Zotero 7.0

What's new in this version:

Major app redesign:
- A beautiful, modern design
- Dark mode
- Redesigned item pane with collapsible vertical sections and side navigation bar
- Customizable item pane header (Title, Title/Creator/Year, Bibliography Entry)

Two density options: Compact and Comfortable:
- New app icon

Much faster performance:
Improved reader:
- Faster PDF handling
- Support for opening and annotating EPUBs and webpage snapshots
- Support for creating ink, underline, and text annotations
- Hovering over a citation or internal link now opens a popup showing the associated reference or figure
- Annotations can now be resized
- Support for highlight and underline annotations spanning two pages
- Basic table-of-contents extraction for Document Outline tab
- Full functionality is now available in both panes when splitting view
- Improved compatibility with a wide range of PDFs
- Native support for Apple Silicon Macs
- 64-bit Windows support
- Better handling of large libraries and files
- Windows users should reinstall 64-bit Zotero from the download page — existing data won't be affected

Windows on ARM support:
- Faster performance on ARM PCs, including Copilot+ PCs, as well as when running Windows 11 in a virtual machine on an Apple Silicon Mac

Improved accessibility:
- Greater support for screen readers
- Improvements to keyboard navigation
- Faster citing of selected and open items
- The citation dialog now automatically suggests items selected in Zotero as well as any open items in the built-in reader
- Can be used as a replacement for the “classic” citation dialog — select an item in Zotero, click Add/Edit Citation, and press Enter/Return
- Restoring of deleted collections and searches from trash

Collection search:
Open-tabs menu:
- Shows a list of all open tabs, with tab search and fast tab closing/reordering
- Attachment previews
- For PDFs, EPUBs, webpage snapshots, and images
- Libraries and Collections list
- New item pane section lists libraries and collections an item is in
- An alternative to the modifier key
- Customizable file renaming
- Files can now be renamed according to a much wider array of options
- Added setting to configure which file types should be automatically renamed
- Improved plugin architecture
- Restartless loading/unloading
- Built-in support for common integration points (items-list columns, item-pane sections, settings panes, etc.) for increased stability
- All existing plugins must be updated for Zotero 7

Better OS compatibility:
- Follow system dark mode
- Use system font on macOS
- Use Wayland on Linux if available
- Better compatibility with various Linux desktop environments
- Attachment titles are no longer changed to match the filename when manually renaming files from parent metadata
- Improved RTL/bidirectional-text support
- Redesigned settings window with full-text/keyword search
- Retrieve Metadata now works on EPUBs as well as PDFs
- Emoji tags are now displayed in the items list even when not associated with a color
- Added setting to open files in windows instead of tabs
- Added column picker to Advanced Search window
- Added “Add to Dictionary” option in note editor
- Added “Fix Case” text transform to creator context menu for all-uppercase/lowercase names
- Added ability to copy URL of snapshot/link in attachment item pane
- Smarter sentence-casing of titles from item pane (ignore acronyms, mixed case, etc.)
- When importing files, import into current collection if not creating a new collection
- Improved downloading of files from ScienceDirect
- Zotero will show a CAPTCHA window during a download if necessary
- Feed reader improvements
- “Feeds” header is now a selectable global view of feed items
- Support rich-text/graphical abstracts
- Support additional metadata fields in some feeds
- Added Help → “Restart in Troubleshooting Mode…” for easier troubleshooting
- Temporarily disables all plugins
- [Mac] Fixed a bug that could cause the Zotero Connector for Safari to stop working after an app update
- [Windows] Version number in “Add or remove programs” is now updated on app update
- PDF indexing no longer requires external executables (pdfinfo/pdftotext)
- Removed “Create Timeline” feature
- Fixed rendering problem that could cause black quarter-circles to appear in PDFs on some systems
- Many additional improvements and bug fixes

Developer-specific changes/fixes:
- For Zotero core and plugin development, see Zotero 7 for Developers

Also:
- Local HTTP API for accessing Zotero data (details)
- Much simpler build process
- Improved code editor in Style Editor with inline CSL validation
- Improved code editor in Translator Editor within built-in linting
- Automatically load last-opened translator when opening Translator Editor