- version: 1.37.0
date: 2014-05-16
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: Live spell checking in the code view. Now
spelling errors are highlighted in the code view for convenient
correction as you type. This can be turned off via
Preferences->Editor."
- title: "E-book viewer: When using the tap and hold gesture
on a touchscreen, allow lookup of the word currently under
the finger in the dictionary or online."
tickets: [1318242]
- title: "Edit Book: Allow putting the editor into replace mode
by pressing the Insert key"
- title: "Content server: Add more descriptive titles to the
OPDS feeds, where possible."
- title: "Edit Book: Update the Table of Contents view
automatically when the ncx file is edited."
- title: "Edit book: Insert tag button: Allow entering attributes
along with the tag name to make it easy to repeatedly insert,
for example, <span class='special'></span>."
- title: "Windows driver for Woxter Scriba 190."
tickets: [1317892]
- title: "Edit Book: Add an entry to the context menu of the
preview panel to open external URLs when a link is right clicked
on"
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit Book: Fix error in the Check Book tool when
items in the opf have paths starting with a leading slash."
tickets: [1319378]
- title: "Book polishing: Fix publisher field in epub not being
cleared when updating metadata."
tickets: [1319732]
- title: "Kobo driver: Update to handle changes to annotation
processing in newer Kobo firmware."
- title: "DOCX Input: Handle docx files with index fields that
have their field names incorrectly lower cased."
tickets: [1318670]
- title: "Edit book: Fix incorrect syntax highlighting on linux
if the text contains non-BMP unicode characters."
- title: "Edit book: Fix regression that caused an error when
trying to edit files with no defined syntax, such as plain .txt
files."
tickets: [1318139]
improved recipes:
- Wall Street Journal
- version: 1.36.0
date: 2014-05-09
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: A new tool to filter style information
(Tools->Filter style information). Useful to easily remove some
CSS properties from the entire book."
- title: "DOCX Input: Add support for cross references. Cross
references that are used to insert hyperlinks are now converted
into hyperlinks in the output document. Features to insert
paragraph/page numbers are not supported."
- title: "Add support for viewing kepub files in the calibre
viewer, by treating them as plain epub files"
- title: "Edit book: In the Insert Link tool show a few words
of text alongside the location anchor name, to make it easier
to know what a location is"
- title: "Manage user dictionaries: Allow copying all selected
words by right clicking them and choosing 'Copy to clipboard'."
- title: "Content server: Make .ibook format files available
in OPDS feeds"
- title: "Edit book: Allow copying the list of errors from the
Check Book tool to the clipboard by right clicking on the list
of errors"
- title: "Book polishing: If the books being polished have an
ORIGINAL_EPUB/AZW3 format, warn the user that polishing will
use it as the source and ask for confirmation."
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix metadata plugin to download metadata from OZON
for website changes."
- title: "Subsetting embedded fonts: Fix an error when subsetting
embedded fonts on windows if the username contains quotes or
apostrophes."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix error when checking spelling if one
of the files in the book declares an invalid (empty) language
code."
- title: "Linux install: Have the calibre GUI programs redirect
stdout and stderr to null when launched via .desktop files to
workaround systems where the GUI launchers are broken."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix inserting a < in text that contains
a colon causing a hang."
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix error when converting document with
nested frames."
improved recipes:
- Various Japanese news sources
- National Geographic
- version: 1.35.0
date: 2014-05-02
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: Redesign the syntax highlighter to improve
performance for large documents and extended editing sessions."
tickets: [1314339]
- title: "Edit book: Make cursor movement smooth by not
highlighting matching tags while the cursor is moving. Only
match highlighting tags if the cursor stays still for a time."
- title: "Spellcheck dialog: Indicate whether a word is ignored
in the Misspelled column"
- title: "Spellcheck dialog: Pressing Ctrl+C on the words list
copies only selected words, regardless of current cell"
- title: "Add a copy to clipboard action to the context menu
for the spell check dialog"
- title: "Edit book: Fix save button incorrectly disabled after
a failed save"
tickets: [1313567]
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit Book: Fix an error when merging CSS stylesheets
that contain @charset rules"
- title: "Edit book: Fix extra invalid entries being generated
in the manifest when editing an AZW3 file that has no images."
- title: "Edit book: Fix a hang when editing an HTML or XML
file with text of the form <abc: (i.e. a tag name with a trailing
colon)."
tickets: [1314009]
- title: "Fix regression that prevented the ebook editor from
starting on linux systems with locale set to 'C'"
tickets: [1315064]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix formatting of the generated Index
when the index is complex, i.e. with lots of references to the
same item, multiple level of sub-items, etc."
- title: "Smarten punctuation: Fix a double quote preceded by
a hyphen at the end of a sentence (before the start of the next
tag) being converted into an opening quote instead of closing
quote."
tickets: [1286477]
- title: "News download: Fix very long URLs for links to pages
causing errors on windows because of max path length restrictions."
tickets: [1313982]
- title: "Edit book: Fix saved search dialog causing high CPU
usage"
- title: "Edit book: Fix importing of Lithuanian dictionary
from OpenOffice, that does not specify a country code."
tickets: [1313315]
improved recipes:
- Ars Technica - Daily Mirror - Birmingham Evening Mail - NRC
- Next - Private Eye - NZZ
- version: 1.34.0
date: 2014-04-25
new features:
- title: "E-book viewer: When in flow mode, handle swiping on
the touchscreen differently. Swiping now scrolls line by line
in flow mode instead of page by page. If you wish to scroll
page by page in flow mode, tap instead of swiping."
- title: "Conversion: Preserve all guide entries that are of
a type present in the EPUB 2.0 specification. These entries
are used by newer Kindle readers to populate the Go To jump
list"
- title: "When adding MOBI files if the author name is in LN,
FN format, auto change it to FN LN format, as the MOBI format
has no author sort field. This behavior can be disabled by
setting Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to
copy."
tickets: [1306748]
- title: "Spellcheck: When checking French text list all words
that have the same stem as a single word. So j'aime and aime
are listed as a single word."
- title: "Spell check: Add a context (right click) menu that
allows for quick operations on all selected words"
tickets: [1309559]
- title: "Manage user dictionaries: Add a button to import a
list of words in bulk into the user dictionary"
- title: "Spell check dialog: Allow sorting words case sensitively"
bug fixes:
- title: "EPUB Input: Fix incorrect handling of obfuscated
fonts using the IDPF obfuscation algorithm when the epub unique
identifier starts with urn:uuid"
tickets: [1311650]
- title: "Edit book: Fix obfuscated fonts in EPUB files not
being handled correctly when editing the book (obfuscated fonts
would get corrupted when making changes)."
tickets: [1311650]
- title: "Edit book: Fix a bug that caused spell checking to
fail when using the builtin spanish dictionary"
- title: "Spell check: Fix replacing a word and then replacing
the new word again not working without doing a refresh in
between"
- title: "Spell check: Fix language declarations not being
respected for nested tags."
tickets: [1310000]
- title: "Spell check: Fix 'Show next occurrence' sometimes
showing the word in an incorrect location, for example in an
attribute where spell check is not performed."
- title: "Allow import of dictionaries that deviate from the
spec in minor ways"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix the Show next occurrence button in
the spell check dialog sometimes failing to show next occurrence"
- title: "OS X: Detect the users default interface language
correctly. Also fix parsing of ambiguous dates in mm/dd vs
dd/mm formats, based on the users locale settings in OS X."
improved recipes:
- Hindustan Times
New Features
Edit book: Add a tool to check spellings, access it via
Tools->Check spelling
Kobo driver: Support firmware version 3.3
Device driver for Tolino Vision on windows
Bug Fixes
Amazon metadata download: Fix Editorial Reviews not downloading
into the comments section for some books
DOCX Input: Fix some text highlighting colors in the DOCX file
not being correctly translated during conversion.
Wireless device driver: Fix incorrect syncing behavior when
book matching is run for a second time while connected. This
happens when the user changes the library or selects 'Update
cached metadata on device'.
Searching: Fix searching by date not using the system locale
to interpret dd/mm vs mm/dd dates on windows
New Features
Fetch news: Allow automatically creating custom news sources
by importing OPML files. Many RSS news reader programs can
export their list of RSS feeds in the OPML format.
Conversion: When inserting metadata as a jacket page, alter
the font sizes in the jacket so that the sizes match the sizes
used in the rest of the book. Also pretty print the generated
jacket HTML.
Allow searching for books by id and uuid using the id: and
uuid: prefixes
Allow specifying arbitrary colors for column coloring rules
Bug Fixes
Update the version of openssl shipped in the binary builds (the
version in the windows 64bit build was vulnerable to the
Heartbleed bug)
Edit Book: Fix book being marked as modified even when no actual
changes were done by various automated tools such as Smarten
Punctuation, Subset Fonts, etc.
Fix ebook-device cp -f failing when destination file already
exists
Closes tickets: 1303181
Ensure that the rendered dates in the book list and edit metadata
dialogs are always in the same language as the calibre interface,
regardless of system language setting
Edit metadata dialog: Remember window size for the cover download
window
DOCX Input: Dont fail on DOCX files that contain pages with
zero effective width.
Closes tickets: 1303022
Content server: Fix page not found error when clicking on a
category that has only a single item in it
Send books to the Books folder for the Tolino Vision, as it
cannot find books placed outside this folder
Edit book: Fix error when beautifying HTML files that contain
un-indented <script> or <style> tags
Improved news sources
Ekantipur
NRC Handelsblad
Frontline
either because they themselves are not ready or because a
dependency isn't. This is annotated by
PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE= 33 # not yet ported as of x.y.z
or
PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE= 33 # py-foo, py-bar
respectively, please use the same style for other packages,
and check during updates.
Use versioned_dependencies.mk where applicable.
Use REPLACE_PYTHON instead of handcoded alternatives, where applicable.
Reorder Makefile sections into standard order, where applicable.
Remove PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCLUDE_3X lines since that will be default
with the next commit.
Whitespace cleanups and other nits corrected, where necessary.
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
* Add dependency to net/py-netifaces
Changelog:
Release: 0.9.7 [23 Nov, 2012]
New Features
Edit metadata dialog: Show the size of the current book cover in the edit metadata dialog.
Closes tickets: 1079781
Get Books: Allow easy searching by title and author in addition to any keyword, to prevent large numbers of spurious matches.
An option to automatically convert any added book to the current output format, found under Preferences->Adding books
E-book viewer: Allow viewing tables in a separate popup window by right clicking on the table and selecting 'View table'. Useful for reference books that have lots of large tables.
Closes tickets: 1080710
Catalogs: Add the current library name as an available field when generating catalogs in csv/xml format.
Closes tickets: 1078422
Enable colored text in the output from the command line tools on windows
E-book viewer: Add an option to hide the help message when entering full screen mode
E-book viewer: Add an option to always start the viewer in full screen mode
E-book viewer: Add many more controls to the context menu, particularly useful in full screen mode
E-book viewer: Allow easy searching of the selected word or phrase in google via the context menu
Add a new type of FileType plugin, postimport, that runs after a book has been added to the database.
Get Books: Remove Gandalf store, add Publio store. Update the Legimi store plugin for website changes
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Correctly handle values of left and right for the deprecated align attribute of images, mapping them to the CSS float property instead of to text-align.
Closes tickets: 1081094
MOBI Output: When generating joint MOBI6/KF8 files do not set incorrect display CSS values for tables in the KF8 part
Connect to iTunes: Ignore AAC audio files.
Closes tickets: 1081096
E-book viewer: Fix restoring from fullscreen not respecting maximized window state
Fix rows in the device books view sometimes being too high
Catalogs: Fixed a problem occurring when merging comments with a custom field whose type is a list.
Linux binary: Use exec in the wrapper shell scripts that are used to set env vars and launch calibre utilities.
Closes tickets: 1077884
E-book viewer: Fix blank pages after every page when viewing some comic files in paged mode
E-book viewer: When printing, respect the specified page range.
Closes tickets: 1074220
Font subsetting: Parse the GSUB table for glyph substitution rules and do not remove any glyphs that could act as substitutes. Keep zero length glyphs like the glyphs for non printable characters when subsetting TrueType outlines.
Smarten punctuation: Fix self closing script tags causing smarten punctuation to fail
New news sources
Various Czech and Hungarian news sources by bubak
Various Polish recipes by Artur Stachecki
Buchreport by a.peter
Red Voltaire by atordo
Autosport by Mr Stefan
House News by Eddie Lau
Improved news sources
Arguments and facts
Business Standard
The New Yorker
Release: 0.9.6 [10 Nov, 2012]
New Features
Experimental support for subsetting fonts
Subsetting a font means reducing the font to contain only the glyphs for the text actually present in the book. This can easily halve the size of the font. calibre can now do this for all embedded fonts during a conversion. Turn it on via the 'Subset all embedded fonts' option under the Look & Feel section of the conversion dialog. calibre can subset both TrueType and OpenType fonts. Note that this code is very new and likely has bugs, so please check the output if you turn on subsetting. The conversion log will have info about the subsetting operations.
EPUB Input: Try to workaround EPUBs that have missing or damaged ZIP central directories. calibre should now be able to read/convert such an EPUB file, provided it does not suffer from further corruption.
Allow using identifiers in save to disk templates.
Closes tickets: 1074623
calibredb: Add an option to not notify the GUI
Catalogs: Fix long tags causing catalog generation to fail on windows. Add the ability to cross-reference authors, i.e. to relist the authors for a book with multiple authors separately.
Closes tickets: 1074931
Edit metadata dialog: Add a clear tags button to remove all tags with a single click
Add search to the font family chooser dialog
Bug Fixes
Windows: Fix a long standing bug in the device eject code that for some reason only manifested in 0.9.5.
Closes tickets: 1075782
Get Books: Fix Amazon stores, Google Books store and libri.de
Kobo driver: More fixes for on device book matching, and list books as being on device even if the Kobo has not yet indexed them. Also some performance improvements.
Closes tickets: 1069617
EPUB Output: Remove duplicate id and name attributes to eliminate pointless noise from the various epub check utilities
Ask for confirmation before removing plugins
Fix bulk convert queueing dialog becoming very long if any of the books have a very long title.
Closes tickets: 1076191
Fix deleting custom column tags like data from the Tag browser not updating the last modified timestamp for affected books
Closes tickets: 1075476
When updating a previously broken plugin, do not show an error message because the previous version of the plugin cannot be loaded
Fix regression that broke the Template Editor
New news sources
Various Polish news sources by Artur Stachecki
Improved news sources
Various updated Polish recipes
London Review of Books
Yemen Times
Release: 0.9.5 [02 Nov, 2012]
New Features
Font embedding: Add support for the CSS 3 Fonts module, which means you can embed font families that have more that the usual four faces, with the full set of font-stretch and font-weight variations. Of course, whether the fonts actually show up on a reader will depend on the readers' support for CSS 3.
Sharing by email: Allow specifying an 'alias' or friendly name by which to identify each email recipient.
Closes tickets: 1069076
Embedding fonts: Allow adding ttf/otf font files to calibre directly to be used for embedding. That way the fonts do not have to be installed system wide. You can add a font to calibre via the 'Add fonts' button in the font chooser dialog for embedding fonts.
E-book viewer: Add the ability to rotate images to the popup image viewer.
Closes tickets: 1073513
Generate cover: Speedup searching the system for a font that can render special characters
A new custom font scanner to locate all fonts on the system. Faster and less crash prone that fontconfig/freetype
Font family chooser: Show the faces available for a family when clicking on the family
Bug Fixes
Get Books: Fix eHarlequin and Kobo stores.
Closes tickets: 1072702
Kobo driver: Fix a bug that could cause the on device book matching to fail in certain circumstances.
Closes tickets: 1072437
Kobo driver: When using a SD card do not delete shelves that contain on books on the card (there might be books in the shelf in the main memory).
Closes tickets: 1073792
Workaround for bug in the windows API CreateHardLink function that breaks using calibre libraries on some networked filesystems.
Template editor: Use dummy metadata instead of blank/unknown values
Windows: abort setting of title/author if any of the books' files are in use. Results in less surprising behavior than before, when the title/author would be changed, but the on disk location would not.
New news sources
Pravda in english, italian and portuguese by Darko Miletic
Delco Times by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources
Financial Times UK
Science AAAS
The Atlantic
Release: 0.9.4 [26 Oct, 2012]
New Features
Conversion: Add an option to embed a font family into the book.
The embedded font is used as the base font for all text that does not specify its own font family in the input document. Works only with output formats that support font embedding, principally EPUB/AZW3. Option is found under Look & Feel in the conversion dialog. You can ensure that the font is used for all text, regardless of the input document's styles by filtering out font family styles via the Filter Style Information option in the Conversion dialog.
When changing the title/author of a book, use hard links instead of copying the books' files, for a large speedup. Only works on filesystems that support hardlinks.
Linux installer: Resume interrupted downloads and verify the SHA-512 signature of the downloaded file before installing it.
Bug Fixes
Windows: Check if any of the files of a book are in use before changing the title/author, this prevents the creation of duplicate files if one of the files is open in another program
Kobo driver: Fix the ondevice status for some books getting lost.
Closes tickets: 1069403
Catalogs: Fix regression that broke use of prefix rules.
Closes tickets: 1070086
Tag Browser: Fix sorting incorrect for accented letters
Closes tickets: 1069835
Make the bundled Liberation fonts available on all platforms for embedding
Use mimetype for fonts from the EPUB 3 specification
Get Books: Handle website change that broke the SONY Store plugin
Generate cover: If the default font cannot render characters in the metadata (for example for east asian languages) try to automatically find a font on the system that is capable of rendering the characters
Fix regression that broke certain types of CSS selectors.
Closes tickets: 1068937
Use font-weight:bold instead of font-weight:bolder for the <b> and <strong> tags as ADE cant handle bolder when embedded fonts are used
New news sources
Yazihane by A Erdogan
Improved news sources
New York Post
PC World
TIME Magazine
Associated Press
Release: 0.9.3 [19 Oct, 2012]
New Features
Conversion: Add support for CSS 3 selectors by switching to the new cssselect module
Drivers for the WayteQ xBook and the Topwise Android tablet
Closes tickets: 1066083, 1067105
Add an output profile for the Kindle PaperWhite
Kobo driver: Improve performance when a large number of shelves are created on the device.
Closes tickets: 1066633
Catalogs: Put catalog sections at top level of ToC for EPUB/AZW3 catalogs.
Adding books: When duplicates are found, show the list of possible duplicates in calibre with title and author.
Bug Fixes
KF8 Input: Fix conversion/viewing of KF8 files generated with the unreleased? kindlegen 2.7.
Closes tickets: 1067310
Kindle driver: Increase the size of the cover thumbnails sent by calibre to the device. This fixes the problem of cover thumbnails not showing up on the PaperWhite
MTP driver: Fix sorting on the title column of the device view.
Closes tickets: 1067562
Catalogs: Fix regression that caused authors and titles to be be incorrectly listed under symbols on OSX < 10.8.
Catalogs: Fix error when generating catalog in non English locale and the user has specified a prefix rule using a Yes/no column.
Closes tickets: 1065452
E-book viewer: Remove the reload entry from the context menu as it is not supported in paged mode.
Closes tickets: 1065615
New news sources
Various Polish news sources by fenuks
Improved news sources
Richmond Times Dispatch
Various Polish news sources
Aksiyon dergisi
Spektrum der Wissenschaft
Zeit Online
Baltimore Sun
LWN Weekly
The Sun
Release: 0.9.2 [11 Oct, 2012]
New Features
Wireless driver: Speed up deleting of multiple books
E-book viewer: Add options to hide the scrollbar and show reading position in full screen mode.
Closes tickets: 1047450
News download: Add a field to allow recipe authors to tell calibre to remove duplicate articles that a re present in more than one section from the download.
Metadata download: Turn off the use of the published date for the earliest edition a book as the published date. The earliest edition was identified via worldcat.org, which has rather poor data, leading to the occasional incorrect result. If you want this feature back, you can turn it on again via Preferences->Metadata download.
Bug Fixes
ODT Input: More workarounds for the image positioning markup produced by newer versions of LibreOffice.
Closes tickets: 1063207
Metadata download dialog: Fix selected cover being changed when covers are re-sorted after download completes
MTP driver: Ignore errors when getting the driveinfo.calibre file from the device and simply regenerate it
E-book viewer: Use the system locale settings to display the 24/12 hour clock in full screen mode
Closes tickets: 1063209
Content Server: Make OPDS initial page respect the fields to display tweak
Fix regression that caused calibre to not use OPF files when adding books recursively from directories with multiple books per directory
KF8 Output: Fix handling of input documents that have URL unsafe characters in the file names of their images.
Closes tickets: 1062477
Fix enumeration type custom column not being merged.
Closes tickets: 1061602
New news sources
PVP Online, Mobile Nations, The Verge and Television Without Pity by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources
Pubblico Giornale
Der Spiegel
Shortlist
FHM UK
Countryfile
Cosmo UK
The Sun UK
NME
Release: 0.9.1 [05 Oct, 2012]
New Features
New driver for the Kobo Touch version 2.0+ firmware and Kobo Glo and Mini. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192863 for details
Closes tickets: 1024983, 1059585
Driver for Motorola Defy XT
Closes tickets: 1061903
Wireless driver: Always use automatic metadata management, regardless of the setting in Preferences->Devices
Sending books by email: Allow sending to multiple email addresses at once separated by commas.
Closes tickets: 1052332
KF8 Output: Add the css passed in through the extra css conversion option to the generated inline ToC.
Closes tickets: 1052343
Windows: No longer use fontconfig to scan the system for available fonts. Instead use the Windows API. Should fix crashes/instability caused by fonts that fontconfig cannot handle
When editing a blank (undefined) published date in the edit metadata dialog, have the calendar popup jump to the current date instead of the date 1-1-101
Closes tickets: 1058531
FB2 Input: Add support for th, code and strikethrough tags and also rowspan, colspan and align attributes.
Closes tickets: 1059351, 1058591
Bug Fixes
Get Books: Update Woblink
Position the next selected book better after deleting multiple books from the library view
Closes tickets: 1051135
Allow using the Enter key to select the cover in the metadata download dialog
Closes tickets: 1060472
PDF Output: Handle embedded fonts better on linux
HTML Input: Guess mimetype correctly for references to image files without file extensions.
Closes tickets: 1059349
Catalog generation: Workaround for bug in the ICU library on older OS X systems that caused catalog generation to fail when certain non-ascii characters are present in the metadata.
Closes tickets: 1057862
Wireless driver: Do not abort if BonJour registration fails, as we can still use broadcast to connect
KF8 Output: Fix invalid output being generated for some files with very large blocks of contiguous non-ascii text
New news sources
IOL News and The New Age by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
FC Knudde
Stamgaten
Foreign Policy
Washington Post
Twitch Films
Nature News
Release: 0.9.0 [28 Sep, 2012]
New Features
For a summary of the major changes in calibre between 0.8 and 0.9, see http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/nine
Bug Fixes
KF8 Output: Fix handling of & < and > entities in the text. They were sometimes being incorrectly unescaped.
Calibre portable: Add a manifest to the portable installer exe to prevent the application compatibility wizard from warning about a possible failed installation on windows 7. Also fixes installer requiring admin privileges on some computers
Closes tickets: 1057042
EPUB metadata: Fix book producer not being set when updating EPUB metadata
EPUB metadata: Fix incorrect namespace on the role attribute of <dc:creator> tags when updating the metadata in EPUB
Get Books: Fix incorrect price retrieval from ebooks.com.
Closes tickets: 1055785
MTP windows driver: Fix main memory and storage card sometimes swapped
Closes tickets: 1055129
PDF Output: On windows, remove any embedded fonts before generating the PDF as on windows, Qt generates image based PDFs when embedded fonts are present.
Closes tickets: 1053906
MTP windows driver: Do not try to connect to unsuitable devices such as the iPhone.
Closes tickets: 1054562
KF8 Input: Handle files that use non ascii paths/anchor names in the guide entries.
Closes tickets: 1053751
New news sources
Pubblico Giornale by iusvar
Improved news sources
Monitor Online
El Pais
Chronicle of Higher Education
Baltimore Sun
Mac World
Maximum PC
Financial Times UK
Release: 0.8.70 [21 Sep, 2012]
New Features
Support for connecting MTP (non disk based) devices via USB, such as the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD (Windows Vista and newer and Linux only)
calibre can now detect and connect to devices that do not present themselves as USB disks to the operating system. Newer Android devices all use the 'MTP' protocol when connected via USB. calibre now supports devices using this protocol on both Windows (Vista and newer) and Linux.
Calibre Portable: Create a new installer that does not require manually unzipping the Calibre Portable folder. Instead just run the installer and point it to the location you want to install to.
Calibre Portable: Add support for multiple libraries created inside the 'Calibre Portable' folder.
In the main book list when editing a blank published date, use a default value of Jan 2000 so that changing the date it easier
Template language: Add function approximate_formats() to get list of formats saved in the db for a book as opposed to the formats that actually exist on disk
Template language: Add a couple of new functions to get the path to individual book formats and the calibre library as a whole
Drivers for HTC Flyer and Trekstor 4ink
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Do not error out when tags have unparseable color attributes.
Closes tickets: 1053583
AZW3 Output: Do not error out if the input document contains embedded fonts of less than 1040 bytes.
Closes tickets: 1052892
Catalogs: Fix AZW3 output not properly indexed
Get Books: Remove Beam Books due to lack of response to issues with the store.
Windows: Ignore drives A: and B: when scanning for the drives belonging to a device
Kindle driver: Fix generation of apnx files for newer kindle firmware.
News download: If the output format is set to azw3, generate periodicals in mobi format as amazon does not support azw3 periodicals.
New news sources
Various Hungarian recipes by laca
NSFW Corp by Darko Miletic.
FC Knudde and Stamgasten by drMerry
Improved news sources
Indian Express
Anadtech
London Review of Books (subscrption version)
Livemint
xkcd
Doghouse Diaries
pkgsrc changes:
---------------
- Depends on textproc/py-ccsutils >=0.9.9.
Upstream changes:
-----------------
Release 0.8.50 - May 04, 2012
=============================
New Features
Tweak Book: Allow tweaking of KF8 MOBI files. Useful to fine-tune the result
of a conversion. Right click on the book and select Tweak Book to use the
feature. Note that tweaking a MOBI file that contains both KF8 and older MOBI6
will cause the MOBI6 version to be discarded.
AZW3 output plugin. This output plugin generates pure KF8 mobi files. These
only work on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch with latest firmware.
Conversion: Allow easy re-ordering of the search and replace expressions in
the conversion dialog. Also apply the expressions in the same order that they
were entered when doing the conversion.
Automatically add the Tag 'Sample Book' when an Amazon sample is added to
calibre
FB2 Input: Better handling of inline images.
Closes tickets: 989869
Bug Fixes
KF8 Output: Fix section to section jumps not working for documents with
multi-level ToCs
EPUB Input: Handle the case of the metadata ToC containing a reference to
the cover HTML file.
Closes tickets: 993812
CHM Input: Handle files with deeply nested markup and non html files
listed at the start of the manifest.
Closes tickets: 993607
KF8 Output: Workaround Kindle Touch bug that causes the book to be rendered
as black pages when a height is specified for <body>
Fix regression in 0.8.49 that broke italics detection in heuristic
processing on 32-bit systems.
Closes tickets: 991380
KF8 Output: Fix joint MOBI6/KF8 books not being recognized as MOBI files
by older Kindles
KF8 Output: Fix errors when processing documents with HTML comments
and/or XML processing instructions
Get Books: Amazon fix prices not being found. B&N fix details link.
ebooks.com: fix cover image. Website changes to various EU stores
FB2 Input: More robust base64 decoding to handle embedded images that are
incorrectly encoded.
Closes tickets: 990929
Fix scrolling with the cover browser updating only the selection in the
book list, not the current book.
Closes tickets: 990881
Save to Disk: Do not run out memory when saving very large files on
systems with low RAM.
Closes tickets: 990741
FB2 Output: Use 2 letter language codes in preference to 3-letter ones to
not break poorly implemented FB2 readers
Closes tickets: 990026
EPUB Input: Auto set the media-type for OPF manifest entries with an
empty media-type
New news sources
George Monbiot by Darko Miletic
El Mundo by atordo
AraInfo and Diagonal by Ruben Pollan
Improved news sources
National Post
Daily Mirror
Sun
Newsweek Polska
Max-Planck
derStandard
tweakers.net
Release 0.8.49 - Apr 27, 2012
=============================
New Features
Experimental support for generating Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files
calibre can now generate Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files. To turn
on this feature, go to Preferences->Tweaks and click Plugin Tweaks. In
the box add: test_mobi_output_type = 'both' calibre will now produce MOBI
files that have both the old MOBI format and the new KF8 format in them.
To learn more about KF8, see: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000729511
Note that calibre support for KF8 is still experimental and there will
likely be bugs.
Upgrade to using cssutils 0.9.9 for CSS parsing. Improved speed
and robustness.
Show cover size in a tooltip in the conversion dialog
Closes tickets: 986958 [External link]
Driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light
Closes tickets: 989264 [External link]
Bug Fixes
Heuristics: When italicizing words do not operate on words not in
between HTML tags.
Closes tickets: 986298 [External link]
Fix (I hope) the bulk metadata download process crashing for some
people on OS X when clicking the Yes button to apply the updates.
Closes tickets: 986658 [External link]
Fix tooltip not being updated in the book details panel when
pasting in a new cover
Closes tickets: 986958 [External link]
Cover Browser: Wrap the title on space only, not in between words.
Closes tickets: 986516 [External link]
Edit metadata dialog: If a permission denied error occurs when
clicking the next or prev buttons, stay on the current book.
Closes tickets: 986903 [External link]
Fix heuristics not removing unnecessary hyphens from the end
of lines.
Closes tickets: 822744 [External link]
New news sources
Berria by Alayn Gortazar
Sol Haber by Onur Gungor
Telam by Darko Miletic
Richmond Times-Dispatch by jde
Improved news sources
Metro Nieuws NL
Der Tagesspiegel
pkgsrc changes:
---------------
Add a patch from Neil Booth to fix PLIST.
Should fix part of pkg/46331.
Upstream changes:
-----------------
Way too long CHANGELOG to list here.
Highlights from upstream are:
E-book viewer: A whole new full screen mode. [0.8.44]
-----------------------------------------------------
Closes tickets: 959830 [External link]
The new mode has no toolbars to distract from the text and the ability to set
the width of the column of text via Preferences in the ebook viewer. Click the
Fullscreen button on the toolbar in the viewer to enter fullscreen mode (or
press the F11 or Ctrl+Shit+F keys)
Support for reading Amazon's new KF8 format [0.8.42]
----------------------------------------------------
calibre can now both view and convert MOBI files that contain Amazon's new KF8
(Kindle Fire) format
Complete changelog is here: http://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
`
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
