HTTP access will be disabled in September 2017

From September 2017 on access to BibSonomy will only be possible via TLS encrypted connections (that is, HTTPS). BibSonomy’s REST API support HTTPS for some time and in September 2016 we had introduced SSL support for the BibSonomy web pages. This ensures that all your data is encrypted on the way to your browser to protect your privacy. In September we will disable unencrypted access to BibSonomy, that is, all non-encrypted (HTTP) requests to BibSonomy will be redirected using HTTP 301 responses to the corresponding HTTPS (SSL) pages. For browser-based access this should not make any difference, however, some plugins and extensions that are using the REST API might be affected by this.

BibSonomy integrates well with other services and tools but the underlying source code might not be able to properly resolve the HTTP redirects, yet. Therefore, in case your service or tool is relying on a connection to BibSonomy, please check whether it properly supports HTTP redirects or migrate it directly to use HTTPS (which is our suggestion). We have already migrated the PHP client library as well as the Typo3 extension. The Python and Ruby clients also already support HTTPS. The source code of other extensions is available on BitBucket and we appreciate any help in the migration effort. Please submit pull requests for the libraries and tools you are using.

We hope that our move towards encrypted-only access does not cause any problems and that you will have enough time until September to migrate your code.

Release 3.8

Dear BibSonomy users,

we published version 3.8 of BibSonomy. Next to a huge number of bugfixes (see https://bitbucket.org/bibsonomy/bibsonomy/pull-requests/10/release-38/diff), the main improvements are:

• The Genealogy feature received a major overhaul.
• We added a "misc" field editor for publication entries.
• 404 pages now show error messages, if a user or a group account couldn't be found.

As always, if you find something not working as you think it should, drop us a message either per Twitter or mail :)

Happy tagging
Thomas