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.

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)
• 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
  • Open PubMed and PubMed Central directly from the item pane
• 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
• 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
• 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

View the 8.0 changelog