JabRef Changelog

What's new in JabRef 5.13

Apr 19, 2024

Added:
We converted the "Custom API key" list to a table to be more accessible. #10926
We added a "refresh" button for the LaTeX citations tab in the entry editor. #10584
We added the possibility to show the BibTeX source in the web search import screen. #560
We added a fetcher for ISIDORE, simply paste in the link into the text field or the last 6 digits in the link that identify that paper. #10423
When importing entries form the "Citation relations" tab, the field cites is now filled according to the relationship between the entries. #10572
We added a new integrity check and clean up option for strings having Unicode characters not encoded in Unicode "Normalization Form Canonical Composition" (NFC). #10506
We added a new group icon column to the main table showing the icons of the entry's groups. #10801
When deleting an entry, the files linked to the entry are now optionally deleted as well. #10509
We added support to move the file to the system trash (instead of deleting it). #10591
We added ability to jump to an entry in the command line using -j CITATIONKEY. koppor#540
We added a new boolean to the style files for Openoffice/Libreoffice integration to switch between ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE (default) and no space. #10843
When pasting HTML into the abstract or a comment field, the hypertext is automatically converted to Markdown. #10558
We added the possibility to redownload files that had been present but are no longer in the specified location. #10848
We added the citation key pattern [camelN]. Equivalent to the first N words of the [camel] pattern.
We added importing of static groups and linked files from BibDesk .bib files. #10381
We added ability to export in CFF (Citation File Format) #10661.
We added ability to push entries to TeXworks. #3197
We added the ability to zoom in and out in the document viewer using Ctrl + Scroll. #10964
We added a Cleanup for removing non-existent files and grouped the related options #10929
We added the functionality to parse the bibliography of PDFs using the GROBID online service. #10200
We added a seperated search bar for the global search window. #11032
We added ability to double-click on an entry in the global search window to select the corresponding entry in the main table. #11010
We added support for BibTeX String constants during copy & paste between libraries. #10872
We added the field langid which is important for hyphenation and casing in LaTeX. #10868
Event log entries can now be copied via a context menu. #11100
Changed:
The "Automatically open folders of attached files" preference default status has been changed to enabled on Windows. koppor#56
The Custom export format now uses the custom DOI base URI in the preferences for the DOICheck, if activated forum#4084
The index directories for full text search have now more readable names to increase debugging possibilities using Apache Lucense's Lurk. #10193
The fulltext search also indexes files ending with .pdf (but do not having an explicit file type set). #10193
We changed the arrangement of the lists in the "Citation relations" tab. Cites are now on the left and Cited by on the right #10572
Sub libraries based on aux file can now also be generated if some citations are not found library. #10775
We rearranged the tab order in the entry editor and renamed the "Scite Tab" to "Citation information". #10821
We changed the duplicate handling in the Import entries dialog. Potential duplicate entries are marked with an icon and importing will now trigger the merge dialog #10914
We made the command "Push to TexShop" more robust to allow cite commands with a character before the first slash. forum#2699
We only show the notification "Saving library..." if the library contains more than 2000 entries. #9803
JabRef now keeps previous log files upon start. #11023
When normalizing author names, complete enclosing braces are kept. #10031
We enhanced the dialog for adding new fields in the content selector with a selection box containing a list of standard fields. #10912
We store the citation relations in an LRU cache to avoid bloating the memory and out-of-memory exceptions. #10958
Keywords field are now displayed as tags. #10910
Citation relations now get more information, and have quick access to view the articles in a browser without adding them to the library #10869
Importer/Exporter for CFF format now supports JabRef cites and related relationships, as well as all fields from the CFF specification. #10993
The XMP-Exporter no longer writes the content of the file-field. #11083
We added notes, checks and warnings for the case of selection of non-empty directories while starting a new Systematic Literature Review. #600
Text in the import dialog (web search results) will now be wrapped to prevent horizontal scrolling. #10931
We improved the error handling when invalid bibdesk-files are encountered #11117
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where the fulltext search button in entry editor used to disappear on click till the search is completed. #10425
We fixed an issue where attempting to cancel the importing/generation of an entry from id is ignored. #10508
We fixed an issue where the preview panel showing the wrong entry (an entry that is not selected in the entry table). #9172
We fixed an issue where HTML-reserved characters like '&' and '<', in addition to HTML entities like '&' were not rendered correctly in entry preview. #10677
The last page of a PDF is now indexed by the full text search. #10193
The entry editor respects the configured custom tabs when showing "Other fields". #11012
The default owner of an entry can be changed again. #10924
We fixed an issue where the duplicate check did not take umlauts or other LaTeX-encoded characters into account. #10744
We fixed the colors of the icon on hover for unset special fields. #10431
We fixed an issue where the CrossRef field did not work if autocompletion was disabled #8145
In biblatex mode, JabRef distinguishes between "Optional fields" and "Optional fields 2" again. #11022
We fixed an issue where exporting@electronic and @online entry types to the Office XMl would duplicate the field title #10807
We fixed an issue where the CommentsTab was not properly formatted when the defaultOwner contained capital or special letters. #10870
We fixed an issue where the File -> Close library menu item was not disabled when no library was open. #10948
We fixed an issue where the Document Viewer would show the PDF in only half the window when maximized. #10934
Clicking on the crossref and related tags in the entry editor jumps to the linked entry. #5484 #9369
We fixed an issue where JabRef could not parse absolute file paths from Zotero exports. #10959
We fixed an issue where an exception occured when toggling between "Live" or "Locked" in the internal Document Viewer. #10935
When fetching article information fom IEEE Xplore, the em dash is now converted correctly. koppor#286
Fixed an issue on Windows where the browser extension reported failure to send an entry to JabRef even though it was sent properly. JabRef-Browser-Extension#493
Fixed an issue on Windows where TeXworks path was not resolved if it was installed with MiKTeX. #10977
We fixed an issue with where JabRef would throw an error when using MathSciNet search, as it was unable to parse the fetched JSON coreectly. 10996
We fixed an issue where the "Import by ID" function would throw an error when a DOI that contains URL-encoded characters was entered. #10648
We fixed an issue with handling of an "overflow" of authors at [authIniN]. #11087
We fixed an issue where an exception occurred when selecting entries in the web search results. #11081
When a new library is unsaved, there is now no warning when fetching entries with PDFs. #11075
We fixed an issue where the message "The libary has been modified by another program" occurred when editing library metadata and saving the library. #4877
Removed:
We removed the predatory journal checks due to a high rate of false positives. #11066

New in JabRef 5.12 (Dec 24, 2023)

Added:
We added a scite.ai tab in the entry editor that retrieves 'Smart Citation' tallies for citations that have a DOI.
We added a dropdown menu to let users change the reference library during AUX file import.
We added a button to let users reset the cite command to the default value.
We added the option to use System Preference for Light/Dark Theme
We added scholar.archive.org as a new fetcher.
We integrated predatory journal checking as part of the Integrity Checker based on the check-bib-for-predatory.
We added a 'More options' section in the main table right click menu opening the preferences dialog.
When creating a new group, it inherits the icon of the parent group.
Changed:
We moved the location of the 'Open only one instance of JabRef' preference option from "Network" to "General".
The two previews in the change resolver dialog now have their scrollbars synchronized..
We changed the setting of the keyword separator to accept a single character only.
We replaced "SearchAll" in Web Search by "Search Selected".
Short DOI formatter now checks, if the value is already formatted. If so, it returns the value instead of calling the ShortDOIService again.
A user-specific comment fields is not enabled by default, but can be enabled using the "Add" button.
We upgraded to Lucene 9.9 for the fulltext search. The search index will be rebuild.
When using "Copy..." -> "Copy citation key", the delimiter configured at "Push applications" is respected.
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where the added protected term has unwanted leading and trailing whitespaces, where the formatted text has unwanted empty brackets and where the word at the cursor in the textbox can be added to the list.
We fixed an issue where in the merge dialog the file field of entries was not correctly merged when the first and second entry both contained values inside the file field.
We fixed some small inconsistencies in the user interface.
We fixed the issue where the Hayagriva YAML exporter would not include a parent field for the publisher/series.
We fixed issues in the external file type dialog w.r.t. duplicate entries in the case of a language switch.
We fixed an issue where the right-click action "Copy cite..." did not respect the configured citation command under "External Programs" -> "Push Applications"
Removed:
We removed duplicate filtering and sorting operations in the MainTable when editing BibEntries.

New in JabRef 5.11 (Oct 22, 2023)

Added:
We added the ability to sort subgroups in Z-A order, as well as by ascending and descending number of subgroups. #10249
We added the possibility to find (and add) papers that cite or are cited by a given paper. #6187
We added an error-specific message for when a download from a URL fails. #9826
We added support for customizing the citation command (e.g., [@key1,@key2]) when pushing to external applications. #10133
We added an integrity check for more special characters. #8712
We added protected terms described as "Computer science". #10222
We added a link "Get more themes..." in the preferences to that points to themes.jabref.org allowing the user to download new themes. #10243
We added a fetcher for LOBID resources. koppor#386
When in biblatex mode, the integrity check for journal titles now also checks the field journal.
We added support for exporting to Hayagriva YAML format. #10382
We added support for pushing citations to TeXShop on macOS forum#2699.
We added the 'Bachelor's thesis' type for Biblatex's 'Thesis' EntryType #10029.
Changed:
The export formats listrefs, tablerefs, tablerefsabsbib, now use the ISO date format in the footer #10383.
When searching for an identifier in the "Web search", the title of the search window is now "Identifier-based Web Search". #10391
The ampersand checker now skips verbatim fields (file, url, ...). #10419
If no existing document is selected for exporting "XMP annotated pdf" JabRef will now create a new PDF file with a sample text and the metadata. #10102
We modified the DOI cleanup to infer the DOI from an ArXiV ID if it's present. #10426
The ISI importer uses the field comment for notes (instead of `review). #10478
If no existing document is selected for exporting "Embedded BibTeX pdf" JabRef will now create a new PDF file with a sample text and the metadata. #10101
Translated titles format no longer raise a warning. #10459
We re-added the empty grey containers in the groups panel to keep an indicator for the current selected group, if displaying of group item count is turned off #9972
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where "Move URL in note field to url field" in the cleanup dialog caused an exception if no note field was present forum#3999
It is possible again to use "current table sort order" for the order of entries when saving. #9869
Passwords can be stored in GNOME key ring. #10274
We fixed an issue where groups based on an aux file could not be created due to an exception #10350
We fixed an issue where the JabRef browser extension could not communicate with JabRef under macOS due to missing files. You should use the .pkg for the first installation as it updates all necessary files for the extension #10308
We fixed an issue where the ISBN fetcher returned the entrytype misc for certain ISBN numbers #10348
We fixed a bug where an exception was raised when saving less than three export save orders in the preference. #10157
We fixed an issue where it was possible to create a group with no name or with a group separator inside the name #9776
Biblatex's journaltitle is now also respected for showing the journal information. #10397
JabRef does not hang anymore when exporting via CLI. #10380
We fixed an issue where it was not possible to save a library on a network share under macOS due to an exception when acquiring a file lock #10452
We fixed an issue where exporting "XMP annotated pdf" without selecting an existing document would produce an exception. #10102
We fixed an issue where the "Enabled" column in the "Protected terms files" tab in the preferences could not be resized #10285
We fixed an issue where after creation of a new library, the new library was not focused. koppor#592
We fixed an issue where double clicking on an url in the file field would trigger an exception instead of opening the browser #10480
We fixed an issue where scrolling was impossible on dragging a citation on the groups panel. #9754
We fixed an issue where exporting "Embedded BibTeX pdf" without selecting an existing document would produce an exception. #10101
We fixed an issue where there was a failure to access the url link for "eprint" for the ArXiv entry.#10474
We fixed an issue where it was not possible to connect to a shared database once a group with entries was added or other metadata modified #10336
We fixed an issue where middle-button paste in X not always worked #7905

New in JabRef 5.10 (Sep 2, 2023)

Added:
We added a field showing the BibTeX/biblatex source for added and deleted entries in the "External Changes Resolver" dialog. #9509
We added user-specific comment field so that multiple users can make separate comments. #543
We added a search history list in the search field's right click menu. #7906
We added a full text fetcher for IACR eprints. #9651
We added "Attach file from URL" to right-click context menu to download and store a file with the reference library. #9646
We enabled updating an existing entry with data from InspireHEP. #9351
We added a fetcher for the Bibliotheksverbund Bayern (experimental). #9641
We added support for more biblatex date formats for parsing dates. #2753
We added support for multiple languages for exporting to and importing references from MS Office. #9699
We enabled scrolling in the groups list when dragging a group on another group. #2869
We added the option to automatically download online files when a new entry is created from an existing ID (e.g., DOI). The option can be disabled in the preferences under "Import and Export". #9756
We added a new Integrity check for unescaped ampersands. koppor#585
We added support for parsing $backslash$ in file paths (as exported by Mendeley). forum#3470
We added the possibility to automatically fetch entries when an ISBN is pasted on the main table. #9864
We added the option to disable the automatic linking of files in the entry editor #5105
We added the link icon for ISBNs in linked identifiers column. #9819
We added key binding to focus on groups alt + s #9863
We added the option to unprotect a text selection, which strips all pairs of curly braces away. #9950
We added drag and drop events for field 'Groups' in entry editor panel. #569
We added support for parsing MathML in the Medline importer. #4273
We added the ability to search for an identifier (DOI, ISBN, ArXiv ID) directly from 'Web Search'. #7575 #9674
We added a cleanup activity that identifies a URL or a last-visited-date in the note field and moves it to the url and urldate field respectively. koppor#216
We enabled the user to change the name of a field in a custom entry type by double-clicking on it. #9840
We added some preferences options to disable online activity. #10064
We integrated two mail actions ("As Email" and "To Kindle") under a new "Send" option in the right-click & Tools menus. The Kindle option creates an email targeted to the user's Kindle email, which can be set in preferences under "External programs" #6186
We added an option to clear recent libraries' history. #10003
We added an option to encrypt and remember the proxy password. #8055#10044
We added support for showing journal information, via info buttons next to the Journal and ISSN fields in the entry editor. #6189
We added support for pushing citations to Sublime Text 3 #10098
We added support for the Finnish language. #10183
We added the option to automatically replaces illegal characters in the filename when adding a file to JabRef. #10182
We added a privacy policy. #10064
We added a tooltip to show the number of entries in a group #10208
Changed:
We replaced "Close" by "Close library" and placed it after "Save all" in the File menu. #10043
We upgraded to Lucene 9.7 for the fulltext search. The search index will be rebuild. #9584
'Get full text' now also checks the file url. #568
JabRef writes a new backup file only if there is a change. Before, JabRef created a backup upon start. #9679
We modified the Add Group dialog to use the most recently selected group hierarchical context. #9141
We refined the 'main directory not found' error message. #9625
JabRef writes a new backup file only if there is a change. Before, JabRef created a backup upon start. #9679
Backups of libraries are not stored per JabRef version, but collected together. #9676
We streamlined the paths for logs and backups: The parent path fragment is always logs or backups.
log.txt now contains an entry if a BibTeX entry could not be parsed.
log.txt now contains debug messages. Debugging needs to be enabled explicitly. #9678
log.txt does not contain entries for non-found files during PDF indexing. #9678
The hostname is now determined using environment variables (COMPUTERNAME/HOSTNAME) first. #9910
We improved the Medline importer to correctly import ISO dates for revised. #9536
To avoid cluttering of the directory, We always delete the .sav file upon successful write. #9675
We improved the unlinking/deletion of multiple linked files of an entry using the Delete key. #9473
The field names of customized entry types are now exchanged preserving the case. #9993
We moved the custom entry types dialog into the preferences dialog. #9760
We moved the manage content selectors dialog to the library properties. #9768
We moved the preferences menu command from the options menu to the file menu. #9768
We reworked the cross ref labels in the entry editor and added a right click menu. #10046
We reorganized the order of tabs and settings in the library properties. #9836
We changed the handling of an "overflow" of authors at [authIniN]: JabRef uses + to indicate an overflow. Example: [authIni2] produces A+ (instead of AB) for Aachen and Berlin and Chemnitz. #9703
We moved the preferences option to open the last edited files on startup to the 'General' tab. #9808
We improved the recognition of DOIs when pasting a link containing a DOI on the maintable. #9864
We reordered the preferences dialog. #9839
We split the 'Import and Export' tab into 'Web Search' and 'Export'. #9839
We moved the option to run JabRef in memory stick mode into the preferences dialog toolbar. #9866
In case the library contains empty entries, they are not written to disk. #8645
The formatter remove_unicode_ligatures is now called replace_unicode_ligatures. #9890
We improved the error message when no terminal was found. #9607
In the context of the "systematic literature functionality", we changed the name "database" to "catalog" to use a separate term for online catalogs in comparison to SQL databases. #9951
We now show more fields (including Special Fields) in the dropdown selection for "Save sort order" in the library prop

New in JabRef 5.9 (Jan 8, 2023)

Added:
We added a dropdown menu to let users change the library they want to import into during import. #6177
We added the possibility to add/remove a preview style from the selected list using a double click. #9490
We added the option to define fields as "multine" directly in the custom entry types dialog. #6448
Changed:
We changed database structure: in MySQL/MariaDB we renamed tables by adding a JABREF_ prefix, and in PGSQL we moved tables in jabref schema. We added VersionDBStructure variable in METADATA table to indicate current version of structure, this variable is needed for automatic migration. #9312
We moved some preferences options to a new tab in the preferences dialog. #9442
We renamed "Medline abbreviation" to "dotless abbreviation". #9504
We now have more "dots" in the offered journal abbreviations. #9504
We now disable the button "Full text search" in the Searchbar by default #9527
Fixed:
The tab "deprecated fields" is shown in biblatex-mode only. #7757
In case a journal name of an IEEE journal is abbreviated, the "normal" abbreviation is used - and not the one of the IEEE BibTeX strings. abbrv#91
We fixed a performance issue when loading large lists of custom journal abbreviations. #8928
We fixed an issue where the last opened libraries were not remembered when a new unsaved library was open as well. #9190
We fixed an issue where no context menu for the group "All entries" was present. forum#3682
We fixed an issue where extra curly braces in some fields would trigger an exception when selecting the entry or doing an integrity check. #9475, #9503
We fixed an issue where entering a date in the format "YYYY/MM" in the entry editor date field caused an exception. #9492
For portable versions, the .deb file now works on plain debian again. #9472
We fixed an issue where the download of linked online files failed after an import of entries for certain urls. #9518
We fixed an issue where an exception occured when manually downloading a file from an URL in the entry editor. #9521

New in JabRef 5.8 (Dec 19, 2022)

Added:
We integrated a new three-way merge UI for merging entries in the Entries Merger Dialog, the Duplicate Resolver Dialog, the Entry Importer Dialog, and the External Changes Resolver Dialog. #8945
We added the ability to merge groups, keywords, comments and files when merging entries. #9022
We added a warning message next to the authors field in the merge dialog to warn users when the authors are the same but formatted differently. #8745
The default file directory of a library is used as default directory for unlinked file lookup. koppor#546
The properties of an existing systematic literature review (SLR) can be edited. koppor#604
An systematic literature review (SLR) can now be started from the SLR itself. #9131, koppor#601
On startup, JabRef notifies the user if there were parsing errors during opening.
We added support for the field fjournal (in @article) for abbreviation and unabbreviation functionalities. #321
In case a backup is found, the filename of the backup is shown and one can navigate to the file. #9311
We added support for the Ukrainian and Arabic languages. #9236, #9243
Changed:
We improved the Citavi Importer to also import so called Knowledge-items into the field comment of the corresponding entry #9025
We modified the change case sub-menus and their corresponding tips (displayed when you stay long over the menu) to properly reflect exemplified cases. #9339
We call backup files .bak and temporary writing files now .sav.
JabRef keeps 10 older versions of a .bib file in the user data dir (instead of a single .sav (now: .bak) file in the directory of the .bib file)
We improved the External Changes Resolver dialog to be more usaable. #9021
We simplified the actions to fast-resolve duplicates to 'Keep Left', 'Keep Right', 'Keep Both' and 'Keep Merged'. #9056
The fallback directory of the file folder now is the general file directory. In case there was a directory configured for a library and this directory was not found, JabRef placed the PDF next to the .bib file and not into the general file directory.
The global default directory for storing PDFs is now the documents folder in the user's home.
When adding or editing a subgroup it is placed w.r.t. to alphabetical ordering rather than at the end. koppor#577
Groups context menu now shows appropriate options depending on number of subgroups. koppor#579
We modified the "Delete file" dialog and added the full file path to the dialog text. The file path in the title was changed to file name only. koppor#534
Download from URL now automatically fills with URL from clipboard. koppor#535
We added HTML and Markdown files to Find Unlinked Files and removed BibTeX. koppor#547
ArXiv fetcher now retrieves additional data from related DOIs (both ArXiv and user-assigned). #9170
We modified the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) fetcher so that it will now also fetch the ISBN when possible. #8708
Genres are now mapped correctly to entry types when importing MODS files. #9185
We changed the button label from "Return to JabRef" to "Return to library" to better indicate the purpose of the action.
We changed the color of found text from red to high-contrast colors (background: yellow; font color: purple). koppor#552
We fixed an issue where the wrong icon for a successful import of a bib entry was shown. #9308
We changed the messages after importing unlinked local files to past tense. koppor#548
In the context of the Cleanup dialog we changed the text of the conversion of BibTeX to biblatex (and vice versa) to make it more clear. koppor#545
We removed wrapping of string constants when writing to a .bib file.
In the context of a systematic literature review (SLR), a user can now add arbitrary data into study.yml. JabRef just ignores this data. #9124
In the context of a systematic literature review (SLR), we reworked the "Define study" parameters dialog. #9123
We upgraded to Lucene 9.4 for the fulltext search. The search index will be rebuild. #9213
We disabled the "change case" menu for empty fields. #9214
We disabled the conversion menu for empty fields. #9200
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where applied save actions on saving the library file would lead to the dialog "The library has been modified by another program" popping up. #4877
We fixed issues with save actions not correctly loaded when opening the library. #9122
We fixed the behavior of "Discard changes" when reopening a modified library. #9361
We fixed several bugs regarding the manual and the autosave of library files that could lead to exceptions. #9067, #8448, #8746, #6684, #6644, #6102, #6002
We fixed an issue where pdfs were re-indexed on each startup. #9166
We fixed an issue when using an unsafe character in the citation key, the auto-linking feature fails to link files. #9267
We fixed an issue where a message about changed metadata would occur on saving although nothing changed. #9159
We fixed an issue where the possibility to generate a subdatabase from an aux file was writing empty files when called from the commandline. #9115, forum#3516
We fixed an issue where author names with tilde accents (for example ñ) were marked as "Names are not in the standard BibTeX format". #8071
We fixed an issue where capitalize didn't capitalize words after hyphen characters. #9157
We fixed an issue where title case didn't capitalize words after en-dash characters and skip capitalization of conjunctions that comes after en-dash characters. #9068,#9142
We fixed an issue with the message that is displayed when fetcher returns an empty list of entries for given query. #9195
We fixed an issue where editing entry's "date" field in library mode "biblatex" causes an uncaught exception. #8747
We fixed an issue where importing from XMP would fail for certain PDFs. #9383
We fixed an issue that JabRef displayed the wrong group tree after loading. koppor#637
We fixed that sorting of entries in the maintable by special fields is updated immediately. #9334
We fixed the display of issue, number, eid and pages fields in the entry preview. #8607, #8372, Koppor#514, forum#2390, forum#3462
We fixed the page ranges checker to detect article numbers in the pages field (used at Check Integrity). #8607
The HtmlToLaTeXFormatter keeps single < characters.
We fixed a performance r...

New in JabRef 5.7 (Aug 5, 2022)

Added:
We added a fetcher for Biodiversity Heritage Library. 8539
We added support for multiple messages in the snackbar. #7340
We added an extra option in the 'Find Unlinked Files' dialog view to ignore unnecessary files like Thumbs.db, DS_Store, etc. koppor#373
JabRef now writes log files. Linux: $home/.cache/jabref/logs/version, Windows: %APPDATA%..Localharawatajabrefversionlogs, Mac: Users/.../Library/Logs/jabref/version
We added an importer for Citavi backup files, support ".ctv5bak" and ".ctv6bak" file formats. #8322
We added a feature to drag selected entries and drop them to other opened inactive library tabs koppor521.
We added support for the biblatex-apa legal entry types Legislation, Legadminmaterial, Jurisdiction, Constitution and Legal #8931
Changed:
The file column in the main table now shows the corresponding defined icon for the linked file 8930.
We improved the color of the selected entries and the color of the summary in the Import Entries Dialog in the dark theme. #7927
We upgraded to Lucene 9.3 for the fulltext search.
Thus, the now created search index cannot be read from older versions of JabRef anylonger.
JabRef will recreate the index in a new folder for new files and this will take a long time for a huge library.
Moreover, switching back and forth JabRef versions and meanwhile adding PDFs also requires rebuilding the index now and then.
8868
We improved the Latex2Unicode conversion #8639
Writing BibTeX data into a PDF (XMP) removes braces. #8452
Writing BibTeX data into a PDF (XMP) does not write the file field.
Writing BibTeX data into a PDF (XMP) considers the configured keyword separator (and does not use "," as default any more)
The Medline/Pubmed search now also supports the default fields and operators for searching. forum#3554
We improved group expansion arrow that prevent it from activating group when expanding or collapsing. #7982, #3176
When configured SSL certificates changed, JabRef warns the user to restart to apply the configuration.
We improved the appearances and logic of the "Manage field names & content" dialog, and renamed it to "Automatic field editor". #6536
We improved the message explaining the options when modifying an automatic keyword group #8911
We moved the preferences option "Warn about duplicates on import" option from the tab "File" to the tab "Import and Export". koppor#570
When JabRef encounters % Encoding: UTF-8 header, it is kept during writing (and not removed). #8964
We replace characters which cannot be decoded using the specified encoding by a (probably another) valid character. This happens if JabRef detects the wrong charset (e.g., UTF-8 instead of Windows 1252). One can use the Integrity Check to find those characters.
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where the user could not rate an entry in the main table when an entry was not yet ranked. #5842
We fixed an issue that caused JabRef to sometimes open multiple instances when "Remote Operation" is enabled. #8653
We fixed an issue where linked files with the filetype "application/pdf" in an entry were not shown with the correct PDF-Icon in the main table 8930
We fixed an issue where "open folder" for linked files did not open the folder and did not select the file unter certain Linux desktop environments #8679, #8849
We fixed an issue where the content of a big shared database library is not shown #8788
We fixed the unnecessary horizontal scroll bar in group panel #8467
We fixed an issue where the notification bar message, icon and actions appeared to be invisible. #8761
We fixed an issue where deprecated fields tab is shown when the fields don't contain any values. #8396
We fixed an issue where an exception for DOI search occurred when the DOI contained urlencoded characters. #8787
We fixed an issue which allow us to select and open identifiers from a popup list in the maintable #8758, 8802
We fixed an issue where the escape button had no functionality within the "Filter groups" textfield. koppor#562
We fixed an issue where the exception that there are invalid characters in filename. #8786
When the proxy configuration removed the proxy user/password, this change is applied immediately.
We fixed an issue where removing several groups deletes only one of them. #8390
We fixed an issue where the Sidepane (groups, web search and open office) width is not remembered after restarting JabRef. #8907
We fixed a bug where switching between themes will cause an error/exception. #8939
We fixed a bug where files that were deleted in the source bibtex file were kept in the index. #8962
We fixed "Error while sending to JabRef" when the browser extension interacts with JabRef. JabRef-Browser-Extension#479
We fixed a bug where updating group view mode (intersection or union) requires re-selecting groups to take effect. #6998
We fixed a bug that prevented external group metadata changes from being merged. #8873
We fixed the shared database opening dialog to remember autosave folder and tick. #7516
Removed:
We removed the social media buttons for our Twitter and Facebook pages. #8774

New in JabRef 5.6 (Apr 26, 2022)

Added:
We enabled the user to customize the API Key for some fetchers. #6877
We added an extra option when right-clicking an entry in the Entry List to copy either the DOI or the DOI url.
We added a fetcher for Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) 8576
We added an extra option to ask the user whether they want to open to reveal the folder holding the saved file with the file selected. #8195
We added a new section to network preferences to allow using custom SSL certificates. #8126
We improved the version check to take also beta version into account and now redirect to the right changelog for the version.
We added two new web and fulltext fetchers: SemanticScholar and ResearchGate.
We added notifications on success and failure when writing metadata to a PDF-file. #8276
We added a cleanup action that escapes $ (by adding a backslash in front). #8673
Changed:
We upgraded to Lucene 9.1 for the fulltext search.
Thus, the now created search index cannot be read from older versions of JabRef anylonger.
JabRef will recreate the index in a new folder for new files and this will take a long time for a huge library.
Moreover, switching back and forth JabRef versions and meanwhile adding PDFs also requires rebuilding the index now and then.
8362
We changed the list of CSL styles to those that support formatting bibliographies. #8421 citeproc-java#116
The CSL preview styles now also support displaying data from cross references entries that are linked via the crossref field. #7378
We made the Search button in Web Search wider. We also skewed the panel titles to the left. #8397
We introduced a preference to disable fulltext indexing. #8468
When exporting entries, the encoding is always UTF-8.
When embedding BibTeX data into a PDF, the encoding is always UTF-8.
We replaced the OttoBib fetcher by a fetcher by OpenLibrary. #8652
We first fetch ISBN data from OpenLibrary, if nothing found, ebook.de is tried.
We now only show a warning when exiting for tasks that will not be recovered automatically upon relaunch of JabRef. #8468
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where right clicking multiple entries and pressing "Change entry type" would only change one entry. #8654
We fixed an issue where it was no longer possible to add or delete multiple files in the file field in the entry editor. #8659
We fixed an issue where the author's lastname was not used for the citation key generation if it started with a lowercase letter. #8601
We fixed an issue where custom "Protected terms" files were missing after a restart of JabRef. #8608
We fixed an issue where JabRef could not start due to a missing directory for the fulltex index. #8579
We fixed an issue where long article numbers in the pages field would cause an exception and preventing the citation style to display. #8381, citeproc-java
We fixed an issue where online links in the file field were not detected correctly and could produce an exception. #8150
We fixed an issue where an exception could occur when saving the preferences #7614
We fixed an issue where "Copy DOI url" in the right-click menu of the Entry List would just copy the DOI and not the DOI url. #8389
We fixed an issue where opening the console from the drop-down menu would cause an exception. #8466
We fixed an issue when reading non-UTF-8 encoded. When no encoding header is present, the encoding is now detected from the file content (and the preference option is disregarded). #8417
We fixed an issue where pasting a URL was replacing + signs by spaces making the URL unreachable. #8448
We fixed an issue where creating subsidiary files from aux files created with some versions of biblatex would produce incorrect results. #8513
We fixed an issue where opening the changelog from withing JabRef led to a 404 error. #8563
We fixed an issue where not all found unlinked local files were imported correctly due to some race condition. #8444
We fixed an issue where Merge entries dialog exceeds screen boundaries.
We fixed an issue where the app lags when selecting an entry after a fresh start. #8446
We fixed an issue where no citationkey was generated on import, pasting a doi or an entry on the main table. 8406, koppor#553
We fixed an issue where accent search does not perform consistently. #6815
We fixed an issue where the incorrect entry was selected when "New Article" is pressed while search filters are active. #8674
Removed:
We removed the option to copy CSL Citation styles data as XSL_FO, ASCIIDOC, and RTF as these have not been working since a long time and are no longer supported in the external library used for processing the styles. #7378
We removed the option to configure the default encoding. The default encoding is now hard-coded to the modern UTF-8 encoding.

New in JabRef 5.5 (Jan 17, 2022)

New in JabRef 5.4 (Dec 21, 2021)

Added:
We added confirmation dialog when user wants to close a library where any empty entires are detected. #8096
We added import support for CFF files. #7945
We added the option to copy the DOI of an entry directly from the context menu copy submenu. #7826
We added a fulltext search feature. #2838
We improved the deduction of bib-entries from imported fulltext pdfs. #7947
We added unprotect_terms to the list of bracketed pattern modifiers #7826
We added a dialog that allows to parse metadata from linked pdfs. #7929
We added an icon picker in group edit dialog. #6142
We added a preference to Opt-In to JabRef's online metadata extraction service (Grobid) usage. #8002
We readded the possibility to display the search results of all databases ("Global Search"). It is shown in a separate window. #4096
We readded the possibility to keep the search string when switching tabs. It is implemented by a toggle button. #4096
We allowed the user to also preview the available citation styles in the preferences besides the selected ones #8108
We added an option to search the available citation styles by name in the preferences #8108
We added an option to generate bib-entries from ID through a popover in the toolbar. #4183
We added a menu option in the right click menu of the main table tabs to display the library properties. #6527
When a .bib file ("library") was saved successfully, a notification is shown
Changed:
Local library settings may overwrite the setting "Search and store files relative to library file location" #8179
The option "Fit table horizontally on screen" in the "Entry table" preferences is now disabled by default #8148
We improved the preferences and descriptions in the "Linked files" preferences tab #8148
We slightly changed the layout of the Journal tab in the preferences for ui consistency. #7937
The JabRefHost on Windows now writes a temporary file and calls -importToOpen instead of passing the bibtex via -importBibtex. #7374, JabRef Browser Ext #274
We reordered some entries in the right-click menu of the main table. #6099
We merged the barely used ImportSettingsTab and the CustomizationTab in the preferences into one single tab and moved the option to allow Integers in Edition Fields in Bibtex-Mode to the EntryEditor tab. #7849
We moved the export order in the preferences from File to Import and Export. #7935
We reworked the export order in the preferences and the save order in the library preferences. You can now set more than three sort criteria in your library preferences. #7935
The metadata-to-pdf actions now also embeds the bibfile to the PDF. #8037
The snap was updated to use the core20 base and to use lzo compression for better startup performance #8109
We moved the union/intersection view button in the group sidepane to the left of the other controls. #8202
We improved the Drag and Drop behavior in the "Customize Entry Types" Dialog #6338
When determining the URL of an ArXiV eprint, the URL now points to the version #8149
We Included all standard fields with citation key when exporting to Old OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc Format #8176
In case the database is encoded with UTF8, the % Encoding marker is not written anymore
The written .bib file has the same line endings #390
The written .bib file always has a final line break
The written .bib file keeps the newline separator of the loaded .bib file
We present options to manually enter an article or return to the New Entry menu when the fetcher DOI fails to find an entry for an ID #7870
We trim white space and non-ASCII characters from DOI #8127
The duplicate checker now inspects other fields in case no difference in the required and optional fields are found.
We reworked the library properties dialog and integrated the Library > Preamble, Library > Citation key pattern and Library > String constants dialogs #8264
We improved the startup time of JabRef by switching from the logging library log4j2 to tinylog #8007
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where an exception occurred when pasting an entry with a publication date-range of the form 1910/1917 #7864
We fixed an issue where an exception occured when a preview style was edited and afterwards another preview style selected. #8280
We fixed an issue where the actions to move a file to a directory were incorrectly disabled. #7908
We fixed an issue where an exception occurred when a linked online file was edited in the entry editor #8008
We fixed an issue when checking for a new version when JabRef is used behind a corporate proxy. #7884
We fixed some icons that were drawn in the wrong color when JabRef used a custom theme. #7853
We fixed an issue where the Aux file on Edit group doesn't support relative sub-directories path to import. #7719.
We fixed an issue where it was impossible to add or modify groups. #7912
We fixed an issue about the visible side pane components being out of sync with the view menu. #8115
We fixed an issue where the side pane would not close when all its components were closed. #8082
We fixed an issue where exported entries from a Citavi bib containing URLs could not be imported #7892
We fixed an issue where the icons in the search bar had the same color, toggled as well as untoggled. #8014
We fixed an issue where typing an invalid UNC path into the "Main file directory" text field caused an error. #8107
We fixed an issue where "Open Folder" didn't select the file on macOS in Finder #8130
We fixed an issue where importing PDFs resulted in an uncaught exception #8143
We fixed "The library has been modified by another program" showing up when line breaks change #4877
The default directory of the "LaTeX Citations" tab is now the directory of the currently opened database (and not the directory chosen at the last open file dialog or the last database save) koppor#538
When writing a bib file, the NegativeArraySizeException should not occur #8231 #8265
We fixed an issue where some menu entries were available without entries selected. #4795
We fixed an issue where right-clicking on a tab and selecting close will close the focused tab even if it is not the tab we right-clicked #8193
We fixed an issue where selecting a citation style in the preferences would sometimes produce an exception #7860
We fixed an issue where an exception would occur when clicking on a DOI link in the preview pane #7706
We fixed an issue where XMP and embedded BibTeX export would not work #8278
We fixed an issue where the XMP and embedded BibTeX import of a file containing multiple schemas failed #8278
We fixed an issue where writing embedded BibTeX import fails due to write protection or bibtex already being present #8332
We fixed an issue where pdf-paths and the pdf-indexer could get out of sync #8182
We fixed an issue where Status-Logger error messages appeared during the startup of JabRef #5475
Removed:
We removed two orphaned preferences options #8164
We removed the functionality of the --debug commandline options. Use the java command line switch -Dtinylog.level=debug for debug output instead. #8226

New in JabRef 5.3 (Jul 6, 2021)

Added:
We added a progress counter to the title bar in Possible Duplicates dialog window. #7366
We added new "Customization" tab to the preferences which includes option to choose a custom address for DOI access. #7337
We added zbmath to the public databases from which the bibliographic information of an existing entry can be updated. #7437
We showed to the find Unlinked Files Dialog the date of the files' most recent modification. #4652
We added to the find Unlinked Files function a filter to show only files based on date of last modification (Last Year, Last Month, Last Week, Last Day). #4652
We added to the find Unlinked Files function a filter that sorts the files based on the date of last modification(Sort by Newest, Sort by Oldest First). #4652
We added the possibility to add a new entry via its zbMath ID (zbMATH can be chosen as ID type in the "Select entry type" window). #7202
We added the extension support and the external application support (For Texshow, Texmaker and LyX) to the flatpak #7248
We added some symbols and keybindings to the context menu in the entry editor. #7268
We added keybindings for setting and clearing the read status. #7264
We added two new fields to track the creation and most recent modification date and time for each entry. koppor#130
We added a feature that allows the user to copy highlighted text in the preview window. #6962
We added a feature that allows you to create new BibEntry via paste arxivId #2292
We added support for conducting automated and systematic literature search across libraries and git support for persistence #369
We added a add group functionality at the bottom of the side pane. #4682
We added a feature that allows the user to choose whether to trust the target site when unable to find a valid certification path from the file download site. #7616
We added a feature that allows the user to open all linked files of multiple selected entries by "Open file" option. #6966
We added a keybinding preset for new entries. #7705
We added a select all button for the library import function. #7786
We added a search feature for journal abbreviations. #7804
We added auto-key-generation progress to the background task list. #7267
We added the option to write XMP metadata to pdfs from the CLI. 7814
Changed:
The export to MS Office XML now exports the author field as Inventor if the bibtex entry type is patent #7830
We changed the EndNote importer to import the field label to the corresponding bibtex field endnote-label forum#2734
The keywords added via "Manage content selectors" are now displayed in alphabetical order. #3791
We improved the "Find unlinked files" dialog to show import results for each file. #7209
The content of the field timestamp is migrated to creationdate. In case one configured "udpate timestampe", it is migrated to modificationdate. koppor#130
The JabRef specific meta-data content in the main field such as priorities (prio1, prio2, ...) are migrated to their respective fields. They are removed from the keywords. #6840
We fixed an issue where groups generated from authors' last names did not include all entries of the authors' #5833
The export to MS Office XML now uses the month name for the field MonthAcessed instead of the two digit number #7354
We included some standalone dialogs from the options menu in the main preference dialog and fixed some visual issues in the preferences dialog. #7384
We improved the linking of the python3 interpreter via the shebang to dynamically use the systems default Python. Related to JabRef-Browser-Extension #177
Automatically found pdf files now have the linking button to the far left and uses a link icon with a plus instead of a briefcase. The file name also has lowered opacity(70%) until added. #3607
We simplified the select entry type form by splitting it into two parts ("Recommended" and "Others") based on internal usage data. #6730
We improved the submenu list by merging the'Remove group' having two options, with or without subgroups. #4682
The export to MS Office XML now uses the month name for the field Month instead of the two digit number forum#2685
We reintroduced missing default keybindings for new entries. #7346 #7439
Lists of available fields are now sorted alphabetically. #7716
The tooltip of the search field explaining the search is always shown. #7279
We rewrote the ACM fetcher to adapt to the new interface. #5804
We moved the select/collapse buttons in the unlinked files dialog into a context menu. #7383
We fixed an issue where journal abbreviations containing curly braces were not recognized #7773
Fixed:
We fixed an isuse where some texts (e.g. descriptionss) in dialogs could not be translated #7854
We fixed an issue where import hangs for ris files with "ER - " #7737
We fixed an issue where getting bibliograhpic data from DOI or another identifer did not respect the library mode (BibTeX/biblatex)#1018
We fixed an issue where importing entries would not respect the library mode (BibTeX/biblatex)#1018
We fixed an issue where an exception occured when importing entries from a web search #7606
We fixed an issue where the table column sort order was not properly stored and resulted in unsorted eports #7524
We fixed an issue where the value of the field school or institution would be printed twice in the HTML Export forum#2634
We fixed an issue preventing to connect to a shared database. #7570
We fixed an issue preventing files from being dragged & dropped into an empty library. #6851
We fixed an issue where double-click onto PDF in file list under the 'General' tab section should just open the file. #7465
We fixed an issue where the dark theme did not extend to a group's custom color picker. #7481
We fixed an issue where choosing the fields on which autocompletion should not work in "Entry editor" preferences had no effect. #7320
We fixed an issue where the "Normalize page numbers" formatter did not replace en-dashes or em-dashes with a hyphen-minus sign. #7239
We fixed an issue with the style of highlighted check boxes while searching in preferences. #7226
We fixed an issue where the option "Move file to file directory" was disabled in the entry editor for all files #7194
We fixed an issue where application dialogs were opening in the wrong display when using multiple screens #7273
We fixed an issue where the "Find unlinked files" dialog would freeze JabRef on importing. #7205
We fixed an issue where the "Find unlinked files" would stop importing when importing a single file failed. #7206
We fixed an issue where JabRef froze for a few seconds in MacOS when DNS resolution timed out. #7441
We fixed an issue where an exception would be displayed for previewing and preferences when a custom theme has been configured but is missing #7177
We fixed an issue where URLs in file fields could not be handled on Windows. #7359
We fixed an issue where the regex based file search miss-interpreted specific symbols. #4342
We fixed an issue where the Harvard RTF exporter used the wrong default file extension. 4508
We fixed an issue where the Harvard RTF exporter did not use the new authors formatter and therefore did not export "organization" authors correctly. 4508
We fixed an issue where the field urldate was not exported to the corresponding fields YearAccessed, MonthAccessed, DayAccessed in MS Office XML #7354
We fixed an issue where the password for a shared SQL database was only remembered if it was the same as the username #6869
We fixed an issue where some custom exports did not use the new authors formatter and therefore did not export authors correctly #7356
We fixed an issue where alt+keyboard shortcuts do not work #6994
We fixed an issue about the file link editor did not allow to change the file name according to the default pattern after changing an entry. #7525
We fixed an issue where the file path is invisible in dark theme. #7382
We fixed an issue where the secondary sorting is not working for some special fields. #7015
We fixed an issue where changing the font size makes the font size field too small. #7085
We fixed an issue with TexGroups on Linux systems, where the modification of an aux-file did not trigger an auto-update for TexGroups. Furthermore, the detection of file modifications is now more reliable. #7412
We fixed an issue where the Unicode to Latex formatter produced wrong results for characters with a codepoint higher than Character.MAX_VALUE. #7387
We fixed an issue where a non valid value as font size results in an uncaught exception. #7415
We fixed an issue where "Merge citations" in the Openoffice/Libreoffice integration panel did not have a corresponding opposite. #7454
We fixed an issue where drag and drop of bib files for opening resulted in uncaught exceptions #7464
We fixed an issue where columns shrink in width when we try to enlarge JabRef window. #6818
We fixed an issue where Content selector does not seem to work for custom fields. #6819
We fixed an issue where font size of the preferences dialog does not update with the rest of the GUI. #7416
We fixed an issue in which a linked online file consisting of a web page was saved as an invalid pdf file upon being downloaded. The user is now notified when downloading a linked file results in an HTML file. #7452
We fixed an issue where opening BibTex file (doubleclick) from Folder with spaces not working. #6487
We fixed the header title in the Add Group/Subgroup Dialog box. #4682
We fixed an issue with saving large .bib files #7265
We fixed an issue with very large page numbers #7590
We fixed an issue where the file extension is missing on saving the library file on linux #7451
We fixed an issue with opacity of disabled icon-buttons #7195
We fixed an issue where journal abbreviations in UTF-8 were not recognized #5850
We fixed an issue where the article title with curly brackets fails to download the arXiv link (pdf file). #7633
We fixed an issue with toggle of special fields does not work for sorted entries #7016
We fixed an issue with the default path of external application. #7641
We fixed an issue where urls must be embedded in a style tag when importing EndNote style Xml files. Now it can parse url with or without a style tag. #6199
We fixed an issue where the article title with colon fails to download the arXiv link (pdf file). #7660
We fixed an issue where the keybinding for delete entry did not work on the main table 7580
We fixed an issue where the RFC fetcher is not compatible with the draft 7305
We fixed an issue where duplicate files (both file names and contents are the same) is downloaded and add to linked files #6197
We fixed an issue where changing the appearance of the preview tab did not trigger a restart warning. #5464
We fixed an issue where editing "Custom preview style" triggers exception. #7526
We fixed the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System fetcher. #7867
We fixed an issue where a title with multiple applied formattings in EndNote was not imported correctly forum#2734
We fixed an issue where a report in EndNote was imported as article forum#2734
We fixed an issue where the field publisher in EndNote was not imported in JabRef forum#2734
Removed:
We removed add group button beside the filter group tab. #4682

New in JabRef 5.2 (Dec 24, 2020)

Added:
We added a validation to check if the current database location is shared, preventing an exception when Pulling Changes From Shared Database. #6959
We added a query parser and mapping layer to enable conversion of queries formulated in simplified lucene syntax by the user into api queries. #6799
We added some basic functionality to customise the look of JabRef by importing a css theme file. #5790
We added connection check function in network preference setting #6560
We added support for exporting to YAML. #6974
We added a DOI format and organization check to detect American Physical Society journals to copy the article ID to the page field for cases where the page numbers are missing. #7019
We added an error message in the New Entry dialog that is shown in case the fetcher did not find anything . #7000
We added a new formatter to output shorthand month format. #6579
We added support for the new Microsoft Edge browser in all platforms. #7056
We reintroduced emacs/bash-like keybindings. #6017
We added a feature to provide automated cross library search using a cross library query language. This provides support for the search step of systematic literature reviews (SLRs). koppor#369
Changed:
We changed the default preferences for OpenOffice/LibreOffice integration to automatically sync the bibliography when inserting new citations in a OpenOffic/LibreOffice document. #6957
We restructured the 'File' tab and extracted some parts into the 'Linked files' tab #6779
JabRef now offers journal lists from https://abbrv.jabref.org. JabRef the lists which use a dot inside the abbreviations. #5749
We removed two useless preferences in the groups preferences dialog. #6836
Synchronization of SpecialFields to keywords is now disabled by default. #6621
JabRef no longer opens the entry editor with the first entry on startup #6855
We completed the rebranding of bibtexkey as citationkey which was started in JabRef 5.1.
JabRef no longer opens the entry editor with the first entry on startup #6855
Fetch by ID: (long) "SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System" replaced by (short) "SAO/NASA ADS" #6876
We changed the title of the window "Manage field names and content" to have the same title as the corresponding menu item #6895
We renamed the menus "View -> Previous citation style" and "View -> Next citation style" into "View -> Previous preview style" and "View -> Next preview style" and renamed the "Preview" style to "Customized preview style". #6899
We changed the default preference option "Search and store files relative to library file location" to on, as this seems to be a more intuitive behaviour. #6863
We changed the title of the window "Manage field names and content": to have the same title as the corresponding menu item #6895
We improved the detection of "short" DOIs 6880
We improved the duplicate detection when identifiers like DOI or arxiv are semantiaclly the same, but just syntactically differ (e.g. with or without http(s):// prefix). #6707
We changed in the group interface "Generate groups from keywords in a BibTeX field" by "Generate groups from keywords in the following field". #6983
We changed the name of a group type from "Searching for keywords" to "Searching for a keyword". 6995
We changed the way JabRef displays the title of a tab and of the window. 4161
We changed connect timeouts for server requests to 30 seconds in general and 5 seconds for GROBID server (special) and improved user notifications on connection issues. 7026
We changed the order of the library tab context menu items. #7171
We changed the way linked files are opened on Linux to use the native openFile method, compatible with confined packages. 7037
We refined the entry preview to show the full names of authors and editors, to list the editor only if no author is present, have the year ealier. #7083
Fixed:
We fixed an issue changing the icon link_variation_off that is not meaningful. #6834
We fixed an issue where the .sav file was not deleted upon exiting JabRef. #6109
We fixed a linked identifier icon inconsistency. #6705
We fixed the wrong behavior that font size changes are not reflected in dialogs. #6039
We fixed the failure to Copy citation key and link. #5835
We fixed an issue where the sort order of the entry table was reset after a restart of JabRef. #6898
We fixed an issue where no longer a warning was displayed when inserting references into LibreOffice with an invalid "ReferenceParagraphFormat". #6907.
We fixed an issue where a selected field was not removed after the first click in the custom entry types dialog. #6934
We fixed an issue where a remove icon was shown for standard entry types in the custom entry types dialog. #6906
We fixed an issue where it was impossible to connect to OpenOffice/LibreOffice on Mac OSX. #6970
We fixed an issue with the python script used by browser plugins that failed to locate JabRef if not installed in its default location. #6963
We fixed an issue where spaces and newlines in an isbn would generate an exception. #6456
We fixed an issue where identity column header had incorrect foreground color in the Dark theme. #6796
We fixed an issue where the RIS exporter added extra blank lines.#7007
We fixed an issue where clicking on Collapse All button in the Search for Unlinked Local Files expanded the directory structure erroneously #6848
We fixed an issue, when pulling changes from shared database via shortcut caused creation of a new tech report 6867
We fixed an issue where the JabRef GUI does not highlight the "All entries" group on start-up #6691
We fixed an issue where a custom dark theme was not applied to the entry preview tab 7068
We fixed an issue where modifications to the Custom preview layout in the preferences were not saved #6447
We fixed an issue where errors from imports were not shown to the user #7084
We fixed an issue where the EndNote XML Import would fail on empty keywords tags forum#2387
We fixed an issue where the color of groups of type "free search expression" not persisting after restarting the application #6999
We fixed an issue where modifications in the source tab where not saved without switching to another field before saving the library #6622
We fixed an issue where the "Document Viewer" did not show the first page of the opened pdf document and did not show the correct total number of pages #7108
We fixed an issue where the context menu was not updated after a file link was changed. #5777
We fixed an issue where the password for a shared SQL database was not remembered #6869
We fixed an issue where newly added entires were not synced to a shared SQL database #7176
We fixed an issue where the PDF-Content importer threw an exception when no DOI number is present at the first page of the PDF document #7203
Removed:
We removed the Google Scholar fetcher and the ACM fetcher do not work due to traffic limitations #6369
We removed the menu entry "Manage external file types" because it's already in 'Preferences' dialog #6991
We removed the integrity check "Abbreviation detected" for the field journal/journaltitle in the entry editor #3925

New in JabRef 5.1 (Aug 30, 2020)

Added:
We added a new fetcher to enable users to search mEDRA DOIs #6602
We added a new fetcher to enable users to search "Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies". #6638
We added default values for delimiters in Add Subgroup window #6624
We improved responsiveness of general fields specification dialog window. #6643
We added support for importing ris file and load DOI #6530
We added the Library properties to a context menu on the library tabs #6485
We added a new field in the preferences in 'BibTeX key generator' for unwanted characters that can be user-specified. #6295
We added support for searching ShortScience for an entry through the user's browser. #6018
We updated EditionChecker to permit edition to start with a number. #6144
We added tooltips for most fields in the entry editor containing a short description. #5847
We added support for basic markdown in custom formatted previews #6194
We now show the number of items found and selected to import in the online search dialog. #6248
We created a new install screen for macOS. #5759
We added a new integrity check for duplicate DOIs. koppor#339
We implemented an option to download fulltext files while importing. #6381
We added a progress-indicator showing the average progress of background tasks to the toolbar. Clicking it reveals a pop-over with a list of running background tasks. 6443
We fixed the bug when strike the delete key in the text field. #6421
We added a BibTex key modifier for truncating strings. #3915
We added support for jumping to target entry when typing letter/digit after sorting a column in maintable #6146
We added a new fetcher to enable users to search all available E-Libraries simultaneously. koppor#369
We added the field "entrytype" to the export sort criteria #6531
We added the possibility to change the display order of the fields in the entry editor. The order can now be configured using drag and drop in the "Customize entry types" dialog #6152
We added native support for biblatex-software #6574
We added a missing restart warning for AutoComplete in the preferences dialog. #6351
We added a note to the citation key pattern preferences dialog as a temporary workaround for a JavaFX bug, about committing changes in a table cell, if the focus is lost. #5825
Changed:
We improved the arXiv fetcher. Now it should find entries even more reliably and does no longer include the version (e.g v1) in the eprint field. forum#1941
We moved the group search bar and the button "New group" from bottom to top position to make it more prominent. #6112
When JabRef finds a .sav file without changes, there is no dialog asking for acceptance of changes anymore.
We changed the buttons for import/export/show all/reset of preferences to smaller icon buttons in the preferences dialog. #6130
We moved the functionality "Manage field names & content" from the "Library" menu to the "Edit" menu, because it affects the selected entries and not the whole library
We merged the functionality "Append contents from a BibTeX library into the currently viewed library" into the "Import into database" functionality. Fixes #6049.
We changed the directory where fulltext downloads are stored to the directory set in the import-tab in preferences. #6381
We improved the error message for invalid jstyles. #6303
We changed the section name of 'Advanced' to 'Network' in the preferences and removed some obsolete options.#6489
We improved the context menu of the column "Linked identifiers" of the main table, by truncating their texts, if they are too long. #6499
We merged the main table tabs in the preferences dialog. #6518
We changed the command line option 'generateBibtexKeys' to the more generic term 'generateCitationKeys' while the short option remains 'g'.#6545
We improved the "Possible duplicate entries" window to remember its size and position throughout a session. #6582
We divided the toolbar into small parts, so if the application window is to small, only a part of the toolbar is moved into the chevron popup. #6682
We changed the layout for of the buttons in the Open Office side panel to ensure that the button text is always visible, specially when resizing. #6639
We merged the two new library commands in the file menu to one which always creates a new library in the default library mode. #6359
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where entry preview tab has no name in drop down list. #6591
We fixed to only search file links in the BIB file location directory when preferences has corresponding checkbox checked. #5891
We fixed wrong button order (Apply and Cancel) in ManageProtectedTermsDialog.
We fixed an issue with incompatible characters at BibTeX key #6257
We fixed an issue where dash (-) was reported as illegal BibTeX key #6295
We greatly improved the performance of the overall application and many operations. #5071
We fixed an issue where sort by priority was broken. #6222
We fixed an issue where opening a library from the recent libraries menu was not possible. #5939
We fixed an issue with inconsistent capitalization of file extensions when downloading files. #6115
We fixed the display of language and encoding in the preferences dialog. #6130
Now the link and/or the link description in the column "linked files" of the main table gets truncated or wrapped, if too long, otherwise display issues arise. #6178
We fixed the issue that groups panel does not keep size when resizing window. #6180
We fixed an error that sometimes occurred when using the context menu. #6085
We fixed an issue where search full-text documents downloaded files with same name, overwriting existing files. #6174
We fixed an issue when importing into current library an erroneous message "import cancelled" is displayed even though import is successful. #6266
We fixed an issue where custom jstyles for Open/LibreOffice where not saved correctly. #6170
We fixed an issue where the INSPIRE fetcher was no longer working #6229
We fixed an issue where custom exports with an uppercase file extension could not be selected for "Copy...-> Export to Clipboard" #6285
We fixed the display of icon both in the main table and linked file editor. #6169
We fixed an issue where the windows installer did not create an entry in the start menu bug report in the forum
We fixed an issue where only the field abstract and comment were declared as multiline fields. Other fields can now be configured in the preferences using "Do not wrap the following fields when saving" 4373
We fixed an issue where JabRef switched to discrete graphics under macOS #5935
We fixed an issue where the Preferences entry preview will be unexpected modified leads to Value too long exception #6198
We fixed an issue where custom jstyles for Open/LibreOffice would only be valid if a layout line for the entry type default was at the end of the layout section #6303
We fixed an issue where a new entry is not shown in the library if a search is active #6297
We fixed an issue where long directory names created from patterns could create an exception. #3915
We fixed an issue where sort on numeric cases was broken. #6349
We fixed an issue where year and month fields were not cleared when converting to biblatex #6224
We fixed an issue where an "Not on FX thread" exception occured when saving on linux #6453
We fixed an issue where the library sort order was lost. #6091
We fixed an issue where brackets in regular expressions were not working. 6469
We fixed an issue where multiple background task popups stacked over each other.. #6472
We fixed an issue where LaTeX citations for specific commands (autocites) of biblatex-mla were not recognized. #6476
We fixed an issue where drag and drop was not working on empty database. #6487
We fixed an issue where the name fields were not updated after the preferences changed. #6515
We fixed an issue where "null" appeared in generated BibTeX keys. #6459
We fixed an issue where the authors' names were incorrectly displayed in the authors' column when they were bracketed. #6465 #6459
We fixed an issue where importing certain unlinked files would result in an exception #5815
We fixed an issue where downloaded files would be moved to a directory named after the citationkey when no file directory pattern is specified #6589
We fixed an issue with the creation of a group of cited entries which incorrectly showed the message that the library had been modified externally whenever saving the library. #6420
We fixed an issue with the creation of a group of cited entries. Now the file path to an aux file gets validated. #6585
We fixed an issue on Linux systems where the application would crash upon inotify failure. Now, the user is prompted with a warning, and given the choice to continue the session. #6073
We moved the search modifier buttons into the search bar, as they were not accessible, if autocompletion was disabled. #6625
We fixed an issue about duplicated group color indicators #6175
We fixed an issue where entries with the entry type Misc from an imported aux file would not be saved correctly to the bib file on disk #6405
We fixed an issue where percent sign ('%') was not formatted properly by the HTML formatter #6753
We fixed an issue with the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System fetcher where textbackslash appeared at the end of the abstract.
We fixed an issue with the Science Direct fetcher where PDFs could not be downloaded. Fixes #5860
We fixed an issue with the Library of Congress importer.
We fixed the link to the external libraries listing in the about dialog
We fixed an issue regarding pasting on Linux. #6293
Removed:
We removed the option of the "enforce legal key". #6295
We removed the obsolete External programs / Open PDF section in the preferences, as the default application to open PDFs is now set in the Manage external file types dialog. #6130
We removed the option to configure whether a .bib.bak file should be generated upon save. It is now always enabled. Documentation at https://docs.jabref.org/general/autosave. #6092
We removed the built-in list of IEEE journal abbreviations using BibTeX strings. If you still want to use them, you have to download them separately from https://abbrv.jabref.org.

New in JabRef 5.0 (Mar 11, 2020)

Changed:
Added browser integration to the snap package for firefox/chromium browsers. #6062
We reintroduced the possibility to extract references from plain text (using GROBID). #5614
We changed the open office panel to show buttons in rows of three instead of going straight down to save space as the button expanded out to take up unnecessary horizontal space. #5479
We cleaned up the group add/edit dialog. #5826
We reintroduced the index column. #5844
Filenames of external files can no longer contain curly braces. #5926
We made the filters more easily accessible in the integrity check dialog. #5955
We reimplemented and improved the dialog "Customize entry types". #4719
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where the command line console was always opened in the background. #5474
We fixed and issue where pdf files will not open under some KDE linux distributions when using okular. #5253
We fixed an issue where the Medline fetcher was only working when JabRef was running from source. #5645
We fixed some visual issues in the dark theme. #5764 #5753
We fixed an issue where non-default previews didn't handle unicode characters. #5779
We improved the performance, especially changing field values in the entry should feel smoother now. #5843
We fixed an issue where the ampersand character wasn't rendering correctly on previews. #3840
We fixed an issue where an erroneous "The library has been modified by another program" message was shown when saving. #4877
We fixed an issue where the file extension was missing after downloading a file (we now fall-back to pdf). #5816
We fixed an issue where cleaning up entries broke web URLs, if "Make paths of linked files relative (if possible)" was enabled, which resulted in various other issues subsequently. #5861
We fixed an issue where the tab "Required fields" of the entry editor did not show all required fields, if at least two of the defined required fields are linked with a logical or. #5859
We fixed several issues concerning managing external file types: Now everything is usable and fully functional. Previously, there were problems with the radio buttons, with saving the settings and with loading an input field value. Furthermore, different behavior for Windows and other operating systems was given, which was unified as well. #5846
We fixed an issue where entries containing Unicode charaters were not parsed correctly #5899
We fixed an issue where an entry containing an external filename with curly braces could not be saved. Curly braces are now longer allowed in filenames. #5899
We fixed an issue where changing the type of an entry did not update the main table #5906
We fixed an issue where opening a library from the recent libraries menu was not possible #5939
We fixed an issue in the optics of the library properties, that cropped the dialog on scaled displays. #5969
We fixed an issue where changing the type of an entry did not update the main table. #5906
We fixed an issue where opening a library from the recent libraries menu was not possible. #5939
We fixed an issue where the most bottom group in the list got lost, if it was dragged on itself. #5983
We fixed an issue where changing entry type doesn't always work when biblatex source is shown. #5905
We fixed an issue where the group and the link column were not updated after changing the entry in the main table. #5985
We fixed an issue where reordering the groups was not possible after inserting an article. #6008
We fixed an issue where citation styles except the default "Preview" could not be used. #56220
We fixed an issue where an exception was thrown when adding a save action without a selected formatter in the library properties #6069
Removed:
Ampersands are no longer escaped by default in the bib file. If you want to keep the current behaviour, you can use the new "Escape Ampersands" formatter as a save action. #5869
The "Merge Entries" entry was removed from the Quality Menu. Users should use the right-click menu instead. #6021

New in JabRef 5.0 Beta (Mar 8, 2020)

Changed:
We added a short DOI field formatter which shortens DOI to more human-readable form. koppor#343
We improved the display of group memberships by adding multiple colored bars if the entry belongs to more than one group. #4574
We added an option to show the preview as an extra tab in the entry editor (instead of in a split view). #5244
A custom Open/LibreOffice jstyle file now requires a layout line for the entry type default #5452
The entry editor is now open by default when JabRef starts up. #5460
Customized entry types are now serialized in alphabetical order in the bib file.
We added a new ADS fetcher to use the new ADS API. #4949
We added support of the X11 primary selection #2389
We added support to switch between biblatex and bibtex library types. #5550
We changed the save action buttons to be easier to understand. #5565
We made the columns for groups, files and uri in the main table reorderable and merged the clickable icon columns for uri, url, doi and eprint. #5544
We reduced the number of write actions performed when autosave is enabled #5679
We made the column sort order in the main table persistent #5730
When an entry is modified on disk, the change dialog now shows the merge dialog to highlight the changes #5688
Fixed:
Inherit fields from cross-referenced entries as specified by biblatex. #5045
We fixed an issue where it was no longer possible to connect to LibreOffice. #5261
The "All entries group" is no longer shown when no library is open.
We fixed an exception which occurred when closing JabRef. #5348
We fixed an issue where JabRef reports incorrectly about customized entry types. #5332
We fixed a few problems that prevented JabFox to communicate with JabRef. #4737 #4303
We fixed an error where the groups containing an entry loose their highlight color when scrolling. #5022
We fixed an error where scrollbars were not shown. #5374
We fixed an error where an exception was thrown when merging entries. #5169
We fixed an error where certain metadata items were not serialized alphabetically.
After assigning an entry to a group, the item count is now properly colored to reflect the new membership of the entry. #3112
The group panel is now properly updated when switching between libraries (or when closing/opening one). #3142
We fixed an error where the number of matched entries shown in the group pane was not updated correctly. #4441
We fixed an error where the wrong file is renamed and linked when using the "Copy, rename and link" action. #5653
We fixed a "null" error when writing XMP metadata. #5449
We fixed an issue where empty keywords lead to a strange display of automatic keyword groups. #5333
We fixed an error where the default color of a new group was white instead of dark gray. #4868
We fixed an issue where the first field in the entry editor got the focus while performing a different action (like searching). #5084
We fixed an issue where multiple entries were highlighted in the web search result after scrolling. #5035
We fixed an issue where the hover indication in the web search pane was not working. #5277
We fixed an error mentioning "javafx.controls/com.sun.javafx.scene.control" that was thrown when interacting with the toolbar.
We fixed an error where a cleared search was restored after switching libraries. #4846
We fixed an exception which occurred when trying to open a non-existing file from the "Recent files"-menu #5334
We fixed an issues where the search highlight in the entry preview did not worked. #5069
The context menu for fields in the entry editor is back. #5254
We fixed an exception which occurred when trying to open a non-existing file from the "Recent files"-menu #5334
We fixed a problem where the "editor" information has been duplicated during saving a .bib-Database. #5359
We re-introduced the feature to switch between different preview styles. #5221
We fixed various issues (including #5263) related to copying entries to the clipboard
We fixed some display errors in the preferences dialog and replaced some of the controls #5033 #5047 #5062 #5141 #5185 #5265 #5315 #5360
We fixed an exception which occurred when trying to import entries without an open library. #5447
The "Automatically set file links" feature now follows symbolic links. #5664
After successful import of one or multiple bib entries the main table scrolls to the first imported entry #5383
We fixed an exception which occurred when an invalid jstyle was loaded. #5452
We fixed an issue where the command line arguments importBibtex and importToOpen did not import into the currently open library, but opened a new one. #5537
We fixed an error where the preview theme did not adapt to the "Dark" mode #5463
We fixed an issue where multiple entries were allowed in the "crossref" field #5284
We fixed an issue where the merge dialog showed the wrong text colour in "Dark" mode #5516
We fixed visibility issues with the scrollbar and group selection highlight in "Dark" mode, and enabled "Dark" mode for the OpenOffice preview in the style selection window. #5522
We fixed an issue where the author field was not correctly parsed during bibtex key-generation. #5551
We fixed an issue where notifications where shown during autosave. #5555
We fixed an issue where the side pane was not remembering its position. #5615
We fixed an issue where JabRef could not interact with Oracle XE in the shared SQL database setup.
We fixed an issue where the toolbar icons were hidden on smaller screens.
We fixed an issue where renaming referenced files for bib entries with long titles was not possible. #5603
We fixed an issue where a window which is on an external screen gets unreachable when external screen is removed. #5037
We fixed a bug where the selection of groups was lost after drag and drop. #2868
We fixed an issue where the custom entry types didn't show the correct display name #5651
Removed:
We removed some obsolete notifications. #5555
We removed an internal step in the ISBN-to-BibTeX fetcher: The ISBN to BibTeX Converter by @manastungare is not used anymore, because it is offline: "people using this tool have not been generating enough sales for Amazon."
We removed the option to control the default drag and drop behaviour. You can use the modifier keys (like CtrL or Alt) instead.

New in JabRef 5.0 Alpha (Aug 26, 2019)

New in JabRef 4.3.1 (Jun 5, 2018)

New in JabRef 4.3 (Jun 4, 2018)

New in JabRef 4.2 (Apr 26, 2018)

Changed:
Added "." (any file type) to the Import File Filter Dialog. #3757
Abbreviate journal names functionality is now running parallel, increasing performance significantly. #2831
Changed order of items in context menu #298
Changed ID-based entry generator to store the last used fetcher. #2796
Reorganised annotation information on the right side of the "File annotations" tab. #3109
We now show a small notification icon in the entry editor when we detect data inconsistency or other problems. #3145
We added oaDOI as a fulltext provider, so that JabRef is now able to provide fulltexts for more than 90 million open-access articles.
We changed one default of Cleanup entries dialog: Per default, the PDF are not moved to the default file directory anymore. #3619
We added a new type of group that shows all items referenced in a given LaTeX file (actually the generated AUX file). #1664
We added an importer for the EndNote XML format. Feature request in the forum
We added the export of the translator field to the according MS-Office XML field. #1750, comment
We changed the import of the MS-Office XML fields bookauthor and translator. Both are now imported to their corresponding bibtex/biblatex fields.
We improved the export of the address and location field to the MS-Office XML fields. If the address field does not contain a comma, it is treated as single value and exported to the field city. #1750, comment For more details refer to the field mapping help page
We added Facebook and Twitter icons in the toolbar to link to our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Renamed the Review Tab into Comments Tab
We no longer print empty lines when exporting an entry in RIS format #3634
We added the option to download linked URLs in the context menu in the entry editor.
We improved file saving so that hard links are now preserved when a save is performed #2633
We changed the default dialog option when removing a file link from an entry. The new default removes the linked file from the entry instead of deleting the file from disk. #3679
The magnifier icon at the search shows the search mode again. #3535
We added a new cleanup operation that replaces ligatures with their expanded form. #3613
We added the function to parse German month names. #3536
Pressing ESC while searching will clear the search field and select the first entry, if available, in the table. koppor#293
We changed the metadata reading and writing. DublinCore is now the only metadata format, JabRef supports. (https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/3710)
We added another CLI functionality for reading and writing metadata to pdfs. (see https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/3756 and see http://help.jabref.org/en/CommandLine)
We no longer print errors in field values during autosave into the log #3811
We improved the search performance by adding a short delay before starting to display search results Bug report in the forum
We re-added the Generate BibTeX Key button to the EntryEditor toolbar on the left
Fixed:
We fixed several performance problems with the management of journal abbreviations #3323
We fixed an issue where changing the type of an entry did not update the label in the tool bar of the entry editor and the contents of the currently visible entry editor tab
We fixed an issue where pressing space caused the cursor to jump to the start of the text field. #3471
We fixed the missing dot in the name of an exported file. #3576
Autocompletion in the search bar can now be disabled via the preferences. #3598
We fixed an issue where the progress of an ongoing file download was not shown correctly. #3614
We fixed an issue where odd linked files could not be selected in the entry editor. #3639
We fixed and extended the RIS import functionality to cover more fields. #3634#2607
Chaining modifiers in BibTeX key pattern now works as described in the documentation. #3648
We fixed an issue where not all bibtex/biblatex fields would be exported as latex-free to MS-Office XML koppor#284
We fixed an issue where linked files would be deleted from bibliography entries despite choosing the "Cancel" option in the dialog menu.
We fixed the name of the group editing window to "Add group" instead of "Edit Group" when adding a new group. koppor#277
We fixed the pureauth BibTeX key generator pattern to just return the author if no author, but an editor is present.
We fixed an issue where the "Copy linked files" dialog produced an error when the entry had no file #3818
We fixed the coloring of the search box icon in case a user switches to advanced search mode #3870
We fixed an issue where pressing del in the file field would trigger the delete dialog a second file, if the first file is deleted #3926
We fixed the saving of entry preview preferences #3845
Removed:
We removed the Look and Feels from JGoodies, because the open source version is not compatible with Java 9.

New in JabRef 4.1 (Dec 27, 2017)

Changed:
We added bracketed expresion support for file search patterns, import file name patterns and file directory patters, in addition to bibtexkey patterns.
We added support for [entrytype] bracketed expression.
Updated French translation
We improved the handling of abstracts in the "Astrophysics Data System" fetcher. #2471
We added support for pasting entries in different formats #3143
In the annotation tab, PDF files are now monitored for new or changed annotation. A manual reload is no longer necessary. #3292
We increased the relative size of the "abstract" field in the entry editor. Feature request in the forum
Crossreferenced entries are now used when a BibTex key is generated for an entry with empty fields. #2811
We now set the WM_CLASS of the UI to org-jabref-JabRefMain to allow certain Un*x window managers to properly identify its windows
We changed the default paths for the OpenOffice/LibreOffice binaries to the default path for LibreOffice
File annotation tab now removes newlines and hyphens before newlines from content and displays an empty String instead of N/A if no contents are found. #3280
We moved the groups field from the "Other fields" tab to "General" (you may have to reset your editor preferences under Options > Set up general fields)
We no longer create a new entry editor when selecting a new entry to increase performance. #3187
We added the possibility to copy linked files from entries to a single output folder. #2539
We increased performance and decreased the memory footprint of the entry editor drastically. #3331
Late initialization of the context menus in the entry editor. This improves performance and memory footprint further #3340
Integrity check "Abbreviation Detection" detects abbreviated names for journals and booktitles based on the internal list instead of only looking for . signs. Fixes #3144.
We added a dialog to show that JabRef is working on checking integrity. #3358
When you click the PDF icon in the file list of the entry editor, then the file is opened. #3491
We added an option to mass append to fields via the Quality -> set/clear/append/rename fields dialog. #2721
We added a check on startup to ensure JabRef is run with an adequate Java version. 3310
In the preference, all installed java Look and Feels are now listed and selectable
We added an ID fetcher for IACR eprints. #3473
We added a clear option to the right-click menu of the text field in the entry editor. koppor#198
We improved the performance and memory footprint of the citation preview when CSL styles are used. #2533
We disabled the auto completion as default, because it still causes issues. #3522
Fixed:
We fixed the translation of textendash and textquotesingle in the entry preview. #3307
We fixed an issue where JabRef would not terminated after asking to collect anonymous statistics. #2955 comment
We fixed an issue where JabRef would not shut down when started with the -n (No GUI) option. #3247
We improved the way metadata is updated in remote databases. #3235
We improved font rendering of the Entry Editor for Linux based systems. #3295
We fixed an issue where JabRef would freeze when trying to replace the original entry after a merge with new information from identifiers like DOI/ISBN etc. #3294
We no longer allow to add a field multiple times in customized entry types and thereby fix an issue in the entry editor that resulted from having a field multiple times. #3046
We fixed an issue where JabRef would not show the translated content at some points, although there existed a translation
We fixed an issue where editing in the source tab would override content of other entries. #3352
We fixed an issue where file links created under Windows could not be opened on Linux/OSX. #3311
We fixed several issues with the automatic linking of files in the entry editor where files were not found or not correctly saved in the bibtex source. #3346
We fixed an issue where fetching entries from crossref that had no titles caused an error. #3376
We fixed an issue where the same Java Look and Feel would be listed more than once in the Preferences. #3391
We fixed an issue where errors in citation styles triggered an exception when opening the preferences dialog. #3389
We fixed an issue where entries were displayed twice after insertion into a shared database. #3164
We improved the auto link algorithm so that files starting with a similar key are no longer found (e.g, Einstein1902 vs Einstein1902a). #3472
We fixed an issue where special fields (such as printed) could not be cleared when syncing special fields via the keywords. #3432
We fixed an issue where the tooltip of the global search bar showed html tags instead of formatting the text. #3381
We fixed an issue where timestamps were not updated for changed entries. #2810
We fixed an issue where trying to fetch data from Medline/PubMed resulted in an error. #3463
We fixed an issue where double clicking on an entry in the integrity check dialog resulted in an exception. #3485
We fixed an issue where the entry type could sometimes not be changed when the entry editor was open #3435
We fixed an issue where dropping a pdf on the entry table and renaming it triggered an exception. #3490
We fixed an issue where no longer existing files could not be removed from the entry by pressing the del key. #3493
We fixed an issue where integrating external changes to a bib file caused instability. #3498
We fixed an issue where fetched entries from the ACM fetcher could not be imported. #3500
We fixed an issue where custom data in combobox fields in the entry editor was not saved. #3538
We fixed an issue where automatically found files were not added with a relative paths when the bib file is in the same directory as the files. #3476

New in JabRef 4.0 (Oct 4, 2017)

Changed:
We add a textArea to see versionInfo in the About JabRef Dialog.#2942
We turned the validation feature in the entry editor off by default, because of a bug in the library we have been using #3145
Added 'Filter All' and 'Filter None' buttons with corresponding functionality to Quality Check tool.
We increased the size of the keywords and file text areas in the entry editor
When the entry that is currently shown in the entry editor is deleted externally, the editor is now closed automatically #2946
We added reordering of file and link entries in the General-Tab 3165, comment
We added autcompletion for the crossref field on basis of the BibTeX-key. To accept such an autcompleted key as new entry-link, you have to press Enter two times, otherwise the field data is not stored in the library file.koppor#257
We added drag and drop support for adding files directly in the General-Tab. The dragged files are currently only linked from their existing directory. For more advanced features use the Add files dialog. #koppor#244
We added the file description filed back to the list of files in the General-Tab #2930, comment
Added an error dialog if the file is open in another process and cannot be renamed. [#3229]
On Windows, the JabRef.exe executable can now be used to start JabRef from the command line. By default, no output is shown unless the new "-console" option is specified.
Fixed:
We re-added the "Normalize to BibTeX name format" context menu item #3136
We fixed a memory leak in the source tab of the entry editor #3113
We fixed a java bug where linux users could not enter accented characters in the entry editor and the search bar #3028
We fixed a regression introduced in v4.0-beta2: A file can be dropped to the entry preview to attach it to the entry koppor#245
We fixed an issue in the "Replace String" dialog (Ctrl+R where search and replace did not work for the bibtexkey field. #3132
We fixed an issue in the entry editor where adding a term to a new protected terms list freezed JabRef completely. #3157
We fixed an issue in the "Manage protected terms" dialog where an 'Open file' dialog instead of a 'Save file' dialog was shown when creating a new list. #3157
We fixed an issue where unparseable dates of the FileAnnotations caused the FileAnnotationsTab to crash.
We fixed an issue where a new protected terms list was not available immediately after its addition. #3161
We fixed an issue where an online file link could not be removed from an entry #3165
We fixed an issue where an online file link did not open the browser and created an error #3165
We fixed an issue where the arrow keys in the search bar did not work as expected #3081
We fixed wrong hotkey being displayed at "automatically file links" in the entry editor
We fixed an issue where metadata syncing with local and shared database were unstable. It will also fix syncing groups and sub-groups in database. #2284
We fixed an issue where renaming a linked file would fail silently if a file with the same name existed. Added support for overriding existing file at user discretion. [#3172] (#3172)
We fixed an issue where the "Remove group and subgroups" operation did not remove group information from entries in the group #3190
We fixed an issue where it was possible to leave the entry editor with an imbalance of braces. #3167
Renaming files now truncates the filename to not exceed the limit of 255 chars #2622
We improved the handling of hyphens in names. #2775
We fixed an issue where an entered file description was not written to the bib-file #3208
We improved the auto completion in the search bar. koppor#253
We fixed renaming files which are not in the main directory. #3230
Removed:
We removed support for LatexEditor, as it is not under active development. #3199

New in JabRef 4.0.0 Beta 3 (Aug 18, 2017)

Changed:
We made the font size in the entry editor and group panel customizable by "Menu and label font size".
If fetched article is already in database, then the entry merge dialog is shown.
An error message is now displayed if you try to create a group containing the keyword separator or if there is already a group with the same name.
The FileAnnotationsTab was re-implemented in JavaFx.
Integrity warnings are now directly displayed in the entry editor.
We added the functionality to have regex as modifier.
Fixed:
We fixed an issue where the fetcher for the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) added some non-bibtex data to the entry returned from the search 3035
We improved the auto completion so that minor changes are not added as suggestions.
We readded the undo mechanism for changes in the entry editor 2973
We fixed an issue where assigning an entry via drag and drop to a group caused JabRef to stop/freeze completely 3036
We fixed the shortcut Ctrl+F for the search field.
We fixed an issue where title_case and capitalize modifiers did not work with shorttitle.
We fixed an issue where the preferences could not be imported without a restart of JabRef
We fixed an issue where DEL, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and Ctrl+A in the search field triggered corresponding actions in the main table
We fixed an issue where JabRef freezed when editing an assigned file in the General-Tab
We fixed an issue where a file could not be assigned to an existing entry via the entry context menu action Attach file
We fixed an issue where entry editor was not focused after opening up.
We fixed an issue where changes in the source tab were not stored when selecting a new entry.
We fixed an issue where the other tab was not updated when fields where changed in the source tab.
We fixed an issue where the source tab was not updated after fetching data by DOI.
We fixed an issue where the move to group operation did not remove the entry from other groups
We fixed an issue where the main table was not updated when grouping changes

New in JabRef 4.0.0 Beta 2 (Aug 18, 2017)

Changed:
We moved the adsurl field to url field when fetching with the ADS fetcher.
All authors and editors are separated using semicolons when exporting to csv.
Improved wording of "Show recommendations: into "Show 'Related Articles' tab" in the preferences
We added integration of the Library of Congress catalog as a fetcher based on the LCCN identifier. Feature request 636 in the forum
The integrity check for person names now also tests that the names are specified in one of the standard BibTeX formats.
Links in the Recommended Articles tab (Mr.DLib), when clicked, are now opened in the system's default browser.
We improved the duplicate checker such that different editions of the same publication are not marked as duplicates.
We continued to improve the new groups interface:
You can now again select multiple groups (and a few related settings were added to the preferences)
We further improved performance of group operations, especially of the new filter feature.
It is now possible to resort groups using drag & drop.
The entry editor got a fresh coat of paint:
Homogenize the size of text fields.
The buttons were changed to icons.
Completely new interface to add or modify linked files.
Removed the hidden feature that a double click in the editor inserted the current date.
Complete new implementation of the the auto complete feature.
Fixed:
We fixed a bug that leaves .sav file after SaveAs
We fixed the function "Edit - Copy BibTeX key and link" to pass a hyperlink rather than an HTML statement.
We fixed the adding of a new entry from DOI which led to a connection error. The DOI resolution now uses HTTPS to protect the user's privacy.
We fixed the IEEE Xplore web search functionality
We fixed an error in the CrossRef fetcher that occurred if one of the fetched entries had no title
We fixed an issue that prevented new entries to be automatically assigned to the currently selected group .
We fixed a bug that only allowed parsing positive timezones from a FileAnnotation
We fixed a bug that did not allow the correct re-export of the MS-Office XML field msbib-accessed with a different date format .
We fixed some bugs that prevented the display of FileAnnotations that were created using the Foxit Reader.
We fixed an error that prevented the FileAnnotation tab to load when the entry had no bibtexkey.
We fixed a bug which which could result in an exception when opening/saving files from/to a nonexistent directory .
We fixed a bug where recursive RegExpBased search found a file in a subdirectory multiple times and non-recursive RegExpBased search erroneously found files in subdirectories.
We fixed a bug where new groups information was not stored on save
We fixed a bug where the language files for Brazilian Portugese could not be loaded and the GUI localization remained in English
We fixed a bug where the database was not marked as dirty when entries or groups were changed
We fixed a bug where editors in the DocBook export were not exported
We fixed a bug where the source tab was not updated when one the fields was changed
We restored the original functionality that when browsing through the MainTable, the Entry Editor remembers which tab was opened before

New in JabRef 4.0.0 Beta (Apr 18, 2017)

CHANGED:
JabRef has a new logo! The logo was designed by "AikTheOne" - who was the winner of a design contest at 99designs.com
Partly switched to a new UI technology (JavaFX).
Redesigned group panel.
Number of matched entries is always shown.
The background color of the hit counter signals whether the group contains all/any of the entries selected in the main table.
Added a possibility to filter the groups panel #1904
Removed edit mode.
Removed the following commands in the right-click menu:
Expand/collapse subtree
Move up/down/left/right
Remove option to "highlight overlapping groups"
Moved the option to "Gray out non-hits" / "Hide non-hits" to the preferences
Removed the following options from the group preferences:
Show icons (icons can now be customized)
Show dynamic groups in italics (dynamic groups are not treated specially now)
Initially show groups tree expanded (always true now)
Expansion status of groups are saved across sessions. #1428
Redesigned about dialog.
Redesigned key bindings dialog.
Redesigned journal abbreviations dialog.
New error console.
All file dialogs now use the native file selector of the OS. #1711
We added a few properties to a group:
Icon (with customizable color) that is shown in the groups panel (implements a feature request in the forum).
Description text that is shown on mouse hover (implements old feature requests 489 and 818)
We introduced "automatic groups" that automatically create subgroups based on a certain criteria (e.g., a subgroup for every author or keyword) and supports hierarchies. Implements 91, 398, #1173 and #628.
We added a document viewer which allows you to have a glance at your PDF documents directly from within JabRef.
Using "Look up document identifier" in the quality menu, it is possible to look up DOIs, ArXiv ids and other identifiers for multiple entries.
Comments in PDF files can now be displayed inside JabRef in a separate tab
We separated the Move file and Rename Pdfs logic and context menu entries in the General-Tab for the Field file to improve the semantics
We integrated support for the paper recommender system Mr.DLib in a new tab in the entry editor.
We renamed "database" to "library" to have a real distinction to SQL databases ("shared database") and bib files ("library"). #2095
We improved the UI customization possibilities:
It is now possible to customize the colors and the size of the icons (implements a feature request in the forum).
Resizing the menu and label sizes has been improved.
Font sizes can now be increased Ctrl + Plus, decreased Ctrl + Minus, and reset to default CTRL + 0.
F4 opens selected file in current JTable context not just from selected entry inside the main table #2355
We are happy to welcome CrossRef as a new member of our fetcher family. #2455
We added MathSciNet as a ID-based fetcher in the BibTeX -> New entry dialog (implements a feature request in the forum)
Add tab which shows the MathSciNet review website if the MRNumber field is present.
A scrollbar was added to the cleanup panel, as a result of issue #2501
Several scrollbars were added to the preference dialog which show up when content is too large #2559
We fixed and improved the auto detection of the OpenOffice and LibreOffice connection
We added an option to copy the title of BibTeX entries to the clipboard through Edit -> Copy title (implements #210)
The Move linked files to default file directory-Cleanup operation respects the File directory pattern setting
We removed the ordinals-to-superscript formatter from the recommendations for biblatex save actions #2596
Improved MS-Office Import/Export
Improved author handling
The day part of the biblatex date field is now exported to the corresponding day field. #2691
Entries with a single corporate author are now correctly exported to the corresponding corporate author field. #1497
Now exports the field volumes and pubstate.
The integrity checker reports now if a journal is not found in the abbreviation list
JabRef will now no longer delete meta data it does not know, but keeps such entries and tries to keep their formatting as far as possible.
Switch to the latex2unicode library for converting LaTeX to unicode
Single underscores are not converted during the LaTeX to unicode conversion, which does not follow the rules of LaTeX, but is what users require. #2664
The bibtexkey field is not converted to unicode
FIXED:
ArXiV fetcher now checks similarity of entry when using DOI retrieval to avoid false positives #2575
We fixed an issue of duplicate keys after using a fetcher, e.g., DOI or ISBN #2867
We fixed an issue that prevented multiple parallel JabRef instances from terminating gracefully. #2698
We fixed an issue where authors with multiple surnames were not presented correctly in the main table. #2534
Repairs the handling of apostrophes in the LaTeX to unicode conversion. #2500
Fix import of journal title in RIS format. #2506
We fixed the export of the number field in MS-Office XML export. #2509
The field issue is now always exported to the corresponding issue field in MS-Office XML.
We fixed the import of MS-Office XML files, when the month field contained an invalid value.
We fixed an issue with repeated escaping of the %-sign when running the LaTeXCleanup more than once. #2451
Sciencedirect/Elsevier fetcher is now able to scrape new HTML structure #2576
Fixed the synchronization logic of keywords and special fields and vice versa #2580
We fixed an exception that prevented JabRef from starting in rare cases bug report in the forum.
We fixed an unhandled exception when saving an entry containing unbalanced braces #2571
Fixed a display issue when removing a group with a long name #1407
We fixed an issue where the "find unlinked files" functionality threw an error when only one PDF was imported but not assigned to an entry #2577
We fixed issue where escaped braces were incorrectly counted when calculating brace balance in a field #2561
We fixed an issue introduced with Version 3.8.2 where executing the Rename PDFs-cleanup operation moved the files to the file directory. #2526
We improved the performance when opening a big library that still used the old groups format. Fixes an issue raised in the forum.
We fixed an issue where the Move linked files to default file directory- cleanup operation did not move the files to the location of the bib-file. #2454
We fixed an issue where executing Move file on a selected file in the general-tab could overwrite an existing file. #2385
We fixed an issue with importing groups and subgroups #2600
Fixed an issue where title-related key patterns did not correspond to the documentation. #2604 #2589
We fixed an issue which prohibited the citation export to external programs on MacOS. #2613
We fixed an issue where the file folder could not be changed when running Get fulltext in the general-tab. #2572
Newly created libraries no longer have the executable bit set under POSIX/Linux systems. The file permissions are now set to 664 (-rw-rw-r--). #2635
Fixed an issue where names were split inconsistently with the BibTeX conventions #2652
Ctrl + A now correctly selects all entries again. #2615
We fixed an issue where the dialog for selecting the main file directory in the preferences opened the wrong folder
OpenOffice text formatting now handles nested tags properly #2483
The group selection is no longer lost when switching tabs #1104

New in JabRef 3.8.2 (Jan 30, 2017)

New in JabRef 3.8.1 (Dec 28, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.8 (Dec 28, 2016)

CHANGED:
Bibliographic information from web resources can now be used to complete existing entries. This functionality can be accessed via a new button in the entry editor.
URLs can now be passed as arguments to the -import and -importToOpen command line options. The referenced file is downloaded and then imported as usual.
We added integrity check to detect all bibtex keys which deviate from their generation pattern #2206
We added an integrity check that detects invalid DOIs #1445
We enhanced the integrity checks testing for biblatex-only fields to be aware of more fields (e.g., location).
ISBNs not available at ebook.de are now resolved using https://bibtex.chimbori.com/. #684
When using the ISBN fetcher, the names are now correctly rendered in BibTeX. #2343
We display both the field name journaltitle and journal in BibLaTeX mode as journaltitle only was causing headaches. #2209
We changed the order of the cleanup operations so that the generated file name corresponds to the cleaned-up fields. #1441
Files can now be moved to subfolders named by a custom format pattern, e.g., based on entrytype. The pattern can be specified in the settings like the filename pattern. #1092
#2375 'LaTeXCleanup' action does now escape % signs inside BibTeX fields
Add the possibility to copy citations of multiple entries to the clipboard
Custom EntryTypes are now stored independently for BibTeX and BibLatex mode.
Upon the first start of JabRef 3.8 old entry type customizations will be converted to custom types for the set default database mode (BibTeX if not changed to BibLatex)
Upon opening a file with customized entry types it is now possible to choose which customizations should be stored in local preferences.
The default emacs executable name on linux changed from gnuclient to emacsclient. feature-request 433
Replaces manual thread management with cached thread pool
Windows and OSX binaries are now signed with a certificate.
FIXED:
We fixed various problems with customized entry types:
Resetting the preferences now also resets custom entry types. #2261
Importing preferences does no longer duplicate custom entry types. #772
Potenial problems upon resetting to defaults should be fixed. #772
Customized standard types (such as @article) are no longer listed as "custom" type in "New Entry" dialog.
Applying changes in the "Custom Entry Types" dialog is now faster. #2318
We fixed a few groups related issues:
"Remove entries from group" no longer removes entries from groups with similar names. #2334
If an entry's group field contains 'a b' it is no longer considered a member the groups 'a', 'b', and 'a b'. 1873
Reading and writing now works for groups that contain special escaped characters in their names. 1681
Fixed #2221: Customizable field content selectors due to popular demand. Content selectors now avoid duplicate words.
We fixed an issue which prevented JabRef from closing using the "Quit" menu command. #2336
We fixed an issue where the file permissions of the .bib-file were changed upon saving #2279.
We fixed an issue which prevented that a database was saved successfully if JabRef failed to generate new BibTeX-keys #2285.
Update check now correctly notifies about new release if development version is used. #2298
Fixed #2311: The DBLP fetcher has been rewritten and is working again.
Fixed #2273: Export via commandline in no-gui mode is now working again.
We fixed an issue when JabRef restores its session and a shared database was used: The error message "No suitable driver found" will not appear.
We fixed an issue which caused a metadata loss on reconnection to shared database. #2219
We fixed an issue which caused an internal error when leaving the file path field empty and connecting to a shared database.
We fixed an issue where the BibLaTeX Cleanup did not move the contents of the fields year and month to the field date. #2335
Fixed #2378: Saving of the Backup-Option in the Preferences does now work.
We fixed an issue which prevented the preference dialog to open on systems with Java 9.

New in JabRef 3.7 (Nov 14, 2016)

CHANGED:
Implementation of eventbased autosave and backup functionality and file synchronization for shared DBs. Related to #344
Source tab in the entry editor displays "BibLaTeX Source" when using biblatex mode
koppor#171: Add Shortcuts to context menu
Add session restoring functionality for shared database. Related to #1703
Implementation of LiveUpdate for PostgreSQL & Oracle systems. Related to #970.
koppor#31: Number column in the main table is always Left aligned
Added support for 1.0.1 CitationStyles
You can set and cycle between different preview styles (including CitationStyles)
Added fetcher for MathSciNet, zbMATH and Astrophysics Data System
Improved search:
Search queries consisting of a normal query and a field-based query are now supported (for example, JabRef AND author == you)
Implemented #825: Search Bar across all bib files instead each having its own
Implemented #573: Add key shortcut for global search (ctrl+shift+f, if the searchfield is empty it will be focused instead)
The search result Window will now show which entry belongs to which bib file
The search result Window will now remember its location
The search result Window won't stay on top anymore if the main Window is focused and will be present in the taskbar
The user can jump from the searchbar to the maintable with ctrl+enter
Implemented #573 (comment): Added shortcut: closing the search result window with ctrl+w
Added integrity check for fields with BibTeX keys, e.g., crossref and related, to check that the key exists
Fields linking to other entries (e.g., crossref and related) have now specialized editors in the entry editor. Check the tabs "Other fields" and "General".
#1496 Keep track of which entry a downloaded file belongs to
Made it possible to download multiple entries in one action
#1506 It is possible to apply two new key modifier title_case for Title Case, capitalize for Capitalized first character of each word (difference is that title case will leave prepositions etc in lower case), and sentence_case for normal sentence case (first word capitalized). In addition lower_case and upper_case can be used instead of lower and upper.
Added two new pseudo-fields for search: anykeyword to search for a specific keyword and anyfield to search in all fields (useful in combination with search in specific fields)
#1813 Import/Export preferences dialog default directory set to working directory
#1897 Implemented integrity check for year field: Last four nonpunctuation characters should be numerals
Address in MS-Office 2007 xml format is now imported as location
#1912 Implemented integrity check for edition field: Should have the first letter capitalized (BibTeX), Should contain an integer or a literal (BibLaTeX)
The dialog for choosing new entries additionally supports ID-based entry generation
number field is now exported as number field in MS-Office 2007 xml format, if no issue field is present and the entry type is not patent
note field is now exported as comments field in MS-Office 2007 xml format
comments field in MS-Office 2007 xml format is now imported as note field
#463: Disable menu-item and toolbar-buttons while no database is open
Implemented integrity check for note and howpublished field: Should have the first letter capitalized (BibTeX)
Pos1 / HOME now select the first/last entry in the main table and the search result frame.
UP / Down / Tab / shift+Tab in the search result frame have now the same functionality as in the main table.
Importer for MODS format added
#2012 Implemented integrity check for month field: Should be an integer or normalized (BibLaTeX), Should be normalized (BibTeX)
#1779 Implemented integrity check for bibtexkey field: Empty BibTeX key
Prohibit more than one connections to the same shared database.
Implemented integrity check for journaltitle field: BibLaTeX field only (BibTeX)
#463: Disable certain menu items, toolbar buttons and context menu items while multiple entries are selected
#490 Added right click menu to main table and entry editor to allow copying doi url
#549 Added new shortcut to copy the BibTeX key as a hyperlink to its url to the clipboard
Complete vietnam language translation in menu
Generalize German translation of database into "Datenbank"
Improve language quality of the German translation of shared database
Change "Recent files" to "Recent databases" to keep the file menu consistent
Customized importer files need to be slightly changed since the class ImportFormat was renamed to Importer
koppor/#97: When importing preferences, the explorer will start where the preferences are last exported
koppor#5 When entries are found while dropping a pdf with xmp meta data the found entries will be displayed in the import dialog
koppor#61 Display gray background text in "Author" and "Editor" field to assist newcomers
Updated Vietnamese translation
Added greyed-out suggestion for year/date/url fields
#1908 Add a shortcut for check integrity CTRL+F8
When creatig an entry based on an ISBN, but the ISBN is not available on ebook.de, the error message is now more clear.
FIXED:
Fixed problem where closing brackets could not be used as texts in layout arguments
Fixed NullPointerException when opening search result window for an untitled database
Fixed selecting an entry out of multiple duplicates
Entries in the SearchResultPanel will be shown correctly (Latex to Unicode)
Suggestions in the autocomplete will be shown correctly (Latex to Unicode)
Selecting an entry in the search result Window will now select the correct entry in the bib file
Suggestions in the autocomplete (search) are now in Unicode
Entries in the SearchResultDialog are now converted to Unicode
Fixed NullPointerException when opening search result window for an untitled database
Fixed entry table traversal with Tab (no column traversal thus no double jump)
Fixed: When searching the first match will be selected if the current selection is no match
Fixed koppor#160: Tooltips now working in the main table
Fixed koppor/#128: Sensible default settings for "Enable save actions" and "Cleanup"
Fixed loop when pulling changes (shared database) when current selected field has changed
Fixed field key field is not exported to MS-Office 2008 xml format
Fixed field location containing only city is not exported correctly to MS-Office 2007 xml format
Fixed close action of entry editor not working after parsing error corrected
Fixed RTFChars would only use "?" for characters with unicode over the value of 127, now it uses the base character (é -> e instead of ?)
Fixed download files failed silently when an invalid directory is selected
Fixed InvalidBackgroundColor flickering with Ctrl-s and File > Save database
Fixed file menu displays wrong hotkey in the German translation
Fixed #617: Enter in global search opens the selected entry & Enter in search dialog window opens the selected entry
Fixed #1181 and #1504: Improved "Normalize to BibTeX name format": Support separated names with commas and colons. Considered name affixes such as "Jr".
Fixed #1235: Modified Key bindings do not work correctly
Fixed #1542: Improved error messages when using fetcher
Fixed #1663: Better multi-monitor support
Fixed #1757: Crash after saving illegal argument in entry editor
Fixed #1808: Font preference dialog now keeps changes
Fixed #1882: Crash after saving illegal bibtexkey in entry editor
Fixed #1937: If no help page for the current chosen language exists, the english help page will be shown
Fixed #1949: Error message directs to the wrong preference tab
Fixed #1958: Verbatim fields are no longer checked for HTML encoded characters by integrity checks
Fixed #1993: Various optimizations regarding search performance
Fixed #2021: All filetypes can be selected on MacOS again
Fixed #2054: Ignoring a new version now works as expected
Fixed #2060: Medline fetcher now imports data in UTF-8 encoding
Fixed #2064: Not all other fields are shown on entry change of same type
Fixed #2089: Fixed faulty cite key generation
Fixed #2090: If special fields were not selected, two menu item separator were shown
Fixed #2092: "None"-button in date picker clears the date field
Fixed #2104: Crash after saving BibTeX source with parsing error
Fixed #2109: Ctrl-S doesn't trigger parsing error message
Fixed #2200: Sorting now uses the same unicode representation that is also used for showing the content in the maintable
Fixed #2201 and #1825: Status of the Group panel is saved and reused for next startup of JabRef
Fixed #2228: Fixed Medline fetcher no longer working. The fetcher now uses https for fetching
REMOVED:
Removed 2nd preview style
The non-supported feature of being able to define file directories for any extension is removed. Still, it should work for older databases using the legacy ps and pdf fields, although we strongly encourage using the file field.
Automatic migration for the evastar_pdf field is removed.
We removed the customizable "content selectors" since they are replaced by the auto-completion feature
Removed optional fields from other fields (BibTeX), Removed deprecated fields from other fields (BibLaTeX)

New in JabRef 3.6 (Aug 26, 2016)

CHANGED:
#462 Extend the OpenConsoleFeature by offering a selection between default terminal emulator and configurable command execution.
#970: Implementation of shared database support (full system) with event based synchronization for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle database systems.
#1026 JabRef does no longer delete user comments outside of BibTeX entries and strings
#1225: Hotkeys are now consistent
#1249 Date layout formatter added
#1345 Cleanup ISSN
#1516 Selected field names are written in uppercase in the entry editor
#1751 Added tooltip to web search button
#1758 Added a button to open Database Properties dialog help
#1841 The "etal"-string in the Authors layout formatter can now be empty
Added EntryTypeFormatter to add camel casing to entry type in layouts, e.g., InProceedings
Added print entry preview to the right click menu
Added links to JabRef internet resources
Added integrity check to avoid non-ASCII characters in BibTeX files
Added ISBN integrity checker
Added filter to not show selected integrity checks
Automatically generated group names are now converted from LaTeX to Unicode
Enhance the entry customization dialog to give better visual feedback
Externally fetched information can be merged for entries with an ISBN
Externally fetched information can be merged for entries with an ArXiv eprint
File open dialogs now use default extensions as primary file filter
For developers: Moved the bst package into logic. This requires the regeneration of antlr sources, execute: gradlew generateSource
It is now possible to generate a new BIB database from the citations in an OpenOffice/LibreOffice document
It is now possible to add your own lists of protected terms, see Options -> Manage protected terms
Improve focus of the maintable after a sidepane gets closed (Before it would focus the toolbar or it would focus the wrong entry)
Table row height is adjusted on Windows which is useful for high resolution displays
The field name in the layout files for entry type is changed from bibtextype to entrytype. Please update your existing files as support for bibtextype will be removed eventually.
The contents of crossref and related will be automatically updated if a linked entry changes key
The information shown in the main table now resolves crossrefs and strings and it can be shown which fields are resolved in this way (Preferences -> Appearance -> Color codes for resolved fields)
The formatting of the main table is based on the actual field shown when using e.g. title/author
The arXiv fetcher now also supports free-text search queries
Undo/redo are enabled/disabled and show the action in the tool tip
Unified dialogs for opening/saving files
FIXED:
Fixed #636: DOI in export filters
Fixed #1257: Preferences for the BibTeX key generator set in a version prior to 3.2 are now migrated automatically to the new version
Fixed #1264: S with caron does not render correctly
Fixed #1288: Newly opened bib-file is not focused
Fixed #1321: LaTeX commands in fields not displayed in the list of references
Fixed #1324: Save-Dialog for Lookup fulltext document now opens in the specified working directory
Fixed #1499: {} braces are now treated correctly in in author/editor
Fixed #1527: 'Get BibTeX data from DOI' Removes Marking
Fixed #1519: The word "Seiten" is automatically removed when fetching info from ISBN
Fixed #1531: relax can be used for abbreviation of author names
Fixed #1554: Import dialog is no longer hidden behind main window
Fixed #1592: LibreOffice: wrong numbers in citation labels
Fixed #1609: Adding a file to an entry opened dialog in the parent folder of the working directory
Fixed #1632: User comments (@Comment) with or without brackets are now kept
Fixed #1639: Google Scholar fetching works again.
Fixed #1643: Searching with double quotes in a specific field ignores the last character
Fixed #1669: Dialog for manual connection to OpenOffice/LibreOffice works again on Linux
Fixed #1682: An entry now must have a BibTeX key to be cited in OpenOffice/LibreOffice
Fixed #1687: "month" field ascending/descending sorting swapped
Fixed #1716: @-Symbols stored in BibTeX fields no longer break the database
Fixed #1750: BibLaTeX date field is now correctly exported as year in MS-Office 2007 xml format
Fixed #1760: Preview updated correctly when selecting a single entry after selecting multiple entries
Fixed #1771: Show all supported import types as default
Fixed #1804: Integrity check no longer removes URL field by mistake
Fixed: LaTeX characters in author names are now converted to Unicode before export in MS-Office 2007 xml format
Fixed: volume, journaltitle, issue and number(for patents) fields are now exported correctly in MS-Office 2007 xml format
Fixed NullPointerException when clicking OK without specifying a field name in set/clear/rename fields
Fixed IndexOutOfBoundsException when trying to download a full text document without selecting an entry
Fixed NullPointerException when trying to set a special field or mark an entry through the menu without having an open database
Fixed NullPointerException when trying to synchronize file field with an entry without BibTeX key
Fixed NullPointerException when importing PDFs and pressing cancel when selecting entry type
Fixed a number of issues related to accessing the GUI from outside the EDT
Fixed NullPointerException when using BibTeX key pattern authFirstFull and the author does not have a "von"-part
Fixed NullPointerException when opening Customize entry type dialog without an open database
LaTeX to Unicode converter now handles combining accents
Fixed NullPointerException when clicking Browse in Journal abbreviations with empty text field
Fixed NullPointerException when opening file in Plain text import
Fixed NullPointerException when appending database
Fixed NullPointerException when loading a style file that has not got a default style
Date fields in the BibLatex standard are now always formatted in the correct way, independent of the preferences
The merge entry dialog showed wrong heading after merging from DOI
Manage content selectors now saves edited existing lists again and only marks database as changed when the content selectors are changed
When inserting a duplicate the right entry will be selected
Preview panel height is now saved immediately, thus is shown correctly if the panel height is changed, closed and opened again
REMOVED:
#1610 Removed the possibility to auto show or hide the groups interface
It is not longer possible to choose to convert HTML sub- and superscripts to equations
Removed option to open right-click menu with ctrl + left-click as it was not working
Removed option to disable entry editor when multiple entries are selected as it was not working
Removed option to show warning for empty key as it was not working
Removed option to show warning for duplicate key as it was not working
Removed preview toolbar (since long disabled)

New in JabRef 3.5 (Jul 14, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.4 (Jun 3, 2016)

Changed:
Implemented #629: Explicit groups are now written in the "groups" field of the entry instead of at the end of the bib file
Main table now accepts pasted DOIs and tries to retrieve the entry
Added support for several Biblatex-fields through drop-down lists with valid alternatives
Added integrity checker for an odd number of unescaped '#'
Implemented feature request 384: The merge entries dialog now show all text and colored differences between the fields
Implemented #1233: Group side pane now takes up all the remaining space
Added integrity check detecting HTML-encoded characters
Added missing help files
Implemented feature request #1294: Added possibility to filter for *.jstyle files in OpenOffice/LibreOffice style selection dialog. Open style selection dialog in directory of last selected file
Added integrity check for ISSN
Add LaTeX to Unicode converter as cleanup operation
Added an option in the about dialog to easily copy the version information of JabRef
Integrity check table can be sorted by clicking on column headings
Added \SOFTWARE\Jabref 'Path' registry entry for installation path inside the installer
Added an additional icon to distinguish DOI and URL links (feature request #696)
Added nbib fields to Medlineplain importer
Implemented #1342: show description of case converters as tooltip
Updated German translation
Fixed:
Fixed #473: Values in an entry containing symbols like ' are now properly escaped for exporting to the database
Fixed #1270: Auto save is now working again as expected (without leaving a bunch of temporary files behind)
Fixed #1234: NPE when getting information from retrieved DOI
Fixed #1245: Empty jstyle properties can now be specified as ""
Fixed #1259: NPE when sorting tabs
Fixed display bug in the cleanup dialog: field formatters are now correctly displayed using their name
Fixed #1271: Authors with compound first names are displayed properly
Fixed: Selecting invalid jstyle causes NPE and prevents opening of style selection dialog
Fixed: Move linked files to default directory works again
Fixed #1327: PDF cleanup changes order of linked pdfs
Fixed #1313: Remove UI for a configuration option which was no longer available
Fixed #1340: Edit -> Mark Specific Color Dysfunctional on OSX
Fixed #1245: Empty jstyle properties can now be specified as ""
Fixed #1364: Windows: install to LOCALAPPDATA directory for non-admin users
Fixed #1365: Default label pattern back to [auth][year]
Fixed #796: Undoing more than one entry at the same time is now working
Fixed #1122: Group view is immediately updated after adding an entry to a group
Fixed #171: Dragging an entry to a group preserves scrolling
Fixed #1353: Fetch-Preview did not display updated BibTeX-Key after clicking on Generate Now
Fixed #1381: File links containing blanks are broken if non-default viewer is set
Fixed sourceforge bug 1000: shorttitleINI can generate the initials of the shorttitle
Fixed #1394: Personal journal abbrevations could not be saved
Fixed #1400: Detect path constructs wrong path for Windows
Fixed #973: Add additional DOI field for English version of MS Office 2007 XML
Fixed #1412: Save action protect terms protects terms within words unecessarily
Fixed #1420: Auto downloader should respect file pattern and propose correct filename
Fixed #651: Improve parsing of author names containing braces
Fixed #1421: Auto downloader should try to retrieve DOI if not present and fetch afterwards
Fixed #1457: Support multiple words inside LaTeX commands to RTF export
Entries retain their groupmembership when undoing their cut/deletion
Fixed #1450: EntryEditor is restored in the correct size after preference changes
Removed:
Removed possibility to export entries/databases to an .sql file, as the logic cannot easily use the correct escape logic
Removed support of old groups format, which was used prior to JabRef version 1.6. If you happen to have a 10 years old .bib file, then JabRef 3.3 can be used to convert it to the current format.
Removed possibility to automatically add braces via Option - Preferences - File - Store the following fields with braces around capital letters. Please use save actions instead for adding braces automatically.
Removed button to refresh groups view. This button shouldn't be needed anymore. Please report any cases where the groups view is not updated automatically.
Medline and GVK importer no longer try to expand author initials (i.e. EH Wissler -> E. H. Wissler).
Removed not-working option "Select Matches" under Groups -> Settings.

New in JabRef 3.3 (Apr 25, 2016)

Changed:
Migrated JabRef help to markdown at https://github.com/JabRef/help.jabref.org
Add possibility to lookup DOI from BibTeX entry contents inside the DOI field
PDFs can be automatically fetched from IEEE (given that you have access without logging in)
The OpenOffice/LibreOffice style file handling is changed to have only a single list of available style and you need to add your custom styles again
OpenOffice/LibreOffice style files are now always read and written with the same default encoding as for the database (found in the preferences)
The user journal abbreviation list is now always read and written with the same default encoding as for the database (found in the preferences)
The mass edit function "Set/clear/rename fields" is now in the Edit menu
Implemented #455: Add button in preference dialog to reset preferences
Add ability to run arbitrary formatters as cleanup actions (some old cleanup jobs are replaced by this functionality)
Add "Move linked files to default file directory" as cleanup procedure
Implemented #756: Add possibility to reformat all entries on save (under Preferences, File)
All fields in a bib entry are written without any leading and trailing whitespace
Comments and preamble are serialized with capitalized first letter, i.e. @Comment instead of @comment and @Preamble instead of @PREAMBLE.
Global sorting options and preferences are removed. Databases can still be sorted on save, but this is configured locally and stored in the file
OvidImporter now also imports fields: doi, issn, language and keywords
Implemented #647: The preview can now be copied
#459 Open default directory when trying to add files to an entry
Implemented #668: Replace clear with icon to reduce search bar width
Improved layout for OSX: Toolbar buttons and search field
BibTeX and BibLaTeX mode is now file based and can be switched at runtime. The information is stored in the .bib file, and if it is not there detected by the entry types.
Moved all quality-related database actions inside a new quality menu
#684: ISBNtoBibTex Error Message is now more clear
Moved default bibliography mode to general preferences tab
Add dialog to show all preferences in their raw form plus some filtering
Added Ordinal formatter (1 -> 1st etc)
#492: If no text is marked, the whole field is copied. Preview of pasted text in tool tip
#454 Add a tab that shows all remaining entry fields that are not displayed in any other tab
The LaTeX to Unicode/HTML functionality is much improved by covering many more cases
Ability to convert from LaTeX to Unicode in right-click field menu
Regex-based search is know only applied entirely and not split up to different regexes on whitespaces
#492: If no text is marked, the whole field is copied. Preview of pasted text in tool tip
Integrity check now also checks broken file links, abbreviations in journal and booktitle, and incorrect use of proceedings with page numbers
PdfContentImporter does not write the content of the first page into the review field any more
Implemented #462: Add new action to open console where opened database file is located. New button, menu entry and shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+J) for this action have also been added.
#957 Improved usability of Export save order selection in Preferences and Database Properties
#958 Adjusted size and changed layout of database dialog
#1023 ArXiv fetcher now also fetches based on eprint id
Moved "Get BibTeX data from DOI" from main table context menu to DOI field in entry editor
Added open buttons to DOI and URL field
Move Look & Feel settings from advanced to appearance tab in preferences
JabRef installer now automatically determines the user rights and installs to home directory/program dir when user is restricted/admin
Move PDF file directory configuration from external tab to file tab in preferences
Implemented #672: FileList now distributes its space dependent on the width of its columns
Added missing German translations
Swedish is added as a language option (still not a complete translation)
Fixed:
Fixed #318: Improve normalization of author names
Fixed #598 and #402: No more issues with invalid icons for ExternalFileTypes in global search or after editing the settings
Fixed #883: No NPE during cleanup
Fixed #845: Add checkboxes for highlighting in groups menu, fixes other toggle highlighting as well for all toggle buttons
Fixed #890: No NPE when renaming file
Fixed #466: Rename PDF cleanup now also changes case of file name
Fixed #621 and #669: Encoding and preamble now end with newline.
Make BibTex parser more robust against missing newlines
Fix bug that prevented the import of BibTex entries having only a key as content
Fixed #666: MS Office 2007 export is working again
Fixed #670: Expressions using enclosed quotes (keywords="one two") did not work.
Fixed #667: URL field is not sanitized anymore upon opening in browser.
Fixed #687: Fixed NPE when closing JabRef with new unsaved database.
Fixed #680: Synchronize Files key binding works again.
Fixed #212: Added command line option -g for autogenerating bibtex keys
Fixed #213: Added command line option -asfl for autosetting file links
Fixed #671: Remember working directory of last import
IEEEXplore fetcher replaces keyword separator with the preferred
Fixed #710: Fixed quit behavior under OSX
"Merge from DOI" now honors removed fields
Fixed #778: Fixed NPE when exporting to .sql File
Fixed #824: MimeTypeDetector can now also handle local file links
Fixed #803: Fixed dynamically group, free-form search
Fixed #743: Logger not configured when JAR is started
Fixed #822: OSX - Exception when adding the icon to the dock
Fixed #609: Sort Arrows are shown in the main table if table is sorted
Fixed #685: Fixed MySQL exporting for more than one entry
Fixed #815: Curly Braces no longer ignored in OpenOffice/LibreOffice citation
Fixed #855: Fixed OpenOffice Manual connect - Clicking on browse does now work correctly
Fixed #649: Key bindings are now working in the preview panel
Fixed #410: Find unlinked files no longer freezes when extracting entry from PDF content
Fixed #936: Preview panel is now updated when an entry is cut/deleted
Fixed #1001: No NPE when exporting a complete database
Fixed #991: Entry is now correctly removed from the BibDatabase
Fixed #1062: Merge entry with DOI information now also applies changes to entry type
Fixed #535: Add merge action to right click menu
Fixed #1115: Wrong warning message when importing duplicate entries
Fixed #935: PDFs, which are readable, but carry a protection for editing, are treated by the XMP parser and the importer generating a BibTeX entry based on the content.
Fixed: Showing the preview panel with a single-click at startup
Removed:
Removed JabRef offline help files which are replaced by the new online documentation at https://github.com/JabRef/help.jabref.org
Fixed #627: The pdf field is removed from the export formats, use the file field
Removed configuration option to use database file directory as base directory for attached files and make it default instead
Removed save session functionality as it just saved the last opened tabs which is done by default
Removed CLI option -l to load a session
Removed PDF preview functionality
Removed Sixpackimporter it is not used in the wild anymore
Removed double click listener from doi and url fields

New in JabRef 3.2 (Apr 25, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.1 (Apr 25, 2016)

Changed:
Added new DoiResolution fetcher that tries to download full text PDF from DOI link
Add options to close other/all databases in tab right-click menu
Implements #470: Show editor (as an alternative to author) and booktitle (as an alternative to journal) in the main table by default
Restore focus to last focused tab on start
Add ability to format/cleanup the date field
Add support for proxy authentication via VM args and GUI settings, this implements feature request 388
Move Bibtex and Biblatex mode switcher to File menu
Display active edit mode (BibTeX or Biblatex) at window title
Implements #444: The search is cleared by either clicking the clear-button or by pressing ESC with having focus in the search field.
Icons are shown as Header for icon columns in the entry table (#315)
Tooltips are shown for header columns and contents which are too wide to be displayed in the entry table (#384)
Default order in entry table: # | all file based icons (file, URL/DOI, ...) | all bibtex field based icons (bibtexkey, entrytype, author, title, ...) | all activated special field icons (ranking, quality, ...)
Write all field keys in lower case. No more camel casing of field names. E.g., title is written instead of Title, howpublished instead of HowPublished, and doi instead of DOI. The configuration option Use camel case for field names (e.g., "HowPublished" instead of "howpublished") is gone.
All field saving options are removed. There is no more customization of field sorting. '=' is now appended to the field key instead of its value. The intendation is aligned for an entry and not for the entire database. Entry names are written in title case format.
Entries are only reformatted if they were changed during a session. There is no more mandatory reformatting of the entire database on save.
Implements #565: Highlighting matches works now also for regular expressions in preview panel and entry editor
IEEEXplore search now downloads the full Bibtex record instead of parsing the fields from the HTML webpage result (fixes bug 1146 and bug 1267)
Christmas color theme (red and green)
Implements #444: The search is cleared by either clicking the clear-button or by pressing ESC with having focus in the search field.
Added command line switch --debug to show more detailed logging messages
Fixed:
Fixed bug 482 partly: escaped brackets are now parsed properly when opening a bib file
Fixed #479: Import works again
Fixed #434: Revert to old 'JabRef' installation folder name instead of 'jabref'
Fixed #435: Retrieve non open access ScienceDirect PDFs via HTTP DOM
Fixed: Cleanup process aborts if linked file does not exists
Fixed #420: Reenable preference changes
Fixed #414: Rework BibLatex entry types with correct required and optional fields
Fixed #413: Help links in released jar version are not working
Fixes #412: Biblatex preserves capital letters, checking whether letters may be converted to lowercase within the Integrity Check action is obsolete.
Fixed #437: The toolbar after the search field is now correctly wrapped when using a small window size for JabRef
Fixed #438: Cut, Copy and Paste are now translated correctly in the menu
Fixed #443/#445: Fixed sorting and moving special field columns
Fixed #498: non-working legacy PDF/PS column removed
Fixed #473: Import/export to external database works again
Fixed #526: OpenOffice/LibreOffice connection works again on Linux/OSX
Fixed #533: Preview parsed incorrectly when regular expression was enabled
Fixed: MedlinePlain Importer made more resistant for malformed entries
Fixed #564: Cite command changes are immediately reflected in the push-to-application actions, and not only after restart
Removed:
Removed BioMail format importer
Removed file history size preference (never available from the UI)
Removed jstorImporter because it's hardly ever used, even Jstor.org doesn't support/export said format anymore
Removed ScifinderImporter because it's hardly ever used, and we could not get resource files to test against
Removed option "Show one letter heading for icon columns" which is obsolete with the fix of #315/#384
Removed table column "PDF/PS" which refers to legacy fields "ps" resp. "pdf" which are no longer supported (see also fix #498)
Removed the ability to export references on the CLI interface based on year ranges

New in JabRef 3.0 (Nov 30, 2015)

Changed:
Updated to support OpenOffice 4 and LibreOffice 5
Add toolbar icon for deleting an entry, and move menu item for this action to BibTeX
Better support for IEEEtranBSTCTL entries
Quick selection of month in entry editor
Unknown entry types will be converted to 'Misc' (was 'Other' before).
EntryTypes are now clustered per group on the 'new entry' GUI screen.
Tab shows the minimal unique folder name substring if multiple database files share the same name
Added a page numbers integrity checker
Position and size of certain dialogs are stored and restored.
Feature: Search Springer
Feature: Search DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals
Changes the old integrity check by improving the code base (+tests) and converting it to a simple issues table
Added combo box in MassSetFieldAction to simplify selecting the correct field name
Feature: Merge information from both entries on duplication detection
Always use import inspection dialog on import from file
All duplicate whitespaces / tabs / newlines are now removed from non-multiline fields
Improvements to search:
Search bar is now at the top
A summary of the search result is shown in textual form in the search bar
The search text field changes its color based on the search result (red if nothing is found, green if at least one entry is found)
Autocompletion suggestions are shown in a popup
Search options are available via a drop-down list, this implements Feature Request #853
"Clear search" button also clears search field, this implements Feature Request #601
Every search is done automatically (live) as soon as the search text is changed
Search is local by default. To do a global search, one has to do a local search and then this search can be done globally as well, opening a new window.
The local search results can be shown in a new window.
Feature: Merge information from a DOI generated BibTex entry to an entry
Added more characters to HTML/Unicode converter
Feature: Push citations to Texmaker (bug 318, bug 582)
Case changers improved to honor words (not yet more than single words) within {}
Feature: Added converters from HTML and Unicode to LaTeX on right click in text fields (#191)
Feature: Add an option to the FileList context menu to delete an associated file from the file system
Feature: Field names "Doi", "Ee", and "Url" are now written as "DOI", "EE", and "URL"
The default language is now automatically set to the system's locale.
Use correct encoding names (#155) and replace old encoding names in bibtex files. This changes the file header.
No longer write JabRef version to BibTex file header.
No longer add blank lines inside a bibtex entry
Feature: When pasting a Google search URL, meta data will be automatically stripped before insertion.
Feature: PDF auto download from ACS, arXiv, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Google Scholar
List of authors is now auto generated scripts/generate-authors.sh and inserted into L10N About.html
Streamline logging API: Replace usages of java.util.logging with commons.logging
Remove support for custom icon themes. The user has to use the default one.
Solved feature request #767: New subdatabase based on AUX file (biblatex)
Feature: DOItoBibTeX fetcher now also handles HTTP URLs
Feature: "Normalize to BibTeX name format" also removes newlines
Tweak of preference defaults
Autolink requires that the filename starts with the given BibTeX key and the default filename patterns is key followed by title
Default sorting changed
Default label pattern changed from [auth][year] to [authors3][year]
Feature: case changers now leave protected areas (enclosed with curly brakets) alone
BREAKING: The BibTeX key generator settings from previous versions are lost
BREAKING: LabelPatterns [auth.etal], [authEtAl], [authors], [authorsN], [authorLast] and more to omit spaces and commas (and work as described at http://jabref.sourceforge.net/help/LabelPatterns.php)
BREAKING: [keywordN] returns the Nth keyword (as described in the help) and not the first N keywords
BREAKING: If field consists of blanks only or an emtpy string, it is not written at all
Feature: new LabelPattern [authFirstFull] returning the last name of the first author and also a "van" or "von" if it exists
Feature: all new lines when writing an entry are obeying the globally configured new line (File -> newline separator). Affects fields: abstract and review
Feature: [veryShortTitle] and [shortTitle] also skip words like "in", "among", "before", ...
Feature: New LabelPattern [keywordsN], where N is optional. Returns the first N keywords. If no N is specified ("[keywords]"), all keywords are returned. Spaces are removed.
Update supported LookAndFeels
Show replaced journal abbreviations on console
Integrated GVK-Plugin
The three options to manage file references are moved to their own separated group in the Tools menu.
Default preferences: Remote server (port 6050) always started on first JabRef instance. This prevents JabRef loaded twice when opening a bib file.
Fixed:
Fixed the bug that the file encoding was not correctly determined from the first (or second) line
Fixed #325: Deactivating AutoCompletion crashes EntryEditor
Fixed bug when having added and then removed a personal journal list, an exception is always shown on startup
Fixed a bug in the IEEEXploreFetcher
Fixed bug 1282 related to backslashes duplication.
Fixed bug 1285: Editing position is not lost on saving
Fixed bug 1297: No console message on closing
Fixed #194: JabRef starts again on Win XP and Win Vista
Fixed: Tooltips are now shown for the #-field when the bibtex entry is incomplete.
Fixed #173: Personal journal abbreviation list is not loaded twice
Bugfix: Preview of external journal abbreviation list now displays the correct list
Fixed #223: Window is displayed in visible area even when having multiple screens
Localization tweaks: "can not" -> "cannot" and "file name" -> "filename"
Fixed: When reconfiguring the BibTeX key generator, changes are applied instantly without requiring a restart of JabRef
Fixed #250: No hard line breaks after 70 chars in serialized JabRef meta data
Fixed bug 1296: External links in the help open in the standard browser
Fixed behavior of opening files: If an existing database is opened, it is focused now instead of opening it twice.
Removed:
Entry type 'Other' is not selectable anymore as it is no real entry type. Will be converted to 'Misc'.
BREAKING: Remove plugin functionality.
The key bindings for searching specific databases are removed
Remove option to toggle native file dialog on mac by making JabRef always use native file dialogs on mac
Remove options to set PDF and PS directories per .bib database as the general options have also been deleted.
Remove option to disable renaming in FileChooser dialogs.
Remove option to hide the BibTeX Code tab in the entry editor.
Remove option to set a custom icon for the external file types. This is not possible anymore with the new icon font.
Remove legacy options to sync files in the "pdf" or "ps" field
Remove button to merge entries and keep the old ones.
Remove non-compact rank symbols in favor of compact rank
Remove Mr.DLib support as MR.DLib will be shut down in 2015
Remove support for key bindings per external application by allowing only the key binding "push to application" for the currently selected external application.
Remove "edit preamble" from toolbar
Remove support to the move-to-SysTray action
Remove incremental search
Remove option to disable autocompleters for search and make this always one
Remove option to highlight matches and make this always one when not using regex or grammar-based search
Remove non-working web searches: JSTOR and Sciencedirect (planned to be fixed for the next release)
Remove option Tools -> Open PDF or PS which is replaced by Tools -> Open File

New in JabRef 2.11 (Nov 12, 2015)

New in JabRef 2.11 Beta 4 (Sep 14, 2015)

Add of Persian localization (by Behrouz Javanmardi)
Backport from 2.80: Fixes #115: Remove whitespaces in serialization
Backport from 2.80: Fixes bug 1297: No console message on closing.
Backport from 2.80: Fixes bug 1290: Spanish localization was not displayed correctly.
Backport from 2.80: Fixes #144: Unreadable text in Russian installer
Fix for bugs 1221 and 1261 (also partly 1243: order of fields in customized entry types no longer gets destroyed by the entry editor
“ISBN to BibTeX” fetcher now uses eBook.de's API (fixes bug 1241)
BREAKING: Search groups now use same search logic as UI → avoids confusion when converting a UI search into a search group. Behaviour before: contains/regex check of whole search string; behaviour after: contains/regex check of every word of the search string. The new search is more powerful and con simulate the old behaviour: enclose everything in double quotes, e.g., process language → “process language”.
Fix for bug 1276: OO styles do not consider editor fields anymore for sorting
Fix for bug 1288: Emacs keybindings: Rebinding of C-f can now be configured
Special fields: .bib files edited with 2.11 beta 3 are not compatible with this release. Other versions are not affected.
JabRef metadata (“jabref-meta”) @comments are now always written in alphabetical order
Changed HTML description of search expressions, expressing the conditional logic more explicitly with brackets.
Fixed INSPIRE searches compatibility problem (by Stefano Gariazzo).
Change default of “use IEEE abbreviations” from TRUE to FALSE
Fix for bug 1293: “Star” for modified database is correctly shown again.
Journal abbreviation lists: In case entries are defined more than once, a message is output on the console
Antialiasing is now enabled and set to LCD
Update dependencies: jersey, commons.logging, pdfbox, JGoodies, glazedlists, JDBC connectors
Remove local JGoodies dependency: replace SimpleInteralFrame with SwingX JXTitledPanel and UIFSplitPane by JSplitPane
Switch from antlr2 grammar to antlr4 for capturing the search expressions. Should be backwards compatible.
Streamline logging API: Replace usages of java.util.logging with commons.logging
Refactored preferences
Fix several FindBugs warnings

New in JabRef 2.11 Beta 3 (Jun 22, 2015)

New in JabRef 2.11 Beta 2 (May 22, 2015)

New in JabRef 2.11 Beta (May 22, 2015)

Some UI updates (mainly removing unnecessary boundaries)
Feature: Gridlines are now optional (and disabled by default)
Fix for bug 1248: Key bindings not modified
Fix for bug 876: Windows 7/8/10 - Pinning Jabref to the taskbar
Feature: Option to change the table row height padding
Feature: Make it possible to hide the toolbar
Fix for bug 1270: Cleanup entries error 3
Fix for bug 919: Accents don't export to RTF (by ruy.takata)
Change the CrossRef content negotiation for bibtex DOI import (by sheffien)
Fix for bug 1253: Cleanup entries error 2 (by ruy.takata)
Fix for bug 1213 (sourceforge): Fix encoding for DOI import
feature 809: import pubmed central id (pmc) field from medline
Fix undoing Cleanup/Convert to Biblatex
Adapted pattern to parse DBLP entries
Partial fix for bug 913: fixed export for .ods and .sxc (by yaragg)
Fix for bug 1240: Accepting string with length of one character (by lhaddad).
Fix for bug 958: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on "Content Selector Dialog"
Fix for bug 949: Exception properly logged
Fix for bug 950: NullPointerException on "Manage custom imports"
feature 850: Keyboard shortcut for 'Cleanup entries' (by eduardogreco)
Change default behaviour to be more non-invasive: timestamps and owners are NOT set by default per entry.
"Open Folder" works again
newline separator can now be configured globally
feature 847: Adds title case as a case changer
feature 841: Support for multiple file columns (by noravanq)
Fix for bug 1176: automatic bibtexkey generation for authors containing/ending with and in their name
Saving order of entries can now be configured per database
Improved XMP Privacy (pull request #8)
Support FindFullText with ACS DOIs (pull request #9)
Fixes groups and adds optional 2.9.2 save ordering (pull request #10)
Fixes bug 880 "PubMed Import broken" (pull request #11 by vegeziel)
Fixes bug 959 "StringIndexOutOfBoundsException with invalid Preview text" (pull request #13 by IngvarJackal)
Fixes bug 960 "FileNotFoundException in Journal abbreviations window" (pull request #13 by IngvarJackal)
Make (un)abbreviating journal titles also work on the journaltitle field
Fix edits getting lost in Biblatex mode
Fix error when setting a previously unset field via the source panel of the entry editor
Improved BibLatex support (alias fields, option to convert old entries to the new format via the cleanup menu)
Fixes bug 1087 "jabref does not follow biblatex specification"
Fixes bug 1014 'journal' not recognized as alias for 'journaltitle''
Fixes bug 874 Support of biblatex "date" field
Fixes bug that prevented the secondary optional fields to update properly in the "Customize entry fields" dialog (in BibLatex mode)
Added special fields 'Printed' and 'Read status', thereby implementing (at least partially):
feature 762 Printed attribute
feature 692 Marking of new entries and often read entries
feature 685 Highlight new entries that were "forgotten"
feature 602 could add the mark as read feature
feature 225 read? checkbox
Take aliased fields into account when sorting entries

New in JabRef 2.10 Beta 3 (Mar 12, 2014)

New in JabRef 2.10 Beta 2 (Feb 13, 2014)

New in JabRef 2.10 Beta (Jun 20, 2013)

Applied fix for JStor fetcher.
Added Settings menu item “Clear connection settings” in OpenOffice/LibreOffice panel.
Added support for specifying a BibTeX file at --importToOpen. This allows a usage in browsers to directly append downloaded entries to the currently opened database.
Added Unicode to LaTeX conversion for Medline imports (feature 721).
Added Unicode to LaTeX conversion cleanup action (feature 721).
Added countries, weekdays and months to the case keeper.
Added support for Emacs key bindings at the entry editor. To avoid collisions of common key bindings, Page up and page down (C-v) are not supported as C-v is “paste” in Windows key bindings.
Added a formatter for units which keeps the case and adds non-breaking separators.
Added a Merge entries functionality.
Added a setting to choose either a DOI link or a URL to be standard (feature 710)
Added button to change entry type. Removed this functionality from the type label, and reduced the font size.
Added Iso690 export including two new formatters: Iso690FormatDate and Iso690NamesAuthors.
Added menu option “Automatically set file links for selected entries”.
Added new BibTeX label pattern authEtAl
Added new BibTeX label pattern authForeIne, authorLastForeIni, edtrForeIni, and editorLastForeIni (patch 199)
The folder of attachments can now be opened.
New translation: Spanish.
Adapted the required and optional fields of entry types.
After a search has been done, the first entry of the entry table is selected (feature 656).
Entries contained in an .aux file can now be selected (feature 644).
Number of entries in a group is now displayed in brackets (patch 124). Feature has to be enabled at the group settings as calculating the numbers takes a long time at huge databases.
New entries are now always be added to a group. Fixes bug 1093.
Configurable: Timestamp is now automatically updated on a change of an entry (feature 799).
Re-enabled customization of shortcut keys
Changed serialization of BibTeX entries:
First, the required, then the optional and then all other fields are written. Thereby, fields are now ordered by name. Except the title, which is written first.
The second word in of the BibTeX type is capitalized. E.g., Inproceedings got InProceedings.
Configurable: Start field contents in same column. Enabled by default.
Configurable: Use camel case for field names (e.g., HowPublished instead of howpublished). Enabled by default.
If no field name is given, then UNKNOWN is used. For instance, = {X} gets UNKNOWN = {X}.
Saving a part of the database now also writes entries with a crossref field first.
Author field is now resolved using @String data.
A custom proxy can be specified.
Default key binding for Write XMP is now “CTRL+F7” instead of “CTRL+F4” as the latter conflicts with “Synchronize files”.
WriteXMPAction now uses database to resolve strings even for selected entries.
Extend XMP privacy filtering to Dublin Core Schema.
IEEE search should include author field again.

New in JabRef 2.9.2 (Jan 14, 2013)

New in JabRef 2.9 (Jan 3, 2013)

New in JabRef 2.9 Beta 2 (Nov 19, 2012)

Replaced notification dialog after moving/renaming linked file by status message.
Replaced dialog warnings about empty/duplicate key in entry editor by status line messages, to prevent lockup if Save button is pressed directly.
Replaced window icon with 48x48 image.
Added local undo/redo handling for entry editor text fields.
Added special field functionality for ranking, marking as relevant, marking as quality assured, and prioritizing. Can be enabled by "Entry table columns".
Added PDF preview functionality to the preview panel. Configurable via "Entry preview" settings.
Group edit dialog now closes when Escape is pressed.
Fixed MS bib import, month was lost on import.
Generate key action in entry editor now honors key overwrite settings.
Fixed bug when importing XMP data from PDF, file will now be linked from the new entry.
Fixed bug in layout processing - quoted formatter arguments are now handled correctly.
Fixed bug 3545394: null and curly brackets in custom export filter.
Added "Manage keywords" popup menu to manage common keywords of selected entries.
Added support for pushing citations to TeXstudio (requires TeXstudio >=2.4)
Text-based citations can now be imported using FreeCite by Brown University.
JabRef supports synchronization of unlinked PDFs. Feature request "[2163626] Scan database - find unlinked files". Based on patch 3122104.
Added command line argument -d/-prdef for resetting preferences to default values. Can reset a comma-separated list of preference values, or all values.
Added small right-click popup menu at each tab
A PDF can also be dropped to the preview panel to trigger linking it
Drag'n'drop of text from the preview panel to other applications is now working
Added highlighting in preview area for search text
New context menu option "Switch preview layout" in the preview panel.
BibTeX key generator patterns can now be stored in per database
Braces around author names are now dropped internally. They remain in the .bib though. Effects (incomplete list): Authors in the main window are shown without braces, autocompletion does not show these braces
Autocompletion: ";" is now also a delimiter allowing "keyword1; keyword2" in the keyword fields
Autocompletion: the amount of characters to trigger autocompletion may now be configured (default is 2)
Autocompletion: in case lower case letters are used, the search is case-insenstive, otherwise the search is case sensitive.
Autocompletion: new preference to choose how to deal with first names (always full/always abbreviated/both full and abbreviated)
Added functionality "clean up entries"
Includes clean up DOI functionality (move of DOIs from ee, note, and url field is supported)
Option to rename PDF of entry according to configured PDF-naming-scheme
make file paths relative
clean up month
clean up pages
fix superscripts
New "ISBN to BibTeX" fetcher. Uses the online "ISBN to BibTeX Converter" service
Added support for drag'n'drop of tabs
PDF import dialog now always stores settings: checkbox removed
float search now also jumps to first entry if entry editor is opened
usability improvements of "content selectors

New in JabRef 2.8.1 (Jul 6, 2012)

New in JabRef 2.8 (May 15, 2012)

New in JabRef 2.8 Beta (Mar 6, 2012)

Fixed issues with ACM portal fetcher using Benjamin Langmann's patch, plus an additional minor fix.
A large list of journal abbreviations is now loaded by default.
Added global option to allow file links relative to the bib file location, in addition to the global or database- or user-specific file directory.
Fixed bug 3434674: Reviewing changes overwrites groups.
Integrated the plugin for interaction with OpenOffice/LibreOffice as a standard part of JabRef.
Added keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down to move file links up and down in a list of external links in the entry editor.
Applied "bjoerntm"'s patch for making the loading of group information less sensitive to white space, in order to prevent trouble loading files written by other tools.
Added optional autocompletion of author/editor last names in search field.
Changed entry fetcher system so all fetchers are accessed from a single side pane component with a selector.
Added INSPIRE fetcher by Sheer El-Showk.
Improved error handling when importing in specific format.
Prevented crash when calling invalid import format on startup.
Improved duplicate detection.
Added markers \filename and \filepath for ".begin.layout" and ".end.layout" files in order to output the name or full path of the bib file of the exported database.
Fixed possible array index exception in LastPage formatter.
Improved author/editor normalization in entry editor.
Added metadata extraction from text when PDFs are dragged into JabRef.
The filename pattern for renaming a file when dropping a PDF can now be configured at "Options"/"Preferences"/"Import"/"File name format pattern".
The defaults of the ImportDialog shown when PDFs are dragged into JabRef can now be configured at "Options"/"Preferences"/"Import". It is possible to override showing the ImportDialog.
An entry can be sent by a right click on an entry and select "Send as Email" (patch 3306271).
Added option to "copy BibTeX key and title" (patch 3370471).
The command for pushing to emacs can be configured now. New command for Emacs 23. New default for Windows: emacsclient.
Added export support for DIN1505 style (based on patch 1874662).
Added support for PostgreSQL import/export (patch 3368760 by Fred Stevens).
Added formatter "JournalAbbreviator" (patch 3013311 by Meigel).
RTFExport: Replaces ligatures `` and '' with RTF control sequences {\ldblquote} and {\rdblquote}. (patch 2905383 by Russell Almond).
Bugfix for NullPointerException in Biblatex mode (patch 3222388 by Matthias Erll).
ToggleButton added to GroupSelector to ease adding/removing references to/from groups (based on patch 3313564 updated by Andreas Schlicker).
Export filter "tablerefsandbib" updated to contain links to files and notes (patch 2787096 by Thomas Arildsen).
"of" added to the list of skip words (patch 2781830).
Added cli-function for exporting entries filtered by a search term (patch 1817093 by Silberer, Zirn)
Added highlighting in textarea for search text (patch 3117881 by Ben). Slightly modified to cope with words[]={""}, support for "BibTeX source" tab, and that "Clear" also clears the highlighting.
Added highlighting in preview area for search text (based on patch 3121914 by Maximilian Lengsfeld).
Switched from PDFBox 0.7.3 to PDFBox 1.6.0.

New in JabRef 2.7.1 (Oct 31, 2011)

New in JabRef 2.7 (Oct 31, 2011)

New in JabRef 2.6 (Apr 15, 2010)

New in JabRef 2.6 Beta 3 (Mar 8, 2010)

Added ScienceDirect entry fetcher that utilizes the BibSonomy scraper.
Changed non-native file dialog setting so files cannot be renamed. This prevents accidentally entering rename mode when trying to enter directory. Can be enabled again in Options -> Preferences -> Advanced.
Added new JStor fetcher that utilizes the BibSonomy scraper to obtain BibTeX data.
Fixed bug in CookieHandlerImpl.
Fixed bug; when dragging a file into JabRef and asking to move it to the file directory, warning will now be given if the destination file already exists. Patch by Alastair Mailer.
When dragging a file into JabRef and asking to copy or move it to the file directory, it is now possible to rename to an arbitrary name. Patch by Alastair Mailer.
Added "review" field to BibTeXML export.
Added Reset button to entry fetchers. Patch by Dennis Hartrampf and Ines Moosdorf.
Changed Microsoft Office XML export so "number" rather than "issue" is exported as , which conforms with import format.
Added confirmation dialog that allows saving without backup in cases when backup creation fails.
Fixed bug 2938562: using the move/rename feature on a file link could give an absolute link even if the file was put below the main file directory.
Fixed bug 2931293: error generating key with [authorsAlpha] for short names.
When checking for external modifications, file size is now checked in addition to the time stamp.
Fixed handling of maximised state when shutting down and starting up JabRef. Patch by Igor L. Chernyavsky.
Fixed bug that prevented correct handling of DOS short file names. Patch by Igor L. Chernyavsky.
Added support for KOI8_R character set.
Removed DocumentPrinter class, using standard API functions instead. Patch by Tony Mancill.
Removed HightlightFilter class, using standard API functions instead. Patch by Tony Mancill.
Changed keyboard shortcut for IEEXplorer search to Alt-F8.
Disabled JStor search, which doesn't work due to API changes.
External file type manager now removes "." prefix in file type extension if the user has typed it that way.
Preview panel now defaults to preview layout 1 instead of 2. Switched default layouts.
Added IfPlural formatter by Russell Almond. The formatter outputs its first argument if the input field contains " and " and the second one otherwise.
Applied patch by Philipp Cordes and Björn Kahlert for improved handling of names by autocompleter. The patch also reorganizes the autocompleter classes.
Table will now scroll to keep the currently edited entry visible if an edit leads to the entry getting sorted to a different position.
Reworked author and editor handling in Docbook export. Added Docbook XML header.
Database will no longer be marked as changed after accepting external changes, unless one or more changes were not accepted before merging, and unless database was already marked as changed.
Fixed bug: undesired autocompletion when saving file.
Fixed bug: entry editor doesn't appear when new entry is added while a filtering search or group selection is active.
Fixed bug in writing of metadata on Windows. For certain metadata lengths newlines would be messed up after the metadata comment in a bib file.
Search dialog now automatically previews first hit, and hides preview if there are no hits.

New in JabRef 2.6 Beta 2 (Mar 8, 2010)

Added export formatter "Default" which takes a single argument. Outputs the string to format unchanged if it is non-empty, otherwise outputs the argument.
Added option under Options -> Preferences -> General for disabling the strict enforcing of correct BibTeX keys. Disabling this makes it possible to use e.g. umlaut characters in keys.
Modified launcher script for Windows installer to give higher heap size limit.
Improved autocompletion. All fields with autocompletion which have content selectors will now autocomplete on content selector values. For the "journal" field, the autocompleter will now additionally use entries from the current journal abbreviations list, and will also complete on the entire field up to the cursor rather than just looking at the last word only.
Added support for postformatter in Layout. The postformatter will be run after the formatters called from a layout.
Improved group autogeneration. Added option to generate groups based on author or editor last names. Autogenerated groups are now alphabetized.
Modified Endnote export filter so "--" gets converted to "-" in the "pages" field.
Changed keyword groups so they will match on whole words only. E.g. a keyword group for the keyword "can" will no longer match the keyword "scanner".
Improved entry type determination and author parsing for some varieties of CSA files.
Minor change to Harvard RTF export. Added space after "ed.", and added editor to output for inbook entries.
Set limit to the number of displayed characters in group names in groups tree in order to avoid group panel width problems.
Changed file link handling so all remote links classified as URL can be opened through the browser. Setting a different file type manually makes JabRef call a remote link using the handler application instead.
Modified Endnote/refer import filter to strip "doi:" from the %R field.
Modified HTML conversion so single newline is displayed in the preview (and HTML exports) as , while multiple newlines are displayed as .
Fixed bug: switching entry editor between entries of different type may result in switching of entry editor tabs.
Fixed bug: adding external file link leads to relative path from root directory if file directory is set to an empty string.
Fixed error message when a # in a BibTeX string prevents saving. No longer states that the problem is in an entry, but specifies that it is in a string.
Fixed bug: ODS export doesn't resolve BibTeX strings.
Fixed bug: content selector for "editor" field uses "," instead of " and " as delimiter.
Fixed bug: editing source doesn't allow change of entry type.
RTFChars formatter now converts --- to \emdash and -- to \endash.

New in JabRef 2.6 Beta (Mar 8, 2010)

Added pages information to several entry types in Endnote export.
Modified LastPage formatter so it returns the number when only the number of pages is given.
Modified search algorithms so LaTeX commands are removed before search. For instance, this means that the value "test \textit{case}" now matches the search string "test case".
Changed default table font family to "SansSerif".
Can now create lock file while writing a bib file. The lock file is checked before saving, and before scanning an externally changed file, in order to avoid reading an unfinished file.
Added support for dragging a file link from the file column to another application.
Added toolbar button and shortcut (Alt-F) in entry editor for autosetting file links.
Improved ISI import filter so DOI information is included.
Fixed bug: metadata changes would not be detected as external changes to a database.
Fixed bug: when accepting external changes and not saving before new changes are detected, the previously accepted changes would also be listed.
Fixed bug in Scifinder import where an empty Inventor field could overwrite the author field.
Fixed bug in autocompleter. Current suggested completion would be added to the field if the user closed the entry editor or mouse clicked on another field.
Fixed problem with exporting to some MySql versions. Patch by François Dorin.
Fixed bug in handling of LaTeX character sequences - now sequences with = as command character (e.g. "\={A}") are recognized.
Fixed bug: gray out / hide setting in groups panel is overridden on startup by search mode selection. Added separate prefs key for the groups setting. Fix suggested by Igor L. Chernyavsky.
Fixed bug: cookie manager installed by Download button in file field editor throws an exception when trying to fetch from Medline.
Fixed bug: temporary files don't get deleted on shutdown.
Disabled table column reordering in import inspection window, since a user reported problems when using this.
Changed years from 2008 to 2009 in splash image.

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New in JabRef 5.0 (Mar 11, 2020)

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New in JabRef 4.1 (Dec 27, 2017)

New in JabRef 4.0 (Oct 4, 2017)

New in JabRef 4.0.0 Beta 3 (Aug 18, 2017)

New in JabRef 4.0.0 Beta 2 (Aug 18, 2017)

New in JabRef 4.0.0 Beta (Apr 18, 2017)

New in JabRef 3.8.2 (Jan 30, 2017)

New in JabRef 3.8.1 (Dec 28, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.8 (Dec 28, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.7 (Nov 14, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.6 (Aug 26, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.5 (Jul 14, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.4 (Jun 3, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.3 (Apr 25, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.2 (Apr 25, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.1 (Apr 25, 2016)

New in JabRef 3.0 (Nov 30, 2015)

New in JabRef 2.11 (Nov 12, 2015)

New in JabRef 2.11 Beta 4 (Sep 14, 2015)

New in JabRef 2.11 Beta 3 (Jun 22, 2015)

New in JabRef 2.11 Beta 2 (May 22, 2015)

New in JabRef 2.11 Beta (May 22, 2015)

New in JabRef 2.10 Beta 3 (Mar 12, 2014)

New in JabRef 2.10 Beta 2 (Feb 13, 2014)

New in JabRef 2.10 Beta (Jun 20, 2013)

New in JabRef 2.9.2 (Jan 14, 2013)

New in JabRef 2.9 (Jan 3, 2013)

New in JabRef 2.9 Beta 2 (Nov 19, 2012)

New in JabRef 2.8.1 (Jul 6, 2012)

New in JabRef 2.8 (May 15, 2012)

New in JabRef 2.8 Beta (Mar 6, 2012)

New in JabRef 2.7.1 (Oct 31, 2011)

New in JabRef 2.7 (Oct 31, 2011)

New in JabRef 2.6 (Apr 15, 2010)

New in JabRef 2.6 Beta 3 (Mar 8, 2010)

New in JabRef 2.6 Beta 2 (Mar 8, 2010)

New in JabRef 2.6 Beta (Mar 8, 2010)

New in JabRef 2.5 (Mar 8, 2010)

New in JabRef 2.4 (Sep 3, 2008)