The new beta version improves usability of JabRef and includes patches from the community. For instance, we added support for specifying a BibTeX file at --importToOpen. This allows a usage in browsers to directly append downloaded entries to the currently opened database.

Writing of a .bib file has been changed to gain a more human-readable bibtex file. The behavior can be adapted at Options->Preferences->File->"File saving options".... read more

Long time no news, but many releases. The highlights of the last
releases are support for synchronizing a directory with papers and a
database, importing PDFs based on their text, import by drag’n’drop to
the preview pane, converting a reference string to a BibTeX entry by
the FreeCite service, fetching BibTeX entries from DOI and ISBN, clean
up functionality, ranking of entries, improvements for all fetchers,
and many more. We also went through all submitted patches and applied
most of them. A big thanks goes out to all the patch submitters and
contributors. You keep us motivated!

This minor release fixes several bugs, among them a serious look and feel bug under Windows Vista. A couple of improvements have also been made regarding plugins and export formats.

Due to changes in the SourceForge www service, we may not be able to update the Web Start version for a while.

JabRef is a graphical application for managing bibliographical databases. JabRef is designed specifically for BibTeX bases, but can import and export many other bibliographic formats. JabRef runs on all platforms and requires Java 1.5 or newer.

JabRef 2.4 brings a many new features. The most notable features are plugin support, global search, better crossref handling and new web query options. Many bugs have also been fixed.

JabRef 2.3.1 is a bugfix release which fixes a couple of important issues: handling of applications for viewing external files on OS X, a freeze bug when fetching entries from Medline, and UAC problems with the Windows installer under Vista.

JabRef 2.3 has just been released. This is a major update which brings many new features and bugfixes.

The new version of JabRef is now available, bringing new features, most notable support for XMP metadata in PDF files, improved interface for importing and exporting, and many bug fixes.

We have just released a beta of the upcoming 2.2 version. The new version comes with a lot of bugfixes and several great new features. Most notable is the ability to add XMP annotations to linked PDF files. Annoted PDF files carry all relevant citation information, for easy sharing between JabRef users. Other new features include new advanced HTML export filters, better search, better drag-and-drop support for PS/PDF files, linking to PS/PDF files placed relative to the bib file, and quick letter seek in the entry table.... read more

This release provides a lot of bugfixes and some nice new features:
* IEEEXplore search and download feature.
* Option to store entries in their original order, and unsorted table view now shows entries in their original order.
* Keys can now be autogenerated for entries with missing keys before each save.
* Open and import multiple files at the same time.
* Drag files and URLs to readable files into JabRef.

JabRef is now available in Debian unstable. The package is handled by Gregor Herrmann and Tony Mancill.

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/tex/jabref