JabRef

JabRef is a graphical frontend to manage BibTeX databases, the standard format for LaTeX bibliography references. JabRef is built to be platform-independant (requires Java 8 or later).

Changed

• Implemented #1356: Added a formatter for converting HTML to Unicode
• Implemented #661: Introducing a "check for updates" mechnism (manually/automatic at startup)
• Implemented #1338: clicking on a crossref in the main table selects the parent entry and added a button in the entry editor to select the parent entry.
• Implemented #1485: Biblatex field shorttitle is now exported/imported as standard field ShortTitle to Word bibliography
• Implemented #1431: Import dialog shows file extensions and filters the view
• When resolving duplicate BibTeX-keys there is now an "Ignore" button. "Cancel" and close key now quits the resolving.
• The online forum is now directly accessible via the "Help" menu
• Updated German translation

Fixed

• Fixed #1530: Unescaped hashes in the url field are ignored by the integrity checker
• Fixed #405: Added more {} around capital letters in Unicode/HTML to LaTeX conversion to preserve them
• Fixed #1476: NPE when importing from SQL DB because of missing DatabaseMode
• Fixed #1481: Mac OS X binary seems broken for JabRef 3.4 release
• Fixed #1430: "review changes" did misinterpret changes
• Fixed #1434: Static groups are now longer displayed as dynamic ones
• Fixed #1482: Correct number of matched entries is displayed for refining subgroups
• Fixed #1444: Implement getExtension and getDescription for importers.
• Fixed #1507: Keywords are now separated by the delimiter specified in the preferences
• Fixed #1484: HTML export handles some UTF characters wrong
• Fixed #1534: "Mark entries imported into database" does not work correctly
• Fixed #1500: Renaming of explicit groups now changes entries accordingly
• Fixed issue where field changes were not undoable if the time stamp was updated on editing
• Springer fetcher now fetches the requested number of entries (not one less as before)
• Alleviate multiuser concurrency issue when near simultaneous saves occur to a shared database file