- version: 1.48.0
date: 2014-08-08
new features:
- title: "E-book viewer: Make the list of bookmarks a dockable
window that can be kept open while reading the book"
- title: "E-book viewer: Make the Table of Contents panel a
dockable window so it can be moved around and even made into
a separate floating window"
- title: "E-book viewer: Allow reloading the current book by
pressing F5 or Ctrl+R"
- title: "Edit Book: Allow changing the case of selected text
by right clicking and choosing the appropriate change case
action."
- title: "Driver for Kiano Booky Light."
- title: "calibredb list: Have --for-machine dump the output
in JSON instead of using ASCII separators, as most scripting
languages have JSON parsers builtin"
- title: "zsh completion: Complete filenames inside epub files
for ebook-edit"
- title: "ebook-edit: Allow specifying multiple internal files
to open and get rid of the no longer needed --edit-file option"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix over-aggressive caching causing multiple cover
grid emblem rules to not work."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix position syncing and Live CSS not
working if the opening tag is split over multiple lines"
- title: "EPUB metadata: When updating the language in an EPUB
file, preserve the country code, if the new language is the
same as the original language in the EPUB file."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix choosing default dictionary based on
language tag in the OPF ignoring the country code"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix a regression that caused clicking on
links in the preview panel that lead to destinations in the
same HTML file popping up a spurious error message."
- title: "Fix regression that caused tags to not be sorted when
displayed in the book details panel."
- title: "Edit Book: More robust implementation of current tag
detection for Live CSS. Now uses the same logic as matching
tag highlighting."
- title: "Edit Book: When highlighting the tag the cursor is
currently inside, if the cursor is inside the definition of an
opening tag, highlight that tag rather than its parent."
- title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Do not run the rest of the
checks if parsing errors are found, to prevent the checkers
from raising unhandled errors"
improved recipes:
- Maximum PC
- El Correo
- version: 1.47.0
date: 2014-08-01
new features:
- title: "Cover Grid: Allow user defined emblems (icons) to be
displayed next to covers"
type: major
description: "Now you can have your own custom icons displayed
next to covers in the cover grid, based on simple rules you
create. For example, you can display a heart icon next to
books with a rating of more than four stars or a tick mark
next to books you read and so on. To create these rules go
to Preferences->Cover Grid and click the Emblems tab on the
left."
- title: "E-book Viewer: Use wiktionary.org and wordnik.com as
dictionary providers instead of dict.org"
description: "When looking up words, the word definition is
now opened in a separate browser window. The language of
the dictionary to lookup is automatically selected based on
the language of the current book. To lookup a word in the
viewer simply select the word with your mouse and right click,
then choose 'Lookup in dictionary'"
- title: "Edit Book: Allow customizing the templates used when
creating new, blank HTML/CSS files via Preferences->Editor
settings."
- title: "Comic Input: When sorting the pages inside a comic,
recognize numbers, so that page2 sorts before page10"
- title: "Conversion: When inserting a metadata jacket, format
the series number using roman numerals. This behavior can be
disabled by using a custom jacket template, as described here:
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/customize.html#overriding-icons-templates-et-cetera"
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit Book: Fix incorrect results when running replace
all on marked text and more than one replacement is made."
- title: "Edit Book: Live CSS: Improve detection of which tag
the cursor is inside when there are multiple tags on the same
line."
- title: "Edit Book: Clear the Check Book panel when opening
a new book"
- title: "Edit Book: Allow the import files into book action
to be added to the toolbar"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix subsetting of fonts not working if
the text contains non-BMP unicode characters."
- title: "News download: Fix HTML parser used in the news
download subsystem not preserving whitespace inside <pre> tags"
- title: "Conversion: Do not strip underscores from classnames."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix cursor positioning not working when
creating a new file from a template"
- title: "Fix a rare error that could happen when using series
columns inside a custom column template"
- title: "E-book viewer: Handle quoted URLs inside @font-face
rules"
improved recipes:
- New Yorker
- version: 1.46.0
date: 2014-07-25
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: Add support for third party plugins to
extend the editors functionality."
- title: "calibredb list: Add a --for-machine option that causes
the output to be made in a form more easily parsed programmatically
(it uses ASCII field and record separators)"
- title: "Book details panel: Automatically convert ISSN
identifiers into links to the periodicals page on worldcat.org"
- title: "Edit Book: When re-arranging the toolbars inside an
individual file editor, save the new toolbar layout so that it
is re-used in the future. Also apply the changed layout to
all open editors of the same type."
- title: "Edit Book: Make the undo/redo/cut/copy/paste buttons
on the editor toolbar also configurable, so they can be removed
via Preferences->Toolbars, if needed."
- title: "Edit Book: Allow editing xpgt (Adobe Page Template)
files as XML."
- title: "Edit Book: Allow the action to launch the saved
searches dialog to be added to the global toolbars"
- title: "Book details panel: Add an option to make clicking
on the author name search the calibre library for the author
instead of opening the wikipedia page for the author. To use
it got to Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details."
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix published date not being merged when merging book
records"
- title: "Embed metadata tool: Fix error when trying to embed
metadata in corrupted MOBI files or files of other types that
are marked as MOBI in the library"
- title: "Edit Book: Make the warning dialog that pops up when
you try to quit while the editor is saving changes in the
background a little more clear."
- title: "When generating covers, do not render soft-hyphens
in the text as hyphens."
- title: "Conversion: Fix a bug processing the CSS font shorthand
property when the line-height is specified in em or percentage
units"
- title: "calibre-customize: When building plugins from a
directory, exclude known version control subdirectories"
improved recipes:
- Grandes corresponsales
- Times of India
- Economic Times of India
New Features
Edit Book: Add in-context help for HTML and CSS
Now, you can right click on any HTML/OPF/NCX tag name or CSS
property and the editor will open some help for that item in
your browser.
Book details panel: Make series and tags clickable. Clicking
on them will search the calibre library for all books in the
same series/ having the same tag
Edit metadata dialog: Improve performance by only writing
changed fields to the database when clicking OK or Next
AZW3 Input: When converting from AZW3 files, use the high
quality version of the image if the source AZW3 file contains
both low and high quality images. These dual azw3 files are
produced by kindlegen 2.9
Edit Book: When right clicking on a link in the editor add a
menu entry to open the link
Edit Book: Search and replace panel: Add arrows to open the
list of recently used search and replace expressions
Driver for Motorola Milestone X2.
Bug Fixes
AZW3: Preserve the page-progression-direction property when
converting/editing/polishing AZW3 files
AZW3 Input: Workaround broken AZW3 files produced by kindlegen
that use uppercase attribute names.
PDF metadata: When updating the XMP metadata in PDF files,
compress the XMP block written to the PDF. This is particularly
useful when the PDF file has an existing XMP metadata block
with very large amounts of data in it.
Fix searches on Yes/No columns using the terms ('blank',
'checked', 'unchecked') not working on non-English calibre
installs
Edit metadata dialog: Do not auto change the title sort field
when clicking OK if the title was changed. Instead the title
sort field must be changed explicitly.
Linux binary installer: Fix regression that caused ZSH completion
to not be installed
Edit Book: Spell check: When suggesting alternative for a
hyphenated word, ensure the first suggestion is the word formed
by removing the hyphen, if that is a valid word
Get Books: Update the Woblink plugin to handle changes to the
woblink website
Edit Book: Fix replacement of hyphenated words in the spell
checker not working
Edit Book: Fix live syntax highlighting of links not being
updated correctly after renaming an open file
Edit Book: Fix regression that caused crash while syntax
highlighting CSS stylesheets that contain url() tokens without
enclosing quotes
Linux binary: Do not fail on system with invalid locale info.
Instead default to using the UTF-8 encoding on these systems.
Improved news sources
The Economic Times India
EPW
Carta
The Hindu
F-Secure
NOAA Online
- version: 1.44.0
date: 2014-07-11
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: Syntax highlight links, images, stylesheet
includes, etc. Links that point to missing files are marked as
errors. You can Ctrl + click on a highlighted link to jump to
the file it points to directly."
- title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for manifest items
missing href attributes."
tickets: [1339766]
- title: "When clicking in the search box, select all existing
text, for easy replacement."
tickets: [1338862]
- title: "Edit Book: Add buttons to change the text alignment
of the current paragraph. If you do not see them, go to
Preferences->Toolbars and add them to the Text formatting
actions toolbar."
- title: "Improve performance of rendering the book list when
lots of column coloring rules are used"
- title: "Kobo driver: Support for new firmware version 3.5"
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit Book/Book polishing: Do not auto-resolve @import
rules in AZW3 files. Also do not add a @namespace rule to all
stylesheets that contain tag selectors."
- title: "Edit book/Book polishing: Preserve the class attribute
on the <html> tag in AZW3 format files."
tickets: [1339055]
- title: "Edit Book: Fix inline spell check context menu not
working when triggered by context menu key or a right clicking
at the right edge of the word."
- title: "Fix some font directories from fonts.conf being
ignored on linux when scanning the system for installed fonts."
tickets: [1339257]
- title: "Edit book: Spell checker: Treat hyphenated words as
single words for spell checking"
- title: "Edit Book: When using the spell check dialog to change
words, detect any changes made to open files outside the spell
check dialog and automatically integrate them, to prevent those
changes from being lost."
- title: "Update driver for Tolino Shine to handle new firmware"
tickets: [1338219]
- title: "Book polishing: When changing the cover in an EPUB
file, place the newly created cover image in the same folder
as other images in the book, rather than the root"
- title: "Linux installer: Use pkg-config to get the location
for installing the calibre bash completion scripts. pkg-config
is used only when installing to /usr."
tickets: [1340023]
improved recipes:
- Science Daily
- version: 1.43.0
date: 2014-07-04
new features:
- title: "Add a wizard for easily searching date fields in your
library. To use it click the advanced search button to the left
of the search field. Allows you to search for books whose date
is older/newer than a specified date or less/more than a number
of days from today and so on."
- title: "Driver for Onyx T68."
tickets: [1336868]
- title: "When reading metadata from file names, allow setting
the comments field as well, in addition to
title/authros/publisher/series/etc."
tickets: [1332582]
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a regression in the previous release that broke
changing Save to Disk preferences"
- title: "Recognize leading articles for the Esperanto language
when auto-generating title sorts. "
tickets: [1336639]
- title: "Edit Book: Fix a regression that caused syncing of
the preview panel to the editor cursor position to not work
when the cursor is positioned on a blank line in between two
tag definitions"
- title: "Metadata download: Round the downloaded ratings so
that, for example, 3.6 stars becomes 4 stars instead of 3
stars."
tickets: [1335696]
- title: "Edit Book: Fix a crash when performing some image
editing operations on 64 bit calibre builds"
- title: "Recognize additional leading articles in the titles
of Italian language books"
tickets: [1332837]
- title: "Edit Book: Fix an occasional spurious error message
when using the Live CSS feature"
new recipes:
- title: Dark Reading
author: Brandon Allberry
- version: 1.42.0
date: 2014-06-27
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: new tool to easily add a cover to the
book. It automatically generates the HTML wrapper and takes
care of marking the covers files as covers in the OPF."
- title: "Edit Book: Improve the performance of inline spell
checking, especially noticeable when editing large HTML files
(over 100KB in size)."
- title: "Edit Book: Run syntax highlighting in the background,
reducing user interface latency when editing large files"
- title: "Template language: Add a new function (group_re) to
use grouping regular expressions with groups, where you can
replace the matched groups with result of another template."
- title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for HTML files
with non UTF-8 encoding declarations"
- title: "Edit Book: Spell check dialog: Add an option to make
filtering the word list case sensitive"
bug fixes:
- title: "Get Books: Fix integration with ebook.de broken by
website changes"
- title: "MOBI Input: Preserve the dc:rights metadata during
conversion."
tickets: [1333468]
- title: "Edit Book: Fix non-BMP unicode characters causing
matching tag highlighting to be slightly off on linux"
- title: "Edit Book: When editing HTML files that have charset
encoding declarations, automatically change the declared encoding
(if any) to UTF-8 on save, since the editor always saves files
in the UTF-8 encoding."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix various problems when editing EPUB
files with non-ascii internal filenames on OS X."
tickets: [1317883]
- title: "Edit Book: Remove unused CSS: Fix an error if an HTML
file links to a missing stylesheet"
improved recipes:
- Deadspin
new recipes:
- title: Economic and Political Weekly
author: Krittika Goyal
- version: 1.41.0
date: 2014-06-21
new features:
- title: "New tool to set metadata in the actual book files in
the calibre library from the updated metadata in the calibre
database."
description: "To use it go to Preferences->Toolbars and add
the 'Embed metadata' tool to the main toolbar. Then simply
select the books whose files you want to update and click
the Embed metadata button. Normally, calibre updates metadata
in the book files whenever a file is exported from calibre.
This tool is useful for people who want the files in the
calibre library to have updated metadata as well." type:
major
- title: "calibredb: Add a new 'embed_metadata' command to
update metadata in the actual book files in the calibre library
from the calibre database."
- title: "Edit Book: Allow customization of toolbars"
- title: "Add empty book: When adding empty book records to
the library, add an option to also create empty EPUB files.
Useful if you intend to subsequently edit these files with the
calibre editor. You can access the add empty books feature by
right clicking the Add Books button."
- title: "Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Add an option to also
remove unused class attributes from the HTML"
- title: "Edit book: Check Book: Add checks for empty
HTML/XML/CSS/image files in the book."
tickets: [1329971]
- title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Add checks for links whose
fragment (the part after the #) points to a location that does
not exist"
bug fixes:
- title: "RTF metadata: Add proper support for unicode characters
when reading and writing metadata to RTF files"
- title: "RTF metadata: Fix failure to write metadata to RTF
files that do not already have an \\info block"
- title: "Edit Book: Remove unused CSS: Handle @import rules
when checking for unused CSS"
- title: "Edit Book: Remove unused css: Prevent failure when
book has invalid items marked as stylesheets"
- title: "calibredb: Fix set_metadata not working for the
series_index field."
tickets: [1329724]
- version: 1.40.0
date: 2014-06-12
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: Add a new tool to manage fonts. Allows
easily changing/removing/embedding fonts in the entire book.
To use it go to Tools->Manage Fonts"
- title: "Edit Book: Allow the color of the links in the Live
CSS panel to be themed."
tickets: [1326897]
- title: "E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut to bookmark
current location."
tickets: [1326198]
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit Book: Check book: When auto-changing font name
to match actual name in font file, also change the font name
in shorthand font declarations"
- title: "Edit Book/Book polishing: Fix embedding all referenced
fonts not catching fonts that are only specified via style
attributes and not in any stylesheets."
- title: "Conversion: Fix normalization of CSS shorthand font
property not working when multiple font families are specified
in the same shorthand property"
- title: "Edit Book: Live CSS: Fix clicking on link to go to
style definition not working if the stylesheet contains CSS 3
@media queries or @font-face rules"
- title: "Edit Book: When importing DOCX files, set the media
type for html files correctly"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix import of DOCX files that contain no
Table of Contents not working."
tickets: [1327522]
- title: "Portable installer: Fix a crash if the user selects
a destination for the portable install that does not have enough
disk space."
tickets: [1324575]
- title: "Fix date column not showing date added when adding
zip/rar files that contain an OPF with a calibre timestamp in
its metadata"
- title: "Sony driver: Fix SONY annotation app not working with
files sent to the device by calibre"
- title: "Linux build: Fix regression that caused opening PDF
files (or any externally viewed files) preventing calibre from
being restarted as long as the external viewer is not shutdown."
tickets: [1326453]
- title: "Edit book: Fix changing underline style to none when
creating a custom color scheme causes error."
- title: "Check Book: Fix empty (zero byte) XML files causing
check book to fail."
tickets: [1326073]
- title: "Check Book: Fix combination of mismatching font family
names and a font-family declaration with an invalid value (such
as a dimension) causing auto fixing of errors to fail."
tickets: [1325070]
improved recipes:
- Respekt
- Newsweek
- Jerusalem Post
- Outlook India
- PC Magazine
- Instapaper
e version: 1.39.0
date: 2014-05-29
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: Allow creation of custom color schemes
for the editor (Preferences->Editor settings)"
- title: "Check Book: When reporting unmanifested file warnings,
allow auto fixing by adding the file to the manifest if it is
referenced elsewhere or removing the file if it is not."
- title: "Edit book: Preview panel: Allow syncing of position
more accurately when there are multiple tags on the same source
code line"
- title: "Edit book: Live CSS: Indicate which CSS properties
are overridden by higher priority rules"
- title: "Kindle driver: When generating page numbers automatically,
add an additional method to detect page boundaries, using the
presence of <mbp:pagebreak> tags in the source of the book.
You can use this setting by right clicking on the Kindle icon
in calibre when the kindle is connected and choosing customize
this device."
bug fixes:
- title: "Virtual Libraries: If the user selects a virtual
library whose tab has been closed via the Virtual Library
button, re-open the tab instead of displaying the virtual
library in the All Books tab."
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix a regression that broke conversion
of documents with an index that contains fields with special
page text."
- title: "Edit Book: When editing a book in a language for
which no dictionary is installed, consider all words to be
correctly spelt, rather than misspelt."
- version: 1.38.0
date: 2014-05-23
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: A 'Live CSS' tool that shows all the style
rules for the tag you are currently editing."
description: "You can use it to easily jump to any style
rules that affect the current tag. Enable it via View->Live
CSS. See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#the-live-css-panel
for details"
type: major
- title: "Add an option to hide the book rating in the cover
browser (Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover Browser)."
tickets: [1319476]
- title: "DOCX Input: if no language is defined in the metadata,
use the language specified in the document default style."
tickets: [1321346]
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit book: Fix regression that sometimes caused
incorrect syntax highlighting when non-breaking spaces/typographic
hyphens are present in the text."
tickets: [1321317]
- title: "Fix a regression that broke the compare books tool
when used outside the book editor."
tickets: [1321975]
- title: "Get Books: Update the Woblink plugin to handle changes
to the Woblink website"
- title: "DOCX Input: Workaround buggy version of Microsoft
Word converting newlines in the document summary into _x000d_.
They are now ignored when reading metadata from docx files."
tickets: [1321343]
- title: "Edit book: Fix Check Book failing if a binary file
such as an image or font is mislabelled in the OPF as being a
text file."
tickets: [1320977]
- title: "OS X Build: Fix a bug that was preventing multiple
instances of calibre being used by different user accounts on
the same computer."
tickets: [1320347]
- title: "Edit book: Dont show an error message when trying to
use quick open with no book open"
- title: "Content server: Add .ibooks (note the trailing s) as
an allowed format as well."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix an error when running the Check Book
tool on files with empty <style> tags."
tickets: [1320459]
- title: "Edit Book: A more complete fix for non ascii usernames
on windows when using the export file dialog."
tickets: [1298071]
improved recipes:
- Ars Technica
- Slate
- Instapaper
- The Independent
- 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
