all while making it easier to onboard new team members to existing projects.

Please let us know in the comments what kind of projects and templates you’d like to see first!

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Helpdesk projects

We’re happy to see that a sizable portion of the thousands of teams that join YouTrack every month are choosing to explore YouTrack Helpdesk and are starting to work on their support tickets in YouTrack. These support teams range in size, from the small ones to huge departments in organizations with hundreds of support agents. Based on your feedback, we plan to add a simpler way to link Helpdesk tickets to related tasks in non-Helpdesk projects. We also aim to provide more customization options in the ticket creation form, and we’ll explore how we can enhance our support for an internal Helpdesk team scenario where your team members use regular YouTrack projects and simultaneously operate as reporters in Helpdesk.

Apps

Giving users the ability to create apps for YouTrack opens doors for further integration possibilities, as well as additional customization of the UI and functionality. Some apps will be provided with YouTrack out of the box. Our customers and technical and consulting partners will be able to create apps and install and use them in particular YouTrack instances or share them via JetBrains Marketplace. The advent of AI assistance has challenged us to redefine the ways apps should be created, but it also presents a great opportunity to make the creation of apps a low-code experience. In any case, we’re looking to make it possible to create apps for YouTrack later this year.

Planning canvas 

We’re working on a way to enable teams to start planning using a whiteboard interface that can then transform their drafts and plans into full-fledged project tasks in just a few clicks. Additionally, we’d also like to make it possible to move existing YouTrack tasks to the planning canvas to allow for additional interactions and the creation of alternative versions of your projects.

Knowledge Base

To cater to the needs of teams who use the Knowledge Base extensively, we’ll be adding more fields and attributes for articles so that arranging and cataloging documents will be less time-consuming. AI-powered search and content creation functionalities may also redefine the experience of teams working with the Knowledge Base, so we’ll refine our plans for the future after the new AI capabilities have been made available to you.

Looking ahead: broad goals for 2024 and beyond

YouTrack for everyone

How would you feel if we got rid of YouTrack issues? We’d like to allow you to use whatever name you’d like for the tasks you’re working on. From now on, you’ll start with a simple task, and then it will be up to you to decide whether you’d like to call it an issue. Later you will have several additional options to choose from. For example, you might want to call something a “document” in a legal team project, a “purchase order” in accounting, or a “job or “employee” in recruitment and HR. 

With such a diversity of teams and projects, we’d like to offer everyone the opportunity to choose exactly how to plan their workdays. That’s why we’ll create the My Workspace area, where each team member can keep track of everything they are planning to work on. 

Project administrators can expect several changes in the near future. First, we’ll be making it easier for administrators to customize fields in tasks. We’ll also refine roles and permission schemes to provide the desired flexibility without creating an additional configuration burden for administrators. We know that the easier everything is for administrators, the better the YouTrack experience will be for your teams!

YouTrack for enterprises

With a growing average team size and customer base with each release, we’re adding more enhancements to improve cloud stability, performance, and fault tolerance, among other things. The current 99.9% availability threshold has been maintained for several years now, and the team is working to guarantee that YouTrack Cloud will be able to handle even more data with speed and reliability for companies with thousands of users and millions of tasks. 

For our customers who choose YouTrack Server, adding support for multi-node installations is still our priority. This will provide enhanced performance and availability at scale. Beyond this, we’re also becoming more adept at supporting extremely large YouTrack installations, gaining more experience every day through our maintenance of youtrack.jetbrains.com – JetBrains’ own public project tracker, with about 1 million active users and over 3 million tasks. We’d be more than willing to share the insights we’ve acquired from this experience with you. Please feel free to get in touch with our support team for more information.

Premium support is available on request for larger teams seeking assistance with their migration to YouTrack, customizations, and more. What’s more, we’re also expanding our team of YouTrack-certified consulting partners who can help you with your projects. Please feel free to contact us for more information about any of these topics – we’re always happy to help.

Let us know what you think

Please keep in mind that these plans represent our general points of focus. There are improvements in the works for many of your other favorite YouTrack features. Furthermore, our current vision might change when we delve deeper into specific customer scenarios.

Subscribe to our blog and follow us on X to keep up to date with all our latest news. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to comment below. If you’re interested in more details on the features we’re working on, please feel free to check out our public project tracker. This is where you can find feature requests and vote for them. You can also subscribe to receive notifications about our progress on them by clicking the star icon.

Every year, we get thousands of requests from you that inspire us to look for ways to make YouTrack better for teams. Thank you for choosing YouTrack, and we look forward to many productive and successful years ahead working with you on the new features.​​