Zotero

Zotero just released version 4.0.18 and 4.0.19, with some major, mainly under the hood improvements. These changes aren’t obvious at first sight, but are a major improvement. There are three major ...

«Fixed freezing of items list in some situations

Fixed spurious WebDAV verification failure in preferences window on Windows/Linux

Word processor integration fixes

Avoid some unnecessary citation updates[Standalone]

Fixed installation of Word plugin on Mac OS X under certain circumstances

[Standalone] Set reasonable minimum width and height»

Les différents changements et améliorations apportées à Zotero entre le 30 avril 2012 (version 3.0.4) et le 1er mai 2012 (version 3.6).

Changes in 4.0.24 (December 1, 2014)

•Firefox 34 compatibility

•Allow dependent styles to override parent style locale

•Added tooltip to Zotero toolbar button

4.0.24 is currently available for Firefox only. A Standalone version will be available soon

*Functionality changed or added*

●  New monochrome toolbar icons for Firefox 29 UI (Australis)

●  Display a message pointing to new toolbar icon when upgrading to Firefox 29 - Firefox 29 permanently removes the Add-on Bar»…

Functionality changed or added

☸Much faster full-text indexing

☸“Retrieve Metadata from PDF” (improvementsGoogle Scholar CAPTCHA support to prevent blocks / Increased accuracy/ UI improvements

☸Open links from within notes

☸Automatic linking of web addresses in notes

☸Transform Text sentence-case conversion now capitalizes after :, ?, !

« We are excited to announce the release of Zotero 4.0 Beta 1. Zotero 4.0 is a major update over 3.0, offering many new features and bug fixes, including:

Tag colors

On-demand download support

Relative path support for linked files

Automatic style updating for all installed styles

Automatic journal abbreviation support

Firefox 20 compatibility (Zotero for Firefox)

«Please note: Zotero 4.0 is currently beta software, and you may encounter bugs while using it».

Functionality changed or added
 

• Improved PDF metadata retrieval
• Items list performance improvements
•[Zotero for Firefox] New pref: “Open PDFs and other files within Firefox when possible”
•By default, with this option enabled, Zotero will open files using any browser plugins available in Firefox (e.g., PDF plugins). If this option is disabled, files such as PDFs will be opened via the operating system, even if a browser plugin is available.
•Useful for annotating files using an external program (e.g., OS X Preview, Acrobat Reader)
•Previously available only as a hidden pref (launchNonNativeFiles)
•Don't count items as duplicates if DOI/ISBN don't match or year is off by > 1
•Removed “Try to override conflicting shortcuts” pref
•Most Zotero shortcuts are active only in the Zotero pane, so overriding other Firefox shortcuts isn't necessary».