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Zotero 6.0.5

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What's new in this version:

Functionality changed or added:
- Added table editing in notes
- PDF reader changes
- Removed “Store Annotations in File” option (details)
- Added “Zoom to Page Height” option
- Ignore comment in imported annotation if it matches highlighted text (for external PDF readers set to copy highlighted text to the comment field)
- The note tool no longer stays active after creating a note annotation
- Manually set page numbers are now used as the offset for new annotations
- “Add to Note” now adds annotations at the cursor position instead of at the end of the note
- Added keyboard shortcuts for bold and italics in annotation comments
- Added “Open PDF in New Window” context-menu option in items list
- Decreased memory usage with multiple PDF tabs
- Background PDF tabs are no longer loaded at startup
- Background PDF tabs are unloaded after 24 hours
- Only the 5 most recently viewed PDF tabs are kept in memory
- Added horizontal scrolling to tab bar
- Added validation of CSL 1.0.2 styles
- Improved call number sorting in items list
- Restored use of some punctuation when sorting items list
- Restored support for extensions.zotero.note.css to customize note styling

Fixed:
- Fixed cut-off text in collections/items lists when using various OS font scaling options
- Fixed Mendeley annotations being duplicated on reimport after sync
- Fixed invalid page numbers imported from Citavi that could cause sync errors (details)
- Don't merge attachment files if some are in trash
- Don't merge attachment files of different link types (stored vs. linked)
- Fixed broken tag selector after setting a colored tag changed by Unicode normalization
- Fixed some cases of creator autocomplete not populating both name fields
- Fixed copying text in PDF annotation text fields
- Fixed annotation highlight colors not showing up when adding notes to word processors
- Fixed highlight colors not showing up when pasting text into notes from word processors
- Fixed some item types not appearing in New Item submenu until restart after creating new items
- Fixed middle click to close tabs
- Improved item tree column header alignment
- Fixed {{if tags}} returning true for no tags in note template
- Miscellaneous other bug fixes

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