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Update Patches

What Are They and What Should I Do?

Update patches are usually bug fixes or feature enhancements for users who already have Biblioscape installed. For versions 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x, click on the appropriate hyperlink below and follow the instructions on the page for your version:

Click here to download version 5.x patches.
Click here to download version 4.x patches.
Click here to download version 3.x patches.

The patch is self-installing. Click on the hyperlinked date below to download the patch file. When launching the self-installing patch file, be sure to install the patch to the root directory in which Biblioscape 6 is installed. If you open Biblioscape database through BiblioRemote server, please first run the patch on the server machine. The update history for the patches is given below.

Update History

From 6.0 to current:

download 2007-10-08

To do: Please install the patch to the root directory where Biblioscape 6 is installed.

Bug Fixes and new features:

2007-10-08
*Database engine upgrade.

2006-10-30
*When importing through BiblioWeb, if the import filter uses regular expression, an access violation error is generated.

2006-07-06
*When putting database under BiblioWeb folder to publish, the files under "attachments" folder can not be viewed. This bug is now fixed.

2006-04-18
*After user deleted all the content in Document field of a reference, the status button still shows there is content in that field. This bug has been fixed.
*In BiblioWeb, the web root folder is always set to "BiblioWeb" folder. Now, user can change it by editing BiblioWeb.ini file.

2006-03-10
*Some styles like Chicago requires the use of Title in the place of Authors when there is no Authors. In such cases, Biblioscape does not include the Title field properly. This bug has been fixed.

2006-03-08
*When formatting double byte languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) in footnote, the formatted footnote is not set in correct character set and can't be displayed correctly. This bug has been fixed.

2006-01-18
*A new button "Update File As field" is added to the "Tools | Options" window "Database" tab. Clicking this button will make Biblioscape to auto-generate File_as field for all reference records.

2006-01-14
*During reference import, Biblioscape now will remove the " and " before the last author and replace it with author separator. So the last two authors can be imported correctly.

2006-01-13
*If there are "{..}" inside Title, or other fields, they won't be shown in export file because they are rtf reserved characters. This causes a problem when export BibTex file. Now escape characters are added for Title fields and generic Fields. Authors, journal, keywords fields are not handled yet.

2005-11-02
1. When citation uses number but is sorted by authors in a bibliography, Biblioscape may generate citations with 0 as citation number in certain situations.

2005-10-14
1. In styles like Chicago (author-date), subsequent works by the same authors need to have authors replaced by "---". Biblioscape doesn't handle this correctly when such references are not cited together. This bug has been fixed.

2005-10-09
1. Bug: When solving a citation ambiguity by adding more authors, Biblioscape could generate "list out of bound" error in cases when ^na is used. This bug is fixed.

2005-08-13
1. When record separator is special text in Biblioscape import filter, the last line of the import file may not get imported. This bug is fixed by adding one space blank line to the end of import temp file.

2005-03-03
1. In References module, tag field can be imported more than once in certain situations when reparse is needed.

2005-02-10
1. In References module, when there is a dash between last names, like "Chen, Jian-Guo", and full name format is needed, an extra space is added after the dash.

2005-01-8
1. In References module, go to menu command "Edit | Font Properties". If "Underline" option is selected, Biblioscape surrounds the selected text with {\u seltext}. It should be {\ul seltext}

2005-01-07
1. In References module, when user goes to "Edit | Font Properties" and clicks Cancel button, the selected text is removed.

2004-09-27
1. In References module import editor, you can now map a single tag field to more than one data field. For example, the tag field "Lang - " tag field can be mapped to both "Language" field and "Custom 1" field.

2004-09-23
1. In References module, when a citation author name is formatted differently after the first appearance, at the same time, and the record is also an ambiguous citation so that a letter must be added after the year, Biblioscape cannot format citations correctly. This bug has been fixed.

2004-09-11
1. In References module, if the Year field is empty, user now has an option in the style editor to use the text in the Date Freeform field instead. This new feature is useful when you need to put "In Press", etc., because the Year field only takes integers. So you can put "In Press" in the Date Freeform field, and when Biblioscape finds the Year field is empty, it will use "In Press" from the Date Freeform field in the place of Year.

2004-09-07
1. In References module, when dealing with ambiguous citations by adding title, if the formatted citation doesn't include year, Biblioscape will add title before the author instead of after the author.
2. In References module, when system date format is set to dd-MMM-yy, Biblioscape generates date conversion error.

2004-09-04
1. After deleting a record with links to other records, the link table is now properly updated.
2. Biblioscape can now copy and paste temporary citations correctly when it is in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.

2004-09-02
1. In References module, for Cited Pages in temporary citation, if Biblioscape can't find page ranges, it will use the cited pages as is. So if you put "ix", "23-34, 35", Biblioscape will add them correctly.
2. In References module, user can now use "^np" to suppress parenthesis. For example, if your put [Smith, K. 1990 ^np #545]. After formatted, the formatted citation will become "Smith 1990". If "^np" is not included, citation will be formatted as "(Smith 1990)".
3. In Referemces module, if several cited papers are by the same author as the first author, the sorting could be wrong in bibliography section. This bug has been fixed.

2004-08-31
1. In References module, when two temporary citations of the same first author is cited together, the author name is combined. To decide whether to combine author name, formatted authors should be used instead of just the first author.

2004-08-26
1. In References module, when Author-date output styles are used, the new temporary citation tag ^np ("no parentheses") suppresses the parentheses surrounding the formatted citation.

2004-08-26
1. In References module, if a style uses a number for citation, but the bibliography is sorted by author-date, Biblioscape doesn't generate citation numbers correctly. This bug has been fixed.

2004-08-17
1. In References module, the Biblioscape formatting engine can now intelligently add "," or "." to the end of the title for repeated citations in footnote, depending on whether or not cited pages are present.

2004-08-15
1. In Library module, the catalog module book title lookup list is now sorted.
2. In Library module, user can click right mouse button to check in, check out, or renew selected item.

2004-08-12
1. In BiblioSidekick, user can now type a letter and BiblioSidekick will jump to the first record with Authors matching the typed letters. This feature is already available in Biblioscape.
2. In References module, during import, line breaks in the abstract field will be automatically removed by Biblioscape. Those line breaks are added by IE when saving a web page as a plain text file.

2004-08-06
1. In References module, when cited pages are added to a footnote, if display end page as two digits option is chosen, the page range is not formatted correctly.
2. In References module, when the same reference is cited consecutively in footnote and Cited Pages are added for the second appearance, the Cited Pages are not added in the formatted footnote.

2004-08-05
1. In References module, Biblioscape adds an extra blank space inside the temporary citation during unformat if the document is saved with Word 2003. When the user adds text inside the temporary citation, special tag \insrsid is added by Word in RTF file.
2. Biblioscape can now unformat RTF files with graphics and OLE objects much faster.

2004-08-02
1. Biblioscape can now self register as a URL protocol. From any application that supports URL hyperlinks, you can enter biblioscape://RefID=34. When clicked, Biblioscape will be started if it is not already running and reference with ID 34 will be opened. For detailed information, please go to Biblioscape online help section "Frequently Asked Questions", topic "How to link to Biblioscape records from other applications".

2004-07-30
1. In References module, when user opens folders and does searches, the query progress is shown on the progress bar. User can cancel the running query.

2004-07-20
1. In References module, when a reference is cited for the second and subsequent times, the authors in the citation may need to be abbreviated differently from the first citation. For example, in APA, the first time it appears up to 5 authors are used, while in second and subsequent appearances only one author is cited. This feature is added in version 6.3.

2004-07-17
1. In Notes module, a popup menu item "Font..." has been added for user to change the font properties of selected text.

2004-07-03
1. In Reference module style editor, a check box "Use single quotes inside double quotes" is added. The double quotes inside the title field will be changed to single quotes if the whole title is surrounded by double quotes.
2. In Reference module style editor, when "headline case" is chosen, the letter after dash (-) is now changed to uppercase.

2004-06-21
1. In References module, Biblioscape now supports the use of more than one import filter during import. This feature is useful for importing records from Ovid. In some Ovid output files, records from different databases with different formats are included in the same file. Vendor ID and database ID are used to identify each record, so Biblioscape can apply the correct import filter.
2. In References module import filter, when the start page and end page are in a complex mapping field, the end page is not fixed when it is in an abbreviated form. This bug has been fixed.

2004-06-17
1. In References module import editor, user can now specify discarding parenthetical data in Authors field, or importing it into another data field.

2004-06-14
1. User can now start Biblioscape using command line "Biblioscape". The command line parameter now supports "RefID=...", "RefFastSearch=...", "NoteID=...", "NoteFastSearch=..." to display individual reference, note record, or perform a fast search. User can use this feature to create hyperlink in other program to start Biblioscape and display relevant records.
2. In References module style editor, a new option "Small Caps" is added to the font window.

2004-06-12
1. In Library module, a command is added to copy catalog records into the References module.
2. In References module, if empty records are imported, they are automatically deleted.

2004-06-10
1. In BiblioSidekick, several options were added to insert and shoot temporary citations.
2. In BiblioSidekick, a RollUp button was added.

2004-06-08
1. In BiblioBrowser, when the cursor hovers over a hyperlink, the URL will now be displayed on the statusbar.
2. In References module, both "New Paragraph" and "New Line" are now supported in the style editor.

2004-06-05
1. Biblioscape database file extensions *.bsl and *.bsr are now registered in the Windows registry. Double clicking on the above files will start Biblioscape and open the selected database.

2004-06-03
1. Relative path support is added. When a new database is created, a sub-folder "attachments" is created under the database folder. All attachment files should be kept under this folder. When adding a file path to the attachment field, Biblioscape will change the path to relative path if it is under the database folder. When relative path is used, the attachment links won't be broken when database is moved from one PC to another. If user wants to make those files available in BiblioWeb, user can just copy the "attachments" folder to the "BiblioWeb" folder.

2004-05-28
1. In References module, when adding a cross link between two references, the reverse link type is not correctly added.

2004-05-26
1. Command line parameter support is added to Biblioscape. You can use Biblioscape database file *.bsl or *.bsr as the command line parameter. The specified database will be opened instead of the last opened one.

2004-05-25
1. In References module, when the same reference repeats in footnote, short form is used where first author is followed by Title or Short Title. Biblioscape crashes in such cases; the bug has been fixed.

2004-05-22
1. In References module style editor, when dragging and dropping a field to the end of the field list, the style got corrupted.

2004-05-16
1. The term window is updated. Term import routine is improved.

2004-05-12
1. After database rebuild, Biblioscape will inform user if a corruption was found or not.

2004-05-09
1. In References module, a new item, "Appearance Order", is added to the Citation Sort Order section in the style editor.

2004-05-08
1. In References module, when unformatting documents in double byte languages like Chinese, the author name inside temporary citations is lost after unformatting.

2004-05-05
1. In References module style editor, the layout settings are now reflected in the formatted preview.
2. In References module, double periods, empty quotes, etc. are now checked.
3. The primary index of the journal table under Global folder is changed from case-sensitive to case-insensitive.

2004-05-04
1. In BiblioSidekick, when natural citation is used, BiblioSidekick generated errors.

2004-05-02
1. In References module, when a prefix or suffix is used in multiple citations, the prefix or suffix is added to each citation inside the group.

2004-04-29
1. In BiblioSidekick, the title preview setting is remembered between sessions.

2004-04-24
1. In References module style editor, "Carriage Return" is now called "New Line".
2. In References module, when linking one reference to another, user can now specify the reverse link type.

2004-04-21
1. When formatting a document from Word and the file path is too long, Biblioscape can't properly convert RTF to Word doc format.

2004-04-20
1. In BiblioWeb, extremely long request strings can crash the server.
2. In BiblioWeb, formatting rtf files through a web browser doesn't work in 6.0 release.

2004-04-18
1. In References module, user receives "0.0 is not an valid floating point value" during formatting. This bug was introduced in 6.0 release.

2004-04-13
1. In References module, when user includes the Attachment field in a style, the text after a backslash is not shown in the path name.

2004-04-11
1. In References module style editor, when the number of authors exceeds a certain number, "list only the first certain number of authors" doesn't work correctly when more than 3 authors are listed.

2004-04-08
1. If user rebuilds the database while in the Tasks or Library modules, Biblioscape can't do the rebuild because exclusive access to certain tables is denied.

2004-04-03
1. We've just found out that the installation file for Biblioscape 6 had a problem: we forgot to update the "Reftypes" files. They are still the old ones for Biblioscape version 5.x. For all 6.0 pre-release users and users who downloaded the final release on April 1 and April 2, the problem can be fixed by downloading file http://www.biblioscape.com/download/reftypes.zip and replacing all the files under "...\Biblioscape 6\Reftypes\". The Biblioscape installation file that's now on the download page has this problem fixed. Sorry about the mistake we made.