The moons have once more aligned and we would like to announce the release of a new version of Mendeley Desktop for your software-using pleasure, including the Word plugin.

Thank-you all for your feedback, it’s really helped to shape this release. If you have any problems with Mendeley or you wish to request cool new stuff for us to add please visit our feedback forum, which is accessible through the Help menu.

• PDF file organisation and renaming tool
• Automatic extraction and retrieval of metadata for ArXiv papers
• Lookup metadata for documents based on their PubMed ID
• Invite other researchers who are not Mendeley contacts to join Shared Document Groups from within the program
• Store and sync paper abstracts
• Link to your Mendeley profile and online library in Mendeley Desktop

• Author extraction improvements in the PDF importer – This release lays the groundwork for future metadata extraction improvements
• Faster startup with large libraries
• Reduce the number and duration of pauses during synchronisation, especially with large libraries
• Improved auto-completion of authors
• Allow deletion of documents in Recently Added and Ungrouped views
• Display the number of documents in groups next to the group name
• Warn the user if they accidentally try to add papers to ‘My Publications’ if they do not appear in the author list for that paper
• Show number of PDFs uploaded/downloaded from Mendeley Web while syncing
• More informative progress updates during PDF import
• Import tags from Bibtex, RIS files
• Export tags to Bibtex files
• Word plugin installer integrated into Mendeley Desktop (Tools menu)
• More citation styles for citation view and Word plugin
• Bibliographies in Word plugin have hanging indents for certain styles
• Various improvements to citation formatting

• More robust synchronisation – fixed many bugs which could occur whilst syncing
• Various citation formatting improvements
• Various Bibtex import fixes – Bibtex files generated by Google Scholar and Web of Science now import correctly
• Support RefWorks-generated RIS files
• Prevent pasting rich text into metadata fields which do not support it
• Use case insensitive sorting in fields list and table view
• Strip XML tags when exporting notes to Bibtex or RIS
• Fix ‘Save’ button not being enabled when viewing un-corrected metadata until at least one of the fields had been changed
• Removed in-line editing in table view as it was accidentally activated too easily
• Fixed problems entering ISBN, ISSN information
• Made several error messages less scary
• Fix current article selection being lost when sorting library
• Fixed imported documents being added to different groups if the user changed the selection while the import was in progress
• Fixed searching for exact phrases using quotation marks
• Stop trying to upload PDF files if account quota is reached
• Fixed bug causing scary message about UUID clash

• Fixed crashes when importing certain PDFs on Windows
• File auto-renamer could create file names which were too long on Windows

• Fixed crash during online metadata retrieval when importing PDFs
• Now works on OSX systems which have Qt/KDE installed (fix possible crash on startup)

• Make Ubuntu package require the Qt 4 SQLite plugin
• Now compatible with Qt 4.5