- 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
New Features
Driver for the Bq Cervantes 3
A new "Ornamental" cover design for the "Generate cover" feature
Windows: Use a helper process that does not load any calibre DLLs to display file open/save dialogs. This should fix most crashes caused by poorly designed windows shell extensions.
Allow pressing Alt+O as a shortcut for click the OK button in the Add from ISBN dialog.
Remove the calibre dependency on ImageMagick -- reduces calibre install size by ~ 15MB
Edit book: Add a new image filter: Normalize -- to improve the contrast in images
Edit book: Add a filter to make images look like oil paintings
Use 'Not rated' for zero stars in all rating spin boxes
Bug Fixes
Edit Book: Fix a crash in the Insert Link tool if one of the HTML files contains an empty id.
Fix tag like custom columns not sorted when displayed in the Book Details panel.
Fix transient window shown during Edit Book startup
Preserve booklist horizontal scroll position when merging books.
Google Images metadata download plugin: Fix error when searching for books with non-English characters in the title or author names.
Template language: Fix an error formatting dates when the underlying date does not have a day.
Preferences->Keyboard: Fix unable to use Alt+A and Alt+S as custom shortcuts.
Version 2.57.1 is a hotfix to fix a regression that broke conversion of ODT files in 2.57.0
New Features
Edit Book: Add an option to show full file paths in the Files Browser instead of just the file name (in Preferences->Main window)
Allow creating a keyboard shortcut to minimize the calibre window (Preferences->Keyboard->Miscellaneous).
Bug Fixes
Fix the Google Images based cover download plugin not working because of changes to Google's image search service
E-book viewer: Prevent the TAB key from causing partial scrolling in paged mode.
Book details panel: Fix regression in previous release that broke url:http|... style identifiers
OS X: Redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null instead of ASL since ASL is flaky on some OS X machines. This should prevent errors in third party plugins that print a lot of debug messages even when not in debug mode
Fix for OS X upgrade 10.11.4 breaking detection of Kobo devices on some systems
Edit Book: Fix filename being duplicated in the Files Browser when multiple files with the same name are present.
PDF Output: Make fix for blank page at end of HTML file also work when headers/footers are specified
New Features
Allow creation of rules to convert arbitrary identifiers into clickable links in the book details panel (Prefrences->Look & Feel->Book details)
Tag mapper: A new rule type 'split' allows you to easily split tags on a character
Make the shutting down message an overlay so it is less disruptive
Allow right clicking on Virtual Library tabs to edit/delete the virtual library.
Tag mapper: Add a button to edit the list of tags in a tag mapper rule using the tag editor dialog.
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Fix the obsolete HTML align=center markup (produced by Microsoft Word) not working for tables.
Font subsetting: When font-variant: small-caps is used include the capital letters as well, in case either the font or the renderer do not support OpenType smcp.
Font subsetting: Implement support for text-transform.
Fix the target book entry in the book list not being refreshed after merging books. Only matters if you have a column based on book formats.
E-book viewer: Fix a link that has some text along with a superscript/subscript being incorrectly detected as a footnote link
Fix device detection on windows failing if the registry entries for the device contain a very long item.
Edit Book: Fix an extra colon being added when setting the 'notes' semantic
Ensure that author folder names are never windows reserved names
E-book viewer: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being shown together.
PDF Output: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being rendered together.
Fix exception in custom column preferences when the column lookup key is changed
Catalog generation: Do not crash is a book in the library has no uuid.
2.54.0
New Features
Edit metadata in bulk dialog: Allow configuring the types of generated covers.
E-book viewer: Make the detection of note boundaries for popup footnotes a little more robust
E-book viewer: Add options to control the amount the mouse wheel and arrow keys scroll by in flow mode
When running the content server do not hide the main calibre window during shutdown until the content server has stopped. Show a shutting down message in the window so that the user knows what is happening.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for empty links
DOCX Input: When the document has a Table of Contents created using the Word Table of Contents tool, keep a reference to it in the metadata. This is useful when converting to old style MOBI and you want to precisely control placement of the ToC.
Bug Fixes
Fix auto-mounting of some types of devices not working on FreeBSD
calibredb add: Fix the --cover option not working if the book being added has its own cover.
E-book viewer: Fix mathematics being typeset at too small a font size on windows
PDF Output: Fix occasional blank pages erroneously inserted in the text (at the end of an internal html file).
Book details panel: Fix url:file:// identifiers not becoming links
Fix fetch news dialog not rendering properly on HiDPI screens
Fix a hard to trigger crash introduced in the previous release when using the conversion dialog
2.53.0
New Features
Edit Book: A new tool to transform book styling using easy to create rules.
Conversion: Allow creating rules to transform styles during conversion, as above. Available in the conversion dialog at 'Look & Feel->Transform style'
Edit metadata dialog: Make the hide toolbars right click menu action persistent. Also fix very large number of custom fields causing the basic metadata tab to not be aligned properly
Portable Installer: Do not ask to launch calibre when running an automated install. Automated installs will now never launch calibre.
Bug Fixes
E-book viewer: Hide list numbers for popup footnotes when the footnotes are use
as the number are likely to be incorrect.
DOCX Input: Ignore the hidden bookmark Word 2010 inserts to enable the go to last edit feature.
Fix keyboard focus lost after merging book records
E-book viewer: Handle
Edit Book: Fix spelling correction suggestions not being shown when using the context menu key with the cursor at the end of the word
- version: 2.52.0
date: 2016-02-26
new features:
- title: "Allow creating rules to ignore files when adding books based on the filename"
description: "Useful when using the auto-add feature or when adding in bulk. Preferences->Adding Books->Rules to filter added files"
- title: "calibredb add: Allow specifying filters to control adding of books from directories"
- title: "E-book viewer: Allow copying the Table of Contents to the clipboard by right clicking on it."
tickets: [1548791]
bug fixes:
- title: "FB2 metadata: Ignore invalid (unidentifiable) cover images."
tickets: [1548417]
- title: "FB2 metadata: Fix error when adding books with non-numeric series numbers."
tickets: [1548405]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix handling of toggle properties such as bold/italic/strikethrough/etc. when specified as document defaults."
tickets: [1548187]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Add support for the q CSS length unit"
improved recipes:
- AsiaOne
- Today Online - Singapore
- Foreign Policy
- Outlook India
- Economic and Political Weekly
- Foreign Affairs
- El Pais
- LA Times
- Al-Ahram
- New York Times Book Review
new recipes:
- title: Al-Masry Alyoum
author: Hassan Williamson
New Features
Add an action to the context menu for the search bar to paste and instantly execute the search.
When adding multiple books from a single directory, added the books in order of the last modified time of the book files.
Bug Fixes
Fix a regression in 2.50 that prevented a small number of devices from being detected on windows
PDF metadata: Workaround for PDF files with corrupted XMP metadata packets, generated by Nitro PDF.
Edit Book Beautify: Do not beautify the insides of heading/p tags even when they are the only child of body
Amazon metadata download: Fix published date not being downloaded from amazon.it
Fix a regression in 2.50 that broke the user created device driver feature on windows
EPUB Input: Fix error when processing EPUB files that uses non-ascii characters for their unique ids.
When reading the cover from comic files, ignore any image files inside __MACOSX/ directories.
Fix calibre on OS X unable to connect to sites that support only TLS >= 1.1. Also update the version of Qt bundled on OS X to 5.5.1
2.50.1
New Features
Change the way that devices are detected on Windows. This fixes device detection problems on some Windows 10 computers
Edit Book: When inserting images, add an option to insert the image as a full page image
DOCX Input: Add support for framed text created by setting the same border style on neighboring paragraphs.
Update PocketBook 650 driver for latest firmware revision
Bug Fixes
DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs with borders being rendered with an empty line inside the borders
ODT Input: Fix fallback PNG images generated by LibreOffice 4.x for SVG images not being ignored
Fix restore library failing on some windows systems with non-ascii library paths
Edit Book: Fix error when merging an empty HTML document or one that contains only text and no tags.
Fix failure to add FB2 files that contain published dates.
Use a private certificate when downloading plugins via HTTPS. This fixes errors on some windows machines that have missing root certificates.
Fix tag editor not working correctly for comma-separated custom columns
Fix existing rating not being removed when using Polish Books or Embed Metadata tools on EPUB files.
2.50
New Features
Change the way that devices are detected on Windows. This fixes device detection problems on some Windows 10 computers
Edit Book: When inserting images, add an option to insert the image as a full page image
DOCX Input: Add support for framed text created by setting the same border style on neighboring paragraphs.
Update PocketBook 650 driver for latest firmware revision
Bug Fixes
DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs with borders being rendered with an empty line inside the borders
ODT Input: Fix fallback PNG images generated by LibreOffice 4.x for SVG images not being ignored
Fix restore library failing on some windows systems with non-ascii library paths
Edit Book: Fix error when merging an empty HTML document or one that contains only text and no tags.
Fix failure to add FB2 files that contain published dates.
Use a private certificate when downloading plugins via HTTPS. This fixes errors on some windows machines that have missing root certificates.
Fix tag editor not working correctly for comma-separated custom columns
Fix existing rating not being removed when using Polish Books or Embed Metadata tools on EPUB files.
New Features
E-book viewer: Add an option to allow only a single book to be viewed at a time. Trying to view a second book will cause it to replace the currently viewed book.
Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware 3.19.5761
Linux build: Update bundled version of Qt to 5.5.1
Bug Fixes
Fix splash screen getting stuck on OSX when restarting calibre in debug mode
Get Books: Update plugins for various Polish language book stores to handle changes to the website
Amazon metadata download: Handle a change in the amazon website that prevented review metadata from being downloaded
Better algorithm for guessing the 'external' network interface that is displayed to the user
Tag Mapper: Do not allow the user to create rules with invalid regular expressions
E-book viewer: Disallow hyphenation in documents that use mathematical typesetting as the hyphenation breaks that typesetting
E-book viewer: Fix some non-ASCII characters not display in embedded MathML.
Download calibre plugins securely using HTTPS
MOBI Output: Try to autofix corrupted PNG images in the input document.
Nook Glowlight Plus: Send files by default to the NOOK/My Files folder.
E-book viewer: Fix failure to view comic files that contain non-ASCII characters int heir internal filenames.
New Features
* Driver for Energy Ereader Screenlight.
* DOCX Input: Add option to have superscripts/subscripts converted
so that they do not affect the line height of the line containing
them.
* New option to hide empty categories in Tag Browser (Preferences->Look
& Feel->Tag Browser)
Bug Fixes
* Image compression: Fix spurious zero byte .bak files being created
when compressing png images inside epub files
* Image compression: Fix bug that could cause zero byte images
files/or file in use errors when compressing images
* Fix some icons not being themeable
* E-book viewer: When using heuristics to detect footnote links
check for vertical-align set to top and bottom as well as sub and
super
* Book details panel: Display data in right-to-left format when
the calibre interface language is set to a right-to-left language
such as Hebrew or Arabic
2.47
New Features
* A new tool to easily export and import all calibre data -- books,
settings and plugins
* Get Books: Add plugins for Amazon Australia and Amazon India.
Also restore the Amazon EU plugins.
Bug Fixes
* PDF Input: Fix conversion of PDF documents that contain ASCII
control codes in their outlines not working.
* Edit book: Fix image compression utilities opening a new console
per invocation on windows
* Image compression: If the compression tools return a zero byte
image ignore it and use the original image
* Fix a regression that caused book titles in the Book Details
panel to become clickable
2.46
New Features
PDF Input: Add support for PDF outlines (bookmarks), if present, they are used as the metadata Table of Contents.
Book polishing: Add tool to losslessly compress images in the book in order to reduce its filesize, without affecting image quality
Edit Book: Add a new tool to compress images in the book losslessly, accessed from the Tools menu
Kobo driver: add support for new Kobo firmware
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow entering fractional numbers into the series number start with control.
Speed up moving libraries by using hardlinks instead of file copies when moving to a location on the same filesystem
Get Books: Disable the Amazon EU stores, at Amazon's request
Bug Fixes
Fix moving libraries via calibre leaving behind a copy of the metadata_db_prefs_backup.json file in the original library folder
MOBI Input: Warn about corrupted trailing data entries, instead of aborting. Getting some, even partially corrupted text is better than no text.
Book details: Fix single value custom text column not clickable.
Saving to disk: Fix custom date column being rendered in GMT instead of the local time zone when used in a save to disk template.
New Features
Cover browser: Allow customizing the text that appears under the covers with a template in Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover browser
When sending books without a cover to the device, generate a cover with book metadata instead of using the blank book icon
Preferenes->Add your own columns: Show more information about existing columns
Bug Fixes
PDF Output: Handle input documents with fonts that do not have either postscript or full name information.
DOCX Input: Handle numbering styles that use non-decimal number formats and custom templates.
Allow restoring of corrupted library to work even if the metadata.db file is missing from the library folder
Bulk metadata dialog: Fix renaming a custom series via search and replace causing the series index to be reset to 1.
Bulk metadata dialog: Fix search and replace not working for text like custom columns if the column contains only a single value.
Content server: Fix next and previous links not working in the mobile view when using a search query that includes url unsafe characters.
Update Amazon metadata download plugin to handle amazon.com website change that was preventing any metadata from being downloaded
Edit Book: Fix error when trying to add words to user dictionary for a book with a language that has no dictionary available.
Tag browser: Fix various bugs in how grouped search terms are displayed. Also fix counts and average rating for items in user categories
When using copy to library also create missing composite columns in the destination library.
2.44.1
Bug Fixes
Update the version of libpng bundled with calibre to fix a security vulnerability in libpng
See https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8126 for details on the vulnerability
2.44
New Features
Allow setting the cover for a book from one of the book's formats by right clicking on the format in the Book details panel.
Closes tickets: 1515411
Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog.
Closes tickets: 1515407
Edit Book: When inserting an image into the current document, add a button to paste the image from the clipboard
Edit Book: Change the suggested prefix for bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.
Closes tickets: 1514468
On Linux, use the system tray icon from the system theme, if available
Bug Fixes
Fix for error when connecting to some Android phones/tablets that have an SD card on OS X and Linux
Linux build: Fix problem with pointing hand mouse cursor not using the system theme on some Linux systems
Fix the device view state not being saved when a connected device is ejected/disconnected
Edit Book: Fix saving fails if the original file is deleted during editing session
Closes tickets: 1513849
E-book viewer: When doing a search do not match text in comments, attributes and inappropriate tags, such as <script> and <style>
Improved news sources
Gamasutra
2.43
New Features
Edit Book: Add a 'Smart Comment' tool to easily comment/uncomment
text
Tag mapper: Add new rule types to upper-case, lower-case or capitalize
tags
Markdown input: Allow the 'extra' convenience extension as a shortcut
for enabling multiple other extensions. Also add the Attribute List
and Admonition extensions. Finally, update the markdown library
used by calibre
Bug Fixes
Amazon metadata download: Fix for website change at amazon.com that
prevented ratings from being downloaded.
Tag mapper: Prevent cycles in the replacement rules from causing
the tag mapper to hang
Do not fail on windows systems where the system function to get
the users home folder fails
E-book viewer: Set the foreground color as well as the background
color for the reference mode popup. Makes it legible even when the
user specifies a different color theme for the viewer.
2.42
New Features
Driver for the new NookGlowlight Plus. This device only allows
sending of files inside the NOOK folder, so calibre now follows
that limitation.
When converting AZW4 files to PDF, skip the conversion and simply
unwrap the PDF file already embedded inside the AZW4 file.
Metadata download review dialog: Add an option to mark rejected
books in the main book list after the review is completed.
Edit Book: Spell check dialog: Add a button to undo the last spelling
change
Bug Fixes
Edit metadata dialog: When downloading metadata with download of
authors turned off, do not regenerate the author sort field after
the download.
Fix a regression that broke the heuristic used to detect cover
images in some EPUB files that do not specify their cover metadata.
Edit Book File List: Fix pre-selection of filename when renaming
a file in the root
Tag mapper: Fix bug when replacement tag has comma in it and the
replacement rule is not the last rule
2.41
New Features
Edit Book: Allow editing an unzipped EPUB (a folder) as a book
Edit Book: Allow easily removing items from the popup menu for
the 'Insert tag' button
Make Tag Browser more useable with keyboard shortcuts. Configure
the keyboard shortcuts in Preferences->Keyboard->Tag Browser
ToC editor: Add context menu item to change selected entries
to upper case
Bug Fixes
Edit Book: Preview panel: Render in XHTML mode. Fixes svg
elements using a global svg namespace not rendering.
Tag Browser: Fix clicking on first-letter groups for series
not working
DOCX Output: Ignore corrupted images in the input instead of
erroring out on them.
E-book viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle table of contents
not working when ToC window is made floating.
Allow ebook-metadata to work with read-only files when no
options are specified to change metadata.
Tag mapper: When the replacement tag contains commas, create
multiple tags instead of replacing the comma with a semi-colon.
HTMLZ Output: Set the HTML
