[Jabref-users] JabRef 3.6 and groups

[Haines B. <ha...@hi...>]

JabRef 3.6 is now out. I don't find sufficient information about the
differences in new versions, what is added, what is fixed.

In particular, JabRef version 3.1 or 3.2 (I think) introduced what was
for me a disastrous change in how groups are attached to database
entries. In particular, my database of about 13.000 entries was set up
under the old system which allowed duplication of group names.
Here is a fictional example:

fishing
  ..saltwater -> article on sport fishing
swimming
  ..saltwater -> article on beaches
corrosion
  ..saltwater -> article on automobile maintenance

Where I to use the new system that came in with JabRef 3.1, the group
linkage information would be corrupted and with it the organization of
all my data. Saltwater would conflate articles on fishing, swimming and
corrosion. 

There was discussion of this issue that suggested the problem could be
fixed so that links from entries could differentiate among groups having
the same name. Was a change incorporated into the new JabRef that would
solve the problem?

Haines Brown