Changes in released versions of Zotero 8.0 are documented on this page. To follow development, see the commit log on GitHub. More recent changes may be available in a beta build.

See the Zotero 8 announcement for more details.

Note: Zotero 8 no longer supports macOS 10.14 or earlier or Windows 7 or 8.

• Redesigned citation dialog
  • Replaces Quick Format (red bar) dialog, classic citation dialog, and Add Note dialog with a unified dialog with List and Library modes
  • Allows searching by DOI or ISBN
• Annotations in the items list
  • Makes it easier to view annotations across a library or collection
  • Allows searching for annotations directly (e.g., to create a note from all annotations with a given tag in a collection)
• Reader Appearance panel with customizable themes
  • Provides quick access to document view settings
  • Introduces themes, with several built-in options (“Dark”, “Snow”, “Sepia”) and support for creating custom themes
  • Replaces previous “Use Dark Mode for Content” setting
• Note tabs
  • Notes now open in tabs by default
  • Configurable via the “Open notes in new windows instead of tabs” setting in the General pane of the settings
• Improved tabs menu
  • Press Ctrl/Cmd-; to bring up the menu at any time
  • Quickly filter for, switch to, or close tabs via the keyboard
• Continuous file renaming
  • Automatically keeps attachment filenames in sync with parent item metadata as you make changes (e.g., changing the title); previously, files were only automatically renamed when they were initially added
  • Existing filenames can be updated to match the current filename format from the General pane of the settings
  • “Rename File from Parent Metadata” has been removed from the item context menu; manual renaming can be performed from the attachment pane if the filename doesn't match the configured filename format (e.g., because renaming is disabled)
• Reading Mode for webpage snapshots
• ARM Linux support
• User interface improvements
  • Show item pane toggle button in library tab
  • Added ability to reorder item pane sections by dragging icons
  • Allow dragging items, collections, and searches into trash
  • Allow dragging attachments, notes, and related items from item pane
  • Expand collection tree rows when dragged over
  • Added ability to delete attachments from item pane
  • Maintain the size of tabs as they're being closed for faster closing of multiple tabs
• Added tag autocomplete and note field in Zotero Connector save popup
• Added option to show filenames in the items list
• Relate multiple items via right-click → Relate Items
• Other reader improvements
  • Copy or save images from EPUBs and webpage snapshots
  • Remember the most recently selected sidebar tab
  • Added spell-checking options to annotation text box context menu
  • Improved search performance
• Note editor improvements
  • Added note word count
  • Significantly improved search speed with long notes
  • Preserve cursor position and selection on note edit when same note is opened in multiple editors
• Word processor integration improvements
  • [Mac] Display progress bar for word processor integration in more cases
  • Close citation dialog if word processor plugin button is clicked to avoid accidental edits to previous citations
• Added Tools → Manage Attachments → “Normalize Attachment Titles…” (details)
• Support zooming with standard shortcut keys in reports and other standalone windows
• Remember the last file-import settings
• Redesigned Styles Manager in settings to clarify that styles aren't selected there
• Stop reopening collection/item panes at startup
• Use extension-less filenames when adding multiple attachments at once
• Restored attachment download progress spinner in item row
• Moved New Group and New Feed directly under File menu
• Added ability to hide My Publications
• Show tag splitter when pasting tag with delimiters (e.g., semicolons) in item tags box
• Relate embedded attachment note to its attachment when converting to standalone note
• Use Troubleshooting Mode by default for “Restart with Logging Enabled…”, with checkbox to disable
• Stop saving URLs dropped from Firefox (use the Connector for better results)
• [Mac] Added Tahoe menu icons, for better or worse
• Various accessibility improvements
• Many additional improvements and bug fixes

For Zotero core and plugin development, see Zotero 8 for Developers.

Also:

• Scaffold improvements
  • Improved test UI (details)
  • Item pane–like preview of translated items
  • Code completion
    • Enabled by setting scaffold.completions.mistralAPIKey hidden pref to an API key for Codestral
  • Accept shorthand URLs in URL box (e.g., "google.com" instead of "https://www.google.com/")
  • Make Defer checkbox interactive
• Local HTTP API
  • Return annotations
  • Added /fulltext endpoints
  • Return everything when since=0 (details)
• Allow plugins to uninstall themselves via update manifest
  • Use uninstall: true in update_url JSON updates that is valid for the installed plugin to uninstall the plugin the next time Zotero checks for plugin update

View the 7.0 changelog