2.54.0
New Features
Edit metadata in bulk dialog: Allow configuring the types of generated covers.
E-book viewer: Make the detection of note boundaries for popup footnotes a little more robust
E-book viewer: Add options to control the amount the mouse wheel and arrow keys scroll by in flow mode
When running the content server do not hide the main calibre window during shutdown until the content server has stopped. Show a shutting down message in the window so that the user knows what is happening.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for empty links
DOCX Input: When the document has a Table of Contents created using the Word Table of Contents tool, keep a reference to it in the metadata. This is useful when converting to old style MOBI and you want to precisely control placement of the ToC.
Bug Fixes
Fix auto-mounting of some types of devices not working on FreeBSD
calibredb add: Fix the --cover option not working if the book being added has its own cover.
E-book viewer: Fix mathematics being typeset at too small a font size on windows
PDF Output: Fix occasional blank pages erroneously inserted in the text (at the end of an internal html file).
Book details panel: Fix url:file:// identifiers not becoming links
Fix fetch news dialog not rendering properly on HiDPI screens
Fix a hard to trigger crash introduced in the previous release when using the conversion dialog
2.53.0
New Features
Edit Book: A new tool to transform book styling using easy to create rules.
Conversion: Allow creating rules to transform styles during conversion, as above. Available in the conversion dialog at 'Look & Feel->Transform style'
Edit metadata dialog: Make the hide toolbars right click menu action persistent. Also fix very large number of custom fields causing the basic metadata tab to not be aligned properly
Portable Installer: Do not ask to launch calibre when running an automated install. Automated installs will now never launch calibre.
Bug Fixes
E-book viewer: Hide list numbers for popup footnotes when the footnotes are use
as the number are likely to be incorrect.
DOCX Input: Ignore the hidden bookmark Word 2010 inserts to enable the go to last edit feature.
Fix keyboard focus lost after merging book records
E-book viewer: Handle
Edit Book: Fix spelling correction suggestions not being shown when using the context menu key with the cursor at the end of the word
- version: 2.52.0
date: 2016-02-26
new features:
- title: "Allow creating rules to ignore files when adding books based on the filename"
description: "Useful when using the auto-add feature or when adding in bulk. Preferences->Adding Books->Rules to filter added files"
- title: "calibredb add: Allow specifying filters to control adding of books from directories"
- title: "E-book viewer: Allow copying the Table of Contents to the clipboard by right clicking on it."
tickets: [1548791]
bug fixes:
- title: "FB2 metadata: Ignore invalid (unidentifiable) cover images."
tickets: [1548417]
- title: "FB2 metadata: Fix error when adding books with non-numeric series numbers."
tickets: [1548405]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix handling of toggle properties such as bold/italic/strikethrough/etc. when specified as document defaults."
tickets: [1548187]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Add support for the q CSS length unit"
improved recipes:
- AsiaOne
- Today Online - Singapore
- Foreign Policy
- Outlook India
- Economic and Political Weekly
- Foreign Affairs
- El Pais
- LA Times
- Al-Ahram
- New York Times Book Review
new recipes:
- title: Al-Masry Alyoum
author: Hassan Williamson
New Features
Add an action to the context menu for the search bar to paste and instantly execute the search.
When adding multiple books from a single directory, added the books in order of the last modified time of the book files.
Bug Fixes
Fix a regression in 2.50 that prevented a small number of devices from being detected on windows
PDF metadata: Workaround for PDF files with corrupted XMP metadata packets, generated by Nitro PDF.
Edit Book Beautify: Do not beautify the insides of heading/p tags even when they are the only child of body
Amazon metadata download: Fix published date not being downloaded from amazon.it
Fix a regression in 2.50 that broke the user created device driver feature on windows
EPUB Input: Fix error when processing EPUB files that uses non-ascii characters for their unique ids.
When reading the cover from comic files, ignore any image files inside __MACOSX/ directories.
Fix calibre on OS X unable to connect to sites that support only TLS >= 1.1. Also update the version of Qt bundled on OS X to 5.5.1
2.50.1
New Features
Change the way that devices are detected on Windows. This fixes device detection problems on some Windows 10 computers
Edit Book: When inserting images, add an option to insert the image as a full page image
DOCX Input: Add support for framed text created by setting the same border style on neighboring paragraphs.
Update PocketBook 650 driver for latest firmware revision
Bug Fixes
DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs with borders being rendered with an empty line inside the borders
ODT Input: Fix fallback PNG images generated by LibreOffice 4.x for SVG images not being ignored
Fix restore library failing on some windows systems with non-ascii library paths
Edit Book: Fix error when merging an empty HTML document or one that contains only text and no tags.
Fix failure to add FB2 files that contain published dates.
Use a private certificate when downloading plugins via HTTPS. This fixes errors on some windows machines that have missing root certificates.
Fix tag editor not working correctly for comma-separated custom columns
Fix existing rating not being removed when using Polish Books or Embed Metadata tools on EPUB files.
2.50
New Features
Change the way that devices are detected on Windows. This fixes device detection problems on some Windows 10 computers
Edit Book: When inserting images, add an option to insert the image as a full page image
DOCX Input: Add support for framed text created by setting the same border style on neighboring paragraphs.
Update PocketBook 650 driver for latest firmware revision
Bug Fixes
DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs with borders being rendered with an empty line inside the borders
ODT Input: Fix fallback PNG images generated by LibreOffice 4.x for SVG images not being ignored
Fix restore library failing on some windows systems with non-ascii library paths
Edit Book: Fix error when merging an empty HTML document or one that contains only text and no tags.
Fix failure to add FB2 files that contain published dates.
Use a private certificate when downloading plugins via HTTPS. This fixes errors on some windows machines that have missing root certificates.
Fix tag editor not working correctly for comma-separated custom columns
Fix existing rating not being removed when using Polish Books or Embed Metadata tools on EPUB files.
New Features
E-book viewer: Add an option to allow only a single book to be viewed at a time. Trying to view a second book will cause it to replace the currently viewed book.
Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware 3.19.5761
Linux build: Update bundled version of Qt to 5.5.1
Bug Fixes
Fix splash screen getting stuck on OSX when restarting calibre in debug mode
Get Books: Update plugins for various Polish language book stores to handle changes to the website
Amazon metadata download: Handle a change in the amazon website that prevented review metadata from being downloaded
Better algorithm for guessing the 'external' network interface that is displayed to the user
Tag Mapper: Do not allow the user to create rules with invalid regular expressions
E-book viewer: Disallow hyphenation in documents that use mathematical typesetting as the hyphenation breaks that typesetting
E-book viewer: Fix some non-ASCII characters not display in embedded MathML.
Download calibre plugins securely using HTTPS
MOBI Output: Try to autofix corrupted PNG images in the input document.
Nook Glowlight Plus: Send files by default to the NOOK/My Files folder.
E-book viewer: Fix failure to view comic files that contain non-ASCII characters int heir internal filenames.
New Features
* Driver for Energy Ereader Screenlight.
* DOCX Input: Add option to have superscripts/subscripts converted
so that they do not affect the line height of the line containing
them.
* New option to hide empty categories in Tag Browser (Preferences->Look
& Feel->Tag Browser)
Bug Fixes
* Image compression: Fix spurious zero byte .bak files being created
when compressing png images inside epub files
* Image compression: Fix bug that could cause zero byte images
files/or file in use errors when compressing images
* Fix some icons not being themeable
* E-book viewer: When using heuristics to detect footnote links
check for vertical-align set to top and bottom as well as sub and
super
* Book details panel: Display data in right-to-left format when
the calibre interface language is set to a right-to-left language
such as Hebrew or Arabic
2.47
New Features
* A new tool to easily export and import all calibre data -- books,
settings and plugins
* Get Books: Add plugins for Amazon Australia and Amazon India.
Also restore the Amazon EU plugins.
Bug Fixes
* PDF Input: Fix conversion of PDF documents that contain ASCII
control codes in their outlines not working.
* Edit book: Fix image compression utilities opening a new console
per invocation on windows
* Image compression: If the compression tools return a zero byte
image ignore it and use the original image
* Fix a regression that caused book titles in the Book Details
panel to become clickable
2.46
New Features
PDF Input: Add support for PDF outlines (bookmarks), if present, they are used as the metadata Table of Contents.
Book polishing: Add tool to losslessly compress images in the book in order to reduce its filesize, without affecting image quality
Edit Book: Add a new tool to compress images in the book losslessly, accessed from the Tools menu
Kobo driver: add support for new Kobo firmware
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow entering fractional numbers into the series number start with control.
Speed up moving libraries by using hardlinks instead of file copies when moving to a location on the same filesystem
Get Books: Disable the Amazon EU stores, at Amazon's request
Bug Fixes
Fix moving libraries via calibre leaving behind a copy of the metadata_db_prefs_backup.json file in the original library folder
MOBI Input: Warn about corrupted trailing data entries, instead of aborting. Getting some, even partially corrupted text is better than no text.
Book details: Fix single value custom text column not clickable.
Saving to disk: Fix custom date column being rendered in GMT instead of the local time zone when used in a save to disk template.
New Features
Cover browser: Allow customizing the text that appears under the covers with a template in Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover browser
When sending books without a cover to the device, generate a cover with book metadata instead of using the blank book icon
Preferenes->Add your own columns: Show more information about existing columns
Bug Fixes
PDF Output: Handle input documents with fonts that do not have either postscript or full name information.
DOCX Input: Handle numbering styles that use non-decimal number formats and custom templates.
Allow restoring of corrupted library to work even if the metadata.db file is missing from the library folder
Bulk metadata dialog: Fix renaming a custom series via search and replace causing the series index to be reset to 1.
Bulk metadata dialog: Fix search and replace not working for text like custom columns if the column contains only a single value.
Content server: Fix next and previous links not working in the mobile view when using a search query that includes url unsafe characters.
Update Amazon metadata download plugin to handle amazon.com website change that was preventing any metadata from being downloaded
Edit Book: Fix error when trying to add words to user dictionary for a book with a language that has no dictionary available.
Tag browser: Fix various bugs in how grouped search terms are displayed. Also fix counts and average rating for items in user categories
When using copy to library also create missing composite columns in the destination library.
2.44.1
Bug Fixes
Update the version of libpng bundled with calibre to fix a security vulnerability in libpng
See https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8126 for details on the vulnerability
2.44
New Features
Allow setting the cover for a book from one of the book's formats by right clicking on the format in the Book details panel.
Closes tickets: 1515411
Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog.
Closes tickets: 1515407
Edit Book: When inserting an image into the current document, add a button to paste the image from the clipboard
Edit Book: Change the suggested prefix for bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.
Closes tickets: 1514468
On Linux, use the system tray icon from the system theme, if available
Bug Fixes
Fix for error when connecting to some Android phones/tablets that have an SD card on OS X and Linux
Linux build: Fix problem with pointing hand mouse cursor not using the system theme on some Linux systems
Fix the device view state not being saved when a connected device is ejected/disconnected
Edit Book: Fix saving fails if the original file is deleted during editing session
Closes tickets: 1513849
E-book viewer: When doing a search do not match text in comments, attributes and inappropriate tags, such as <script> and <style>
Improved news sources
Gamasutra
2.43
New Features
Edit Book: Add a 'Smart Comment' tool to easily comment/uncomment
text
Tag mapper: Add new rule types to upper-case, lower-case or capitalize
tags
Markdown input: Allow the 'extra' convenience extension as a shortcut
for enabling multiple other extensions. Also add the Attribute List
and Admonition extensions. Finally, update the markdown library
used by calibre
Bug Fixes
Amazon metadata download: Fix for website change at amazon.com that
prevented ratings from being downloaded.
Tag mapper: Prevent cycles in the replacement rules from causing
the tag mapper to hang
Do not fail on windows systems where the system function to get
the users home folder fails
E-book viewer: Set the foreground color as well as the background
color for the reference mode popup. Makes it legible even when the
user specifies a different color theme for the viewer.
2.42
New Features
Driver for the new NookGlowlight Plus. This device only allows
sending of files inside the NOOK folder, so calibre now follows
that limitation.
When converting AZW4 files to PDF, skip the conversion and simply
unwrap the PDF file already embedded inside the AZW4 file.
Metadata download review dialog: Add an option to mark rejected
books in the main book list after the review is completed.
Edit Book: Spell check dialog: Add a button to undo the last spelling
change
Bug Fixes
Edit metadata dialog: When downloading metadata with download of
authors turned off, do not regenerate the author sort field after
the download.
Fix a regression that broke the heuristic used to detect cover
images in some EPUB files that do not specify their cover metadata.
Edit Book File List: Fix pre-selection of filename when renaming
a file in the root
Tag mapper: Fix bug when replacement tag has comma in it and the
replacement rule is not the last rule
2.41
New Features
Edit Book: Allow editing an unzipped EPUB (a folder) as a book
Edit Book: Allow easily removing items from the popup menu for
the 'Insert tag' button
Make Tag Browser more useable with keyboard shortcuts. Configure
the keyboard shortcuts in Preferences->Keyboard->Tag Browser
ToC editor: Add context menu item to change selected entries
to upper case
Bug Fixes
Edit Book: Preview panel: Render in XHTML mode. Fixes svg
elements using a global svg namespace not rendering.
Tag Browser: Fix clicking on first-letter groups for series
not working
DOCX Output: Ignore corrupted images in the input instead of
erroring out on them.
E-book viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle table of contents
not working when ToC window is made floating.
Allow ebook-metadata to work with read-only files when no
options are specified to change metadata.
Tag mapper: When the replacement tag contains commas, create
multiple tags instead of replacing the comma with a semi-colon.
HTMLZ Output: Set the HTML
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package colorls: missing distfile ls.tar.gz
Package molden: missing distfile molden-4.6/molden4.6.tar.gz
Package softmaker-office-demo: missing distfile ofl06trial.tgz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
New Features
A new tool to apply Tag mapper rules to existing books in the
library. To use it, go to Preferences->Toolbars and add the
tool to the toolbar.
Kindle driver: Detect books in Amazon's new KFX format present
on e-ink kindles.
Note that this only detects KFX books and allows you to delete
them. You cannot copy them to your calibre library. Doing so
would be pointless anyway, as KFX books are specialised for
individual devices. Instead go to your 'Manage my content' page
an amazon.com and download them from there -- this will give
you a regular azw3 file you can add to calibre.
Bug Fixes
TXT Output: Do not fail when input contains HTML comments with
double hyphens in the comment text.
E-book polishing: Show a confirmation if the user selects both
the add and remove jacket actions.
Edit Book: Fix order of checkboxes in filter style information
tool is random
PDB Input: Ingore malformed metadata records.
Closes tickets: 1499878
Revert change in previous release to workaround broken xdg-open
on linux. Apparently xdg-open is so badly broken that working
around it is not possible.
Closes tickets: 1500226
ZIP Output: Fix system encoding being used instead of UTF-8
for html files.
Closes tickets: 1499514
Improved news sources
The Philosopher's Magazine
Harper's Magazine
Ambito
Perfil
Telam
Infobae.com
La Nacion
Clarin
New Features
* Implement tag mapping to automatically filter/transform tags when
adding books or downloading metadata
* Kobo driver: Support for newly firmware version 3.18
* Edit Book: Add a setting to control icon size for the toolbars
(Preferences->Toolbars)
Bug Fixes
* Edit Book: Check Book: Fix automatic correction of missing unique
id sometimes not working
* Edit Book: Fix (hopefully) View->Browse images in books sometimes
not showing changed images
* CBZ metadata: Do not fail to read metadata if the volume is not a valid number.
* Content server: Fix error in /mobile page if one of the books
has metadata with ascii control codes in it.
* Linux: Workaround for systems with broken xdg-open implementations
that do not unquote urls before passing them to applications
* Get Books: Update cdp.pl store for website changes
* HTMLZ Output: Fix HTML files being created with system encoding
instead of UTF-8.
New Features
* Add support for Kobo Touch 2
* Edit Book: Add a tool to check external links (links pointing to
websites). Can be accessed via Tools->Check external links
* Edit Book: Add an option to turn off drag and drop editing of
text (Preferences->Editor)
* Two new icon themes: Primo+ and Black Edition (Preferences->Look
& Feel->Change icon theme)
Bug Fixes
* Copy to Library: Fix author sort/link values not being copied
when copying a book with an author not present in the destination
library.
* When inserting metadata jackets do not set media for the stylesheet.
This prevented the stylesheet from working with some reader devices.
* Copy to library: Fix conversion options not being copied when
copying books between libraries
tures
Driver for the Lark Freebook reader device
A redesigned busy spinner -- why should icons get all the love?
When merging book records, show more information about the
target book record.
A new icon theme 'Dark Blue' (Preferences->Look & Feel->Change
icon theme)
Add a check box to control copying ebook files when duplicating
book records via the Add Empty Book dialog
Bug Fixes
Edit Book: Check Book: Fix automatic fixing of unsafe ids not
working if the file containing the unsafe also needs to be
fixed for an unsafe filename.
E-book viewer: Informative error message for themes button when
no themes have been created
Fix a regression that caused the library switch entries at the
bottom of the library menu to not work when there are many
libraries.
Get Books: Update Amazon EU store plugins for website changes
New Features
Icon themes: Change the calibre icons easily via icon themes
When adding empty books to the library also allow creating duplicates
of the current book, with all metadata copied. To use right click
the Add Books button and select 'Add Empty Books'
Driver for the Unusual Sapiens V2 and Adlibris Letto readers.
Kobo driver: Add support for firmware 3.17.3
E-book viewer: Add a command line option to open the previously
read book when starting up.
Edit Book: Live CSS: Allow copying of CSS rules by right clicking
on the Live CSS panel.
Linux installer: Install application and mimetype icons in multiple
sizes
Bug Fixes
Amazon metadata download: Support for yet another variant of amazon
cover image markup
E-book viewer: Fix --open-at sometimes giving inaccurate results
(depends on speed of book loading)
EPUB Metadata: Add workaround for bug in PocketBook firmware which
causes it to fail to read series metadata if the series number is
declared before the series.
Fix user defined template functions leaking from one library to
another when switching libraries/using copy to library.
Fix a regression in the previous release that could cause the marked
books icon to be incorrectly rendered next to the row number
Edit Book: Check Book: Fix incorrect links that consist only of an
anchor and no filename not being detected.
AZW3 Output: Fix large tables (with many columns) not rendering
correctly on Kindles.
- version: 2.35.0
date: 2015-08-14
new features:
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware version
3.17"
- title: "E-book viewer: Allow setting the number of pages per
screen separately for portrait and landscape modes."
bug fixes:
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix a regression in the previous release
that broke conversion of some documents that specify vertical
alignment in absolute units"
- title: "Book list: Fix the current row number being partially
cutoff on some windows 10 machines."
- title: "Fix 'stopping content server' message popping up
repeatedly even when it is closed while the content server has
not fully stopped"
- title: "Conversion: Fix error when converting a file that
uses media queries with comments in the media selector."
improved recipes:
- American Spectator
- South China Morning Post
new recipes:
- title: 3D News and iXBT.com
author: bugmen00t
- version: 2.34.0
date: 2015-08-07
new features:
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Add support for amazon.nl.
To use it go to Preferences->Metadata download and configure
the amazon plugin to use Netherlands as the source."
- title: "Catalogs: Add an option to not add the generated
catalog to the library."
- title: "E-book viewer: Improve performance of hyphenation
(by updating the version of the hyphenation library it uses)"
bug fixes:
- title: "DOCX Input: Add support for text whose vertical
position is adjusted by offsets from the baseline"
- title: "DOCX Output: Handle length and percentage values for
vertical-align in the input document."
- title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Fix automatic correction of
invalid ids not updating the idrefs in the spine for ids in
the manifest of the OPF file."
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix printing to PDF could result in
filenames with characters not supported by windows"
- title: "E-book viewer: Also fix a bug in the hyphenation
algorithm that could cause the word 'undefined' to be mangled
during hyphenation."
- title: "ODT Input: Fix custom styles with a dot in their name
not being inherited."
improved recipes:
- Daily Express
- The New Yorker
- XKCD
- Wired Magazine
- Wired UK
- version: 2.33.0
date: 2015-07-24
new features:
- title: "Driver for SONY DPT-S1."
- title: "Edit Book: When showing suggestions for mis-spelled
words, also show suggestions from user created word lists"
- title: 'Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for "invalid" ids'
bug fixes:
- title: "Conversion: Ignore stylesheets linked via media
queries that use device specific features."
- title: "Fix covers not being read from some TXTZ files."
- title: "ODT Input: Add support for numbered lists that do
not start numbering at 1."
improved recipes:
- msnbc.com
- Houston Chronicle
- version: 2.32.1
date: 2015-07-17
new features:
- title: "E-book viewer: Automatically save the current reading
position every ten seconds. Prevents loss of reading position
on crash/forced shutdown."
- title: "Edit Book: Check Book: Add checks for missing OPF
version and toc references and for text placed directly inside
the <body> tag"
- title: "calibredb: Add a new search sub-command that can be
used to generate a list of book ids from a search expression"
- title: "Tag Editor: Place the keyboard focus on the last
edited field."
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: When clicking Next and Previous
preserve the current tab of the edit comments widget."
- title: "Linux: Various fixes to make calibre work when compiled
against the latest versions of Qt and PyQt"
- title: "Edit Book: Allow drag and drop of files onto dock
icon on OS X"
bug fixes:
- title: "There was a regression in 2.32.0 that caused conversion
to PDF to fail, the fix for this was released in 2.32.1"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous
release that caused the maximum text width setting in full
screen mode to be ignored when switching from normal to full
screen."
- title: "Fix error in template dialog when using {id} in send
to device preferences."
- title: "Edit Book/Book polishing: Fix EPUB books with opf
files that use a non-default namespace for the OPF namespace
being corrupted."
- title: "OS X: Workaround for Qt 5 regression that causes any
errors during startup to be hidden behind the splash screen."
- title: "Conversion: Fix incorrect relative URLs being generated
when an HTML or CSS file is placed higher in the folder hierarchy
than the opf file."
- title: "FB2 Output: Fix error when using the sectionize with
toc option and the input documents Table of Contents contains
multiple items pointing to the same HTML file."
- title: "Conversion: Fix error when input document contains
a font size exactly one point away from the base size."
- title: "Device drivers: Handle devices with undecodeable
filenames in their filesystem. Simply ignore those files."
- title: "Fix Cmd+Left/Right keyboard shortcut not working when
editing items in the book list on OS X."
- title: "Fix corrupted text in the jobs list on some non-English
windows installs"
- title: "Edit Book: Workaround for a Qt regression that caused
'See what changed' after a search and replace on OS X causing
the application to become unresponsive."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix smarten punctuation not working for
books with non-ascii characters in internal file names on OS
X"
improved recipes:
- Harvard Business Review
- Psychology Today
- NRC Handelsblad
- Entrepeneur Magazine
- 20 minutes
- Economia
- Accountancy Age
- Jakarta Post
- Foreign Affairs
- Spectator Magazine
- Daily Express
- The Onion AV Club
- Metro UK
new recipes:
- title: Slate Star Codex
author: Ned Letcher
- title: Hurriyet
author: Adrian Tennessee
- version: 2.31.0
date: 2015-06-19
new features:
- title: "E-book viewer: Make the search engine used for
searching for selected text configurable (in the Miscellaneous
section of the viewer preferences)"
bug fixes:
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix dragging to select text with the
mouse causing the page to slide sideways in paged mode, if the
mouse leaves the text area."
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix transitioning between full screen
mode and normal mode sometimes causing current position to not
be preserved."
- title: "AZW3 Input: Ignore incorrect text encoding (incorrectly
encoded bytes are now replaced by placeholders) instead of
erroring out."
- title: "Get Books: Update Legimi and CDP store plugins for
website changes"
- title: "Fix Cybook Nolimbook not being detected in linux and
OS X."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix internal hyperlinks being ignored
when they point to a HTML file whose <body> element has an id."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix groups in replace template being
interpreted backwards when search direction is up"
- title: "Searching: When search as you type is active, do not
change automatically change focus to the book list when searching,
unless the user presses Enter."
- title: "Font subsetting: Fix subsetting removing some needed
ligatures when subsetting some Arabic fonts"
- title: "Prevent errors when testing email sending even if
stderr on the host machine is broken"
improved recipes:
- Baltimore Sun
- El Mercurio Chile
- Sydney Morning Herald
new recipes:
- title: Various Ukranian news sources
author: rpalyvoda
- version: 2.30.0
date: 2015-06-05
new features:
- title: "An option to auto-convert a book on adding even if
it is already in the output format (Preferences->Adding Books)."
- title: "E-book viewer: If there are entries in the Table of
Contents that are long enough to be truncated, display the full
text in a popup menu when the mouse hovers over the item."
- title: "News download: Add support for turning off SSL
certificate verification in individual recipes"
- title: "Kobo driver: Support for upcoming firmware version
3.16"
bug fixes:
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix aspect ratio of images being distorted
when the input document specifies image width but not height
or vice-versa."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix extra page breaks being inserted in
some situations."
- title: "LIT Input: Fix smarten punctuation not working for
text (as opposed to HTML) based LIT files."
- title: "EPUB metadata: Fix extraction of cover image from
EPUB 3 files that do not use EPUB 2 backward compatible markup
and that have incorrect cover page markup as well."
- title: "Book details panel: On windows use only \\ as a path
separator when copying file paths"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix Saved searches panel not working well
with very long search/replace expressions"
- title: "OS X: Fix changing preferences causing 'Email to
selected recipients...' appearing multiple times in the
Connect/Share menu."
- version: 2.29.0
date: 2015-05-29
new features:
- title: "Allow opening the full Tag Editor dialog directly
from the book list by holding down the Shift key while starting
an edit of a tag-like field. For example, click on the tags
field for a book and press Shift-F2"
- title: "Tag Browser: Allow undoing the deletion of items in
the Manage categories window"
- title: "calibredb add: Allow setting arbitrary identifiers,
not just ISBN."
- title: "Add a 'Retry' button to the news download failed
error message."
bug fixes:
- title: "DOCX Output: Detect the common idiom of placing
centered images as inline images inside a containing centered
block and render the resulting image as a floating centered
image in the DOCX file."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix incorrect handling of bold/italic
in paragraphs where the majority of text is either bold or
italic instead of normal"
- title: "Table of Contents editor: Fix save/load of settings
in the XPath wizard not working across restarts"
- title: "Get Books: Update the Kobo Store plugin for website
changes"
improved recipes:
- Popular Science
- General Knowledge Today
- Scientific American
- Wired Magazine
- version: 2.28.0
date: 2015-05-15
new features:
- title: "Conversion of all ebook formats to Microsoft Word (DOCX) files"
type: major
description: "Supports conversion of text styles, images,
lists, tables, embedded fonts, etc. Produces DOCX files
compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer. Note that this
code is very new, so there will likely still be kinks that
will be worked out in the coming weeks."
- title: "Add keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Right, Ctrl+Left) to
switch between virtual library tabs."
- title: "When sending email using GMX pause for five minutes
between books, to prevent GMX from blocking the account. The
delay can be configured via Preferences->Tweaks"
bug fixes:
- title: "Open With: Fix application icons in XDG_DATA_HOME on
linux not being found and fix unhandled error when choosing
non-executable files as applications."
- title: "AZW3 Output: Remove duplicate anchors to workaround
some Kindle renderers using the last occurrence of an anchor
as the target instead of the first."
- title: "Fix language definition on body tag being ignored
during conversion"
- title: "Edit book: When importing multiple files into the
book, import them in the order sorted by their filenames instead
of in random order"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix print to pdf not working on some
windows systems with non-ascii usernames and non-utf-8 system
locales. Also make the print to pdf dialog a little easier to
use."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix TOC editor window not remembering its
last used size"
improved recipes:
- Field and Stream
- Linux Magazine
- Brand Eins
- Courrier International
- Wired Magazine
- The Onion
New Features
* Edit metadata dialog: Add a clear button for the publisher.
* DOCX Input: Add option to not insert page breaks between endnotes.
* calibredb list: Allow outputting the book languages as well.
* Italian translation of Quick Start Guide
* Embed metadata: When embedding metadata fails for some books,
add an option to show the failed books in the book list
* Animate the main toolbar when a device is connected/disconnected,
to indicate that the contents of the toolbar have changed
Bug Fixes
* E-book viewer: When printing, print to a PDF file instead of
directly to the printer. This fixes printing not working on some
systems.
* AZW3 Input: Handle kindlegen produced azw3 files that do not use
normal HTML anchors for linking.
* Fix too many open files errors that could occur in a few places
on OS X
* Do not allow user to hide all columns in book list via the context
menu, as restoring them becomes difficult
- version: 2.26.0
date: 2015-04-24
new features:
- title: "Driver for the soon to be released Kobo Glo HD"
bug fixes:
- title: "Do not use a separate process to draw the splash
screen. This might fix the issue of calibre randomly freezing
on startup on a few windows systems"
- title: "MOBI Ouput: Fix :first-letter applied to elements
containing a comment causing conversion to fail"
- title: "Properly display names of libraries containing the
ampersand character."
- title: "When sorting filenames in comics treat the file
extension as a secondary sort key. Fixes xyz.jpg sorting before
xyz_1.jpg"
- title: "Fix a regression in 2.25 that broke the search &
replace wizard in the conversion dialog when converting a book
with multiple formats"
- title: "Content server: Fix errors when library contains
enough virtual libraries to cause grouping."
- title: "Manage tags dialog: Fix setting a tag to empty causes
an unhandled error."
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused the viewer
to occasionally skip the last page in a chapter when displaying
more than one pages per screen and scrolling by screen"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix open OPF file not being refreshed when
deleting items from the file browser."
improved recipes:
- WirtschaftsWoche Online
- Wired
- CNN
new recipes:
- title: Discover Magazine Monthly
author: Michael Marotta
- version: 2.25.0
date: 2015-04-17
new features:
- title: "Edit Book: Make embedding fonts using the manage
fonts dialog easier. You can now double click on a font family
to see what faces for that family area available on your computer
and install new fonts directly from the dialog."
- title: "Book Details panel: Allow deleting tags/series/publisher/etc.
by right clicking on the link in the book details panel."
- title: "E-book viewer: Allow expanding/collapsing all items
in the Table of Contents view by right clicking"
- title: "When using the View specific format action add an
'Open With' button to choose a specific program to view the
specified format"
- title: "Fetch News: Add API to allow recipe writers to easily
resolve internal links to point to the downloaded versions of
articles"
- title: "DOCX Input: Add support for DOCX files created by
Word 2013 in 'Strict' mode"
- title: "When getting cover from comic files, use smart filename
sorting to find the first filename, recognizing numbers inside
the filenames."
bug fixes:
- title: "E-book viewer: When displaying multiple pages per
screen fix whole screen scrolling so that it works as expected
even at the end of the file, when their might be fewer pages
left than would fill the screen."
- title: "DOCX Input: Automatically resize large images used
as bullets in lists, to compensate for the fact that HTML
renderers do not do this."
- title: "Book list: Prevent yes/no columns from making the
minimum row height too large."
- title: "Template language: Fix raw_field() function returning
incorrect values for lists"
- title: "Edit book: Fix book locale changing when OPF edited
if OPF contains a country code in addition to a language code"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix escaped HTML tags in the comments
metadata being reported as mis-spelled words."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix regression that caused copying of
non-breaking spaces to not work when using the keyboard shortcuts"
- title: "Open With: Fix open with not working for programs
from the Microsoft Office suite"
improved recipes:
- Die Zeit
- NZZ Webpaper
- Arcamax
new recipes:
- title: MIT Technology Review Magazine
author: Michael Marotta
- title: The Codeless Code
author: April King
- version: 2.24.0
date: 2015-04-10
new features:
- title: "E-book viewer: Add an option to not save the bookmarks
inside EPUB files, under the Miscellaneous section of the viewer
preferences"
- title: "Manage User Categories: Allow restricting the visible
items to only those present in the current Virtual Library (if
any)"
- title: "Book details panel: Allow copying full path to ebook
files by right clicking on the format link."
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit Book: Fix GIF format images being corrupted when
using the builtin image editor to make changes to them."
- title: "Edit Book: When dragging and dropping files to re-order
them in the file browser, fix the final order being dependent
on the order the files were selected in."
- title: "Conversion: Fix error when converting a document that
contains an invalid function based CSS selector without
parentheses."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix regression that caused pressing Alt+X
to type unicode characters to not work"
- title: "Device view: Preserve position in list of books when
deleting books from the device view"
- title: "Make the context menu for the book details popup
window work the same way as for the book details panel"
- title: "Get Books: Update amazon store plugin for website
changes"
- title: "PDF Metadata: When choosing between reading metadata
from the Info dict and the XMP block, consider both the
MetadataData and the ModifyDate in the XMP block, since there
exist PDF metadata writing tools that update one and not the
other."
- title: "Fix a regression that caused ebook viewer to remember
the state of the Table of Contents panel when quitting on OS
X."
- title: "Prevent Enter key on Manage authors/tags/etc. dialogs
from closing the dialog."
improved recipes:
- Le Temps
- United Daily
- Liberty Times
- Apple Daily
- China Times
- House News
- Providence Journal
- Harvard Business Review
- version: 2.23.0
date: 2015-04-03
new features:
- title: "Allow adding an empty ebook in various formats to
existing book records by right clicking the Add Books button"
- title: "Add ability to create additional empty formats to
the 'Add empty book' command"
- title: "News download: Add API to cleanly abort the download
of an article during the preprocess stage based on the article's
contents."
- title: "Update the version of Qt bundled with calibre to
5.4.1. This fixes various minor bugs, most notably, improving
text rendering on linux."
bug fixes:
- title: "MOBI Input: Fix links not working in viewer for MOBI
files that contain anchors placed on linebreak elements."
- title: "Book details panel: Fix copying Path link by right
clicking on it not working."
- title: "Fix a regression that caused importing of a single
book from a directory to fail if the directory has no ebook
files in it"
- title: "Column Icons: Fix apostrophes in icon filenames
causing errors."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix a regression that caused Remove unused
CSS to fail on invalid CSS selectors, instead of ignoring them"
- title: "Open With: Fix open with failing to get list of
default programs on windows if the registry contains missing
ProgIDs."
improved recipes:
- Esquire
- Courrier International
- CNET
- Tagesschau
- version: 2.22.0
date: 2015-03-20
new features:
- title: "Book List: When editing data in the book list directly,
expand the editor widget to use all available width if the data
does not fit inside the current column width"
- title: "Edit Book: When re-opening a previously edited book,
restore all open files and the cursor position. Can be disabled
in Preferences->Main Window"
- title: "Advanced search builder: Allow using days/weeks/months/years
when building a date based search with number of days ago."
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Speedup metadata download
from amazon.com when an ASIN is specified by trying the product
page directly first instead of running a search."
- title: "Implement updating metadata in DOCX files"
bug fixes:
- title: "ODT Input: Add support for intra-document cross-references."
- title: "PDF Output: Fix incorrect encoding of ASCII control
characters and some Chines characters in metadata and Table of
Contents strings."
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Work around amazon server
problems where it does not return Kindle Editions in search
results when not logged in."
- title: "Fix Manage Authors dialog causing current search in
the book list to be cleared."
- title: "Conversion: Fix a regression in 2.21 that caused
conversion to fail for books with invalid pseudo-class CSS
selectors."
- title: "Content server: Fix OPDS categories not showing books
for composite column categories if the column contains a colon."
- title: "Single convert dialog: Only write metadata updates
if metadata actually changed. Also show a nicer error message
when a file is locked by another process."
- title: "Open With: Fix error when scanning for default programs
on windows for some file types"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix Preview panel sometimes not working
when opening multiple html files one after the other very
quickly"
improved recipes:
- Wired Daily
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
New Features
ODT Input: Add backlinks for footnotes/endnotes and improve
their formatting.
Windows: When running on windows 8 and newer register with
default programs so that users can more easily select calibre
or its viewer/editor as the default program to launch ebook
files.
Make publishers in the book details panel clickable.
Edit Book spell check: For mis-spelled words of the form one:two
offer one: two as a suggested correction.
Bug Fixes
Fix a regression that caused incorrect results when searching
on numeric or date fields with relational operators.
DOCX Input: Fix regression in 2.19 that broke handling of text
with leading or trailing non-breaking spaces/en-spaces/quad-spaces.
Amazon metadata download: Update plugin for website changes to
Amazon Brazil.
E-book viewer: Fix footnote popup window not displaying entire
footnote if footnote contains element with page-break-after
set
Edit Book: Reports tool: Fix double clicking on an unused image
causing an error
Tag Browser: Fix incorrect grouping of words starting with
graphemes, such as ash.
Conversion: Ignore incorrectly URL encoded links instead of
erroring out on them.
E-book viewer: Remove soft-hyphens when copying text to clipboard
Improved news sources
aktualne.cz
- version: 2.19.0
date: 2015-02-06
new features:
- title: "Quick view window: Allow the quickview window to be
docked into the main calibre window."
- title: "Add empty book: Allow setting the title as well as
the author and series for the added empty book records"
- title: "Windows driver for Grammata Papyre 602."
- title: "Edit Book: Add an option to turn off auto-completion
of closing tags"
- title: "Allow adding a description for custom columns."
- title: "Book Details panel: Allow any identifier of the form
url+number to become a clickable link. For example:
url1:http://example.com"
bug fixes:
- title: "Conversion: Convert entities that reference non-BMP
unicode codepoints on Windows and OS X correctly. Linux was
not affected by this bug."
- title: "Edit Book: Do not autocomplete the closing tag wen
typing the / key inside an existing tag."
- title: "Fix Booken Lev e-book reader not being detected in
OS X and Linux."
- title: "DOCX Input: Change handling of sequences of space
characters to more closely follow Microsoft Word."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix Table of Contents editor not remembering
its saved state across calibre sessions"
- title: "Edit book: Disallow drag and drop of documents onto
the preview panel to workaround crashing bug in Qt."
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix current page not being preserved
when opening and then immediately closing the footnote window."
- title: "PDF Output: Fix incorrect encoding for some chinese
characters in the PDF Outline (Table of Contents)"
improved recipes:
- FAZ.net
- Indian Express
- CNN
- 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
pkgsrc changes:
---------------
- Depends on textproc/py-ccsutils >=0.9.9.
Upstream changes:
-----------------
Release 0.8.50 - May 04, 2012
=============================
New Features
Tweak Book: Allow tweaking of KF8 MOBI files. Useful to fine-tune the result
of a conversion. Right click on the book and select Tweak Book to use the
feature. Note that tweaking a MOBI file that contains both KF8 and older MOBI6
will cause the MOBI6 version to be discarded.
AZW3 output plugin. This output plugin generates pure KF8 mobi files. These
only work on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch with latest firmware.
Conversion: Allow easy re-ordering of the search and replace expressions in
the conversion dialog. Also apply the expressions in the same order that they
were entered when doing the conversion.
Automatically add the Tag 'Sample Book' when an Amazon sample is added to
calibre
FB2 Input: Better handling of inline images.
Closes tickets: 989869
Bug Fixes
KF8 Output: Fix section to section jumps not working for documents with
multi-level ToCs
EPUB Input: Handle the case of the metadata ToC containing a reference to
the cover HTML file.
Closes tickets: 993812
CHM Input: Handle files with deeply nested markup and non html files
listed at the start of the manifest.
Closes tickets: 993607
KF8 Output: Workaround Kindle Touch bug that causes the book to be rendered
as black pages when a height is specified for <body>
Fix regression in 0.8.49 that broke italics detection in heuristic
processing on 32-bit systems.
Closes tickets: 991380
KF8 Output: Fix joint MOBI6/KF8 books not being recognized as MOBI files
by older Kindles
KF8 Output: Fix errors when processing documents with HTML comments
and/or XML processing instructions
Get Books: Amazon fix prices not being found. B&N fix details link.
ebooks.com: fix cover image. Website changes to various EU stores
FB2 Input: More robust base64 decoding to handle embedded images that are
incorrectly encoded.
Closes tickets: 990929
Fix scrolling with the cover browser updating only the selection in the
book list, not the current book.
Closes tickets: 990881
Save to Disk: Do not run out memory when saving very large files on
systems with low RAM.
Closes tickets: 990741
FB2 Output: Use 2 letter language codes in preference to 3-letter ones to
not break poorly implemented FB2 readers
Closes tickets: 990026
EPUB Input: Auto set the media-type for OPF manifest entries with an
empty media-type
New news sources
George Monbiot by Darko Miletic
El Mundo by atordo
AraInfo and Diagonal by Ruben Pollan
Improved news sources
National Post
Daily Mirror
Sun
Newsweek Polska
Max-Planck
derStandard
tweakers.net
Release 0.8.49 - Apr 27, 2012
=============================
New Features
Experimental support for generating Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files
calibre can now generate Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files. To turn
on this feature, go to Preferences->Tweaks and click Plugin Tweaks. In
the box add: test_mobi_output_type = 'both' calibre will now produce MOBI
files that have both the old MOBI format and the new KF8 format in them.
To learn more about KF8, see: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000729511
Note that calibre support for KF8 is still experimental and there will
likely be bugs.
Upgrade to using cssutils 0.9.9 for CSS parsing. Improved speed
and robustness.
Show cover size in a tooltip in the conversion dialog
Closes tickets: 986958 [External link]
Driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light
Closes tickets: 989264 [External link]
Bug Fixes
Heuristics: When italicizing words do not operate on words not in
between HTML tags.
Closes tickets: 986298 [External link]
Fix (I hope) the bulk metadata download process crashing for some
people on OS X when clicking the Yes button to apply the updates.
Closes tickets: 986658 [External link]
Fix tooltip not being updated in the book details panel when
pasting in a new cover
Closes tickets: 986958 [External link]
Cover Browser: Wrap the title on space only, not in between words.
Closes tickets: 986516 [External link]
Edit metadata dialog: If a permission denied error occurs when
clicking the next or prev buttons, stay on the current book.
Closes tickets: 986903 [External link]
Fix heuristics not removing unnecessary hyphens from the end
of lines.
Closes tickets: 822744 [External link]
New news sources
Berria by Alayn Gortazar
Sol Haber by Onur Gungor
Telam by Darko Miletic
Richmond Times-Dispatch by jde
Improved news sources
Metro Nieuws NL
Der Tagesspiegel
pkgsrc changes:
---------------
Add a patch from Neil Booth to fix PLIST.
Should fix part of pkg/46331.
Upstream changes:
-----------------
Way too long CHANGELOG to list here.
Highlights from upstream are:
E-book viewer: A whole new full screen mode. [0.8.44]
-----------------------------------------------------
Closes tickets: 959830 [External link]
The new mode has no toolbars to distract from the text and the ability to set
the width of the column of text via Preferences in the ebook viewer. Click the
Fullscreen button on the toolbar in the viewer to enter fullscreen mode (or
press the F11 or Ctrl+Shit+F keys)
Support for reading Amazon's new KF8 format [0.8.42]
----------------------------------------------------
calibre can now both view and convert MOBI files that contain Amazon's new KF8
(Kindle Fire) format
Complete changelog is here: http://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
`
Upstream changes:
0.8.39
------
New Features
- Auto-adding: Add an option to check for duplicates when auto adding.
- Content server: Export a second record via mDNS that points to the
full OPDS feed in addition to the one pointing to the Stanza feed.
The new record is of type _calibre._tcp.
- Allow specifying a set of categories that are not partitioned even
if they contain a large number of items in the Tag Browser. Preference
is available under Look & Feel->Tag Browser
- Allow setting a URL prefix for the content server that run embedded in the
calibre GUI as well.
- Allow output of identifiers data in CSV/XML/BiBTeX catalogs
- Driver for Motorola Droid XT910, Nokia E71 and HTC EVO 3D.
- Cut down the time taken to launch worker processes by 40%
- You can now configure the calibre settings for the currently connected
device by right clicking on the device icon in the toolbar, instead of
having to go through Preferences->Plugins
Bug Fixes
- Auto-adding: Do not add incomplete files when files are downloaded
directly into the auto add folder.
- When running multiple delete from device jobs, fix the device view
sometimes marking the wrong books as being deleted, after the first delete
job completes.
- MOBI Input: Handle files that have spurious closing </body> and/or </html>i
tags in their markup.
- RTF Input: Strip out false color specifications, as they cause artifacts
when converted to MOBI
New news sources
- Vancouver Province and Windsor Star by Nick Redding
- Onda Rock by faber1971
- Il Manifesto by Giacomo Lacava
Improved news sources
- Updated Postmedia publications
- Foreign Affairs
- Read It Later
- Microwave Journal
- taggeschau.de
0.8.38
------
New Features
- Implement the ability to automatically add books to calibre from a
specified folder.
- calibre can now watch a folder on your computer and instantly add any
files you put there to the calibre library as new books. You can tell
calibre which folder to watch via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding.
- Conversion: When automatically inserting page breaks, do not put a page
break before a <h1> or <h2> tag if it is immediately preceded by another
<h1> or <h2> tag.
- Driver for EZReader T730 and Point-of-View PlayTab Pro
Bug Fixes
- Fix device entry not visible in menubar even when it has been added\
via Preferences->Toolbars.
- Fix metadata plugboards not applied when auto sending news by email
- Fix regression in 0.8.34 that broke recipes that used skip_ad_pages()
but not get_browser().
- Restore device support on FreeBSD, by using HAL
- Get books: Show no more than 10 results from the Gandalf store
- Content server: Fix metadata not being updated when sending for some
MOBI files.
- Heuristic processing: Fix the italicize common patterns algorithm
breaking on some HTML markup.
- When trying to find an ebook inside a zip file, do not fail if the zip
file itself contains other zip files.
- EPUB Input: Handle EPUBs with duplicate entries in the manifest.
- MOBI Input: Handle files that have extra </html> tags sprinkled through
out their markup.
New news sources
- Strange Horizons by Jim DeVona
- Telegraph India and Live Mint by Krittika Goyal
- High Country News by Armin Geller
- Countryfile by Dave Asbury
- Liberation (subscription version) by Remi Vanicat
- Various Italian news sources by faber1971
Improved news sources
- Metro Nieuws NL
- FHM UK
0.8.37
------
New Features
- Allow calibre to be run simultaneously in two different user accounts on
windows.
- Driver for Motorola Photon and Point of View PlayTab
- Add a checkbox to preferences->plugins to show only user installed plugins
- Add a restart calibre button to the warning dialog that pops up after
changing some preference that requires a restart
Bug Fixes
- Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the remove format from book
function to only delete the entry from the database and not delete the
actual file from the disk
- Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not
properly refresh the format information in the GUI
- E-book viewer: Preserve the current position more accurately when
changing font size/other preferences.
- Conversion pipeline: Fix items in the <guide> that refer to files with
URL unsafe filenames being ignored.
- Fix calibre not running on linux systems that set LANG to an empty string
- On first run of calibre, ensure the columns are sized appropriately
- MOBI Output: Do not collapse whitespace when setting the comments metadata
in newly created MOBI files
- HTML Input: Fix handling of files with ä characters in their filenames.
- Fix the sort on startup tweak ignoring more than three levels
- Edit metadata dialog: Fix a bug that broke adding of a file to the book
that calibre did not previously know about in the books directory while
simultaneously changing the author or title of the book.
New news sources
- Mumbai Mirror by Krittika Goyal
- Real Clear by TMcN
- Gazeta Wyborcza by ravcio
- The Daily News Egypt and al masry al youm by Omm Mishmishah
- Klip.me by Ken Sun
Improved news sources
- People's Daily
- Plus Info
- grantland.com
- Eret es irodalom
- Sueddeutsche.de
pkgsrc changes:
- upstream archive to .tar.xz, modify Makefile accordingly.
- Rely on pkgsrc libraries when possible (py-html5lib and py-chardet).
Upstream changes:
- version: 0.8.36 date: 2011-01-20
new features: - title: "Decrease startup time for large libraries with at
least one composite custom column by reading format info on demand"
- title: "When automatically deleting news older than x days, from the
calibre library, only delete the book if it both has the tag News and the
author calibre. This prevents accidental deletion of books tagged with News
by the user."
- title: "Driver for Infibeam Pi 2"
- title: "Add a Tag Editor for tags like custom columns to the edit
metadata dialog"
bug fixes: - title: "E-book viewer: Fix regression in 0.8.35 that caused
viewer to raise an error on books that did not define a language"
- title: "Content server: Fix grouping for categories based on custom
columns." tickets: [919011]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: When setting the series from a format or
via metadata download, ensure that the series index is not automatically
changed, when closing the dialog." tickets: [918751]
- title: "When reading metadata from Topaz (azw1) files, handle non ascii
metadata correctly." tickets: [917419]
- title: "CHM Input: Do not choke on CHM files with non ascii internal
filenames on windows." tickets: [917696]
- title: "Fix reading metadata from CHM files with non-ascii titles"
- title: "Fix HTML 5 parser choking on comments"
- title: "If calibre is started from a directory that does not exist,
automatically use the home directory as the working directory, instead of
crashing"
- title: "Fix iriver story HD Wi-Fi device and external SD card swapped"
tickets: [916364]
- title: "Content server: Fix ugly URLs for specific format download in the
book details and permalink panels"
- title: "When adding FB2 files do not set the date field from the metadata
in the file"
improved recipes: - OReilly Premuim - Variety - Blic - New Journal of Physics
- Der Tagesspiegel
new recipes: - title: Tweakers.net author: Roedi06
- title: Village Voice author: Barty
- title: Edge.org Conversations author: levien
- title: Novi list - printed edition author: Darko Miletic
- version: 0.8.35 date: 2011-01-13
new features: - title: "Metadata plugboards: Allow creation of plugboards for
email delivery." tickets: [914012]
- title: "Tweak EPUB: Also allow tweaking of HTMLZ files (when both EPUB
and HTMLZ are present, EPUB is preferred, this can be changed via
Preferences->Tweaks)."
- title: "TXT Input: Support direct conversion of files with extensions
.md, .markdown and .textile." tickets: [912931]
- title: "E-book viewer: Speed up the optional hyphenation algorithm by
upgrading the hyphenator library calibre uses"
- title: "Drivers for PocketBook 611, Motorola Razr Droid and Onyx Boox
i62"
bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: When converting a paragraph that contains
only a non-breaking space into a line break, ignore paragraphs with height
less than 2pt." tickets: [915150]
- title: "MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that specify anchor point exactly
at pagebreaks. These are apparently produced by John Wiley and Sons."
tickets: [914036]
- title: "Fetch news dialog: The Download now button is no longer scrolled
out of view on OS X for news sources that require credentials"
- title: "Fix commas being removed from author names when generating
filenames in the calibre library"
- title: "ODT Input: Dont crash on empty links"
- title: "ebook-convert: Allow use of leading ./ when specifying output
file names." tickets: [913954]
- title: "Fix deleting of hierarchical searches broken in Tag Browser"
tickets: [912345]
- title: "Metadata search and replace: Fix rendering error when choosing
{template}" tickets: [913154]
- title: "Fix calibre not starting when stray .po files are present in the
working directory" tickets: [913054]
- title: "Do not error out when getting metadata for authors if the author
name has either ::: or :#: in it." tickets: [912713]
improved recipes: - Pagina 12 - USA Today - LWN Weekly - Seattle Times - San
Jose Mercury - Grantland.com
new recipes: - title: Lega Nerd and Pambianco author: faber1971
- title: Various Turkish news sources author: asalet_r
- title: Microwave Journal author: Kiavash
- title: OReilly Premium author: TechnoCat
- title: Hamilton Spectator and Tillsonburg/Norfolk County author: Eric
Coolman
- title: Opinion Bolivia author: Piet van Oostrum
- title: ideal.es author: Josemi Liebana
- title: Novilist Portal author: Darko Miletic
- version: 0.8.34 date: 2012-01-06
new features: - title: "Apple driver: Set the year field in iTunes based on
the published date in calibre." tickets: [909050]
- title: "EPUB Input: When converting a file that has entries in the
manifest that do no exist, remove them, instead of aborting the
conversion." tickets: [910933]
- title: "Kindle driver: Ensure page counts are correctly sent to the
device when connecting to Kindle 4/Touch." tickets: [910279]
- title: "Allow user to set the number of recently viewed books shown in
the dropdown menu of the view button, via a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks."
tickets: [910292]
bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.33 that caused calibre to crash
when starting the Content Server, if the port the content server is trying to
listen on is blocked/busy." tickets: [910512]
- title: "MOBI Input: Fix regression that caused a mixup of images when the
MOBI file header contains an incorrect first image index pointer." tickets:
[911243]
- title: "Do not remove leading and trailing spaces from the replace fields
in the Search and Replace conversion options" tickets: [910523]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix regression in 0.8.31 that broke parsing
of documents containing a self closing <title/> tag." tickets: [910325]
improved recipes: - Kopalnia Wiedzy - Alternet - Tagesspiegel - Philadelphia
Inquirer - Seattle Times - La Razon
new recipes: - title: Various Italian news sources author: faber1971
- title: money.pl author: intromatyk
- title: Diario Rio Negro author: Darko Miletic.
- title: FHM UK author: Dave Asbury
- version: 0.8.33 date: 2011-12-30
new features: - title: "LIT Input: Switch to non-recursive algorithm, to
allow conversion of files with deeply nested markup." tickets: [909535]
- title: "Content server: Do not show the original_* formats in the mobile
interface. Also upgrade to the latest CherryPy release."
- title: "E-book viewer: Add option in viewer preferences to control how
much the font size is changed when you click the make fonts bigger/smaller
buttons." tickets: [908980]
- title: "E-book viewer: Allow changing font size via Ctrl+Mouse wheel"
tickets: [908975]
- title: "Kobo driver: Hide previews and recommendations from the book
list. You can customize the Kobo plugin if you would like to see them via
Preferences->Plugins"
bug fixes: - title: "Copy to library: Fix title sort not being copied"
- title: "PDF Output: Add custom size conversion option to the GUI (it was
only present on the command line before)"
- title: "Add missing --keep-ligatures option to the ebook-convert command
line" tickets: [909182]
- title: "Fix rendering of non ascii characters in generated masthead
images when downloading news for the Kindle"
- title: "Linux binary: Disable qt-sp-api as it causes crashes/performance
issues on various distros"
- title: "E-book viewer: Ensure that reference mode highlighting is removed
from the book when reference mode is closed." tickets: [908982]
- title: "Fix unable to load plugins from files on GNOME/XFCE desktops"
- title: "Fix regression that broke customizing toolbars on non English
calibre installs"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Disable HTML 5 parsing if it results in
deeply nested trees." tickets: [908818]
- title: "Do not loose position in book list on device connection/sync, if
a search is active." tickets: [908553]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.32 that broke deleting books if the path to
the library contained non-ascii characters on linux" tickets: [908068]
improved recipes: - Echo Online - La Razon
new recipes: - title: NYTimes Global author: Krittika Goyal
- title: Grantland author: Barty
- version: 0.8.32 date: 2011-12-23
new features: - title: "Linux: When deleting books, send them to the recycle
bin, instead of permanently deleting. This is the same behavior as on Windows
and OS X."
- title: "Add a checkbox to allow users to disable the popup that asks if
books should be auto-converted before sending to device"
- title: "Drivers for Droid Razr, Samsung GT-I9003 and Bookeen Odyssey"
tickets: [906356, 906056, 905862]
- title: "Allow passing multiple filenames as command line arguments to
calibre, to add multiple books." tickets: [907968]
bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: Fix regression in 0.8.30 that caused the
use of hidden heading elements for the TOC to generate links in the wrong
place." tickets: [907156]
- title: "EPUB Output: Ensure directories have the correct permissions bits
set when unzipping an epub with unzip on Unix"
- title: "Fix bottom most shortcuts in keyboard shortcuts for viewer not
editable"
- title: "EPUB Output: Fix handling of self closing <audio> tags." tickets:
[906521]
- title: "MOBI Input: Map invalid <o:p> tags to <p> tags before parsing, to
handle broken nesting." tickets: [905715]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: HTML5 parsing: Fix handling of XML
namespaces. Fixes regression in 0.8.30 that caused some articles in some
news downloads to appear blank when viewed in Adobe Digital Editions based
readers"
- title: "Get Books: Gandalf store, fix price and cover detection"
- title: "EPUB Output: Fix the Flatten filenames option in EPUB Output
causing duplicated manifest ids in rare cases." tickets: [905692]
- title: "When adding books via ISBN, show the user the list of invalid
ISBNs that will be ignored, if any, before starting the add operation."
tickets: [905690]
- title: "Fix unsmarten punctuation conversion option broken in 0.8.31."
tickets: [905596]
- title: "Fix broken evaluation of composite columns in save-to-disk"
improved recipes: - Cosmopolitan UK - Hindustan Times - HVG - moneynews.com -
Ming Pao - Glasgow Herald - Times of India - Focus Magazine - Hacker News -
Independent - Sueddeutsche
new recipes: - title: Prospect Magazine UK author: Barty and duoloz
- title: Elet es Irodalom and NOL author: Bigpapa
- title: Salonica Press News author: SteliosGero
- title: Echo Online author: Armin Geller
- title: Various Polish news sources author: fenuks
- title: Various Italian news sources author: faber1971
- version: 0.8.31 date: 2011-12-16
new features: - title: "Conversion engine: When parsing invalid XHTML use the
HTML 5 algorithm, for greater robustness." tickets: [901466]
- title: "Driver for PocketBook 611 and Lenovo IdeaPad"
- title: "Allow customization of the order in which custom column editing
is performed in the edit metadata dialog. Setting is available via
Preferences->Tweaks." tickets: [902731]
- title: "MOBI news download: Allow recipes to set a thumbnail for entries
in the periodical table of contents. Currently used by the NYTimes, WSJ,
Independent, GUardian and Globe and Mail recipes" tickets: [900130]
- title: "E-book viewer: Add an option to the right click menu to search
for the currently selected word"
- title: "Automatically hide the no internet connection available error
message if the connection is restored before the user clicks OK"
bug fixes: - title: "Fix comments not hidden in Book details panel when they
are turned off via Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details"
- title: "E-book viewer: Do not popup an error message if the user tries to
use the mouse wheel to scroll before a document is loaded." tickets:
[903449]
- title: "Add docx to the list of ebook extensions." tickets: [903452]
- title: "When downloading metadata from non-English Amazon websites, do
not correct the case of book titles."
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.30 that broke bulk conversion of a single
book." tickets: [902506]
- title: "When minimized to system tray do not display the no internet
connection error as a dialog box, instead use a system tray notification"
- title: "Catalog generation: Include the series_index field for custom
series columns as well"
- title: "Comic Input: Do not rescale images when using the Tablet output
profile (or any output profile with a screen size larger than 3000x3000)"
- title: "HTML Input: Ignore unparseable URLs instead of crashing on them."
tickets: [902372]
improved recipes: - La Republica - CND - Berliner Zeitung - Zaman Gazetesi
new recipes: - title: CND Weekly author: Derek Liang
- title: descopera.org author: Marius Ignatescu
- title: Rynek Zdrowia author: spi630
- version: 0.8.30 date: 2011-12-09
new features: - title: "Get Books: Add amazon.es and amazon.it"
- title: "Bulk convert dialog: Disable the Use saved conversion settings
checkbox when none of the books being converted has saved conversion
settings"
- title: "ebook-viewer: And a command line switch to specify the position
at which the file should be opened." tickets: [899325]
- title: "Distribute calibre source code compressed with xz instead of gzip
for a 40% reduction in size"
bug fixes: - title: "Get Books: Fix ebooks.com and amazon.fr. Fix cover
display in Diesel ebooks store."
- title: "HTML Input: Fix regression that broke processing of a small
fraction of HTML files encoded in a multi-byte character encoding."
tickets: [899691]
- title: "Greatly reduce the delay at the end of a bulk metadata edit
operation that operates on a very large number (thousands) of books"
- title: "Template language: Fix the subitems formatter function to split
only when the period is surrounded by non-white space and not another
period"
- title: "Fix ampersands in titles not displaying in the Cover Browser"
- title: "MOBI Output: Do not ignore an empty anchor at the end of a block
element."
- title: "MOBI Output: Handle links to inline anchors placed inside large
blocks of text correctly, i.e. the link should not point to the start of
the block." tickets: [899831]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix searching for text that is represented as
entities in the underlying HTML." tickets: [899573]
- title: "Have the Esc shortcut perform exactly the same set of actions as
clicking the clear button." tickets: [900048]
- title: "Prevent the adding books dialog from becoming too wide"
- title: "Fix custom column editing not behaving correctly with the
Previous button in the edit metadata dialog." tickets: [899836]
- title: "T1 driver. More fixes to datetime handling to try to convince the
T1's buggy firmware to not rescan metadata." tickets: [899514]
- title: "Only allow searching via non accented author names if the user
interface language in calibre is set to English." tickets: [899227]
improved recipes: - Die Zeit subscription - Metro UK - suedeutsche.de
new recipes: - title: Blues News author: Oskar Kunicki
- title: "TVXS" author: Hargikas
Upstream changes:
-----------------
0.8.29
======
New Features:
When searching for author names with accented characters, allow the non accented version to match. For example, searching for Nino will now match Niño.
Driver for Blackberry Playbook, Motorola Electrify and Samsung Galaxy GIO S5660
Metadata search and replace, make the regular expressions unicode aware
Bug Fixes:
Fix regression in 0.8.28 that broke sending PDF files to iTunes
Conversion pipeline: Do not error out on books that set font size to zero.
News download: Respect the delay setting when downloading RSS feeds as well.
EPUB Output: Ensure that xml:lang is set if lang is set as ADE looks for xml:lang, not lang
Content server: Reduce memory consumption when sending very large files
Preserve capitalization of Scottish author names when downloading metadata
Fix update title sort in bulk metadata edit not using language information
Fix sorting by published column in the download metadata dialog broken
Allow use of languages field when generating CSV/XML catalogs
Get Books: Fix ebookpoint.pl
When calculating title sort for a book based on its language, only use the specified language not a combination of the language and english
New news sources:
gs24.pl and Gazeta.pl Szczecin by Michal Szkutnik
Vanity Fair by Barty
Skylife by thomass
Daily Writing Tips by NotTaken
TechDirt by Krittika Goyal
Cosmopolitan UK by Dave Asbury
Improved news sources:
Metro NL
Ming Pao
Rolling Stones Mag
Buffalo News
0.8.28
======
New Features:
Get Books: Add litres.ru store
Change the algorithm that generates title sort strings to strip leading articles from both english and the current language set for the calibre user interface. In addition, in the edit metadata dialog, calibre will use the book's language when calculating the sort string. This behavior can be adjusted via Preferences->Tweaks.
Driver for Cybook Odyssey.
Irex driver: Put books into the top level directory instead of into /ebooks or /Books.
Bug Fixes:
Have downloaded periodicals recognized when transferred via USB to the Kindle Fire
MOBI Output: Fix underline and strikethrough properties declared on parents not being rendered on child tags.
Template language: Fix regression that broke ordering of items when formatting a list
Conversion pipeline: When removing obsolete <font> tags convert them to <div> instead of <span> if they contain block level tags.
When downloading metadata, fix the case normalization of double-barelled author names.
Template language: Fix regression that broke using general program mode in save to disk templates
calibredb: Fix use of ranges when specifying ids for the remove command
Apple driver: Add ids for iPhone 4S. More robust against iTunes automation errors when adding artwork.
Fix encoding of comments incorrectly detected when downloading metadata from ozon.ru
Fix calibre not getting list of books on the Kindle Fire
New news sources:
Give me something to read and Let's get Critical by Barty
Worldcrunch by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources:
El Mundo
BBC
NIN Online
ABC Australia
Salon.com
Expansion (Spanish)
The Week
Heise Online
0.1.11nb1. Future version of mechanize will not require ClientForm and
this package does not using ClientForm directly, so update DEPENDS pattern,
bump require version of py-mechanize and drop dependency on py-ClientForm.
Bump PKGREVISION.
Weekly release of calibre
Upstream changes:
New Features
------------
Drivers for the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet
Closes tickets: 890918 [External link] Conversion: Add an option under Look
& Feel to remove specified style information (CSS) from the document during
conversion.
Closes tickets: 871384 [External link] Add an option in the bulk metadata
edit dialog to restore the pre-conversion files for many books with a single
click.
Closes tickets: 886116 [External link] Jobs list: Add the ability to search
for and to hide jobs, useful if you have run a lot of jobs and the list is
getting crowded.
Closes tickets: 883734 [External link] Book jacket generation: Add ability
to customize the book jacket template and add custom columns into the jacket.
Closes tickets: 889912 [External link] MOBI Input: Performance improvement
when viewing/converting a file with a lot of links
Bug Fixes
---------
Fix regression in 0.8.26 that broke disabling the update of particular
fields during a bulk metadata download.
Closes tickets: 889696 [External link] Get Books: Fix DRM status for legimi
When parsing for lxml via BeatifulSoup, use the calibre modified copy of
BeautifulSoup (more robust).
Closes tickets: 889890 [External link] HTML Input: Handle double encoded
URLs in img tags
Closes tickets: 889323 [External link]
New news sources
----------------
News on Japan by Krittika Goyal Formula AS by Silviu Cotoara Various Turkish
news sources by Osman Kaysan Infra.pl and Spider's Web by fenuks
Improved news sources
Various Polish recipes Academia Catavencu El Periodico de Aragon Weblogs SL
Folha de Sao Paolo (subscription)
- switch MASTER_SITE to SF.net mirror, so that we can fetch older distfiles
- Try to simplify FIX_PYTHON list handling
- Remove SPECIAL_PERMS since bin/calibre-mount-helper has been ¨removed¨
by upstream - it still is installed but is basically doing nothing. This is to
address SA46620.
upstream changes:
Release: 0.8.26 [12 Nov, 2011]
------------------------------
New Features:
Tweak to control sorting of date type columns. You can choose to have them
sorted only by displayed fields Driver for the Trekstor 3.0 Performance
improvements when evaluating templates, and in particular general program mode
templates
Bug Fixes:
ODT Input: When converting to EPUB improve handling of large images placed
inside small frames, to prevent them from obscuring text.
Closes tickets: 860272 [External link] , 884759 [External link] EPUB Input:
Automatically strip entries of type application/text from the spine. Apparently
there are EPUB production tools out there that create them.
Closes tickets: 884792 [External link] Keep the startup splash screen
visible until the GUI has fully completed initializing.
Closes tickets: 885827 [External link] ODT Input: Fix handling of span tags
containing only whitespace.
Closes tickets: 887311 [External link] On windows when changing title or
author via the main book list, handle the case of one of the books files being
open in another program more gracefully.
Closes tickets: 880585 [External link] When adding a format to an existing
book record, ensure that no changes are made to the database until after the
file operations have succeeded. Fix bug that prevented configuring which fields
to download metadata for when adding books by ISBN
Closes tickets: 856076 [External link] Fix Japanese characters not being
crrectly displayed on index pages in news downloads for the SONY T1
Closes tickets: 888029 [External link] Get Books: Fix booleans in search
expressions not working in non-English calibre versions
Closes tickets: 887554 [External link] Fix a bug in the support for
hours/minutes/seconds in datetime format strings
Closes tickets: 887412 [External link] Treat an author_sort value of
'Unknown' the same way as unknown authors are treated in template processing
Detect SD card in Kobo Vox Amazon metadata download: Workaround for change in
Amazon website causing some books to have incorrect ratings downloaded
New news sources:
Techtarget by Julio Map
Improved news sources:
Metro NL The Independent Frankfurter Rundschau L'Espresso Il Giornale
Berlingske.dk Suedeutsche Zeitung
Release: 0.8.25 [06 Nov, 2011]
------------------------------
New Features:
Drivers for the LG Optimus 2X, HTC Incredible S, Samsung Stratosphere and
the Kobo Vox
Closes tickets: 886558 [External link] , 885058 [External link] , 884762
[External link] , 884039 [External link] Get books: Add ebookpoint.pl store
Support hour/minute/seconds in datetime format strings in the template language
and in tweaks
Bug Fixes:
Fix Book detils preferences showing custom columns even after they have been
deleted
Closes tickets: 884799 [External link] Replace use of insecure tempfile in
the bundled rtf2xml library.
Closes tickets: 885245 [External link] Remove the suid mount helper used on
linux and bsd, as it proved impossible to make it secure.
Closes tickets: 885027 [External link]
This means that if you are on BSD or an older linux distribution, without
support for udisks, device detection will no longer work in calibre. You will
have to either mount the devices by hand before starting calibre, or stick with
version 0.8.24 (the vulnerability in the mount helper is a privilege escalation,
which is relatively harmless on the vast majority of single user systems). Do
not error out if there is an invalid regex for title sort set in tweaks Content
server: Fix another place where --url-prefix was forgotten
Closes tickets: 885332 [External link] HTML Input: Limit memory consumption
when converting HTML files that link to large binary files.
Closes tickets: 884821 [External link] T1 driver: Workaround for T1 showing
error messages when opening some news downloads on the device Kobo driver: Fix
longstanding bug that would prevent re-adding a epub that has been previously
deleted from the Kobo using calibre Fix partial cover search not resuming after
pressing back in the metadata download dialog
Closes tickets: 875196 [External link] T1 driver: Fix auto refresh covers
option Content server: Do not show tracebacks in HTML output when not running in
develop mode Textile output; Fix out of memory issue when dealing with large
margins.
New news sources:
b365 Realitatea and Catavencii by Silviu Cotoara Various Greek news sources
by Stelios Real world economics blog by Julio Map
Improved news sources:
The Independent Die Zeit subscription version NIN online Science News
Updated Daily Mirror Science AAAS
Based on PR pkg/45493 from Rhialto. Additional cleanup by myself.
pkgsrc changes:
- Fix interpreter paths
- Set LICENSE
- Rely on pkgsrc py-cherrypy and py-pdf instead of the ones bundled within
Calibre tarball.
- Properly install .desktop and mimetypes
- Install all recipes.
- Install additional documentation
Upstream changes:
our package was 22 versions behind.
Many, many, many new features, bug fixes and drivers to support new
ebooks readers.
Complete changelog is installed in ${PREFIX}/share/doc/calibre.
calibre is a ebook library management application. Its features are
divided into the following categories:
* Library Management
* Format conversion (all major ebook formats can be converted from)
* Syncing to ebook reader devices
* Fetching news from the web and converting it into ebook form
* Viewing many different ebook formats
* Giving you access to your book collection over the internet using
just a browser
