Upstream changes:
0.8.39
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New Features
- Auto-adding: Add an option to check for duplicates when auto adding.
- Content server: Export a second record via mDNS that points to the
full OPDS feed in addition to the one pointing to the Stanza feed.
The new record is of type _calibre._tcp.
- Allow specifying a set of categories that are not partitioned even
if they contain a large number of items in the Tag Browser. Preference
is available under Look & Feel->Tag Browser
- Allow setting a URL prefix for the content server that run embedded in the
calibre GUI as well.
- Allow output of identifiers data in CSV/XML/BiBTeX catalogs
- Driver for Motorola Droid XT910, Nokia E71 and HTC EVO 3D.
- Cut down the time taken to launch worker processes by 40%
- You can now configure the calibre settings for the currently connected
device by right clicking on the device icon in the toolbar, instead of
having to go through Preferences->Plugins
Bug Fixes
- Auto-adding: Do not add incomplete files when files are downloaded
directly into the auto add folder.
- When running multiple delete from device jobs, fix the device view
sometimes marking the wrong books as being deleted, after the first delete
job completes.
- MOBI Input: Handle files that have spurious closing </body> and/or </html>i
tags in their markup.
- RTF Input: Strip out false color specifications, as they cause artifacts
when converted to MOBI
New news sources
- Vancouver Province and Windsor Star by Nick Redding
- Onda Rock by faber1971
- Il Manifesto by Giacomo Lacava
Improved news sources
- Updated Postmedia publications
- Foreign Affairs
- Read It Later
- Microwave Journal
- taggeschau.de
0.8.38
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New Features
- Implement the ability to automatically add books to calibre from a
specified folder.
- calibre can now watch a folder on your computer and instantly add any
files you put there to the calibre library as new books. You can tell
calibre which folder to watch via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding.
- Conversion: When automatically inserting page breaks, do not put a page
break before a <h1> or <h2> tag if it is immediately preceded by another
<h1> or <h2> tag.
- Driver for EZReader T730 and Point-of-View PlayTab Pro
Bug Fixes
- Fix device entry not visible in menubar even when it has been added\
via Preferences->Toolbars.
- Fix metadata plugboards not applied when auto sending news by email
- Fix regression in 0.8.34 that broke recipes that used skip_ad_pages()
but not get_browser().
- Restore device support on FreeBSD, by using HAL
- Get books: Show no more than 10 results from the Gandalf store
- Content server: Fix metadata not being updated when sending for some
MOBI files.
- Heuristic processing: Fix the italicize common patterns algorithm
breaking on some HTML markup.
- When trying to find an ebook inside a zip file, do not fail if the zip
file itself contains other zip files.
- EPUB Input: Handle EPUBs with duplicate entries in the manifest.
- MOBI Input: Handle files that have extra </html> tags sprinkled through
out their markup.
New news sources
- Strange Horizons by Jim DeVona
- Telegraph India and Live Mint by Krittika Goyal
- High Country News by Armin Geller
- Countryfile by Dave Asbury
- Liberation (subscription version) by Remi Vanicat
- Various Italian news sources by faber1971
Improved news sources
- Metro Nieuws NL
- FHM UK
0.8.37
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New Features
- Allow calibre to be run simultaneously in two different user accounts on
windows.
- Driver for Motorola Photon and Point of View PlayTab
- Add a checkbox to preferences->plugins to show only user installed plugins
- Add a restart calibre button to the warning dialog that pops up after
changing some preference that requires a restart
Bug Fixes
- Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the remove format from book
function to only delete the entry from the database and not delete the
actual file from the disk
- Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not
properly refresh the format information in the GUI
- E-book viewer: Preserve the current position more accurately when
changing font size/other preferences.
- Conversion pipeline: Fix items in the <guide> that refer to files with
URL unsafe filenames being ignored.
- Fix calibre not running on linux systems that set LANG to an empty string
- On first run of calibre, ensure the columns are sized appropriately
- MOBI Output: Do not collapse whitespace when setting the comments metadata
in newly created MOBI files
- HTML Input: Fix handling of files with ä characters in their filenames.
- Fix the sort on startup tweak ignoring more than three levels
- Edit metadata dialog: Fix a bug that broke adding of a file to the book
that calibre did not previously know about in the books directory while
simultaneously changing the author or title of the book.
New news sources
- Mumbai Mirror by Krittika Goyal
- Real Clear by TMcN
- Gazeta Wyborcza by ravcio
- The Daily News Egypt and al masry al youm by Omm Mishmishah
- Klip.me by Ken Sun
Improved news sources
- People's Daily
- Plus Info
- grantland.com
- Eret es irodalom
- Sueddeutsche.de
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