After a couple of dev preview releases we now released a new official version of Mendeley Desktop. As highly requested by our users this release includes LaTeX support and Zotero integration just to name some of the improvements. See a complete list of changes below:

[UPDATE 02/10/2009]: Still working on updating the Linux repositories.

New Features:

• Option to manually or automatically import documents from Zotero.
• Automatic library backups and easier restoration of backups.
• Added support for multi-word institutional author names such as groups or organisations.
• Improved LaTeX integration. Add option to automatically create and update a set of Bibtex files from your library and added ‘Copy LaTeX Citation’ menu entry to copy ‘cite{BibtexKey}’ text to clipboard.

Improvements to Existing Features:

• Improved performance and reduced memory usage when syncing large amounts of data from and to Mendeley Web.
• Quicker startup after importing a large number of PDF documents.
• Make several additional actions in the Document Details tab undo-able: “Search by Title”, “Details are Correct”, and edits with multiple documents selected.
• Added more citation styles, as well as an interface to search for styles.
• Added separate per-collection options to control whether files are uploaded to and downloaded from Mendeley Web.
• Added a safe-guard against older versions of Mendeley Desktop being used with a more recent database.
• Added a cache for speeding up the opening of PDFs within Mendeley Desktop.
• Identified and fixed a number of issues related to scrolling PDFs.
• Improved the stability when rotating a PDF, and viewing attached highlights or annotations.
• Switching to fullscreen mode should now take you to the most recently viewed page in the PDF, instead of the first page.
• Include the URL of a reference when using the Word/OpenOffice plugins to cite a webpage.
• Enable manually marking a document as needing review.
• Better handling of linebreaks when copying text from the PDF viewer into the abstract field.
• Windows: Allow non-administrator users to install the Word plugin.
• Reduce the time taken to check for availability of Neo/OpenOffice on Mac.
• Display a warning when entering a citation key manually which is already in use.
• Support for searching for keywords in specific fields using ‘fieldname:keyword’ syntax has been extended to all plain text fields.
• Show progress information whilst exporting documents.
• Introduced sanity checking to ensure that any sync that would delete large amounts of documents are intended.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed various crashes and other glitches in the PDF viewer.
• Fixed various bugs in the file organiser which could cause file copying/renaming to fail or lose link between file and Mendeley document.
• Remove documents from collection instead of moving them to trash when Delete key is pressed.
• Windows: Fixed an issue with the Word plugin reporting “Combobox not found”.
• Fix freeze when downloading large numbers of documents from Mendeley Web.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during the sync process.
• Fixed problem where fields that had been cleared in Document Details tab were not synced correctly with Mendeley Web.
• Fixed crash when viewing some copy protected / DRMed PDFs.
• Fixed DOI or ArXiv ID lookups failing in some cases with valid identifiers.
• Added support for inserting citations as superscript, or subscript, where appropriate with the Word and OpenOffice plugin.
• Fixed import of multiple URLs and non-numeric pages fields from RIS files.
• Fixed export of line breaks in notes and abstract field to Bibtex format.
• Correctly handle adding notes to multiple documents simultaneously.
• Gracefully detect the version of OpenOffice available and handle plugin installation accordingly.
• Fixed a number of issues with file renaming and the File Organizer.
• Highlighting of search keywords in results did not work if search query was quoted or ended with a trailing space.
• Fixed order of URLs in URLs field not being kept when closing and restarting program.
• Some fields (Cast, Producers) were never saved to local database.
• Fixed a character encoding bug when syncing collections.
• Older (PowerPC-based) Macs: Fix a bug with the PDF viewer, so PDFs are now displayed in the correct colors.
• Older (PowerPC-based) Macs: Fixed a bug that prevented exporting files to BibTex.

Feedback and Support

If you have suggestions for improvements please let us know by visiting the feedback forum at http://feedback.mendeley.com. If you encounter any problems using Mendeley or have questions to ask please email support@mendeley.com.