JabRef e.V.

14/05/2026

It's been only 3 months since the latest release, but our changelog already contains plenty of entries.
We are excited to announce version 6.0-alpha.6 🌞 of Hashtag .

Release Highlights:
- Improved theming in JabRef
- Revamped notifications and pop-up toasts into a single center info center.
- Improved citation count and the citation feature, e.g., you can now choose between different fetchers for updating the citation count. Drag and drop of entries from the citation tab is also now possible.
- Web search now accepts publisher-specific query syntax as well
- Unlinked files now allow linking found files to existing related entries as well
https://blog.jabref.org/2026/05/14/JabRef6-0-alpha6/

31/10/2025

👻 🎃 JabRef 6.0-alpha.3 Release 🎃 👻

Trick or treat! Happy Halloween from the JabRef team! We are happy to announce the release of JabRef 6.0 Alpha 3, the next step towards the stable version of JabRef 6.0.

Release Highlights:

- Arm64 Linux support,
- Improved UI for Citations
- New Fetchers: and
- Initial Cite As You Write endpoint
- First CLI version with integrity check
- style fixes for
- 25

More info in our blog post
https://blog.jabref.org/2025/10/30/JabRef6-0-alpha3/

24/12/2024

Happy Holidays from the Team
We have a present for you! 🎅
We just released the first alpha version of JabRef 6.0!
Packed with the cool features from and many other fixes:

- features: Summary and interactive "chat" with papers (explicit opt in)
- CSL Styles in
- New search

For more info, check out our blog!

https://blog.jabref.org/2024/12/23/JabRef6-0-alpha/

16/07/2024

We finally released JabRef 5.15 - now with a proper blog post, and this time with correct binaries for intel macs and fixes for snap users.

This release comes with some nice improvements for users, as can be seen in the video.

And we added experimental support for using styles as Preview.
Despite that, we also did the usual bug fixing and UI improvements

https://blog.jabref.org/2024/07/16/JabRef5-15/

See our blog post for the highlights!

03/04/2024

It's Spring here in the Northern Hemisphere, and we have released another new Version of JabRef: 5.13!

We are publishing version 5.13 of JabRef! In the Northern Hemisphere, Spring is on it’s way and we are releasing a new version with many new features and bug fixes with a focus on improving the usability (not only) for LaTeX users.

16/03/2024

If you are a user, please do not install 14.4 update yet - it will break and other applications

Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update

12/03/2024

20 years of JabRef - The Beginning

This blog post starts a series of posts on the 20 years
anniversary of JabRef. We asked various contributors about their stories on JabRef and other insights. One of the early contributors was David Weitzman, who started contributing to JabRef while he was in high school...

Reads more about the creation of in our blog posts:
https://blog.jabref.org/2024/03/11/JabRef-20-years-start/

22/02/2024

Yeah! We got accepted again for this year's 2024!

From March 18, 2024 to April 02, 2024 people can apply for participation in the GSoC. Interested people are invited to take a look at our list of possible project ideas or suggest their own projects. We offer small projects (90), medium projects (175h) and large projects (350h).

See the blog post for more info and our ideas list:

Great news! JabRef got accepted as an open source organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The goal of this annual program is to give open source newcomers the opportunity to learn about and get involved in open source development. People will work up to three months on a project...

24/12/2023

🎄 JabRef 5.12 Release - 20 years of JabRef 🎄

Happy Holidays everyone! Enjoy our new release 5.12, which marks our 20th jubilee!
The first JabRef Version 1.0 was released on November, 29 in 2003.
See the blog post for highlights and our changelog for details,
Stay tuned for a series of blog posts from past and current contributors.

https://blog.jabref.org/2023/12/24/JabRef5-12/

We are publishing version 5.12 of JabRef! Just in time for the holidays, we present this new iteration with a couple of new features and bug fixes. This time, the occasion is very special, as we have something to celebrate: This year marks the 20-year jubilee of JabRef! Since its foundation in 2003,...

22/10/2023

Version 5.11 of is here. What a surprise!
We released so soon after the last release because regressions have been found (and fixed) that seemed to be annoying enough to warrant an early release, especially for macOS users. Despite the bug fixes, we also implemented a couple of new features and performance improvements.

Read more in our blog and changelog!



https://blog.jabref.org/2023/10/22/JabRef5-11/