KBibTeX 0.6.2 released

[t_fischer]

Today, KBibTeX 0.6.2 has been released. It replaces the never published 0.6.1 release, where a show-stopping bug was detected after tagging the release.

tl;dr: source tar ball, ChangeLog in Git

Changes

The ChangeLog from 0.6 to 0.6.2 reads as follows:

• KDE Bug 377401 KBibTeX fails to load zotero bibliography
• KDE Bug 351455 Removing soversion from KBibTeX Part
• KDE Bug 353898 Fixing build issues on ARM architecture
• KDE Bug 354785 Using QTextDocument/QTextEdit instead of WebKit/WebEngine: more lightweight and supported on all platforms
• KDE Bug 371515 Speeding up selection of elements in bibliography lists
• KDE Bug 371593 Sorting field and entry types in comboboxes alphabetically
• Fixing crash when open file got modified externally
• Correcting choke on PubMed searches to 10 seconds
• Fixing search issues for ACM, Google Scholar, JSTOR, and ScienceDirect
• Setting foreground color of colored rows to either black or white for better readability
• Disabling OCLC WorldCat (request for support denied by this organization)
• Generally improved code quality as detected by code checkers such as Clazy or Coverity
• Fixing handling of URLs and their protocols for local files
• Fixing setting default id suggestion
• Adding 'Keywords' field to .desktop file
• Removing file that was licensed under CC BY-NC, but never got installed
• Improved Unicode support
• Refactoring writing of bibliography files, both to local and to remote places, including writing to symbolic links
• Better handling quotation marks and protective curly brackets around titles
• Updating translations

In the project's Git repository, you will find the ChangeLog for this release.
To have a look on the changes' details, simply clone the repository and run git log -c v0.6..v0.6.2

Where to Get It?

Files (source code tar balls, checksums, and GnuPG signatures) are available for download at http://download.gna.org/kbibtex/0.6/:

• http://download.gna.org/kbibtex/0.6/kbibtex-0.6.2.tar.xz
• http://download.gna.org/kbibtex/0.6/kbibtex-0.6.2.tar.xz.sha512
• http://download.gna.org/kbibtex/0.6/kbibtex-0.6.2.tar.xz.sha512.asc
• GnuPG key 0x1808CB466328F4380685A3B1A264FD738D861F41 (run sha512sum kbibtex-0.6.2.tar.xz | diff -s kbibtex-0.6.2.tar.xz.sha512 - and gpg --verify kbibtex-0.6.2.tar.xz.sha512.asc to check)

What's Next?

Unless there is a critical problem with this release, the next step will be KBibTeX 0.7 which will be the last KDE4-based release branch.

Of course, a KDE Frameworks 5-based release is already underway, but you need to checkout the master branch from Git to test it. The code is quite mature (personally, I use it for regular work), so feedback is welcome to advance a release there.

Due to real life^TM, I won't be able to publish any release schedule.