Graphical Java application for managing bibtex (.bib) databases

JabRef for Mac

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JabRef 5.2

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Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system. Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of JabRef 5.2.


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What's new in this version:

Added:
- We added a validation to check if the current database location is shared, preventing an exception when Pulling Changes From Shared Database
- We added a query parser and mapping layer to enable conversion of queries formulated in simplified lucene syntax by the user into api queries
- We added some basic functionality to customise the look of JabRef by importing a css theme file
- We added connection check function in network preference setting
- We added support for exporting to YAML
- 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
- We added an error message in the New Entry dialog that is shown in case the fetcher did not find anything
- We added a new formatter to output shorthand month format
- We added support for the new Microsoft Edge browser in all platforms
- We reintroduced emacs/bash-like keybindings
- 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)

Changed:
- We changed the default preferences for OpenOffice/LibreOffice integration to automatically sync the bibliography when inserting new citations in a OpenOffic/LibreOffice document
- We restructured the 'File' tab and extracted some parts into the 'Linked files' tab
- JabRef now offers journal lists from https://abbrv.jabref.org. JabRef the lists which use a dot inside the abbreviations
- We removed two useless preferences in the groups preferences dialog
- Synchronization of SpecialFields to keywords is now disabled by default
- JabRef no longer opens the entry editor with the first entry on startup
- 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
- Fetch by ID: (long) "SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System" replaced by (short) "SAO/NASA ADS"
- We changed the title of the window "Manage field names and content" to have the same title as the corresponding menu item
- 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".
- 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
- We changed the title of the window "Manage field names and content": to have the same title as the corresponding menu item
- 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)
- We changed in the group interface "Generate groups from keywords in a BibTeX field" by "Generate groups from keywords in the following field"
- We changed the name of a group type from "Searching for keywords" to "Searching for a keyword"
- We changed the way JabRef displays the title of a tab and of the window
- 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
- We changed the order of the library tab context menu items
- We changed the way linked files are opened on Linux to use the native openFile method, compatible with confined packages
- 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

Fixed:
- We fixed an issue changing the icon link_variation_off that is not meaningful
- We fixed an issue where the .sav file was not deleted upon exiting JabRef
- We fixed a linked identifier icon inconsistency
- We fixed the wrong behavior that font size changes are not reflected in dialogs
- We fixed the failure to Copy citation key and link
- We fixed an issue where the sort order of the entry table was reset after a restart of JabRef
- We fixed an issue where no longer a warning was displayed when inserting references into LibreOffice with an invalid "ReferenceParagraphFormat"
- We fixed an issue where a selected field was not removed after the first click in the custom entry types dialog
- We fixed an issue where a remove icon was shown for standard entry types in the custom entry types dialog
- We fixed an issue where it was impossible to connect to OpenOffice/LibreOffice on Mac OSX
- We fixed an issue with the python script used by browser plugins that failed to locate JabRef if not installed in its default location
- We fixed an issue where spaces and newlines in an isbn would generate an exception
- We fixed an issue where identity column header had incorrect foreground color in the Dark theme
- We fixed an issue where the RIS exporter added extra blank lines
- We fixed an issue where clicking on Collapse All button in the Search for Unlinked Local Files expanded the directory structure erroneously
- We fixed an issue, when pulling changes from shared database via shortcut caused creation of a new tech report
- We fixed an issue where the JabRef GUI does not highlight the "All entries" group on start-up
- We fixed an issue where a custom dark theme was not applied to the entry preview tab
- We fixed an issue where modifications to the Custom preview layout in the preferences were not saved
- We fixed an issue where errors from imports were not shown to the user
- We fixed an issue where the EndNote XML Import would fail on empty keywords tags forum
- We fixed an issue where the color of groups of type "free search expression" not persisting after restarting the application
- We fixed an issue where modifications in the source tab where not saved without switching to another field before saving the library
- 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
- We fixed an issue where the context menu was not updated after a file link was changed
- We fixed an issue where the password for a shared SQL database was not remembered
- We fixed an issue where newly added entires were not synced to a shared SQL database
- 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

Removed:
- We removed the Google Scholar fetcher and the ACM fetcher do not work due to traffic limitations
- We removed the menu entry "Manage external file types" because it's already in 'Preferences' dialog
- We removed the integrity check "Abbreviation detected" for the field journal/journaltitle in the entry editor5

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