Upstream changes:
0.8.39
------
New Features
- Auto-adding: Add an option to check for duplicates when auto adding.
- Content server: Export a second record via mDNS that points to the
full OPDS feed in addition to the one pointing to the Stanza feed.
The new record is of type _calibre._tcp.
- Allow specifying a set of categories that are not partitioned even
if they contain a large number of items in the Tag Browser. Preference
is available under Look & Feel->Tag Browser
- Allow setting a URL prefix for the content server that run embedded in the
calibre GUI as well.
- Allow output of identifiers data in CSV/XML/BiBTeX catalogs
- Driver for Motorola Droid XT910, Nokia E71 and HTC EVO 3D.
- Cut down the time taken to launch worker processes by 40%
- You can now configure the calibre settings for the currently connected
device by right clicking on the device icon in the toolbar, instead of
having to go through Preferences->Plugins
Bug Fixes
- Auto-adding: Do not add incomplete files when files are downloaded
directly into the auto add folder.
- When running multiple delete from device jobs, fix the device view
sometimes marking the wrong books as being deleted, after the first delete
job completes.
- MOBI Input: Handle files that have spurious closing </body> and/or </html>i
tags in their markup.
- RTF Input: Strip out false color specifications, as they cause artifacts
when converted to MOBI
New news sources
- Vancouver Province and Windsor Star by Nick Redding
- Onda Rock by faber1971
- Il Manifesto by Giacomo Lacava
Improved news sources
- Updated Postmedia publications
- Foreign Affairs
- Read It Later
- Microwave Journal
- taggeschau.de
0.8.38
------
New Features
- Implement the ability to automatically add books to calibre from a
specified folder.
- calibre can now watch a folder on your computer and instantly add any
files you put there to the calibre library as new books. You can tell
calibre which folder to watch via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding.
- Conversion: When automatically inserting page breaks, do not put a page
break before a <h1> or <h2> tag if it is immediately preceded by another
<h1> or <h2> tag.
- Driver for EZReader T730 and Point-of-View PlayTab Pro
Bug Fixes
- Fix device entry not visible in menubar even when it has been added\
via Preferences->Toolbars.
- Fix metadata plugboards not applied when auto sending news by email
- Fix regression in 0.8.34 that broke recipes that used skip_ad_pages()
but not get_browser().
- Restore device support on FreeBSD, by using HAL
- Get books: Show no more than 10 results from the Gandalf store
- Content server: Fix metadata not being updated when sending for some
MOBI files.
- Heuristic processing: Fix the italicize common patterns algorithm
breaking on some HTML markup.
- When trying to find an ebook inside a zip file, do not fail if the zip
file itself contains other zip files.
- EPUB Input: Handle EPUBs with duplicate entries in the manifest.
- MOBI Input: Handle files that have extra </html> tags sprinkled through
out their markup.
New news sources
- Strange Horizons by Jim DeVona
- Telegraph India and Live Mint by Krittika Goyal
- High Country News by Armin Geller
- Countryfile by Dave Asbury
- Liberation (subscription version) by Remi Vanicat
- Various Italian news sources by faber1971
Improved news sources
- Metro Nieuws NL
- FHM UK
0.8.37
------
New Features
- Allow calibre to be run simultaneously in two different user accounts on
windows.
- Driver for Motorola Photon and Point of View PlayTab
- Add a checkbox to preferences->plugins to show only user installed plugins
- Add a restart calibre button to the warning dialog that pops up after
changing some preference that requires a restart
Bug Fixes
- Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the remove format from book
function to only delete the entry from the database and not delete the
actual file from the disk
- Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not
properly refresh the format information in the GUI
- E-book viewer: Preserve the current position more accurately when
changing font size/other preferences.
- Conversion pipeline: Fix items in the <guide> that refer to files with
URL unsafe filenames being ignored.
- Fix calibre not running on linux systems that set LANG to an empty string
- On first run of calibre, ensure the columns are sized appropriately
- MOBI Output: Do not collapse whitespace when setting the comments metadata
in newly created MOBI files
- HTML Input: Fix handling of files with ä characters in their filenames.
- Fix the sort on startup tweak ignoring more than three levels
- Edit metadata dialog: Fix a bug that broke adding of a file to the book
that calibre did not previously know about in the books directory while
simultaneously changing the author or title of the book.
New news sources
- Mumbai Mirror by Krittika Goyal
- Real Clear by TMcN
- Gazeta Wyborcza by ravcio
- The Daily News Egypt and al masry al youm by Omm Mishmishah
- Klip.me by Ken Sun
Improved news sources
- People's Daily
- Plus Info
- grantland.com
- Eret es irodalom
- Sueddeutsche.de
pkgsrc changes:
- upstream archive to .tar.xz, modify Makefile accordingly.
- Rely on pkgsrc libraries when possible (py-html5lib and py-chardet).
Upstream changes:
- version: 0.8.36 date: 2011-01-20
new features: - title: "Decrease startup time for large libraries with at
least one composite custom column by reading format info on demand"
- title: "When automatically deleting news older than x days, from the
calibre library, only delete the book if it both has the tag News and the
author calibre. This prevents accidental deletion of books tagged with News
by the user."
- title: "Driver for Infibeam Pi 2"
- title: "Add a Tag Editor for tags like custom columns to the edit
metadata dialog"
bug fixes: - title: "E-book viewer: Fix regression in 0.8.35 that caused
viewer to raise an error on books that did not define a language"
- title: "Content server: Fix grouping for categories based on custom
columns." tickets: [919011]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: When setting the series from a format or
via metadata download, ensure that the series index is not automatically
changed, when closing the dialog." tickets: [918751]
- title: "When reading metadata from Topaz (azw1) files, handle non ascii
metadata correctly." tickets: [917419]
- title: "CHM Input: Do not choke on CHM files with non ascii internal
filenames on windows." tickets: [917696]
- title: "Fix reading metadata from CHM files with non-ascii titles"
- title: "Fix HTML 5 parser choking on comments"
- title: "If calibre is started from a directory that does not exist,
automatically use the home directory as the working directory, instead of
crashing"
- title: "Fix iriver story HD Wi-Fi device and external SD card swapped"
tickets: [916364]
- title: "Content server: Fix ugly URLs for specific format download in the
book details and permalink panels"
- title: "When adding FB2 files do not set the date field from the metadata
in the file"
improved recipes: - OReilly Premuim - Variety - Blic - New Journal of Physics
- Der Tagesspiegel
new recipes: - title: Tweakers.net author: Roedi06
- title: Village Voice author: Barty
- title: Edge.org Conversations author: levien
- title: Novi list - printed edition author: Darko Miletic
- version: 0.8.35 date: 2011-01-13
new features: - title: "Metadata plugboards: Allow creation of plugboards for
email delivery." tickets: [914012]
- title: "Tweak EPUB: Also allow tweaking of HTMLZ files (when both EPUB
and HTMLZ are present, EPUB is preferred, this can be changed via
Preferences->Tweaks)."
- title: "TXT Input: Support direct conversion of files with extensions
.md, .markdown and .textile." tickets: [912931]
- title: "E-book viewer: Speed up the optional hyphenation algorithm by
upgrading the hyphenator library calibre uses"
- title: "Drivers for PocketBook 611, Motorola Razr Droid and Onyx Boox
i62"
bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: When converting a paragraph that contains
only a non-breaking space into a line break, ignore paragraphs with height
less than 2pt." tickets: [915150]
- title: "MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that specify anchor point exactly
at pagebreaks. These are apparently produced by John Wiley and Sons."
tickets: [914036]
- title: "Fetch news dialog: The Download now button is no longer scrolled
out of view on OS X for news sources that require credentials"
- title: "Fix commas being removed from author names when generating
filenames in the calibre library"
- title: "ODT Input: Dont crash on empty links"
- title: "ebook-convert: Allow use of leading ./ when specifying output
file names." tickets: [913954]
- title: "Fix deleting of hierarchical searches broken in Tag Browser"
tickets: [912345]
- title: "Metadata search and replace: Fix rendering error when choosing
{template}" tickets: [913154]
- title: "Fix calibre not starting when stray .po files are present in the
working directory" tickets: [913054]
- title: "Do not error out when getting metadata for authors if the author
name has either ::: or :#: in it." tickets: [912713]
improved recipes: - Pagina 12 - USA Today - LWN Weekly - Seattle Times - San
Jose Mercury - Grantland.com
new recipes: - title: Lega Nerd and Pambianco author: faber1971
- title: Various Turkish news sources author: asalet_r
- title: Microwave Journal author: Kiavash
- title: OReilly Premium author: TechnoCat
- title: Hamilton Spectator and Tillsonburg/Norfolk County author: Eric
Coolman
- title: Opinion Bolivia author: Piet van Oostrum
- title: ideal.es author: Josemi Liebana
- title: Novilist Portal author: Darko Miletic
- version: 0.8.34 date: 2012-01-06
new features: - title: "Apple driver: Set the year field in iTunes based on
the published date in calibre." tickets: [909050]
- title: "EPUB Input: When converting a file that has entries in the
manifest that do no exist, remove them, instead of aborting the
conversion." tickets: [910933]
- title: "Kindle driver: Ensure page counts are correctly sent to the
device when connecting to Kindle 4/Touch." tickets: [910279]
- title: "Allow user to set the number of recently viewed books shown in
the dropdown menu of the view button, via a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks."
tickets: [910292]
bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.33 that caused calibre to crash
when starting the Content Server, if the port the content server is trying to
listen on is blocked/busy." tickets: [910512]
- title: "MOBI Input: Fix regression that caused a mixup of images when the
MOBI file header contains an incorrect first image index pointer." tickets:
[911243]
- title: "Do not remove leading and trailing spaces from the replace fields
in the Search and Replace conversion options" tickets: [910523]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix regression in 0.8.31 that broke parsing
of documents containing a self closing <title/> tag." tickets: [910325]
improved recipes: - Kopalnia Wiedzy - Alternet - Tagesspiegel - Philadelphia
Inquirer - Seattle Times - La Razon
new recipes: - title: Various Italian news sources author: faber1971
- title: money.pl author: intromatyk
- title: Diario Rio Negro author: Darko Miletic.
- title: FHM UK author: Dave Asbury
- version: 0.8.33 date: 2011-12-30
new features: - title: "LIT Input: Switch to non-recursive algorithm, to
allow conversion of files with deeply nested markup." tickets: [909535]
- title: "Content server: Do not show the original_* formats in the mobile
interface. Also upgrade to the latest CherryPy release."
- title: "E-book viewer: Add option in viewer preferences to control how
much the font size is changed when you click the make fonts bigger/smaller
buttons." tickets: [908980]
- title: "E-book viewer: Allow changing font size via Ctrl+Mouse wheel"
tickets: [908975]
- title: "Kobo driver: Hide previews and recommendations from the book
list. You can customize the Kobo plugin if you would like to see them via
Preferences->Plugins"
bug fixes: - title: "Copy to library: Fix title sort not being copied"
- title: "PDF Output: Add custom size conversion option to the GUI (it was
only present on the command line before)"
- title: "Add missing --keep-ligatures option to the ebook-convert command
line" tickets: [909182]
- title: "Fix rendering of non ascii characters in generated masthead
images when downloading news for the Kindle"
- title: "Linux binary: Disable qt-sp-api as it causes crashes/performance
issues on various distros"
- title: "E-book viewer: Ensure that reference mode highlighting is removed
from the book when reference mode is closed." tickets: [908982]
- title: "Fix unable to load plugins from files on GNOME/XFCE desktops"
- title: "Fix regression that broke customizing toolbars on non English
calibre installs"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Disable HTML 5 parsing if it results in
deeply nested trees." tickets: [908818]
- title: "Do not loose position in book list on device connection/sync, if
a search is active." tickets: [908553]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.32 that broke deleting books if the path to
the library contained non-ascii characters on linux" tickets: [908068]
improved recipes: - Echo Online - La Razon
new recipes: - title: NYTimes Global author: Krittika Goyal
- title: Grantland author: Barty
- version: 0.8.32 date: 2011-12-23
new features: - title: "Linux: When deleting books, send them to the recycle
bin, instead of permanently deleting. This is the same behavior as on Windows
and OS X."
- title: "Add a checkbox to allow users to disable the popup that asks if
books should be auto-converted before sending to device"
- title: "Drivers for Droid Razr, Samsung GT-I9003 and Bookeen Odyssey"
tickets: [906356, 906056, 905862]
- title: "Allow passing multiple filenames as command line arguments to
calibre, to add multiple books." tickets: [907968]
bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: Fix regression in 0.8.30 that caused the
use of hidden heading elements for the TOC to generate links in the wrong
place." tickets: [907156]
- title: "EPUB Output: Ensure directories have the correct permissions bits
set when unzipping an epub with unzip on Unix"
- title: "Fix bottom most shortcuts in keyboard shortcuts for viewer not
editable"
- title: "EPUB Output: Fix handling of self closing <audio> tags." tickets:
[906521]
- title: "MOBI Input: Map invalid <o:p> tags to <p> tags before parsing, to
handle broken nesting." tickets: [905715]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: HTML5 parsing: Fix handling of XML
namespaces. Fixes regression in 0.8.30 that caused some articles in some
news downloads to appear blank when viewed in Adobe Digital Editions based
readers"
- title: "Get Books: Gandalf store, fix price and cover detection"
- title: "EPUB Output: Fix the Flatten filenames option in EPUB Output
causing duplicated manifest ids in rare cases." tickets: [905692]
- title: "When adding books via ISBN, show the user the list of invalid
ISBNs that will be ignored, if any, before starting the add operation."
tickets: [905690]
- title: "Fix unsmarten punctuation conversion option broken in 0.8.31."
tickets: [905596]
- title: "Fix broken evaluation of composite columns in save-to-disk"
improved recipes: - Cosmopolitan UK - Hindustan Times - HVG - moneynews.com -
Ming Pao - Glasgow Herald - Times of India - Focus Magazine - Hacker News -
Independent - Sueddeutsche
new recipes: - title: Prospect Magazine UK author: Barty and duoloz
- title: Elet es Irodalom and NOL author: Bigpapa
- title: Salonica Press News author: SteliosGero
- title: Echo Online author: Armin Geller
- title: Various Polish news sources author: fenuks
- title: Various Italian news sources author: faber1971
- version: 0.8.31 date: 2011-12-16
new features: - title: "Conversion engine: When parsing invalid XHTML use the
HTML 5 algorithm, for greater robustness." tickets: [901466]
- title: "Driver for PocketBook 611 and Lenovo IdeaPad"
- title: "Allow customization of the order in which custom column editing
is performed in the edit metadata dialog. Setting is available via
Preferences->Tweaks." tickets: [902731]
- title: "MOBI news download: Allow recipes to set a thumbnail for entries
in the periodical table of contents. Currently used by the NYTimes, WSJ,
Independent, GUardian and Globe and Mail recipes" tickets: [900130]
- title: "E-book viewer: Add an option to the right click menu to search
for the currently selected word"
- title: "Automatically hide the no internet connection available error
message if the connection is restored before the user clicks OK"
bug fixes: - title: "Fix comments not hidden in Book details panel when they
are turned off via Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details"
- title: "E-book viewer: Do not popup an error message if the user tries to
use the mouse wheel to scroll before a document is loaded." tickets:
[903449]
- title: "Add docx to the list of ebook extensions." tickets: [903452]
- title: "When downloading metadata from non-English Amazon websites, do
not correct the case of book titles."
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.30 that broke bulk conversion of a single
book." tickets: [902506]
- title: "When minimized to system tray do not display the no internet
connection error as a dialog box, instead use a system tray notification"
- title: "Catalog generation: Include the series_index field for custom
series columns as well"
- title: "Comic Input: Do not rescale images when using the Tablet output
profile (or any output profile with a screen size larger than 3000x3000)"
- title: "HTML Input: Ignore unparseable URLs instead of crashing on them."
tickets: [902372]
improved recipes: - La Republica - CND - Berliner Zeitung - Zaman Gazetesi
new recipes: - title: CND Weekly author: Derek Liang
- title: descopera.org author: Marius Ignatescu
- title: Rynek Zdrowia author: spi630
- version: 0.8.30 date: 2011-12-09
new features: - title: "Get Books: Add amazon.es and amazon.it"
- title: "Bulk convert dialog: Disable the Use saved conversion settings
checkbox when none of the books being converted has saved conversion
settings"
- title: "ebook-viewer: And a command line switch to specify the position
at which the file should be opened." tickets: [899325]
- title: "Distribute calibre source code compressed with xz instead of gzip
for a 40% reduction in size"
bug fixes: - title: "Get Books: Fix ebooks.com and amazon.fr. Fix cover
display in Diesel ebooks store."
- title: "HTML Input: Fix regression that broke processing of a small
fraction of HTML files encoded in a multi-byte character encoding."
tickets: [899691]
- title: "Greatly reduce the delay at the end of a bulk metadata edit
operation that operates on a very large number (thousands) of books"
- title: "Template language: Fix the subitems formatter function to split
only when the period is surrounded by non-white space and not another
period"
- title: "Fix ampersands in titles not displaying in the Cover Browser"
- title: "MOBI Output: Do not ignore an empty anchor at the end of a block
element."
- title: "MOBI Output: Handle links to inline anchors placed inside large
blocks of text correctly, i.e. the link should not point to the start of
the block." tickets: [899831]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix searching for text that is represented as
entities in the underlying HTML." tickets: [899573]
- title: "Have the Esc shortcut perform exactly the same set of actions as
clicking the clear button." tickets: [900048]
- title: "Prevent the adding books dialog from becoming too wide"
- title: "Fix custom column editing not behaving correctly with the
Previous button in the edit metadata dialog." tickets: [899836]
- title: "T1 driver. More fixes to datetime handling to try to convince the
T1's buggy firmware to not rescan metadata." tickets: [899514]
- title: "Only allow searching via non accented author names if the user
interface language in calibre is set to English." tickets: [899227]
improved recipes: - Die Zeit subscription - Metro UK - suedeutsche.de
new recipes: - title: Blues News author: Oskar Kunicki
- title: "TVXS" author: Hargikas
Upstream changes:
-----------------
0.8.29
======
New Features:
When searching for author names with accented characters, allow the non accented version to match. For example, searching for Nino will now match Niño.
Driver for Blackberry Playbook, Motorola Electrify and Samsung Galaxy GIO S5660
Metadata search and replace, make the regular expressions unicode aware
Bug Fixes:
Fix regression in 0.8.28 that broke sending PDF files to iTunes
Conversion pipeline: Do not error out on books that set font size to zero.
News download: Respect the delay setting when downloading RSS feeds as well.
EPUB Output: Ensure that xml:lang is set if lang is set as ADE looks for xml:lang, not lang
Content server: Reduce memory consumption when sending very large files
Preserve capitalization of Scottish author names when downloading metadata
Fix update title sort in bulk metadata edit not using language information
Fix sorting by published column in the download metadata dialog broken
Allow use of languages field when generating CSV/XML catalogs
Get Books: Fix ebookpoint.pl
When calculating title sort for a book based on its language, only use the specified language not a combination of the language and english
New news sources:
gs24.pl and Gazeta.pl Szczecin by Michal Szkutnik
Vanity Fair by Barty
Skylife by thomass
Daily Writing Tips by NotTaken
TechDirt by Krittika Goyal
Cosmopolitan UK by Dave Asbury
Improved news sources:
Metro NL
Ming Pao
Rolling Stones Mag
Buffalo News
0.8.28
======
New Features:
Get Books: Add litres.ru store
Change the algorithm that generates title sort strings to strip leading articles from both english and the current language set for the calibre user interface. In addition, in the edit metadata dialog, calibre will use the book's language when calculating the sort string. This behavior can be adjusted via Preferences->Tweaks.
Driver for Cybook Odyssey.
Irex driver: Put books into the top level directory instead of into /ebooks or /Books.
Bug Fixes:
Have downloaded periodicals recognized when transferred via USB to the Kindle Fire
MOBI Output: Fix underline and strikethrough properties declared on parents not being rendered on child tags.
Template language: Fix regression that broke ordering of items when formatting a list
Conversion pipeline: When removing obsolete <font> tags convert them to <div> instead of <span> if they contain block level tags.
When downloading metadata, fix the case normalization of double-barelled author names.
Template language: Fix regression that broke using general program mode in save to disk templates
calibredb: Fix use of ranges when specifying ids for the remove command
Apple driver: Add ids for iPhone 4S. More robust against iTunes automation errors when adding artwork.
Fix encoding of comments incorrectly detected when downloading metadata from ozon.ru
Fix calibre not getting list of books on the Kindle Fire
New news sources:
Give me something to read and Let's get Critical by Barty
Worldcrunch by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources:
El Mundo
BBC
NIN Online
ABC Australia
Salon.com
Expansion (Spanish)
The Week
Heise Online
0.1.11nb1. Future version of mechanize will not require ClientForm and
this package does not using ClientForm directly, so update DEPENDS pattern,
bump require version of py-mechanize and drop dependency on py-ClientForm.
Bump PKGREVISION.
Weekly release of calibre
Upstream changes:
New Features
------------
Drivers for the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet
Closes tickets: 890918 [External link] Conversion: Add an option under Look
& Feel to remove specified style information (CSS) from the document during
conversion.
Closes tickets: 871384 [External link] Add an option in the bulk metadata
edit dialog to restore the pre-conversion files for many books with a single
click.
Closes tickets: 886116 [External link] Jobs list: Add the ability to search
for and to hide jobs, useful if you have run a lot of jobs and the list is
getting crowded.
Closes tickets: 883734 [External link] Book jacket generation: Add ability
to customize the book jacket template and add custom columns into the jacket.
Closes tickets: 889912 [External link] MOBI Input: Performance improvement
when viewing/converting a file with a lot of links
Bug Fixes
---------
Fix regression in 0.8.26 that broke disabling the update of particular
fields during a bulk metadata download.
Closes tickets: 889696 [External link] Get Books: Fix DRM status for legimi
When parsing for lxml via BeatifulSoup, use the calibre modified copy of
BeautifulSoup (more robust).
Closes tickets: 889890 [External link] HTML Input: Handle double encoded
URLs in img tags
Closes tickets: 889323 [External link]
New news sources
----------------
News on Japan by Krittika Goyal Formula AS by Silviu Cotoara Various Turkish
news sources by Osman Kaysan Infra.pl and Spider's Web by fenuks
Improved news sources
Various Polish recipes Academia Catavencu El Periodico de Aragon Weblogs SL
Folha de Sao Paolo (subscription)
- switch MASTER_SITE to SF.net mirror, so that we can fetch older distfiles
- Try to simplify FIX_PYTHON list handling
- Remove SPECIAL_PERMS since bin/calibre-mount-helper has been ¨removed¨
by upstream - it still is installed but is basically doing nothing. This is to
address SA46620.
upstream changes:
Release: 0.8.26 [12 Nov, 2011]
------------------------------
New Features:
Tweak to control sorting of date type columns. You can choose to have them
sorted only by displayed fields Driver for the Trekstor 3.0 Performance
improvements when evaluating templates, and in particular general program mode
templates
Bug Fixes:
ODT Input: When converting to EPUB improve handling of large images placed
inside small frames, to prevent them from obscuring text.
Closes tickets: 860272 [External link] , 884759 [External link] EPUB Input:
Automatically strip entries of type application/text from the spine. Apparently
there are EPUB production tools out there that create them.
Closes tickets: 884792 [External link] Keep the startup splash screen
visible until the GUI has fully completed initializing.
Closes tickets: 885827 [External link] ODT Input: Fix handling of span tags
containing only whitespace.
Closes tickets: 887311 [External link] On windows when changing title or
author via the main book list, handle the case of one of the books files being
open in another program more gracefully.
Closes tickets: 880585 [External link] When adding a format to an existing
book record, ensure that no changes are made to the database until after the
file operations have succeeded. Fix bug that prevented configuring which fields
to download metadata for when adding books by ISBN
Closes tickets: 856076 [External link] Fix Japanese characters not being
crrectly displayed on index pages in news downloads for the SONY T1
Closes tickets: 888029 [External link] Get Books: Fix booleans in search
expressions not working in non-English calibre versions
Closes tickets: 887554 [External link] Fix a bug in the support for
hours/minutes/seconds in datetime format strings
Closes tickets: 887412 [External link] Treat an author_sort value of
'Unknown' the same way as unknown authors are treated in template processing
Detect SD card in Kobo Vox Amazon metadata download: Workaround for change in
Amazon website causing some books to have incorrect ratings downloaded
New news sources:
Techtarget by Julio Map
Improved news sources:
Metro NL The Independent Frankfurter Rundschau L'Espresso Il Giornale
Berlingske.dk Suedeutsche Zeitung
Release: 0.8.25 [06 Nov, 2011]
------------------------------
New Features:
Drivers for the LG Optimus 2X, HTC Incredible S, Samsung Stratosphere and
the Kobo Vox
Closes tickets: 886558 [External link] , 885058 [External link] , 884762
[External link] , 884039 [External link] Get books: Add ebookpoint.pl store
Support hour/minute/seconds in datetime format strings in the template language
and in tweaks
Bug Fixes:
Fix Book detils preferences showing custom columns even after they have been
deleted
Closes tickets: 884799 [External link] Replace use of insecure tempfile in
the bundled rtf2xml library.
Closes tickets: 885245 [External link] Remove the suid mount helper used on
linux and bsd, as it proved impossible to make it secure.
Closes tickets: 885027 [External link]
This means that if you are on BSD or an older linux distribution, without
support for udisks, device detection will no longer work in calibre. You will
have to either mount the devices by hand before starting calibre, or stick with
version 0.8.24 (the vulnerability in the mount helper is a privilege escalation,
which is relatively harmless on the vast majority of single user systems). Do
not error out if there is an invalid regex for title sort set in tweaks Content
server: Fix another place where --url-prefix was forgotten
Closes tickets: 885332 [External link] HTML Input: Limit memory consumption
when converting HTML files that link to large binary files.
Closes tickets: 884821 [External link] T1 driver: Workaround for T1 showing
error messages when opening some news downloads on the device Kobo driver: Fix
longstanding bug that would prevent re-adding a epub that has been previously
deleted from the Kobo using calibre Fix partial cover search not resuming after
pressing back in the metadata download dialog
Closes tickets: 875196 [External link] T1 driver: Fix auto refresh covers
option Content server: Do not show tracebacks in HTML output when not running in
develop mode Textile output; Fix out of memory issue when dealing with large
margins.
New news sources:
b365 Realitatea and Catavencii by Silviu Cotoara Various Greek news sources
by Stelios Real world economics blog by Julio Map
Improved news sources:
The Independent Die Zeit subscription version NIN online Science News
Updated Daily Mirror Science AAAS
Based on PR pkg/45493 from Rhialto. Additional cleanup by myself.
pkgsrc changes:
- Fix interpreter paths
- Set LICENSE
- Rely on pkgsrc py-cherrypy and py-pdf instead of the ones bundled within
Calibre tarball.
- Properly install .desktop and mimetypes
- Install all recipes.
- Install additional documentation
Upstream changes:
our package was 22 versions behind.
Many, many, many new features, bug fixes and drivers to support new
ebooks readers.
Complete changelog is installed in ${PREFIX}/share/doc/calibre.
calibre is a ebook library management application. Its features are
divided into the following categories:
* Library Management
* Format conversion (all major ebook formats can be converted from)
* Syncing to ebook reader devices
* Fetching news from the web and converting it into ebook form
* Viewing many different ebook formats
* Giving you access to your book collection over the internet using
just a browser
