- version: 2.85.1
date: 2017-05-12
new features:
- title: "Book details panel: Allow right click to search the internet for the current book"
- title: "Book details panel: Allow right clicking on an author name to search the internet for works by that author"
- title: "Book details panel: Clicking an author name now searches Goodreads by default instead of Wikipedia. Can be changed in Preferences->Look & feel->Book details"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for the Kobo Auro H2O Edition 2"
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF Output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion to PDF for some files."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix lengths specified in percentage of page size not being converted correctly."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix some hyperlinks not working in word because the bookmark name is longer than forty characters."
- title: "DOCX Output: Prevent images from being larger than the page size."
- title: "Comic Input: Fix the number of colors control not allowing values less than 8"
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix main memory and Card A being swapped on some systems"
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix the ignore collections option being accidentally case-insensitive"
- title: "Preferences->Toolbars: Show an error message when the user tries to remove either the Preferences or Location Manager buttons instead of just silently adding them back."
- title: "version 2.85.1 contains a fix for a regression that cause the Open with action to go missing from the right click menu of the Book details panel"
improved recipes:
- Private Eye
new recipes:
- title: Balkanist
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 2.84.0
date: 2017-05-05
new features:
- title: "Kindle driver: Also delete book thumbnails from the system directory when deleting books."
- title: "Conversion: Use the same regular expression engine as is used by the Edit Book tool. The new engine has much better support for Unicode characters/character classes."
- title: "Edit Book: Add keyboard shortcuts to jump to opening and closing tags (Ctrl+{ and Ctrl+})"
- title: "Add API to pre-process image data in recipes easily"
- title: "fetch-ebook-metadata: add option to use only a single metadata plugin"
bug fixes:
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke printing from inside the viewer."
- title: "DOCX Output: When the input document contains paragraphs inside a block with a background color preserve the background color in the resulting paragraphs in the DOCX document."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix links to empty inline tags not working."
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix links that point to anchors placed in empty paragraphs not working."
- title: "PDF Output: Do not crash when unable to find page for link destination, instead use previous page."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix sorting by language in Report->Words not working"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix drag and drop of multiple items in the File Browser causing item order to be reversed."
- title: "Get Books: Update Baen store plugin for website changes"
- title: "Linux: When adding books from directories ignore files that have undecodable names."
- title: "AZW3: Preserve the primary-writing-mode EXTH header field when round-tripping AZW3 files. Should fix editing/conversion of RTL AZW3 files causing page turning to become left-to-right on the Kindle"
- title: "AZW3 Output: Set the primary-writing-mode EXTH header when the input document has page-progression-direction set to RTL as this is apparently required on newer Kindle firmware for right-to-left page turning"
- title: "Fix a misbehaving wireless device connection can cause calibre to hang when opening the Connect/Share menu."
improved recipes:
- Private Eye
- Die Zeit
- NYTimes Tech Beat
new recipes:
- title: First Things
author: John Hutson
- version: 2.83.0
date: 2017-04-15
new features:
- title: "PDF Output: Default to generating PDFs with a page size of letter instead of taking the page size from the output profile."
description: 'This avoids user confusion/bug reports about PDF Output having "too large fonts". There is a new option "Use profile size" to have the conversion use the output profile page size instead.'
- title: "PDF/DOCX Output: Add separate, pdf/docx specific, page margin settings that override the common settings."
description: "Useful because page margin settings for page oriented formats, such as PDF and DOCX are usually different than those for reflowable formats such as EPUB"
- title: "Table of Contents tool: Add an undo button"
- title: "Metadata jacket: Show custom rating columns using stars"
- title: "Metadata jacket: Change formatting of series to match that used by the book details panel. Also allow access to the raw series name and number when customizing the jacket template."
- title: "calibredb check_library: Vacuum database when running the check"
- title: "Check Book: Add a check for empty identifier elements"
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit book/Book polishing: When adding a cover to an EPUB 3.0 file set the svg property if a SVG cover wrapper is used"
- title: "Refresh the book list when a User Category is added/edited."
- title: "EPUB metadata: Fix deleting ISBN from EPUB file could result in an EPUB file without a package identifier if the ISBN was used as the package identifier."
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Fix title and author names being bold in the downloaded comments when using bing to get amazon metadata."
- title: "PDF Output: Fix a regression that broke PDF Output for documents containing mathematics."
- title: 'E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the "Clear recently read books" action in the viewer'
improved recipes:
- Go Comics
- Die Zeit (subscription)
- Pagina12
- New York Magazine
new recipes:
- title: Jacobin magazine
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 2.82.0
date: 2017-03-18
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: Saved Searches: Add keyboard shortcut (Alt+Up/Down Arrow) to move selected searches"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a typo in the previous release that caused dynamically updated metadata source plugins to stop working."
tickets: [1673884]
- title: "Catalog generation: Ignore tags with commas in them when generating genres"
- title: "News download: Do not use Microsoft user agents as more and more websites are serving JPEG XR images to these browsers"
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Fix spurious results when searching for books that are not present on amazon using a search engine."
- title: "Get Books: Fix free samples being detected as independent books when searching OPDS based stores such as Feedbooks."
tickets: [1672500]
- title: "Edit Book: Saved Searches: Preserve selection when using arrows to move multiple items"
- title: "Fix template formatter functions not being reloaded after a check library operation"
- title: "Fix an error during shutdown caused by some library closed plugins"
improved recipes:
- The Economist
- Telegraph UK
new recipes:
- title: The Morning Paper
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 2.81.0
date: 2017-03-10
new features:
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Allow downloading amazon metadata from multiple sources. You can now configure the Amazon plugin via Preferences->Metadata download to use either the amazon servers, or various search engine caches to get the metadata. Should help with the recent CAPTCHA problems when downloading metadata from amazon"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware"
- title: "Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Always add the original word as one of the spelling corrections, so that small edits to the word can be made easily."
- title: "Edit Book: Saved searched Dialog: Allow re-arranging the saved searches using drag and drop."
- title: "Implement auto update of builtin metadata download plugins, just as for recipes and Get Books plugins. Needed as the websites they get data from often change."
- title: "Edit Book: When inserting full screen images, use the actual image dimensions in the generated SVG code, when available"
- title: "Linux installer: Check that the umask is suitable before running the installer. Should fix breakage on systems where users have changed the user umask but neglected to also alter it for sudo"
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Remove the control to delete specific formats as it is redundant. This functionality is already present by right clicking the Remove books button"
bug fixes:
- title: "TXT Input: When detecting the encoding of txt files only use the first four kilobytes of text. Fixes excessively slow conversion of very large text files."
- title: "Get Books: Fix price not being displayed for books from Amazon dues to website changes"
- title: "GetBooks: Update Google Books plugin for website changes"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix slow startup when recently opened files are on a slow/malfunctioning networked filesystem."
- title: "Google metadata download: Fix metadata not being found when the title of the book includes a sub-title"
- title: "Improve downloading of covers from the google books metadata source"
- title: "News download: Fix a bug that could cause a crash when downloading an SVG image."
- title: "Edit book: Fix a regression that caused pasting copied text from programs that generate both HTML and plain text when copying to paste the HTML in preference to the plain text"
improved recipes:
- tyzden
- The Economist
- Kansas City Star
- NYTimes
- The Spectator
- version: 2.80.0
date: 2017-02-24
new features:
- title: "Add support for sideloading of KFX files created with the third-party KFX calibre plugin"
- title: "Edit book: Allow drag and drop of image files, stylesheets and html files into the editor to insert the appropriate <img> and <link> tags and add the files to the book automatically."
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware"
- title: "Edit Book: Spell Check: If there are no suggestions fill the suggested word box with the original word."
- title: "Viewer: add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to show/hide toolbars."
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF Output: Fix courier font not being rendered when converting on windows."
- title: "E-mail delivery: Add a Message-ID header when sending emails. Reduces probability of mails sent from calibre being marked as spam"
- title: "Save to disk: Fix path shortening being applied to entire save template even when saving to singe directory."
- title: "Get Books: Update the Virualo and Publi store plugins for website changes"
- title: "Viewer: Fix regression that caused slow opening of some books with missing font/css/image files"
- title: "Viewer: Pressing Ctrl+F in fullscreen mode should show the controls."
- title: "Edit book: Do not allow creating multiple new files whose names differ only by case."
- title: "Viewer: Use heuristics to try to detect comics encoded as fixed layout EPUBs to ensure they are displayed as intended."
improved recipes:
- The Atlantic
- The Financial Times
new recipes:
- title: Various new and improved Belgian news sources
2.79.1
New Features
Windows: Make recently opened books show up in the jump lists for the standalone viewer and editor programs
OS X/Linux: Show an informational popup message when an Android device is plugged in that needs the user to tap Allow for the connection to work.
Conversion: Log options that are different from the defaults separately, for easy reference
Bug Fixes
2.79.1 fixes a regression in 2.79.0 that broke the file open dialogs on windows vista
Conversion: Fix regression that broke conversion of some epub files when using the 'Remove first image' option.
Get Books: Update Kobo plugin for website changes
Windows MTP driver: Fix error when enumerating device storage not being reported during debug device detection
Tag Browser: When dragging and dropping a book onto a series increment the series number.
Fix crash when generating covers with Qt 5.8 on linux
Fix Get Books result list and jobs list not being populated on Qt 5.8
Fix importing rules in the coloring/icon rules dialog not enabling the apply button
Use included versions of chardet and html5lib.
chardet: not sure if included copy is modified.
html5lib: included copy is definitely modified.
New Features
View button: Add an action to the right click menu that always opens the book with the calibre viewer, regardless of the preferences
Kobo driver: Update to support the newest firmware from Kobo
E-book viewer: Allow opening a specific item from the Table of Contents via the --open-at command line parameter.
Closes tickets: 1656573
Amazon metadata download: Add support for downloading from amazon.ca
Bug Fixes
Edit Book: Do not condense CSS rules when saving AZW3 files regardless of the value of Preferences->Common Options->Look & Feel->Expand CSS
EPUB Output: Fix a duplicate id created in rare circumstances when splitting on page breaks.
Closes tickets: 1658744
DOCX Input: Fix error when converting documents that have images pointing to web resources.
Closes tickets: 1659142
E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused an increase in load times when loading the individual HTML files inside an EPUB book.
Closes tickets: 1658578
Fix setting a similar books search to use the formats field in Preferences->Searching resulting in an error.
Closes tickets: 1658386
Kobo driver: Fix incorrect cover size being uploaded to the Glo HD
E-book viewer: Fix 'View Image' right click menu action not available for svg files included via <img> tags.
Closes tickets: 1657717
HTML Input: Remove the # character from input filenames, for maximum compatibility.
Closes tickets: 1656833
Edit Book: Fix spell check treating the unicode hyphen (U+2010) differently from the normal hyphen (U+002d).
Closes tickets: 1656319
New news sources
The Sunday Times Magazine by Bobby Steel
Improved news sources
FOX News
Oriental Daily
AM730
The Times
NYTimes
Mediapart
Echo Online
kath.net
GoComics
The Hindu
- version: 2.77.0
date: 2017-01-13
bug fixes:
- title: "Conversion: Fix changing the cover image not updating references to the old cover image inside SVG wrappers."
tickets: [1655309]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused clicking links in the footnote popup window to stop working"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix importing DOCX file as new book not setting the version attribute in the OPF"
- title: "Kindle driver: Fix some newer KFX books not being recognized on e-ink kindles, because of a change in how metadata is stored in the KFX format"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix missing <td> tag causing conversion to fail."
tickets: [1654463]
- title: "Edit Book: Fix group references causing errors when used in replace string in the normal mode search and replace"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix Check Book reporting a spurious mime/type mismatch error after replacing a file with a file having a different mime type."
tickets: [1653977]
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Fix detection of series not working for some books due to changes in the amazon website"
- title: "Fix Nook HD+ not being detected on windows"
- title: "Edit Book: Ensure keyboard focus stays with Files Browser when renaming files."
tickets: [1653311]
improved recipes:
- kath.net
- publico.pt
- Telepolis
- The Times
- Helsingin Sanomat
- version: 2.76.0
date: 2016-12-30
bug fixes:
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the viewer on systems where the temporary directory is a symlink (common on OSX)."
- title: "EPUB Input: Fix EPUB2 files that specify a cover image via a <meta> tag but not in the <guide> not getting a cover when converted to PDF"
- title: "PDF Output: Fix conversion failure when input document contains first page with no renderable content."
tickets: [1652825]
- title: "Editor: Fix incorrect handling of some regular expressions in the Search tool."
tickets: [1652621]
- title: "OS X: Fix dynamically generated context menus, such as the sort by menu not working."
tickets: [1652694]
- title: "Fix a crash when running with assertions turned on in Qt."
tickets: [1652685]
- title: "Edit Book: Reports tool: Fix an error when right clicking on items in the Links view."
tickets: [1652960]
improved recipes:
- Clarin
- La Prensa
- Telam
- iProfesional
- Buenos Aires Economico
- version: 2.75.1
date: 2016-12-23
new features:
- title: "Happy Holidays everyone!"
- title: "Add support for new Kobo firmware version 4.2"
- title: "Allow using amazon_in, amazon_au, amazon_com identifiers in the Book details panel."
tickets: [1649371]
bug fixes:
- title: "Version 2.75.1 has fixes for a regression in 2.75.0 that broke the Live CSS feature in the editor and caused some minor problems in the viewer"
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix incorrectly sized covers being sent to some Kobo devices"
- title: "E-book viewer: Prevent javascript in the book from accessing files on the computer using XMLHttpRequest."
tickets: [1651728]
- title: "Edit Book: Fix the 'Search ignoring markup tool' not ignoring comments/processing instructions, etc."
tickets: [1651160]
- title: "CSS Transforms: Fix 'is'/'is not' rules not matching currentColor."
tickets: [1650930]
- title: "E-book viewer: Make the swipe up gesture move to next section instead of previous section."
tickets: [1651034]
- title: "Edit Book: Allow the Spell Check dialog and the search panel to be made much narrower than before."
tickets: [1650932]
- title: "Edit Book: Fix customize template window not freely resizable on windows."
tickets: [1650924]
- title: "Edit Book: Fix newlines not being matched by the 'Search ignoring markup' tool."
tickets: [1649383]
- title: "EPUB Input: Fix incorrect handling of html files that are in a folder above the OPF file."
tickets: [1649357]
improved recipes:
- Ambito Financiero
- Die Zeit (subscription)
- Irish Times
- Guardian
- Independent
- Ambito.com
- version: 2.74.0
date: 2016-12-09
new features:
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Allow downloading from amazon.cn as well. To use go to Preferences->Metadata download and customize the amazon plugin to download from amazon.cn"
- title: "Edit Book: Allow disabling the 'Files already arranged into folders' message popup"
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit Book: Fix selected text not being fully highlighted when using the solarized color schemes."
tickets: [1647448]
- title: "calibredb: Fix CSV output for the check_library command not being properly escaped"
- title: "Fix subsetting of fonts whose names start with 'and' not working"
- title: "Fix a regression in 2.72 that broke the --start-in-tray command line option."
tickets: [1644876]
- title: "Fix third party plugins that create dynamic context menus not working in linux"
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix images wider than 50% of the page width being incorrectly right aligned even when anchored to the center of the page."
tickets: [1646086]
- title: "Catalog generation: Ensure all citation keys in BiBTeX catalogs have only ascii characters."
tickets: [1646239]
- title: "Get Books: Update ebookpoint and legimi plugins for website changes"
- title: "EPUB3 metadata: Ensure updating metadata never produces empty dc:contributor elements."
tickets: [1644702]
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix an error when converting tables with spanning cells."
tickets: [1644912]
- title: "Nicer error message if the user tries to import data while the content server is running"
improved recipes:
- Frontline
- Korea Herald
- Pagina 12
- Edge Conversations
- Kitsapun
- Mobile Nations
- NME
- Security Watch
- Sign on SD
- Star Advertiser
- tyzden
- version: 2.73.0
date: 2016-11-25
new features:
- title: "Add a preference in Preferences->Look & Feel to hide
the row numbers in the main book list."
- title: "Allow Export/Import of column coloring and icon
rules."
- title: "Edit Book: Allow bulk changing of file extension for
selected files by right clicking ont he selected files in the
file browser."
- title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for nav documents
that contain no ToC in EPUB 3 books"
- title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Add a test to check if the
embedded fonts in the book have their embedding permissions
enabled"
bug fixes:
- title: "Pressing the up arrow in an date edit with undefined
value should jump to the current date rather than Feb 101"
- title: "EPUB Input: When an invalid nav based ToC is used in
an EPUB 3.0 document that also has a fallback NCX ToC, use the
fallback ToC."
- title: "Fix a regression that broke the icon theme creation
tool in the previous release"
- title: "Fix insert character dialog not reflowing characters
on resize. Also only allow the search bar in the dialog to get
input focus"
improved recipes:
- Dilbert - The Hindu
- version: 2.72.0
date: 2016-11-18
new features:
- title: "Font embedding: Implement automatic embedding for
fonts with non-normal stretch and weight values such as
Condensed/Light/Extra Bold fonts"
- title: "Allow aborting an in-progress Copy-to-library action."
- title: "Edit Book: When adding a font file via File->New
automatically generate the appropriate @font-face rule and copy
it to the clipboard so that it can be easily inserted into the
appropriate CSS files."
- title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Add a warning for links with
the : character in them on windows"
- title: "Conversion: When converting markdown documents
recognize basic metadata in the markdown document formatted as
per the markdown metadata extension."
- title: "Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Various small usability
enhancements -- preserve position in word list on refresh,
ensure that new current word is highlighted after changing a
word, etc."
- title: "Edit Book: Flash the taskbar icon after beautify all
files completes."
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix creating an empty library with the same structure
as current library not creating custom columns on the first
restart after creating the new custom columns."
- title: "Edit Book: Dont fail to rename files on windows if
there is a link containing the colon character."
- title: "PDF Output: Dont fail if one of the embedded fonts
has no names"
- title: "Edit Book: When downloading external resources, ensure
the generated filenames are valid."
- title: "Windows: Fix file extension not being added automatically
when missing in save dialogs."
- title: "Fix calibre not opening full-screen in windows tablet
mode."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix check external links tool not detecting
changes that have not yet been saved"
- title: "Generate covers: Fix & in the series causing incorrect
formatting of series number."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix a regression in the last release that
broke the Arrange into folders tool when arranging into
sub-folders of a folder that does not exist."
improved recipes:
- Mediapart
- version: 2.71.0
date: 2016-10-31
new features:
- title: "calibre's tenth birthday edition!"
description: "calibre was first released (as libprs500) ten years ago today. A big thank you to the entire calibre community -- users, contributors and developers -- for keeping it humming for so long."
type: major
- title: "A new set of icons for calibre"
description: "To celebrate calibre turning ten, calibre now has a brand new set of icons designed from scratch. Note that you can choose between many different icon sets for calibre, including the original icons, from Preferences->Look & Feel->Choose icon theme"
type: major
- title: "A short video commemorating the occasion: https://youtu.be/Q95NfFKc0v8"
- title: "Book details panel: Add a copy all action to the right click menu."
tickets: [1633477]
bug fixes:
- title: "Get Books: Update ebookpoint and woblink store plugins for website changes"
- title: "Edit Book: When un-marking text auto-change the 'search where' location to what it was before text was marked rather than 'current file'."
- title: "Automatic adding: Show an error if the user specifies a folder whose name starts with a dot or underscore."
tickets: [1637021]
- title: "OS X: Fix a regression that caused incorrect display of the icon in pop-up message boxes when using a Retina display."
tickets: [1635999]
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix an error when migrating very old settings"
tickets: [1635909]
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix a regression that broke handling of reading status for devices running old 1.9x versions of the Kobo firmware"
- title: "Edit Book: When using the arrange into folders tool do not change the case of already existing folders in the book."
tickets: [1633875]
improved recipes:
- LWN Weekly
- Financial Times
- MIT Technology Review
- The Hindu
New Features
Edit Book: Add a tool to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.) that are not included in the book.
Make custom columns available in the Alter Tag Browser->Manage categories sub menu
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Fix incorrect resolution of references to resources in HTML files that exist in a folder level above the OPF file. This could lead to styles being incorrectly processed in such HTML files.
Get Books: Update the amazon store plugins for website changes
Update ozon.ru metadata download plugin to fix searching for books by ISBN
Edit Book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the preferences dialog for changing color schemes.
Edit Book: Better error message when user tries to open a Check Book item that refers to a file that has been deleted since the last time Check Book was run.
calibre 2.69
New Features
Kobo driver: Support for firmware version 4.1 and Overdrive books
on the device
Edit Book: Highlight class names inside HTML tags
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow search & replace to work for
ratings columns as well.
Bug Fixes
Fix downloading of metadata from ozon.ru, which broke due to website
changes
Kobo driver: Fix delete of empty collections
Kobo driver: Fix book previews being sometimes detected as actual
books
Cover Browser: Fix setting an empty template for the title causes
an error
Edit Book: On windows do not trigger shortcuts when using the right
Alt (AltGr) key. This allows it to be used for entering special
characters instead.
Edit Book: Auto-add file extension when using the Save a Copy dialog
if it is missing.
Linux: Fix calibre not launching when used with some old VNC server
implementations
Windows: Run library restore in a separate process as on some
windows machines, running it in the main process causes something
in the system to lock the db file.
Fix some news downloads in east asian languages not working because
the truncation of article descriptions could cause invalid UTF-16
bytes in the string
Fix incorrect timezone when editing custom date columns directly
in the book list
New Features
Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the list of servers calibre considers public email servers
Bug Fixes
Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the OPDS feeds for libraries with no custom columns
Closes tickets: 1621642
Edit metadata dialog: Fix auto-generation/validation of author sort values not working when only changing case of the author name.
Closes tickets: 1623593
A nicer error message when calibre fails to create the temporary directory.
Closes tickets: 1622131
Fix dates being set to empty in bulk search/replace not becoming UNDEFINED
Edit metadata dialog: Make pressing up on an undefined numeric field set the value to zero instead of -99999.
Closes tickets: 1622757
Conversion: Handle corrupted JPEG files that have valid headers but invalid data.
Closes tickets: 1622416
Conversion: Improve detection of input documents that use uppercase tag/attribute names.
Closes tickets: 1622261
Fix regression in previous release that caused incorrect display of ratings in the side panel of the metadata download dialog
Get Books: Update publio and virtualo store plugins for website changes
Fix reading metadata from PDF files broken by poppler >= 0.47.0
Change the application name set in Qt to calibre from libprs500.
Closes tickets: 1623397
Improved news sources
Respekt Magazine
Punto Informatico
El universal
New Features
Allow creating custom rating columns that support half-stars via Preferences->Add your own columns
Tag Browser: Add an option in Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser to turn off the display of counts in the Tag Browser
Tag browser: Show the book counts on the right edge of the Tag Browser
Cover Browser: Allow any metadata field to be used as the sub-title, not just the rating
Edit Book: A new tool to sort the rules in a CSS stylesheet. To use it add it to the toolbar for CSS editors
Edit Book: The Remove Unused CSS tool now has an option to also merge CSS rules that have identical selectors
Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to exclude some images types from being treated a covers when dropped onto the Book Details panel.
Closes tickets: 1620198
Allow reading more image formats as covers (All images will be converted to JPEG when stored).
Closes tickets: 1619993
Content server: OPDS feeds: Change the value of <updated> for entries in the acquisition feed to be the last modified date for the book. Also make the size and last modified timestamp available as attributes in the acquisition links. Useful for integration with third party applications.
Kobo driver: Add support for firmware version 4 available on the new Kobo Aura One
Bug Fixes
ODT Input: Add support for continued lists.
Closes tickets: 1620581
Edit Book: Fix high-dpi rendering of emblems in the File Browser
Fix regression in previous release that caused wide column icons to be scaled incorrectly
Metadata download dialog: Fix https links in the download summary not working
DOCX Output: Handle nested display:table tags with no rows.
Closes tickets: 1619662
PDF Output: Fix OpenType fonts with CFF font data not embeddable on windows
Improved news sources
Ars Technica
- version: 2.66.0
date: 2016-09-02
new features:
- title: "A simplified calibre logo"
- title: "Edit Book: Allow restricting a search to the files currently open for editing"
- title: "Driver for the PocketBook Touch HD"
tickets: [1618962]
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for firmware version 3.20"
bug fixes:
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix right-to-left alignment not working for footnotes."
tickets: [1617254]
- title: "Sending email: Allow setting up a mail relay that uses encryption without a username and password."
tickets: [1618528]
- title: "Linux: Fix calibre not working when the username is non-ASCII."
tickets: [1619056]
- title: "DOCX Output: Ignore invalid text-indent values in the input document instead of erroring out."
tickets: [1618869]
- title: "Portable Installer: Auto-create the installation folder specified on the command line if it does not exist"
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix the ignore collections in option not working"
- title: "More user interface fixes for high DPI screens"
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that could cause invalid values to be output for the text-align CSS property"
new recipes:
- title: Contropiano
author: michele
- version: 2.65.1
date: 2016-08-26
new features:
- title: "Driver for Kobo Aura One and Aura Edition 2"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add an option to ignore some collections on the device. The specified collections will not be touched by the driver."
- title: "Add an option in Preferences->Searching to make searching case-sensitive"
- title: "DOCX Input: Add support for right-to-left text/tables"
tickets: [1569771]
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix some icons/images in the user interface looking blurred in environments with High DPI scaling enabled, such as OS X retina screens"
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix images that have the # character in their filenames not being converted correctly."
tickets: [1616482]
- title: "ToC wizard: Fix generating toc from headings/xpath yielding unexpected results when tags are present out of sequence"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix drag and drop of text replacing non-breaking spaces with normal spaces"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix duplicate names in hyphenation dictionary chooser."
tickets: [1615040]
- title: "Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the completion popups for some custom column types in the book list to stop working."
tickets: [1612640]
- title: "Version 2.65.1 contains a quick-fix for a typo in 2.65.0 that caused calibre to crash when a device is connected and the cover grid is enabled"
improved recipes:
- Le Scienze
- New Yorker
New Features
Custom columns: Add a new 'Short text' column type that behaves like the builtin title column
More generally, you can now customize Comments-like columns, controlling how their headings are displayed in the Book Details panel and also specifying what kind of data they contain (plain text, HTML or even Markdown)
Edit book: Function mode: Allow appending text to the end of the marked text when running function mode search/replace on marked text
PDF Output: Add a new variable _TOP_LEVEL_SECTION_ for use in header/footer templates that resolves to the current top-most section in the Table of Contents
Linux/OSX: Shutdown gracefully on receiving the interrupt or terminate Unix signals
Bug Fixes
PDF Output: Fix a regression that caused the last page of a chapter to sometimes be dropped from the output
Do not show an error if the user tries to quit calibre while editing a cell in the book list. Instead, just silently abort the edit.
Closes tickets: 1610539
E-book viewer: Fix 0px margins and percentage margins not being respected when the option to override book margins is turned off.
Closes tickets: 1608458
Book Details: Do not show the 'Copy link' context menu item unless there is an actual link at the cursor location.
Closes tickets: 1605594
Get Books: Update store plugin for nexto
New news sources
Data News by oCkz7bJ_
Improved news sources
Private Eye
Prospect Magazine
De Standaard
Jot Down
Weblogs SL
Hola
El Correo
New Features
News download: Allow controlling which periodicals are automatically sent to a specific email in Preferences->Sharing by email
Edit Book: Update regex engine to support Unicode 9.0
Bug Fixes
Edit metadata dialog: Fix pasting ISBN from clipboard not stripping garbage characters after a valid ISBN.
Closes tickets: 1604956
Edit Book: Also refresh the Preview and Live CSS panels after performing any action that changes files other than the currently displayed file.
E-book viewer: Fix the show metadata button not reading EPUB 3 metadata
MOBI Output: Fix <hr> not being rendered as full-width in old MOBI files
CSV Catalog output: Fix incorrect formatting of is_multiple custom columns.
Closes tickets: 1602908
CSV Catalog Output: Separate multiple authors with & instead of comma. Fixes problems when the author name contains commas.
EPUB 3 metadata: Fix updating metadata in EPUB 3 files not overwriting existing authors.
Closes tickets: 1602227
Fix duplicate detection when adding books not working when the book title has leading or trailing whitespace
Book details panel: Pick the color used for links from the current system color theme
Windows: Fix file selection dialogs blurry on HiDPI monitors
Improved news sources
Gosc Niedzielny
Nikkei Free
Financial Times (UK)
Foreign Affairs
Berlin Policy Journal
Gazet van Antwerpen
Hurriyet
Mainly renamed FIX_PYTHON_PATHS to FIX_PYTHON_FILES, since it is a list
of files and not related to the PATH variable; pkglint relies on this
naming convention.
New Features
* EPUB metadata: Support for reading and writing EPUB 3 specific
metadata. Now when processing EPUB 3 files, calibre will generate/use
EPUB 3 specific metadata constructs when available, for example for
series.
* Recognize the newest Kindle model, that started shipping today.
Bug Fixes
* Tag Mapper: Allow specifying a space as the split character when
creating a split tags rule
* Tag mapper: Fix upper case characters not working in 'contains'
rules
* Smarten punctuation: Fix double dashes and triple dots being
smartened even inside attribute values.
* HTML Input: Sanitize semi-colons from HTML filenames as they can
cause problems with other EPUB consuming software.
* EPUB Input: Speed up reading of the book spine from the OPF file
for books with a very large number of entries in the spine
* Edit Book: Reports: Characters: Fix sorting by count and name not
working.
* Fix KoboTouch configuration migration not working for older
settings
New Features
* Driver for FNAC (re-branded Bq) with new firmware.
* Edit Book: Check Book: Add an auto fix action to remove all links
to a missing resource (such as a deleted stylesheet) automatically.
Bug Fixes
* Edit Book: Check Book: Fix incorrect handling of font family names
with spaces in them that are not quoted.
* E-book viewer: Fix Qt 5.7 breaking mouse wheel scrolling
* Kobo driver: Fix a regression in the last release that broke
connecting to older devices
* Get Books: Fix detection of book formats broken for the Legimi
plugin by a website change
* Update builtin metadata source ozon.ru to handle website changes
* Font subsetting: Fix incorrect handling of fonts whose names are
included in font rules without quotes
* Fix ebook-viewer broken when running the binary calibre release
on systems with very old versions of glibc
New Features
Edit metadata: In the drop down list for languages, show the five most recently used languages first.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for missing navigation documents in EPUB 3 books
Kobo driver: Improved configuration dialog for the Kobo Touch device driver
Copy to Library: Do not abort the copy process if only some books fail to copy, instead report which books failed and copy the rest.
News download: Make all relative links (those starting with /) absolute. Useful when reading on a device that supports web browsing.
EPUB metadata: Add an option to disable adding of cover images to EPUB files that declare no cover image in their metadata (Preferences->Plugins->Customize the Set EPUB metadata plugin)
Bug Fixes
ToC Editor: Fix ToC detection in EPUB 3 files with only an NCX and no nav not working
E-book viewer: In paged mode, when the window is toggled between full screen and window, repeatedly, preserve the position more accurately.
E-book viewer: Fix incorrect page turning when multiple pages are displayed on screen for books that wrap all their content in a single 100% height tag.
Fix a regression that broke scheduling a new news download in timezones west of GMT
Edit Book: Fix undocked windows not resizable on OS X
Fix a regression in 2.57 that broke rescaling of images to fit the output profile screen size during conversion.
Fix for file dialogs not working on windows when non-ascii environment variables are present
HTML Input: Fix error when converting HTML file with URL encoded filename.
New Features
Amazon metadata download: Download the series information when available from amazon.com
Amazon metadata download: Recognize common patterns of embedding the series name after the title and remove it automatically
Edit Book: Add support for EPUB 3 to the Table of Contents tool. Now when editing EPUB 3 files using the tool will automatically generate both the EPUB 3 navigation document and the NCX table of contents for backwards compatibility.
EPUB Input: Implement reading of Table of Contents from EPUB 3 files that do not specify a fallback NCX ToC
EPUB metadata: When setting a cover image for an EPUB file that has no metadata cover image defined, add the new cover image as a pure metadata cover instead of aborting.
Bug Fixes
Fix crash on exit if any plugins have loaded code that raises exceptions during shutdown.
Closes tickets: 1592414
Copy to library: Speed up checking for duplicates when copying multiple books to a large library.
Closes tickets: 1593027
Get Books: Update Smashwords plugin for website changes.
Closes tickets: 1590653
Edit Book: Fix a bug in the new text search facility that could cause searches to fail when searching from the current cursor position instead of the top of the file.
Closes tickets: 1588778
Bulk conversion dialog: Fix page margin settings being ignored when converting to DOCX
Make the default shortcut for remove books Backspace on OS X since many mac keyboards have no delete key and the backspace key is labelled as delete
Edit Book: Check Book: Do not warn if a cover image is not referenced in the text
E-book viewer: Fix a bug that could cause incorrect rendering of chapter titles in some rare circumstances.
Windows console output: Handle consoles with non black and white color scheme correctly
Fix a regression in 2.57 that caused auto-removal of borders from covers to become much less proficient at detecting borders
Fix a regression in 2.57 that broke grayscaling of images
Improved news sources
Technology Review (DE)
- version: 2.58.0
date: 2016-06-02
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: A text search tool to conveniently search
for text even if it crosses multiple HTML tags (Search->Search
ignoring HTML markup)"
- title: "OSX: Allow drag and drop of file onto viewer dock
icon to view file"
bug fixes:
- title: "Workaround for incompatibility between Qt 5.5+ and
Ubuntu that caused the context menu for the book list to flicker."
tickets: [1534936]
- title: "Windows: Workaround for explorer shell extensions on
windows that write to stdout"
- title: "Edit Book: When jumping to next occurrence of a word,
take language into account"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix import of words into user dictionary
not working"
- title: "Fix use of non-ascii characters in identifiers causing
an error when identifier rules are used."
tickets: [1584470]
- title: "Fix a regression that caused the paste from clipboard
button to paste two times in the Add books from ISBN dialog"
- title: "Fix for incompatibility with PyQt 5.6"
improved recipes:
- Denver Post
- Financial Times
- bild.de
