🌞 JabRef 6.0 Alpha 6 released! 🌞

We are thrilled to announce a new alpha version! The version is formally an alpha but stable enough for usage.

Highlights:

- Revamped notifications and pop-up
- Improved generation and handling of inserted citations in LibreOffice
- Improved inspections for #biblatex and #bibtex

https://blog.jabref.org/2026/05/14/JabRef6-0-alpha6/

#javafx #bibliography #academia #citations #TexLatex #academic #opensource #research

@foojay @frankdelporte

Vaadin, *the* go-to solution for Java-based web development, enables writing websites and web applications in 100% pure Java.
We're proud to announce that API documentation of Vaadin is now available on APIdia!
Check it out at https://apidia.net/mvn/com.vaadin/vaadin

Docs resemble Javadoc but are more convenient to browse via frame-like side navigation for packages and classes.
They crosslink to almost all dependencies seamlessly.

#vaadin #apidia #java #javadoc #jvm

We are excited that we are participating in #GSOC2026 with 3 projects:

- "Improved handling of older documents with OCR and AI-powered tools."

- "Improved #LibreOffice -JabRef integration" with one particular aspect of compatibility with other reference managers.

- "Improving startup times for JabKit" by leveraging the power of #GraalVM

#javafx #jabref #academia #bibtex #TexLatex #opensource #bibliography
cc  @frankdelporte @foojay

Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on https://www.jfx-central.com/links.

Thanks to
@jabref
David Gutiérrez
Pedro Duke
@dlemmermann
Austin Lehman
Phil Race

Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!

The Invisible Infrastructure of Academic Publishing

A JabRef contributor wrote this nice article for his university course:
https://kai505.medium.com/the-invisible-infrastructure-of-academic-publishing-48772c9606f8

#texlatex #jabref #bibtex #academia #bibliography

Do you use #LIbreOffice together with #JabRef and want to have an easy way to convert citations and references to plaintext and vice versa?
We have now published our first LibreOffice extension, originally developed by @teertrinker and extended by the JabRef maintainers.
Check it out under:

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99532

#academia #opensource #references #citations #bibliography
cc @fiduswriter Might be interesting for you as well

In a large open source project, unfortunately, it can happen tha solving an issue may take a while..
We are pleased to announce that a longstanding 6-year-old annoying issue with using keyboard shortcuts in the BibTeX code text area got fixed
https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/5937

Side effect: people in our team also learned about these nice macOS keyboard shortcuts for navigation and text selection.

#javafx #bibtex #macos #java #opensource

Reactive Java is well suited to modern streaming, event driven applications. In this article, we'll walk through an example of such an application using Reactive Java with MongoDB. Specifically, we're going to cover: Why Reactive Java was introduced and how it differs from more traditional Java programming. Details of some of the key elements of…...

https://foojay.io/today/event-driven-architecture-in-java-and-kafka/