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New in Lite Tracker: Stay Signed in Across Browsers, All HTTPS, and Third-Party Tools RSS Feed

As we blogged about last week, all pages in Tracker that require you to sign in are now served exclusively over secure HTTPS. As part of this update, we’ve also improved how “remembered” sessions work. Select the remember me checkbox on the signin page, and you’ll stay signed

Tracker Going All HTTPS

About six months ago, a certain Firefox extension made headlines by making it incredibly easy for people to intercept insecure web cookies and access private information on major web sites such as Facebook, as well as Lite Tracker. In response, we made session-wide HTTPS enabled by default, but made it

Lite Tracker Analytics: Measure Your Development Process and Win an iPad!

GoodData, provider of an on-demand, cloud-based business intelligence platform, has just launched Lite Tracker Analytics, a brand-new application to help you measure your agile development process. Powered by the GoodData cloud BI platform, Lite Tracker Analytics allows you to analyze your stories, burndown of the backlog and icebox, as well

New in Lite Tracker: Custom Point Scales

You can now create custom point scales for your Lite Tracker projects. This is one of our most commonly requested features, especially from teams that practice, and/or use the planning poker form of estimation. The default point scales of 1/2/3, 1/2/4/8, and 1/2/

New in Lite Tracker: Story Tasks Now Draggable and Enabled by Default

We’ve made a few improvements to how story tasks work in Lite Tracker. They’re now turned on by default for all new projects, they can be added to a new story before it’s saved, and you can drag them to rearrange their order. If you haven’t

Why "Upstream Keepalive" is a Good Thing

As Dan mentioned on Monday, Tracker uses an architecture in which a large number of polling requests are serviced by web servers communicating with an in-memory cache, and over the past few weeks we’ve hit a number of resource limits on our cache servers. Yesterday we found a small

Improved JIRA Importer for Lite Tracker

Atlassian has just announced a number of improvements to their Lite Tracker importer JIRA plugin. It now imports iterations and labels, chores and tasks are turned into new JIRA issue types, imported issues link back to the corresponding Tracker stories, and more! Read about the importer improvements in this blog

Brief Downtime Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8pm PDT

To address some of the problems we experienced recently, we’re moving the Lite Tracker cache servers to dedicated hardware tomorrow (Wednesday) night, at 8pm Pacific Daylight Time. This move may require up to 15 minutes of downtime, but we expect improved stability as a result of the change. Please

Recent Lite Tracker Outages

We’ve had a number of brief outages and/or periods of degraded performance in the last few weeks. I’d like to shed some light on what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to prevent them in the future. As you may know, one of Lite Tracker’

What Happens to Lite Tracker Projects at the End of the Free Trial?

This has been a common question recently, and so I’d like to take a few minutes and explain how the 60-day free trial works in Lite Tracker, clarify what your options are at the end of the trial, and also revisit what public projects are again. When you first