CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project does not adhere to Semantic Versioning. This file tries to follow the conventions proposed by keepachangelog.com. Here, the categories "Changed" for added and changed functionality, "Fixed" for fixed functionality, and "Removed" for removed functionality is used.

We refer to GitHub issues by using #NUM, to sourceforge bugs by using bug NUM, and to sourceforge feature requests by using feature NUM.

Unreleased

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)

Fixed

• 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 #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

3.0 - 2015-11-29

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

2.80 - never released

Version 2.80 was intended as intermediate step to JabRef 3.0. Since much functionality has changed during development, a release of this version was skipped.

dev_2.11 - unreleased

Fixed

• Fix #345: Remove history from help file

2.11.1 - 2015-11-16

Fixed

• Backports from 2.80: Fixed #250: No hard line breaks after 70 chars in serialized JabRef meta data
• Backports from 2.80: Fixed #325: Deactivating AutoCompletion crashes EntryEditor

2.11 - 2015-11-11

The changelog of 2.11 and versions before is maintained as text file in the dev_2.11 branch.