https://blog.jabref.org/The blog of the literature management software JabRef. 2026-08-25T19:18:11+02:00 JabRef e.V. https://blog.jabref.org/ Jekyll © 2026 JabRef e.V. /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-08-15T00:00:00+02:00 2026-08-15T00:00:00+02:00 https://blog.jabref.org/2026/08/15/Improved-LibreOffice-Intergration/ Hancong

Hi, I am Hancong. I am a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student at JabRef this year, and I will be walking you through JabRef’s new features for LibreOffice. Background JabRef introduced support for CSL styles in its LibreOffice integration back in 2024, allowing users to insert CSL-formatted citations directly into their documents. However, there were many existing issues. One of them was that...

2026-08-09T00:00:00+02:00 2026-08-09T00:00:00+02:00 https://blog.jabref.org/2026/08/09/OCR-integration-in-JabRef/ JabRef e.V.

Hi, I am Zeyad. I am a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student at JabRef this year, and I will be walking you through the new OCR and AI integration I built for JabRef. Background JabRef already does a great job at managing metadata and text-based PDFs, letting you search, tag, and cross-reference your library with ease. But that search only works if the PDF actually has text in it. Historical p...

2026-08-01T00:00:00+02:00 2026-08-01T00:00:00+02:00 https://blog.jabref.org/2026/08/01/systematic-literature-reviews-in-jabref/ JabRef e.V.

Hi, we’re Loay and Faneesh. This summer, we worked on improving Systematic Literature Review (SLR) support in JabRef, and we’re here to talk about it. To give an overview, one, you can now give any catalog its own native search query instead of relying only on JabRef’s translated ones, and two, every search you run is now fully reproducible, recorded exactly as it happened. To see all this in ...

2026-06-15T00:00:00+02:00 2026-06-15T00:00:00+02:00 https://blog.jabref.org/2026/06/15/running-jabref-on-windows-arm64/ faneesh

Windows on ARM is becoming more common under the influence of Surface laptops, Copilot+ PCs and other devices shipping with ARM64 processors. But running Java desktop applications on these machines is still a challenge: JavaFX, which JabRef relies on for its user interface, does not yet provide official builds for Windows ARM64. This post walks through how to run JabRef on a Windows ARM64 mach...

2026-05-14T00:00:00+02:00 2026-05-14T00:00:00+02:00 https://blog.jabref.org/2026/05/14/JabRef6-0-alpha6/ JabRef e.V.

It’s just May and we again have a full changelog since the last release. We are happy to announce the release of JabRef 6.0 Alpha 6, the next step towards the stable version of JabRef 6.0. It’s formally an alpha release because we have a couple of things left in our backlog for a Beta version. But nonetheless this version includes plenty of fixes and improvements and thus we invite everyone t...