KBibTeX

KBibTeX is a BibTeX editor for KDE to edit bibliographies used with LaTeX. Features include comfortable input masks, starting web queries (e. g. Google Scholar or BibSonomy) and exporting to PDF, PostScript, RTF and XML/HTML. As KBibTeX is using KDE's KParts technology, KBibTeX can be embedded into Kile or Konqueror.

2015-July-09
KBibTeX 0.5.2 and 0.6 got released. Version 0.5.2 contains bug fixes for the 0.5 release line, 0.6 is a new feature release.
Changes are documented in the release announcement: https://projects.kde.org/news/304

2014-May-19
KBibTeX 0.5.1 has been released. This release contains bug fixes compared to the previous stable release 0.5.

KDE Bug 329724: Fixing sorting issue in main list

KDE Bug 329750: KBibTeX will set itself as default bibliography editor in KDE

KDE Bug 330700: Crash when finding PDFs

KDE Bug 332043: Fixing crash in id suggestion editor

Gentoo Bug 498932: Fixing compilation issue

Gna Bug 21581: Restoring session state (1)

Gna Bug 21545: Restoring session state (2)

Debian Bug 689310: Correctly parsing command line arguments if relative paths are given

Gna Bug 21870: Considering sorting/filtering in main list when processing selected items

KDE Bug 333860: Removing duplicate "else if" clauses on DOI value

Other changes and minor backports from master. See git log v0.5..v0.5.1 or git diff v0.5..v0.5.1 for details.

2013-Dec-29
KBibTeX 0.5 has been released. Its main features include

Initial support for BibLaTeX

Id Suggestion editor like available in old KDE3 version

"Find PDF" function to locate PDF files through web search engines

New online database searches: MathSciNet, Ingenta Connect, Inspire Hep, SAO/NASA ADS, ISBN DB, JStor

Improved memory management

Numerous bug fixes and improvements

2013-Mar-10

KBibTeX 0.5-beta2 has been released. Please test this beta and report bugs at KBibTeX's bug tracker at Gna (not KDE's bug tracker).

2012-Oct-15

KBibTeX 0.4.1 has just been tagged and tar-balled. This release is a maintenance release, although some minor feature improvements from the development trunk have been backported as well.

Everyone using KBibTeX 0.4 is encouraged to upgrade to this version if possible.

Changes from 0.4 to 0.4.1 include, but are not limited to:

Web searches: Improved support for user-triggered cancelling

SpringerLink search: GUI changes, using api.springer.com for search

PubMed: Limiting search requests per time

ACM Portal: Retrieving "month", fixing HTTP header

JSTOR: fixing HTTP header

Google Scholar: Updates to compensate for changes in Google's web layout; handling redirects

Science Direct: Updates to compensate for changes in Science Direct's web layout; handling redirects

arXiv: Trying to extract bibliographic information from journal strings

BibSonomy: Specifying number of hits to find

Web search uses KDE's proxy settings

Using KDE subsystem to open external files (e.g. PDF files)

Adding preview for images (in addition to PDF or HTML files); handling references to arXiv

Squeezing long file names in user interface

Handling quit actions more gracefully

Improving interface to external programs such as pdflatex

More robust XSL transformations

BibTeX import: guessing encoding information left by JabRef, more informative debug output, improved handling of multiple fields with same name

Reference preview: supporting dark color schemes

Fixing sorting in value list

Fixes in setting color tag to entries

Fixes in name formatting

Keeping user interface read-only for read-only use cases

Numerous bug fixes, closing memory leaks, speed improvements

Adding testing application for web searches

Fixes in duplicate merging code: remove fields user doesn't want to keep