More information is available on our installation help page.ĭue to the usage of external libraries, JabRef cannot be run with Java 1.9. However, in case you are using the open source variant OpenJDK, JavaFX has to be installed by a seperate package OpenJFX.
The JavaFX technology is part of the Oracle Java Runtimes since the versions 1.8.0_60. We recommend the usage of the latest Oracle Java 1.8 Runtime/Development Environment. That especially means that the groups will be no longer readable in older JabRef version.
The group storage format has been changed, which means that after opening (and saving) a *.bib library created with an older version of JabRef the format will be changed to the new one. It is ALWAYS advisable to create a backup of your BibTeX/BibLaTeX database before performing an update. Finally, JabRef has a new logo! The logo was designed by “ AikTheOne” - who was the winner of a design contest at.
The sheer age of this piece of software required to do some technological renovations, which is our largest challenge these days: Transitioning the user interface to JavaFX. Thank you very much and good luck with your future endeavors! Out of many, we want to mention two maintainer alummns by name:īoth have achieved enormous contributions (totalling 1695 commits / 604,885 ++ / 616,924 –) during the last years and have immensely shaped the development of JabRef. We want to thank all developers, contributors, translators, and users for the work and feedback! This major release comes almost two years after JabRef 3.0 and more than half a year after the latest stable release JabRef 3.8.2.īack in October 2003, when Morten Alver made the first commit (he used Subversion back then) on he surely didn’t imagine that this project would grow to such popularity and stand the test of time even 14 years later.ĭuring the time we constantly improved not only the codebase, but most important the user experience and fixed plenty of bugs and implemented new features. Before updating, read the important notes below!įinally, we are proud to announce JabRef 4.0!