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Mendeley Desktop Changelog

What's new in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.8

Mar 26, 2021
  • We have:
  • Updated Mendeley citation plugin to avoid "Word cannot change the function of the specified key" error message on macOS Catalina
  • Fixed a sync issue after restoring backups
  • Following the announcement on our blog on 2nd November we have:
  • Removed the "Related Documents" option from the UI
  • Removed the options of creating public and invite-only groups
  • Removed external group links
  • Removed external links to user profiles
  • Removed the "Literature Search" option from the UI
  • Removed the "Invite Colleagues" option from the UI

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.8 Dev 3 (Jan 4, 2021)

  • updated Mendeley citation plugin to avoid "Word cannot change the function of the specified key" error message on macOS Catalina
  • fixed a sync issue after restoring backups
  • Following the announcement on our blog on 2nd November we have:
  • removed the "Related Documents" option from the UI
  • removed the options of creating public and invite-only groups
  • removed external group links
  • removed external links to user profiles
  • removed the "Literature Search" option from the UI
  • removed the "Invite Colleagues" option from the UI

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.6 (Jan 4, 2021)

  • changed the way you export from Mendeley to Zotero and import from Zotero to Mendeley to use Zotero’s API
  • corrected the display of annotation author names in private group annotations
  • added a link to download Mendeley Cite from the Tools menu
  • fixed an issue with error messaging when inserting citations longer than 15 characters
  • updated the storage location for Bibtex preferences and watch folder settings to the user account
  • fixed sync issues:
  • relating to the date accessed field, and
  • when restoring a backup and syncing on a second computer

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.5 (May 2, 2019)

  • We added a get Mendeley Cite - our new citation tool - link to the tools menu. Find out more here
  • We also fixed two UI bugs.
  • Support:
  • If you encounter any problems using Mendeley or have questions to ask please contact our support team.
  • For news and updates about Mendeley see our blog.
  • Mendeley uses:
  • PDF technology powered by PDFTron.
  • Portions of this product © 2008 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
  • Fugue Icons by Pinvoke.
  • Silk Icons by FamFamFam.
  • Social Network Icons and buttons by Komodo Media, Rogie King.
  • Word/LibreOffice plugins use code © Zotero / Center for History and New Media / George Mason University.
  • CSL and citeproc-js for reference formatting.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.4 (Apr 8, 2019)

  • made changes to the export process to allow the export to be cancelled
  • improved error messaging when trying to add a bibliography to unsupported components in MS Word
  • introduced a loop break out in Word when a user takes too long to interact with Mendeley.
  • added bulk export highlights along side of bulk exporting sticky notes annotations
  • fixed a bug with the search sort order
  • fixed a bug to avoid Mendeley Desktop sync getting stuck at group sync
  • fixed crashes ?on document search
  • on deduplication
  • when installing the Citation Plug in for LibreOffice
  • when signing out after checking for updates

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.3 (Nov 28, 2018)

  • You can now export multiple PDFs with annotations
  • We have fixed the following bugs:
  • In the library:
  • The ‘Read’ column has been restored in the Recently Read view
  • The application is no longer unresponsive during automatic backups
  • For MacOSX Sierra and High Sierra users we have reduced the GPU usage
  • Annotations can now be moved after they have been created
  • Annotations are no longer displaying as ‘Unknown user’ for all exported annotations
  • In the MS Word Citation plugin:
  • Fixed an issues causing users to get the error message ‘Range cannot be deleted (6028)
  • Merging citation in areas other than the body text now merge correctly
  • Correct error messages are now displayed when you try to insert a citation or bibliography in a prohibited area
  • Fixed some issues to improve performance
  • In the LibreOffice citation plugin
  • Adjacent inline or footnote citations no longer fail to merge when cited in a table
  • We know some of you are still experiencing issues with the MS Word citation plugin and we do not yet have a fix for all of these but we have added some extra options to help us debug these issues.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.2 (Nov 2, 2018)

  • The database back-up feature has been restored.
  • We fixed bugs that were causing the app to crash during:
  • Sync
  • PDF import; and
  • Opening a corrupted database
  • We also fixed two bugs relating to sync causing:
  • Incorrect sync for users using the app on more than one machine
  • Sync to fail when the user profile was not synced

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.3 Dev 1 (Nov 1, 2018)

  • We have fixed the following bugs:
  • In the library:
  • The ‘Read’ column has been restored in the Recently Read view
  • The application is no longer unresponsive during automatic backups
  • For MacOSX Sierra and High Sierra users we have reduced the GPU usage
  • Annotations can now be moved after they have been created
  • Annotations are no longer displaying as ‘Unknown user’ for all exported annotations
  • In the MS Word Citation plugin:
  • Fixed an issues causing users to get the error message ‘Range cannot be deleted (6028)
  • Merging citation in areas other than the body text now merge correctly
  • Correct error messages are now displayed when you try to insert a citation or bibliography in a prohibited area
  • Fixed some issues to improve performance
  • In the LibreOffice citation plugin:
  • Adjacent inline or footnote citations no longer fail to merge when cited in a table

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.2 Dev 1 (Jul 11, 2018)

  • The database back-up feature has been restored.
  • We fixed a bug that was causing the app to crash during sync.
  • We fixed a bug that was causing incorrect syncing for users using the app on more than one machine.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.1 (Jun 11, 2018)

  • We have fixed bugs causing:
  • High CPU usage
  • The application to crash when switching folders
  • PDFs not to open when the file name contained certain Unicode characters

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19 (May 24, 2018)

  • We have improved security for users accessing Mendeley Desktop on a shared machine
  • Literature search has been updated so you should see better results
  • We have fixed a bug so you can now rename groups again without going to mendeley.com
  • We have fixed some bugs in the MS Word plugin that caused:
  • Incorrect citation to be added when using footnote citation styles
  • Errors on editing citations when the bibliography was selected
  • Mendeley Desktop now supports the LibreOffice 64bit version on MS Windows
  • We also fixed some bugs in the LibreOffice plugin that caused:
  • Citations not to be added after a bibliography had been inserted
  • Issues with inserting a bibliography

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.18.1 Development (May 23, 2018)

  • Please be aware Windows XP and earlier Windows OS versions will no longer be officially supported by Mendeley Desktop
  • The display for Groups now only shows Documents; Overview and Members will no longer display but you can still manage Group members on mendeley.com
  • Improved speed of drag ‘n’ drop when dragging large number of documents
  • Fixed linking to Get Help
  • Fixed an error:
  • that caused the Citation plug-in to hang on refresh in MS Word and LibreOffice
  • that caused citations not to render properly when inserted in a table
  • that caused repeat citations to be incorrectly indexed
  • on inserting bibliography
  • that caused MS Word for Mac 16.8 to slow down when the plug-in was installed
  • that caused ‘Keep citation edit?” to appear multiple time when editing citations
  • that caused MS word to hang when editing a citation

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.18 (Apr 12, 2018)

  • Please be aware Windows XP and earlier Windows OS versions will no longer be officially supported by Mendeley Desktop
  • The display for Groups now only shows Documents; Overview and Members will no longer display but you can still manage Group members on mendeley.com
  • Improved speed of drag ‘n’ drop when dragging large number of documents
  • Fixed linking to Get Help
  • Fixed an error ?that caused the Citation plug-in to hang on refresh in MS Word and LibreOffice:
  • that caused citations not to render properly when inserted in a table
  • that caused repeat citations to be incorrectly indexed
  • on inserting bibliography
  • that caused MS Word for Mac 16.8 to slow down when the plug-in was installed
  • that caused ‘Keep citation edit?” to appear multiple time when editing citations
  • that caused MS word to hang when editing a citation

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.18 Dev 3 (Apr 3, 2018)

  • Please be aware Windows XP and earlier Windows OS versions will no longer be officially supported by Mendeley Desktop
  • The display for Groups now only shows Documents; Overview and Members will no longer display but you can still manage Group members on mendeley.com
  • Improved speed of drag ‘n’ drop when dragging large number of documents
  • Fixed linking to Get Help
  • Fixed an error:
  • that caused the Citation plug-in to hang on refresh in MS Word and LibreOffice
  • that caused citations not to render properly when inserted in a table
  • that caused repeat citations to be incorrectly indexed
  • on inserting bibliography
  • that caused MS Word for Mac 16.8 to slow down when the plug-in was installed
  • that caused ‘Keep citation edit?” to appear multiple time when editing citations
  • that caused MS word to hang when editing a citation

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.12 (Nov 15, 2017)

  • All Platforms:
  • Fixes crash on startup if the local database wasn't consistent
  • Fixes problems with "Restore backup" functionality
  • Fixes syncing problems for the error "Missing required field: Text"
  • "Welcome to Mendeley" onboarding page content improvement
  • Microsoft Word plugin: notifies users if a citation cannot be inserted (in formulas, illustrations, etc.)
  • Microsoft Word plugin: fixes "Object required (424)" error
  • Microsoft Word/LibreOffice plugins: when editing a citation and pressing "Go to Mendeley": highlights the edited documents in Mendeley Desktop
  • Microsoft Word/LibreOffice APA 6th Edition (and others): fixes error when citing a document multiple times
  • Fixes links to Mendeley help webpages
  • Mac OS:
  • Fixes error that caused Mendeley Desktop to not load properly (stayed in the "Splash Screen")
  • Microsoft Word Plugin: fixes "Insert Citation" if Microsoft Word is in full screen (it exits full screen)
  • Mendeley Desktop is now compatible with version 16 of Word (Office 365)

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.12 Dev 3 (Nov 10, 2017)

  • All Platforms:
  • Fixes crash on startup if the local database wasn't consistent
  • Fixes problems with "Restore backup" functionality
  • Fixes syncing problems for the error "Missing required field: Text"
  • "Welcome to Mendeley" onboarding page content improvement
  • Microsoft Word plugin: notifies users if a citation cannot be inserted (in formulas, illustrations, etc.)
  • Microsoft Word plugin: fixes "Object required (424)" error
  • Microsoft Word/LibreOffice plugins: when editing a citation and pressing "Go to Mendeley": highlights the edited documents in Mendeley Desktop
  • Microsoft Word/LibreOffice APA 6th Edition (and others): fixes error when citing a document multiple times
  • Fixes links to Mendeley help webpages
  • Mac OS:
  • Fixes error that caused Mendeley Desktop to not load properly (stayed in the "Splash Screen")
  • Microsoft Word Plugin: fixes "Insert Citation" if Microsoft Word is in full screen (it exits full screen)
  • Mendeley Desktop is now compatible with version 16 of Word (Office 365)

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.12 Dev 1 (Oct 30, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed exporting umlauts in Document fields to BibTeX
  • FAQ now links out to the new Mendeley Support Centre
  • Improved reliability of restoring from backup
  • Fixed problem running Mendeley Desktop on Linux when system libssl wasn't available

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.11 (Sep 12, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • The Mendeley Citation Plugin for Microsoft Word now fully supports footnote citation styles.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • We have fixed a bug and umlauts are now correctly import and export in BibTeX.
  • Finally, the FAQ now links out to the new Mendeley Support Centre.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.11 Dev 4 (Sep 5, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • The Mendeley Citation Plugin for Microsoft Word now fully supports footnote citation styles
  • Bug Fixes:
  • We have fixed a bug and umlauts are now correctly import and export in BibTeX
  • Finally, the FAQ now links out to the new Mendeley Support Centre

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.10 (Aug 15, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • For users who forget to sync Mendeley Desktop before closing then update document notes or annotations on Mendeley Web Library or one of the mobile apps we have made it easier to resolve conflicts when you next sync your Mendeley Desktop library. You can now resolve all conflicts with one click rather than only reviewing them individually.
  • We have added two new buttons to the Reading toolbar so you can now resize your PDF to width or height with only one click.
  • You can also invite colleagues to join Mendeley: from the Tools menu select Invite Colleagues.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.11 Dev 3 (Aug 10, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • The Mendeley Citation Plugin for Microsoft Word now fully supports footnote citation styles.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • We have fixed a bug and umlauts are now correctly import and export in BibTeX.
  • Finally, the FAQ now links out to the new Mendeley Support Centre.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.9 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • We have made some fixes and enhancements to give you a better experience with the annotations tool.
  • You can now select a highlight regardless of which tool is active and once you have selected your highlight the context menu will now be shown.
  • If you are editing a note, when you close that note the active tool will no longer change.
  • Deselecting a note you have added to a highlight takes you back to the full text.
  • A new help button has been added to the toolbar to make it easier for you to find all you need to guide you through Mendeley Desktop.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • If you have Airwatch installed and still experiencing Citation Plug In issues then please contact Support who will guide you through a fix.
  • On high DPI screens, if you use a zoom factor of 150% or more, the "added" column of the document view will display in full

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.9 Dev 2 (Mar 15, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • We have made some fixes and enhancements to give you a better experience with the annotations tool.
  • You can now select a highlight regardless of which tool is active and once you have selected your highlight the context menu will now be shown.
  • If you are editing a note, when you close that note the active tool will no longer change.
  • Deselecting a note you have added to a highlight takes you back to the full text.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • If you have Airwatch installed and still experiencing Citation Plug In issues then please contact Support who will guide you through a fix.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.9 Dev (Mar 7, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • We have made some fixes and enhancements to give you a better experience with the annotations tool
  • You can now select a highlight regardless of which tool is active and once you have selected your highlight the context menu will now be shown
  • If you are editing a note, when you close that note the active tool will no longer change
  • Deselecting a note you have added to a highlight takes you back to the full text
  • Bug Fixes:
  • If you have Airwatch installed and still experiencing Citation Plug In issues then please contact Support who will guide you through a fix

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.8 (Feb 16, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Some citation styles, including Bluebook, were freezing the application. We solved that

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.7 (Feb 9, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • The Mendeley Desktop team has spent some time trying to make life better for Mac users: the Citation Plugin now has a native look and feel and the Mendeley Desktop toolbar for Mac has been refactored.
  • We have also added some getting started tips to help new users.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.4 (Nov 30, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue preventing citations to be updated in word.
  • Fixed an issue requiring the user the click twice on the insert citation in the word plugin

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.3 (Nov 24, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • We've spend a lot of time catching up with the latest technologies to make Mendeley Desktop future proof!

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.3 Dev 6 (Nov 22, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix the deduplication tools: merge documents and Tools -> check for duplicates.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.3 Dev 5 (Nov 22, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed most application crashes on startup.
  • Fixed issues with huge log files.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.3 Dev 1 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Some users have reported a crash on application startup. This release should fix this issue for most of them. If you still experience a crash on startup, please contact Mendeley Support.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.2 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • If you have installed Mendeley Desktop 1.17 or 1.17.1 and see the error "Sorry, there was a probem syncing your library: Invalid date", please follow these steps to fix the synchronisation error:
  • Install Mendeley Desktop 1.17.2
  • Launch Mendeley Desktop
  • For Windows users, type the following shortcut: "Control + Shift + D"
  • Click on the Reset Last Sync State Button
  • Confirm you want to reset
  • Other Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a recurring crash for windows users on application startup.
  • Fixed a crash for mac users on application startup.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.1 (Oct 24, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a recurring crash for windows users on application startup
  • Fixed a crash for mac users on application startup

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17 Dev 5 (Sep 30, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Pressing F5 to refresh to sync works again.
  • Much better rendering of PDFs on Mac Retina displays.
  • In LibreOffice, inserting a citation won't bring Mendeley Desktop in the foreground anymore.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17 Dev 2 (Aug 30, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • Highlighting text in a PDF won't dim the text around it any more.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Opening your PDFs in an external viewer won't crash the application any more.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.3 (Aug 30, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • Added a button in the toolbar for accessing your profile.
  • Better display on High DPI screens.
  • Mendeley Desktop now includes "Harvard - Cite Them Right" citation style. You should prefer it over "havard1".
  • Word Plugin Bug Fixes:
  • Using the Word Plugin with the Track Changes feature on is now possible.
  • Support for baseline citations.
  • Exporting as compatible with LibreOffice will keep your current document working with Mendeley Word Plugin.
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Changed the icon displayed when dragging documents. The drag / drop operation is now much faster.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17 Dev 1 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • We've spend a lot of time catching up with the latest technologies to make Mendeley Desktop future proof!

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.2 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • Added a button in the toolbar to access you profile
  • Better display on High DPI screens
  • Mendeley Desktop now includes "Harvard - Cite Them Right" citation style. You should prefer it over "havard1".
  • Word Plugin Bug fixes:
  • support for baseline citations
  • Other Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug that would cause some folders to be automatically deleted
  • Notes will now always display the user profile pictures
  • Changed the icon displayed when dragging documents. The drag / drop operation is now much faster
  • Fixed a bug that might crash the application when cancelling a sync
  • Fixed a bug that would crash Mendeley Desktop when uninstalling a citation style
  • Open with Mendeley Desktop will import your pdfs
  • Better support for languages in pdf exports

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.2 Dev 5 (Jul 18, 2016)

  • Word Plugin Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed styles that would render some citations with in the citation text.
  • It is now possible to insert citations in captions.
  • UI Bug Fixes:
  • Windows: The icon when drag / dropping documents has been updated to a much nicer one.
  • After inserting a note in a PDF, the user will get back to text selection mode (instead of always switching to 'pan').
  • A bug preventing the user from being able to update several citation styles has been fixed.
  • Mendeley Desktop will not show empty tooltips on the documents list anymore.
  • Hitting Enter in the PDF search box will take you to the next search hit.
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Mendeley Desktop now includes "Harvard - Cite Them Right" citation style. You should prefer it over "havard1".
  • Fixed some crashes when synchronizing.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.2 Dev 3 (May 19, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Thesis CSL type is now mapped to the genre field.
  • Removing tags from multiple documents is now possible.
  • Export PDF with annotations:
  • Improved support for non-latin annotations in the exported PDF.
  • New pages match the size of the document pages.
  • Layout improvements.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Uninstalling a citation style no longer crashes Mendeley Desktop.
  • Removed the test dialog that would show up when exporting a document in the Word plugin for Mac.
  • Cancelling a sync should now properly cancel it, and allow the user to sync again.
  • A bug preventing the page number being added to citations in the word plugin.
  • Windows: clicking Open with Mendeley Desktop from the folder context menu of the file explorer will now open the file in Mendeley Desktop

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.1 (Mar 31, 2016)

  • Crash fixes:
  • While displaying the user profile in notes.
  • When modifying the list of document authors.
  • General bug fixes:
  • Fixed excessively long startup times for users with large libraries.
  • Fixed an issue where deleting a note would delete a wrong one.
  • Visual improvements:
  • Fixed an issue where the user name would overlap the date in notes.
  • Fixed an issue where filtering documents would result in an “Empty search query…” notification being displayed.
  • Fixed a variety of visual issues related to displaying the startup splash screen.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.1 Dev 2 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • General bug fixes:
  • Fixed crash which could occur when modifying the list of document authors.
  • Fixed sync error caused by Mendeley Desktop erroneously submitting an empty websites field entry.
  • Fixed issue where citation data (e.g. status of “Suppress authors” checkbox) was prevented from being saved.
  • Fixed very long startup times for users with large libraries.
  • Fixed issue where filtering documents would result in an “Empty search query…” notification being displayed.
  • Fixed a variety of visual issues related to displaying the startup splash screen.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16 (Feb 23, 2016)

  • FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Annotation improvements:
  • This release improved the usability of the highlight and sticky note tools in Mendeley Desktop. We’ve rearranged the toolbar in the PDF viewer to match the reading workflow. We moved The least used buttons to the Edit menu (Rotate page, and copy/paste). Select text is now the default tool, and the way each tool interacts with each other is now much more intuitive. Selecting text and then clicking on the ‘Highlight’ tool in the toolbar will now create a new highlight.
  • The Sticky Note Editor Widget:
  • This version includes a new design for the sticky note bubbles and notes in the right hand panel. The new note design includes who authored the note and allows you to delete a note without needing to right-click on the sticky note icon (although this is still possible). The note window size is now dynamic, resizes based on the content.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • BibTeX export fixes:
  • DOI containing underscores will be exported properly.
  • Added missing unicode symbol conversion.
  • Support for iotas.
  • Support for chevrons.
  • Citation Plugin:
  • Fixed inserting citations where author surnames contain semicolons.
  • Fixed a problem with different spacing when updating bibliographies created with version 1.14.
  • General:
  • (Windows) Fixed the reset feature.
  • Fixed remove highlight option being presented inconsistently for group annotations.
  • Fixed the problem with HTML tags in document notes breaking note search.
  • Fixed various folder synchronization issues that happened when modifying the folder hierarchy.
  • Fixed a bug preventing you from selecting text inside an existing highlight.
  • Fixed a bug preventing you from restoring some Mendeley Desktop backups.
  • Fixed crash which could occur when signing into the application.
  • Fixed crash occuring when signing out then immediately closing the application.
  • The Microsoft Word plugin will not cause an issue when opening a protected word file.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16 Dev 4 (Feb 5, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Your notes will show your full name instead of “You”
  • Personal notes and group notes are grouped separately in the right hand side notes pane
  • New sticky note icons
  • BibTeX export fixes:
  • DOI containing underscores will be exported properly
  • Added missing unicode symbol conversion
  • Support for iotas
  • Support for chevrons
  • General bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug preventing you from selecting text inside an existing highlight
  • Fixed a bug preventing you from restoring some Mendeley Desktop backups
  • Fixed crash which could occur when signing into the application
  • Fixed crash caused by signing out then immediately closing the application

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.15.3 (Jan 28, 2016)

  • This release includes some small hot-fixes to address issues with reading PDFs, as well as foundational work in the background for the upcoming colored annotations feature, which will be available soon.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16 Dev 2 (Dec 10, 2015)

  • FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
  • The Sticky Note Editor Widget:
  • Continuing our improvements to annotations, this version includes a new design for the sticky note bubbles and notes in the right hand panel. The new note design includes who authored the note and allows you to delete a note without needing to right-click on the sticky note icon (though this is still possible). The note window now also resizes based on the content inside it. Please let us know what you think.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Citation Plugin:
  • Fixed inserting citations where author surnames contain semicolons.
  • Fixed a problem with different spacing when updating bibliographies created with version 1.14.
  • (Mac, Windows) Fixed disappearing "Insert Citation" button in the Turkish edition of Word 2016.
  • General:
  • (Windows) Fixed the reset feature.
  • Fixed remove highlight option being presented inconsistently for group annotations.
  • Fixed the problem with HTML tags in document notes breaking note search.
  • Fixed various folder synchronization issues caused by modifying the folder hierarchy.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.15.2 (Nov 25, 2015)

  • (Windows) Fixed Mendeley Desktop reset feature.
  • (Mac, Windows) Fixed disappearing "Insert Citation" button in the Turkish edition of Word 2016.
  • Fixed a problem with different spacing when updating bibliographies created with version 1.14.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16 Dev 1 (Nov 11, 2015)

  • Annotation improvements:
  • This release aims to improve the usability of the highlight and sticky note tools in Mendeley Desktop. We’ve simplified the toolbar in the PDF viewer and moved the lesser used features to the Edit menu (Rotate page, and copy/paste).
  • Select text is now the default tool, and the way each tool interacts with each other is now much more intuitive. Selecting text and then clicking on the ‘Highlight’ tool in the toolbar will now create a new highlight.
  • There are more changes coming to the annotation tools soon, stay tuned.
  • Bug fixes:
  • The word plugin will now still work when opening multiple word 2011 windows.
  • The word plugin will not cause any issue when opening a protected word file.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.15 (Oct 17, 2015)

  • Includes changes in the previous 1.14.x Dev releases
  • Citation Plugin bug fixes:
  • Avoids showing an error message when opening a protected Microsoft Word document (e.g. when a document has been downloaded).
  • Exporting MS Word compatible from LibreOffice 4.4.3.2 won't raise an exception anymore.
  • Fixed the error when canceling "Export Compatible with LibreOffice".
  • A LibreOffice plugin installation error has been fixed.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14.1 Dev 8 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • Increased file size limit to 250 MB.
  • (Windows) Improved post-installation Windows Word 2016 instructions.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed exported BibTeX when document notes contain multiple lines.
  • Fixed exported BibTeX when metadata contains accented characters.
  • Fixed bad indentation in certain bibliographies.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14.1 Dev 7 (Sep 24, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Avoid showing an error message when opening a protected Microsoft Word document (e.g. when a document has been downloaded).
  • Fixed the error when canceling “Export Compatible with LibreOffice”.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14.1 Dev 5 (Aug 24, 2015)

  • Office 2016 support:
  • The Mendeley citation plugin now works with Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac (and Windows, but that worked already), so you can now once again easily generate citations and bibliographies.
  • Install the Word plugin from the 'Tools' menu in Mendeley Desktop. Once installed, restart Office and find the citation controls in the 'Add-Ins' tab in the ribbon toolbar in Microsoft Word.
  • Please bear with us on the aesthetics of the ribbon toolbar, we are waiting for Microsoft to make some changes to their ribbon implementation to allow us to achieve a design that looks like the rest of the ribbon, but this currently isn't possible. We are told the changes may be a few months away.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed arXiV and PubMed ID lookup.
  • Enables Edit Find Next/Previous in the PDF viewer.
  • Saves PDF zoom levels when switching tabs.
  • Improves reliability of plugin installation for Microsoft Word 2011 on Mac.
  • Fixed a crash when retrieving certain annotations.
  • Fixed bug exporting some "month" metadata fields to BibTeX files.
  • Avoids creating duplicate annotations when switching tabs

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14.1 Dev 1 (Jul 10, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • File organizer now works accross partitions.
  • Exporting MS Word compatible from LibreOffice 4.4.3.2 won't raise an exception anymore.
  • In literature Search, the button to add a document to your library situated in the document view is back.
  • Switching tabs will keep the last read position of each open pdf.
  • In the Word for Mac plugin, updating your citations and bibliography won't make the Word document file get bigger each time.
  • A LibreOffice plugin installation error has been fixed.
  • 'A' initials in the document won't be occasionally converted to lowercase after importing a PDF.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14 (Jun 24, 2015)

  • New Features and Improvements:
  • Quickly view your recently read documents on any device. The new 'Recently Read' feature saves the reading position for your 20 most recently read PDFs across Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley for iOS (v2.6 and above), allowing you to pick up reading where you left off quickly and easily.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Mendeley Suggest will now be displayed for premium users.
  • We have re-implemented DOI lookups to query document details from CrossRef directly. This should return much more accurate metadata.
  • Fixes an issue that could cause sync errors with certain characters in document metadata fields.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14 Dev 5 (Jun 16, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Prevent the search field from being emptied in some cases.
  • Mendeley Suggest will now be displayed for Premium users.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14 Dev 4 (Jun 4, 2015)

  • New Features and Improvements:
  • Quickly view your recently read documents on any device. The new 'Recently Read' feature saves your reading position for your 20 most recently read PDFs across Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley for iOS (v2.6 and above), allowing you to pick up reading where you left off quickly and easily
  • Other changes:
  • The Pdf viewer will now auto-scroll to the exact last position it was when last viewed. There used to be an offset
  • Prevent the document view from going blank in some cases

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14 Dev 3 (May 19, 2015)

  • This release improves the metadata lookup by DOI. We have re-implemented DOI lookups to query document details from CrossRef directly. This should return much more accurate metadata than the version that rolled out in January. Please contact support if you see any discrepancies in the data between Mendeley and CrossRef.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14 Dev 1 (Apr 21, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue that could cause sync errors with certain characters in document metadata fields.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.8 (Apr 10, 2015)

  • Fixed an issue where disabling file sync for your whole library could result in file attachments not being shown.
  • Fixed an issue where deleting an entry across multiple clients could result in a sync error.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.7 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • This is a small update that fixes an issue where changing the file sync settings for your library could result in file attachments disappearing.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.6 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • Fixed folder creation in groups.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.5 (Mar 12, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed bug with Zotero Sync that caused "This file already exists for this document ID" error.
  • Fixed issue with public groups that caused "Access to this resource is not allowed" error.
  • Fixed issue that caused "You can't create a folder with the same name and parent" error.
  • Fixed issue that caused "Note text is too long" error.
  • Fixed issue that caused errors relating to author name lengths.
  • Undoing 'Update Details' now only undoes the changes made by that action, rather than all changes made since the command was triggered.
  • Fixed page counts in citations generated for books, thesies, manuscripts and technical reports.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.5 Dev 3 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • Fixed an issue where crash reports from previous 1.13.5 builds were not submitted correctly.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.5 Dev 1 (Mar 3, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed bug with Zotero Sync that caused "This file already exists for this document ID" error
  • Fixed issue with public groups that caused "Access to this resource is not allowed" error
  • Fixed issue that caused "You can't create a folder with the same name and parent" error
  • Fixed issue that caused "Note text is too long" error
  • Fixed issue that caused errors relating to author name lengths
  • Undoing 'Update Details' now only undoes the changes made by that action, rather than all changes made since the command was triggered
  • Fixed page counts in citations generated for books, thesies, manuscripts and technical reports

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.4 (Feb 24, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Added improved diagnostics for sync errors.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause sync to loop when performing a database recovery after removing folders.
  • Fixed a sporadic crash on startup on Windows related to citation style localization.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.4 Dev 2 (Feb 17, 2015)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause sync to loop when performing a database recovery after removing folders
  • Fixed a sporadic crash on startup on Windows related to citation style localization

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.4 Dev 1 (Feb 17, 2015)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Added improved diagnostics for sync errors.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.3 (Jan 29, 2015)

  • Fixed an issue where local document details changes were not always synced with your online library if the system timezone was behind UTC
  • Fixed an issue where the contents of folders in the app were not restored correctly when restoring a backup
  • Fixed a cause of a hang when syncing accounts with large numbers of file attachments

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.2 (Jan 27, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed tags being re-ordered whilst they are being edited.
  • Fixed a crash when closing PDF viewer tabs.
  • Fixed occasional crash when clicking badge that links to the catalog page for an article in Mendeley Desktop.
  • Fixed an error when attempting to refresh a document in LibreOffice if the document had been originally created by a different Mendeley user.
  • Display better progress information when syncing files and annotations.
  • Added additional diagnostics to help us monitor sync failures and issues opening certain PDF files.
  • Fixed parsing of arXiv IDs from papers that were uploaded to arXiv from January 2015 onwards.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.2 Dev 1 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed tags being re-ordered whilst they are being edited
  • Fixed a crash when closing PDF viewer tabs
  • Fixed occasional crash when clicking badge that links to the catalog page for an article in Mendeley Desktop
  • Fixed an error when attempting to refresh a document in LibreOffice if the document had been originally created by a different Mendeley user
  • Display better progress information when syncing files and annotations
  • Added additional diagnostics to help us monitor sync failures and issues opening certain PDF files

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • New Features and Improvements:
  • Improved metadata quality - Mendeley will now match imported PDFs against our research catalog and pull in metadata from it. This provides more accurate and complete details for many papers, including full abstracts and publication information for millions of articles.
  • Update document details using the Mendeley catalog - You can now bulk update details for articles in your library with metadata from the Mendeley catalog in a couple of clicks. Select entries in your library, right-click and select Update Details.
  • Faster and more data-efficient sync - Syncing large libraries is now faster and shows better progress information. Sync now also uses much less bandwidth.
  • Other Changes:
  • Fixed issue that could cause extra spaces or new lines to be added in the notes field when syncing.
  • Ubuntu) Added instructions to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mendeleydesktop.list on how to switch between stable and pre-release channels

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 Dev 8 (Jan 10, 2015)

  • Fixed hang when syncing accounts with large numbers of annotations with 1.13 for the first time
  • Fixed merging of document notes when using deduplication tool and crash that occurred when syncing after using de-duplication tool
  • Fixed sticky note annotations not being displayed in public groups
  • Fixed several issues related to document note syncing after upgrading from 1.12 to 1.13
  • Fixed several issues related to file syncing after upgrading from 1.12 to 1.13
  • Fixed group invites not being sent when creating groups within Mendeley Desktop
  • Fixed sync crash if documents were added on one client whilst another was syncing
  • Ubuntu) Added instructions to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mendeleydesktop.list on switching between stable and pre-release channels

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 Dev 7 (Dec 22, 2014)

  • Fixed empty titles on document deduplication
  • Fixed issue that would prevent the user from deleting a document note created by another user in a shared group
  • Fixed issue that could crash the application if the owner of a shared group had deleted his account
  • Fixed issue that would prevent the user from restoring the backup

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.4 (Dec 11, 2014)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed issue that could cause citations to be re-ordered if the document was edited whilst being refreshed.
  • Fixed "Object doesn't support this property or method" error that some users experienced when inserting citations.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 Dev 5 (Dec 9, 2014)

  • Fixed in 1.13-dev5:
  • Fixed a recurring crash when syncing annotations.
  • Fixed a possible sync loop when syncing folders.
  • Better handling of connectivity or service problems when using Mendeley's services to update existing Mendeley installations.
  • Improvements:
  • Improved metadata quality - Mendeley will now match imported PDFs against our catalog of the world's research and pull in metadata from it. This provides more accurate and complete metadata for many papers, including full abstracts and publication information for millions of articles
  • Catalog metadata lookup - For articles marked as 'Needs Review', you can now search our catalog with a single click for better metadata and abstracts for many articles.
  • Faster and more data-efficient sync - Syncing large libraries onto new systems is now faster and shows better progress information. Sync now uses less bandwidth, especially for large libraries.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 Dev 4 (Dec 4, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved metadata quality - Mendeley will now match imported PDFs against our catalog of the world's research and pull in metadata from it. This provides more accurate and complete metadata for many papers, including full abstracts and publication information for millions of articles
  • Catalog metadata lookup - For articles marked as 'Needs Review', you can now search our catalog with a single click for better metadata and abstracts for many articles.
  • Faster and more data-efficient sync - Syncing large libraries onto new systems is now faster and shows better progress information. Sync now uses less bandwidth, especially for large libraries.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.4 Dev 1 (Nov 24, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed "Object doesn't support this property or method" error that some users experienced when inserting citations

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.3 (Nov 6, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Added support for importing articles in MEDLINE format, to enable better bulk importing from PubMed.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.3 Dev 3 (Oct 29, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Mendeley Desktop will no longer allow plugin installation on Word 2003 for Windows or Word 2008 for Mac, which are unsupported.
  • Known causes of crashes while inserting citations have been fixed, and error handling has been added so that any unexpected error should display an error message instead of crashing Mendeley Desktop.
  • The "Plugin Installed" dialog was displayed OS-X after updating Mendeley Desktop. This dialog is now only displayed after the user manually initiates an install or update.
  • Styles with no bibliography (e.g. Bluebook Law Review) now use the in-line citation instead in "View as Citations" mode.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.3 Dev 1 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Inserting or updating a single citation in a document with many citations is much faster in many cases.
  • Refreshing citations in large Word documents is now much faster. Word now also reports the progress of the refresh in the status bar.
  • The citation style for new Word and LibreOffice documents now defaults to the currently selected citation style in Mendeley Desktop
  • Added an option to choose whether documents are automatically marked as read when opened.
  • Bugs Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue that could result in citations being lost when refreshing multiple Word documents simultaneously.
  • Fixed an issue where note annotations where not exported correctly as standard PDF annotations when using File → Export PDF with Annotations...

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.1 (Aug 23, 2014)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Matching of papers in your library to the Mendeley catalog in the 'Details' pane is now faster and more reliable.
  • Fixed crash when viewing Related Research for a collection of papers.
  • Fixed crash when using Help -> Check for Updates multiple times in the same session.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 (Aug 14, 2014)

  • Includes changes from the previous Dev versions
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the current scroll position within a PDF to be reset when switching tabs.
  • Fixed possible crash when using literature search repeatedly.
  • Fixed possible crash when viewing document details.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause file attachments not to sync properly if a document had multiple file attachments and a very long title.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 Dev 8 (Aug 13, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when importing documents.
  • Fixed a crash when updating installed citation styles.
  • Fixed citation rendering under 32-bit Linux systems.
  • Fixed an issue where dialog buttons were unusable in the 'Send via Email' dialog.
  • Fixed an issue where pressing Ctrl+C in the PDF viewer whilst the mouse/trackpad was still held down copied a citation for the current document instead of the selected text.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 Dev 4 (Jul 24, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue that could crash the application when doing multiple literature search.
  • Fixed an issue that could crash the application when showing a document's metadata.
  • Fixed an issue that would lead a document to lose a file if the title or the authors' names are too long.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 Dev 2 (Jun 19, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Mark as Read: Documents are no longer automatically marked as read as soon as you open them. Instead the document is only marked as read once it has been scrolled most of the way through and has been opened for a reasonable period of time, dependent on the length of the document.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the current scroll position within a PDF to be reset when switching tabs.
  • Fixed BibTeX export generating invalid citation keys when the first author's surname contained apostrophes.
  • When printing, more space is kept for notes to be displayed in the left margin.
  • Fixed an issue where style update availability indicators were not correctly displayed in the Citation Styles dialog.
  • Editing a metadata field does not make the cursor jump back to the beginning of the line anymore.
  • Fixed an error when generating citations for documents where individual author names contain commas.
  • Check for Duplicates' is now faster in large libraries.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 Dev 1 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Print with Annotations - Use File -> Print... to print papers directly from Mendeley Desktop. Enable the Print annotations option to include annotations added in Mendeley's PDF viewer.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed a bug that could cause PDFs to become corrupted when exporting with annotations.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.11 (Mar 11, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Contents - The Contents tab displays an outline of the PDF. This will use the outline embedded in the PDF if present or an automatically extracted outline for selected open access papers.
  • Enrichments - For supported papers, the Enrichments tab displays tables and figures found in the paper, allowing you to navigate the paper more quickly. You can also copy table data directly to the clipboard for further analysis in other apps.
  • Preview Release Opt-in - Added option to opt-in to preview updates under Help -> Check for Updates -> Opt-in to Experimental Releases.
  • Changes:
  • Pasting a link into Mendeley Desktop now adds the original URL to the newly imported document(s).
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where the scroll position was lost in the Notes pane when switching between tabs.
  • Fixed certain hyperlinks not scrolling to linked page when clicked in PDF viewer.
  • Corrected the tooltip for the 'Insert Citation' button in Mac Word.
  • Selecting an already-selected Note in the notes tab or entry in the Enrichments tab now correctly scrolls to the entry in the PDF.
  • Mac: Fixed a crash on startup when automatic proxy configuration is enabled if the PAC configuration URL is invalid.
  • Mac: Fixed a crash when dragging a PDF file onto the Mendeley dock icon whilst signed out.
  • Fixed citations generated for legal cases and working papers with certain styles.
  • Fixed formatting issues with citation styles that use small-caps formatting.
  • Fixed PDF viewer navigating to wrong location for some PDF links and table of contents entries.
  • Fixed a crash when indexing certain invalid PDF files.
  • Mac: Fixed 'osacompile' error which some users experienced when installing the Word plugin.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.11 Dev 9 (Mar 5, 2014)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed crash when indexing the full text of certain PDFs
  • Fixed PDF highlights display when clicking on a search term
  • Selecting an entry in the Contents pane now scrolls only the active PDF view

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.11 Dev 7 (Feb 27, 2014)

  • New Features and Changes:
  • Added a 'Report Problem' link to the Contents tab. Use this link to report errors with automatically extracted tables of content.
  • The 'Summary' tab was renamed to 'Enrichments'
  • Added an option to switch between the Table of Contents embedded in the PDF and the one automatically extracted by Mendeley services
  • Selected annotations are now highlighted in white rather than yellow for readability
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Fixed certain hyperlinks not scrolling to linked page when clicked in PDF viewer.
  • Corrected the tooltip for the 'Insert Citation' button in Mac Word
  • Selecting an already-selected Note in the notes tab or entry in the Enrichments tab now correctly scrolls to the entry in the PDF

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.11 Dev 6 (Feb 19, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Added option to opt-in to preview updates under Help -> Check for Updates -> Opt-in to Experimental Releases
  • Copy' option for tables in Summary tab can now be used to copy data for use in LibreOffice, Google Sheets and the Excel Web app.
  • Tables and Figures in the Summary tab are now available for all open access papers rather than just specific disciplines.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed crash on Mac when automatic proxy configuration is enabled if the PAC configuration URL is invalid.
  • Fixed citations generated for legal cases and working papers with certain styles.
  • Fixed formatting issues with citation styles that use small-caps formatting.
  • Fixed PDF viewer navigating to wrong location for some PDF links and table of contents entries.
  • Mac: Fixed 'osacompile' error when installing the Word plugin.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.11 Dev 3 (Feb 3, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Contents - The Contents tab displays an outline of the PDF. In addition to outlines embedded in the article, automatically extracted outlines are available for many open access papers
  • Tables and Figures - For supported papers, the Summary tab displays tables and figures found in the paper, allowing you to navigate the paper more quickly. You can also copy table data directly to the clipboard for further analysis in other apps

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10.3 (Jan 29, 2014)

  • New Feature:
  • This release adds an option to sign out of the current account (under the 'File' / 'Mendeley Desktop' menu) and includes a number of bug fixes.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Windows: Folder and filter labels in the left-hand library tree became invisible if text zoom was set to 200% or larger.
  • Windows: Pressing Ctrl+C when viewing a PDF sometimes copied a citation for the document instead of the selected text.
  • Windows: Metadata was not extracted from PDF files imported from a folder whose name contained Chinese characters.
  • Windows: The Word and LibreOffice plugins did not work if 'Work Offline' mode was enabled in Internet Explorer.
  • Some fields were still editable for documents in read-only groups.
  • Some PDFs (eg. those downloaded from http://remi.revues.org ) opened in an external PDF viewer rather than the internal one.
  • Fixed a crash when performing a new Literature Search whilst another was in progress.
  • The 'Section' and 'Series' fields were missing from formatted citations in styles that use these fields.
  • Small-caps formatting is now supported in citation styles that use it, eg. Bluebook Law Review.
  • Windows: File attachment links being lost if the file organizer was set to use Mendeley's Downloaded folder.
  • The 'Tidy Up' feature under File Organizer settings could sometimes get stuck indefinitely.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10.2 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • Includes changes from the previous Dev version

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10.2 Dev 1 (Jan 9, 2014)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Windows: Folder and filter labels in the left-hand library tree became invisible if text zoom was set to 200% or larger.
  • Windows: Pressing Ctrl+C when viewing a PDF sometimes copied a citation for the document instead of the selected text.
  • Windows: Metadata was not extracted from PDF files imported from a folder whose name contained Chinese characters.
  • Windows: The Word and LibreOffice plugins did not work if 'Work Offline' mode was enabled in Internet Explorer.
  • Some fields were still editable for documents in read-only groups.
  • Some PDFs (eg. those downloaded from http://remi.revues.org ) opened in an external PDF viewer rather than the internal one.
  • Fixed a crash when performing a new Literature Search whilst another was in progress.
  • The 'Section' and 'Series' fields were missing from formatted citations in styles that use these fields.
  • Small-caps formatting is now supported in citation styles that use it, eg. Bluebook Law Review.
  • Windows: File attachment links being lost if the file organizer was set to use Mendeley's Downloaded folder.
  • The 'Tidy Up' feature under File Organizer settings could sometimes get stuck indefinitely

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10.1 (Sep 27, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Journal Abbreviations - Mendeley will now automatically abbreviate publication names when generating citations according to the style you are using. Mendeley comes with a built-in set of abbreviation rules which covers most publications. Custom abbreviations can be added via View -> Citation Styles > Journal Abbreviations. For BibTeX users, there is an option under BibTeX settings to automatically abbreviate publication names in exported .bib files.
  • Related Research - Discover related content based on specific papers in your library. Select one or more papers or a whole folder and click the 'Related' toolbar button to get instant recommendations based on your selection.
  • Changes and Improvements:
  • Support for Windows 8.1 operating system.
  • Improved handling of connectivity problems such as incorrect proxy settings.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed several bugs that could cause the links between documents and file attachments to be lost.
  • Fixed import of papers from web links pasted or dragged and dropped into Mendeley.
  • Fixed web links not being shown for documents in Literature Search results.
  • Fixed bug where selected toolbar action did not match active tool in PDF viewer.
  • Fixed incompatibility with LibreOffice 4.1 from Ubuntu PPAs.
  • Windows - Fixed a number of problems that resulted in Mendeley being unable to connect to Mendeley Web.
  • Windows - Fixed several problems that could prevent Mendeley Desktop from connecting to Microsoft Word.
  • Fixed sync bugs introduced in 1.10

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 (Sep 23, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Journal Abbreviations - Mendeley will now automatically abbreviate publication names when generating citations according to the style you are using. Mendeley comes with a built-in set of abbreviation rules which covers most publications. Custom abbreviations can be added via View -> Citation Styles > Journal Abbreviations. For BibTeX users, there is an option under BibTeX settings to automatically abbreviate publication names in exported .bib files.
  • Related Research - Discover related content based on specific papers in your library. Select one or more papers or a whole folder and click the 'Related' toolbar button to get instant recommendations based on your selection.
  • Changes and Improvements:
  • Support for the upcoming OS X 10.9 'Mavericks' and Windows 8.1 operating systems.
  • Improved handling of connectivity problems such as incorrect proxy settings.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed several bugs that could cause the links between documents and file attachments to be lost.
  • Fixed import of papers from web links pasted or dragged and dropped into Mendeley.
  • Fixed web links not being shown for documents in Literature Search results.
  • Fixed bug where selected toolbar action did not match active tool in PDF viewer.
  • Fixed incompatibility with LibreOffice 4.1 from Ubuntu PPAs.
  • Windows - Fixed a number of problems that resulted in Mendeley being unable to connect to Mendeley Web.
  • Windows - Fixed several problems that could prevent Mendeley Desktop from connecting to Microsoft Word.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 6 (Sep 20, 2013)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed abbreviation of journal names when exporting BibTeX via Copy As -> BibTeX Entry
  • Related Research is now available for very recently imported documents.
  • Better progress information is now displayed when fetching related research.
  • Fixed unnecessary periods being added to abbreviated journal titles.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 5 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Journal abbreviation customizations are now preserved correctly after restarting the application.
  • The URLs field is now populated when viewing the results of Literature Search and Related Documents searches.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 3 (Sep 5, 2013)

  • Starting the application in "All Documents" doesn't grey the menus anomore.
  • Fixed sync issues when detaching a file from a document.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 2 (Sep 4, 2013)

  • Better management of proxies
  • Bibliography in word now document now always shows the text and not the field description.
  • Fixed crash after editing a deleted note
  • Improved Abbreviation UI

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 1 (Aug 31, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Journal abbreviations - Journal names will be abbreviated automatically when using a citation style that supports abbreviations. To manage or correct entries in the list of abbreviations, select "View" > "Citation Styles" > "Journal Abbreviations".
  • Related Documents - Get recommendations based on any collection of documents. Select one or more documents, or any folder or group, and click "Related" in the toolbar to generate a set of 10 related documents.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Files are not unlinked anymore after a sync
  • Annotations are now displayed only the on the file they have been created on

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.9.2 (Jul 31, 2013)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Inserting citations in a Word document on Mac is notably faster
  • Importing an EndNote XML library now imports properly all the file attachments.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.9.1 (Jul 10, 2013)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed Word 2008 plugin for Mac users

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.9 (Jul 8, 2013)

  • Catalog Search:
  • Search and import articles from the Mendeley catalog of over 70 million research papers from Mendeley Desktop.
  • Direct open access import - For selected open access articles you can import the details and full text into Mendeley Desktop with a single click.
  • PDF Viewer:
  • Word definition - Select a word or phrase in a PDF and click 'Define' in the action bar that appears to view an explanation of that phrase from Wikipedia.
  • Improved text selection - Text selection and highlighting is now more robust, especially in pages with more complex layouts and older PDF files.
  • Other:
  • Copy BibTeX entries directly to the clipboard via Edit -> Copy As -> BibTeX Entry.
  • Page Up/Down in the PDF viewer now navigate up/down one screen rather than a whole page.
  • 'Open File Externally' now selects the file in Finder on Mac.
  • The search field now supports 'published_in:' an alternative way to search for documents from specific publications, to match search on mendeley.com
  • The search field now allows the '-' operator to appear before field names to exclude certain documents (example: 'papercraft -author:zhu')
  • Clarified the wording in the dialog that appears when adding documents to 'My Publications' to make it clear that any attached PDFs will be available to download from your profile.
  • Removed CiteULike options
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Cmd+L/R in the PDF viewer no longer jumps to the first or last page.
  • Copying selected text using Ctrl+C now copies the text, not the citation.
  • Fixed a bug where the tool shown as selected in the toolbar did not match the actual active tool in the PDF viewer when opening new tabs
  • Fixed the Go -> Last Page action in the PDF viewer
  • Fixed an issue where file attachments were lost locally after a sync if upload the attachment failed.
  • Fixed crash when dragging and dropping invalid URLs into Mendeley Desktop.
  • Fixed file downloads failing on encrypted home directories on Linux due to overly long file names.
  • Fixed a problem formatting Mendeley citations after changing the font style to ALL CAPS in Word.
  • Ris exporter now uses absolute path instead of relative
  • Fixed Crash in Windows when clicking Reload in Notes tab

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.9 Development 3 (Jul 5, 2013)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where file attachments were lost locally after a sync if upload the attachment failed.
  • Fixed a crash when switching between Literature Search and the documents view.
  • Fixed a problem saving PDFs from a literature search.
  • Fixed crash when dragging and dropping invalid URLs into Mendeley Desktop.
  • Fixed Literature Search returning no results if a library search was active.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.5 (May 16, 2013)

  • Fixed word upper case citation error
  • Removed CiteULike
  • Ris exporter now uses absolute path instead of relative
  • Fixed Crash in Windows when clicking Reload in Notes tab
  • Fixed Citation error

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.4 (Apr 4, 2013)

  • Fixed problem with pdf page rotation on all platforms
  • Fixed problem highlighting pdf text

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.3 (Mar 20, 2013)

  • Add support for LibreOffice 4.0.
  • Fixed warning about citing too many citations in the LibreOffice plugin.
  • Make selected text easier to read in the PDF viewer.
  • (Mac) 'Retina' display support in the PDF viewer.
  • Fixed problem with annotations created on systems with certain language/region settings not syncing correctly to other systems with different language/region settings.
  • Fixed error when inserting citations in tables and headings.
  • Fixed an issue where exporting a copy-protected PDF with annotations could fail without a clear warning.
  • (Windows) Fixed an issue where full text indexing could fail for PDFs containing certain non-ASCII characters in the filename.
  • Fixed an issue where field-specific searches could fail to find matches when the searched term or phrase occurred both at the start of a word and in the middle of a word in the field's text.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.2 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Fixed an issue when inserting bibliographies in non-English language versions of Word

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.1 (Feb 21, 2013)

  • (Windows) Added support for Microsoft 2013.
  • (Windows, Mac) The plugin can insert citations in text boxes.
  • Fixed bibliography sorting when using characters with accents, umlauts, etc.
  • Searches for "fieldname:keyword" will now return the same results if there are spaces after the colon.
  • The library of citation styles available under the 'Get More Styles' tab is now updated daily from the central style repository.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8 (Jan 23, 2013)

  • Improved UI look and feel under Windows 8.
  • Added Help ? Check for Updates option.
  • Fixed non-English text sometimes not being displayed properly in the documents list.
  • Fixed a problem with the Word plugin that could cause Word 2003 to crash.
  • Fixed progress indicator when importing large RIS, BibTeX and EndNote XML files

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.7.1 (Nov 29, 2012)

  • Fixed error when refreshing citations if journal abbreviations have been set up and the abbreviation list contained certain characters.
  • Fixed handling of non-Latin characters in journal abbreivations.
  • Fixed Javascript error when formatting citations using the 'Harvard - University of Birmingham' style and others.
  • Fixed crash when entering certain characters into the Authors field in the 'Add Document Manually' dialog.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.7 (Nov 14, 2012)

  • Citation Style Editor:
  • Integrated visual style editor. Right click on a style in the citation styles dialog and select 'Edit Style' to open the online editor. Custom styles are saved online with your Mendeley account and can be shared with other users of Mendeley.
  • Easier 3rd-party style import. The 'Get More Styles' dialog now has a box where links to styles can be pasted. Styles can also be dragged and dropped into the dialog.
  • Search by name or example. Using the online style browser, you can search for citation styles by providing example inline citations and bibliography entries.
  • Added option to copy a link to a citation style from the styles dialog. This link can be used to import the style on other computers or shared with other Mendeley users.
  • Microsoft Word plugins:
  • New, faster plugin for Mac Word 2011. The new plugin has an improved UI and better performance when refreshing citations in large documents.
  • Disabled spelling and grammar highlights for bibliographies inserted with the Mendeley plugin.
  • Fixed several bugs affecting sorting of bibliography entries for authors whose names contain particles ('van', 'von', etc.)
  • Search:
  • Search is now incremental and starts updating results after a single key press.
  • Search now finds and can show matches for all document fields.
  • Search behavior is now more consistent between the main application and the citation editor.
  • Fixed many bugs in handling of field-specific searches and handling of OR and NOT queries.
  • Import:
  • Mendeley Desktop will now notice when you import PDF files repeatedly from the same folder and will look for other articles in the same folder and offer to import them.
  • Fixed several issues affecting import of notes and URLs from RIS files, including RIS files created by RefMan on Windows.
  • General:
  • Refreshed the toolbar on Windows and Linux.
  • Added Edit -> Copy Citation menu item to copy a citation for the selected document in the PDF viewer.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed hangs that could occur when performing batch edits in a large library and when enabling BibTeX sync for the first time in a large library.
  • Fixed a bug causing BibTeX sync to include deleted documents.
  • Fixed a hang that could occur when opening the 'Add Folder' and 'Watch Folder' dialogs.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.6 (Jul 28, 2012)

  • The citation editor now has options for each citation to specify page numbers (and other kinds of location within a work), custom prefixes and suffixes and suppress author names for inline citations.
  • Improved search in the PDF viewer.
  • Mendeley will jump to the first match in the PDF viewer when opening a tab from the search view.
  • The filter box in the lower-left corner of Mendeley Desktop can now be hidden.
  • (Windows and Mac) Mendeley will now use the system proxy settings by default. This fixes problems connecting to Mendeley Web on some systems. If you encounter any problems, this can be disabled in the Connection settings page.
  • (Windows) Mendeley Desktop now supports recent versions of LibreOffice.
  • Citation formatting fixes.
  • When adding articles to My Publications, it is now clearer how this content will be made available for visitors to your profile on mendeley.com

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.5.2 (May 16, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug that could result in file attachments becoming broken after merging documents or copying documents to groups if the file organizer was enabled.
  • Fixed copying of citations for the current document from a PDF viewer tab.
  • Fixed file attachments not being removed from the web in some cases after disabling file sync.
  • In the event of any problems installing an update, Mendeley will provide a link to download the latest version directly.
  • Fixed register and login links not working in some places.
  • Fixed a problem that could cause the 'Resolve Conflicts' dialog to appear unnecessarily whilst syncing.
  • (Windows) Fixed focus being given to wrong Word document after inserting a citation when multiple Word documents are open.
  • (Windows) Fixed selected citation style not being updated when switching between multiple open Word documents.
  • (Windows) Fixed Mendeley Desktop incorrectly reporting that it crashed on startup if it was running during log-out.
  • (Windows) Fixed a possible error when merging citations in text frames in Word.
  • (Windows) Fixed a problem that could cause a crash when selecting text in certain documents when the Word plugin was installed.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.5.1 (Apr 25, 2012)

  • This update fixes problems with the Word plugin under Microsoft Word 2011 SP2.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.5 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Support for 64bit versions of Office 2010.
  • Improved Undo/Redo of inserting/editing/refreshing Mendeley citations in Word 2010. Actions performed with the Mendeley Cite-o-Matic toolbar can now be undone/redone via Word's Undo menu.
  • On Mac, the OpenOffice plugin has been dropped in favor of support for LibreOffice.
  • Improvements:
  • The 'urldate' field is now exported for web-page BibTeX entries.
  • The mapping between Mendeley and EndNote document types has been improved.
  • Mendeley will now to continue to upload other files if upload of a single file fails due to exceeding the size limit for a single file.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed several problems with Word plugin installation on Windows.
  • Fixed many crashes related to the Word plugins.
  • Fixed Mendeley extracting junk journal names for certain papers.
  • Fixed several sync crashes.
  • Fixed several occasional crashes during shutdown.
  • Mendeley will now prompt the user to save their work before trying to install or update the Word plugins.
  • Edit -> Copy Citation and 'Send Citation' now copy/send the correct citation when used from a PDF tab.
  • (Linux) Fixed crash on startup under Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 12.04.
  • Fixed a problem when refreshing bibliographies created in Mac Word under Word on Windows.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.3 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Open in Mendeley - PDF files can now be opened in Mendeley Desktop directly.
  • Right click on a PDF file in your file browser and select 'Open With -> Mendeley Desktop'
  • Improvements:
  • Reduced start-up time.
  • Reduced memory usage when importing PDFs.
  • The citation formatting engine has been updated. This fixes a number of issues with citation formatting.
  • Faster file downloads during sync.
  • Added a series of hints which will appear to show new users around Mendeley.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed overflow error when refreshing some large Word documents.
  • Fixed 'incorrectly encoded content' error that some users experienced with Mendeley Desktop 1.1
  • Fixed a bug that could result in associations between documents and folders not being synced correctly when joining an existing group.
  • Increased the timeout when loading web content. This fixes some content in Mendeley Desktop failing to load on slow connections and the groups members list failing to load in some large groups.
  • Fixed a bug where automatically generated citation keys for Bibtex entries were not disambiguated correctly for accented author names.
  • Mendeley no longer prevents PDF files from being deleted or renamed when they are open in the internal PDF viewer.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.1.3 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • This is a minor update which fixes a problem where Mendeley Desktop was unable to connect to Mendeley Web on some Windows networks, reporting a proxy authentication error instead.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.1.2 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • Fix a problem where Mendeley Desktop was unable to connect to Mendeley Web on some systems.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.1.1 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • Fix a problem where Mendeley Desktop was unable to connect to Mendeley Web on some systems.
  • Fix an error when refreshing certain Word documents in MD 1.1.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.1 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • Improved the performance of inserting citations and refreshing documents using the Word plugins.
  • When a pair of documents are marked as not being duplicates in the 'Check for Duplicates' tool, that decision is remembered on the computer on which it was made.
  • Fixed several problems when refreshing a document whilst the 'Track Changes' feature is enabled in Word.
  • Pressing the 'Delete' key now removes the selected document from the current collection, instead of moving it to the trash. Pressing Shift+Delete (Cmd+Delete on Mac) moves the document to the trash and Ctrl+Shift+Delete (Cmd+Shift+Delete on Mac) removes it completely.
  • Folders in the left-hand pane are now collapsed on startup.
  • Mendeley no longer follows shortcuts or symlinks to other folders when scanning watched folders or importing files from a folder.
  • Fixed a sporadic bug with restoring folders on mendeley.com when restoring a backup from Mendeley Desktop.
  • Auto-updates are now compressed for faster download.
  • Fixed a problem which could allow multiple copies of Mendeley to run at once.
  • Fixed Bibtex sync not updating the corresponding Bibtex files when documents are added to or removed from folders.
  • Fixed Mendeley not being able to close Word automatically when needed on 64bit Windows.
  • Mendeley Desktop now sends us more detailed reports in the event of a crash

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.0.1 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed several causes of sync errors related to annotations and file attachment removals.
  • Fixed several crashes when using the 'Merge' or 'Not a Duplicate' buttons for duplicate documents from a PDF viewer tab.

New in Mendeley Desktop 1.0 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Support for nested folders. To create a nested folder, right click on an existing folder and select 'New Folder'.
  • Support for folders (and nested folders) in groups.
  • Tool to find and merge duplicate documents in your library. To give your library a spring clean, go to Tools -> Check for Duplicates
  • (Windows) The Microsoft Word plugin has a new look in Word 2007 and Word 2010. Look for the 'Mendeley Cite-O-Matic' in the toolbar.
  • Travelling library. Mendeley Desktop now saves a mini-library of cited publications inside Microsoft Word and OpenOffice documents. Mendeley can import citations from this mini-library into your main library in Mendeley Desktop. This is useful if you need to update a Word document containing citations which have been removed from your main Mendeley library.
  • Improvements to Existing Features
  • The sticky notes list in the 'Notes' tab has been re-designed. It loads faster, notes are resized to fit their contents and website addresses are displayed as clickable links.
  • The PDF viewer now displays notes and highlights for a document from all groups, instead of just notes for the copy of the document in the current group.
  • Your reading position and last-used rotation/zoom settings within papers is now saved automatically and will be restored when re-opening a paper.
  • The citation editor in Word and OpenOffice.org now searches your library as you type, instead of requiring whole keywords to be entered.
  • The file organizer now archives files in a separate folder when they are deleted from your Mendeley library. A 'Tidy Up' button has been added in the 'File Organizer' tab of the Preferences dialog which allows you to clean up your file organizer folder.
  • File organizer settings are now linked to your account and saved along with your documents and annotations in Mendeley's local database. If you use multiple accounts with Mendeley on the same system, you can now use separate file organizer settings for each.
  • (Linux) The 'generic' Linux version of Mendeley Desktop now works on recent versions of Fedora, provided that Qt is installed. It also integrates better with the system look and feel.
  • (Mac) Support for editing existing citations in Word.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • (Mac) Fixed a fairly common crash when importing certain PDFs
  • Book sections are now exported as @incollection entries in Bibtex files.
  • Various bug fixes and improvements to citation formatting.
  • Fixed hang when syncing a large number of PDF annotations onto a new PC. A number of other annotation sync bugs have also been fixed.
  • (Windows) Fixed various causes of Microsoft Word or Mendeley Desktop crashing when using the Mendeley plugin.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.9.2 (May 7, 2011)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed error when opening a Word document that used certain custom styles.
  • Fixed 'Cannot download style' error in Word 2010.
  • Fixed 'Index out of range' error when inserting a citation in non-English versions of Word 2010.
  • Fixed items being left in context menu in Word after the plugin is uninstalled.
  • Bibtex import: Fixed import of technical reports.
  • Bibtex export: Follow arXiv recommendations for export of arXiv ID.
  • EndNote import: Improved import of publication names from EndNote XML.
  • EndNote export: Export abstract, tags, DOI and web URLs to EndNote XML.
  • RIS export: Export series number, series title.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.8.2 (Jan 20, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • (Windows) New interface for quickly inserting citations from Mendeley into Microsoft Word documents and editing existing citations. The 'Insert Citation' toolbar button in Microsoft Word now brings up a dialog in Word which you can use to quickly search for references by title, author or publication year and insert them as in-line citations.
  • Added a 'Send via Email' option to the right-click menu for documents. This provides an easy way to send the details of a document and a copy of the attached files to a Mendeley or email contact.
  • (Mac) Support for Microsoft Word 2011.
  • Added a 'Highlight Rectangle' tool in the PDF viewer which can be used to highlight non-text parts of PDFs and PDFs where text selection is not supported.
  • Improvements to Existing Features:
  • Added Undo and Redo support to the PDF viewer.
  • Pressing Enter in the search box in a PDF viewer tab now jumps to the next match.
  • Added the ability to get a link to the Mendeley catalog version of any article in your library. Right-click on the 'View research catalog entry for this paper' badge in the Details pane and select 'Copy Link'.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a number of bugs resulting in 'requested citation index out of range' messages appearing in Word and OpenOffice.org documents.
  • Fixed a number of problems with various aspects of citation formatting:
  • Fixed problems handling custom styles with Windows-style line endings.
  • Fixed authors missing in the BibTeX citation style.
  • Fixed incorrect output with some styles for documents using the 'Report' type.
  • Fixed option to include URLs in formatted citations only for web pages not being respected if the citation selector dialog was shown from Word.
  • Fixed a number of problems relating to disambiguation of citations when citing multiple documents with the same first author and year.
  • Fixed 'Date Accessed' field not appearing in formatted citations if required by the current citation style.
  • Fixed a problem where re-positioning a sticky note was not synced correctly in some situations.
  • Improved stability of Word and OpenOffice.org plugins.
  • (Windows) Fixed a problem that could cause the software to freeze whilst downloading files from the web during sync or the file organizer to get stuck whilst organizing files.
  • Added a facility to detect and repair corruption in the search index.
  • Reduced startup time for very large libraries.
  • (Mac) Show a confirmation dialog before removing field codes.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.8.1 (Nov 11, 2010)

  • Fixed crash in Conflict Resolution dialog when multiple documents had conflicts.
  • Fixed several small bugs when creating formatted citations.
  • Fix 'Close Tab' action being disabled in the File menu.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.7.1 (Jul 15, 2010)

  • Fixed a crash during sync which affected some users.
  • Fixed handling of email address changes in Mendeley Desktop after changing email address in Mendeley Web account settings.
  • Fixed a crash when trying to open a PDF file immediately after attaching it to an existing document.
  • Fixed a potential cause of crashes in file organizer.
  • Fixed files in frozen collections being removed from Mendeley Web incorrectly.
  • Fixed a crash when clicking 'Delete Documents' toolbar icon under certain circumstances.
  • Add a note in the Bibtex Sync preferences tab that documents in the 'Needs Review' collection are not exported.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.6.3 (Apr 23, 2010)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a problem some users encountered when updating databases from 0.9.6.1 and earlier versions.
  • Fixed a freeze during the 'Downloading Files' syncing step.
  • Fixed annotation syncing problems when file organizer is enabled.
  • Fixed a crash when closing the collection settings editor after removing a collection.
  • Preserved author ordering correctly when importing from Zotero.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.6.2 (Apr 20, 2010)

  • Fixed 'Invalid procedure call' error when opening some Word documents which contain Mendeley-generated citations.
  • Fixed several sporadic crashes related to the search and de-duplication features.
  • Fixed several sync errors which could occur when syncing annotations.
  • Fixed several crashes related to the Word/OpenOffice/ Word plugins.
  • Fixed several crashes related to the notification bar.
  • Fixed several crashes related to importing PDFs which are already in your library.
  • Fixed annotation creation times being displayed incorrectly in timezones outside of GMT.
  • Fixed sticky notes not being exported correctly via File -> Export with annotations.
  • Added a limit to the number of citations that are extracted from a single PDF and reduce the number of citations extracted with poor-quality metadata.
  • Reduced memory usage when handling large file attachments.
  • Fixed 'LinkToMendeleyVba2.dll not found' message on some Windows PCs.
  • Made database updates safer when installing new versions of Mendeley Desktop.
  • Fixed the problem where Document Details hide/show toggle in menu did not always work correctly.
  • Fixed sticky notes not being restored when restoring backups.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.6.1 (Feb 25, 2010)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix problem with links between new documents and file attachments being lost for some users when syncing and a message indicating that recently synced documents had been deleted on Mendeley Web.
  • New Features and Improvements:
  • PDF annotations are now synchronized with Mendeley Web. In shared collections multiple users can add notes or highlights to documents.
  • Added an importer for Ovid Reprints/Medlars format files.
  • PDF import will make use of embedded XMP metadata if it is present and appears to be accurate.
  • Improvements to Existing Features:
  • Crash reports sent to server now contain more detailed information.
  • Added keyboard shortcuts for selecting, highlighting and adding notes.
  • Newly imported documents are highlighted after import.
  • Added 'Copy LaTeX Citation' action to documents list right-click menu.
  • Improvements to accuracy of automated author and title extraction from PDFs.
  • Add the ability to drag-and-drop any file type into Mendeley Desktop. If the file type is not supported by one of the importers then a new document is created with the file attached.
  • Smoother scrolling in PDF viewer.
  • 'Search by Title' and DOI lookups will now retain the full names of authors if the lookup comes back with only initials if the initials and the full names agree.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix crashes when exiting full-screen mode in PDF viewer.
  • Fix local library data not being migrated correctly when changing email address in Mendeley Desktop.
  • Added additional verification of backups before restoring to web in the 'Restore Backup' feature.
  • File space usage shown in Preferences dialog did not update after syncing.
  • Incorrect progress messages were shown in the status bar when importing a PDF.
  • Fix problem where starting a 'Search by Title' lookup for one document and then switching to another document before the results came back would apply the changes to the wrong document.
  • Fix crash when performing DOI lookups in 'Add New Document' dialog.
  • The PDF viewer no longer creates temporary copies of opened PDF files on disk.
  • Fixed problem where only the first page of certain multi-page PDFs were shown in the viewer.
  • Fix problem where search in a PDF viewer tab would not find matches on the last page of the PDF.
  • Fix file organiser renaming failing on Windows for documents where the title, authors or publication name contained double quotes.
  • If uploading a file to Mendeley Web fails because the file is too large, the sync now continues uploading other attachments.
  • Fixed a problem which could cause Mendeley Desktop to loop continuously during sync.
  • Fixed PARSEFAILED error when syncing if certain characters appeared in imported documents.
  • Fixed long delay when opening the citation style browser.
  • Fixed long delay when opening the Tools -> Options menu on some systems.
  • Fixed incorrect documents being shown when searching for certain tags.
  • Fixed error about LinkToMendeleyVba.dll not being found on some Windows systems.
  • Fixed various crashes when syncing after removing shared collections on the web.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.5.2 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix error in Word plugin when using certain types of text frames.
  • Fix crashes on exit when using full text search.
  • Fix a possible freeze when syncing document changes with Mendeley Web.
  • Fix crash when opening PDFs containing invalid bookmarks.
  • Fix crash after an unsuccessful attempt to upload a file to Mendeley Web.
  • Fix error when using 'Export OpenOffice.org Compatible' button in Word plugin.
  • Improve detection of Zotero database version.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.5.1 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • OpenOffice.org plugin reported errors when adding more than 10 citations to a document.
  • Fix overflow error in some Word documents.
  • Fix ligatures (symbols often used to represent letter sequences such as 'fi', 'ff', 'ffi') and some other characters not being extracted from PDFs.
  • Fix file attachments that were removed from a document re-appearing on the next startup in some circumstances.
  • Incorrect parsing of author and editor names in BibTeX files with lower-case middle names or initials.
  • Add HTML files to the list of supported file types in the attach file dialog.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.5 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Improvements to Existing Features:
  • Improved concurrent editing of documents by multiple users. Tags and keywords changes are now merged correctly and conflict resolution is improved.
  • Add support for disambiguating citations in Word and OpenOffice.
  • Improve the performance of bibliography generation and citation insertion in Word and OpenOffice.
  • Mendeley Desktop can now import PDF, BibTeX and RIS files which do not have the .pdf, .bib or .ris file extension. Mendeley Desktop will attempt to guess the type of the file in this case.
  • Support for importing .txt files which may contain references in various formats.
  • Support importing of month field from BibTeX where month name is not enclosed in quotes or braces.
  • HTML attachments are now indexed for full text search (note that this will not apply to existing attachments).
  • Show a wizard on first run offering to set up word processor integration.
  • Clearer formatting of dates in the table view.
  • Add support for superscript and subscript formatting of in-line citations.
  • Add a menu item to toggle the visiblity of the right-hand Document Details pane.
  • Support for additional fields and document types in BibTeX import and export.
  • Support for additional document types in RIS import and export.
  • Show different icons in the table view depending on the file type, number of files attached to a document and whether the file is stored locally or downloadable from the web.
  • Automatically enable the 'Citation Key' field in the Document Details pane when BibTeX syncing is enabled.
  • Support for importing file links from EndNote XML files (currently tested with EndNote X2, X3 XML files).
  • Add keyboard shortcuts for moving between tabs, creating folders and toggling the Document Details pane.
  • Clearer messages in the Word and OpenOffice.org plugins.
  • When importing PDFs through the 'Watched Folders' feature, the existing library is searched for duplicates of imported documents.
  • Improved performance of first PDF import after starting Mendeley.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed various hangs and crashes on exit when background services (such as the file organiser) were enabled.
  • The location of the Zotero database was not auto-detected if Firefox was not using the default profile.
  • Hyperlinks in PDF documents did not work reliably.
  • Fix crash when opening certain invalid PDF documents.
  • Removed non-working support for unchecking sub-folders of a watched folder.
  • Import documents directly into the 'My Publications' collection did not work.
  • Progress of syncing operations is now shown as a percentage instead of number of documents and citations updated.
  • Fix a bug where document addition date/times were stored in local time internally and would be incorrect after a timezone or daylight savings change.
  • The document type combo-box now updates correctly after a DOI/Arxiv/PubMed lookup.
  • Improved syncing performance.
  • 'Copy LaTeX Citation' menu command now generates a citation key for the selected document(s) if necessary.
  • Application interface could hang whilst performing a database upgrade or repair.
  • Search index could go out of date causing documents which should match the search keywords not to be found.
  • Search did not always find all relevant full text matches.
  • Auto-update checks did not work properly in release candidate versions.

New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.4.1 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • Improvements to Existing Features:
  • Various improvements importing document details from Zotero. Attachment details are now imported, URLs are imported in the correct order and more contributor types are imported.
  • Confirmation before overwriting files when exporting PDF with annotations.
  • Made F5 trigger synchronization again.
  • Added keyboard shortcut for Find Next. This will be one out of Shift-F3, Shift-Command-G, or Shift-Ctrl-G
  • Added keyboard shortcuts for jumping to start and end of PDF (Home/End)
  • Reduced scroll step size.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed various crashes when importing documents from Zotero databases, especially with larger Zotero libraries.
  • Fixed shared collection file upload/download settings not being applied correctly when syncing.
  • Fixed overflow problem with large bibliographies in Word plugin.
  • Fixed several rendering, scrolling and panning problems in the PDF viewer.
  • Fixed export of annotations in Debian Linux versions.
  • Fixed DOI lookups failing in Document Details tab when field text started with 'doi:' and similar problems with the ArXiv and PMID fields.
  • Fixed various scrolling issues in the PDF viewer, especially when zoomed out.
  • Fixed bug in Word plugin where citation style would revert to the default 'American Psychological Association' upon opening an existing Word file with a bibliography.
  • Fixed bug in Zotero syncing where disabling and then re-enabling the feature would cause all documents to be re-imported. Now only changes since the feature was disabled will be imported.