Release 3.7.0

Hello Community,

last week, we released BibSonomy 3.7.0. In this release, we included the following things for you:

• You can now choose your favorite publication export layouts, i.e. which are shown on every publication details page. You can edit them in your settings.
• Most importantly, we changed the layout of the "post publication" and "post bookmark" pages and added separate "import publication" and "import bookmarks" pages.
• You can also export your publications in CSL format now (read more).

We also did some bugfixing and enhancing on the recommender framework backend.

If you find any bugs, don't hesitate to drop us a mail or tell us on Twitter.

Happy tagging
Thomas

Release 3.6.0

We have released version 3.6.0 in late June. Although it is a little bit late, here is the list of the released features:

• We added schema.org markup to all our pages.
• Group administrators and moderators can edit the posts of a group. E.g. admins and mods of the group 'bibsonomy_dev' can edit all posts owned by 'bibsonomy_dev'. You can copy your posts to the group using the "for" system tag.
• Group administrators can regenerate the API key of the group.
• We fixed the URL encoding. Before, we encoded spaces with a '+' in a URL path, e.g. /user/hotho/clustering+text, now we follow RFC standard and encode spaces with '%20', e.g. /user/hotho/clustering%20text.
• We now index the full text of your private uploaded documents. Only you can search for text in the full text of a publication.

We also fixed over 40 other bugs. As always we adapted some publication meta data scrapers.

Happy tagging
Daniel

Feature of the Week: BibSonomy Scholar for Bookmarking

You may remember our Chrome browser extension "BibSonomy Scholar" we posted about some time ago. We are excited to announce a new feature for this extensions: the Quick Bookmark Button!

The Quick Bookmark Button allows to directly manage your bookmarks without disrupting your browsing experience: it indicates whether you have already bookmarked a page on BibSonomy and allows to post, delete and update your bookmark of the current page without leaving the page. For the description it even supports Markdown!

We hope that you find our new feature as exciting as we do. Please do not hesitate to share your experience!

Happy tagging
Martin

New Servers / SSL support

Hello community,

BibSonomy is now live on a new set of servers. The old servers are still running fine, one with an uptime of over three years. Still, it is only a matter of time before they fail. To protect your data and to keep the service running, we replace our hardware at regular intervals. To exchange the hardware, we had to put the system in read-only mode for a short time.

We also finally support SSL and replaced from Apache httpd to HAProxy, which gives us the opportunity to further scale our services. HAProxy is used for example by stackexchange.com or twitter.com. Although we have tested our new configuration on our test systems, we ran into some problems (e.g. the Chrome browser plugin and the Wordpress plugin stopped working). We have already fixed the issues in the BibSonomy backend. The corresponding plugins will also be updated in near time.

Currently we are not forcing SSL. This means you have to add the 's' to http by yourself. While testing the https-only solution we have encountered that many of our extensions can not handle the SSL-only configuration. However, we are currently working to update all our extensions. As soon as we are finished with the updates, we will announce when we discontinue our support for plain HTTP requests and start to redirect all traffic to SSL.

If you notice that things are broken which have worked fine before, don't hesitate to drop us a email at webmaster@bibsonomy.org or contact us on twitter so we can fix it.

Happy tagging!
Thomas

Release 3.5.0

Last week we released version 3.5.0 of BibSonomy.

Alongside a lot of bug fixes (regarding the new layout, group features and the new search), we also introduced the following new features:

• new CV-Wiki tag for tag clouds
• new scraper for RWTH Aachen
• migrated to the new reCAPTCHA

Happy tagging,

Daniel