Thomas Osugi • Thursday, February 8, 2018 • Updates

Recovering Deleted Stories

Losing a story in Tracker is no fun, whether it’s because of a simple mistake or because Bob and his glitchy delete fingers were running amok in your backlog. In either case, we now have a solution—your Project Owner can go to Project Settings and view the 100 most recently deleted stories. With one click, you can recover any or all of those deleted stories and thwart Bob’s nefarious plans once and for all. Read more...

Lisa Doan • Tuesday, February 6, 2018 • Updates

Epic Renovations: Changing How Epics Auto-Complete (Plus Searchable Epics)

Since the dawn of time (Tracker), Tracker has marked epics as done as soon as all scheduled stories are done. This meant that epics that contained stories in the Icebox could be marked as completed…even though there was work that hadn’t been started. This was so that unplanned stories lurking in your Icebox wouldn’t keep your epic open forever. Read more...

Jeanette Head • Thursday, February 1, 2018 • Updates

Improving Accessibility in Pivotal Tracker

Last year at a conference, I attended an open spaces session on accessibility and it really caught my attention. Since then, I’ve been taking steps to help our team build an understanding and appreciation for accessibility and the ways that we can improve Tracker with accessibility in mind. Read more...

Devin Brown • Thursday, January 25, 2018 • Updates

Preview Party: Previewing Markdown Before Posting

Tracker customers have been asking for Markdown previews for a while, and we’re excited to make good on that request. The latest update features an easy and convenient way to preview your Markdown in story descriptions and comments before you post them. Read more...

Matt Heidemann • Wednesday, November 29, 2017 • Updates

Android v2.1: Tablets and Profile Photos

We’ve updated the Tracker Android app to include profile photos and better support for tablets. Version 2.1 is available on Google Play right this very moment. Read more...

Lisa Doan • Thursday, September 21, 2017 • Updates

Introducing Profile Photos

Tracker has always believed in software as a team sport. We are a tool built to help teams collaborate and build better software—not just faster, but together. But for a tool that helps people collaborate, we’ve always represented people by initials that—except in rare examples—don’t really capture your teammates’ personalities, or scan easily. Read more...

Matt Heidemann • Thursday, July 20, 2017 • Updates

Image Gallery for Stories and Epics

Whether it’s capturing whiteboard scribbles or some bad CSS on a webpage, image attachments have been integral part of a Tracker story. Read more...

Steve Lichtenstein • Wednesday, July 12, 2017 • Updates

Android v1.2.2—Now with Blockers

As we approach the second birthday of the Tracker Android app—we can still remember when it was just a burping alpha—it’s worth noting how much it continues to improve. On that point, the latest update includes even more functionality that brings the Android of our eye more in line with the Tracker web app. Version 1.2.2 is available now—go get it! Read more...

Dan Podsedly • Friday, July 7, 2017 • Updates

Tracker Developer API V3/V4 Versions Deprecated

The current version of the Tracker Developer API (V5) was introduced almost four years ago, and has since continuously evolved to support new Tracker features, such as the recently launched story blockers. It supports JSON payloads, flexible response customization, CORS, access to analytics data, and much more. Read more...

Lisa Doan • Thursday, July 6, 2017 • Updates

Improved Project Member Management

We’ve updated the Project Members page to be faster, more reliable, and easier to use! The page hadn’t been revised in a number of years, and some of our larger customers had begun to see marked slowness in its performance. We took the opportunity to not only improve the design of the page but also to revisit its core functionality. Read more...