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