Release Notes for Mendeley Desktop

Mendeley Desktop v1.8

This is a small update which fixes a number of bugs and improves the look of Mendeley under Windows 8.

• Improved UI look and feel under Windows 8.
• Added Help -> Check for Updates option.
• Fixed non-English text sometimes not being displayed properly in the documents list.
• Fixed a problem with the Word plugin that could cause Word 2003 to crash.
• Fixed Word plugin crash under OS X 10.5
• Fixed progress indicator when importing large RIS, BibTeX and EndNote XML files.

Supported Platforms

There are changes to the minimum versions of Windows and Linux that are supported from this release onwards.

Linux - This version of Mendeley requires Ubuntu 10.04, Debian Squeeze or equivalently new.

Windows - This version of Mendeley requires Windows XP SP2 or later.

Support

• If you encounter any problems using Mendeley or have questions to ask please contact our support team.
• For news and updates about Mendeley see our blog.

Mendeley uses

• PDF technology powered by PDFTron.
• Portions of this product © 2008 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
• Fugue Icons by Pinvoke.
• Silk Icons by FamFamFam.
• Social Network Icons and buttons by Komodo Media, Rogie King.
• Word/LibreOffice plugins use code © Zotero / Center for History and New Media / George Mason University.
• CSL and citeproc-js for reference formatting.

Released: 23 January 2013