Zotero Version History#
Changes in released versions of Zotero 9.0 are documented on this page. To follow development, see the commit log on GitHub. More recent changes may be available in a beta build.
Changes in 9.0.4 (May 22, 2026)#
- Fixed broken search/indexing after app had been open for a while
- Citation dialog: Restored sorting of libraries by number of cited items
- Read Aloud: Increased maximum reading speed to 3x
- [Mac/Safari] Fixed error in Google Doc with edited citations
- Reader fixes
- Fixed shortcut keys on keyboards with alternative layouts
- EPUB: Fixed outline navigation for some files
- EPUB: Fixed page number not being recognized for some files
Changes in 9.0.3 (May 6, 2026)#
- [Windows] Fixed Word plugin buttons not responding if Zotero.dotm couldn’t be updated in Word Startup folder
- Improved ISBN lookup
- Fixed captcha loop on ScienceDirect in Find Full Text
Changes in 9.0.2 (April 30, 2026)#
- [Security] Additional protections to prevent websites from triggering actions in Zotero or detecting that Zotero is installed
- [Word for Windows] Fixed inline font getting lost when inserting rich text
- Fixed possible incorrect localization due to plugin conflicts
- Offer to reset data directory at startup if database cannot be read
- Read Aloud: Fixed handling of short sentences when using Annotate Sentence
- Reader: Fixed importing of non-ASCII characters from KOReader EPUB annotations
- Reader: Fixed displaying of certain EPUB images
- [Security] Updated Mozilla platform to 140.10.0esr
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
Changes in 9.0.1 (April 21, 2026)#
- Read Aloud improvements
- Toggle Read Aloud when pressing R or L key on keyboard
- Fixed potential failure starting reading
- Dismiss sentence-annotation popup by clicking outside of it
- Handle output device disconnection on Windows
- Fixed context menu sometimes not working after plugin removal
- Fixed failure to load items at startup with some databases
- Fixed “{$version}” sometimes showing in post-upgrade banner
- Fixed word processor plugin error after citing and then deleting an Audio Recording, Presentation, or Video Recording item
- Preserve entered text when pasting into item tags field
- Fixed link to related item sometimes not working
- Added an icon for the Relate Items menu option
- Fixed tag swatches showing in wrong order for selected item rows
- Fixed plugin default preferences not getting updated after a plugin update
- Reader: Fixed display of HTML emails exported from Thunderbird
Changes in 9.0 (April 10, 2026)#
See the Zotero 9 announcement for more details.
- Read Aloud
- Listen to PDFs, EPUBs, and webpage snapshots with high-quality, natural-sounding voices
- Annotate the last sentence with a single click or H/U on keyboard
- Last reading position is saved and synced across devices
- Start reading from any paragraph by clicking in the left margin while Read Aloud is activated
- “Recently Read” collection
- New virtual collection in each library showing items you’ve read recently, synced across devices
- “Last Read” column available in all views
- “Attachment Last Read” search condition
- Insert annotations directly into word processor documents
- New “Add Annotation” button in word processor plugins lets you insert annotations directly into your document with active Zotero citations
- “Added By” and “Modified By” for group libraries
- View the group members who added and/or last edited items
- Shown in item pane, and can be added as columns in the items list
- Per-group file renaming settings
- Group admins can configure file-renaming templates for each group library
- Performance improvements
- Reduced startup memory usage by ~20%
- Detect external local attachment changes during sync without scanning all files
- Avoid repeated checks for remotely missing files during sync
- [Mac] Use APFS cloning for file copies, including automatic database backups, to save potentially hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes of local disk space
- Web-based login flow
- Log in to your Zotero account via the browser instead of entering credentials in the app
- Allows use of password managers
- Allows for two-factor authentication (currently testable; available by default soon)
- Improved RTF Scan
- Support for citations with extended and non-Latin characters in authors and titles
- Support for additional quotation mark styles
- Support for citations with title but no author
- Support for documents with multiple character encodings
- Reader changes
- Improved theme handling for scanned PDFs
- Support for fixed-layout EPUBs
- Don’t apply dark-mode styling to printed PDFs
- Items list improvements
- ”+”/”-” keys now expand/collapse all rows one level at a time
- Added Director as fallback for Creator for Video Recording items
- Fixed Title column not being recoverable when hidden by a plugin
- Added “Citation Key” column to items list
- Search by citation key in search bar (“Title, Creator, Year” mode) and citation dialog
- “View Online” button for PMID/PMCID to open PubMed and PubMed Central directly from the item pane
- Fixed “Rename File to Match Parent Item” button sometimes not appearing
- Don’t merge trashed attachments
- Improved keyboard navigation in drop-down menus
- Exclude ©, ®, and ™ from emoji detection
- Show account email addresses in sync settings
- Various other improvements and bug fixes