KBibTeX 0.10-beta1

2021-01-18, 22:52, updated 2021-01-19, 21:27, by Thomas Fischer

After some procastination, here comes KBibTeX 0.10 Beta 1 (0.9.90). I had hoped to release it still in 2020, but there is real life and some thing you always want to fix first before making a release. But at some point, one has to make a decision to prepare the release and this point in time has come.

Here is an extract from the ChangeLog, highlighting the changes and fixes since the latest 0.9.x release.

• New online search: Semantic Scholar
• Fixing and revamping ACM's Digital Library (a.k.a. ACM Portal) online search
• Refactoring NSA ADS to use official API
• Updating BibSearch code: cover page improved, preparing code for translations, adding progress bar
• Tabs in the entry editor can show short messages to use, e.g. in which tab DOIs or URLs are to be entered
• Fixing UI issues with ColorLabelWidget
• Using KRatingPainter instead of home-made StarRating's paint function
• Various improvements and refactoring when (PDF) files get associated with an entry
• Use Qt's own QOAuth1 class instead of external library QOAuth
• Having ICU as an optional dependency only, provide internal, static translation from Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) characters to ASCII-only representations
• Greatly refactoring and modernizing CMakeLists.txt files, generation of camel-case headers, private/public linking to libraries, ...
• Updating translations (contributions by various authors)
• KDE Bug 421612: When suggesting entry ids, do not count ‘small words’
• KDE Bug 424033: Can't associate a file with a relative path without having the file copied
• KDE Bug 423976: When formatting IDs, non-word characters should be used as word separators
• KDE Bug 426856: File encoding is not always stored
• KDE Bug 379443: Slowdown when loading citation with many authors
• Adding and extending numerous automated tests
• Numerous other fixes, clean-ups, refactoring, ...

The source code in tar-ball form is available at KDE’s download infrastructure, signed with GnuPG using key 1808CB466328F4380685A3B1A264FD738D861F41.

Now that the release process is underway, I want to progress towards a stable release this spring. As a package maintainer, you can test if package building is working (note the changed ICU and QOAuth dependency) and then provide experimental packages to brave users for testing.

Branch kbibtex/0.10 where this beta release comes from and all future 0.10.x release will come from, will only release bug fixes, both towards the stable 0.10 and any potential bugfix releases (e.g. 0.10.1). Active development happens or will appear in the master branch as usual. I will wait for creating a branch for 0.11 until 0.10 has proven to be sufficient stable, avoiding to port patches between branches master, kbibtex/0.10, and kbibtex/0.11.

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