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
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.
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
New Features
Allow opening ebook files and covers in external applications
by simply right clicking on them in the Book Details panel.
Now, you can right click on an ebook format or the cover in
the Book Details panel, and open it with any application
installed on your computer. calibre will automatically present
you with a list of application capable of opening the file.
Simply choose one, or if your particular application is not
auto-detected, you can browse for it manually.
Tag Browser: Make rename and delete for items in the Tag Browser
restrict themselves to the current Virtual Library (if any).
There is also an additional menu entry you can use to rename
and delete across all books while in a Virtual Library.
Conversion: Use a new (written from scratch) implementation of
CSS Level 3 selectors that fixes various bugs in handling of
the more advanced/uncommon CSS selectors such as nth-last-child()
Edit Book: Allow restoring of disabled confirmation prompts in
preferences and add a confirmation when removing saved searches
Edit ToC button: Remember the last used ebook formats
Bug Fixes
E-book viewer: Fix regression that prevented pasting of text
with formatting from the viewer.
Table of Contents Editor: Fix selecting a location inside a
file and then clicking on another file causes the previous
location to be used in the new file.
DOCX Input: Fix incorrect bold font weight being used for
heading styles even if the style definition does not specify
bold.
AZW3 Input: Fix a bug that prevented conversion of AZW3 files
that contained an empty CSS media block.
PDF Output: Fix incorrect rendering of text in elements that
use font-variant:small-caps and also have children.
Get Books: Update Amazon Europe, Empik and CDP store plugins
PDF Output: Fix incorrect conversion of source document that
specify dir='rtl' on the root element.
PDF Output: Ignore unparseable links instead of aborting the
conversion on them.
Fix reading metadata from filenames tester not working for
dates before 1900.
Linux binary install: Fix SSL CA certificates not being detected
on Fedora based distributions
Books list: Fix column alignment incorrectly propagating when
changing libraries
FB2 Input: Do not put a border around images
Fixes for various incompatibilities with (Py)Qt 5.4.1 which is
used by some calibre distro packages on linux
Fix error when running calibredb backup_metadata on a library
that contains book records with no path information
Edit Book: Fix extra search being hidden when removing a saved
search
Fix a regression in 2.20 that prevented some changes to
per-library preferences from being saved
Linux installer: Do not register application/octet-stream as
one of the mimetypes calibre can handle
New news sources
Pando Daily by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Spektrum der Wissenschaft
New Musical Express
The Daily Mirror
- 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]
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
* Add dependency to net/py-netifaces
Changelog:
Release: 0.9.7 [23 Nov, 2012]
New Features
Edit metadata dialog: Show the size of the current book cover in the edit metadata dialog.
Closes tickets: 1079781
Get Books: Allow easy searching by title and author in addition to any keyword, to prevent large numbers of spurious matches.
An option to automatically convert any added book to the current output format, found under Preferences->Adding books
E-book viewer: Allow viewing tables in a separate popup window by right clicking on the table and selecting 'View table'. Useful for reference books that have lots of large tables.
Closes tickets: 1080710
Catalogs: Add the current library name as an available field when generating catalogs in csv/xml format.
Closes tickets: 1078422
Enable colored text in the output from the command line tools on windows
E-book viewer: Add an option to hide the help message when entering full screen mode
E-book viewer: Add an option to always start the viewer in full screen mode
E-book viewer: Add many more controls to the context menu, particularly useful in full screen mode
E-book viewer: Allow easy searching of the selected word or phrase in google via the context menu
Add a new type of FileType plugin, postimport, that runs after a book has been added to the database.
Get Books: Remove Gandalf store, add Publio store. Update the Legimi store plugin for website changes
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Correctly handle values of left and right for the deprecated align attribute of images, mapping them to the CSS float property instead of to text-align.
Closes tickets: 1081094
MOBI Output: When generating joint MOBI6/KF8 files do not set incorrect display CSS values for tables in the KF8 part
Connect to iTunes: Ignore AAC audio files.
Closes tickets: 1081096
E-book viewer: Fix restoring from fullscreen not respecting maximized window state
Fix rows in the device books view sometimes being too high
Catalogs: Fixed a problem occurring when merging comments with a custom field whose type is a list.
Linux binary: Use exec in the wrapper shell scripts that are used to set env vars and launch calibre utilities.
Closes tickets: 1077884
E-book viewer: Fix blank pages after every page when viewing some comic files in paged mode
E-book viewer: When printing, respect the specified page range.
Closes tickets: 1074220
Font subsetting: Parse the GSUB table for glyph substitution rules and do not remove any glyphs that could act as substitutes. Keep zero length glyphs like the glyphs for non printable characters when subsetting TrueType outlines.
Smarten punctuation: Fix self closing script tags causing smarten punctuation to fail
New news sources
Various Czech and Hungarian news sources by bubak
Various Polish recipes by Artur Stachecki
Buchreport by a.peter
Red Voltaire by atordo
Autosport by Mr Stefan
House News by Eddie Lau
Improved news sources
Arguments and facts
Business Standard
The New Yorker
Release: 0.9.6 [10 Nov, 2012]
New Features
Experimental support for subsetting fonts
Subsetting a font means reducing the font to contain only the glyphs for the text actually present in the book. This can easily halve the size of the font. calibre can now do this for all embedded fonts during a conversion. Turn it on via the 'Subset all embedded fonts' option under the Look & Feel section of the conversion dialog. calibre can subset both TrueType and OpenType fonts. Note that this code is very new and likely has bugs, so please check the output if you turn on subsetting. The conversion log will have info about the subsetting operations.
EPUB Input: Try to workaround EPUBs that have missing or damaged ZIP central directories. calibre should now be able to read/convert such an EPUB file, provided it does not suffer from further corruption.
Allow using identifiers in save to disk templates.
Closes tickets: 1074623
calibredb: Add an option to not notify the GUI
Catalogs: Fix long tags causing catalog generation to fail on windows. Add the ability to cross-reference authors, i.e. to relist the authors for a book with multiple authors separately.
Closes tickets: 1074931
Edit metadata dialog: Add a clear tags button to remove all tags with a single click
Add search to the font family chooser dialog
Bug Fixes
Windows: Fix a long standing bug in the device eject code that for some reason only manifested in 0.9.5.
Closes tickets: 1075782
Get Books: Fix Amazon stores, Google Books store and libri.de
Kobo driver: More fixes for on device book matching, and list books as being on device even if the Kobo has not yet indexed them. Also some performance improvements.
Closes tickets: 1069617
EPUB Output: Remove duplicate id and name attributes to eliminate pointless noise from the various epub check utilities
Ask for confirmation before removing plugins
Fix bulk convert queueing dialog becoming very long if any of the books have a very long title.
Closes tickets: 1076191
Fix deleting custom column tags like data from the Tag browser not updating the last modified timestamp for affected books
Closes tickets: 1075476
When updating a previously broken plugin, do not show an error message because the previous version of the plugin cannot be loaded
Fix regression that broke the Template Editor
New news sources
Various Polish news sources by Artur Stachecki
Improved news sources
Various updated Polish recipes
London Review of Books
Yemen Times
Release: 0.9.5 [02 Nov, 2012]
New Features
Font embedding: Add support for the CSS 3 Fonts module, which means you can embed font families that have more that the usual four faces, with the full set of font-stretch and font-weight variations. Of course, whether the fonts actually show up on a reader will depend on the readers' support for CSS 3.
Sharing by email: Allow specifying an 'alias' or friendly name by which to identify each email recipient.
Closes tickets: 1069076
Embedding fonts: Allow adding ttf/otf font files to calibre directly to be used for embedding. That way the fonts do not have to be installed system wide. You can add a font to calibre via the 'Add fonts' button in the font chooser dialog for embedding fonts.
E-book viewer: Add the ability to rotate images to the popup image viewer.
Closes tickets: 1073513
Generate cover: Speedup searching the system for a font that can render special characters
A new custom font scanner to locate all fonts on the system. Faster and less crash prone that fontconfig/freetype
Font family chooser: Show the faces available for a family when clicking on the family
Bug Fixes
Get Books: Fix eHarlequin and Kobo stores.
Closes tickets: 1072702
Kobo driver: Fix a bug that could cause the on device book matching to fail in certain circumstances.
Closes tickets: 1072437
Kobo driver: When using a SD card do not delete shelves that contain on books on the card (there might be books in the shelf in the main memory).
Closes tickets: 1073792
Workaround for bug in the windows API CreateHardLink function that breaks using calibre libraries on some networked filesystems.
Template editor: Use dummy metadata instead of blank/unknown values
Windows: abort setting of title/author if any of the books' files are in use. Results in less surprising behavior than before, when the title/author would be changed, but the on disk location would not.
New news sources
Pravda in english, italian and portuguese by Darko Miletic
Delco Times by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources
Financial Times UK
Science AAAS
The Atlantic
Release: 0.9.4 [26 Oct, 2012]
New Features
Conversion: Add an option to embed a font family into the book.
The embedded font is used as the base font for all text that does not specify its own font family in the input document. Works only with output formats that support font embedding, principally EPUB/AZW3. Option is found under Look & Feel in the conversion dialog. You can ensure that the font is used for all text, regardless of the input document's styles by filtering out font family styles via the Filter Style Information option in the Conversion dialog.
When changing the title/author of a book, use hard links instead of copying the books' files, for a large speedup. Only works on filesystems that support hardlinks.
Linux installer: Resume interrupted downloads and verify the SHA-512 signature of the downloaded file before installing it.
Bug Fixes
Windows: Check if any of the files of a book are in use before changing the title/author, this prevents the creation of duplicate files if one of the files is open in another program
Kobo driver: Fix the ondevice status for some books getting lost.
Closes tickets: 1069403
Catalogs: Fix regression that broke use of prefix rules.
Closes tickets: 1070086
Tag Browser: Fix sorting incorrect for accented letters
Closes tickets: 1069835
Make the bundled Liberation fonts available on all platforms for embedding
Use mimetype for fonts from the EPUB 3 specification
Get Books: Handle website change that broke the SONY Store plugin
Generate cover: If the default font cannot render characters in the metadata (for example for east asian languages) try to automatically find a font on the system that is capable of rendering the characters
Fix regression that broke certain types of CSS selectors.
Closes tickets: 1068937
Use font-weight:bold instead of font-weight:bolder for the <b> and <strong> tags as ADE cant handle bolder when embedded fonts are used
New news sources
Yazihane by A Erdogan
Improved news sources
New York Post
PC World
TIME Magazine
Associated Press
Release: 0.9.3 [19 Oct, 2012]
New Features
Conversion: Add support for CSS 3 selectors by switching to the new cssselect module
Drivers for the WayteQ xBook and the Topwise Android tablet
Closes tickets: 1066083, 1067105
Add an output profile for the Kindle PaperWhite
Kobo driver: Improve performance when a large number of shelves are created on the device.
Closes tickets: 1066633
Catalogs: Put catalog sections at top level of ToC for EPUB/AZW3 catalogs.
Adding books: When duplicates are found, show the list of possible duplicates in calibre with title and author.
Bug Fixes
KF8 Input: Fix conversion/viewing of KF8 files generated with the unreleased? kindlegen 2.7.
Closes tickets: 1067310
Kindle driver: Increase the size of the cover thumbnails sent by calibre to the device. This fixes the problem of cover thumbnails not showing up on the PaperWhite
MTP driver: Fix sorting on the title column of the device view.
Closes tickets: 1067562
Catalogs: Fix regression that caused authors and titles to be be incorrectly listed under symbols on OSX < 10.8.
Catalogs: Fix error when generating catalog in non English locale and the user has specified a prefix rule using a Yes/no column.
Closes tickets: 1065452
E-book viewer: Remove the reload entry from the context menu as it is not supported in paged mode.
Closes tickets: 1065615
New news sources
Various Polish news sources by fenuks
Improved news sources
Richmond Times Dispatch
Various Polish news sources
Aksiyon dergisi
Spektrum der Wissenschaft
Zeit Online
Baltimore Sun
LWN Weekly
The Sun
Release: 0.9.2 [11 Oct, 2012]
New Features
Wireless driver: Speed up deleting of multiple books
E-book viewer: Add options to hide the scrollbar and show reading position in full screen mode.
Closes tickets: 1047450
News download: Add a field to allow recipe authors to tell calibre to remove duplicate articles that a re present in more than one section from the download.
Metadata download: Turn off the use of the published date for the earliest edition a book as the published date. The earliest edition was identified via worldcat.org, which has rather poor data, leading to the occasional incorrect result. If you want this feature back, you can turn it on again via Preferences->Metadata download.
Bug Fixes
ODT Input: More workarounds for the image positioning markup produced by newer versions of LibreOffice.
Closes tickets: 1063207
Metadata download dialog: Fix selected cover being changed when covers are re-sorted after download completes
MTP driver: Ignore errors when getting the driveinfo.calibre file from the device and simply regenerate it
E-book viewer: Use the system locale settings to display the 24/12 hour clock in full screen mode
Closes tickets: 1063209
Content Server: Make OPDS initial page respect the fields to display tweak
Fix regression that caused calibre to not use OPF files when adding books recursively from directories with multiple books per directory
KF8 Output: Fix handling of input documents that have URL unsafe characters in the file names of their images.
Closes tickets: 1062477
Fix enumeration type custom column not being merged.
Closes tickets: 1061602
New news sources
PVP Online, Mobile Nations, The Verge and Television Without Pity by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources
Pubblico Giornale
Der Spiegel
Shortlist
FHM UK
Countryfile
Cosmo UK
The Sun UK
NME
Release: 0.9.1 [05 Oct, 2012]
New Features
New driver for the Kobo Touch version 2.0+ firmware and Kobo Glo and Mini. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192863 for details
Closes tickets: 1024983, 1059585
Driver for Motorola Defy XT
Closes tickets: 1061903
Wireless driver: Always use automatic metadata management, regardless of the setting in Preferences->Devices
Sending books by email: Allow sending to multiple email addresses at once separated by commas.
Closes tickets: 1052332
KF8 Output: Add the css passed in through the extra css conversion option to the generated inline ToC.
Closes tickets: 1052343
Windows: No longer use fontconfig to scan the system for available fonts. Instead use the Windows API. Should fix crashes/instability caused by fonts that fontconfig cannot handle
When editing a blank (undefined) published date in the edit metadata dialog, have the calendar popup jump to the current date instead of the date 1-1-101
Closes tickets: 1058531
FB2 Input: Add support for th, code and strikethrough tags and also rowspan, colspan and align attributes.
Closes tickets: 1059351, 1058591
Bug Fixes
Get Books: Update Woblink
Position the next selected book better after deleting multiple books from the library view
Closes tickets: 1051135
Allow using the Enter key to select the cover in the metadata download dialog
Closes tickets: 1060472
PDF Output: Handle embedded fonts better on linux
HTML Input: Guess mimetype correctly for references to image files without file extensions.
Closes tickets: 1059349
Catalog generation: Workaround for bug in the ICU library on older OS X systems that caused catalog generation to fail when certain non-ascii characters are present in the metadata.
Closes tickets: 1057862
Wireless driver: Do not abort if BonJour registration fails, as we can still use broadcast to connect
KF8 Output: Fix invalid output being generated for some files with very large blocks of contiguous non-ascii text
New news sources
IOL News and The New Age by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
FC Knudde
Stamgaten
Foreign Policy
Washington Post
Twitch Films
Nature News
Release: 0.9.0 [28 Sep, 2012]
New Features
For a summary of the major changes in calibre between 0.8 and 0.9, see http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/nine
Bug Fixes
KF8 Output: Fix handling of & < and > entities in the text. They were sometimes being incorrectly unescaped.
Calibre portable: Add a manifest to the portable installer exe to prevent the application compatibility wizard from warning about a possible failed installation on windows 7. Also fixes installer requiring admin privileges on some computers
Closes tickets: 1057042
EPUB metadata: Fix book producer not being set when updating EPUB metadata
EPUB metadata: Fix incorrect namespace on the role attribute of <dc:creator> tags when updating the metadata in EPUB
Get Books: Fix incorrect price retrieval from ebooks.com.
Closes tickets: 1055785
MTP windows driver: Fix main memory and storage card sometimes swapped
Closes tickets: 1055129
PDF Output: On windows, remove any embedded fonts before generating the PDF as on windows, Qt generates image based PDFs when embedded fonts are present.
Closes tickets: 1053906
MTP windows driver: Do not try to connect to unsuitable devices such as the iPhone.
Closes tickets: 1054562
KF8 Input: Handle files that use non ascii paths/anchor names in the guide entries.
Closes tickets: 1053751
New news sources
Pubblico Giornale by iusvar
Improved news sources
Monitor Online
El Pais
Chronicle of Higher Education
Baltimore Sun
Mac World
Maximum PC
Financial Times UK
Release: 0.8.70 [21 Sep, 2012]
New Features
Support for connecting MTP (non disk based) devices via USB, such as the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD (Windows Vista and newer and Linux only)
calibre can now detect and connect to devices that do not present themselves as USB disks to the operating system. Newer Android devices all use the 'MTP' protocol when connected via USB. calibre now supports devices using this protocol on both Windows (Vista and newer) and Linux.
Calibre Portable: Create a new installer that does not require manually unzipping the Calibre Portable folder. Instead just run the installer and point it to the location you want to install to.
Calibre Portable: Add support for multiple libraries created inside the 'Calibre Portable' folder.
In the main book list when editing a blank published date, use a default value of Jan 2000 so that changing the date it easier
Template language: Add function approximate_formats() to get list of formats saved in the db for a book as opposed to the formats that actually exist on disk
Template language: Add a couple of new functions to get the path to individual book formats and the calibre library as a whole
Drivers for HTC Flyer and Trekstor 4ink
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Do not error out when tags have unparseable color attributes.
Closes tickets: 1053583
AZW3 Output: Do not error out if the input document contains embedded fonts of less than 1040 bytes.
Closes tickets: 1052892
Catalogs: Fix AZW3 output not properly indexed
Get Books: Remove Beam Books due to lack of response to issues with the store.
Windows: Ignore drives A: and B: when scanning for the drives belonging to a device
Kindle driver: Fix generation of apnx files for newer kindle firmware.
News download: If the output format is set to azw3, generate periodicals in mobi format as amazon does not support azw3 periodicals.
New news sources
Various Hungarian recipes by laca
NSFW Corp by Darko Miletic.
FC Knudde and Stamgasten by drMerry
Improved news sources
Indian Express
Anadtech
London Review of Books (subscrption version)
Livemint
xkcd
Doghouse Diaries
pkgsrc changes:
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Add a patch from Neil Booth to fix PLIST.
Should fix part of pkg/46331.
Upstream changes:
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Way too long CHANGELOG to list here.
Highlights from upstream are:
E-book viewer: A whole new full screen mode. [0.8.44]
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Closes tickets: 959830 [External link]
The new mode has no toolbars to distract from the text and the ability to set
the width of the column of text via Preferences in the ebook viewer. Click the
Fullscreen button on the toolbar in the viewer to enter fullscreen mode (or
press the F11 or Ctrl+Shit+F keys)
Support for reading Amazon's new KF8 format [0.8.42]
----------------------------------------------------
calibre can now both view and convert MOBI files that contain Amazon's new KF8
(Kindle Fire) format
Complete changelog is here: http://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
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Upstream changes:
0.8.39
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New Features
- Auto-adding: Add an option to check for duplicates when auto adding.
- Content server: Export a second record via mDNS that points to the
full OPDS feed in addition to the one pointing to the Stanza feed.
The new record is of type _calibre._tcp.
- Allow specifying a set of categories that are not partitioned even
if they contain a large number of items in the Tag Browser. Preference
is available under Look & Feel->Tag Browser
- Allow setting a URL prefix for the content server that run embedded in the
calibre GUI as well.
- Allow output of identifiers data in CSV/XML/BiBTeX catalogs
- Driver for Motorola Droid XT910, Nokia E71 and HTC EVO 3D.
- Cut down the time taken to launch worker processes by 40%
- You can now configure the calibre settings for the currently connected
device by right clicking on the device icon in the toolbar, instead of
having to go through Preferences->Plugins
Bug Fixes
- Auto-adding: Do not add incomplete files when files are downloaded
directly into the auto add folder.
- When running multiple delete from device jobs, fix the device view
sometimes marking the wrong books as being deleted, after the first delete
job completes.
- MOBI Input: Handle files that have spurious closing </body> and/or </html>i
tags in their markup.
- RTF Input: Strip out false color specifications, as they cause artifacts
when converted to MOBI
New news sources
- Vancouver Province and Windsor Star by Nick Redding
- Onda Rock by faber1971
- Il Manifesto by Giacomo Lacava
Improved news sources
- Updated Postmedia publications
- Foreign Affairs
- Read It Later
- Microwave Journal
- taggeschau.de
0.8.38
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New Features
- Implement the ability to automatically add books to calibre from a
specified folder.
- calibre can now watch a folder on your computer and instantly add any
files you put there to the calibre library as new books. You can tell
calibre which folder to watch via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding.
- Conversion: When automatically inserting page breaks, do not put a page
break before a <h1> or <h2> tag if it is immediately preceded by another
<h1> or <h2> tag.
- Driver for EZReader T730 and Point-of-View PlayTab Pro
Bug Fixes
- Fix device entry not visible in menubar even when it has been added\
via Preferences->Toolbars.
- Fix metadata plugboards not applied when auto sending news by email
- Fix regression in 0.8.34 that broke recipes that used skip_ad_pages()
but not get_browser().
- Restore device support on FreeBSD, by using HAL
- Get books: Show no more than 10 results from the Gandalf store
- Content server: Fix metadata not being updated when sending for some
MOBI files.
- Heuristic processing: Fix the italicize common patterns algorithm
breaking on some HTML markup.
- When trying to find an ebook inside a zip file, do not fail if the zip
file itself contains other zip files.
- EPUB Input: Handle EPUBs with duplicate entries in the manifest.
- MOBI Input: Handle files that have extra </html> tags sprinkled through
out their markup.
New news sources
- Strange Horizons by Jim DeVona
- Telegraph India and Live Mint by Krittika Goyal
- High Country News by Armin Geller
- Countryfile by Dave Asbury
- Liberation (subscription version) by Remi Vanicat
- Various Italian news sources by faber1971
Improved news sources
- Metro Nieuws NL
- FHM UK
0.8.37
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New Features
- Allow calibre to be run simultaneously in two different user accounts on
windows.
- Driver for Motorola Photon and Point of View PlayTab
- Add a checkbox to preferences->plugins to show only user installed plugins
- Add a restart calibre button to the warning dialog that pops up after
changing some preference that requires a restart
Bug Fixes
- Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the remove format from book
function to only delete the entry from the database and not delete the
actual file from the disk
- Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not
properly refresh the format information in the GUI
- E-book viewer: Preserve the current position more accurately when
changing font size/other preferences.
- Conversion pipeline: Fix items in the <guide> that refer to files with
URL unsafe filenames being ignored.
- Fix calibre not running on linux systems that set LANG to an empty string
- On first run of calibre, ensure the columns are sized appropriately
- MOBI Output: Do not collapse whitespace when setting the comments metadata
in newly created MOBI files
- HTML Input: Fix handling of files with ä characters in their filenames.
- Fix the sort on startup tweak ignoring more than three levels
- Edit metadata dialog: Fix a bug that broke adding of a file to the book
that calibre did not previously know about in the books directory while
simultaneously changing the author or title of the book.
New news sources
- Mumbai Mirror by Krittika Goyal
- Real Clear by TMcN
- Gazeta Wyborcza by ravcio
- The Daily News Egypt and al masry al youm by Omm Mishmishah
- Klip.me by Ken Sun
Improved news sources
- People's Daily
- Plus Info
- grantland.com
- Eret es irodalom
- Sueddeutsche.de
Based on PR pkg/45493 from Rhialto. Additional cleanup by myself.
pkgsrc changes:
- Fix interpreter paths
- Set LICENSE
- Rely on pkgsrc py-cherrypy and py-pdf instead of the ones bundled within
Calibre tarball.
- Properly install .desktop and mimetypes
- Install all recipes.
- Install additional documentation
Upstream changes:
our package was 22 versions behind.
Many, many, many new features, bug fixes and drivers to support new
ebooks readers.
Complete changelog is installed in ${PREFIX}/share/doc/calibre.
calibre is a ebook library management application. Its features are
divided into the following categories:
* Library Management
* Format conversion (all major ebook formats can be converted from)
* Syncing to ebook reader devices
* Fetching news from the web and converting it into ebook form
* Viewing many different ebook formats
* Giving you access to your book collection over the internet using
just a browser
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