Hello all

After far too long, BibDesk 1.3.21 has been released. If you choose "Check for updates" from the "BibDesk" menu, you'll see release notes, and be guided through the update process.

Or, you can visit the BibDesk home page:

http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/

Where you'll find a link to the latest release, prominently displayed at the top of the page.

While you're there, take a moment to appreciate the new web site design as well!

The release notes for this version are as follows. The groups pane UI has been given a new look, in addition to many other new features and bug fixes.

New Features
  • Independence of Omni frameworks
  • Renewed preference interface
  • Use standard source list tables on Leopard
  • Support a color label column to allow sorting by color label
  • It is now possible to share using bonjour between different BibDesk processes on the same computer
  • Sharing is now accepted even when you chose not to save the password in your KeyChain
  • Add biblatex-type multiple citation style for copy and drag
  • BibDesk now updates using Sparkle, thanks Andy Matuschak
  • New group UI
  • Improvements to file views and quicklook previewer
  • Improvements to web group. Add history, URL auto-completion, proxy icon, show loading errors, remember size, support drag & drop
  • You can now hide the count bubbles for the group, this can improve performance if you have many smart groups
  • Revamp group source list into mode standard group list style, in particular for Leopard
  • New auto-generation format specifier for 'words' of a field, useful for first page
  • Allow editing files and URLs in the side pane when a single item is selected
  • New row mode for file views
  • Warn when importing items with duplicate cite keys
  • Move changing the group field to main menu and group table contextual menu
  • Display duplicate cite keys in red
  • Use Medline XML for PubMed import, which includes diacritics
    Bugs Fixed
    • Avoid an exception when clicking in a publication detail window just outside the fields
    • Size status bars according to the HIG
    • Workaround in web scraper for regressions in Google Scholar
    • Fix back reference in regex find & replace
    • Fix find & replace in non-field properties
    • Avoid a crash when a BibDesk process used for sharing terminates
    • Improve efficiency for UI updating when there are many smart groups
    • Improve the key view loop in the main window
    • Show keyboard focus ring on some custom buttons
    • Improvements and fixes to sharing, you can now share between different processes on the same computer
    • Connecting to shared groups now succeeds also if you don't accept the key chain service
    • Fix a crasher that sometimes occurred when making modifications while doing a quick search
    • Fix shared group updating when more than one document is open
    • Allow using BibTeX Type in cite key and auto-file format
    • Fix removal of selected shared group
    • Avoid a crash when a shared group is removed
    • Preserve modified and added dates in shared items
    • Fix copying of groups in scripting
    • Simplify choosing a search group server
    • Avoid a crasher that may happen when closing a document directly after a save
    • Display error when the web group fails to load
    • Try to update linked files when a file is renamed on disk
    • Improve edit validations in publication editor
    • Rework various background queues
    • More reliable parsing of year field from RIS
    • Update duplicate cite key warning when the duplicate cite key changes
    • Fix text color in highlighted cells on Tiger
    • Default fields are not taken into account for publication equivalence test, so minimal bibtex will be equivalent
    • Fix text layout after zooming in preview
    • Perform full Entrez search asynchronously, so it won't block when the server is inaccessible
    • Fix status bar icon shown when an item needs to be filed
    • Make sure the web group tries to parse plain text as a last resort
    • Collapse whitespace in simple bibtex fields
    • Fix ACMDL web group parser
    • Fixes for ISI WoS search parser, use Times-Cited and fix date parsing
    • Ignore unknown nontex fields in RIS export to avoid exporting invalid RIS

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    Adam M. Goldstein PhD, MSLIS
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    a.m.goldstein@mac.com
    http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein
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    (914) 637-2717
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    Dept of Philosophy
    Iona College
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