Hello – I’d like to give you a quick update on Mendeley Desktop as we work our way towards a ‘1.0’ release. We’ve been focusing on stability, making Mendeley easier to use and have improved collaborative working amongst other issues. To get feedback on our work in progress, we publish ‘development preview’ versions every few weeks which contain features and bug fixes that will appear in the next official release. If you would like to have an early look at what will be in the next version of Mendeley Desktop, you can download the latest development preview which is available on all platforms. We would greatly appreciate any feedback, good or bad, that you have. You can contact us about development releases by emailing support-dev@mendeley.com. Alternatively, you can use our feedback forums at http://feedback.mendeley.com (please mention which version you are using).
These preview releases have not been tested as carefully as our official releases, so we advise users to backup their databases before trying out development preview versions of the client using Help -> Create Backup… in Mendeley Desktop.
Highlights since the current official release (0.9.4.1):
- User interface improvements (file-type specific icons for attachments, clearer wording in various messages, clearer progress information whilst the desktop is syncing with Mendeley Web, more keyboard shortcuts, fixed a problem where the right-hand Document Details pane could be hidden and it was not obvious how to show it again)
- Improved support for concurrent updating of document details by users in shared groups. Tags and keywords changes are now merged correctly and conflict resolution is improved.
- Importer improvements. File attachments are now imported from EndNote XML files, more document types and fields are supported by the Bibtex and RIS importers. Mendeley is now able to guess the type of a file to import if it lacks the appropriate extension.
- The full text of HTML attachments is now searchable.
- Improved the stability of the file organiser and search features.
- Added support for citation disambiguation and super/subscript citations in the Word and OpenOffice.org plugins
- Faster bibliography generation and citation insertion in Word and OpenOffice.org.
- Many bug fixes and minor tweaks
For a complete list of changes since the previous development release and since the current stable release please see our release notes page.
Feedback and Support
If you have suggestions for improvements please let us know by visiting the feedback forum. If you encounter any problems using Mendeley or have questions to ask please email support@mendeley.com.
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Portability didn’t make it to this version either? Guess that the announcement on the blog at Aug 24 was a bit premature then.
Suggest you reconsider your idea of making portability a premium feature. You’d be favouring the established scientists with private offices and computers over the budding students who have to rely on borrowed library machines.
Hi Lars – yes, apologies, the announcement was premature. We’re also still pondering whether to make portability a premium feature, there isn’t a final decision yet.