What's new in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.4
May 2, 2019
- made changes to the export process to allow the export to be cancelled
- improved error messaging when trying to add a bibliography to unsupported components in MS Word
- introduced a loop break out in Word when a user takes too long to interact with Mendeley.
- added bulk export highlights along side of bulk exporting sticky notes annotations
- fixed a bug with the search sort order
- fixed a bug to avoid Mendeley Desktop sync getting stuck at group sync
- fixed crashes:
- on document search
- on deduplication
- when installing the Citation Plug in for LibreOffice
- when signing out after checking for updates
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.3 (Feb 25, 2019)
- We have fixed the following bugs:
- In the library:
- The ‘Read’ column has been restored in the Recently Read view
- The application is no longer unresponsive during automatic backups
- For MacOSX Sierra and High Sierra users we have reduced the GPU usage
- Annotations can now be moved after they have been created
- Annotations are no longer displaying as ‘Unknown user’ for all exported annotations
- In the MS Word Citation plugin:
- Fixed an issues causing users to get the error message ‘Range cannot be deleted (6028)
- Merging citation in areas other than the body text now merge correctly
- Correct error messages are now displayed when you try to insert a citation or bibliography in a prohibited area
- Fixed some issues to improve performance
- In the LibreOffice citation plugin
- Adjacent inline or footnote citations no longer fail to merge when cited in a table
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.2 (Aug 15, 2018)
- The database back-up feature has been restored.
- We fixed bugs that were causing the app to crash during:
- Sync
- PDF import; and
- Opening a corrupted database
- We also fixed two bugs relating to sync causing:
- Incorrect sync for users using the app on more than one machine
- Sync to fail when the user profile was not synced
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.2 Dev 3 (Aug 9, 2018)
- The database back-up feature has been restored.
- We fixed bugs that were causing the app to crash during:
- Sync
- PDF import; and
- Opening a corrupted database
- We also fixed two bugs relating to sync causing:
- Incorrect sync for users using the app on more than one machine
- Sync to fail when the user profile was not synced
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.2 Dev 2 (Jul 19, 2018)
- The database back-up feature has been restored.
- We fixed a bug that was causing incorrect syncing for users using the app on more than one machine
- We fixed two bugs that were causing the app to crash during:
- sync; and
- PDF import
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.2 Dev 1 (Jul 16, 2018)
- The database back-up feature has been restored.
- We fixed a bug that was causing the app to crash during sync.
- We fixed a bug that was causing incorrect syncing for users using the app on more than one machine.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19.1 (Jun 7, 2018)
- We have fixed bugs causing:
- High CPU usage
- The application to crash when switching folders
- PDFs not to open when the file name contained certain Unicode characters
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.19 (May 24, 2018)
- We have improved security for users accessing Mendeley Desktop on a shared machine
- Literature search has been updated so you should see better results
- We have fixed a bug so you can now rename groups again without going to mendeley.com
- Mendeley Desktop now supports the LibreOffice 64bit version on MS Windows
- We have fixed some bugs in the MS Word plugin that caused:
- Incorrect citation to be added when using footnote citation styles
- Errors on editing citations when the bibliography was selected
- We also fixed some bugs in the LibreOffice plugin that caused:
- Citations not to be added after a bibliography had been inserted
- Issues with inserting a bibliography
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.18.1 (May 14, 2018)
- ALL PLATFORMS:
- The Folder and Group Settings have been updated.
- Fixed a bug preventing Annotations being created while offline.
- Updated links to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy are available via the Help Menu and About Mendeley Desktop Page
- We have updated our PDF renderer so PDF interactions should now be improved:
- Foreign characters show now render appropriately
- Copy/Paste from PDF's improved.
- Fixed a crash when loading PDF's created from Web Content.
- SUPPORT:
- If you encounter any problems using Mendeley or have questions to ask please contact our support team.
- For news and updates about Mendeley see our blog.
- MENDELEY USES:
- PDF technology powered by PDFTron.
- Portions of this product © 2008 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
- Fugue Icons by Pinvoke.
- Silk Icons by FamFamFam.
- Social Network Icons and buttons by Komodo Media, Rogie King.
- Word/LibreOffice plugins use code © Zotero / Center for History and New Media / George Mason University.
- CSL and citeproc-js for reference formattin
- MENDELEY OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY:
- The Mendeley Open Source library contains code derived from Qt or kdelibs, and some Mendeley-authored utility classes.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.18 (Apr 16, 2018)
- MACOS:
- MacOS Sierra and High Sierra are now officially supported by Mendeley Desktop
- Please be aware MacOS Maverick and earlier MacOS versions will no longer be officially supported by Mendeley Desktop
- SUPPORT:
- If you encounter any problems using Mendeley or have questions to ask please contact our support team.
- For news and updates about Mendeley see our blog.
- MENDELEY USES:
- PDF technology powered by PDFTron.
- Portions of this product © 2008 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
- Fugue Icons by Pinvoke.
- Silk Icons by FamFamFam.
- Social Network Icons and buttons by Komodo Media, Rogie King.
- Word/LibreOffice plugins use code © Zotero / Center for History and New Media / George Mason University.
- CSL and citeproc-js for reference formattin
- ALL PLATFORMS:
- The display for Groups now only shows Documents; Overview and Members will no longer display but you can still manage Group members on mendeley.com
- Improved speed of drag ‘n’ drop when dragging large number of documents
- Fixed linking to Get Help
- Fixed an error:
- that caused the Citation plug-in to hang on refresh in MS Word and LibreOffice
- that caused citations not to render properly when inserted in a table
- that caused repeat citations to be incorrectly indexed
- on inserting bibliography
- that caused MS Word for Mac 16.8 to slow down when the plug-in was installed
- that caused ‘Keep citation edit?” to appear multiple time when editing citations
- that caused MS word to hang when editing a citation
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.18 Dev 3 (Apr 3, 2018)
- macOS Sierra and High Sierra are now officially supported by Mendeley Desktop
- Please be aware macOS Maverick and earlier macOS versions will no longer be officially supported by Mendeley Desktop
- The display for Groups now only shows Documents; Overview and Members will no longer display but you can still manage Group members on mendeley.com
- Improved speed of drag ‘n’ drop when dragging large number of documents
- Fixed linking to Get Help
- Fixed an error:
- that caused the Citation plug-in to hang on refresh in MS Word and LibreOffice
- that caused citations not to render properly when inserted in a table
- that caused repeat citations to be incorrectly indexed
- on inserting bibliography
- that caused MS Word for Mac 16.8 to slow down when the plug-in was installed
- that caused ‘Keep citation edit?” to appear multiple time when editing citations
- that caused MS word to hang when editing a citation
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.13 (Jan 9, 2018)
- Updates Mendeley citation plugin to avoid "Combo Box Not found" error message (Mac Word version 16.8)
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.12 (Nov 15, 2017)
- All Platforms:
- Fixes crash on startup if the local database wasn't consistent
- Fixes problems with "Restore backup" functionality
- Fixes syncing problems for the error "Missing required field: Text"
- "Welcome to Mendeley" onboarding page content improvement
- Microsoft Word plugin: notifies users if a citation cannot be inserted (in formulas, illustrations, etc.)
- Microsoft Word plugin: fixes "Object required (424)" error
- Microsoft Word/LibreOffice plugins: when editing a citation and pressing "Go to Mendeley": highlights the edited documents in Mendeley Desktop
- Microsoft Word/LibreOffice APA 6th Edition (and others): fixes error when citing a document multiple times
- Fixes links to Mendeley help webpages
- Mac OS:
- Fixes error that caused Mendeley Desktop to not load properly (stayed in the "Splash Screen")
- Microsoft Word Plugin: fixes "Insert Citation" if Microsoft Word is in full screen (it exits full screen)
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.12 Dev 1 (Oct 30, 2017)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixes crash on startup if the local database wasn't consistent
- Fixes problems with "Restore backup" functionality
- Fixes syncing problems for the error "Missing required field: Text"
- "Welcome to Mendeley" onboarding page content improvement
- Word plugin: notifies users if a citation cannot be inserted (in formulas, illustrations, etc.)
- Fixes error that caused Mendeley Desktop to not load properly (stayed in the "Splash Screen")
- Word Plugin: fixes "Insert Citation" if Microsoft Word is in full screen (it exits full screen)
- Mendeley Desktop is ready to work on the next Mac Word versions
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.11 (Sep 12, 2017)
- New Features:
- The Mendeley Citation Plugin for Microsoft Word now fully supports footnote citation styles.
- Bug Fixes:
- We have fixed a bug and umlauts are now correctly import and export in BibTeX.
- Finally, the FAQ now links out to the new Mendeley Support Centre.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.11 Dev 4 (Sep 5, 2017)
- Bug Fixes:
- We have fixed a bug and umlauts are now correctly import and export in BibTeX.
- Finally, the FAQ now links out to the new Mendeley Support Centre.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.11 Dev 3 (Aug 10, 2017)
- New Features:
- The Mendeley Citation Plugin for Microsoft Word now fully supports footnote citation styles.
- Bug Fixes:
- We have fixed a bug and umlauts are now correctly import and export in BibTeX.
- Finally, the FAQ now links out to the new Mendeley Support Centre.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.10 (Jun 12, 2017)
- For users who forget to sync Mendeley Desktop before closing then update document notes or annotations on Mendeley Web Library or one of the mobile apps we have made it easier to resolve conflicts when you next sync your Mendeley Desktop library. You can now resolve all conflicts with one click rather than only reviewing them individually.
- We have added two new buttons to the Reading toolbar so you can now resize your PDF to width or height with only one click.
- You can also invite colleagues to join Mendeley: from the Tools menu select Invite Colleagues.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.10 Dev (Jun 6, 2017)
- Improvements:
- For users who forget to sync Mendeley Desktop before closing then update document notes or annotations on Mendeley Web Library or one of the mobile apps we have made it easier to resolve conflicts when you next sync your Mendeley Desktop library. You can now resolve all conflicts with one click rather than only reviewing them individually.
- We have added two new buttons to the Reading toolbar so you can now resize your PDF to width or height with only one click.
- You can also invite colleagues to join Mendeley: from the Tools menu select Invite Colleagues.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.9 (Mar 27, 2017)
- Improvements:
- You can now select a highlight regardless of which tool is active and once you have selected your highlight the context menu will now be shown.
- If you are editing a note, when you close that note the active tool will no longer change.
- Deselecting a note you have added to a highlight takes you back to the full text.
- A new help button has been added to the toolbar to make it easier for you to find all you need to guide you through Mendeley Desktop.
- Bug Fixes:
- Mac users with Microsoft Word 2011 installed can now install the Citation Plug In without getting a compilation error.
- If you have Airwatch installed and still experiencing Citation Plug In issues then please contact Support who will guide you through a fix.
- On high DPI screens, if you use a zoom factor of 150% or more, the "added" column of the document view will display in full
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.9 Dev 3 (Mar 16, 2017)
- Bug Fixes:
- Mac users: We fixed the Citation Plug In for Microsoft Word 2011. It should now install and be used without errors.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.9 Dev 2 (Mar 8, 2017)
- Improvements:
- You can now select a highlight regardless of which tool is active and once you have selected your highlight the context menu will now be shown.
- If you are editing a note, when you close that note the active tool will no longer change.
- Deselecting a note you have added to a highlight takes you back to the full text.
- Bug fixes:
- Mac users with Microsoft Word 2011 installed can now install the Citation Plug In without getting a compilation error.
- If you have Airwatch installed and still experiencing Citation Plug In issues then please contact Support who will guide you through a fix.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.8 (Feb 16, 2017)
- Bug fixes:
- On Mac, going full-screen will keep the toolbar visible.
- On Mac, you can close pdf tabs by clicking the close button
- Some citation styles, including Bluebook, were freezing the application. We solved that.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.7 (Feb 9, 2017)
- Improvements:
- The Mendeley Desktop team has spent some time trying to make life better for Mac users: the Citation Plugin now has a native look and feel and the Mendeley Desktop toolbar for Mac has been refactored.
- We have also added some getting started tips to help new users.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.6 (Dec 6, 2016)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue preventing citations to be updated in word.
- Fixed document deduplication on Mac
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.4 (Dec 1, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue preventing citations to be updated in word.
- Fixed an issue requiring the user the click twice on the insert citation in the word plugin
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.3 (Nov 24, 2016)
- Spent a lot of time catching up with the latest technologies to make Mendeley Desktop future proof.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.3 Dev 6 (Nov 22, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix the deduplication tools: merge documents and Tools -> check for duplicates.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.3 Dev 5 (Nov 22, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed most application crashes on startup.
- Fixed issues with huge log files.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.3 Dev 1 (Nov 15, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Some users have reported a crash on application startup. This release should fix this issue for most of them. If you still experience a crash on startup, please contact Mendeley Support.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.2 (Oct 27, 2016)
- BUG FIXES:
- If you have installed Mendeley Desktop 1.17 or 1.17.1 and see the error "Sorry, there was a probem syncing your library: Invalid date", please follow these steps to fix the synchronisation error:
- Instal Mendeley Desktop 1.17.2
- Launch Mendeley Desktop
- For Mac users, type the following shortcut: "Cmd + Shift + D"
- For Windows users, type the following shortcut: "Control + Shift + D"
- Click on the Reset Last Sync State Button
- Confirm you want to reset
- Other Bug fixes:
- Fixed a recurring crash for windows users on application startup.
- Fixed a crash for mac users on application startup.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17.1 (Oct 24, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a recurring crash for windows users on application startup.
- Fixed a crash for mac users on application startup.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17 (Oct 11, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Spent a lot of time catching up with the latest technologies to make Mendeley Desktop future proof.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17 Dev 5 (Sep 30, 2016)
- Bug fixes:
- Pressing F5 to refresh to sync works again.
- Much better rendering of PDFs on Mac Retina displays.
- In LibreOffice, inserting a citation won't bring Mendeley Desktop in the foreground anymore.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.17 Dev 2 (Aug 31, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Word 2016 for Mac 64 bit is now supported.
- Highlighting text in a PDF won't dim the text around it any more.
- Bug Fixes:
- Using the Word Plugin with the Track Changes feature on is now possible.
- Opening your PDFs in an external viewer won't crash the application any more.
- Exporting as compatible with LibreOffice will keep your current document working with Mendeley Word Plugin.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.3 (Aug 30, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Word 2016 for Mac 64 bit is now supported.
- Added a button in the toolbar for accessing your profile.
- Better display on High DPI screens.
- Mendeley Desktop now includes "Harvard - Cite Them Right" citation style. You should prefer it over "havard1".
- Word Plugin Bug Fixes:
- Using the Word Plugin with the Track Changes feature on is now possible.
- Support for baseline citations.
- Fixed a freeze of the plugin on Word 2016 for Mac.
- Word for Mac 2016: fixed an error showing "Compile error in hidden module".
- Word for Mac 2016: fixed an error showing "Invalid procedure call".
- Exporting as compatible with LibreOffice will keep your current document working with Mendeley Word Plugin.
- Other Bug Fixes:
- Dragging a file from the finder will import the file on Mac.
- Fixed a bug that would cause some folders to be automatically deleted.
- Notes will now always display the user profile pictures.
- Changed the icon displayed when dragging documents. The drag / drop operation is now much faster.
- Fixed a bug that might crash the application when cancelling a sync.
- Fixed a bug that would crash Mendeley Desktop when uninstalling a citation style.
- Open with Mendeley Desktop will import your PDFs.
- Better support for languages in PDF exports.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.2 (Aug 24, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Added a button in the toolbar to access you profile
- Better display on High DPI screens
- Mendeley Desktop now includes "Harvard - Cite Them Right" citation style. You should prefer it over "havard1".
- Word Plugin Bug fixes:
- support for baseline citations
- Fixed a freeze of the plugin on word 2016 for mac
- Word for mac 2016: fixed an error showing "Compile error in hidden module"
- Word for mac 2016: fixed an error showing "Invalid procedure call"
- Other Bug fixes:
- Dragging a file from the finder will import the file on Mac
- Fixed a bug that would cause some folders to be automatically deleted
- Notes will now always display the user profile pictures
- Changed the icon displayed when dragging documents. The drag / drop operation is now much faster
- Fixed a bug that might crash the application when cancelling a sync
- Fixed a bug that would crash Mendeley Desktop when uninstalling a citation style
- Open with Mendeley Desktop will import your pdfs
- Better support for languages in pdf exports
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.2 Dev 3 (May 19, 2016)
- Enhancements:
- Thesis CSL type is now mapped to the genre field.
- Removing tags from multiple documents is now possible.
- Export PDF with annotations:
- Improved support for non-latin annotations in the exported PDF.
- New pages match the size of the document pages.
- Layout improvements.
- Bug Fixes:
- Uninstalling a citation style no longer crashes Mendeley Desktop.
- Removed the test dialog that would show up when exporting a document in the Word plugin for Mac.
- Cancelling a sync should now properly cancel it, and allow the user to sync again.
- A bug preventing the page number being added to citations in the word plugin.
- Windows: clicking Open with Mendeley Desktop from the folder context menu of the file explorer will now open the file in Mendeley Desktop
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.1 (Mar 31, 2016)
- Crash fixes:
- While displaying the user profile in notes.
- When modifying the list of document authors.
- General bug fixes:
- Fixed excessively long startup times for users with large libraries.
- Fixed an issue where deleting a note would delete a wrong one.
- Fixed a sync error caused by Mendeley Desktop erroneously submitting an empty websites field entry.
- Fixed an issue where citation data (e.g. status of “Suppress authors” checkbox) was prevented from being saved.
- Visual improvements:
- Fixed an issue where the user name would overlap the date in notes.
- (Linux) Fixed an issue where editing an author would not show the right tooltips.
- Fixed an issue where filtering documents would result in an “Empty search query…” notification being displayed.
- Fixed a variety of visual issues related to displaying the startup splash screen.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16.1 Dev 2 (Mar 9, 2016)
- FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
- Annotation improvements:
- This release improved the usability of the highlight and sticky note tools in Mendeley Desktop. We’ve rearranged the toolbar in the PDF viewer to match the reading workflow. We moved The least used buttons to the Edit menu (Rotate page, and copy/paste). Select text is now the default tool, and the way each tool interacts with each other is now much more intuitive. Selecting text and then clicking on the ‘Highlight’ tool in the toolbar will now create a new highlight.
- The Sticky Note Editor Widget:
- This version includes a new design for the sticky note bubbles and notes in the right hand panel. The new note design includes who authored the note and allows you to delete a note without needing to right-click on the sticky note icon (although this is still possible). The note window size is now dynamic, resizes based on the content.
- BUG FIXES:
- BibTeX export fixes:
- DOI containing underscores will be exported properly.
- Added missing unicode symbol conversion.
- Support for iotas.
- Support for chevrons.
- Citation Plugin:
- Fixed inserting citations where author surnames contain semicolons.
- Fixed a problem with different spacing when updating bibliographies created with version 1.14.
- (Mac) Fixed the issue with inserting citations in the Japanese edition of MS Word 2016.
- (Mac) Fixed disappearing "Insert Citation" button in the Turkish edition of Word 2016.
- General:
- Fixed remove highlight option being presented inconsistently for group annotations.
- Fixed the problem with HTML tags in document notes breaking note search.
- Fixed various folder synchronization issues that happened when modifying the folder hierarchy.
- Fixed a bug preventing you from selecting text inside an existing highlight.
- Fixed a bug preventing you from restoring some Mendeley Desktop backups.
- Fixed crash which could occur when signing into the application.
- Fixed crash occuring when signing out then immediately closing the application.
- (Mac) The word plugin will now still work when opening multiple Microsoft Word 2011 windows.
- The Microsoft Word plugin will not cause an issue when opening a protected word file.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16 (Feb 23, 2016)
- BibTeX export fixes:
- DOI containing underscores will be exported properly.
- Added missing unicode symbol conversion.
- Support for iotas.
- Support for chevrons.
- Citation Plugin:
- Fixed inserting citations where author surnames contain semicolons.
- Fixed a problem with different spacing when updating bibliographies created with version 1.14.
- (Mac) Fixed the issue with inserting citations in the Japanese edition of MS Word 2016.
- (Mac) Fixed disappearing "Insert Citation" button in the Turkish edition of Word 2016.
- General:
- Fixed remove highlight option being presented inconsistently for group annotations.
- Fixed the problem with HTML tags in document notes breaking note search.
- Fixed various folder synchronization issues that happened when modifying the folder hierarchy.
- Fixed a bug preventing you from selecting text inside an existing highlight.
- Fixed a bug preventing you from restoring some Mendeley Desktop backups.
- Fixed crash which could occur when signing into the application.
- Fixed crash occuring when signing out then immediately closing the application.
- (Mac) The word plugin will now still work when opening multiple Microsoft Word 2011 windows.
- The Microsoft Word plugin will not cause an issue when opening a protected word file.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16 Dev 4 (Feb 5, 2016)
- Enhancements:
- Your notes will show your full name instead of “You”.
- Personal notes and group notes are grouped separately in the right hand side notes pane.
- New sticky note icons.
- BibTeX export fixes:
- DOI containing underscores will be exported properly.
- Added missing unicode symbol conversion.
- Support for iotas.
- Support for chevrons.
- General bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug preventing you from selecting text inside an existing highlight.
- Fixed a bug preventing you from restoring some Mendeley Desktop backups.
- Fixed crash which could occur when signing into the application.
- Fixed crash caused by signing out then immediately closing the application.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.15.3 (Jan 28, 2016)
- This release includes some small hot-fixes to address issues with reading PDFs, as well as foundational work in the background for the upcoming colored annotations feature, which will be available soon.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16 Dev 2 (Dec 10, 2015)
- BUG FIXES:
- Citation Plugin:
- Fixed inserting citations where author surnames contain semicolons.
- Fixed a problem with different spacing when updating bibliographies created with version 1.14.
- (Mac) Fixed the issue with inserting citations in the Japanese edition of MS Word 2016.
- (Mac, Windows) Fixed disappearing "Insert Citation" button in the Turkish edition of Word 2016.
- General:
- Fixed remove highlight option being presented inconsistently for group annotations.
- Fixed the problem with HTML tags in document notes breaking note search.
- Fixed various folder synchronization issues caused by modifying the folder hierarchy.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.15.2 (Nov 26, 2015)
- (Mac) Fixed the issue with inserting citations in the Japanese edition of MS Word 2016.
- (Mac, Windows) Fixed disappearing "Insert Citation" button in the Turkish edition of Word 2016.
- Fixed a problem with different spacing when updating bibliographies created with version 1.14.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.16 Dev 1 (Nov 11, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- The word plugin will now still work when opening multiple word 2011 windows.
- The word plugin will not cause any issue when opening a protected word file.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.15.1 (Nov 3, 2015)
- Fixed security warning when using Mendeley Desktop after first installation on El Capitan.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.15 (Oct 12, 2015)
- General bug fixes:
- Fixed arXiv and PubMed ID lookup.
- Increased file size limit to 250 MB.
- Fixed exported BibTeX when document notes contain multiple lines.
- Fixed exported BibTeX when metadata contains accented characters.
- Fixed bug exporting some "month" metadata fields to BibTeX files.
- "A" initials in the document won't be occasionally converted to lowercase after importing a PDF.
- Enabled Edit Find Next/Previous in the PDF viewer.
- Saves PDF zoom levels when switching tabs.
- Fixed a crash when retrieving certain annotations.
- Fixed bug exporting some "month" metadata fields to BibTeX files.
- Avoids creating duplicate annotations when switching tabs.
- File organizer now works across partitions.
- In Literature Search, the button to add a document to your library situated in the document view is back.
- Switching tabs will keep the last read position of each open PDF.
- Citation Plugin bug fixes:
- Improves reliability of plugin installation for Microsoft Word 2011 on Mac.
- Avoids showing an error message when opening a protected Microsoft Word document (e.g. when a document has been downloaded).
- Exporting MS Word compatible from LibreOffice 4.4.3.2 won't raise an exception anymore.
- Fixed the error when canceling "Export Compatible with LibreOffice".
- A LibreOffice plugin installation error has been fixed.
- (Mac): In the Word for Mac plugin, updating your citations and bibliography won't make the Word document file get bigger each time (causing a Microsoft Word error after a while).
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14.1 Dev 8 (Oct 5, 2015)
- Improvements:
- Increased file size limit to 250 MB.
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed exported BibTeX when document notes contain multiple lines.
- Fixed exported BibTeX when metadata contains accented characters.
- Fixed bad indentation in certain bibliographies.
- (Mac) Microsoft Word 2011: fixed crash when copying from Microsoft Word whilst inserting a citation.
- (Mac) Microsoft Word 2011: fixed regression that made the plugin unusable if the user required of Admin privileges to install/remove/update the plugin (multiple toolbars appeared).
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14.1 Dev 7 (Sep 24, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Avoid showing an error message when opening a protected Microsoft Word document (e.g. when a document has been downloaded).
- Fixed the error when canceling “Export Compatible with LibreOffice”.
- (Mac) Microsoft Word 2016: avoid asking the user to restart Microsoft Word every time that Mendeley Desktop runs.
- (Mac) Microsoft Word 2016: improved detection of the installed version of Word.
- (Mac) Microsoft Word 2016: fixed a crash which happened when the interaction for inserting citations took longer than 1 minute.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14.1 Dev 5 (Aug 24, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed arXiV and PubMed ID lookup.
- Enables Edit Find Next/Previous in the PDF viewer.
- Saves PDF zoom levels when switching tabs.
- Improves reliability of plugin installation for Microsoft Word 2011 on Mac.
- Fixed a crash when retrieving certain annotations.
- Fixed bug exporting some "month" metadata fields to BibTeX files.
- Avoids creating duplicate annotations when switching tabs.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14.1 Dev 1 (Jul 10, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- File organizer now works accross partitions.
- Exporting MS Word compatible from LibreOffice 4.4.3.2 won't raise an exception anymore.
- In literature Search, the button to add a document to your library situated in the document view is back.
- Switching tabs will keep the last read position of each open pdf.
- In the Word for Mac plugin, updating your citations and bibliography won't make the Word document file get bigger each time.
- A LibreOffice plugin installation error has been fixed.
- 'A' initials in the document won't be occasionally converted to lowercase after importing a PDF.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14 (Jun 24, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Mendeley Suggest will now be displayed for premium users.
- We have re-implemented DOI lookups to query document details from CrossRef directly. This should return much more accurate metadata.
- Fixes an issue that could cause sync errors with certain characters in document metadata fields.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14 Dev 5 (Jun 16, 2015)
- Bug fixes:
- Prevent the search field from being emptied in some cases.
- Mendeley Suggest will now be displayed for Premium users.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14 Dev 3 (May 19, 2015)
- This release improves the metadata lookup by DOI:
- We have re-implemented DOI lookups to query document details from CrossRef directly. This should return much more accurate metadata than the version that rolled out in January. Please contact support if you see any discrepancies in the data between Mendeley and CrossRef.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.14 Dev 1 (Apr 21, 2015)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed an issue that could cause sync errors with certain characters in document metadata fields.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.8 (Apr 10, 2015)
- This is a small update with fixes for two sync issues:
- Fixed an issue where disabling file sync for your whole library could result in file attachments not being shown.
- Fixed an issue where deleting an entry across multiple clients could result in a sync error.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.7 (Apr 8, 2015)
- Fixes an issue where changing the file sync settings for your library could result in file attachments disappearing.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.6 (Mar 24, 2015)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed bug with Zotero Sync that caused "This file already exists for this document ID" error.
- Fixed issue with public groups that caused "Access to this resource is not allowed" error.
- Fixed issue that caused "You can't create a folder with the same name and parent" error.
- Fixed issue that caused "Note text is too long" error.
- Fixed issue that caused errors relating to author name lengths.
- Undoing 'Update Details' now only undoes the changes made by that action, rather than all changes made since the command was triggered.
- Fixed page counts in citations generated for books, thesies, manuscripts and technical reports.
- Fixed folder creation in groups.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.5 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed bug with Zotero Sync that caused "This file already exists for this document ID" error.
- Fixed issue with public groups that caused "Access to this resource is not allowed" error.
- Fixed issue that caused "You can't create a folder with the same name and parent" error.
- Fixed issue that caused "Note text is too long" error.
- Fixed issue that caused errors relating to author name lengths.
- Undoing 'Update Details' now only undoes the changes made by that action, rather than all changes made since the command was triggered.
- Fixed page counts in citations generated for books, thesies, manuscripts and technical reports.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.5 Dev 3 (Mar 10, 2015)
- Fixed an issue where crash reports from previous 1.13.5 builds were not submitted correctly.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.5 Dev 1 (Mar 3, 2015)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed bug with Zotero Sync that caused "This file already exists for this document ID" error.
- Fixed issue with public groups that caused "Access to this resource is not allowed" error.
- Fixed issue that caused "You can't create a folder with the same name and parent" error.
- Fixed issue that caused "Note text is too long" error.
- Fixed issue that caused errors relating to author name lengths.
- Undoing 'Update Details' now only undoes the changes made by that action, rather than all changes made since the command was triggered.
- Fixed page counts in citations generated for books, thesies, manuscripts and technical reports.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.4 (Feb 24, 2015)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Added improved diagnostics for sync errors.
- Fixed a bug that could cause sync to loop when performing a database recovery after removing folders.
- Fixed a sporadic crash on start-up on Windows related to citation style localization.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.4 Dev 2 (Feb 17, 2015)
- This update add support for specifying the language used when formatting citations. By default citations will use the language associated with the selected citation style, this can be overridden in the citation settings dialog.
- Fixed in 1.13.4-dev2:
- Fixed a bug that could cause sync to loop when performing a database recovery after removing folders.
- Fixed a sporadic crash on startup on Windows related to citation style localization.
- Bugs Fixed:
- Added improved diagnostics for sync errors.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.3 (Jan 29, 2015)
- This update fixes an issue experienced by users in timezones behind UTC where document details changes made locally were not always synced with your online account:
- Fixed an issue where local document details changes were not always synced with your online library if the system timezone was behind UTC.
- Fixed an issue where the contents of folders in the app were not restored correctly when restoring a backup.
- Fixed a cause of a hang when syncing accounts with large numbers of file attachments.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.2 (Jan 27, 2015)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed tags being re-ordered whilst they are being edited.
- Fixed a crash when closing PDF viewer tabs.
- Fixed occasional crash when clicking badge that links to the catalog page for an article in Mendeley Desktop.
- Fixed an error when attempting to refresh a document in LibreOffice if the document had been originally created by a different Mendeley user.
- Display better progress information when syncing files and annotations.
- Added additional diagnostics to help us monitor sync failures and issues opening certain PDF files.
- Fixed parsing of arXiv IDs from papers that were uploaded to arXiv from January 2015 onwards.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.2 Dev 1 (Jan 21, 2015)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed tags being re-ordered whilst they are being edited.
- Fixed a crash when closing PDF viewer tabs.
- Fixed occasional crash when clicking badge that links to the catalog page for an article in Mendeley Desktop.
- Fixed an error when attempting to refresh a document in LibreOffice if the document had been originally created by a different Mendeley user.
- Display better progress information when syncing files and annotations.
- Added additional diagnostics to help us monitor sync failures and issues opening certain PDF files.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13.1 (Jan 14, 2015)
- New Features and Improvements:
- Improved metadata quality - Mendeley will now match imported PDFs against our research catalog and pull in metadata from it. This provides more accurate and complete details for many papers, including full abstracts and publication information for millions of articles.
- Update document details using the Mendeley catalog - You can now bulk update details for articles in your library with metadata from the Mendeley catalog in a couple of clicks. Select entries in your library, right-click and select Update Details.
- Faster and more data-efficient sync - Syncing large libraries is now faster and shows better progress information. Sync now also uses much less bandwidth.
- Other Changes:
- Fixed issue that could cause extra spaces or new lines to be added in the notes field when syncing.
- (Ubuntu) Added instructions to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mendeleydesktop.list on how to switch between stable and pre-release channels
- Supported Platforms:
- This release re-introduces support for certain older Linux systems, including CentOS / RedHat / Scientific Linux 6.5
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 (Jan 13, 2015)
- New Features and Improvements:
- Improved metadata quality - Mendeley will now match imported PDFs against our research catalog and pull in metadata from it. This provides more accurate and complete details for many papers, including full abstracts and publication information for millions of articles.
- Update document details using the Mendeley catalog - You can now bulk update details for articles in your library with metadata from the Mendeley catalog in a couple of clicks. Select entries in your library, right-click and select Update Details.
- Faster and more data-efficient sync - Syncing large libraries is now faster and shows better progress information. Sync now also uses much less bandwidth.
- Other Changes:
- Fixed issue that could cause extra spaces or new lines to be added in the notes field when syncing.
- (Ubuntu) Added instructions to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mendeleydesktop.list on how to switch between stable and pre-release channels
- Supported Platforms:
- This release re-introduces support for certain older Linux systems, including CentOS / RedHat / Scientific Linux 6.5
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 Dev 8 (Jan 10, 2015)
- Fixed hang when syncing accounts with large numbers of annotations with 1.13 for the first time.
- Fixed merging of document notes when using deduplication tool and crash that occurred when syncing after using de-duplication tool.
- Fixed sticky note annotations not being displayed in public groups.
- Fixed several issues related to document note syncing after upgrading from 1.12 to 1.13.
- Fixed several issues related to file syncing after upgrading from 1.12 to 1.13.
- Fixed group invites not being sent when creating groups within Mendeley Desktop.
- Fixed sync crash if documents were added on one client whilst another was syncing.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 Dev 7 (Dec 27, 2014)
- Fixed empty titles on document de-duplication.
- Fixed issue that would prevent the user from deleting a document note created by another user in a shared group.
- Fixed issue that could crash the application if the owner of a shared group had deleted his account
- Fixed issue that would prevent the user from restoring the backup.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 Dev 6 (Dec 27, 2014)
- Fixed "Unable to read HTTP status code" error if "Use System Connection Settings" option was enabled.
- Fixed error when syncing files whose names contain quotes.
- Fixed issue that could cause citations to be re-ordered during refresh if the document was edited whilst the citations were being updated.
- Fixed issue that could cause annotation syncing errors.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.4 (Dec 11, 2014)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed issue that could cause citations to be re-ordered if the document was edited whilst being refreshed.
- Fixed "Object doesn't support this property or method" error that some users experienced when inserting citations.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 Dev 5 (Dec 9, 2014)
- Fixed:
- Fixed a recurring crash when syncing annotations.
- Fixed a possible sync loop when syncing folders.
- Better handling of connectivity or service problems when using Mendeley's services to update existing Mendeley installations.
- Improvements:
- Improved metadata quality - Mendeley will now match imported PDFs against our catalog of the world's research and pull in metadata from it. This provides more accurate and complete metadata for many papers, including full abstracts and publication information for millions of articles
- Catalog metadata lookup - For articles marked as 'Needs Review', you can now search our catalog with a single click for better metadata and abstracts for many articles.
- Faster and more data-efficient sync - Syncing large libraries onto new systems is now faster and shows better progress information. Sync now uses less bandwidth, especially for large libraries.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.13 Dev 4 (Dec 4, 2014)
- Important Note about Backwards Compatibility:
- This release includes major under-the-hood changes to syncing with your online account. If you encounter any problems, read the instructions available at https://gist.github.com/robertknight/8722bdc629f9da3521df for help switching back to an older release.
- Improvements:
- Improved metadata quality - Mendeley will now match imported PDFs against our catalog of the world's research and pull in metadata from it. This provides more accurate and complete metadata for many papers, including full abstracts and publication information for millions of articles
- Catalog metadata lookup - For articles marked as 'Needs Review', you can now search our catalog with a single click for better metadata and abstracts for many articles.
- Faster and more data-efficient sync - Syncing large libraries onto new systems is now faster and shows better progress information. Sync now uses less bandwidth, especially for large libraries.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.4 Dev 1 (Nov 25, 2014)
- Fixed "Object doesn't support this property or method" error that some users experienced when inserting citations.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.3 (Nov 6, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Inserting or updating a single citation in a document with many citations is much faster in many cases.
- Refreshing citations in large Word documents is now much faster. Word now also reports the progress of the refresh in the status bar.
- The citation style for new Word and LibreOffice documents now defaults to the currently selected citation style in Mendeley Desktop.
- Added an option in General Preferences to choose whether documents are automatically marked as read when opened.
- Added support for importing articles in MEDLINE format, to enable better bulk importing from PubMed.
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed an issue that could result in citations being lost when refreshing multiple Word documents simultaneously.
- (Mac Word) Fixed an error when inserting a citation in a table with text wrapping enabled.
- Fixed an issue where note annotations were not exported correctly as standard PDF annotations when using File → Export PDF with Annotations...
- Known causes of crashes while inserting citations have been fixed, and error handling has been added so that any unexpected error should display an error message instead of crashing Mendeley Desktop.
- The "Plugin Installed" dialog was displayed on OS X after updating Mendeley Desktop. This dialog is now only displayed after the user manually initiates an install or update.
- Styles with no bibliography (e.g. Bluebook Law Review) now use the in-line citation instead in "View as Citations" mode.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.3 Dev 1 (Oct 16, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Inserting or updating a single citation in a document with many citations is much faster in many cases.
- Refreshing citations in large Word documents is now much faster. Word now also reports the progress of the refresh in the status bar.
- The citation style for new Word and LibreOffice documents now defaults to the currently selected citation style in Mendeley Desktop
- Added an option to choose whether documents are automatically marked as read when opened.
- Bugs Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that could result in citations being lost when refreshing multiple Word documents simultaneously.
- (Mac Word) Fixed an error when inserting a citation in a table with text wrapping enabled.
- Fixed an issue where note annotations where not exported correctly as standard PDF annotations when using File → Export PDF with Annotations...
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.2 (Sep 23, 2014)
- Bug Fixes:
- Mac: Fix Gatekeeper compatibility with OS X 10.9.5 and the OS X 10.10 public beta.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12.1 (Aug 26, 2014)
- Bug Fixes:
- Matching of papers in your library to the Mendeley catalog in the 'Details' pane is now faster and more reliable.
- Fixed crash when viewing Related Research for a collection of papers.
- Fixed crash when using Help -> Check for Updates multiple times in the same session.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 (Aug 14, 2014)
- New Features:
- Print with Annotations - Use File -> Print... to print papers directly from Mendeley Desktop. Enable the Print annotations option to include annotations added in Mendeley's PDF viewer.
- Improvements:
- Mark as Read: Documents are no longer automatically marked as read as soon as you open them. Instead the document is only marked as read once it has been scrolled most of the way through and has been opened for a reasonable period of time, dependent on the length of the document.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that could cause PDFs to become corrupted when exporting with annotations.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the current scroll position within a PDF to be reset when switching tabs.
- Fixed BibTeX export generating invalid citation keys when the first author's surname contained apostrophes.
- When printing, more space is kept for notes to be displayed in the left margin.
- Fixed an issue where style update availability indicators were not correctly displayed in the Citation Styles dialog.
- Editing a metadata field does not make the cursor jump back to the beginning of the line anymore.
- Fixed an error when generating citations for documents where individual author names contain commas.
- 'Check for Duplicates' is now faster in large libraries.
- Fixed possible crash when using literature search repeatedly.
- Fixed possible crash when viewing document details.
- Fixed an issue that could cause file attachments not to sync properly if a document had multiple file attachments and a very long title.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when importing documents.
- Fixed a crash when updating installed citation styles.
- Fixed citation rendering under 32-bit Linux systems.
- Fixed an issue where dialog buttons were unusable in the 'Send via Email' dialog.
- Fixed an issue where pressing Ctrl+C in the PDF viewer whilst the mouse/trackpad was still held down copied a citation for the current document instead of the selected text.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 Dev 8 (Jul 24, 2014)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a crash that could occur when importing documents.
- Fixed a crash when updating installed citation styles.
- Fixed citation rendering under 32-bit Linux systems.
- Fixed an issue where dialog buttons were unusable in the 'Send via Email' dialog.
- Fixed an issue where pressing Ctrl+C in the PDF viewer whilst the mouse/trackpad was still held down copied a citation for the current document instead of the selected text.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 Dev 4 (Jun 30, 2014)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that could crash the application when doing multiple literature search.
- Fixed an issue that could crash the application when showing a document's metadata.
- Fixed an issue that would lead a document to lose a file if the title or the authors' names are too long.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 Dev 2 (May 20, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Mark as Read: Documents are no longer automatically marked as read as soon as you open them. Instead the document is only marked as read once it has been scrolled most of the way through and has been opened for a reasonable period of time, dependent on the length of the document.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the current scroll position within a PDF to be reset when switching tabs.
- Fixed BibTeX export generating invalid citation keys when the first author's surname contained apostrophes.
- When printing, more space is kept for notes to be displayed in the left margin.
- Fixed an issue where style update availability indicators were not correctly displayed in the Citation Styles dialog.
- Editing a metadata field does not make the cursor jump back to the beginning of the line anymore.
- Fixed an error when generating citations for documents where individual author names contain commas.
- 'Check for Duplicates' is now faster in large libraries.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.12 Dev 1 (Mar 25, 2014)
- New Features:
- Print with Annotations - Use File -> Print... to print papers directly from Mendeley Desktop. Enable the Print annotations option to include annotations added in Mendeley's PDF viewer.
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed a bug that could cause PDFs to become corrupted when exporting with annotations.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.11 (Mar 11, 2014)
- New Features:
- Contents - The Contents tab displays an outline of the PDF. This will use the outline embedded in the PDF if present or an automatically extracted outline for selected open access papers.
- Enrichments - For supported papers, the Enrichments tab displays tables and figures found in the paper, allowing you to navigate the paper more quickly. You can also copy table data directly to the clipboard for further analysis in other apps.
- Preview Release Opt-in - Added option to opt-in to preview updates under Help -> Check for Updates -> Opt-in to Experimental Releases.
- Changes:
- Pasting a link into Mendeley Desktop now adds the original URL to the newly imported document(s).
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the scroll position was lost in the Notes pane when switching between tabs.
- Fixed certain hyperlinks not scrolling to linked page when clicked in PDF viewer.
- Corrected the tooltip for the 'Insert Citation' button in Mac Word.
- Selecting an already-selected Note in the notes tab or entry in the Enrichments tab now correctly scrolls to the entry in the PDF.
- Mac: Fixed a crash on startup when automatic proxy configuration is enabled if the PAC configuration URL is invalid.
- Mac: Fixed a crash when dragging a PDF file onto the Mendeley dock icon whilst signed out.
- Fixed citations generated for legal cases and working papers with certain styles.
- Fixed formatting issues with citation styles that use small-caps formatting.
- Fixed PDF viewer navigating to wrong location for some PDF links and table of contents entries.
- Fixed a crash when indexing certain invalid PDF files.
- Mac: Fixed 'osacompile' error which some users experienced when installing the Word plugin.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.11 Dev 7 (Feb 27, 2014)
- New Features and Changes:
- Added a 'Report Problem' link to the Contents tab. Use this link to report errors with automatically extracted tables of content.
- The 'Summary' tab was renamed to 'Enrichments'
- Added an option to switch between the Table of Contents embedded in the PDF and the one automatically extracted by Mendeley services
- Selected annotations are now highlighted in white rather than yellow for readability
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed certain hyperlinks not scrolling to linked page when clicked in PDF viewer.
- Corrected the tooltip for the 'Insert Citation' button in Mac Word
- Selecting an already-selected Note in the notes tab or entry in the Enrichments tab now correctly scrolls to the entry in the PDF
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.11 Dev 6 (Feb 19, 2014)
- New Features:
- Added option to opt-in to preview updates under Help -> Check for Updates -> Opt-in to Experimental Releases
- 'Copy' option for tables in Summary tab can now be used to copy data for use in LibreOffice, Google Sheets and the Excel Web app.
- Tables and Figures in the Summary tab are now available for all open access papers rather than just specific disciplines.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed crash on Mac when automatic proxy configuration is enabled if the PAC configuration URL is invalid.
- Fixed citations generated for legal cases and working papers with certain styles.
- Fixed formatting issues with citation styles that use small-caps formatting.
- Fixed PDF viewer navigating to wrong location for some PDF links and table of contents entries.
- Mac: Fixed 'osacompile' error when installing the Word plugin.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.11 Dev 3 (Feb 3, 2014)
- New Features:
- Contents - The Contents tab displays an outline of the PDF. In addition to outlines embedded in the article, automatically extracted outlines are available for many open access papers.
- Tables and Figures - For supported papers, the Summary tab displays tables and figures found in the paper, allowing you to navigate the paper more quickly. You can also copy table data directly to the clipboard for further analysis in other apps.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10.3 (Jan 29, 2014)
- New Feature:
- This release adds an option to sign out of the current account (under the 'File' / 'Mendeley Desktop' menu) and includes a number of bug fixes.
- Bugs Fixed:
- Some fields were still editable for documents in read-only groups.
- Some PDFs (eg. those downloaded from http://remi.revues.org ) opened in an external PDF viewer rather than the internal one.
- Fixed a crash when performing a new Literature Search whilst another was in progress.
- The 'Section' and 'Series' fields were missing from formatted citations in styles that use these fields.
- Small-caps formatting is now supported in citation styles that use it, eg. Bluebook Law Review.
- The 'Tidy Up' feature under File Organizer settings could sometimes get stuck indefinitely.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10.2 (Jan 24, 2014)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Some fields were still editable for documents in read-only groups.
- Some PDFs (eg. those downloaded from http://remi.revues.org ) opened in an external PDF viewer rather than the internal one.
- Fixed a crash when performing a new Literature Search whilst another was in progress.
- The 'Section' and 'Series' fields were missing from formatted citations in styles that use these fields.
- Small-caps formatting is now supported in citation styles that use it, eg. Bluebook Law Review.
- The 'Tidy Up' feature under File Organizer settings could sometimes get stuck indefinitely.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10.2 Dev 1 (Jan 9, 2014)
- Bugs Fixed:
- Some fields were still editable for documents in read-only groups.
- Some PDFs (eg. those downloaded from http://remi.revues.org ) opened in an external PDF viewer rather than the internal one.
- Fixed a crash when performing a new Literature Search whilst another was in progress.
- The 'Section' and 'Series' fields were missing from formatted citations in styles that use these fields.
- Small-caps formatting is now supported in citation styles that use it, eg. Bluebook Law Review.
- The 'Tidy Up' feature under File Organizer settings could sometimes get stuck indefinitely.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10.1 (Sep 27, 2013)
- New Features:
- Journal Abbreviations - Mendeley will now automatically abbreviate publication names when generating citations according to the style you are using. Mendeley comes with a built-in set of abbreviation rules which covers most publications. Custom abbreviations can be added via View -> Citation Styles > Journal Abbreviations. For BibTeX users, there is an option under BibTeX settings to automatically abbreviate publication names in exported .bib files.
- Related Research - Discover related content based on specific papers in your library. Select one or more papers or a whole folder and click the 'Related' toolbar button to get instant recommendations based on your selection.
- Changes and Improvements:
- Support for the upcoming OS X 10.9 'Mavericks' and Windows 8.1 operating systems.
- Improved handling of connectivity problems such as incorrect proxy settings.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed several bugs that could cause the links between documents and file attachments to be lost.
- Fixed import of papers from web links pasted or dragged and dropped into Mendeley.
- Fixed web links not being shown for documents in Literature Search results.
- Fixed bug where selected toolbar action did not match active tool in PDF viewer.
- Fixed incompatibility with LibreOffice 4.1 from Ubuntu PPAs.
- Windows - Fixed a number of problems that resulted in Mendeley being unable to connect to Mendeley Web.
- Windows - Fixed several problems that could prevent Mendeley Desktop from connecting to Microsoft Word.
- Fixed sync bugs introduced in 1.10
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 (Sep 24, 2013)
- New Features:
- Journal Abbreviations - Mendeley will now automatically abbreviate publication names when generating citations according to the style you are using. Mendeley comes with a built-in set of abbreviation rules which covers most publications. Custom abbreviations can be added via View -> Citation Styles > Journal Abbreviations. For BibTeX users, there is an option under BibTeX settings to automatically abbreviate publication names in exported .bib files.
- Related Research - Discover related content based on specific papers in your library. Select one or more papers or a whole folder and click the 'Related' toolbar button to get instant recommendations based on your selection.
- Changes and Improvements:
- Support for the upcoming OS X 10.9 'Mavericks' and Windows 8.1 operating systems.
- Improved handling of connectivity problems such as incorrect proxy settings.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed several bugs that could cause the links between documents and file attachments to be lost.
- Fixed import of papers from web links pasted or dragged and dropped into Mendeley.
- Fixed web links not being shown for documents in Literature Search results.
- Fixed bug where selected toolbar action did not match active tool in PDF viewer.
- Fixed incompatibility with LibreOffice 4.1 from Ubuntu PPAs.
- Windows - Fixed a number of problems that resulted in Mendeley being unable to connect to Mendeley Web.
- Windows - Fixed several problems that could prevent Mendeley Desktop from connecting to Microsoft Word.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 6 (Sep 21, 2013)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed abbreviation of journal names when exporting BibTeX via Copy As -> BibTeX Entry
- Related Research is now available for very recently imported documents.
- Fixed crash on startup under OS X 10.5.
- Better progress information is now displayed when fetching related research.
- Fixed unnecessary periods being added to abbreviated journal titles.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 5 (Sep 12, 2013)
- Bug Fixes:
- Journal abbreviation customizations are now preserved correctly after restarting the application.
- The URLs field is now populated when viewing the results of Literature Search and Related Documents searches.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 3 (Sep 5, 2013)
- Starting the application in "All Documents" doesn't grey the menus anomore.
- Fixed sync issues when detaching a file from a document.
- Fixed OS X Ui issues.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 2 (Sep 4, 2013)
- Bug Fixes:
- Better management of proxies
- Bibliography in word now document now always shows the text and not the field description.
- Fixed crash after editing a deleted note
- Improved Abbreviation UI
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.10 Dev 1 (Sep 4, 2013)
- New Features:
- Journal abbreviations - Journal names will be abbreviated automatically when using a citation style that supports abbreviations. To manage or correct entries in the list of abbreviations, select "View" > "Citation Styles" > "Journal Abbreviations".
- Related Documents - Get recommendations based on any collection of documents. Select one or more documents, or any folder or group, and click "Related" in the toolbar to generate a set of 10 related documents.
- Bug Fixes:
- Files are not unlinked anymore after a sync
- Annotations are now displayed only the on the file they have been created on
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.9.2 (Jul 31, 2013)
- Bug Fixes:
- Inserting citations in a Word document on Mac is notably faster
- Importing an EndNote XML library now imports properly all the file attachments.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.9.1 (Jul 10, 2013)
- Catalog Search:
- Search and import articles from the Mendeley catalog of over 70 million research papers from Mendeley Desktop.
- Direct open access import - For selected open access articles you can import the details and full text into Mendeley Desktop with a single click.
- PDF Viewer:
- Word definition - Select a word or phrase in a PDF and click 'Define' in the action bar that appears to view an explanation of that phrase from Wikipedia.
- Improved text selection - Text selection and highlighting is now more robust, especially in pages with more complex layouts and older PDF files.
- Other:
- Copy BibTeX entries directly to the clipboard via Edit -> Copy As -> BibTeX Entry.
- Page Up/Down in the PDF viewer now navigate up/down one screen rather than a whole page.
- 'Open File Externally' now selects the file in Finder on Mac.
- The search field now supports 'published_in:' an alternative way to search for documents from specific publications, to match search on mendeley.com
- The search field now allows the '-' operator to appear before field names to exclude certain documents (example: 'papercraft -author:zhu')
- Clarified the wording in the dialog that appears when adding documents to 'My Publications' to make it clear that any attached PDFs will be available to download from your profile.
- Removed CiteULike options
- Bug Fixes:
- Cmd+L/R in the PDF viewer no longer jumps to the first or last page.
- Copying selected text using Ctrl+C now copies the text, not the citation.
- Fixed a bug where the tool shown as selected in the toolbar did not match the actual active tool in the PDF viewer when opening new tabs
- Fixed the Go -> Last Page action in the PDF viewer
- Fixed an issue where file attachments were lost locally after a sync if upload the attachment failed.
- Fixed crash when dragging and dropping invalid URLs into Mendeley Desktop.
- Fixed file downloads failing on encrypted home directories on Linux due to overly long file names.
- Fixed a problem formatting Mendeley citations after changing the font style to ALL CAPS in Word.
- Ris exporter now uses absolute path instead of relative
- Fixed Crash in Windows when clicking Reload in Notes tab
- Fixed Word 2008 plugin for Mac users
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.9 (Jul 8, 2013)
- Catalog Search:
- Search and import articles from the Mendeley catalog of over 70 million research papers from Mendeley Desktop.
- Direct open access import - For selected open access articles you can import the details and full text into Mendeley Desktop with a single click.
- PDF Viewer:
- Word definition - Select a word or phrase in a PDF and click 'Define' in the action bar that appears to view an explanation of that phrase from Wikipedia.
- Improved text selection - Text selection and highlighting is now more robust, especially in pages with more complex layouts and older PDF files.
- Other:
- Copy BibTeX entries directly to the clipboard via Edit -> Copy As -> BibTeX Entry.
- Page Up/Down in the PDF viewer now navigate up/down one screen rather than a whole page.
- 'Open File Externally' now selects the file in Finder on Mac.
- The search field now supports 'published_in:' an alternative way to search for documents from specific publications, to match search on mendeley.com
- The search field now allows the '-' operator to appear before field names to exclude certain documents (example: 'papercraft -author:zhu')
- Clarified the wording in the dialog that appears when adding documents to 'My Publications' to make it clear that any attached PDFs will be available to download from your profile.
- Removed CiteULike options
- Bug Fixes:
- Cmd+L/R in the PDF viewer no longer jumps to the first or last page.
- Copying selected text using Ctrl+C now copies the text, not the citation.
- Fixed a bug where the tool shown as selected in the toolbar did not match the actual active tool in the PDF viewer when opening new tabs
- Fixed the Go -> Last Page action in the PDF viewer
- Fixed an issue where file attachments were lost locally after a sync if upload the attachment failed.
- Fixed crash when dragging and dropping invalid URLs into Mendeley Desktop.
- Fixed file downloads failing on encrypted home directories on Linux due to overly long file names.
- Fixed a problem formatting Mendeley citations after changing the font style to ALL CAPS in Word.
- Ris exporter now uses absolute path instead of relative
- Fixed Crash in Windows when clicking Reload in Notes tab
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.9 Dev 2 (Jul 5, 2013)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where file attachments were lost locally after a sync if upload the attachment failed.
- Fixed a crash when switching between Literature Search and the documents view.
- Fixed a problem saving PDFs from a literature search.
- Fixed crash when dragging and dropping invalid URLs into Mendeley Desktop.
- Fixed Literature Search returning no results if a library search was active.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.5 (May 16, 2013)
- Fixed word upper case citation error
- Removed CiteULike
- Ris exporter now uses absolute path instead of relative
- Fixed Crash in Windows when clicking Reload in Notes tab
- Fixed Citation error
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.4 (Apr 4, 2013)
- Fixed some PDFs displaying pages incorrectly rotated in the viewer.
- Fixed a hang on some systems when opening PDFs in the internal viewer.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.3 (Mar 20, 2013)
- Add support for LibreOffice 4.0.
- Fixed warning about citing too many citations in the LibreOffice plugin.
- Make selected text easier to read in the PDF viewer.
- (Mac) 'Retina' display support in the PDF viewer.
- Fixed problem with annotations created on systems with certain language/region settings not syncing correctly to other systems with different language/region settings.
- Fixed error when inserting citations in tables and headings.
- Fixed an issue where exporting a copy-protected PDF with annotations could fail without a clear warning.
- Fixed an issue where field-specific searches could fail to find matches when the searched term or phrase occurred both at the start of a word and in the middle of a word in the field's text.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.2 (Mar 6, 2013)
- Fixed an issue when inserting bibliographies in non-English language versions of Word and an issue updating the Linux version.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8.1 (Feb 28, 2013)
- Fixed bibliography sorting when using characters with accents, umlauts, etc.
- Searches for "fieldname:keyword" will now return the same results if there are spaces after the colon.
- (Mac) Fixed several Mac Word 2011 plugin problems when using the Script menu or the shortcuts instead of the toolbar.
- (Mac) Fixed Word plugin not showing the style under some circumstances.
- The library of citation styles available under the 'Get More Styles' tab is now updated daily from the central style repository.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.8 (Jan 24, 2013)
- Improved UI look and feel under Windows 8.
- Added Help → Check for Updates option.
- Fixed non-English text sometimes not being displayed properly in the documents list.
- Fixed a problem with the Word plugin that could cause Word 2003 to crash.
- Fixed Word plugin crash under OS X 10.5
- Fixed progress indicator when importing large RIS, BibTeX and EndNote XML files.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.7 (Nov 27, 2012)
- Citation Style Editor:
- Integrated visual style editor. Right click on a style in the citation styles dialog and select 'Edit Style' to open the online editor. Custom styles are saved online with your Mendeley account and can be shared with other users of Mendeley.
- Easier 3rd-party style import. The 'Get More Styles' dialog now has a box where links to styles can be pasted. Styles can also be dragged and dropped into the dialog.
- Search by name or example. Using the online style browser, you can search for citation styles by providing example inline citations and bibliography entries.
- Added option to copy a link to a citation style from the styles dialog. This link can be used to import the style on other computers or shared with other Mendeley users.
- Microsoft Word plugins:
- New, faster plugin for Mac Word 2011. The new plugin has an improved UI and better performance when refreshing citations in large documents.
- Disabled spelling and grammar highlights for bibliographies inserted with the Mendeley plugin.
- Fixed several bugs affecting sorting of bibliography entries for authors whose names contain particles ('van', 'von', etc.)
- Search:
- Search is now incremental and starts updating results after a single key press.
- Search now finds and can show matches for all document fields.
- Search behavior is now more consistent between the main application and the citation editor.
- Fixed many bugs in handling of field-specific searches and handling of OR and NOT queries.
- Import:
- Mendeley Desktop will now notice when you import PDF files repeatedly from the same folder and will look for other articles in the same folder and offer to import them.
- Fixed several issues affecting import of notes and URLs from RIS files, including RIS files created by RefMan on Windows.
- General:
- Refreshed the toolbar on Windows and Linux.
- Added Edit -> Copy Citation menu item to copy a citation for the selected document in the PDF viewer.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed hangs that could occur when performing batch edits in a large library and when enabling BibTeX sync for the first time in a large library.
- Fixed a bug causing BibTeX sync to include deleted documents.
- Fixed a hang that could occur when opening the 'Add Folder' and 'Watch Folder' dialogs.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.6 (Jul 30, 2012)
- The citation editor now has options for each citation to specify page numbers (and other kinds of location within a work), custom prefixes and suffixes and suppress author names for inline citations.
- (Mac) OS X Lion full-screen support and improved full-screen presentation under OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
- Improved search in the PDF viewer.
- Mendeley will jump to the first match in the PDF viewer when opening a tab from the search view.
- The filter box in the lower-left corner of Mendeley Desktop can now be hidden.
- (Windows and Mac) Mendeley will now use the system proxy settings by default. This fixes problems connecting to Mendeley Web on some systems. If you encounter any problems, this can be disabled in the Connection settings page.
- Citation formatting fixes.
- (Mac) Initial support for 'Retina' displays.
- (Mac) Fixed a number of long standing window behavior issues including: Support for all-corners resize, dragging the toolbar above the top of the screen is no longer possible, the minimum size of the main window is now smaller.
- When adding articles to My Publications, it is now clearer how this content will be made available for visitors to your profile on mendeley.com
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.5.2 (Jun 15, 2012)
- Fixed a bug that could result in file attachments becoming broken after merging documents or copying documents to groups if the file organizer was enabled.
- Fixed copying of citations for the current document from a PDF viewer tab.
- Fixed file attachments not being removed from the web in some cases after disabling file sync.
- In the event of any problems installing an update, Mendeley will provide a link to download the latest version directly.
- Fixed register and login links not working in some places.
- Fixed a problem that could cause the 'Resolve Conflicts' dialog to appear unnecessarily whilst syncing.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.5.1 (Jun 15, 2012)
- Fixes problems with the Mac Word plugin under OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Microsoft Word 2011 SP2.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.5 (Apr 16, 2012)
- New Features:
- Support for 64bit versions of Office 2010.
- Improved Undo/Redo of inserting/editing/refreshing Mendeley citations in Word 2010. Actions performed with the Mendeley Cite-o-Matic toolbar can now be undone/redone via Word's Undo menu.
- On Mac, the OpenOffice plugin has been dropped in favor of support for LibreOffice.
- Improvements:
- The 'urldate' field is now exported for web-page BibTeX entries.
- The mapping between Mendeley and EndNote document types has been improved.
- Mendeley will now to continue to upload other files if upload of a single file fails due to exceeding the size limit for a single file.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed several problems with Word plugin installation on Windows.
- Fixed many crashes related to the Word plugins.
- Fixed Mendeley extracting junk journal names for certain papers.
- Fixed several sync crashes.
- Fixed several occasional crashes during shutdown.
- Mendeley will now prompt the user to save their work before trying to install or update the Word plugins.
- Edit -> Copy Citation and 'Send Citation' now copy/send the correct citation when used from a PDF tab.
- (Linux) Fixed crash on startup under Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 12.04.
- Fixed a problem when refreshing bibliographies created in Mac Word under Word on Windows.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.3 (Dec 7, 2011)
- New Features:
- Open in Mendeley - PDF files can now be opened in Mendeley Desktop directly.
- Right click on a PDF file in your file browser and select 'Open With -> Mendeley Desktop'
- Mac - Drag and drop PDF files onto the Mendeley Desktop dock icon to open them.
- Mac - Drag and drop links to PDF files from your web browser onto the Mendeley Desktop dock icon to download and open them in Mendeley.
- Improvements:
- Reduced start-up time.
- Reduced memory usage when importing PDFs.
- The citation formatting engine has been updated. This fixes a number of issues with citation formatting.
- Faster file downloads during sync.
- Added a series of hints which will appear to show new users around Mendeley.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that could result in associations between documents and folders not being synced correctly when joining an existing group.
- Increased the timeout when loading web content. This fixes some content in Mendeley Desktop failing to load on slow connections and the groups members list failing to load in some large groups.
- Fixed a bug where automatically generated citation keys for Bibtex entries were not disambiguated correctly for accented author names.
- (Mac) Fixed periodic hang on exit under OS X 10.7 (Lion)
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.1 (Sep 29, 2011)
- Improved the performance of inserting citations and refreshing documents using the Word plugins.
- When a pair of documents are marked as not being duplicates in the 'Check for Duplicates' tool, that decision is remembered on the computer on which it was made.
- Fixed several problems when refreshing a document whilst the 'Track Changes' feature is enabled in Word.
- Pressing the 'Delete' key now removes the selected document from the current collection, instead of moving it to the trash. Pressing Shift+Delete (Cmd+Delete on Mac) moves the document to the trash and Ctrl+Shift+Delete (Cmd+Shift+Delete on Mac) removes it completely.
- Folders in the left-hand pane are now collapsed on startup.
- Mendeley no longer follows shortcuts or symlinks to other folders when scanning watched folders or importing files from a folder.
- Fixed a sporadic bug with restoring folders on mendeley.com when restoring a backup from Mendeley Desktop.
- Auto-updates are now compressed for faster download.
- Fixed a problem which could allow multiple copies of Mendeley to run at once.
- Fixed Bibtex sync not updating the corresponding Bibtex files when documents are added to or removed from folders.
- (Mac) Reduced watched folders resource usage and fixed a crash when watching a folder containing a large number of sub-folders.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.0.1 (Aug 8, 2011)
- Fixed several causes of sync errors related to annotations and file attachment removals.
- Fixed several crashes when using the 'Merge' or 'Not a Duplicate' buttons for duplicate documents from a PDF viewer tab.
- (Mac) Fixed the 'Mendeley' menu not appearing in Microsoft Word after installing the plugin under OS X Lion.
- (Mac) Fixed an error when refreshing documents containing empty citations in the Word plugin.
- (Linux) Provide more detailed diagnostic information if Mendeley fails to start.
New in Mendeley Desktop 1.0 Dev 3 (Jul 8, 2011)
- Added basic support for journal abbreviations. Abbreviations defined in 'journalAbbreviations/default.txt' in the Mendeley Data folder are used when formatting citations.
- Fixed several crashes in the 'Check for Duplicates' tool.
- Fixed 'Export PDF with Annotations' producing garbled text on Mac.
- Fixed crashes related to browser plugins
- Fixed incorrect positioning of editor when renaming folders/groups.
- Fix issue where the bibliography at the bottom of a Mac Word document could disappear.
- Fixed several errors in the Mac Word plugin
- Fixed handling of non-Latin characters in citations in the Mac Word plugin
- Fixed crash in conflict resolution dialog
- Fixed hang when canceling 'Import References' dialog in OpenOffice
- Fixed Undo/Redo adding highlights and notes in the PDF viewer
- Add name of the group in the tooltip for highlights and notes
- Prevent the 'My Library' and 'Groups' sections of the library tree from being collapsed
- Fixed MD looking in the wrong directories for system Qt libraries on 64bit Linux
- If multiple users highlight the same area of a PDF, right-clicking that area will now select your highlight rather than one belonging to another user.
- The 'Welcome to Mendeley' guide now hides itself once you have added papers to your library
- Fixed a problem importing PDF file links from JabRef-exported Bibtex files
- Fixed glitches with the Zoom In / Zoom Out buttons in the PDF viewer
- Import/export 'language' field to Endnote XML
- Fixed export of notes to Endnote XML
- Tweaked some of the duplicate detection rules
- Added right-click menu for documents in the de-duplication view
- Fixed various de-duplication user interface bugs
- Import PDF files that are dragged and dropped into web content
- Fixed a case where the 'Do you want to keep this Edited Citation' dialog would appear unnecessarily
- Simplified the menu for creating new folders or sub-folders
- Fixed rare hang in Bibtex sync
- Fixed flicker when typing in Mendeley Citation Editor
- Fixed text in left-hand library tree not being shown on systems with large fonts
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.9.2 (May 5, 2011)
- Fixed occassional error when starting Mendeley Desktop from within Word to insert a citation or bibliography.
- Bibtex import: Fixed import of technical reports.
- Bibtex export: Follow arXiv recommendations for export of arXiv ID.
- EndNote import: Improved import of publication names from EndNote XML.
- EndNote export: Export abstract, tags, DOI and web URLs to EndNote XML.
- RIS export: Export series number, series title.
- (Mac) Fixed import of PDF URLs from EndNote XML and RIS files generated by Papers
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.9 (Apr 8, 2011)
- New Features:
- (Mac) New interface and keyboard shortcuts for inserting citations in Microsoft Word for Mac. Go to Script → Mendeley → Insert Citation or press Ctrl + Cmd (⌘) + I to insert a new citation using the citation editor.
- New interface for inserting citations in OpenOffice.org on all platforms.
- Added a tool to create a PDF report containing all annotations for an article. When viewing a PDF, go to File → Export PDF With Annotations.
- Improvements to Existing Features:
- Abstracts and DOIs are now imported from RIS files.
- Added a 'Day' field and enabled it by default for Newspaper articles.
- Support import of file attachments from EndNote XML documents generated by RefMan.
- Tools → Options → Document Details now defaults to showing fields for the type of document which is currently selected in Mendeley.
- Reduced app startup time.
- Added a toolbar item for sending documents via e-mail.
- (Linux) Improved look and feel of the Ubuntu/Debian version of Mendeley Desktop on some PCs.
- Bug Fixes:
- The 'Short Title' field in Mendeley is now mapped to the 'shortTitle' variable in CSL files.
- Fixed incorrect document counts appearing in the status bar after removing documents from a group.
- Fixed a problem which could cause files downloaded on-demand not to be indexed for full-text search.
- Fixed curly-braces being added around certain author names in exported EndNote XML files.
- A warning is now displayed when saving documents in OpenOffice.org if the current default document type is .doc as this may lose information about Mendeley's citations.
- Fixed several bugs with citation formatting, including export of the 'city' field and output of thesis citations.
- Fixed a crash on Windows when certain shell extensions are installed.
- Fixed a problem where some file attachments downloaded in Mendeley were not moved from the 'Downloads' folder to the file organizer folder.
- Fixed a warning message about 'Setup.xcu' that appeared when refreshing citations in OpenOffice.org 3.3
- (Mac) Fixed a problem with the Microsoft Word plugin not working on Macs with certain versions of Adobe Photoshop installed.
- (Mac) Fixed a crash when using Cmd+Tab, Expose or Spaces to switch to another application whilst Mendeley was open in full-screen mode.
- (Linux) Fixed problems saving data when Mendeley's Qt plugins were mixed with system-wide Qt libraries.
- (Linux) Fixed possible hang on import when using Mendeley with Qt 4.7.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.8.2 (Jan 18, 2011)
- New Features:
- (Windows) New interface for quickly inserting citations from Mendeley into Microsoft Word documents and editing existing citations. The 'Insert Citation' toolbar button in Microsoft Word now brings up a dialog in Word which you can use to quickly search for references by title, author or publication year and insert them as in-line citations.
- Added a 'Send via Email' option to the right-click menu for documents. This provides an easy way to send the details of a document and a copy of the attached files to a Mendeley or email contact.
- (Mac) Support for Microsoft Word 2011.
- Added a 'Highlight Rectangle' tool in the PDF viewer which can be used to highlight non-text parts of PDFs and PDFs where text selection is not supported.
- Improvements to Existing Features:
- Added Undo and Redo support to the PDF viewer.
- Pressing Enter in the search box in a PDF viewer tab now jumps to the next match.
- Added the ability to get a link to the Mendeley catalog version of any article in your library. Right-click on the 'View research catalog entry for this paper' badge in the Details pane and select 'Copy Link'.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a number of bugs resulting in 'requested citation index out of range' messages appearing in Word and OpenOffice.org documents.
- Fixed a number of problems with various aspects of citation formatting:
- Fixed problems handling custom styles with Windows-style line endings.
- Fixed authors missing in the BibTeX citation style.
- Fixed incorrect output with some styles for documents using the 'Report' type.
- Fixed option to include URLs in formatted citations only for web pages not being respected if the citation selector dialog was shown from Word.
- Fixed a number of problems relating to disambiguation of citations when citing multiple documents with the same first author and year.
- Fixed 'Date Accessed' field not appearing in formatted citations if required by the current citation style.
- Fixed a problem where re-positioning a sticky note was not synced correctly in some situations.
- Improved stability of Word and OpenOffice.org plugins.
- (Windows) Fixed a problem that could cause the software to freeze whilst downloading files from the web during sync or the file organizer to get stuck whilst organizing files.
- Added a facility to detect and repair corruption in the search index.
- Reduced startup time for very large libraries.
- (Mac) Show a confirmation dialog before removing field codes.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.8.1 (Dec 1, 2010)
- Fixed crash in Conflict Resolution dialog when multiple documents had conflicts.
- Fixed occasional crash on start-up on Mac.
- Fixed several small bugs when creating formatted citations.
- Fix 'Close Tab' action being disabled in the File menu.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.8 (Oct 6, 2010)
- New Features and Improvements:
- New social features for groups. When viewing a group, 'Overview' and 'Members' tabs are shown which provide a way to see recent updates within a group and more information about the members of a group.
- New groups features. Groups can now have a description, tags and associated disciplines. It is now also possible to create 'Public Groups' which any other Mendeley user can follow*
- Added a built-in tutorial which provides a brief tour of Mendeley features. Go to 'Help -> Getting Started Tutorial' to activate it.
- Signing up for a Mendeley account is now quicker and easier and can be done directly from within Mendeley Desktop.
- More capable citation and bibliography rendering. This release adds support for Citation Style Language version 1.0 using citeproc-js.
- When viewing the details for an article, Mendeley Desktop will try to match it to an article in the Mendeley catalog. Clicking the link in the Document Details tab will open the catalog page in your browser. The catalog page provides additional information about the article such as statistics about the readers of that article in Mendeley, related research and for some papers, links to copies of the full text.
- Improvements to Existing Features:
- The Document Details/Notes pane is now available in full-screen mode.
- On Linux and Windows the PDF viewer toolbar is now available in full-screen mode. For Mac users, the same functionality can be accessed via the menu bar which appears when moving the mouse to the top of the screen in full-screen mode.
- The authors and publications fields are now labeled again in the Document Details pane to make them easier to identify.
- Improved interface for browsing and updating citation styles.
- Editors are now shown in the 'Authors' field in the central list of a document has only editors but no authors.
- Large PDFs now open more quickly in the PDF viewer
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug which could cause Microsoft Word to crash on exit when the Mendeley plugin was installed.
- Fixed a number of problems where menu items or toolbar actions were enabled when they should not have been.
- Fixed several problems with inline citations and tables in OpenOffice.org documents.
- Fixed several bugs related to Zotero sync and de-duplication on import.
- Fixed auto-completion in the Publication field.
- Restoring a back-up no longer duplicates the contents of shared groups for other members of that group.
- Fixed a bug where reaching your account quota for My Library would prevent further uploads to Shared Collections.
- Fixed mismatch between file icon shown in documents list and file attachment icons shown in Document Details pane.
- More readable filenames are shown for file attachments which have not yet been downloaded.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.7.1 (Jul 15, 2010)
- Fixed a crash during sync which affected some users.
- Fixed handling of email address changes in Mendeley Desktop after changing email address in Mendeley Web account settings.
- Fixed a crash when trying to open a PDF file immediately after attaching it to an existing document.
- Fixed a potential cause of crashes in file organizer.
- Fixed files in frozen collections being removed from Mendeley Web incorrectly.
- Fixed a crash when clicking 'Delete Documents' toolbar icon under certain circumstances.
- Add a note in the Bibtex Sync preferences tab that documents in the 'Needs Review' collection are not exported.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.6.3 (Apr 21, 2010)
- Fixed a problem some users encountered when updating databases from 0.9.6.1 and earlier versions.
- Fixed a freeze during the 'Downloading Files' syncing step.
- Fixed annotation syncing problems when file organizer is enabled.
- Fixed a crash when closing the collection settings editor after removing a collection.
- Preserved author ordering correctly when importing from Zotero.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.6.2 (Apr 9, 2010)
- New Features and Improvements:
- Improved the look and feel of the toolbar on Mac.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed several sporadic crashes related to the search and de-duplication features.
- Fixed several sync errors which could occur when syncing annotations.
- Fixed several crashes related to the Word/OpenOffice/Mac Word plugins.
- Fixed several crashes related to the notification bar.
- Fixed several crashes related to importing PDFs which are already in your library.
- Fixed annotation creation times being displayed incorrectly in timezones outside of GMT.
- Fixed sticky notes not being exported correctly via File -> Export with annotations.
- Added a limit to the number of citations that are extracted from a single PDF and reduce the number of citations extracted with poor-quality metadata.
- Reduced memory usage when handling large file attachments.
- Made database updates safer when installing new versions of Mendeley Desktop.
- Fixed the problem where Document Details hide/show toggle in menu did not always work correctly.
- Fixed sticky notes not being restored when restoring backups.
- Fixed the crash when entering accented characters (eg. umlauts) in authors field in Document Details tab.
- Included more detailed information in crash reports sent from Mendeley Desktop.
- Fixed crash when importing some corrupted PDFs.
- Added experimental support for international versions of Microsoft Word for Mac.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.6.1 (Feb 25, 2010)
- Fix problem with links between new documents and file attachments being lost for some users when syncing and a message indicating that recently synced documents had been deleted on Mendeley Web.
- Fix printing of bibliographies in documents authored using the Mac Word Plugin.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.6.0 (Feb 25, 2010)
- New Features and Improvements:
- PDF annotations are now synchronized with Mendeley Web. In shared collections multiple users can add notes or highlights to documents.
- Added an importer for Ovid Reprints/Medlars format files.
- PDF import will make use of embedded XMP metadata if it is present and appears to be accurate.
- (Mac) First version of Mac Word plugin. Please note: Currently the Mac Word plugin supports Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac. Word 2004 and earlier are not yet supported.
- Improvements to Existing Features:
- Crash reports sent to server now contain more detailed information.
- Added keyboard shortcuts for selecting, highlighting and adding notes.
- Newly imported documents are highlighted after import.
- The updater will now ask for the administrator password if necessary during update installation on Linux and Mac.
- Added 'Copy LaTeX Citation' action to documents list right-click menu.
- Improvements to accuracy of automated author and title extraction from PDFs.
- Add the ability to drag-and-drop any file type into Mendeley Desktop. If the file type is not supported by one of the importers then a new document is created with the file attached.
- Smoother scrolling in PDF viewer.
- 'Search by Title' and DOI lookups will now retain the full names of authors if the lookup comes back with only initials if the initials and the full names agree.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix crashes when exiting full-screen mode in PDF viewer.
- Fix red border around PDF content on PowerPC Macs.
- Fix local library data not being migrated correctly when changing email address in Mendeley Desktop.
- Added additional verification of backups before restoring to web in the 'Restore Backup' feature.
- File space usage shown in Preferences dialog did not update after syncing.
- Incorrect progress messages were shown in the status bar when importing a PDF.
- Fix problem where starting a 'Search by Title' lookup for one document and then switching to another document before the results came back would apply the changes to the wrong document.
- Fix crash when performing DOI lookups in 'Add New Document' dialog.
- The PDF viewer no longer creates temporary copies of opened PDF files on disk.
- Fixed problem where only the first page of certain multi-page PDFs were shown in the viewer.
- Fix problem where search in a PDF viewer tab would not find matches on the last page of the PDF.
- Fix file organiser renaming failing on Windows for documents where the title, authors or publication name contained double quotes.
- If uploading a file to Mendeley Web fails because the file is too large, the sync now continues uploading other attachments.
- Fixed a problem which could cause Mendeley Desktop to loop continuously during sync.
- Fixed PARSEFAILED error when syncing if certain characters appeared in imported documents.
- Fixed long delay when opening the citation style browser.
- Fixed long delay when opening the Tools -> Options menu on some systems.
- Fixed incorrect documents being shown when searching for certain tags.
- Fixed error about LinkToMendeleyVba.dll not being found on some Windows systems.
- Fixed various crashes when syncing after removing shared collections on the web.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.5.2 (Jan 4, 2010)
- Fix error in Word plugin when using certain types of text frames.
- Fix crashes on exit when using full text search.
- Fix a possible freeze when syncing document changes with Mendeley Web.
- Fix crash when opening PDFs containing invalid bookmarks.
- Fix crash after an unsuccessful attempt to upload a file to Mendeley Web.
- Fix error when using 'Export OpenOffice.org Compatible' button in Word plugin.
- Improve detection of Zotero database version.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.4 Beta (Oct 1, 2009)
- New Features:
- Option to manually or automatically import documents from Zotero.
- Automatic library backups and easier restoration of backups.
- Added support for multi-word institutional author names such as groups or organisations.
- Improved LaTeX integration. Add option to automatically create and update a set of Bibtex files from your library and added ‘Copy LaTeX Citation’ menu entry to copy ‘cite{BibtexKey}’ text to clipboard.
- Improvements to Existing Features:
- Improved performance and reduced memory usage when syncing large amounts of data from and to Mendeley Web.
- Quicker startup after importing a large number of PDF documents.
- Make several additional actions in the Document Details tab undo-able: “Search by Title”, “Details are Correct”, and edits with multiple documents selected.
- Added more citation styles, as well as an interface to search for styles.
- Added separate per-collection options to control whether files are uploaded to and downloaded from Mendeley Web.
- Added a safe-guard against older versions of Mendeley Desktop being used with a more recent database.
- Added a cache for speeding up the opening of PDFs within Mendeley Desktop.
- Identified and fixed a number of issues related to scrolling PDFs.
- Improved the stability when rotating a PDF, and viewing attached highlights or annotations.
- Switching to fullscreen mode should now take you to the most recently viewed page in the PDF, instead of the first page.
- Include the URL of a reference when using the Word/OpenOffice plugins to cite a webpage.
- Enable manually marking a document as needing review.
- Better handling of linebreaks when copying text from the PDF viewer into the abstract field.
- Windows: Allow non-administrator users to install the Word plugin.
- Reduce the time taken to check for availability of Neo/OpenOffice on Mac.
- Display a warning when entering a citation key manually which is already in use.
- Support for searching for keywords in specific fields using ‘fieldname:keyword’ syntax has been extended to all plain text fields.
- Show progress information whilst exporting documents.
- Introduced sanity checking to ensure that any sync that would delete large amounts of documents are intended.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed various crashes and other glitches in the PDF viewer.
- Fixed various bugs in the file organiser which could cause file copying/renaming to fail or lose link between file and Mendeley document.
- Remove documents from collection instead of moving them to trash when Delete key is pressed.
- Windows: Fixed an issue with the Word plugin reporting “Combobox not found”.
- Fix freeze when downloading large numbers of documents from Mendeley Web.
- Fixed a crash that could occur during the sync process.
- Fixed problem where fields that had been cleared in Document Details tab were not synced correctly with Mendeley Web.
- Fixed crash when viewing some copy protected / DRMed PDFs.
- Fixed DOI or ArXiv ID lookups failing in some cases with valid identifiers.
- Added support for inserting citations as superscript, or subscript, where appropriate with the Word and OpenOffice plugin.
- Fixed import of multiple URLs and non-numeric pages fields from RIS files.
- Fixed export of line breaks in notes and abstract field to Bibtex format.
- Correctly handle adding notes to multiple documents simultaneously.
- Gracefully detect the version of OpenOffice available and handle plugin installation accordingly.
- Fixed a number of issues with file renaming and the File Organizer.
- Highlighting of search keywords in results did not work if search query was quoted or ended with a trailing space.
- Fixed order of URLs in URLs field not being kept when closing and restarting program.
- Some fields (Cast, Producers) were never saved to local database.
- Fixed a character encoding bug when syncing collections.
- Older (PowerPC-based) Macs: Fix a bug with the PDF viewer, so PDFs are now displayed in the correct colors.
- Older (PowerPC-based) Macs: Fixed a bug that prevented exporting files to BibTex.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.2.1 Beta (Aug 14, 2009)
- Fix search index becoming out of date and not returning all relevant documents when using search/filter feature.
- Fix crash when selecting ‘Delete Documents’ in File menu with no documents selected.
- Fix ‘Remove From Collection’ and ‘Restore Documents’ actions missing from File menu.
- Fix ‘OR’ queries in search filter not working.
- Fix ‘Delete Document’ toolbar action appearing twice when right-clicking context menu in documents list.
- Fix non-latin characters in CSL (Citation Style Language) files not being rendered correctly.
- Fix sticky notes being listed in reverse order in right-hand panel in PDF viewer.
- Fix ‘in trash’/'not in trash’ status for documents not being synced correctly for documents in collections.
- Clarify licensing of the Word/OpenOffice.org plugin code and update copyright text in Help -> About dialog, make licensing information easier to find on Mac.
- Add command-line option to ignore SSL errors.
- Fix auto-update download progress bar not being visible.
- Make auto-update download cancel-able.
- Fix a problem when migrating from 0.6.5 to 0.9.x if the user had created more shared groups than collections in My Library.
- Fix syncing error if a document’s title was set to a non-empty whitespace string in Mendeley Desktop.
- (Mac) Fix Find Next/Previous buttons being visible in PDF viewer when no search term had been entered.
- (Mac) Fix problems with settings migration from 0.6.5 to 0.9.x
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.1 Beta (Jul 18, 2009)
- Improvements to Existing Features:
- Automatic Pubmed/Crossref title search during metadata extraction if no identifiers (DOI, ArXiv, PMID) are found.
- Hide the notification bar asking for login details when applicable.
- Improved the presentation of search results.
- Added tooltips to the document list for items that aren’t displayed in full.
- Improved detection and handling of unsuccessful responses from Mendeley Web during a sync.
- Increased stability of the internal PDF viewer (more work is to follow on this).
- Bug Fixes:
- Enable lookups from Google Scholar to verify document details.
- Fixed a crash when account details were entered or changed.
- Fixed an issue with file links being lost for documents in watched folders.
- Fixed an issue where multiple copies of a note would be added when editing several documents at once.
- Fixed an issue that prevented exporting libraries as BibTeX format.
- Fixed an issue related to closing Mendeley Desktop during a document import.
- A small number of other minor bug fixes that affected the overall stability.
- Fixed a problem with the system PATH variable when installing the Word plugin.
New in Mendeley Desktop 0.9.0 Beta (Jul 8, 2009)
- New Features:
- Built-in PDF viewer for viewing PDFs directly in Mendeley Desktop
- Support for annotating PDF files (syncing notes to and from Mendeley Web is planned for the next release)
- Many additional online lookups (CrossRef, PubMed, Google Scholar)
- Public document collections (reading lists) which can be embedded on other websites
- OpenOffice.org Writer plugin for Mac OSX & Linux
- Improved native user interface for Mac OSX
- Individual synchronization and privacy settings for each document collection
- Auto-save changes and undo functionality for quick document detail editing
- Flagging documents as favorites
- Marking a document as read, or unread
- Detecting duplicate documents when importing library files or PDFs
- Merging together document authors, tags, keywords or publications
- Editing document details, or tags for multiple documents simultaneously
- New “Trash” collection so you can restore deleted documents
- Improvements to Existing Features:
- Changes to the toolbar and terminology in light of usability tests
- Better handling of documents with unconfirmed details
- More robust synchronization between Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web
- Search results are presented in a much easier to read format
- Searching for documents now searches the document details, as well the PDF text
- Bug Fixes:
- Detect and handle duplicate citation keys being used when exporting to BibTeX format
- Improved full-text indexing stability for search
- Allow documents to be renamed without the file organizer being enabled
- Clean up the formatting of exported citations
- Handle tags and keywords properly when exporting to BibTex format
- File organizer stability fixes
- Corrections to various citation styles
- Plus many more.