Zotero 9.0

What's new in this version:

Read Aloud:
- Listen to PDFs, EPUBs, and webpage snapshots with high-quality, natural-sounding voices
- Annotate the last sentence with a single click or H/U on keyboard
- Last reading position is saved and synced across devices
- Start reading from any paragraph by clicking in the left margin while Read Aloud is activated

“Recently Read” collection:
- New virtual collection in each library showing items you've read recently, synced across devices
- “Last Read” column available in all views
- “Attachment Last Read” search condition

Insert annotations directly into word processor documents:
- New “Add Annotation” button in word processor plugins lets you insert annotations directly into your document with active Zotero citations

“Added By” and “Modified By” for group libraries:
- View the group members who added and/or last edited items
- Shown in item pane, and can be added as columns in the items list

Per-group file renaming settings:
- Group admins can configure file-renaming templates for each group library

Performance improvements:
- Reduced startup memory usage by ~20%
- Detect external local attachment changes during sync without scanning all files
- Avoid repeated checks for remotely missing files during sync
- [Mac] Use APFS cloning for file copies, including automatic database backups, to save potentially hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes of local disk space

Web-based login flow:
- Log in to your Zotero account via the browser instead of entering credentials in the app
- Allows use of password managers
- Allows for two-factor authentication (currently testable; available by default soon)

Improved RTF Scan:
- Support for citations with extended and non-Latin characters in authors and titles
- Support for additional quotation mark styles
- Support for citations with title but no author
- Support for documents with multiple character encodings

Reader changes:
- Improved theme handling for scanned PDFs
- Support for fixed-layout EPUBs
- Don't apply dark-mode styling to printed PDFs

Items list improvements:
- “+”/“-” keys now expand/collapse all rows one level at a time
- Added Director as fallback for Creator for Video Recording items
- Fixed Title column not being recoverable when hidden by a plugin
- Added “Citation Key” column to items list
- Search by citation key in search bar (“Title, Creator, Year” mode) and citation dialog
- “View Online” button for PMID/PMCID to open PubMed and PubMed Central directly from the item pane
- Fixed “Rename File to Match Parent Item” button sometimes not appearing
- Don't merge trashed attachments
- Improved keyboard navigation in drop-down menus
- Exclude ©, ®, and ™ from emoji detection
- Show account email addresses in sync settings
- Various other improvements and bug fixes