Changelog

New features in TrackStudio Enterprise 3.5 (July, 2006) include:

Totally new SCM integration has been implemented.
Linking of tasks and users has been improved significantly.
Simplified full text search was implemented.
Microsoft Project reporting has been improved.

New features in TrackStudio Enterprise 3.2 (January, 2006) include:

A new AJAX-based user interface has been implemented.
The ability to assign tasks to user statuses (groups) has been added.
The ability to create and manage access control rules for users has been added.
The ability to assign permissions, create e-mail notification rules, and filter subscription rules for user statuses has been added.
Extensive support for custom fields has been added, to allow hiding custom fields when necessary.
The ability to set task description templates for each task category has been added.
Custom task processing logic can be implemented with triggers.
A very flexible CSV import feature has been added, to simplify data migration from other issue tracking software packages.
CSV export has been added, to simplify data analysis using third-party software (like Microsoft Excel).
E-mail import rules have been improved significantly. You can now match keywords using Regular Expressions, and create multiple e-mail import rules per task. Further, TrackStudio can even create user accounts when e-mail messages come from unknown users.
Available values for String custom fields can now be created as drop down menus.
You can now control task visibility based on categories using the Can View category permission.
A graphic visualization of workflow has been added.
The ability to modify filter conditions directly from the Reports page has been added.
The completely new KlipFolio integration allows you to notify users about issue changes, via RSS syndication.
MySQL 4.1 support has been added.
NTLM user authentication has been added.
Major performance improvements were made, especially when using large databases (30000-50000 tasks).

New features in TrackStudio Enterprise 3.1 (Feruary, 2005) include:

The user interface is now much simpler.
A new demo database, tutorials, and docs are available.
Major performance improvements were made, especially on large databases (with 30000-50000 tasks, 5000 users).
TrackStudio Standalone is available for Linux.
The ability to modify filter conditions dynamically was added.
The ability to filter users by any field was added.
New custom field types were added (Task link, User link, URL).
More flexible email notification templates were added. Templates may now be configured on a per-issue basis.
Task and message descriptions now support HTML. A WYSIWYG editor was implemented.
A manager can now logon as a subordinate user.

New features in TrackStudio Enterprise 3.0 (June, 2004) include:

Multi role feature. Now every user can be a member of several groups and the group list of different projects can vary. For example, user Peter can be a developer in ProjectA, a tester in ProjectB.
To simplify the management of the user access rights inheritance support is provided for the user groups and roles.
Field-level security -- you can set a visible field list for every user group. For example, you can disable the budget and actual budget display for customers.
Text formatting engine for the task and message description formatting.
More flexible LDAP suppport enables you to do authentication in Active Directory Service by name and login.
Now you can receive a list of similar tasks for each task.
Improved calculated custom field object model -- now you can access other tasks to calculate a field value or use other custom fields. User rights are under control when accessing from script -- if the user is revoked to view a certain task via web interface he/she will not be able to do it via the calculated custom fields.
Customizable e-mail templates -- you can set an individual e-mail template for every user.
More flexible external user self-registration -- now you can use web interface to manage external user self-registration rules. Every user can create a few rules for his/her projects.
Full SOAP API is based on Apache AXIS. Unlike many other systems TrackStudio SOAP provides the full access to the system kernel. It enables you to use SOAP API to create tasks, users and workflows, set access permissions and so on. User rights are under control when accessing via SOAP API. The set of examples of work from Java and .NET are included in the TrackStudio DevPack.
Application server cluster support. For the sake of better scalability and stability TrackStudio can be launched on several application servers grouped into a cluster. Load balancing makes it possible to distribute the load between servers in the cluster.
CVS Integration.
IIS Integration.
Basic Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and Borland JBuilder plugins. Plugins work with TrackStudio via SOAP API.

New features in TrackStudio Enterprise 2.8 (October, 2003) include:

Link-friendly URLs.
All forms are printer-friendly.
Quick task search by keyword.
LDAP support
External user self-registration
Supports transferring data between DBMSs via XML import/export.
Numeric task numbers
Long text description support
Calculated custom fields
Sort by multiple columns
Support the copy operation for filters and workflows
Flexible project-specific email submission rules.
HTML and plain text email notifications.

New features in TrackStudio Enterprise 2.7 (July, 2003) include:

New Open API.
Filter-based email notification system.
Major filter and workflow improvements.
New report generator.
New online and PDF documentation.

New features in TrackStudio Enterprise 2.5 (April, 2003) include:

Support for Jetty, Tomcat, Resin, WebSphere, Sun ONE and more.
Hibernate-based persistence engine, with excellent performance.
Full i18n support, with localized Russian skin and database.
Minor filter improvements.

New features in TrackStudio Enterprise 2.2 (February, 2003) include:

New skin-based user interface, with full Mozilla and Opera support.
Support for bulk deletion.
Support for DB2, MS SQL, InterBase, Firebird, PostgreSQL and HSQLDB.

New features in GRAN PM 2.1 (January, 2003) include:

Support for named filters with subscription.
Support for submission of bug-notes by email.
TreeCache technology, allowing for task processing to be performed up to 3 times faster.
Support for different character encodings.
GRAN PM Open API for easy integration with third party software.
Swing-based GRAN PM Server Manager for easy installation and configuration.