🌸 JabRef 5.13 Release 🌸

We are publishing version 5.13 of JabRef! In the Northern Hemisphere, Spring is on it’s way and we are releasing a new version with many new features and bug fixes with a focus on improving the usability (not only) for LaTeX users.

Release Highlights

One of the notable new features is the interoperability with BibDesk. JabRef can now import BibDesk linked files and static groups. TexWorks User can now push entries from JabRef as well.

For users who want to quickly find an entry in the library, there is now a new command command line option “jump to entry” which will select an entry in the library based on its citationkey

We also added support for the langid field and respect BibTeX-String constants when copy-pasting between libraries. Libraries from .aux files can now also be generated, even if entries are missing in the library.

Other highlights include various usability improvements and UI polishing.

For troubleshooting purposes, JabRef now also keeps previous log files on startup.

Take a look at the changelog for a full list of all changes.

Known issues

• macOS users using an older Intel x86_64 cpu might experience crashes when starting JabRef. We have reported the bug to the Java Team already and are waiting for more information.
• If you are using custom entry types and JabRef does not open your library correctly, use the newest development version that already contains a fix for this issue

Google Summer of Code

• We have received a couple of convincing proposals so far and will now start reviewing and raking them. Stay tuned. For more information follow the GSOC Timeline

Special Thanks

This time we want to give a special shootout to all the first time contributors at JabRef! We hope you had a positive experience so far and continue your contribution!

We thank the following external contributors who contributed code to this JabRef release:

Abd al Rahman Gad	aganderson	AnandChandrakar	Anders Bergh	Andreas Efstathiou	Anirudhxx
Anish Pal	Anna Maartensson	Ashwin2397	Brielle Stokes	burcukilic	Dheeraj Singh
Dumitru	Elliot Anderson	Emil Hultcrantz	enes	Filippa Nilsson	Gary Mejia
Hannes Stig
	Harshit Gupta	Jean Perbet	karlsb	Konstantinos Chanioglou	lachiri
			Luca Bolzonello
Linus Wallin	Loay Ghreeb	LottaJohnsson		Luggas	lwlR
Maciej Walczykowski	Martin Catheland	maxisr	Michael Dawson	Nitin Suresh	Paisley5
Ralph	rdsingh13	Roc	Ruslan	Sebastian Balzer	shawn-jj
Subhramit Basu Bhowmick	Tal	teertinker	Tian0602	u7282852	Vlad Dobre
xinhangzhou	ZOU Hetai

Furthermore, we thank all users who continuously tested and reported back on different development versions. Finally, since JabRef is entirely run by volunteers, we would like to thank all our donators who financially support the development! To be part of that community, please check out our donation possibilities.