KBibTeX 0.4.1 / 0.5 Beta 2 - Changelog

What's new in KBibTeX 0.4.1:

October 16th, 2012

· Web searches: Improved support for user-triggered cancelling
· SpringerLink search: GUI changes, using api.springer.com for search
· PubMed: Limiting search requests per time
· ACM Portal: Retrieving "month", fixing HTTP header
· JSTOR: fixing HTTP header
· Google Scholar: Updates to compensate for changes in Google's web layout; handling redirects
· Science Direct: Updates to compensate for changes in Science Direct's web layout; handling redirects
· arXiv: Trying to extract bibliographic information from journal strings
· BibSonomy: Specifying number of hits to find
· Web search uses KDE's proxy settings
· Using KDE subsystem to open external files (e.g. PDF files)
· Adding preview for images (in addition to PDF or HTML files); handling references to arXiv
· Squeezing long file names in user interface
· Handling quit actions more gracefully
· Improving interface to external programs such as pdflatex
· More robust XSL transformations
· BibTeX import: guessing encoding information left by JabRef, more informative debug output, improved handling of multiple fields with same name
· Reference preview: supporting dark color schemes
· Fixing sorting in value list
· Fixes in setting color tag to entries
· Fixes in name formatting
· Keeping user interface read-only for read-only use cases
· Numerous bug fixes, closing memory leaks, speed improvements
· Adding testing application for web searches
· Fixes in duplicate merging code: remove fields user doesn't want to keep

What's new in KBibTeX 0.4.1 RC2:

October 1st, 2012

· Online searches: Improved support for user-triggered cancelling
· Fixes in online search for JSTOR, Google Scholar, Science Direct
· Reference preview: supporting dark color schemes
· Special test application for online searches
· Fixes in duplication merge

What's new in KBibTeX 0.4.1 RC1:

May 5th, 2012

· Fixes in online search for IEEExplore, Springer Link, PubMed, arXiv, JStor, ScienceDirect
· Various minor GUI fixes and improvements
· Memory leaks fixed
· Better integration into KDE desktop
· Consistently rejecting modifications in read-only mode
· Improved debug output for BibTeX importer
· Document Preview revamped
· Asking for user confirmation on exiting with modified documents
· General GUI improvements such as squeezing long URLs

What's new in KBibTeX 0.4:

November 25th, 2011

· Support for Windows (compiles out of the box)
· Configuration file system refactored
· Adding more online search engines: SpringerLink, PubMed, ACM Digital Library, JSTOR, IEEE Xplorer, Science Direct
· Improving all other online search engines: Google Scholar, arXiv, BibSonomy
· "List of Values" refactored, allows to search for items
· Introducing preferences dialog to manage various settings
· Improved support for drag'n'drop throughout the program
· Improving tagging elements with color
· Introducing global keyword list to select from
· Editing widgets get "history" to select from
· Widget for cross references allows to select from existing elements
· Introducing duplicate finding and merging code and user interface
· Improvements in usability of filter line edit
· File view can resize and order columns, settings get stored
· Improving file importer and exporter filters
· BibTeX references can be sent to LyX via a pipe
· Numerous bug fixes

What's new in KBibTeX 0.3 Beta 2:

May 2nd, 2011

· adding man page
· URL list allows to choose from local files
· correcting behavior of read-only controls
· more robust/flexible importer for BibTeX code
· adding "recently used files" menu item
· fixes in online/web searches including handling of "cancel" events
· numerous other bug fixes and improvements

What's new in KBibTeX 0.2.2:

July 13th, 2009

· Adding support for BibUtils and Bib2Db5 to read and write more bibliography formats
· Finding duplicates in bibliography files
· Creating multiple backup files
· Support for all text encodings supported by iconv
· Supporting more LaTeX commands for non-ASCII characters
· Finding external files (e.g. PDF files) using relative paths, too
· Greatly improving querying web services (e.g. Google Scholar) Querying CiteSeerX, IEEExplorer, Computer Science Bibliographies and
· ScienceDirect added
· Querying Z39.50 servers added
· Viewing primary and online references added
· Saving window sizes of dialogs
· Normalizing entry ids according to suggestion system possible
· Multiple selection in sidebar possible
· Numerous other improvements
· Various bugfixes

What's new in KBibTeX 0.2.2 Beta 2:

February 16th, 2009

· List of changes to be published. See above link for detailed list of changes.