Zotero for Mac

What's new in this version:

Redesigned advanced search:
- Now opens directly above the items list via a button in the quick-search bar and can filter any view, including collections and saved searches
- Supports nested condition groups for complex searches
- Allows choosing a result level — top-level items, attachments, annotations, or notes — with conditions automatically mapped across levels
- Terms in the quick-search bar automatically populate advanced search with equivalent conditions

New search conditions:
- Annotation Type, Color, and Author
- Attachment Storage Type
- of Annotations, # of Attachments, # of Notes, # of Tags
- New “is empty”/”is not empty” operators

Accent-insensitive searching and other search improvements:
- Searches now ignore accents and typographic characters (“cafe” ? “café”, “can't” ? “can’t”)
- Much faster full-text content searches
- Chinese, Japanese, and Korean searches in the quick-search bar now match full phrases, much more quickly
- Faster, more reliable indexing of new attachment content

Multi-collection selection:
- Select multiple collections, saved searches, or even libraries in the collections pane to view all of their items together
- View, search, and interact with items across libraries, grouped by library with sticky headers as you scroll
- Cmd/Ctrl-A in the collections pane expands the selection to all rows within the same parent

Batch editing:
- Edit fields on multiple items at once
- Combine with in-window advanced search and multi-collection selection to find and fix metadata across one or more libraries

Undo support:
- Undo and redo many operations using Edit ? Undo/Redo or standard keyboard shortcuts
- Plugins can opt their operations into undo history

Smarter Read Aloud:
- Better skipping of in-text citations, headers, footers, tables, figures, and equations
- Paragraphs are read continuously across columns and pages
- Individual sentences are now highlighted as they’re read, with word and paragraph highlighting options available in the settings
- Faster startup for large documents

Reading Mode for PDFs:
- View PDFs as clean, reflowable text with adjustable font, size, and line spacing — no headers, footers, or multi-column layouts
- Images, tables, and figures are shown as rendered in the original PDF
- Highlight, underline, and add notes in Reading Mode, with annotations and reading position shared with the standard PDF view

Improved Zotero Connector for Safari:
- Adds support for various features previously available only for other browsers, such as automatic proxy detection and redirection
- Requires Safari 18 on macOS 13 Ventura or later; older macOS versions keep the previous connector

Reader improvements:
- Dramatically lower memory usage from reader tabs
- Much more precise EPUB position restoration (after closing and reopening the reader or resizing the window)
- EPUB/snapshot: Text-selection popup now appears closer to the mouse cursor

Citation dialog improvements:
- Citation preview pane
- Add all selected items on a + click in Library mode
- Show guidance about typing locators in input field
- Make collections pane resizable

Database-related improvements:
- Improved database write performance
- Automatically compact database to reduce disk-space usage
- Drop versioned database backups to reduce disk-space usage and force a regular backup before all database upgrades
- Fixed opening the database on network filesystems (e.g., SMB) on macOS/Linux
- [Mac] Support Word plugin installation on macOS 27 Golden Gate
- Fixed downloading of files over 2 GB (since Zotero 8)
- Changed Read Aloud keyboard shortcut to Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-L/R
- Allow “Annotate Sentence” panel to be move and remember position
- Show validation errors for file-renaming templates
- Fixed new profile not creating new data directory on Windows
- Added “Clear All Last Read Dates…” to Recently Read context menu
- Renamed “Sync” settings pane to “Account”
- Improved saving of files from PubMed Central
- Show Abstract section when merging items
- Keep “Add Item by Identifier” open if populated when app loses focus
- Added File menu options to note tabs
- Improved performance of large creator lists in item pane
- Reduced menu padding on Windows and Linux
- Don’t mark file as read when using Show File / Show in Finder
- Fixed system-handler detection for PDFs/EPUBs on Windows 11
- Encrypt API key and WebDAV password using OS keychain
- Automatically repair unusable login manager
- Skip retraction banner during initial sync on a new computer
- [Security] Updated Mozilla platform to 140.13.0esr
- Various other improvements and bug fixes

Developer-specific changes/fixes:
- Local API write support
- Instantaneous rebuilding after code changes
- Fixed profiler (Performance tab) in developer tools