👻 🎃 JabRef 6.0-alpha.3 Release 🎃 👻

Trick or treat! Happy Halloween from the JabRef team! We are happy to announce the release of JabRef 6.0 Alpha 3

Release Highlights:

- Arm64 Linux support,
- Improved UI for Citations
- New Fetchers: #OpenAlex and #EuropePMC
- Initial Cite As You Write endpoint
- First CLI version #JabKit with integrity check
- #CSL style fixes for #LibreOffice
- #JavaFX 25

#java #opensource #linux #arm #bibliography #academia #citations #texlatex #JabRef #GSOC #gsoc2025

👻 🎃 JabRef 6.0-alpha.3 Release 🎃 👻

Trick or treat! Happy Halloween from the JabRef team! We are happy to announce the release of JabRef 6.0 Alpha 3

Release Highlights:

- Arm64 Linux support,
- Improved UI for Citations
- New Fetchers: #OpenAlex and #EuropePMC
- Initial Cite As You Write endpoint
- First CLI version #JabKit with integrity check
- #CSL style fixes for #LibreOffice
- #JavaFX 25

#java #opensource #linux #arm #bibliography #academia #citations #texlatex #JabRef #GSOC #gsoc2025

What hashtag are we using for #gsoc #gsoc2025? :-D

Two interesting projects I'm keeping an eye on:

✳️ Karton - A Virtual Machine manager being worked on for #gsoc by @kenoi

✳️ Kretro - A new #libretro frontend by @seshpenguin

#emulation #retroarch #retrogaming #libvirt #kde

@kde

Ugh, Python got over 500 #GSoC applications this year and so many of them are absolutely trash, didn't follow any of the instructions. Most years about half of our applications are like this. But usually we have a lot fewer applicants and the submissions were blank files not plausible AI nonsense.

So I'm stuck reading hundreds of incredibly low quality nonsensical submissions today in hopes to take some workload off my other unpaid volunteer mentors. This is not the volunteer gig I signed up for 15 years ago when it was mostly working with new contributors and not their AI chatbots and I'm grumpy.

#AI#Python #OpenSource