# Add Support for Hayagriva's YML file standard?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/add-support-for-hayagrivas-yml-file-standard/9158>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [September 29, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/add-support-for-hayagrivas-yml-file-standard/9158 "2026-09-29T14:53:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tanuj\_Global](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/tanuj_global/32/2607_2.png) [@Tanuj\_Global](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Tanuj_Global)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/add-support-for-hayagrivas-yml-file-standard/9158/1 "2026-09-29T14:53:26Z")

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[Hayagriva](https://github.com/typst/hayagriva) is the built-in bibliography engine in Typst. While it does support reading and writing to BibTeX files, it also has its own file standard. This file standard, as far as I can tell, is just asking, “What if BibTeX were YAML?” So it got me thinking since I use JabRef and have fully transitioned over to Typst for my work, it might be nice to have native support for the YAML file format too.

I would love to hear your thoughts: Should we add support for an additional file format?

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/add-support-for-hayagrivas-yml-file-standard/9158/2 "2026-09-30T13:40:10Z")

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Hi,

this is already possible. JabRef 6.0.beta 1 already provides import and export for that file format

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**Author:** ![Tanuj\_Global](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/tanuj_global/32/2607_2.png) [@Tanuj\_Global](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Tanuj_Global)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/add-support-for-hayagrivas-yml-file-standard/9158/3 "2026-09-30T13:57:47Z")

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That’s amazing, looking forward to the stable release 😁

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/add-support-for-hayagrivas-yml-file-standard/9158/4 "2026-09-30T14:02:01Z")

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I really suggest you try this out and report feedback. There have been a lot of improvements and new features, also improved performance etc

> **[Release v6.0-beta.1 · JabRef/jabref](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases/tag/v6.0-beta.1)**
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> We added a native query field for catalogs on the SLR dialog. #17199
> We made almost everything in JabRef navigatable by keyboard, including adding visiual indicators. #17059
> We added a fetch...

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**Author:** ![Tanuj\_Global](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/tanuj_global/32/2607_2.png) [@Tanuj\_Global](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Tanuj_Global)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 11:16am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/add-support-for-hayagrivas-yml-file-standard/9158/5 "2026-10-07T11:16:46Z")

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I got the new update. The Hayagriva YML file is only supported as a Import/Export, which means I still have to maintain 2 files inside my project to take advantage of features like ctrl+s and autosave.

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-07 at 16.44.50.png](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jabref/original/2X/b/bf5efa8169a097ef7c07852b92bbc72ef615dd63.png)  
 ![Screenshot 2026-10-07 at 16.39.21.png](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jabref/original/2X/a/a6f720222216fda7b40f0ec7420d0efaa700a245.png)

 ![Screenshot 2026-10-07 at 16.40.26.png](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jabref/original/2X/6/6983888d26485d8442ede9060988746df50f53df.png)

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/add-support-for-hayagrivas-yml-file-standard/9158/6 "2026-10-07T13:40:12Z")

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Yes, this is correct. JabRef’s internal library format is BibTeX/biblatex, JabRef only offer this format as import/export