JabRef 5.0

What's new in this version:

Changed:
- Added browser integration to the snap package for firefox/chromium browsers
- We reintroduced the possibility to extract references from plain text (using GROBID)
- We changed the open office panel to show buttons in rows of three instead of going straight down to save space as the button expanded out to take up unnecessary horizontal space
- We cleaned up the group add/edit dialog
- We reintroduced the index column
- Filenames of external files can no longer contain curly braces
- We made the filters more easily accessible in the integrity check dialog
- We reimplemented and improved the dialog "Customize entry types"

Fixed:
- We fixed an issue where the command line console was always opened in the background
- We fixed and issue where pdf files will not open under some KDE linux distributions when using okular
- We fixed an issue where the Medline fetcher was only working when JabRef was running from source
- We fixed some visual issues in the dark theme
- We fixed an issue where non-default previews didn't handle unicode characters
- We improved the performance, especially changing field values in the entry should feel smoother now
- We fixed an issue where the ampersand character wasn't rendering correctly on previews
- We fixed an issue where an erroneous "The library has been modified by another program" message was shown when saving
- We fixed an issue where the file extension was missing after downloading a file (we now fall-back to pdf)
- We fixed an issue where cleaning up entries broke web URLs, if "Make paths of linked files relative (if possible)" was enabled, which resulted in various other issues subsequently
- We fixed an issue where the tab "Required fields" of the entry editor did not show all required fields, if at least two of the defined required fields are linked with a logical or
- We fixed several issues concerning managing external file types: Now everything is usable and fully functional. Previously, there were problems with the radio buttons, with saving the settings and with loading an input field value. Furthermore, different behavior for Windows and other operating systems was given, which was unified as well.
- We fixed an issue where entries containing Unicode characters were not parsed correctly
- We fixed an issue where an entry containing an external filename with curly braces could not be saved. Curly braces are now longer allowed in filenames
- We fixed an issue where changing the type of an entry did not update the main table
- We fixed an issue where opening a library from the recent libraries menu was not possible
- We fixed an issue in the optics of the library properties, that cropped the dialog on scaled displays
- We fixed an issue where changing the type of an entry did not update the main table
- We fixed an issue where opening a library from the recent libraries menu was not possible
- We fixed an issue where the most bottom group in the list got lost, if it was dragged on itself
- We fixed an issue where changing entry type doesn't always work when biblatex source is shown
- We fixed an issue where the group and the link column were not updated after changing the entry in the main table
- We fixed an issue where reordering the groups was not possible after inserting an article
- We fixed an issue where citation styles except the default "Preview" could not be used
- We fixed an issue where an exception was thrown when adding a save action without a selected formatter in the library properties

Removed:
- Ampersands are no longer escaped by default in the bib file. If you want to keep the current behavior, you can use the new "Escape Ampersands" formatter as a save action.
- The "Merge Entries" entry was removed from the Quality Menu. Users should use the right-click menu instead.