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4.12 10/10/2010
BUILD
+ Allow smaller static libraries to be built
+ Add --dynamic and --static (default) options to configure script
+ Add --install-lib to configure script to controll installation of dynamic libraries
XML2ADS
+ Fix overflow of page value with really large page numbers
+ Update journal abbreviation list
XML2BIB
+ Add command-line option -d or --drop-key to prevent xml2bib from
adding tags (so they can be generated by programs like JabRef)
4.11 9/14/2010
BUILD
+ Include some "unused" flags like LDFLAGS so that people with particular build
environments can have these flags respected (from Gentoo
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336237)
+ Add test programs to "make test" protocol
TEST
+ Fix some signedness issues (bit rot) in the test programs (from Mandriva
packager, Stéphane Téletchéa
XML2BIB
+ Add command-line option -at or --abbreviatedtitles to force xml2bib to
use abbreviated titles for journals (books and other host types), if present
in the MODS input
4.10 8/30/2010
BIBLATEX2XML
+ fix organization/event handling (thanks to Johannes Wilms)
MODSIN
+ support the presence of the reference identifier/key in
mods:recordInfo:recordIdentifier
4.9 4/9/2010
BIBLATEX2XML
+ Many, many changes thanks to Johannes Wilms
BIB2XML
+ Some improvements in thesis handling derived from biblatex2xml changes
BUILD
+ Fix build for _x86_64 (amd64) (Thanks to patch from Colin Bell).
4.8 2/2/2010
BIB2XML
+ Handle bibtex annote tags
XML2BIB
+ Handle bibtex annote tags
4.7 12/11/2009
XML2ADS
+ Fix not outputting multiple authors from "ASIS" and "CORP" categories.
XML2END
+ Fix not outputting multiple authors from "ASIS" and "CORP" categories.
XML2ISI
+ Fix not outputting multiple authors from "ASIS" and "CORP" categories.
4.6 11/02/2009
BIB2XML
+ Fix inefficiency in latex2char() that gives roughly a 10x speed increase
in bib2xml. Thanks to Stephan Washietl for the patch.
NAME MANGLING
+ Fix bug with uninitalized pointer. Thanks to David Bremner for patch.
NEWSTRING
+ Add newstrs versions of various commands.
4.5 10/24/2009
BIB2XML
+ Identify and use byte-order-mark in UTF8-encoded files
+ Support file attachments with "pdf" tags (old JabRef), "sentelink" (Sente),
and "file" (new JabRef, Zotero, Mendeley). (Thanks to Richard Karnesky)
COPAC2XML
+ Identify and use byte-order-mark in UTF8-encoded files
ISI2XML
+ Identify and use byte-order-mark in UTF8-encoded files
RIS2XML
+ Add support for DOI tags DO and DI from Scopus (Thanks to Fred Howell)
+ Identify and use byte-order-mark in UTF8-encoded files
+ Add support for L1 file attachment tags (Thanks to Richard Karnesky)
XML2ADS
+ Output file attachments as URLs
XML2BIB
+ Add support for "file" file attachment tag in the JabRef/Mendeley/Zotero
format
XML2END
+ Output file attachments as URLs
XML2ISI
+ Output file attachments as URLs
XML2RIS
+ Add support for L1 file attachment tags
4.4 10/05/2009
BIB2XML
+ Add -nt --nosplit-title command line option to avoid splitting titles
with colons or question marks into title/subtitle MODS pairs
COPAC2XML
+ Add -nt --nosplit-title command line option to avoid splitting titles
with colons or question marks into title/subtitle MODS pairs
END2XML
+ Add -nt --nosplit-title command line option to avoid splitting titles
with colons or question marks into title/subtitle MODS pairs
+ Add support for electronic-source-num as potential location of DOI
+ Add support for language
END2XML
+ Fix support for number field in report/book/book section/edited book
reference types
ENDXML2XML
+ Support pdf-url in endnote XML file
ISI2XML
+ Add -nt --nosplit-title command line option to avoid splitting titles
with colons or question marks into title/subtitle MODS pairs
RIS2XML
+ Add -nt --nosplit-title command line option to avoid splitting titles
with colons or question marks into title/subtitle MODS pairs
4.3 7/31/09
BIB2XML
+ Add support for recognizing howpublished = {arXiv:xxxx} entries
LATEX
+ Fix bug for {\c{c}} output
XML2END
+ Add support for Pubmed ID's (PMID) as %U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/..
.
+ Add support for arXiv identifiers as %U http://arxiv.org/abs/...
XML2RIS
+ Add support for Pubmed ID's (PMID) as UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
..
+ Add support for arXiv identifiers as UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/...
+ Change abstract output from "AB" tag to "N2"
XML2WORDBIB
+ Add support to handle inventors in patent type
+ Fix inappropriate output of empty author or editor lists
4.2 06/25/09
BUILD
+ Add support for 'Power Macintosh' as MacOSX_ppc. Thanks to Matthias
Steffens for the fix.
+ Fix additional MacOSX build bugs, thanks to David Sanson
END2XML
+ Add %1 parsing to journal articles
+ Fix bug not recognizing %[ and elements as valid tags
+ Add support for Conference Paper
ENDX2XML
+ Add support for pub-location tags
+ Add support for Conference Paper
LATEX
+ Fix bug for {\AA} conversion, patch thanks to Joseph Barillari.
MED2XML
+ Recognized medline entries from MEDLINE in addition to PUBMED. Thanks to
Hamish McWilliam for providing useful information.
MODSIN
+ Handle pages provided as list, patch thanks to Heiko Jansen
NAME MANGLING
+ Handle hyphenated names better
+ Handle "et al." in name lists better
XML2BIB
+ Add recognition of genre "article", patch thanks to Heiko Jansen
XML2END
+ Add export of DOI as %U http://dx.doi.org/.... Thanks to Mattheis
Stevens for the report
XML2RIS
+ Add export of DOI as UR - http://dx.doi.org/.... Thanks to Mattheis
Stevens for the report
XML2WORD
+ Add support for more types of sources.
4.1 12/21/08
BIBLATEX2XML
+ Lots of bug fixes
BUILD
+ Try to make changes to bin/Makefile to fix problem on FreeBSD. Still
awaiting feedback to see if problem is solved.
END2XML
+ Handle DOI placed in %1 custom field by Wiley
RIS2XML
+ Add pattern matching for new DOI output by Science Direct
XML2ADS
+ Fix putting comma after the first keyword (thanks to Richard Mathar)
4.0 12/14/08
BIBLATEX2XML
+ Initial alpha version of the program -- mapping certain fields to MODS
hasn't been done yet.
BUILD
+ Move files/functions around so all of the code necessary to support
the converters but not part of the bibutils libraries are in the
bin subdirectory.
CHARSET CONVERSION
+ add partial recognition of Chinese GB18030 character set (containing
the GBK superset)
+ Revert 3.41 patch from Luc Pardon default that made unicode/utf8 take
precedence over latex now that -nl, --no-latex flag is available
END2XML
+ support %G language tag
+ support %H translator tag
ENDX2XML
+ fix bug caused by style tags in author fields
LIBRARY HANDLING
+ Remove requirement for defining lists for "as-is" and "corporation" names
to be read from the file -- embed in the param structure instead (help
for Haskell bindings)
+ Modify the library API so that input and output formats are stored in
struct param and do not need to be repeated in bibl_read() and bibl_write()
calls.
XML2BIB
+ Turn off latex encoding if we're using the GB18030 character set.
XML2END
+ support %G language tag
+ support %H translator tag
+ add better support for MARC-authority genre tags