Release Notes for Mendeley Desktop v0.5.9

Version 0.5.9 has many bug fixes, some new features (e.g. PDF file renaming according to a chosen schema like “Author - Year - Title - Journal.pdf”), and it will hopefully be joined by an alpha version of a Word plugin in the coming days. See the complete change list below:

Change list:

• New: Auto file renaming
• New: Account usage dialog
• Fix: Speedup opening of edit metadata dialog
• Fix: Possible crash when clicking keep document button (Linux)
• Fix: Size of edit metadata window
• Fix: New documents not appearing if references dragged into my library
• Fix: Possible crash when removing documents from online library
• Fix: Crash when linking an image PDF to manually added metadata
• Fix: Table view dragging not working properly
• Fix: Initial position of edit metadata dialog
• Fix: Reference list in table view
• Fix: Possible crash when closing application if uploads or downloads are in progress
• Fix: Changes to references not appearing immediately when closing edit metadata dialog
• Fix: Problems with shared groups syncing
• Fix: Position of shared group admin buttons in table view
• Fix: Fix PDF being locked after metadata extraction (Windows)
• Fix: Remove debugging output on startup (Linux)
• Fix: Text color of deletion suggested text in table view
• Fix: Tags, notes fields and reference list not being enabled when selecting documents in the library if Mendeley starts up in table view
• Fix: Slight improvements of the citation style
• Fix: Email automatically set for trac tickets
• Fix: Reduced Mendeley power usage while idle

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