JabCon 2024

From Friday, September 6 to Monday, September 9, 2023 the annual JabCon took place in Zwiesel, Germany, where the majority of the JabRef maintainers and some members of our non-profit organization JabRef e.V. met in person and worked together to improve JabRef and discuss the roadmap for future releases 🐱💻☕. We are happy to announce that JabRef e.V. now has 22 members who support JabRef’s development in various ways and keep us motivated.

This year we discussed various aspect of JabRef and mainly focused on architectural improvements and bug fixes. The final goal is to be able to use parts of JabRef independently as library, commandline, and server without GUI for e.g. integrity check or cleanup operations as part of a toolchain. For most JabRef users, the positive side effect of this will be an improved user experience due to a better stabiltity of the code. For most JabRef users, the positive side effect of this wil be an improved user experience due to a better stabiltity of the code. During the JabCon we also took the opportunity to improve and polish the documentation to reflect the latest changes.

The first massive code changes during and immediately after JabCon are already integrated and will be further adapted.

We are excited for next year’s JabCon!

Special Thanks

We want to thank all the users who are constantly testing the latest snapshots and providing feedback! Furthermore, we would like to thank our donators and JabRef e.V. members who made it possible for many JabRef developers to attend the conference and to support our work. In case you like to donate money on a regular basis, we would prefer via our bank account (tax-deductible and no fees) or via GitHub Sponsors as the fees are lower than PayPal.