Recent Releases
7.21.011 Nov 2024 23:21
major feature:
7.1705 Nov 2024 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 7.17 23 Aug, 2024
New features
E-book viewer: Support for jumping to and displaying paper edition page numbers
If an e-book contains embedded information about the pages from the paper edition of the book, the calibre E-book viewer can now jump to a page number via the Go to button in the viewer controls. You can also optionally have the current paper edition page number displayed in the header/footer by adding "Pages from paper edition" to either the header or footer in the viewer settings.
Edit book: When text is selected allow changing the indentation of all lines in the selection by pressing Tab to increase one level or Shift+Tab to decrease one level
Allow a plugboard to change the series_index as well as the series name.
News download: News recipes can now optionally use browser engines based on either Qt or Chromium network stacks instead of mechanize.
Email delivery: When sending emails to Kindles do not convert filenames to English letters as Amazon appears to have finally their email servers to handle non-English filenames.
Quickview: Add a tooltip displaying the full cell contents
Update the version of the Qt toolkit bundled with calibre to the latest available, ing some crashes on macOS related to accessibility tools.
Edit book: searching marking incorrect text in the presence of non-BMP unicode characters
Conversion: Do not embed a second copy of a font when using the option to embed font family if the font is already embedded in the book
calibredb list: a regression in the previous release that required setting --template-header to empty to use the list command
Tolino driver: books from the Tolino cloud not being listed.
Windows: Book details panel: selection not visible when using the system default theme.
Hide the Virtual library tab bar in device view as it is non-functional
New news sources.
GaGadget by men00t. Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin by unkn0wn. Science Journal by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
Jot Down. Various Russian and Ukrani
7.1608 Sep 2024 05:05
minor feature:
Release: 7.16 31 Jul, 2024
New features
Add a driver for the new 2024 Tolino devices. They use a modified version of the Kobo firmware, so they are detected as Kobo devices.
Various news recipes now have the ability to download past, accessible via the Advanced tab in the Schedule news dialog.
ONLY if you use the calibre Content server, you should update calibre as soon as possible
If you do not know what the Content server is, you do not use it, and these do not apply to you. If you have set a password to access the Content server that you have not shared with anyone, these do not affect you. A remote code execution in the Content server introduced in calibre version 6.9.0 (released on 2022-11-25) means that anyone with access to the server also has access to the rest of the computer the server is running on. If you are using a password to protect access to the server only people that know the password can gain access via the. Thanks to STAR Labs ( https://starlabs.sg ) for finding these vulnerabilities.
Content server: path traversal vulnerability
A in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.16.0 (released 2023-04-20) means anyone with access to the server can also read non calibre related files on the computer running the server.
Content server: SQL injection vulnerability
A in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.10.0 (released 2022-12-16) means anyone with access to the server can also read non-calibre SQLITE database files on the computer running the server.
Content server: an XSS vulnerability in one endpoint
Only relevant if you embed the calibre server within a larger server, it means attackers who can convince users to click on a specially crafted link, can run JavaScript code with the same origin as the larger server calibre is embedded in.
Content server: an error when opening the downloaded books page directly via a link and using a custom book list template
macOS: opening multiple books from Finder with the editor only opening one of the books
7.1530 Jul 2024 14:05
minor feature:
Release: 7.15 19 Jul, 2024
New features
Fetch news: Allow individual news sources to specify source specific options such as downloading of past editions.
Windows: MTP driver: a regression in the previous release that caused an error with some devices
Icon theme creation dialog: various when creating an icon theme with many icons that have light/dark variants.
New news sources.
WSJ News by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
Bloomberg. Eenadu. Mediapart.
7.1413 Jul 2024 23:05
minor feature:
Release: 7.14 12 Jul, 2024
New features
Book details: When dropping files add an option to add them to the book as data files
Edit book: A new action to toggle line wrapping mode in all code editors. Can be assigned via Preferences- gt;Keyboard shortcuts- gt;Global actions or added to the toolbar via Preferences- gt;Toolbars- gt;Book wide actions.
Kobo driver: Add an option to force the SeriesID for all books in a series to have the same value.
a regression in the previous release that broke merging of books when the confirmation for the merge was disabled
E-book viewer: Allow some header and footer items such as progress to overflow instead of being truncated
HTMLZ output: Make renaming of image files happen in filename order
MTP driver: infinite loop when connecting to some devices with more 65K objects in their filesystem
shortcut editing widget when Qt is using a theme that inserts accelerators into push button labels automatically.
New news sources.
Ancient Egypt Magazine, Minerva Magazine, Military History Magazine and World Archaeology Magazine by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
Instapaper. MIT Tech Review. Guardian. Liberation. The Times and Sunday Times. Bloomberg Businessweek. Times Literary Supplement.
7.1330 Jun 2024 09:05
minor feature:
Release: 7.13 28 Jun, 2024
New features
When merging books add an option to store discarded or replaced covers as an alternate cover in the data folder of the target book
Generate CSV catalog: Add a button to sort the fields by the order in which they appear in the book list
MTP driver: Preserve cover aspect ratio for thumbnail generation
identifiers not always being merged correctly when merging books
DOCX Input: extra left padding when converting lists
Amazon metadata download: Get title and comments for audiobook pages.
Amazon metadata: When filtering search engine results by title ignore words of the title that are purely punctuation.
When matching books on a device to book in the library assume a match if the title and any one author match, dont require all authors to match.
Update Google Images cover download plugin for website changes
When adding new books if the timestamp is specified as undefined use the current timestamp
Content server: systemd pre-activated socket not working.
Content server: no KFX download link in OPDS acquisition feeds
New news sources.
Times Literary Supplement by unkn0wn. Wall Street Journal Magazine by unkn0wn. Various Valnet Publishing Group recipes by Spicy Poison. VOX, The Good E-reder and The e-book Reader by SpicyPoison. Gates Notes, Greatist, Halthline and United Nations by SpicyPoison.
Improved news sources.
Harpers. Wall Street Journal. Liberation. How to Geek. Make Use Of. TechCrunch. LifeHacker. India Today. 1843. Reuters. The Week India. Slate.
7.1231 May 2024 14:25
minor feature:
Release: 7.12 30 May, 2024
New features
E-book polishing: Add option to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.)
Conversion: Add an option under Structure detection to automatically fill in blank alt attributes for images that have alt text in the image file metadata.
Content server: Use the book title as the filename for downloaded highlights
Review downloaded metadata dialog: Add a "Previous" button to go back to the last reviewed book.
Content server viewer: the bottom of the text being cut off on mobile browsers when not in full screen mode. Unfortunately, this means the viewer now requires a browser no more than two years old.
Kindle driver: Increase the size of the cover thumbnails sent to the Scribe
Kindle output: cover images that contain EXIF data without a rotation not displaying on the Kindle lockscreen
E-book viewer: ruby tags not excluded when searching for text.
Content server viewer: a regression in the previous release that broke searching
Improved news sources.
Economist Espresso. Slate.
7.1125 May 2024 00:25
minor feature:
Release: 7.11 24 May, 2024
New features
Kindle driver: Add support for sending cover thumbnails to the Kindle Scribe.
A new options under Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel to draw covers with rounded corners.
Bulk metadata edit: Add a new tab where you can create rules to transform tags/authors/publishers for the selected books
Tag browser context menu for Formats now has Open with menu items
E-book viewer: When hovering over the top/bottom margin show a button indicating that a click will open the viewer controls. Can be configured via The Headers and footers section of the viewer Preferences.
Spell check dialog: Also show count of currently displayed words.
E-book viewer: searching not ignoring ruby text
Edit book: Save the state of the current book when opening a new book via File- gt;Open book.
Edit book: importing a list of words into a user dictionary not working
EPUB3 metadata: Do not fail to read metadata in the presence on invalid calibre user metadata in the OPF file with empty keys.
Get books: rules to map tags on adding books not being applied to books downloaded via Get books.
Spellcheck dialog: Move the checkbox to hide correctly spelled words with the rest of the checkboxes that filter the word list
New news sources.
Collider, Comic Book Archive, Make Use Of, MoviewWeb and ScreenRant by Spicy Poison. Lex Fridman Podcast by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
Slate. Wall Street Journal. London Review of Books. Economist. Bloomberg. Business Week. The World Ahead. National Geographic.
7.1004 May 2024 23:05
minor feature:
Release: 7.10 03 May, 2024
New features
Export of calibre data: Ensure individual part files in the exported data are no larger than one gigabyte even if the library contains individual files larger than that size.
Note that this means that exports created by calibre from this version on will not be importable by earlier versions. However, exports from earlier versions should still be importable.
Edit book: Spell check: Add options to exclude words in ALL CAPS or with numbers or in camelCase/snake_case from the list of words.
Allow easily inverting the current search via the right click menu on the search box.
Kobo driver: database unsupported error with newest firmware
DOCX Input: text elements containing only whitespace being incorrectly ignored
Bulk metadata dialog: Do not fail when setting covers from ebook files and some of the files have invalid covers.
Improved news sources.
Economist. The Week. Caravan Magazine. Financial Times.
7.924 Apr 2024 06:05
minor feature:
Release: 7.9 19 Apr, 2024
New features
Kobo driver: Add support for the new color Kobo devices
Edit book: Add a setting to control cursor width under Preferences- gt;Editor settings.
Edit book: Regex-function mode: Show a confirmation popup when closing the function editor when there are unsaved changes.
undocked Quickview dialog not being restored at startup
Windows: an where closing a maximized calibre window to the system tray and then reconnecting with remote desktop would cause a blank calibre window to be displayed
Improved news sources.
El Correo. Eenadu. ORFonline. NatGeo. Harpers Magazine. New Yorker. Business Today. The Week. Asahi Shimbun. Outlook Magazine.
7.9.020 Apr 2024 02:50
minor feature:
New features
Kobo driver: Add support for the new color Kobo devices
Closes tickets: 2060886
Edit book: Add a setting to control cursor width under Preferences- Editor settings
Edit book: Regex-function mode: Show a confirmation popup when closing the function editor when there are unsaved changes
Bug fixes
Fix undocked Quickview dialog not being restored at startup
Closes tickets: 2060314
Windows: Fix an issue where closing a maximized calibre window to the system tray and then reconnecting with remote desktop would cause a blank calibre window to be displayed
Closes tickets: 2044118
Improved news sources
El Correo
Eenadu
ORFonline
NatGeo
Harpers Magazine
New Yorker
Business Today
The Week
Asahi Shimbun
Outlook Magazine
7.806 Apr 2024 12:05
minor feature:
Release: 7.8 05 Apr, 2024
New features
E-book viewer: Highlight panel: Allow filtering the shown highlights by type of highlight
Conversion: Add support for the CSS text-transform property when subsetting embedded fonts.
E-book viewer: Allow displaying the view mode paged/flow in the header/footer
Book details popup window: Allow dropping of files to add formats/set the cover just as for the book details panel
Book details: Context menu: Add a menu action to remove the associated link
DOCX Input: Add role=doc-noteref for links to footnotes/endnotes so that they popup in more e-book readers.
Add a "Mark all selected books" to the Mark action.
Add "Hide Empty Categories" to tag browser configuration menu
Supernote: Support for new device firmware.
Sort by tool: Add an action to re-apply the current sort.
Grid view cover cache: covers not loading when cache entries are stale.
Conversion: Do not change viewport relative font sizes used for SVG text elements
Conversion: lt;style gt; tags inside lt;svg gt; tags not being processed
Get books: Update Kobo store plugin for website changes.
EPUB Input: Use a translated name for the cover page.
New news sources.
Bergfreunde Blog by VoHe. Live Law and Politico.eu by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
Caravan. Global Times. New York Review of Books. Himal Southasian. The Week. CBC Canada.
7.714 Mar 2024 12:41
minor feature:
New features
Trim image: Allow specifying the size of the trim rectangle using numbers
Closes tickets: 2056116
Full text search: Allow pressing Ctrl+S to select the current book in the calibre book list
Closes tickets: 2056664
Speed up scrolling through the book list book-by-book by only redrawing the book details panel when scrolling pauses
Add a tweak under Preferences- Tweaks to set the first day of the week in popup calendars used to input dates
Bug fixes
CHM Input: Handle CHM files with no HHC Table of Contents
Closes tickets: 2056470
E-book viewer: Fix a few settings such as pages per screen and header/footers not being saved in profiles
Full text search: Ignore text inside tags when indexing books
Closes tickets: 2056614
DOCX Output: Preserve spaces around soft hyphens
Book details popup: Copy the original cover image to the clipboard even when the image is rescaled to fit into view
Fix changing disabled colors in the UI color palette overriding non-disabled colors
Content server: Fix deletion of viewer profiles not working
Improved news sources
LiveMint
Bloomberg
Natural Geographic
MIT Technology Review
NY Review of Books
Scientific American
7.603 Mar 2024 17:45
minor feature:
Release: 7.6 01 Mar, 2024
New features
E-book viewer: Allow saving current settings in "profiles" that can be quickly and easily swapped between
To create a profile or switch to a previously saved profile access "Profiles" from the viewer controls or press the `Alt+P` shortcut.
Edit book: Add a shortcut `Ctrl+M` to merge selected files
Get books: Add support for Amazon Mexico.
A new toolbar button to show all available actions in sub menus. Can be added via `Preferences- gt;Toolbars amp; menus`.
Edit book: Allow selecting multiple books to edit at once, opening all selected books in separate editor instances.
Cover grid: dragging the mouse while holding shift to extend the selection not working well
E-book viewer: doing a multi-page selections sometimes causing the start of the selection to move backwards
Edit book: Live CSS: regression causing incorrect colors in calibre 7.
Windows: a regression in calibre 7 that caused images in long text columns to not be displayed in the tooltip for the tooltip.
disabled items in menus having blurry text.
Content server: a regression in the previous release that caused an error when doing a search/sort on some browsers.
New news sources.
The Week UK by unkn0wn. Andhrajyothy by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
New Yorker. Moneycontrol. Swarajya Mag. nautil.us. Pro Physik.
7.5.109 Feb 2024 12:23
major feature:
New features
Allow fine tuning the colors used in the calibre interface via Preference- Look feel- Main interface- User interface colors
Note that calibre no longer follows system colors on Linux in light mode (the only place where it used to follow system colors). However, there is a convenient button in the manage colors dialog to import the system colors.
Full text search window: Add actions to the context menu to open the book at the clicked on result. Also allow using the view book shortcut to open the currently selected search result
Closes tickets: 2052462
When showing the Full text search dialog, pre populate the search box with the contents of the main calibre search box if the main search box contains a simple search
Closes tickets: 2052460
Bug fixes
Windows: Fix a regression in 7.0 that caused images referring to files on the disk within comments columns to not display in some circumstances
E-book viewer: Fix clock showing hour as zero instead of 12 between 12 and 1 am/pm
Edit book: When wrapping selected text in a tag, preserve the selection after wrapping
Closes tickets: 2050100
Content server: Fix a periodic spurious error message when reading books in offline mode
Closes tickets: 2050075
Fix a regression in 7.0 caused by a regression in Qt that would result in calibre hanging rarely when using the cover browser view
Fix custom template functions not useable in save to disk templates
Closes tickets: 2049992
Fix a regression in 7.2 that caused the popup used for editing fields in the book list to be mis-positioned on very wide monitors
Version 7.5.1 fixes a bug in 7.5.0 where calibre would not start up using dark colors when the system was in dark mode on some windows installs and another bug that could cause errors when using cover grid mode with covers stored in CMYK colorspace
Closes tickets: 2052766
New news sources
ugeskriftet by morusn
Martin Fowler and Gitbug Blogs by Lucas Lois
Improved news sources
El Diplo
Science News
Barrons
Financial Tim
7.419 Jan 2024 18:05
minor feature:
Release: 7.4 19 Jan, 2024
New features
Add support for the Supernote A6X2.
Narrow layout: Place the cover browser above the book list when the window has a narrow aspect ratio. Can be controlled via Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Cover browser.
Category notes browser: Add a button to search for books in the currently selected category
Keyboard shortcut to toggle main window layout (Alt+Shift+L).
Add the possibility to assign keyboard shortcuts to the tag browser sort functions.
a regression in the previous release that caused the cover browser to not when it is used as a separate window.
a regression in the previous release that caused comments in the Book details panel to be rendered below rather than at the side of the other information.
Edit book: highlighting of special character not changed immediately after it is edited, only after a subsequent action.
Move Preferences to the left in the default toolbar, making it less likely to be hidden behind an expander button on small screens.
Improved news sources.
LiveMint. Foreign Policy. New Scientist.
7.307 Jan 2024 07:25
minor feature:
Release: 7.3 05 Jan, 2024
New features
Tag browser: Allow displaying buttons next to items that have notes or links for easy access. To enable these use Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Tag browser.
Font subsetting: Preserve all OpenType layout features. This makes the subset font files larger but ensures there is no visual degradation when using the subsetted font files in different contexts.
macOS: main calibre window not remembering its size on restart.
Edit book: the "Show changes" window moving down by a few pixels every time it is opened.
Amazon metadata download: for various changes to amazon website markup
E-book viewer: When looking up words via Google in Europe pre-approve the GDPR consent cookie
Windows: Content server: regression in previous release that broke testing for local connections
Windows: a regression that caused selections in the Book details panel to be invisible.
New news sources.
Hindustan Times Print Edition by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
Foreign Policy. Business Standard. Il Post. Indian Express. Washington Post.
7.215 Dec 2023 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 7.2 15 Dec, 2023
New features
Content server: Also listen for all incoming IPv6 connections by default, not just IPv4.
Book details: Allow deleting notes from the right click menu easily.
Windows: Edit book: a crash when using the check book tool with a book that contains malformed markup, in calibre 7
Windows: Improve flickering at startup due to a Qt regression in calibre 7.
Windows: moving the main window causing popup/floating windows to be resized in calibre 7 due to yet another Qt regression.
detection of existing books on the Tolino Vision 6
Linux: external applications not being launched under Wayland in calibre 7 because of a in Qt.
Linux: network requests failing under Fedora in calibre 7.
Improved news sources.
Reuters. Scientific American. New Yorker. Times of India. infzm. singtaohk.
7.125 Nov 2023 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 7.1 23 Nov, 2023
New features
Notes editor: When pasting HTML with images offer to download remote images in the pasted content.
regression in 7.0 that broke restore of db from backups.
Content server: newly added books on homepage not restricted to the books the logged in user is allowed to access.
When starting in system tray do not flash the main window briefly
Notes editor: spurious error message when saving a note that contains pasted HTML that refers to an image.
a regression that caused the unknown/unset date to incorrectly be displayed/edited as a date in the year AD 101 in some timezones
Comments editor: data file links not working.
Linux installer: Check that the user has libxcb-cursor.so.0 installed. If not quit early with an error message asking them to install it.
LRF Output: a regression in 7.0 that broke conversion to LRF
New news sources.
The World Ahead by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
Substack.
7.018 Nov 2023 12:05
minor feature:
Release: 7.0 17 Nov, 2023
New features
For details on the major changes in calibre between 7.0 and 6.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/sixteen.
The ability to add notes to any author, tag, series, etc. in calibre with links and images.
E-book viewer: Add support for HTML image maps
Content server home page: Show the three most recently added books in the default library.
Content server: Add button to return to book details page at top level of controls.
Content server: Book details: Open links in comments fields in the same window rather than a new window.
Add a "Show items in selected books" choice to Manage tags and Manage authors.
Show the previously used language, if any, second in the language selection drop down
Metadata download: downloads from Google not working in Europe because of the GDPR
editing dates with days sometimes off by one day
Edit book: highlighting for special characters not visible when the cursor is on the line with the special character.
embedding metadata showing infinite error dialogs on windows if a file is locked by another program
PDF Output: an error when trying to set header or footer with an input document that has invalid content after the main body
E-book viewer: Read aloud: clicking on empty spaces causing read aloud to restart from beginning of chapter
Book details: Manage authors via context menu not working.
E-book viewer: Showing chrome should an active footnote popup first and only show chrome if the user repeats the action
very slow metadata updates on some PDF files
Catalogs: Do not erase any tags the user adds to a catalog book entry when the catalog is re-generated
Linux installer: downloading of signatures for older versions
editing non-active Virtual library changes sort of book list
New news sources.
Bookforum, Kirkus Reviews and Poetry Magazine by ping.
Improved news sources.
Financial Times. National Geographic. Hamilton Spectator. Times of India. MIT Tech Review. Bloomberg. Washington Post. Project Syndica
6.2920 Oct 2023 03:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.29 20 Oct, 2023
New features
E-book viewer: Add a command line flag --new-instance to force the viewer to open a new window even if the option to always use a single viewer window is set
E-book viewer: Image popup: Add a checkbox to remember the last used zoom level
Annotations browser: exporting highlights in markdown not including all chapter titles for books with only a single highlight per chapter or a multi level ToC
E-book viewer: a regression that could cause the viewer to enter an infinite loop when displaying the result of a search that has only one match that is not found
E-book viewer: the occasional search result being marked as not found even though it is found
TXTZ Output plugin: Only keep images if the text format is one that can reference images
TXTZ Output: cover not being properly identified in the generated TXTZ metadata
FB2 Input: the "Annotations" section not showing up in the Table of Contents
Linux: Content server: Do not call listen on pre-activated sockets
sort order of similarly-named hierarchical categories.
a regression that broke reading of covers from HTMLZ and TXTZ files
New news sources.
Project Syndicate, Scroll.in and Newslaundry by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
Wall Street Journal. Scientific American. 1843. Financial Times. Spectator Magazine. El Diplo. Wasshington Post. national Geographic.
6.28.111 Oct 2023 10:05
minor feature:
Release: 6.28.1 07 Oct, 2023
New features
Edit book: Show full path to book being edited in the status bar.
Edit book: When adding dictionaries allow directly a LibreOffice adding the dictionary just by choosing the language.
Edit book: When saving a copy add some convenience actions to edit the copy immediately either in the current editor window or a new window.
E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Allow right clicking to export only selected highlights.
Edit book: a regression in the previous release that caused Text search to sometimes not select matches correctly
Edit book: When copying files do it in order so that the files are pasted in the same order when pasting into another editor instance
Edit book: smart tag insert not working correctly if the selected text starts with the closing angle bracket of a tag.
Save to disk: Do not limit the total path length to 240 characters on non-Windows platforms
incorrect cover for AZW3 version of calibre User Manual
Content server: Change formatting of book details to match new de-emphasized titles based formatting in the main calibre program
PDF metadata: a regression that broke updating metadata in PDF files without an /Info dictionary.
NOOK driver: For the Glowlight 2023 write the calibre metadata files into the NOOK sub-folder as the firmware does not allow writing files into the root folder.
NOOK driver: Glowlight 2023 not being detected on Linux and macOS.
E-book viewer: Make CFI calculation more robust especially on pages with very little content
E-book viewer: Workaround in Chromium where getBoundingClientRect() fails sometimes leading to incorrect calculation of anchor positions
errors caused by.DS_Store files inserted into the.caltrash directory on macOS if the user happens to open.caltrash in Finder
Version 6.28.1 a regression in 6.28.0 that could cause errors when merging some book records in calibre.
New news sources.
Business Standard Print Edition by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
National Geographic. Bloom
6.2807 Oct 2023 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.28 06 Oct, 2023
New features
Edit book: Show full path to book being edited in the status bar.
Edit book: When adding dictionaries allow directly a LibreOffice adding the dictionary just by choosing the language.
Edit book: When saving a copy add some convenience actions to edit the copy immediately either in the current editor window or a new window.
E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Allow right clicking to export only selected highlights.
Edit book: a regression in the previous release that caused Text search to sometimes not select matches correctly
Edit book: When copying files do it in order so that the files are pasted in the same order when pasting into another editor instance
Edit book: smart tag insert not working correctly if the selected text starts with the closing angle bracket of a tag.
Save to disk: Do not limit the total path length to 240 characters on non-Windows platforms
incorrect cover for AZW3 version of calibre User Manual
Content server: Change formatting of book details to match new de-emphasized titles based formatting in the main calibre program
PDF metadata: a regression that broke updating metadata in PDF files without an /Info dictionary.
NOOK driver: For the Glowlight 2023 write the calibre metadata files into the NOOK sub-folder as the firmware does not allow writing files into the root folder.
NOOK driver: Glowlight 2023 not being detected on Linux and macOS.
E-book viewer: Make CFI calculation more robust especially on pages with very little content
E-book viewer: Workaround in Chromium where getBoundingClientRect() fails sometimes leading to incorrect calculation of anchor positions
errors caused by.DS_Store files inserted into the.caltrash directory on macOS if the user happens to open.caltrash in Finder
New news sources.
Business Standard Print Edition by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
National Geographic. Bloomberg. Endgadget. Times of India. Horizons.
6.2723 Sep 2023 20:05
minor feature:
Release: 6.27 22 Sep, 2023
New features
Kobo driver: Support updated firmware
Nook driver: Add support for Nook Glowlight Plus 2023.
Data files manager: Allow drag and drop of files onto the list of files to add new files.
Support 7z archives in addition to ZIP and RAR for automatic ebook extraction when adding to calibre
Linux/macOS: detection of the Kindle Scribe with MTP firmware.
E-book viewer: Allow clearing list of recently opened books from the open button's popup menu itself
E-book viewer: Add a link to show the currently viewed book in the calibre library (Go to- gt;Metadata in the viewer controls to access it)
Book information dialog: a regression that caused incorrect color for titles in dark mode
E-book viewer: searching does not jump to first match if all matches are before current position in book
EPUB Output: duplicated title page entry in spine for books that define a title page that ends up getting split
Allow for-light/dark-theme icon overrides to work for plugin icons placed by the user in the override folder.
PDF Output: background image + text not rendering correctly if the same background image is used with different text multiple times
E-book viewer: section titles in highlights panel being incorrectly expanded to full titles when the section has multiple highlights
Prevent Quickview window from opening in the background
Edit book: a regression in the previous release that caused an error when doing text based searches
New news sources.
Times of India Print Edition by unkn0wn. Hindu Feeds based by unkn0wn. Australian Financial Review by unkn0wn.
Improved news sources.
Ambito. Financial Times. USA Today.
6.2609 Sep 2023 08:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.26 08 Sep, 2023
New features MTP driver: Support the new Kindle Scribe firmware that causes it to act as an MTP device instead of USB disk. Add "Documents" to the list of default folders to send books to.
E-book viewer: Add a new option under scrolling behavior to control horizontal mouse wheel events jumping to next section.
Allow full customization of Book details styling via Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Book details.
Get books: Update ebooks.com plugin for website changes
Edit book: searching for non-BMP unicode characters highlighting only half the character.
E-book viewer: displaying more than one page per screen causing page layout to be slightly wrong for some books
E-book viewer: clicking on links with empty destinations hanging the viewer
E-book viewer: modifying, then jumping to and then modifying the highlight again from the highlights panel causing the highlight to be deleted
E-book viewer: indication of current section in Table of Contents sometimes wrong after changing font size
E-book viewer/Content server: Disallow browser native context menu when right clicking in sandboxed iframes
MTP driver: Ignore top level folders whose names start with a leading dot Also ignore AppleDouble files, top level system and fonts folders and sdr folders on Kindle devices.
FB2 Input: use the lt;p gt; tag for paragraphs that dont contain other block content
E-book viewer: clicking on the back/forward buttons not working in some situations
E-book viewer: scrolling to Table of Contents items that are within a single internal file not activating the back button
E-book viewer: changing the sans-serif font without also changing the monospaced font not working
New news sources.
Nikkei Asia (Magazine) and Espresso by unkn0w7n
Improved news sources.
National Geographic. Sportstar. Bangkok Post. MIT Technology Review. Bloomberg. Economic Times India. Firstpost.
6.2519 Aug 2023 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.25 18 Aug, 2023
New features Book details panel: De-emphasize titles making the actual data stand out more
Allow using the new manage data files dialog from within the edit metadata dialog.
Trash dialog: Allow right clicking on an entry to save it to disk
When merging books by drag-and-drop add an option to use the dragged cover instead of the cover in the target book
Create catalog: Add buttons to easily select all/non/visible fields when creating CSV/XML catalogs
Preferences- gt;Add your own columns: Add buttons to show/hide all columns
a regression in the previous release that broke parsing of some ISO-8601 timestamps
E-book viewer: Mouse wheel horizontal events should jump sections not internal file boundaries
Preferences- gt;Add your own columns changing check state on moving columns
Get books: update various Polish e-book stores for website changes.
E-book viewer: CFI parsing of numbers with trailing zeros causing some bookmarks to not work
E-book viewer: Show an error when creating a bookmark if the bookmark position is not found
CBR Input: comics with extremely long internal filenames not working on Windows
Edit book: Saved searches: incorrect import in generated source code for some builtin functions.
Data file manager: errors on systems with larger font sizes.
New news sources.
The Oldie by Sophist. Various new Russian and Ukrainian news sources by Unknown
Improved news sources.
Bloomberg. Focus. Epoch Times. Hindu. Business Today. NYTimes.
6.2405 Aug 2023 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.24 04 Aug, 2023
New features Easily manage the extra data files associated with a book by right clicking the edit metadata button and choose "Manage data files"
Content server: Full text search: Allow searching a restricted subset of books
E-book viewer: Allow clicking on calibre:// URLs
Support fuzzier searching in the Tag browser find allowing unaccented characters to match accented ones
DOCX conversion: Preserve underline style and color
incorrect sorting of device view after some operations.
visit content server in browser not working when the content server is configured to listen on an IPv6 interface
one hour offset in some timezones on Windows for dates before 1970
Windows: HTML Input: error when trying to add HTML files with links to other files that are invalid pathnames
Get books: Update various Polish language book stores for website changes.
New news sources.
The New Republic Magazine by ping. Inc42 by unkn0w7n
Improved news sources.
Epoch Times. Business Standard. Tagesspiegel. Bloomberg Business Week. MIT Technology Review. Live Mint. Private Eye.
6.2314 Jul 2023 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.23 14 Jul, 2023
New features PDF Output: Add an option to discard the book cover instead of inserting it as the first page of the PDF
Content server: Allow opening the book details page for a matches book from the Full text search results page
Windows: empty data folder getting created in directory calibre is launched from when changing title/author for a book with an existing data folder.
LIT Output: error converting anything to LIT on Windows
Ignore failures to expire old trash during startup.
Amazon metadata download: retrieval of publisher information from amazon.fr
New news sources.
ThePressProject by Sotiris Papatheodorou
Improved news sources.
Guardian amp; Observer. Washington Post. Private Eye. Associated Press.
6.2201 Jul 2023 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.22 30 Jun, 2023
New features Kobo driver: Add support for newest firmware.
Trash bin: Allow setting removed books to be permanently deleted on library Windows: Nicer error message when file/folder is locked in another program.
PDF Output: regression that caused large slowdowns when converting books with lots of internal HTML files to PDF.
CHM Input: ToC entries that use fragments not supported
E-book viewer: searching for text next to hidden text not scrolling to the match.
E-book viewer: selection popup not showing for some books on some platforms when the selection is in the top line
DOCX Output: multiple SVG images in the input document causing all the SVG images in the output to be just one of the input images
MOBI Input: Ignore another form of corruption in trailing bytes
New news sources.
Radio Canada by quatorze. Deutschland Funk by Armin Geller
Improved news sources.
Foreign Affairs. Nature. Bloomberg. LiveMint. Hindu and Hindu Business Line. Deautsche Welle. Horizons. Indian Express. Psych. Harper's Magazine.
6.2113 Jun 2023 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.21 13 Jun, 2023
New features DOCX Output: Add support for SVG images
Now the generated DOCX will contain both the rasterized version of the SVG image and the original SVG image as the preferred source, which is supported by modern versions of Word.
E-book viewer: Allow configuring the actions triggered by touch gestures
DOCX Input: Add support for SVG images.
Windows: a regression in the previous release that could cause files to be deleted if one of the files/folders was open in another program while changing title/author in calibre.
macOS: extra dock icons visible when doing a job using Qt WebEngine such as converting to PDF or searching in Get books
macOS and Linux: an error when changing metadata or deleting books whose files are owned by another user
CHM Input: Yet another regression opening CHM files with missing internal files on windows
CHM Input: Resolve absolute links to resource files from the root of the CHM file
New news sources.
The India Forum by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
Guardian amp; Observer. Harper's Magazine Print recipe. Live Mint.
6.2009 Jun 2023 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.20 09 Jun, 2023
CHM Input: a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of CHM files
Windows: Make moving files in the calibre library folder more robust, locking folders in addition to files, before the start of the move.
Get books: Update Barnes and Noble store plugin for website changes
Kindle output: Only re-encode JPEG images with EXIF metadata if the metadata contains actual transpose operations
PDF Output: error when input document contains multiple instances of a font some with vertical metrics and some without
PDF Output: using CSS Multicolumns for body causing conversion to fail when header/footer is specified.
MOBI Input: a crash when converting some corrupted palmdoc compressed MOBI files
E-book viewer: Ensure CSS stylesheets are interpreted as UTF-8
New news sources.
Prospect Magazine UK (Free) by ping
Improved news sources.
Foreign Affairs.
6.19.130 May 2023 11:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.19.1 29 May, 2023
New features HTML Input: Restrict adding of resources like images to only files within the folder hierarchy starting at the parent folder of the root HTML file Can be controlled by customizing the HTML to Zip plugin in Preferences- gt;Plugins or the --allow-local-files-outside-root option to the ebook-convert command.
PDF Output: regression in previous release causing non-English entries to be incorrectly encoded into the PDF bookmarks.
PDF Output: regression in previous release that caused blank pages when generating headers or footers.
Book list: editing-in-place not pre-selecting existing text for some column types
Amazon.de metadata download: Update for site changes.
PDF Output: Set /Creator and /Producer in /Info.
row height incorrect in Manage category dialog when blank.
19.1 a in 6.19.0 that broke the edit metadata dialog.
6.1826 May 2023 03:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.18 26 May, 2023
New features Cover download: Allowing saving alternate covers to disk or in the book's data folder by right clicking on the cover
Content server: Allow disabling full text search via the web interface
When sending books to the device confirm the overwrite if the book already exists on the device
E-book viewer: Handle horizontal wheel events as section jumps in paged mode.
Comic Input: When grayscaling comic images use 16bit gray instead of 8bit for better fidelity
When using the PNG format for images this results in larger files but with better grayscaling fidelity.
Add a new option in Preferences- gt;Searching to disable keyboard searching in book list (i.e. you can turn off the behavior that pressing a key will jump to the first book whose title starts with that letter).
Manage categories dialog: Use alternating row colors and allow adjusting row height
Allow assigning a keyboard shortcut in Preferences- gt;Shortcuts to open the data folder of a book.
Various improvements to syntax highlighting for the Markdown long text editor.
a regression in 6.16 that broke restoring of the database
Tag browser: using F2 to edit items not allowing completion.
Book details: formatting of text when copying all book details in narrow mode.
Book details: copy all not respecting line breaks in fields.
a regression in previous release that broke scrolling when using the scroll_per_row tweak
a regression in the previous release that broke the category manager dialog in some situations
New news sources.
Irish Times Free by unkn0wn. elEconomista.es and El Confidencial by Hugo Meza
Improved news sources.
NYTimes. Economist. Washington Post. Irish Independent and Irish Times. Live Mint. Psych. Hindu.
6.1728 Apr 2023 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.17 26 Apr, 2023
New features Font subsetting: Add support for WOFF format fonts and CID keyed fonts. Also further reduce file sizes when subsetting.
Book details: Show a link to open the data files folder when data files are present.
Template language: Add various functions to query the extra files associated with a book.
Edit book: Compress images: Support compression of images in the WEBP format as well
Comments editor: Add buttons to create links to data files and also to folders easily when inserting a link.
Allow displaying the id, formats and path builtin columns via Preferences- gt;Add your own columns.
Trash bin: Add a button to clear the bin
Metadata editor: Use a dedicated editor with preview for custom columns that store markdown formatted text.
a regression in the previous release that could result in empty author folders remaining in the library when the author of a book is changed.
the data files associated with a book not being handled when using the Merge books and Copy to library functions
a regression in the previous release that broke some operations in the Manage tags/authors/etc. dialogs.
Ensure metadata.opf is always written when deleting book even if it is not sequenced for backup
Improved news sources.
Scientific American.
6.1622 Apr 2023 23:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.16 20 Apr, 2023
New features Allow storing extra data files with a book
Right click the Add books button to add arbitrary files as "data files" to a book record. These are managed by calibre along with the book files, but cannot be used for conversion/viewing. Select a book and press the "O" key to view the data files in your file explorer.
Allow undoing the deletion of books from the calibre library
Now deleted books are stored in a calibre "Trash bin" from which they can be restored with a single click. To view the trash bin, right click the "Remove books" button.
Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Elipsa 2E
Book details: if an item has an associated link then offer that link in the item's context menu.
Content server viewer: end of chapter content being occasionally skipped when scrolling by screen full with multiple pages
E-book viewer: a regression that caused notes from a different highlights to be shown in some situations
E-book viewer: Show an error if the user tries to search for only punctuation or spaces in the search modes that ignore these
custom columns not showing in Book details links from other libraries.
New news sources.
Bar and Bench by unkn0wn. The Washington Post Print Edition by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
Frontline. Outlook Magazine.
6.15.112 Apr 2023 07:05
minor feature:
Release: 6.15.1 07 Apr, 2023
New features Allow adding external links to tags, series, publishers, etcetera in addition to authors
The links show up as click-able icons in the book details panel. They can be set by right clicking the author/tag/etc. in the Tag browser and choosing "Manage".
calibre:// URL scheme: Add support for a new type of URL that pops up the metadata of the specified book in a new window
Works even with books not in the current library. See https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/url_scheme.html#open-a-book-details-window-on-a-book-in-some-library for details.
EPUB Output: Do not shrink images to fit the screen size by default, as modern readers do this themselves well enough. Can be controlled via an option in the EPUB Output section of the conversion dialog.
Edit metadata dialog: Add buttons to pop up the category editing windows easily.
Metadata download: Allow specifying rules to transform publisher names in addition to author and tag names
Edit metadata dialog: Use both a colored border and an icon to indicate errors in line edits
A new tweak in Preferences- gt;Tweaks to control what program is run when clicking on URLs in calibre.
E-book viewer: a regression that caused incorrect highlight collision detection in some books
E-book viewer: images embedded inside SVG tags not available for viewing in a pop-up.
DOCX Input: Do not ignore images that are present as fallbacks for a word drawing object
Comic Input: When converting grayscaled PNG images to PNG ensure output images are stored as indexed PNG.
active tab not easy to distinguish in dark mode
Content server: re-opening book from home page after making progress not opening to correct last read position when a user is logged in
Comments editor: When copying to clipboard, copy clean HTML rather than the junk Qt produces
Version 6.15.1 an with the new URL scheme popping up incorrect book details windows.
New news sources.
Tehelka by Areet Mahadevan. The Wire by unkn0wn
Improved news source
6.1508 Apr 2023 03:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.15 07 Apr, 2023
New features Allow adding external links to tags, series, publishers, etcetera in addition to authors
The links show up as click-able icons in the book details panel. They can be set by right clicking the author/tag/etc. in the Tag browser and choosing "Manage".
calibre:// URL scheme: Add support for a new type of URL that pops up the metadata of the specified book in a new window
Works even with books not in the current library. See https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/url_scheme.html#open-a-book-details-window-on-a-book-in-some-library for details.
EPUB Output: Do not shrink images to fit the screen size by default, as modern readers do this themselves well enough. Can be controlled via an option in the EPUB Output section of the conversion dialog.
Edit metadata dialog: Add buttons to pop up the category editing windows easily.
Metadata download: Allow specifying rules to transform publisher names in addition to author and tag names
Edit metadata dialog: Use both a colored border and an icon to indicate errors in line edits
A new tweak in Preferences- gt;Tweaks to control what program is run when clicking on URLs in calibre.
E-book viewer: a regression that caused incorrect highlight collision detection in some books
E-book viewer: images embedded inside SVG tags not available for viewing in a pop-up.
DOCX Input: Do not ignore images that are present as fallbacks for a word drawing object
Comic Input: When converting grayscaled PNG images to PNG ensure output images are stored as indexed PNG.
active tab not easy to distinguish in dark mode
Content server: re-opening book from home page after making progress not opening to correct last read position when a user is logged in
Comments editor: When copying to clipboard, copy clean HTML rather than the junk Qt produces
New news sources.
Tehelka by Areet Mahadevan. The Wire by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
Saechsische Zeitung. LA Times. Mediapart. Live Mint. The Hindu.
6.14.116 Mar 2023 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.14.1 16 Mar, 2023
New features Edit metadata: When setting a cover from comic files allow choosing which page to use as the cover
Allow display of columns built from other columns as comments in Book details
Comments editor: Add a shortcut for "Paste and match style" (Ctrl+Shift+v).
macOS: ToC Editor: mouse becoming unusable when trying to create a new entry
When computing title sorts strip leading and trailing quotes, not just leading quotes.
Content server viewer: searching only showing results from the current chapter onwards
Check book: some incorrect line numbers reported in a few CSS error messages
regression in 6.14.0 that caused some generated resources to be excluded from the calibre source bundle.
regression in 6.14.0 that broke using paths with single quotes in them for the calibre library
ToC Editor on macOS in 6.14.0 not working inside the Edit book tool only.
Improved news sources.
Strange Horizons. The Saturday Paper. New Scientist. The Mainichi. DR Nyheder. New York Magazine. Bloomberg. Deccan Herald.
6.1410 Mar 2023 15:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.14 10 Mar, 2023
New features Edit metadata: When setting a cover from comic files allow choosing which page to use as the cover
Allow display of columns built from other columns as comments in Book details
Comments editor: Add a shortcut for "Paste and match style" (Ctrl+Shift+v).
macOS: ToC Editor: mouse becoming unusable when trying to create a new entry
When computing title sorts strip leading and trailing quotes, not just leading quotes.
Content server viewer: searching only showing results from the current chapter onwards
Check book: some incorrect line numbers reported in a few CSS error messages
Improved news sources.
Strange Horizons. The Saturday Paper. New Scientist. The Mainichi. DR Nyheder. New York Magazine. Bloomberg. Deccan Herald.
6.1318 Feb 2023 08:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.13 17 Feb, 2023
New features Content server: E-book viewer: Long tapping on an image now causes it to be displayed in an internal popup rather than a new window as some browsers block the creation of new windows.
E-book viewer: some adjacent highlights with nothing in between them not being displayed.
Content server: Workaround for Safari regression causing bookmarks to disappear on reload
E-book viewer: Read aloud: a regression in the previous release that caused the Read aloud controls to not reappear when Read aloud is canceled and restarted
E-book viewer: Read aloud: a regression in the previous release that caused an error when using Read aloud on a chapter with no text, such as the cover page
E-book viewer: a regression that caused a spurious error on Windows when reading out selected text.
a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke sorting the device view by title if one of the books has an empty title
Edit book: Spell Check dialog: second word not getting selected when after first word is
Improve hover highlight color in tree views
New news sources.
The Economist Espresso by unkn0wn. Science X by unkn0wn. Horizons by unkn0wn. Deccan Herald by unkn0wn. The Monthly by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
CNN. Bloomberg.
6.1204 Feb 2023 14:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.12 03 Feb, 2023
New features E-book viewer: Read aloud: On Windows switch to using the new Microsoft speech subsystem with access to more voices
Note that this means that old voice, speed and audio devices setting will not be used so a reconfiguration might be needed.
calibre:// URL scheme: allow specifying a Virtual library for show_book URLs
Add by ISBN: Allow adding using identifiers other than ISBN as well
Update bundled Qt to 6.4 this means calibre on macOS is now only supported on Big Sur and newer.
Spell check dialog: Allow up and down arrow keys to work regardless of focus.
Allow multiple Template tester dialogs
Windows MTP device driver: Ignore failure to enumerate objects inside non-root folders
There are apparently a lot of devices out there that fail in this way. So rather than aborting the scan simply ignore the folder.
Book list: a regression in the previous release that broke dragging to select multiple books.
Content server viewer: reload book not actually reloading until the browser is also refreshed
E-book viewer: occasional false warning about highlight being overwritten
E-book viewer: detection of selected highlights when all text is selected
an error when embedding metadata into a large number of books
When updating metadata in EPUB 2 files and no language is specified, do not remove the lt;dc:language gt; tag as this causes epubcheck to complain. Instead set the language to "und"
Wireless device driver: Remove the timeout for initial connection
Use an icon rather than a color to report errors in fields and the search box
Conversion dialog: Regex builder: Workaround in Qt that prevented searching for non breaking spaces in the wizard used to test search expressions.
Spell check dialog: move down after correcting word, not up
Get books: Mobileread store plugin not working
New news sources.
Boston Globe Print Edition by unkn0wn. Observer Reach Foundation by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
Jerusalem Post. LiveMint. The Seattle Times
6.1107 Jan 2023 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.11 06 Jan, 2023
New features Edit book: Check book: Allow automatic ing of various simple CSS errors.
E-book viewer: When Read aloud is speaking, make the control bar translucent so that words under the bar are visible.
Edit book: Switch to a new library (stylelint) for find problems in CSS as the old library was no longer maintained.
Edit book: File browser: Allow using keyboard shortcuts to re-order the spine.
calibredb list: Allow specifying multiple fields for --sort-by
Check library: Allow opening the book folder easily
windows not being moved onto the current monitor when they were previously visible on a removed monitor that was to the left of the current monitor.
Book list: a regression in the previous release that broke drag and drop of multiple books
detection of Tolino Vision 6 on macOS/Linux
Content server: auto full screen not working when continuing to read books with user account enabled
Edit book: Set semantics: error when setting the "Notes" semantic.
HTMLZ output: images referred to in CSS stylesheets not being converted
Book details panel: HTML comment tags in the comments breaking display of book details
Content server home page: When showing recently read books from across devices hide the entries for which loading the cover fails.
Windows Text-to-speech: Dont fail to configure if one of the voices has no defined language.
a regression in calibre 5 that broke using a file for the --extra-css option of ebook-convert.
Content server FTS: page header bar not visible.
Content server: identifiers from third party metadata download plugins not becoming clickable links on the book details page.
Edit book: Warn when saving will overwrite a read-only file.
restoring geometry of maximized/fullscreen dialogs forcing them visible.
a regression in the previous release that caused spurious error message when doing some out of band searches
a regression in the previous release that broke choosing new programs for the Open with function.
New new
6.1017 Dec 2022 12:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.10 16 Dec, 2022
New features Content server: Add support for searching the full text of books. Simply click the FTS link on the search page to start a full text search.
Content server: When using user accounts, the homepage now shows recently read books from any device not just the current device
Kobo driver: Bump the max supported firmware version
Conversion: New Output profile for the Kindle Scribe
Check library: Allow ignoring folder names as well as files names
Edit book: various formatting operations not inserting the tags in the correct place in the presence of non-BMP characters
Edit book: Use lt;s gt; instead of lt;strike gt; for strikethrough.
Edit book: export saved search to search panel not preserving the wrap checkbox state
Content server: Redirect the index page to always have trailing slash when using URL pre Book list: Workaround for change in Qt 6 behavior where clicking on an already selected row does not deselect other rows.
Windows: a regression in calibre 6 causing Open With to not extract icons from EXE files
New news sources.
Fokus by Henrik Holm. Press Information Bureau by unkn0wn. Himal Southasian by unkn0wn. Indian Express Print Edition by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
Indian Express. Financial Times. TIME Magazine. Hindu Business Line Print Edition. Arts and Letters Daily. Frontline. Sportstar. New Yorker.
6.925 Nov 2022 07:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.9 25 Nov, 2022
New features E-book viewer: When exporting highlights as plain text include titles from chapters at all levels not just the first level.
Edit book: Reports: Show the number of words per file in the Files section of the report.
Windows builds: sign DLLs in addition to EXEs to make Microsoft's new "Smart App Control" tool happy.
Sending by email: When adding comments also add series.
Nook driver: Put files in NOOK/Books instead of NOOK/My Files on recent nook devices so they are all listed in one place in the NOOK UI
calibredb list: Allow using a template as one of the returned fields.
Tag browser: Add context menu action to turn on/off sub-categorization for a category.
Merging books: title sort not being updated when the title is updated
Content server viewer: incorrect sorting of highlights in the same paragraph.
Content server viewer: When exporting highlights as text include chapter titles.
Improve rendering of the separator handle dots introduced in the previous release.
Edit book: regression in previous release causing applying any container update marking all open image editors as modified.
a regression in the previous release that caused copying book details to clipboard to use unix line endings on windows.
Improved news sources.
Bloomberg. The Globe and Mail. Spectator Magazine. The New York Times. The Hindu. MIT Technology Review.
6.805 Nov 2022 08:05
minor feature:
Release: 6.8 04 Nov, 2022
New features Allow customizing the buttons available to the right of the search bar in the main calibre window via Preferences- gt;Toolbars amp; menus- gt;The buttons on the searchbar.
Book details panel: Allow adjusting the space used by the cover with a splitter
Make splitter handles more visible in the calibre UI style.
When sending by email to kindle dont include the author in the filename as amazon is currently reading the author from the file metadata but not the title
Book list: incorrect rendering of yes/no icons when they are configured to have only two values
Nook driver: Send books to the NOOK folder for the 2021 Nook model as well
Improve performance in very large libraries of various UI operations such as right clicking, marking books, etc.
edit metadata dialog not remembering its position and improve how calibre restores window position and size on multi-monitor systems.
Conversion: CSS styles applied to SVG elements being discarded.
EPUB Input: empty adobe page number template file causing conversion to fail
E-book viewer: rendering of comments in metadata display when using a dark color scheme
AZW3 Input: svg images that use a prefor the SVG namespace not being recognized
Edit book: double clicking in the see what changed dialog not opening the file in the editor since calibre 6.0.
Edit book: modified indicator on images not working correctly when replacing the image.
Amazon metadata download: Adapt the plugin for website changes.
New news sources.
Fifty Two by unkn0wn. Bloomberg and Bloomberg Business Week by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
Army and Navy Times. eenadu_ap. Handelsblatt.
6.715 Oct 2022 08:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.7 14 Oct, 2022
New features Template language: A new "Python template mode" which allows using arbitrary Python code in templates.
Tag browser: Allow removing format from selected books by right clicking on the format in the Tag browser
E-book viewer: Ask for confirmation when creating a highlight that will overwrite existing highlights
Book list: Allow changing column widths via a dedicated dialog by right clicking on column headers.
E-book viewer: a regression that broke adding of new lookup sources
E-book viewer: copy to clipboard not ignoring text from elements that are marked as non user selectable
Content server: When adding books, run all file type plugins before reading metadata
Edit book: Preview panel: In dark mode when all of the background/foreground/link colors are set to "No change" do not render the book using dark colors.
Version 6.7.1 a regression in the previous release that broke the delete specific format from book function.
Improved news sources.
The Athletic. der Standard. The Economic Times India Print Edition. Indian Express. India Today Magazine. Caravan Magazine.
6.6.104 Oct 2022 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.6.1 30 Sep, 2022
New features Book details: allow displaying multi-valued categories such as tags on separate lines via Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Book details.
Tag browser: When searching the Tag browser allow also filtering the book list to show only books that match one of the categories currently shown in the Tag browser.
To use enable the two Preferences: "Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Tag browser- gt;Hide empty categories" and "Find shows all items that match". Then, when searching the Tag browser, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F to restrict the displayed books.
Edit book: When right clicking on HTML files in EPUB 3 books, allow marking them as the Table of Contents (NAV document)
EPUB Output: converting a document with obfuscated fonts to EPUB 3 not working
Edit book: an error when processing books that contain comments inside unknown CSS @ rules
Content server: jumping to locations such as bookmarks not working on iPhone/iPad running iOS gt;= 15
Font subsetting: :first-line and :first-letter pseudo classes not being handled correctly
Workaround for Amazon's email delivery service not reading metadata from inside ebook files.
Edit book: File list: pressing Tab key while renaming a file not starting the rename of the next file.
Version 6.6.1 a regression that caused the Edit metadata window to not remember its last used size. Note that you will have to resize it once after updating to 6.6.1, after which the size will be remembered.
Improved news sources.
SCMP. Spectator Magazine. Spiegel Online International. Engadget.
6.630 Sep 2022 03:21
minor feature:
Release: 6.6 30 Sep, 2022
New features Book details: allow displaying multi-valued categories such as tags on separate lines via Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Book details.
Tag browser: When searching the Tag browser allow also filtering the book list to show only books that match one of the categories currently shown in the Tag browser.
To use enable the two Preferences: "Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Tag browser- gt;Hide empty categories" and "Find shows all items that match". Then, when searching the Tag browser, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F to restrict the displayed books.
Edit book: When right clicking on HTML files in EPUB 3 books, allow marking them as the Table of Contents (NAV document)
EPUB Output: converting a document with obfuscated fonts to EPUB 3 not working
Edit book: an error when processing books that contain comments inside unknown CSS @ rules
Content server: jumping to locations such as bookmarks not working on iPhone/iPad running iOS gt;= 15
Font subsetting: :first-line and :first-letter pseudo classes not being handled correctly
Workaround for Amazon's email delivery service not reading metadata from inside ebook files.
Edit book: File list: pressing Tab key while renaming a file not starting the rename of the next file.
Improved news sources.
SCMP. Spectator Magazine. Spiegel Online International. Engadget.
6.516 Sep 2022 03:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.5 16 Sep, 2022
New features Kobo driver: support the new Kobo Clara 2e.
When running calibre with the --with-library command line flag and calibre is already running, switch to the specified library in calibre
E-book viewer: Ask for confirmation when deleting a custom highlight style
Do not show the virtual libraries tab bar when no virtual libraries are present
Tag mapper: When specifying the replacement tag allow completion from the tags in the currently open library.
Template language: New functions strcasecmp() and to_hex().
Comments editor: Workaround for Qt inserting invalid font-weight when converting a paragraph to a heading
E-book viewer: When displaying highlights dont group highlights from different chapters when the chapter titles are identical
Tag browser: error if a User category contains a reference to a deleted custom column.
When sending books by email to the Kindle and PocketBook email delivery services use random subject and filenames consisting of simple English letters to try to workaround various in their email processing code
Improved news sources.
The Wall Street Journal. Open Magazine. The Baffler. Dark Reading. New York Times. NYTimes Cooking. NYTimes Sports Beat. Outlook Magazine. Foreign Affairs.
6.403 Sep 2022 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.4 02 Sep, 2022
New features Conversion pipeline: Add support for !important when flattening CSS rules
Content server: Use the chapter title as the base bookmark name when creating new bookmarks
Allow changing the search order when clicking on items in the Tag browser (Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Tag browser- gt;Hierarchy and searching).
Check library: Make vacuuming the full text database optional as it is very slow and memory intensive
Tag browser: Move the preferences for controlling the order and display of categories in the Tag browser from Preferences- gt;Tweaks to Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Tag browser
User category editor: Hide items not visible in the Tag browser
Allow adding a button to show the Manage categories window to the toolbars via Preferences- gt;Toolbars amp; menus.
Google metadata download: When excluding results from a web search because they don't match the specified title/author ignore diacritics, accents, etc.
E-book viewer: Lookup: Google dictionary: Add some padding at the left and right margins
E-book viewer: Lookup word in Google dictionary: meanings of some words not being shown in the user's preferred language
calibredb backup_metadata --all operating only on dirty books not all books
Do not VACUUM FTS db when exporting library as it can be very slow
Windows: Nicer error message when attempting to run viewer/editor on machine without MediaPack installed.
Edit book: Reports: rendering of images in the images report table.
Content server: formatting of dates for custom columns using ISO format
New news sources.
Brhat by Vishwas Vasuki. Cachys Blog by Volker Heggemann. Various Russian and Ukranian news sources by men00t
Improved news sources.
Live Law and Live Mint. Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Business Standard and Indian Express. Nautilus. High Country News. Outlook Business Magazine.
6.312 Aug 2022 10:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.3 12 Aug, 2022
New features E-book viewer: Allow searching for nearby words using a new "Nearby words" search mode.
calibredb: New fts_search and fts_index commands to perform full text searching from the command line.
Image viewing popup: Allow zooming using the standard shortcuts of Ctrl+plus/minus
a regression in calibre 6.0 that broke remembering the previous sort order for a column.
a regression in calibre 6.0 that broke processing of very high resolution images
Full text search: error when using restrict searched books and more than 900 books are present in the searched list
E-book viewer: parsing of CSS styles with @supports rules not working.
E-book viewer: Speed up initial render of books with lots of CSS in lt;style gt; tags by not prettying the CSS.
Google books metadata download: paragraphs not being recognized
Content server: light background for comments editor in dark mode.
Content server: margin and body background color mismatch when reading books with a non-white/black color scheme
Content server: long tapping in the notes edit area incorrectly changing the highlight extent
Google search engine: for different URL encoding used by Google servers in Portugal.
Check library: vacuum not running on FTS db.
New news sources.
Various Russian and Ukranian news sources by men00t
Improved news sources.
Wirtschaft Woche. Scientific American. Popular Science. Mediapart. MIT Technology Review. Indian Express. Eenadu.
6.2.102 Aug 2022 18:25
minor feature:
Release: 6.2.1 29 Jul, 2022
New features Full text search: Ignore soft hyphens when extracting searchable text from books. Note that you will have to re-index your library to take advantage of this.
Content server: Have the Read button open PDF files in the browsers builtin PDF viewer rather than the calibre viewer since the calibre viewer is not well suited to PDF.
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware.
Create icon theme dialog: Add a checkbox to install the newly created theme into calibre.
Allow re-indexing a book for FTS by right clicking the Book details panel.
Content server: Workaround for Chrome causing multiple sign in prompts when connecting to the server after restarting Chrome
a regression in 6.0 that broke rendering of first page of EPUB as cover when the EPUB has no actual cover.
Content server: a regression in 6.0 that caused incorrect rendering of comments metadata in the book details panel in dark mode
FB2 Input: a regression in 6.0 that broke conversion of FB2 on macOS
Metadata download from Google: Switch to making the queries via a Google web search as this finds some books that searching via the API does not
Book details panel: clicking on items from an enumerated column containing ampersands not searching correctly
Image editor: Do not allow initial mouse drag to create selection rect outside the image bounds.
E-book viewer: clicking on ToC entries moving keyboard focus to the ToC search box when the ToC window is floating.
a regression in 6.0 that caused the default cover to be rendered small in some contexts.
Various related to the new dark/light icon theme switching. Make the icons more consistent even when using the system theme. Use calibre specific file type icons when using the non native file dialogs. Allow creating dark/light override icons manually in the configuration folder.
Disable the color theme setting when using system style
When using a color palette and the system colors are of different type enforce the color palett
6.229 Jul 2022 12:05
minor feature:
Release: 6.2 29 Jul, 2022
New features Full text search: Ignore soft hyphens when extracting searchable text from books. Note that you will have to re-index your library to take advantage of this.
Content server: Have the Read button open PDF files in the browsers builtin PDF viewer rather than the calibre viewer since the calibre viewer is not well suited to PDF.
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware.
Create icon theme dialog: Add a checkbox to install the newly created theme into calibre.
Allow re-indexing a book for FTS by right clicking the Book details panel.
Content server: Workaround for chrome causing multiple sign in prompts when connecting to the server after restarting Chrome
a regression in 6.0 that broke rendering of first page of EPUB as cover when the EPUB has no actual cover.
Content server: a regression in 6.0 that caused incorrect rendering of comments metadata in the book details panel in dark mode
FB2 Input: a regression in 6.0 that broke conversion of FB2 on macOS
Metadata download from Google: Switch to making the queries via a Google web search as this finds some books that searching via the API does not
Book details panel: clicking on items from an enumerated column containing ampersands not searching correctly
Image editor: Do not allow initial mouse drag to create selection rect outside the image bounds.
E-book viewer: clicking on ToC entries moving keyboard focus to the ToC search box when the ToC window is floating.
a regression in 6.0 that caused the default cover to be rendered small in some contexts.
Various related to the new dark/light icon theme switching. Make the icons more consistent even when using the system theme. Use calibre specific file type icons when using the non native file dialogs. Allow creating dark/light override icons manually in the configuration folder.
Disable the color theme setting when using system style
When using a color palette and the system colors are of different type enforce the color palette.
6.117 Jul 2022 03:45
minor feature:
Release: 6.1 16 Jul, 2022
New features Full text search: Add a button to re-index a book, useful if the book's contents have been changed outside calibre.
Search queries now support quoting using "docstrings" for easier escaping.
Linux installer: Check for libEGL as the QtGui module in Qt 6 links against it and many Linux servers dont have it installed.
macOS: Blacklist older versions of the DeDRM plugin as they caused crashes and failures to add books.
a regression in 6.0 that caused crashes in the Manage authors dialog
a regression in 6.0 that broke touch screen interaction.
a regression in 6.0 that caused a few checkboxes to stop working
Linux: a regression in 6.0 that broke handling of mouse clicks on some Wayland systems with a touchpad
ToC Editor: a regression in 6.0 that broke styling/images in the preview panel.
Windows: window titlebars not dark in dark mode.
Full text search: Show a warning when indexing/searching a library on an FAT drive.
News download: Do not add aborted/failed article titles to the comments metadata.
Full text search: books edited with the Edit book tool not being automatically re-indexed.
HTML Input: handling of deeply nested files on Windows
a regression preventing using a non-integer value for the tweak to change book details font size
moving library not moving the full text search index.
some custom icons in the calibre config directory not overriding the theme/builtin icons.
Linux installer: glibc version check also being done when installing older versions.
Windows installer: Refuse to install on Windows 8 as thanks to Qt 6 calibre 6 does not work on Windows 8.
Update the BigBookSearch metadata plugin for website changes.
Improved news sources.
The Economic Times India.
6.012 Jul 2022 07:05
minor feature:
Release: 6.0 11 Jul, 2022
New features For details on the major changes in calibre between 6.0 and 5.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fifteen.
Full text search: You can now search the entire text of all books in your calibre library.
Support for new CPU architectures: Apple Silicon and ARM64 on Linux. Support for 32bit CPUs has been dropped because Qt 6 does not support them.
Dark mode in calibre is now controlled via a setting in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel rather than an environment variable.
Allow choosing different icon themes for light and dark mode in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel.
Upgrade calibre to use Qt 6. This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins may not work, though most plugins have already been ported.
5.4418 Jun 2022 03:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.44 17 Jun, 2022
New features Amazon metadata download: Add an option to prefer the Kindle edition when multiple book types are returned by the search (Preferences- gt;Metadata download- gt;Configure the Amazon plugin)
Kobo driver: Support for updated firmware.
Allow customizing how yes/no columns are displayed (Preferences- gt;Add your own columns)
Manage tags dialog: If tags are present in the add tags input when OK is clicked, add them automatically, without needing to click the plus button first.
Edit book: Live CSS: @namespace rules causing jumping to rule definition to go to the wrong definition
Workaround for Apple in macOS 13 that prevents device detection.
Dont use commas in filenames when sending to pbsync and kindle email addresses.
Edit book: When quitting while a save is in progress and the save completes while the confirmation popup is visible, dont abort the quit.
New news sources.
Nautilus by unkn0wn. The Healthy from Reader's Digest by Stephen Genusa. Business Standard Print Edition by unkn0wn. The Economic Times India Print Edition by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
Harvard Business Review. Philosophy Now. Sydney Morning Herald. Haaretz. Indian Express. Hindi Business Line. The New York Times. Nature. Eenadu. Scientific American. Business Today. Irish Times. FAZ.net. Le Monde. Economist.
5.4327 May 2022 08:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.43 27 May, 2022
New features Kobo driver: Allow using templates to generate collections.
Book details popup: Double clicking on the cover now uses calibre's internal image viewer. Right click on the cover to open it with another program.
Book details blank when switching from device view to library view
TXT Input: a regression in 5.39 that caused the option to remove indents also removing blank lines
E-book viewer: incorrect sorting of highlights from the first internal file of a book
New news sources.
Asahi Shimbun by Albert Aparicio Isarn. Business Today Magazine by unkn0wn. Outlook Business Magazine by unkn0wn. Donga by Minsik Cho. Le Monde (English) by Darko Miletic. Hinduism Today by Vishwas Vasuki. The MIT Press Reader by yodha8. Live Science by yodha8. Financial Times Print Edition by Kovid Goyal. Various Catalan language news sources by santboia
Improved news sources.
Outlook Magazine. India Today. The New Yorker. Foreign Affairs.
5.4204 May 2022 06:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.42 03 May, 2022
New features E-book viewer: Ignore accents when doing a search.
Book list searching: Ignore punctuation when searching. So that, for example, Gravitys will match Gravity's
Show the text used for marking books in the tooltip
Edit book: Reduce memory consumption by the checkpoint system when doing operations that involve parsing all book files
Amazon metadata download: titles starting with being ignored
Edit metadata dialog: Undo not working correctly in identifiers field
viewing LRF files not working
PDF Output: an error on some invalid CSS in the input document
Linux binary: Workaround for Qt WebEngine not working on systems with glibc gt; 2.33.
New news sources.
Caravan Magazine (Hindi) by Areet Mahadevan. LWN (Free) by yodha8. IEEE Spectrum Magazine by yodha8. Financial Times by Kovid Goyal. Cosmos Magazine by yodha8
Improved news sources.
New Yorker. OMG! Ubuntu!. ACM Queue. CACM. Science News. Quanta Magazine. Outlook Magazine. Indian Express.
5.4123 Apr 2022 03:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.41 22 Apr, 2022
New features Allow creating multiple types of temporary marks (pins) by right clicking the mark books button (which can be added to the calibre toolbar via Preferences- gt;Toolbars amp; menus)
Kobo driver: Support updated firmware.
Show a popup message when a Kindle is connected mentioning the Amazon cover and how to workaround it
Edit book: Table of Contents tool: Allow using the title attribute on headings tags to get the text for table of contents entries.
When creating a custom column to display real numbers allow specifying th enumber of decimal digits to display.
Amazon metadata download: Add support for amazon.in country website.
Edit book: AltGr+ not working on some keyboard layouts
TXT Input: rare failure to convert some large TXT files with non-ascii text
Get books: Update English language Amazon plugins for website changes.
New news sources.
Eenadu by unkn0wn. Harvard Business Review by unkn0wn. Hindustan by unkn0wn. Dainik Bhaskar by unkn0wn. Free Inquiry by Howard Cornett. Sportstar by unkn0wn. Digit Magazine by unkn0wn. The Diplomat by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
The Economic Times India. Business Standard. scmp.com. Wired Magazine Monthly Edition. Reason Magazine. The Skeptical Inquirer. Times of India. LiveMint. The Week. Indian Express. Hindustan Times.
5.4001 Apr 2022 20:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.40 01 Apr, 2022
New features Content server viewer: Allow editing bookmarks
Read covers from CBC comic files
Allow filtering authors/tags when creating virtual library based on them
Add a copy button to the image view popup
Template language: Support for nested functions and a string concatenation operator.
DOCX Output: a comment immediately after a lt;li gt; tag breaking the conversion.
Standalone ToC editor: spurious error message if left open for more than two minutes.
search-as-you-type triggers extra search after manual confirmation
New news sources.
Reason Magazine by Howard Cornett. Seminar Magazine by unkn0wn. Frontline by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
Courrier International.
5.39.123 Mar 2022 08:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.39.1 18 Mar, 2022
New features E-book viewer: Allow scrolling of the ToC, highlights, bookmarks, etc. with touch gestures
Edit metadata dialog: When using the change case operations if some text is selected, only operate on the selected text
Use atomic writes for the config files ensures no partial data is written in case of crash/powerloss
5.39.1 a couple of regressions that broke case change in the Bulk metadata edit dialog and remembering column widths in the book list on some systems.
Content server: reading of books with thousands of internal files not working in the Chrome browser
Catalog generation: a rare crash when generating very large catalogs
Edit/Polish book: hardcoded Unicode ligatures not being preserved in AZW3 format books.
automatic searches causing search box to lose focus when search as you type is enabled in Preferences- gt;Searching
Edit book: Check book: Auto package identifier being empty
Amazon metadata download: getting series info from amazon.jp
Edit book: Insert hyperlinks: When sorting anchors on elements without any text content, use the anchor itself.
Edit book: Make the saved search panel freely resizable.
Edit book: When dragging to select a region or adjust the selection mouse moving outside the image causing the region to no longer be adjusted.
New news sources.
Swarajya Magazine by unkn0wn. Open Magazine by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
India Legal Magazine. The Smithsonian. The Federalist.
5.3919 Mar 2022 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.39 18 Mar, 2022
New features E-book viewer: Allow scrolling of the ToC, highlights, bookmarks, etc. with touch gestures
Edit metadata dialog: When using the change case operations if some text is selected, only operate on the selected text
Use atomic writes for the config files ensures no partial data is written in case of crash/powerloss
Content server: reading of books with thousands of internal files not working in the Chrome browser
Catalog generation: a rare crash when generating very large catalogs
Edit/Polish book: hardcoded Unicode ligatures not being preserved in AZW3 format books.
automatic searches causing search box to lose focus when search as you type is enabled in Preferences- gt;Searching
Edit book: Check book: Auto package identifier being empty
Amazon metadata download: getting series info from amazon.jp
Edit book: Insert hyperlinks: When sorting anchors on elements without any text content, use the anchor itself.
Edit book: Make the saved search panel freely resizable.
Edit book: When dragging to select a region or adjust the selection mouse moving outside the image causing the region to no longer be adjusted.
New news sources.
Swarajya Magazine by unkn0wn. Open Magazine by unkn0wn
Improved news sources.
India Legal Magazine. The Smithsonian. The Federalist.
5.3804 Mar 2022 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.38 04 Mar, 2022
New features E-book viewer: When displaying estimated time to completion for reading a book, remember the reading rate the next time the book is opened
Dark theme: Highlight the current cell in the book list with a darker background and different foreground to make it more obvious
An option to disable editing composite columns in the main book list when Tabbing through them (Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Edit metadata)
Tag editor: regression in previous release that caused double clicking on tags to not work on non Linux platforms.
Copy to library: annotations not being copied
Edit book: Spell check: words after a comment not being checked
PDF Output: conversion failing if there are ToC entries pointing to removed content
E-book viewer: an error when opening books with MathML for the second time if the last read position was at a MathML element
Edit book: double clicking to select a word also selecting smart quotes surrounding the word.
EPUB 3 metadata: non-integer series index being sometimes represented using exponential notation.
New news sources.
Hindustan Times by unkn0wn. India Legal Magazine by unkn0wn. RT на русском by Vuizur
Improved news sources.
Lenta.ru and aif.ru. Indian Express. Live Mint. Mainichi. Japan Times.
5.3718 Feb 2022 11:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.37 18 Feb, 2022
New features Book details: Add actions to trim the cover to the right-click menu
Allow removing multiple email addresses at once in Preferences- gt;Sharing by email
Book details: Use a better mono-spaced font on Windows by default.
Add a tweak in Preferences- gt;Tweaks to change the behavior of the Tab key when completing entries.
Edit metadata: In "All in one" mode add an adjustable splitter between the cover and formats boxes
Textile output: Dont fail if input document has invalid padding or margin specifications
E-book viewer: image display window not remembering its size and settings when run from within calibre
E-book viewer: setting to use roman numerals for series not being respected.
Edit book: When saving a copy do not fail if the original file has no write permissions.
Embed fonts tool: Create lt;head gt; when missing
Tag editor: Improve performance when very large number of tags present.
Improved news sources.
Live Mint. The Hindu. Reuters. MMC RTV Slovenija. Down To Earth. Publico.PT.
5.3605 Feb 2022 03:18
minor feature:
Release: 5.36 04 Feb, 2022
New features Edit metadata dialog: Allow controlling which custom columns are present in this dialog via Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Edit metadata.
Edit metadata dialog: Allow manually sizing the various sections of the dialog in "All on 1 tab" mode.
Edit book: Spell checking: Update the bundled English and Spanish dictionaries.
BibTeX catalogs: Support tags like custom columns
Amazon metadata download: paragraphs in the comments being merged
Amazon.de metadata download: published date and series information not being fetched for some books
Email delivery: sending email via Hotmail not working since this week because Microsoft changed the SMTP server name.
Do not remove articles for titles in the Polish language
E-book viewer: When using Read aloud do not automatically lookup the highlighted word until read aloud is paused or stopped
E-book viewer: Ctrl+p shortcut for printing not working.
Show an error when viewing a specific format and the file is missing
Edit book: renaming of classes that start/end with non word characters not working.
Edit book: Preview panel: hyphenation at end of line being rendered as boxes on macOS
incorrect selection size displayed in Trim image dialog when image is scaled down to fit
Edit book: pasting files from another editor instance failing if a file with the same name already exists
When reviewing metadata if the newly downloaded metadata has no language but there is an existing language, ensure it is preserved
New news sources.
title by author
Improved news sources.
India Today. Financial Express. Indian Express. Live Mint. Al Jazeera in English. The Financial Express. The Straits Times.
5.3522 Jan 2022 08:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.35 21 Jan, 2022
New features Coloring/icon rules: Allow creating a rule for date columns that matches *today*
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware.
Content server: Show total number of results when searching for books
E-book viewer: searching for text near the end of a chapter sometimes not working
E-book viewer: auto hyphenation on macOS not rendering the hyphens correctly
Edit book: Reports: thumbnails of SVG images not rendered.
ODT metadata: Support reading tags from multiple lt;keyword gt; elements.
LRF Input: a regression in calibre 5 that broke parsing of some LRF files
MOBI output: Dont fail if input document contains invalid based lengths
AZW3 Input: Handle AZW3 files with incorrect TAGX Offset INDX header fields
Comic conversion: conversion of comic images that are stored as grayscale images in JPEG format not working when converting to PDF with image processing turned off
calibredb catalog: --ids and --search options not working for CSV/XML catalogs
Tag browser: the find box not using all available width
E-book viewer: Remove books that do not exist from the recently opened book list
Completion popups: display of items containing line breaks.
line breaks in custom column descriptions not being rendered in their tooltips
Preferences- gt;Searching- gt;Clear search histories not taking effect till a restart for some search boxes
Hierarchical entries in user category may not merge correctly in tag browser
New news sources.
Dw.de by xav. Equestria Daily by Timothee Andres
Improved news sources.
Foreign Affairs. MIT Technology Review. Reuters. Clarin. General Knowledge Today. Popular Science.
5.3417 Dec 2021 07:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.34 17 Dec, 2021
New features Happy holidays to everyone!.
Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 4.
Edit book: Spell check tool: Add an exclude files button to exclude some files from being checked.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Increase the maximum thumbnail size to 3 inches from 2 inches.
Allow creating a shortcut in Preferences- gt;Shortcuts- gt;Edit metadata to paste metadata ignoring the value of the exclude_fields tweak
E-book viewer: Displays links marked up as glossary and bibliography links as popups
Add a tweak in Preferences- gt;Tweaks to provide the sort value for undefined numbers
Edit book: pressing F8 to jump to next misspelled word not working after last word in current file.
PDB E-reader output broken in calibre 5
Edit book: Reports: Include descendant selectors that use classes when counting class usage
E-book viewer: an error when opening some books with highlights that span in-line text formatting
MTP driver: Do not send the calibre device db files to the root folder on the Supernote A5 x as it fails
ToC Editor: Workaround an occasional error when closing on Windows if the file being edited is in a DropBox/antivirus prone folder.
a regression in the previous release that broke creating new keyboard shortcuts.
Comments editor: When flowing the tool bar onto multiple lines do not split up groups of buttons.
Various compatibility for Python 3.10 used by some Linux distributions.
Improved news sources.
Pocket. El Pais. American Prospect. Mediapart.
5.33.208 Dec 2021 11:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.33.2 03 Dec, 2021
New features Allow changing the icon used for calibre libraries. Right click the library icon in calibre and choose "Change the icon for this library".
Comments editor: Use a single line for all three toolbars if they fit.
Edit book: Allow merging HTML files by drag and drop of the files onto another HTML file.
Kobo driver: Add support for listing purchased audiobooks.
Edit metadata all-in-one mode: The cover and formats column now gives as much vertical space as possible to the cover image.
Add books dialog: When a non-book file type is added the next time the dialog is used, preselect the "All files" filter
calibre-server --manage-users: Allow managing users while the server is running and also add actions to automate changing user account restrictions
EPUB 3 metadata: If the book contains a "subtitle" append it to the main title when reading metadata
E-book viewer: an occasional hang on startup at "Loading section"
Get books: Update the Kobo plugin for website changes
Bulk edit metadata dialog: changing the search mode resetting other fields
E-book viewer: sorting of highlights incorrect in books that use HTML ids with a hyphen in them
PDF Output: the option to break long words at the ends of lines causing boxes to be rendered at the end of the line on macOS with some fonts
Google metadata plugin: When searching by ISBN if no results are found retry using an alternate query syntax.
5.33.2 a couple of regressions that broke the toolbar in the popup comments editor dialog and rendering of the download metadata button in the edit metadata dialog on Windows, as well as reading files from MTP devices on Windows.
New news sources.
The Epoch Times by Kovid Goyal. Mens Day Out by Vishwas Vasuki
Improved news sources.
Smithsonian Magazine.
5.3304 Dec 2021 09:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.33 03 Dec, 2021
New features Allow changing the icon used for calibre libraries. Right click the library icon in calibre and choose "Change the icon for this library".
Comments editor: Use a single line for all three toolbars if they fit.
Edit book: Allow merging HTML files by drag and drop of the files onto another HTML file.
Kobo driver: Add support for listing purchased audiobooks.
Edit metadata all-in-one mode: The cover and formats column now gives as much vertical space as possible to the cover image.
Add books dialog: When a non-book file type is added the next time the dialog is used, preselect the "All files" filter
calibre-server --manage-users: Allow managing users while the server is running and also add actions to automate changing user account restrictions
EPUB 3 metadata: If the book contains a "subtitle" append it to the main title when reading metadata
E-book viewer: an occasional hang on startup at "Loading section"
Get books: Update the Kobo plugin for website changes
Bulk edit metadata dialog: changing the search mode resetting other fields
E-book viewer: sorting of highlights incorrect in books that use HTML ids with a hyphen in them
PDF Output: the option to break long words at the ends of lines causing boxes to be rendered at the end fo the line on macOS with some fonts
Google metadata plugin: When searching by ISBN if no results are found retry using an alternate query syntax.
New news sources.
The Epoch Times by Kovid Goyal. Mens Day Out by Vishwas Vasuki
Improved news sources.
Smithsonian Magazine.
5.3213 Nov 2021 03:19
minor feature:
Release: 5.32 12 Nov, 2021
New features Edit book: Add a tool to transform HTML tags based on rules (Tools- gt;Transform HTML)
Allows for making transformations such as changing one html tag to another, deleting tags, wrapping them in another tag, etc. Also available during conversions via the Look amp; feel- gt;Transform HTML section of the conversion dialog.
Driver for the new Tolino Vision 6
Kobo driver: Add support for the latest firmware released last week.
When picking a random book ensure recently chosen books are not re-selected
Icon theme chooser dialog: Allow right clicking on a theme to visit its homepage.
Amazon metadata download: Add support for more markup variations in amazon's sites that could prevent the fetching of ratings, comments and series metadata for some books.
Google search: Add support for new beta search results page markup that was preventing using cached Google pages to search for Amazon metadata.
PDF Output: the option to preserve cover aspect ratio being ignored when converting comics.
DOCX Input: Sanitize image filenames more strictly to workaround broken EPUB software
Linux binary: file dialogs not working on Fedora 35 under KDE
When sending email to the Kindle and PocketBook sync services use ASCII filenames as there have been some reports of with non-ASCII filenames with these services.
Book Details: missing copy options on composite columns
Ask for confirmation when deleting covers from books.
New news sources.
India speaks reddit feed by Vishwas Vasuki
Improved news sources.
New York Post. Liberation. Boston Globe. The Globe and Mail. LeMonde.
5.31.130 Oct 2021 08:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.31.1 29 Oct, 2021
New features Kindle driver: Support the new Kindle PaperWhite 2021
Add an option under Preferences- gt;Behavior to have calibre recognize numbers when sorting (this was previously under Preferences- gt;Tweaks).
E-book viewer: Add a button to directly open the viewer help section in the calibre user manual to the viewer controls.
E-book viewer: Prevent the display from sleeping when using auto-scroll or read aloud modes (Implemented only on Windows and macOS).
Edit book: Set semantics tool: Add support for EPUB 3 landmarks.
Add an entry to the Connect/share menu to open the content server in a local browser when it is running
Content server: some OPDS feeds failing with non-ASCII content
Tag browser: incorrect first letter partitioning when enabling numeric collation of items that start with a number.
31.1 a in an HTML serialization library calibre uses that broke a few things, such as the comments editor tool in the metadata dialog.
5.3022 Oct 2021 10:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.30 22 Oct, 2021
New features Add support for the new Kobo Sage and Libra 2 e-book reader devices.
E-book viewer: Read aloud: Allow right clicking to play/pause reading
Sending books by e-mail: Preserve non-English characters in attached filenames.
Tab browser: Allow searching for sub-categories by right clicking on them
E-book viewer: cover and full screen images not centered in paged mode when more than one page is displayed per screen.
ToC Editor: Ignore in succession clicks on the OK and Cancel buttons to avoid accidentally closing the window when finishing creating a new entry.
Comments editor: the formatting buttons not showing the current state correctly and some keyboard shortcuts not working when more than one comments editor is present in a single window
Tag browser: renaming of User categories in Virtual libraries
Make removing large numbers of custom column icons easier
Improved news sources.
Private Eye. Foreign Policy. Le Monde Diplomatique - cono sur.
5.2908 Oct 2021 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.29 08 Oct, 2021
New features Allow drag and drop of books onto formats in the Tag browser to convert them to that format
Allow creating sorts based on multiple columns (Add the Sort action to the toolbar via Preferences- gt;Toolbars amp; menus)
Edit book: When changing a paragraph to a heading if the cursor is adjacent to a paragraph tag but not inside any tags other than body, use the adjacent tag.
Auto adding: Run relevant plugins before reading metadata from the book. Matches behavior of manual adding
Content server: category collapse by partition not working
Prevent Tab from causing focus to leave the Tag browser.
Edit book: See what changed: non-BMP unicode characters causing highlighting of changed words to be slightly misplaced.
PDF Output: a regression that broke conversion of comics that contain 1-bit images.
Edit book: pressing Ctrl+Tab inserting a tab at the start of a line instead of switching tabs.
a regression in the previous release that caused identifiers set by some plugins to not be saved in the database
Template language: nesting composite columns sometimes failing
New news sources.
Various Indian news sources by Vishvas Vasuki
Improved news sources.
Entrepreneur Magazine. Dawn. New York Review of Books.
5.2824 Sep 2021 11:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.28 24 Sep, 2021
New features Edit metadata dialog: Customize cover generation: Allow saving and loading cover generation settings as "themes".
E-book viewer: Allow pressing the 0-9 keys to apply a quick highlight style
Book details panel: While clicking tags/authors/etc. holding down the Ctrl+Shift modifier keys now add the tag to the current search with "AND" instead of "OR" when using only Ctrl
Add an option to the preferences drop down menu to restart calibre without third party plugins
Edit book: When renaming classes in style sheets only recognize class names preceded by a period
E-book viewer: lookup in Google partially hidden due to change in Google results page markup.
Conversion dialog: Search replace expression builder: incorrect search result highlighting when non-BMP unicode characters are present in the text.
E-book viewer: popup footnote blank when the footnote link points to a lt;body gt; tag
E-book viewer: jumping to highlights in text that occurs after a line break and newline character not working in paged mode
Kindle Output: Strip EXIF metadata from JPEG images as the Kindle renderer has with it
Improved news sources.
India Today.
5.2712 Sep 2021 02:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.27 10 Sep, 2021
New features When adding markdown (.md) or textile (.textile) files that contain references to images, automatically add them as txtz with the images.
DOCX Output: Correctly convert soft hyphens in the input document to DOCX soft hyphens.
DOCX Input: a bookmark at the end of a paragraph causing the bookmark at the start of the paragraph to be skipped
Edit book: Spell check: EPUB 3 nav document not being spell checked when not in the spine
PDF Output: a rare failure when the input document has a ToC item pointing to the last page
Windows: a regression in calibre 5 that caused drag and drop from WinZip to not work
TXT Output: a regression in calibre 5 that caused the max line length option to not work
When auto converting added TXT files with image references to TXTZ use a full markdown parser to detect markdown images.
New news sources.
The Week by Kovid Goyal
Improved news sources.
BBC News. Foreign Affairs.
5.2627 Aug 2021 07:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.26 27 Aug, 2021
New features Dark color scheme: Use a darker blue for highlighted items
Content server book viewer: Show a message when a search finds no matches.
MOBI Output: JPEG images without any JFIF metadata not being rendered on the Kindle.
Comic input: single color images having their colors changed by normalization
E-book viewer: creating multiple highlights in a single paragraph that also contains some extra text formatting at the start causing the second and subsequent highlights to malfunction
Edit book: a regression in the previous release that broke the options in the Remove unused CSS dialog
New news sources.
NYTimes Cooking by gourav
Improved news sources.
Boston Globe.
5.2514 Aug 2021 12:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.25 13 Aug, 2021
New features Edit/Polish book: Remove unused CSS now also removes unreferenced stylesheets
E-book viewer: Add some CSS variables and classes that allow writing calibre specific CSS in ebooks. See https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html#designing-your-book-to-work-well-with-the-calibre-viewer.
A new framework plugins can use to be notified about changes to calibre libraries.
Edit metadata dialog: When pasting into the identifiers field if the clipboard contains a URL paste it directly as a URL identifier
E-book viewer: When displaying popup footnotes use the same writing direction as the main text for the footnote popups size and header
E-book viewer: Improve the text layout when looking up words in Google.
Content server viewer: read aloud not working on mobile browsers.
Improved news sources.
The Guardian and The Observer. Wall Street Journal. The Atlantic.
5.2430 Jul 2021 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.24 30 Jul, 2021
New features Conversion: Insert metadata as jacket: Allow adding timestamp and publisher fields. Also allow controlling the formatting of date/time fields.
Cover browser: Add an option to view the central book by double clicking instead of single clicking (Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Cover browser)
Tag browser: Add actions to the configure menu to toggle the display of counts and average rating
Tag browser: Allow plugins to add entries to the context menu
fetch-ebook-metadata: an error when using the --cover option and no cover is found
HTML Input: the presence of BookDesigner markup causing conversion to fail
TXT Input: Dont fail if the txt file references a directory as a resosource
Improved news sources.
MSNBC. Nature News. Boston Globe. Foreign Policy. Le Monde.
5.2310 Jul 2021 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.23 09 Jul, 2021
New features Annotations browser: Show highlight color in the preview panel
TXTZ format: Store type of text formatting in the metadata and use it automatically when converting from TXTZ.
Edit metadata dialog: Allow holding Ctrl and clicking the item editor buttons to instead open the manage dialog
Annotations browser: searching for words in languages such as Chinese that do not have word delimiters not working
News download: URLs with spaces in them not being downloaded since calibre 5.0.
When searching for books by an author from the manage authors dialog, use exact matches
MOBI Output: invalid color specification as plain numbers causing conversion to fail
MOBI Output: invalid text indent specification causing conversion to fail
Linux: Drop the unmaintained dbus-python in favor of jeepney for DBUS.
Edit book: Workaround for Qt that caused the panel sizes in the editor to not be remembered across sessions.
Improved news sources.
The Guardian and the Observer. National Geographic. Handelsblatt. Huffington Post.
5.22.126 Jun 2021 07:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.22.1 25 Jun, 2021
New features E-book viewer: Allow clicking links in popup footnotes
Main book list: Scroll per pixel rather than per item by default. Can be returned to previous behavior via Preferences- gt;Tweaks- gt;Control behavior of book list.
Linux: Drop support for the global menu bar.
E-book viewer: font sizes specified in absolute units not being honored in locales where the decimal separator is not the period
E-book viewer: searching for short strings in text with lots of similar entries displaying incorrect matches
MOBI Output: using percentage units for margins resulting in too large margins when using the tablet output profile
E-book viewer: back button not working after jumping to a bookmark
Content server: OPDS feed: incorrect up URL in category group feeds
Content server: a regression in the previous release that broke editing of series metadata
E-book viewer: scrolling backwards by screen-fulls not working with very large page margins.
MOBI Input: a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of Haodoo format files.
Conversion: the smarten punctuation option not applying to inserted jacket page.
5.22.1 a typo in the previous release that broke device detection on Linux.
Improved news sources.
TheAtlantic.com. Hindu. People Daily.
5.2112 Jun 2021 18:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.21 11 Jun, 2021
New features Driver for the new Kobo Ellipsa.
Content server: When editing metadata for fields that take multiple values, make it easier to remove individual values by simply tapping a button
Browser viewer: Make current color scheme setting propagate to all devices automatically when using user accounts
E-book viewer: Image popup: Show the image resolution in the popup window's titlebar.
HTML Input: handling of @import rules in stylesheets nested more than one level deep
viewer search context menu to clear searches not clearing search settings
E-book viewer image popup: full screen button in incorrect state when starting in full screen.
Improved news sources.
Associated Press. The Hindu.
5.2004 Jun 2021 20:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.20 04 Jun, 2021
New features E-book viewer: Highlights: Make URLs in the notes for highlights clickable.
Book details: Ctrl-clicking on tags now adds them to the existing search instead of replacing it
E-book viewer: Allow using the back button to return from jumping to a search result.
Get books: the Kobo store plugin for changes to the website.
Edit book: non breaking spaces in snippets being converted to normal spaces
ToC Editor: a regression that caused changes to not be saved on machines where running a worker process takes more than ten seconds
error when changing the "Search the net" URLs for the Content server.
Improved news sources.
Jerusalem Post. Popular Science. Ambito Financiero. Ambito.com. Infobae.
5.1928 May 2021 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.19 28 May, 2021
New features E-book viewer: Add a preference under Scrolling behavior to reverse the tap zones used to turn pages. So tapping on the left goes forward and the right backward.
E-book viewer: regression in 5.15 that caused incorrect display of font sizes that contain a period and use absolute units
PDF Output: font kerning with some TrueType fonts
Edit book: a regression in 5.18 that broke editing/creating saved searches
Windows: for standalone ToC Editor not working on systems where Qt WebEngine causes a crash at exit
Windows MTP driver: When scanning an MTP device such as an Android phone ignore folders that Windows fails to enumerate instead of failing with an error.
ToC Editor: a regression that broke choosing split points in some XHTML files.
PDB Input: a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing some plucker format PDB files
Edit book: sorting in spell check dialog on language broken for books that have unknown languages.
Annotations browser: a typo that broke sorting for highlights.
Annotations browser: When showing a highlight preserve paragraph boundaries for multi-paragraph highlights
Viewer highlights panel: the "Edit notes" link not saving the changes.
E-book viewer: When using a right click/shift-click to adjust the selection, move the section boundary that is r to the click point.
5.1821 May 2021 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.18 21 May, 2021
New features Content server viewer: Improved search functionality Searching can now be done for whole words and regular expressions. And all search results are listed at once with some context for easy navigation.
E-book viewer: Allow fullscreening the image popup
E-book viewer: Allow expanding/collapsing all items in the Table of Contents at a particular level by right clicking on one item of that level and choosing the option to expand/collapse.
E-book viewer: Add shortcuts shift+home and shift+end to extend current selection to start/end of line.
Book details: When creating rules to convert identifiers to URLs allow using id_unquoted to avoid quoting the identifier value
Review downloaded metadata: Allow double clicking on a cover to see it at a larger size
Annotations browser: Add a Refresh button
Edit book: ctrl-clicking on a class name jumping to the wrong CSS rule if the stylesheet contains top level comments.
search and replace on identifiers not working if the replaced value has colons
Annotations browser: Sort the entries in order of position in book
ToC editor: Dark mode: colors in location selection panel not dark.
E-book viewer: right or shift-clicking to extend selection not shrinking selection when the click is inside the selection
Avoid spurious errors on multiple simultaneous calibre launches
E-book viewer: Ignore mouse scroll events that would turn pages when editing notes
E-book viewer: sorting bookmarks by title not working.
Windows WPD driver: an error reading the filesystem on some MTP based devices.
Improved news sources.
IEEE Spectrum.
5.1730 Apr 2021 12:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.17 30 Apr, 2021
New features E-book viewer: Image popup: Allow dragging with the mouse to pan the image
Sort button: Allow selecting which columns are in the popup sort menu
E-book viewer: When suggesting a default bookmark title, use the name of the current chapter
E-book viewer: When searching the Table of Contents allow holding the Shift key to search backwards
E-book viewer: Add a shortcut Ctrl+0 to restore default font size
Windows MTP driver: Rewrite parts of the driver in the hope of ing some rare and hard to reproduce crashes.
Windows MTP driver: Set modified and created times when putting files/folders on device. Also read modified time correctly.
Windows: E-book viewer: switching away from viewer while in full screen and switching back causing some corruption until the page is scrolled
a regression in the previous release that caused errors when editing empty date values
Get books: Update Gutenberg plugin for website changes.
E-book viewer: The quick highlight button should replace the style of an existing highlight, when one is selected
Elide long items in the middle when showing the completion popup for tags, to make it easier to use with hierarchical tags
E-book viewer: Read aloud: soft hyphens causing read aloud words to be broken up
E-book viewer: Right clicking when text is selected should extend the selection instead of doing nothing
settings in the ToC Editor tool being forgotten when calibre is
DOCX Output: conversion failing if the input document has missing images
Content server viewer: mouse wheel scrolling not working on the box used to edit notes for highlights
E-book viewer: read aloud word tracking in flow mode not very reliable.
E-book viewer: navigation shortcuts not working in Read aloud mode.
Improved news sources.
Barrons. Krebs On Security.
5.16.122 Apr 2021 22:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.16.1 17 Apr, 2021
CHM Input: handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and dont specify a character encoding in their metadata
a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin
Content server viewer: a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets.
a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats
using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values
E-book viewer: a regression in 5.15 that causes the viewer to ignore page-break CSS properties (in 5.16.1).
a regression that broke using stored templates (in 5.16.1).
auto scroll books shortcut not working in standalone cover browser window (in 5.16.1)
E-book viewer: jumping to previous section sometimes not working in flow mode (in 5.16.1)
E-book viewer: a regression in 5.15 that broke changing keyboard shortcuts in the viewer preferences (in 5.16.1)
E-book viewer: a regression in 5.15 that broke using the delete key to delete highlights (in 5.16.1).
New news sources.
The Saturday paper by Alistair Francis. Crikey by Alistair Francis
Improved news sources.
Granta. New Scientist.
5.1517 Apr 2021 22:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.15 16 Apr, 2021
New features Allow auto scrolling through the list of books by pressing the X key or right clicking on the cover browser
Useful to have a "slideshow" of book covers. The speed of scrolling can be controlled in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Cover browser.
E-book viewer: Speed up first time open for EPUB files with lots of styling.
E-book viewer preferences: Allow searching for keyboard shortcuts.
Edit book: Allow editing WEBP images.
Various improvements to the template language, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337573.
E-book viewer: Show the current progress percentage in the bottom bar of the viewer controls. This can be customized in the viewer preferences under Headers and footers
E-book viewer: Add an option under Preferences- gt;Miscellaneous to not restore open panels such as Search, Table of Contents etc on restart
When exporting highlights as text or markdown also output top level chapter titles.
Allow downloading metadata from amazon.se
Preferences- gt;Tweaks: Allow specifying that calibre should open the book details window when double clicking on a book
MOBI Output: Convert WebP images to PNG so they work with Amazon's software
DOCX Input: When converting embedded fonts, replace spaces in the filename with underscores to keep the execrable epubcheck happy
E-book viewer: Selection bar: Add keyboard shortcuts for all buttons. Hover over a button in the bar to see the shortcut.
FB2 Output: a regression in calibre 5 that caused paragraphs containing only non-breaking spaces to be removed
Metadata comments editor: setting block alignment destroying other block level properties
E-book viewer: margins not being adjusted immediately when preferences are changed.
Edit book: Upgrade book internals: skipping the NCX removal dialog not remembering the chosen option
Conversion: When specifying a line-height do not apply it to the lt;html gt; tag, as it is pointless and causes the execrable epubcheck to com
5.1427 Mar 2021 22:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.14 26 Mar, 2021
New features Edit book: When right clicking on a class in a HTML file, add an option to rename the class throughout the book.
Adding from ISBN: Add an option to check if there are existing books with the specified ISBNs already in the library
Template tester: Instead of next/last, the template tester now shows the template values for selected books
Content server: Allow swiping left and right to show next/previous book on the book details page
E-book viewer: Make the commonly used shift+arrow key shortcuts for modifying selections using the keyboard work. Also add shorcuts for selecting by character, line and paragraph.
MOBI Output: latest kindle firmware not displaying select publisher font option for calibre produced azw3 files
E-book viewer: errors when viewing books with mathematics that are split over multiple internal files
Content server viewer: highlights not sorted correctly in the highlights panel
Get books: smashwords plugin not working because of website changes
Improve the performance of QuickView especially when using composite columns
Improve performance of the virtual_libraries() template function
Browser viewer: Go to Location not working for positions
E-book viewer: searching in the Table of Contents not working
E-book viewer: In paged mode, scrolling not working correctly when margins are set to zero
E-book viewer: incorrect ToC navigation in books that link the entries to inline tags that wrap block tags that span multiple pages
Category editor: Searching in library shouldn't automatically opens Quickview
Conversion: a hang caused by long sequences of non-word characters when heuristics are enabled, either explicitly or for some input formats such as TXT
a regression in calibre 5 that broke --explode-book and --implode-book actions for calibre-de.exe.
a regression in calibre 5 that broke setting metadata in RTF files.
New news sources.
ZackZack.at by Dirk Gomez.
5.1311 Mar 2021 15:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.13 10 Mar, 2021
New features E-book Viewer: Allow editing the current book by pressing Ctrl+d or adding a button for it to the viewer tool bar
Edit book: Add a command line flag to allow selecting the specified text when opening a book.
Edit metadata dialog: When trimming covers, show the size of the current trim region
a regression in the previous release that broke sending of emails with text longer than 900 characters.
E-book viewer: using keyboard to extend selection not turning pages.
searching for items from the Manage dialog not working correctly
PDF input: Replace paragraph separator characters with spaces
Improved news sources.
The Conversation.
5.1227 Feb 2021 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.12 26 Feb, 2021
New features E-book viewer: When searching start the search from the current position, jumping to the first match at or after the current page
E-book viewer: Have the Table of Contents view automatically scroll to keep the chapter being read currently visible
Various improvements to the calibre template language, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337573.
Edit book: File browser: Show total size of items in category when hovering over category with mouse.
Kobo driver: Add support for latest firmware and also an option to choose the color used for cover letterboxing.
E-book viewer: selection popup bar sometimes going off screen when dragging up to the top line of text
Get books: Update the Biblio and Chitanka stores for website changes.
Edit book: editing of JavaScript files not working
Improved news sources.
Slate. Harper's Magazine.
5.1113 Feb 2021 15:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.11 12 Feb, 2021
New features Edit book: Add a tool to split the tag at the current cursor position, creating a new tag with the same style and class attributes. To add the tool go to the Toolbars section in the editor preferences
E-book viewer: Show the URL when hovering over external links
E-book viewer: Redesign the reference mode to also work on touch screens without a mouse. Now in reference mode paragraph numbers are displayed for all paragraphs.
Edit book: Allow Ctrl-clicking on class names to jump to the first style rule that matches the tag and class.
Content server: When browsing highlights for a book allow selecting multiple highlights to delete or export quickly.
Allow creating keyboard shortcuts to copy show and view URLs for selected books to clipboard
calibredb: Add a timeout option to control the timeout when connecting to the calibre server.
Content server: dragging selection handles not working in Safari
E-book viewer: links with a href of "#" not working
E-book viewer: Hide the controls when clicking the back or forward buttons.
E-book viewer: When jumping to a highlight using the highlights panel, the back button should return to position before jump
E-book viewer: incorrect tooltip when hovering over a section title in the search results list
HTMLZ Output: a regression in calibre 5 that broke creating HTMLZ documents when using the option to place CSS inline.
Improved news sources.
Endgadget.
5.10.123 Jan 2021 15:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.10.1 22 Jan, 2021
New features Bulk metadata edit: Add a new control to compress the cover image files for all selected books
Add support for the CB7 comic file file format
E-book viewer: Allow adding a button to the selection bar that copies the currently selected text along with a calibre:// URL to show the text in the book
Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow showing identifiers such as ISBN in the jacket page template.
Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow hiding entries in the jacket template when they are not present in the metadata.
calibre-server --manage-users: Add a scriptable interface: calibre-server --manage-users -- help
E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to copy the current location to the clipboard
E-book viewer: Highlight all currently visible Table of Contents entries, not just the first
Add a new tweak under Preferences- gt;Tweaks- gt;Author sort name algorithm to optionally recognize common surname presuch as von, van, de, etc. when generating sort names.
E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode
E-book viewer: scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth
PDF Output: When converting layout input documents anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes
Edit book: Remove unused CSS: selectors that don't match from CSS rules containing multiple selectors not being removed
Bulk metadata download: series number not being changes if the series is the same as the existing series.
E-book viewer: a regression that caused non-HTML descriptions to not be displayed in the metadata page.
E-book viewer: clock being displayed in 24 hr format on some systems even though system locale is set to use 12 hr format.
Bulk metadata edit: regression that inverted the meaning of the case sensitivity setting in the Search amp; replace tab.
calibredb list: incorrect output when redirecting to file.
5.10.1 a regression in 5.10.0 that broke conversion when including metadata as a j
5.909 Jan 2021 19:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.9 08 Jan, 2021
New features Annotations: Allow exporting highlights and bookmarks in Markdown format, with a link to open the book at the highlight location.
Content server viewer: Allow exporting all highlights
Icon rules editor: Add a button to open the icons folder
Quickview: Dropdown menu for all selectable columns
a regression that caused the Content server to crash if a client a connection during a file transfer on macOS and Linux.
LRF Output: conversion broken in calibre 5 when font size rescaling is active
E-book viewer: Cancel any speech in progress when hiding the selection popup bar after triggering the speak aloud action on it.
Color/icon rules editor: duplicate rule button not working correctly
dropping files onto book details causing an error if the confirmation dialog is disabled
New news sources.
Mallorca Zeitung by VoHegg. T-Online by VoHegg. El Diario by Dirk Gómez
Improved news sources.
General Knowledge Today. El Pais. USA Today. WirtchaftsWoche Online. The Guardian. Arcamax. Miami Herald. The Seattle Times.
5.8.125 Dec 2020 14:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.8.1 24 Dec, 2020
New features Happy holidays to all calibre users!.
E-book Viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard.
Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences).
Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre.
Content server viewer: Don't enter full screen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in the viewer preferences under Page layout).
E-book Viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it).
Template/formatter enhancements: Add a 'for' statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template.
Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode.
1907918.
Content server viewer: regression in 5.0 that broke scrolling on iOS.
E-book viewer: error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode
AZW3 Input: rare AID based links not working.
E-book viewer: clock in header/footer not using system time format
Windows: Read aloud not working with books that have a single large internal text file, such as MOBI or DOCX books.
PDF Output: a regression causing conversion to fail when typesetting Chinese text.
Amazon metadata download: no results being found when using the automatic or Google servers because of a change in the markup of the Google search results page.
Version 5.8.1 a couple of regressions that broke the Save to disk function and changing Page layout settings in the viewer.
1909197.
New news sources.
SchwarzerPfeil by tastytea. Substack by topynate
Improved news sources.
The Australian. The Atlantic. Zerohedge. New York Times Book Review.
5.7.216 Dec 2020 21:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.7.2 12 Dec, 2020
New features E-book viewer: Add a "Read aloud" function that works via the operating system's Text-to-speech engine.
Click the "Read aloud" button in the viewer controls to start reading the book text aloud from the current page.
A new busy spinner for waiting animations.
Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field.
PDF Output: a regression in the previous release that broke text rendering for some fonts due to a in Qt WebEngine.
PDF Output: conversion failing when adding header/footer and the input document defines margins/padding on the lt;html gt; tag.
Windows: the case of library names in copied calibre:// links sometimes incorrect.
AZW3 Input: a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of files with inline flow replacements.
hiding and showing book details panel changes its size by a pixel or two.
Get books: amazon.fr not working because of website changes.
Bulk metadata search/replace: text transform function not being applied to the test result in character mode.
Book list: Improve rendering of column headers when they dont fit, by eliding them instead of just cutting off rendering.
template function "first_non_empty" fails if no argument evaluates non-empty
regression in 5.7.0 causing failure to start if one of the previously used libraries had a stored path ending in a slash.
Improved news sources.
The Guardian. The Atlantic.
5.7.112 Dec 2020 23:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.7.1 11 Dec, 2020
New features E-book viewer: Add a "Read aloud" function that works via the operating system's Text-to-speech engine.
Click the "Read aloud" button in the viewer controls to start reading the book text aloud from the current page.
A new busy spinner for waiting animations.
Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field.
PDF Output: a regression in the previous release that broke text rendering for some fonts due to a in Qt WebEngine.
PDF Output: conversion failing when adding header/footer and the input document defines margins/padding on the lt;html gt; tag.
Windows: the case of library names in copied calibre:// links sometimes incorrect.
AZW3 Input: a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of files with inline flow replacements.
hiding and showing book details panel changes its size by a pixel or two.
Get books: amazon.fr not working because of website changes.
Bulk metadata search/replace: text transform function not being applied to the test result in character mode.
Book list: Improve rendering of column headers when they dont fit, by eliding them instead of just cutting off rendering.
template function "first_non_empty" fails if no argument evaluates non-empty
regression in 5.7.0 causing failure to start if one of the previously used libraries had a stored path ending in a slash.
Improved news sources.
The Guardian. The Atlantic.
5.628 Nov 2020 15:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.6 27 Nov, 2020
New features Edit book: Show a non-modal popup for a few seconds to allow undoing file delete operations.
Device books view: Add an action to the context menu to easily jump to the matching book in the calibre library view
Add ability to undo Generate cover in the Edit metadata screen, by long clicking the Generate cover button
Edit book: Allow adding tags to the list of tags for the insert tag button.
calibredb add: New option --automerge to automatically merge duplicates.
Add an edit notes action to the context menu in the viewer highlights panel
Content server viewer: Allow viewing images in a new window by right clicking them, matches the calibre builtin viewer behavior
Book details window: Allow opening the edit metadata window using either the keyboard shortcut or the context menu
Allow copying the current search as a calibre:// URL by right clicking the search box.
Book details panel: Add entries to copy calibre:// links for the current book to the context menu.
Edit book: Upgrade book: Ask whether to keep the NCX based Table of Contents.
Windows: calibre portable launcher not working correctly from root directory in calibre 5.5
macOS: rendering of space after punctuation incorrect in Big Sur
DOCX Input: When converting images placed using the obsolete VML markup default them to being inline rather than block images
Metadata edit dialog: keyboard shortcuts for bold/italic/underline not working when more than one comments editor widget is present on a single tab
When using calibre://show-book URLs and the book is not found, clear any Virtual library or search restriction and then show the book
macOS: calibre:// URLs not working from other documents.
calibre:// URL search action not changing library if needed.
annotation_count() template function displaying value for deleted annotations
Edit book: syntax highlighting not recognizing ends-with selector
Improved news sources.
The BBC. Folha de Sao Paolo. Netzpolitik.
5.513 Nov 2020 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.5 13 Nov, 2020
New features Support the calibre:// URL scheme
Clicking on calibre:// URLs can be used to have calibre perform various actions.For details, see: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/url_scheme.html.
Viewer: Show calibre:// URL for current book in the Goto- gt;Location panel.
Edit book: Add an action to the right click menu for tabs to tabs to the right of the current tab.
Add ability to copy tag, publisher and author in Book details panel by right-clicking
Annotations browser: Add a context menu for common actions.
Annotations browser: Show a dot for highlights with notes.
Edit book: Saved searches panel: Allow copying the current saved search to the regular search panel by clicking the Export button.
Windows: command line arguments not working for the portable.exe launchers.
Viewer: back and forward buttons on the mouse now trigger the back and forward actions.
Option to mark all books with annotations/bookmarks
Various minor improvements to how keyboard focus is handled in the Tag browser.
Edit book: regression in calibre 5 that caused an error when managing user dictionaries.
Viewer: previous/next buttons iterating over removed bookmarks
Welcome wizard: changing the language causing a empty folder to be created.
Viewer: regression causing custom shortcuts with shift key pressed not working
Viewer: In dark mode when showing images with transparency in the popup use a light background color as most images are designed with a light background color in mind.
a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of DJVU files
Metadata edit: "Set to Undefined" button missing on integer columns.
Entry remains underlined in Tag Browser after clearing filter
XML Catalogs: languages field missing
a regression that broke loading of third party plugins that are encoded in an encoding other than UTF-8.
macOS: viewer not responding to cmd+c to copy text by default.
Windows: sending email on computers with non-ASCII computer names.
Improved news
5.4.231 Oct 2020 19:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.4.2 30 Oct, 2020
New features Windows: Allow adding of books to calibre from directories whose path length is larger than 260 characters
Tag browser: Add an option in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Tag browser to allow the tag browser to get keyboard focus.
Tag browser: Allow editing the set of permissible values and colors for a custom column with values, by right clicking on it.
Edit metadata dialog: Make most custom metadata controls use only a single line.
Elide the names of custom columns that are longer than a width, instead of using multiple lines.Configurable via Preferences- gt;Tweaks- gt;Edit metadata custom column label length.
Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Add an option to merge CSS rules that have identical properties.
Book details window: Double clicking on the cover now shows it in the default system image viewer.
News download: Allow passing username/password in feed URLs.
Open with: Allow renaming Open with applications.
Viewer: jumping to search result not always working in flow mode.
Get Books: Update Google and Gutenberg plugins for website changes.
Viewer: keyboard shortcuts using ctrl+alt+letter key not working on windows.
Viewer: keyboard shortcuts to shrink/grow selection not working.
Viewer: keyboard shortcut to toggle highlights panel not working when the highlights panel is itself focused.
Viewer: handle editing of missing highlights more gracefully
Drivers: regression in calibre 5 that broke connecting to SONY devices
Open with: On Linux when reading names from.desktop files, use the first matching language
Conversion: a regression in calibre 5 that broke conversion of some malformed CSS stylesheets.
Conversion: a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of some PDB files with images.
Conversion: regression in calibre 5 in the handling of @import() rules in stylesheets that import from directories above themselves.
Content server: various controls on the book details page not working when viewing a random book.
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5.317 Oct 2020 13:05
minor feature:
Release: 5.3 16 Oct, 2020
New features Tag browser: When grouping items by first letter if adjacent letters have few entries combine them into a single group.
Can be controlled via an option in Preferences- gt;Look amp; fee- gt;Tag browser to combine 'first letters' together if there are a small number of items under adjacent letters.
Viewer: Allow displaying the current page / total pages in the header/footer. Useful in paged mode to see exactly how many pages are left.
Viewer search panel: Show more result context in a tooltip when hovering over a search result.
DOCX Input: Add support for Word controls used to rotate or flip images
Only works with output formats such as EPUB that support CSS transforms.
Viewer image pop-up: Allow maximizing/minimizing the window.
Edit metadata dialog: Use only a single line for custom column date fields.
Add an item to search for categories to the category editor context menu.
Category editor: Add a right click menu to change case of the selected entries.
a regression in 5.0 that caused performance of dialogs that contain title/series/tags edit fields to be very poor with large libraries.
a regression in 5.0 that caused some pop-up menus to appear on the wrong monitor in multi-monitor setups.
macOS: a long standing that prevented drag and drop of multiple items.
Windows: a regression that broke scanning for default programs for the Open with action.
Windows: a regression in 5.0 causing some MOBI files with non-BMP characters not being processed correctly.
E-book viewer: scrolling past the end of chapter boundaries not working in books that have negative margins.
Edit metadata dialog: incorrect rendering of custom column names that start with emoji.
Quickview: nothing shown after clearing the search.
Dark mode: radio buttons having no outline.
Annotations browser: When showing a book in the calibre library that is not currently visible, display an error.
New news sources.
Deutsche Welle by VoHe
Improved news sources.
Reuters
5.208 Oct 2020 20:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.2 07 Oct, 2020
New features Browse annotations: Add a check box to restrict the displayed annotations to only the books currently selected in the calibre library.
Allow storing and calling functions in the calibre template language (Preferences- gt;Template functions).
Add a shortcut (Shift+V) to open the last read book.
import errors with some third party plugin on Windows.
Viewer: toolbar show controls button not working when no book is open.
Viewer: incorrect positioning of context menu for viewer toolbar.
MOBI Input: regression that broke reading of some documents.
Bulk metadata search and replace: some regular expression causing errors with the new regex engine.
a regression that broke application of plugboards when sending by e-mail.
ODT Input: a regression that broke conversion of ODT files with footnotes.
Viewer: mouse wheel not working while selection bar is visible
Viewer: selection popup bar not always to mouse when ending select-to-drag.
calibre-server not exiting on Ctrl+c on Windows.
Content server OPDS feeds: error if the metadata for a book contains particular unicode characters.
Edit book: Reports tool: a regression that broke sorting.
HTMLZ Output: an error when converting a document that has SVG images.
5.103 Oct 2020 14:25
minor feature:
Release: 5.1 02 Oct, 2020
New features Enhancement: allow using templates in search expressions.
Viewer lookup panel: Add a checkbox to disable automatic update of lookup when the selected text changes.
Viewer: Allow skipping the confirmation when using the remove highlight button in the popup bar.
ToC Editor: bulk rename of entries not working
Linux: right clicking on system tray icon not working
User category based searches unreliable dues to caching PDF Output: Dont fail if the input document has an html file identified as the cover.
Catalog generation: a regression that broke generating catalogs if books with no comments are present.
Windows: error on first run of calibre after install/upgrade
Viewer: copy to clipboard button in toolbar not working.
Viewer: copy to clipboard not copying text as HTML to clipboard in addition to plain text
macOS: some drop down menus such as in the ToC editor and cover generation in the Edit metadata dialog not working.
5.0.126 Sep 2020 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 5.0.1 25 Sep, 2020
New features For details on the major changes in calibre between 4.0 and 5.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fourteen.
E-book viewer: Add support for highlighting
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html#highlighting-text.
E-book viewer: Add support for right-to-left and vertical text.
Switch calibre to Python 3. This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins will not work. See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=326405.
Dark mode support for the Content server and E-book viewer user interfaces.
Content server's in-browser viewer now supports bookmarking. Bookmarks and highlights are auto-synced across devices.
Regular expression engine used for searching the book list and reading metadata from filenames has been made more powerful.
Version 5.0.1 a in 5.0.0 that broke connecting to devices on macOS.
4.2321 Aug 2020 09:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.23 21 Aug, 2020
New features Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware. Also add recognition of 'Kobo Plus' subscription books.
Edit book: Allow customizing the base background/foreground and link colors for the preview window.
Quickview panel: Add actions to the context menu to search for book in library, open in viewer, etc.
Allow forcing calibre to remember the column width for the On device column by right clicking the header of the column.
Template language: Add functions to perform math operations to convert fractional numbers to integers.
Content server: Esc key not working in several views.
unable to delete default value for custom columns of boolean type, once set
EPUB Output: When splitting dont consider files with only a single character empty.
Comments editor: syntax coloring for HTML view in dark mode.
Book list: When a series column is not wide enough, elide text in the middle so that the series number is visible.
New news sources.
linuxnews.de and t3n.de by Volker Heggemann
Improved news sources.
El Diplo. calibre Blog. ESPN. LA Times. Winnipeg Free Press. Popular Science. Science News Recent.
4.2201 Aug 2020 21:45
minor feature:
Release: 4.22 31 Jul, 2020
New features Edit book: In dark mode, make the preview panel also dark.
PDF Output: Headers/footers: Allow displaying the current page number and total number of pages in the top level section/chapter.
Edit book: Show EPUB version in window title.
Allow testing if a number column is set or not set in coloring/icon/emblem rules.
Viewer: Add a setting to control how many pixels a scroll wheel should generate before triggering a page turn.
Edit book: a regression in the previous release that caused poor performance when editing large files.
DOCX Input: Leave undefined text colors in the input document as undefined
Viewer: using a very small font step size not working.
Font scanner: Also scan the new win 10 local font paths
Viewer: typing values in font size adjust control not working.
Improved news sources.
Respekt. The Atlantic.
4.2117 Jul 2020 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 4.21 16 Jul, 2020
New features Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Nia.
Cover grid: Vertically center covers that are smaller than the available space.
Quickview panel: Add a checkbox to easily toggle if virtual libraries are respected.
When creating custom columns allow specifying a default value to be applied to new books for that column
Edit book: initial sync of preview panel to cursor position sometimes not working when a new HTML file is opened for editing.
changed author sort name not being used when adding another book by the author to the library.
Cover browser: improve rendering of text with heavily hinted fonts.
Viewer: CBC comic files not being viewed correctly. Note that you have to reload the book via the viewer controls to apply the.
Viewer: Table of Contents not correct for comics.
Viewer: Ignore the zero width non-joiner character in searches.
Viewer: a regression in the previous release that broke reading of books with mathematics and also lt;a gt; tags without href attributes.
Cover grid: When using a background image do not scroll it with the covers.
Improved news sources.
1843 magazine. Caravan Magazine.
4.2003 Jul 2020 14:45
minor feature:
Release: 4.20 03 Jul, 2020
New features Edit book: Preview: Support displaying mathematics.
Kobo driver: Add support for the latest firmware version.
Allow copy/pasting dates from columns having different date display formats.
Book details panel: When right clicking on tags/authors/etc. allow finding them in the Tag browser easily.
Allow selecting individual items to delete in the Check library dialog.
Add an option to the wireless device driver to ignore device free space when sending books.
Viewer: turning pages in paged mode with a high precision touchpad to generate scroll events too fast.
Edit book: pasting files from another editor instance causing unsaved changes in open editors to be lost.
Tag browser: Do not show counts for searches as they are always zero.
Check library: Do not abort if there are folders in the library that calibre does not have permission to access.
Amazon metadata download: download of ratings not working from amazon.co.jp
New news sources.
The Print by Kovid Goyal
Improved news sources.
Popular Science. Caravan Magazine. Sports Illustrated. Gazetta Prawna.
4.1920 Jun 2020 13:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.19 19 Jun, 2020
New features Manage authors dialog: Improve performance in very large libraries.
Book details panel: a regression that caused right clicking on an author name to manage it not opening with that name selected.
calibredb set_metadata: When converting a string into a datetime if the string is a full ISO 8601 date with timezone do not adjust the date to make it timezone neutral.
Edit book: Check book spuriously reporting incorrect mime type warnings for fonts after upgrading a book from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3.
Book details panel: Dont show sizes less than 0.01MB as zero.
Viewer: jump to previous section not working when viewer is on last section.
Improved news sources.
Journal of Accountancy. Bangkok Post. 20 minutes.
4.1807 Jun 2020 05:45
minor feature:
Release: 4.18 05 Jun, 2020
New features Viewer: Search panel: Add a button to return to the position the book was at before doing a search.
Tag browser: Improve handling of hierarchical tags
Renaming a tag now renames it and all its children. Drag and drop of hierarchical tags alters their hierarchy. Deleting a tag now deletes all its children.
Viewer: In flow mode, implement drag scrolling.
Tag browser: Allow Manage Tags to open to a selected letter when clicking on a letter.
Viewer: Show number of search results in title of search panel.
Content server: In the book list hovering over the library name now shows the total number of books in the library.
a regression in the previous release that broke the copy and recalculate author sort buttons.
Book details: extra margin to the right of the metadata fields.
Cover grid: Show text under books that have no cover as well.
When merging metadata, if a custom column has type multiple in the new data and some other type in the old data, ignore the old data instead of failing
macOS: When using the single instance option of the viewer, crashes should not require a restart of the computer to use the viewer again.
Windows: an error when changing title/author for books in a library whose name contains characters not encodeable in the current code page.
Windows: amazon metadata download failing when accented characters in search query
Comments editor: shortcuts for bold/italic not working when toolbars are hidden.
Improved news sources.
The Hindu. Wired Daily Edition. The Economist.
4.1725 May 2020 00:45
minor feature:
Release: 4.17 23 May, 2020
New features Add a workaround for Amazon destroying cover thumbnails on e-ink Kindles.
For books sent with this release of calibre, reconnecting the Kindle to calibre after the cover has been destroyed will restore it automatically.
Viewer: Group search results by section.
Viewer: When the search results panel is expanded, show more context.
Tag browser: Add options in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Tag browser to hide empty categories and also to have the Find in the Tag browser show all matches instead of jumping from match to match.
Tag browser: The Find function for searching for items in the Tag browser can now do exact matching by using = as a pre.
Manage tags/authors/etc dialogs: Allow searching and filtering the list of items.
Book details panel contenxt menu: Add an action to open the Book details window.
Viewer: Add Next and Previous buttons in the bookmarks panel.
Conversion: Change the default white-space CSS for lt;pre gt; tags to pre-wrap as this suits ebooks better.
Edit Book: default CSS template not quoting the charset, causing Check book to complain about the CSS.
a regression in the previous release that broke the losslessly compress images tool when the image filenames had upper case characters on Windows.
a regression that broke drag and drop of images from browsers to the book details panel on some platforms.
FB2 metadata: setting dates before 1900 failing.
Bookeen Diva HD not being detected.
New news sources.
Independent Australia by Pat Stapelton
Improved news sources.
How To Geek. Tagespost by Pat Stapleton. ABC News.
4.1616 May 2020 07:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.16 15 May, 2020
New features Viewer/Edit book fuzzy search: Ignore soft hyphens and zero-width joiner characters when searching for text.
Tag browser: Allow adding/removing tags/authors/etc. to the currently selected book by right clicking on that tag and choosing "Apply to selected books".
Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware.
Manage categories dialog: When editing a value with multiple values selected, change them all.
Book list column header context menu: Add an entry to resize the column to fit its current contents.
Show completions when editing tags/authors/series etc in the Tag browser and Manage tags dialog.
Quickview: Double clicking an item now searches for it
Comments editor: Add an action to the context menu to smarten punctuation.
FB2 metadata: Add support for setting publisher and publish year.
Edit book: compress images losslessly failing for a few images on windows when there are a lot of images in the book.
a regression in 4.13 that broke the user category editor for all custom columns.
Viewer: font size changes not applying to monospaced fonts.
Improved news sources.
Ars Technica. Washington Post.
4.1503 May 2020 20:45
minor feature:
Release: 4.15 02 May, 2020
New features Viewer: Improve the interface for changing font sizes.
Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+b) for adding a bookmark.
Bulk metadata edit: a regression causing scrollbars to not appear in Custom metadata tab.
Viewer: a regression that broke searching in flow mode.
BibTeX Catalog: Dont output comment describing the catalog as Zotero fails to process it.
Linux: uninstaller not working on Linux distros that have no python symlink.
Viewer: zoom step size setting ignored.
Viewer: text that has font sizes specified using keywords not being scaleable by the viewer's font size controls.
Viewer: LRF files not opening.
MOBI metadata: When reading author sort from MOBI files, construct the final value from all author fields.
macOS: hide accelerator key underlines since they dont work anyway as Apple does not believe in them.
macOS: keyboard shortcuts for select all, copy and paste not working in file dialogs.
Improved news sources.
The Nation. Animal Politico.
4.1425 Apr 2020 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 4.14 23 Apr, 2020
New features Viewer: Add an option to have taps turn by screen fulls instead of pages, under Scrolling behavior.
Viewer: Allow double clicking or long tapping on images to view then in a new window.
Edit Book: Add a new fuzzy search mode in which typographical quotes and various space types are matched by the plain equivalents.
Content server: Add a new setting to allow un-authenticated users from specific IP addresses to make changes to the calibre library.
Quick view: Double click in a column to show that column in the main book list.
Book details panel: copy path to file not copying full path to file when right clicking on a format entry.
Windows: error when applying hyphenation in bulk with Polish books.
macOS: selecting applications that use binary plist files such as Kindle.app with Open With not working.
DOCX Output: images that use URL unsafe characters in their filenames being dropped during conversion.
DOCX Output: internal links not working when converted files contain URL unsafe characters in their filenames.
Viewer: view image popup not remembering its geometry.
Viewer: Allow leading and trailing whitespace in search expressions.
HTMLZ Output: SVG images that use xlink:href not working.
Windows: drag and drop from SMB shares to the edit metadata dialog formats list not working.
Comments editor: Dont insert blank lines between list elements.
Allow using Quick view from the Book grid view.
tri-state booleans not working with color/icon rules and undefined values
New news sources.
Heise ct and iX by Ralf Hein. Saechsische Zeitung by by epubli
Improved news sources.
London Review of Books. Seattle Times. MIT Technology Review. Zeit Online. Handelsblatt. Spectator Magazine. Spektrum der Wissenschaft.
4.1329 Mar 2020 09:45
minor feature:
Release: 4.13 27 Mar, 2020
New features Edit book: When searching in normal mode, have spaces in the search expression match multiple spaces and line breaks in the text.
When running calibre-portable.exe popup a more useful error message if it is placed in a location with a too long path.
Edit book: Allow skipping confirmation dialog when marking non-first file as cover page.
Add a shortcut Ctrl+Alt+p to switch to the previously opened library.
Viewer: searching in flow mode not scrolling to display the search results.
Viewer search: jumping to next match sometimes selecting previous match if the searched for expression occurs with identical context in multiple places.
Viewer: Ensure there is no bleed between pages when using single page per screen.
shift click not working reliably in the book list.
edit open with applications not working from files browser in editor.
MOBI Input: Upshift non-animated GIF to PNG as it is a more widely supported format.
MOBI Input: Dont auto-convert images in PNG/GIF formats to JPEG.
MOBI Output: Improve conversion of PNG images with transparency to GIF.
Check Book: Do not fail if non-UTF-8 stylesheets are present in the book.
Viewer: Maximum font size for margin text should be the body font size not hardcoded to 12px.
PDF Output: Ignore glyph size mismatches when merging fonts for TTF.
New news sources.
Istorias and Sardinia Post by tzium
Improved news sources.
Forbes. LA Times. Glasgow Herald. Spectator Magazine. Newsweek.
4.1206 Mar 2020 11:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.12 06 Mar, 2020
New features Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware with the series list on the device.
Automatically extract the source DOCX file from Kindle Create KPF files when adding them to calibre. If you prefer to preserve the KPF file you can disable the KPF Extract plugin in Preferences- gt;Plugins.
Content server: Add a button to delete all locally cached books.
Edit Book: Allow selecting the contents of a tag with Ctrl+Alt+t.
Viewer: Save current position after 3 seconds of last position change. Useful if the viewer crashes on resume from sleep.
Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+w) to toggle the scrollbar.
Viewer: Keyboard shortcuts to change number of columns (Ctrl+ and Ctrl+ ).
the Douban metadata download plugin
Viewer: searching in Regex and Whole words mode not working well.
Viewer: searching for multiple words in layout books not working.
RTF Input: handling of RTF files with invalid encoded text.
PDF Output: Add a hangcheck for loading HTML if there is no progress for sixty seconds abort
Viewer: When starting without a book allowing quitting the viewer by clicking the button on the "Open book" page
New news sources.
Spectator Australia by James Cridland
Improved news sources.
Wired. ABC News Australia.
4.11.224 Feb 2020 00:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.11.2 21 Feb, 2020
New features Viewer: Allow right clicking on the scrollbar to easily access commonly used scrolling shortcuts.
Edit book: Preview panel: Allow right clicking on images to edit them.
Add a new Quick select action to quickly select a virtual library with a few keystrokes. Activated by Ctrl+t or the Virtual library menu.
Viewer: Calculate default column widths based on current font size.
Viewer: Add a control to quit the viewer useful on touchscreens.
Viewer: Add shortcut for showing metadata (Ctrl+n)
4.11.2 a couple of regressions that broke the New bookmark button in the viewer and scrolling in the content server library view. Also calculation of default column widths in viewer not changing when font size is changed.
Viewer: a regression that broke detection of pop-up footnotes using EPUB 3 markup.
Viewer: current reading position not preserved when changing preferences and auto scroll is active.
Viewer: stopping autoscroll at end of chapter not stopping next chapter jump.
for viewer window going off screen even when not restoring window geometry.
Edit book: syntax highlighting for break-(before after)
drag and drop of some image files onto edit metadata dialog not working
Conversion pipeline: styles applied via selectors to the lt;html gt; element being ignored
Bulk metadata edit: clear series not resetting series index.
clicking on author name in book details panel to search in Goodreads not working if author has more than two parts in his name.
Improved news sources.
New York Times.
4.11.123 Feb 2020 03:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.11.1 21 Feb, 2020
New features Viewer: Allow right clicking on the scrollbar to easily access commonly used scrolling shortcuts.
Edit book: Preview panel: Allow right clicking on images to edit them.
Add a new Quick select action to quickly select a virtual library with a few keystrokes. Activated by Ctrl+t or the Virtual library menu.
Viewer: Calculate default column widths based on current font size.
Viewer: Add a control to quit the viewer useful on touchscreens.
Viewer: Add shortcut for showing metadata (Ctrl+n)
Viewer: a regression that broke detection of pop-up footnotes using EPUB 3 markup.
Viewer: current reading position not preserved when changing preferences and auto scroll is active.
Viewer: stopping autoscroll at end of chapter not stopping next chapter jump.
for viewer window going off screen even when not restoring window geometry.
Edit book: syntax highlighting for break-(before after)
drag and drop of some image files onto edit metadata dialog not working
Conversion pipeline: styles applied via selectors to the lt;html gt; element being ignored
Bulk metadata edit: clear series not resetting series index.
clicking on author name in book details panel to search in Goodreads not working if author has more than two parts in his name.
Improved news sources.
New York Times.
4.1007 Feb 2020 17:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.10 07 Feb, 2020
New features Viewer: When searching have single and double quotes match their curly variants as well.
a regression that caused the edit metadata individually and convert individually actions to use the bulk actions when multiple books are selected.
Linux: a crash caused by broken/incompatible CUPS Qt system plugin.
Viewer: search shortcut button not focusing search input if the search panel is placed in a tab or a floating window.
Update Google Images cover download plugin for website markup changes
Catalog generation: Ignore invalid pubdates.
Viewer: Stop autoscroll when changing page layout mode.
zipfile: regression that broke handling of zipfiles with internal filenames not encoded in UTF-8.
Check Book: Turn off unique headings CSS warning.
DOCX Output: When a list item contains a nested listed but no text, it should be output as an empty list item.
Improved news sources.
The New Yorker. Financiele Dagblad.
4.9.124 Jan 2020 17:05
minor feature:
Release: 4.9.1 23 Jan, 2020
New features Viewer: Much improved search functionality
Now all matches are displayed when searching in a side bar with a few words of context. Also supports searching using regular expressions.
Edit book: The Check book function has a new, improved CSS checker with support for CSS 3.
Edit book: Add an "Open with" action to the context menu of the files browser to easily open files with external programs.
Viewer toolbar: Add button to easily change color schemes
version 4.9.1 a couple of regressions in 4.9.0 with Check Book reporting false positives and an error when using the source editing view in the comments editor.
Comments editor: inserted blank paragraph being rendered as two lines.
PDF Output: conversion of files containing lt;canvas gt; elements failing.
Viewer: failure to open some books that contain unparseable URLs.
Viewer: data displayed in side margins getting moved out of position when mouse hovers over side margin.
Book details panel: When right clicking to save the cover, replace invalid characters in the suggested filename.
harmless error popup when adding SSL key/certificate in server settings
Dark mode: colors in remove all formats except dialog.
Improved news sources.
Liberty Times.
4.803 Jan 2020 13:05
minor feature:
Release: 4.8 03 Jan, 2020
New features Viewer in flow mode: Add auto-scrolling which can be triggered from the viewer controls and also make smooth scrolling by pressing down the arrow keys configurable.
Viewer: Allow showing data in left and right margins in addition to headers/footers.
Viewer: Allow right clicking in the lookup panel to zoom in/out.
Viewer: Allow setting colors for the margins when creating new color schemes in Preferences- gt;Colors.
Viewer: Ctrl+, to show preferences.
PDF Output: extracting text from generated PDFs not working if more than 100 characters per font are used in the text.
macOS: viewer controls not using system UI font.
Viewer: images not being rendered at certain sizes when they are the only content on the page in paged mode with single page per screen.
Viewer: svg links not working.
Viewer: a that could allow maliciously crafted EPUB files to read data from files on the computer. Thanks to dozernz for discovering this attack vector.
macOS: regression in previous release that caused link color to be light blue even when not using dark color themes.
RTF Output: a regression that slowed down conversion of images.
Server viewer: Make the Exit full screen action available in viewer controls.
Viewer: error when trying to change more than a single keyboard shortcut at once
typo causing a harmless error message when downloading covers and only a single cover is found.
Improved news sources.
London Review of Books.
4.728 Dec 2019 21:05
minor feature:
Release: 4.7 26 Dec, 2019
New features macOS: Use transient scrollbars unless they are disabled in system preferences.
Viewer toolbar: Add actions for next and previous section. They are not added to the toolbar by default, customize it to add them.
Viewer: Add an option to keep the toolbar visible in full screen mode (Viewer Preferences- gt;Miscellaneous).
Viewer: Allow modifying the current selection using Ctrl+Shift+Arrow.
Book details: Add an option in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Book details to show a heading for the comments in the book details panel
Edit book: Spell check: Ignore soft hyphens in words.
Viewer: In multiple pages per screen mode, When paging back to a chapter we have just paged forward from return to the exact position we left from in terms of number of blank trailing pages displayed.
Viewer: Add a setting under Preferences- gt;Colors to control when the viewer will override all book colors or not.
Viewer: flick scrolling in flow mode jumping to next chapter.
Windows: Possible for some windows appearing off screen on multi-monitor setups
macOS: PDF Output not working when running ebook-convert via symlink on the command line.
PDF Output: Ignore upto 8 byte glyph data size mismatches when merging identical glyphs.
Edit Book: Spell Check: words surrounded by narrow non-breaking spaces being incorrectly detected as mis-spelled.
Get books: Update various Polish language stores.
macOS: drag and drop to re-arrange items in the viewer toolbar not working.
PDF Output: When an inline image is placed alone inside a block tag, ensure that it is not split over two pages.
ToC editor: generate from links not working correctly when links have no fragments.
PDF Output: Dont dedup images that cannot be uncompressed
Advanced search dialog: an error when closing dialog if on the second tab and no field is focused.
Improved news sources.
Global Times. London Review of Books. The Telegraph (UK). The Economist.
4.613 Dec 2019 16:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.6 13 Dec, 2019
New features Windows 10: Add support for the dark mode.
If you turn on dark mode under the Windows Settings- gt;Personalisation- gt;Colors and restart calibre it will use dark colors. Can also be enabled by setting the CALIBRE_USE_DARK_PALETTE environment variable.
Polish books tool: Add a setting to add or remove soft hyphens from the book text.
Viewer: Re-enable the old reference mode from calibre 3.x.
PDF Output: the option to break long words at the end of lines not working since calibre 4.
DOCX Input: incorrect font sizes for footnote references in paragraphs that have text with multiple font sizes.
DOCX Input: Avoid nested lt;sup gt; tags for footnote references.
Viewer: max text width/height settings not being applied correctly on window resize.
Viewer: Auto-expand entries in the Table of Contents when viewing the corresponding location in the book.
Viewer: When creating a new bookmark, if there is selected text use it as the default bookmark title.
4.530 Nov 2019 01:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.5 29 Nov, 2019
New features Driver for the new PocketBook Inkpad X
Driver for the new Bookeen Diva HD
PDF Output: Add an option to shift text horizontally on odd/even pages.
Image viewing popup dialog: Add a checkbox to fit image to window.
Edit book: Create @font-face rules when importing multiple font files into book automatically, similar to how it is done when importing a single font file.
PDF Output: incorrect rendering if the input document has too many anchors.
a regression that could cause window layout settings to sometimes not be saved during shutdown.
Improved news sources.
L'express. The Toronto Star.
4.422 Nov 2019 15:05
minor feature:
Release: 4.4 21 Nov, 2019
New features Viewer: Allow customizing what actions appear on the toolbar (Preferences- gt;Miscellaneous- gt;Customize toolbar).
Viewer: The --open-at command line argument now allows matching on ToC hrefs as well as titles.
Book details window: Show path to book in cover tooltip.
Book details popup window: Add Open with actions to context menu when right clicking the cover image.
Edit book: Check book: Mark empty id attributes in the OPF as errors.
Viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to toggle the toolbar.
Bulk metadata download review dialog: When clicking cancel ask for confirmation if some books have already been reviewed.
PDF Output: an error when using fonts with vertical metrics.
Viewer: flickering when scrollbar is enabled and the header/footer is too wide for the screen.
PDF Output: Improve handling of images that do not fit on a page.
Viewer: In paged mode break long text without spaces at arbitrary points instead of overflowing to the next page.
Viewer: hang when using --open-at with single instance viewer and the specified location is already open.
Viewer: opening.txt files in the standalone viewer leaving behind a temporary index.html file in the directory of the txt file.
Linux: Make some cache removal code robust against un-decodeable filenames in the cache directories.
Viewer: scrolling of panels in preferences causing artifacts.
Viewer: improve appearance of controls on small screens.
Move button in viewer preferences to left to match the rest of the content server UI.
Viewer: restoring user stylesheet to default not being applied until a viewer restart.
Viewer: Do not wait for loading of lt;link gt; tags that are not stylesheets.
Viewer: When using the system color theme only override link colors in the book if the theme is dark.
Improved news sources.
The Atlantic. LifeHacker.
4.308 Nov 2019 10:05
minor feature:
Release: 4.3 08 Nov, 2019
New features Viewer: Halve the time taken to prepare large EPUB files for first open.
Viewer: Add an optional toolbar with common actions turn it on under Preferences- gt;Miscellaneous.
Viewer: Change the default color scheme to "System" which matches the colors used by the rest of calibre/the operating system. Also means the colors change automatically when the system color theme changes.
Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut ; to go to a book location or position.
Viewer: Add a control to easily reset the interface to defaults.
Viewer: Allow also using --open-at with book positions.
Viewer: Add command line option to force reloading of books.
Content server: conversion of comics not working.
Book details: Allow right click to copy author links and identifiers.
Book details: removal of identifiers via right click not working.
Book details: clicking on tags etc not generating exact match searches.
Viewer: When resizing and the resizing back to the old size ensure we return to the same page in paged mode.
Duplicates dialog: Sort sub-list of matching books already in calibre by author for easier inspection.
PDF Output: links that go to destinations in the same file not working.
Viewer: changes to keyboard shortcuts not being applied until viewer is restarted.
DOCX Input: AlternateContent blocks rendering both choice and fallback sections.
macOS: unable to re-arrange entries in the CSV catalog list.
Windows: UTF-16/truncated output when reporting unhandled exceptions.
Viewer: mouse wheel not working when mouse is over page margins.
Linux: Install bash completions as individual files for each calibre binary.
Content server: download button not working with non-ebook formats.
a crash in popup completion lists if the mouse is over the list and list is scrolled with the keyboard.
Viewer: rare exception when navigating to a CFI.
Viewer: Ignore failures printing console message when the viewer is launched with broken stderr.
Amazon metadata: failure
4.219 Oct 2019 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 4.2 18 Oct, 2019
New features macOS: Various improvements to dark mode support.
Viewer: Dont generate covers for books that dont have a cover. Note that because of this all previously opened books will again be prepared for first time reading.
Viewer: Restore print to PDF functionality.
Viewer: Allow also jumping to book positions in Goto- gt;Location.
Content server: When adding books and a duplicate is suspected provide more information about what books match the duplicate.
FB2 Output: Speed up conversion of images and handle external links.
Viewer: If the book has no ToC try to generate one from headings, if any.
Viewer: Improve rendering of comics. No blank pages after large images or after every image in multi-page mode.
Viewer: Make it easier to use the bookmarks panel with only keyboard.
Viewer: Set the classes calibre-viewer-paginated and calibre-viewer-scrolling on the lt;body gt; tag in Paged and Flow modes. This allows the User styles to target these modes, if needed.
Viewer: Use the same loading spinner as is used by the rest of calibre.
Edit book: a crash when editing CSS files caused by a behavior change in Qt 5.13.
a regression in 4.0 that broke rendering of PDF covers for PDF files that used JPEG2000 compression.
Viewer: a regression in 4.1 that broke creating new color schemes
Viewer: error while viewing books with a comment after a lt;meta gt; tag.
Viewer: an error when processing a CFI with an invalid text offset.
Viewer: scrolling backwards to previous chapter not always scrolling to the end of the chapter, if the chapter loads external resources.
Viewer: hang on books with namespaced attributes on lt;html gt; that do not belong to a known ebook namespace.
Viewer: search history not persisting between viewer restarts.
Viewer: scrollbar showing up on initial book open even if disabled in preferences.
Viewer: rendering of books with mathematics failing.
Viewer: When changing between individual sections/chapters in the book, only re
4.109 Oct 2019 00:05
minor feature:
Release: 4.1 07 Oct, 2019
New features Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences).
Viewer: Allow showing the 'position in book', as was displayed in the top left of the viewer in calibre 3, in the header or footer of the viewer.
Viewer: Add options to control scrolling using the mouse in paged mode.
Viewer: Allow copying images by right clicking on them.
Viewer: Add a preference under Miscellaneous to allow only a single instance of the viewer.
Viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to toggle between paged mode and flow mode and to quit.
Content server: Make the book size useable in custom book list templates.
Edit metadata: Use a border rather than background color to indicate correct title and author sort values. Works better with dark themes.
Kobo driver: Support for new firmware.
Viewer: a couple of in flow mode. Scrolling to anchors was not working and remembering last read position was not working.
Viewer: text after comments not being rendered. Note that the book has to be reloaded if already viewed for the to apply.
Viewer: loading progress screen sometimes getting stuck if changing pages rapidly.
Viewer: failing to open books if path to cache contains symbolic links.
Viewer: When restoring from fullscreen go back to maximized state if window was maximized when entering full screen.
Viewer: shortcut changes not being applied after pressing OK if shortcut list is by pressing Esc.
a regression that broke reading metadata from ODT files that do not have keywords.
PDF Output: a that prevented the first style property in the header or footer template from being applied.
PDF Output: error with a few embedded TTF fonts.
Edit book: Font manager: removing embedded font failing if @font-face rule has no src.
Viewer: Hide the browser provided scrollbar that flashes momentarily on page load.
Viewer: clicking on margins causing keyboard shortcuts to not work until the main text is clicked on again.
Comments editor: Workaround for Q
4.004 Oct 2019 10:25
minor feature:
Release: 4.0 04 Oct, 2019
New features For details on the major changes in calibre between 3.0 and 4.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/thirteen.
A completely re-written E-book viewer with an emphasis on presenting the book text, distraction free.
Note that the system requirements needed for calibre have been increased, details are present on the calibre download pages for each operating system.
3.4814 Sep 2019 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.48 13 Sep, 2019
New features Driver for Kobo Libra H2O.
Kobo driver: some annotations getting missed for kepubs.
Improved news sources.
Boston Globe. Scientific American.
3.47.103 Sep 2019 23:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.47.1 30 Aug, 2019
New features HTML metadata: Support reading identifiers from HTML files.
Preferences- gt;Ignored devices: Add a button to reset the list of devices that calibre is allowed to manage.
macOS: a regression that could cause a crash on exit if any books were deleted while calibre was running.
Content server OPDS: Handle form encoded search queries.
an error when adding files from clipboard and file is of unknown type.
Speed up restoring original format by doing a rename rather than a copy and re-add.
EPUB 3: setting metadata in EPUB 3 files without a title not working.
PML Input: Modernize the generated HTML a bit.
HTMLZ Output: svg content from HTML files that contain only SVG being removed.
Content server: OPDS feed for category based browsing listing restricted books, even though these books cannot be actually downloaded.
Preserve tag order when reading metadata from MOBI files.
Add missing 'language' field to ComicBookInfo metadata for.CBR files.
LIT Output: regression in 3.41 caused by py3 porting that broke conversion of some files to LIT.
Version 3.47.1 an error when using internet lookup from the book details panel and the e-book viewer, and also the tweak to control number of columns in the edit metadata dialog not working.
1842183, 1842090, 1842201.
Improved news sources.
Esquire. Foreign Affairs. derStandaard. Globe and Mail. CNET News. National Geographic. New Yorker. Chicago Tribune.
3.4730 Aug 2019 09:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.47 30 Aug, 2019
New features HTML metadata: Support reading identifiers from HTML files.
Preferences- gt;Ignored devices: Add a button to reset the list of devices that calibre is allowed to manage.
macOS: a regression that could cause a crash on exit if any books were deleted while calibre was running.
Content server OPDS: Handle form encoded search queries.
an error when adding files from clipboard and file is of unknown type.
Speed up restoring original format by doing a rename rather than a copy and re-add.
EPUB 3: setting metadata in EPUB 3 files without a title not working.
PML Input: Modernize the generated HTML a bit.
HTMLZ Output: svg content from HTML files that contain only SVG being removed.
Content server: OPDS feed for category based browsing listing restricted books, even though these books cannot be actually downloaded.
Preserve tag order when reading metadata from MOBI files.
Add missing 'language' field to ComicBookInfo metadata for.CBR files.
LIT Output: regression in 3.41 caused by py3 porting that broke conversion of some files to LIT.
Improved news sources.
Esquire. Foreign Affairs. derStandaard. Globe and Mail. CNET News. National Geographic. New Yorker. Chicago Tribune.
3.4620 Jul 2019 03:20
minor feature:
Release: 3.46 19 Jul, 2019
Manage tags dialog: When searching for a tag also search the "Was" column to see if the original tag name matches.
Windows: calibre-server --manage-users not working correctly.
MOBI Input: conversion of MOBI files with malformed markup and embedded lt;guide gt; tags not working.
Edit book: Allow the search expression history to remember very short terms and also preserve leading and trailing whitespace.
a regression in 3.45 that broke conversion of SVG images when converting to formats such as MOBI that do not support SVG.
a regression in 3.45 that broke parsing of old-style.py config files.
3.45.213 Jul 2019 17:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.45.2 12 Jul, 2019
New features Content server: Allow adding or removing formats to a book via the edit metadata page.
ToC Editor: Allow user to control whether duplicate headings are included or not when generating ToC from headings.
Advanced search dialog: Remember the last focused field in the search by title/authors tab.
Conversion: Performance improvement for books that have many HTML files that all include the same CSS stylesheets.
Kobo driver: Add options to more precisely control the generation of cover images, to reduce size and enhance quality.
Support subtitle in Douban metadata plugin.
a Windows-specific regression in 3.45.0 that caused various errors in the viewer and editor
a Windows-specific regression in 3.45.0 that prevented calibre from starting on non UTF-8 locales with non-ASCII usernames
Linux: Workaround for in recent Linux kernels that causes the Kindle to eject after calibre connects to it.
DOCX Input: When autodetecting the Table of Contents from headings, work even if the headings use numbering.
EPUB Output: If there are no guide elements do not output an empty guide tag. Makes epubcheck happy.
Workaround for sortByColumn being partially broken in Qt 5.13.0
a regression that broke the per_lang_title_sort_articles tweak.
Sending email: an error on some windows machines with non-ASCII hostnames.
EPUB Output: When generating EPUB 3 preserve the old style meta tag to identify the cover as Google Play Books does not recognize EPUB 3 cover markup.
Create catalog: handling of the tilde character in BiBTeX catalogs.
News downloads: incorrect font sizes for some text in the index pages.
Comic Input: incorrect processing of comics with pages that have the same file names in different folders when using the "No process" option.
CHM Input: a regression that broke processing of some CHM files.
Edit book: When auto-closing tags on typing lt;/, occasionally incorrect tag being in large files because syntax highlighting has not completed.
K
3.4403 Jun 2019 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.44 31 May, 2019
New features Driver for the new NOOK Glowlight Plus.
Driver for updated Kobo firmware.
Amazon metadata plugin: searching the Amazon servers directly not working because of changed markup.
3.4331 May 2019 02:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.43 25 May, 2019
New features Kobo driver: Support for new Kobo firmware.
Edit metadata dialog: Remember relative sizes of the cover and comments editors.
PDF Output: hang when converting some documents.
Handle newlines when serializing to csr files
searching in manage tags throws away all changes
a regression in the previous release that broke using the wireless device driver with the device_for_template option.
metadata download from Amazon stripping accents from comments text in the binary builds.
Amazon metadata download: some downloads failing when a mobile user agent is randomnly selected.
LRF Input: a regression that broke parsing LRF files.
PDF Input: Workaround for pdftohtml not always producing valid UTF-8.
New news sources.
The Baffler by Jose Ortiz
Improved news sources.
The Toronto Star. The Financial Express. London Review of Books. Boston Globe Subscription.
3.4230 Apr 2019 18:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.42 30 Apr, 2019
Conversion: Transform styles: When using regular expressions substitution groups not working.
a regression in the previous release that caused the conversion of HTML to text in comments when output to catalogs or converting downloaded metadata to behave slightly differently.
Edit book: beautify not handling lt;colgroup gt; and lt;th gt; tags correctly.
DOCX Input: cross-references using the 'fldSimple' markup not being recognized by calibre.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: a regression in the previous release that caused ampersands and middle-dots to appear as HTML entities in the output.
Prevent a malformed tweaks.json file from stopping calibre startup.
a regression that broke completion for ebook-convert.
News fetching: a regression that broke removal of attributes/javascript/srcset because of in the new BeautifulSoup.
TXT Output: Vietnamese  character being stripped from output.
E-book viewer: specifying a non-existen location via --open-at causing viewer to hang.
New news sources.
Magyar Nemzet by pofa
Improved news sources.
Global Times. Corriere della Serra.
3.41.320 Apr 2019 14:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.41.3 19 Apr, 2019
New features Kobo driver: Support for new firmware.
Content server: Add an option to control which book list mode is used by default for new users (Preferences- gt;Sharing over the net- gt;Choose book list mode).
Content server: Allow clicking on book cover in details page to read the book.
Amazon metadata plugin: Add a option to use the mobi-asin to find books.
E-book viewer: Allow specifying ToC hrefs via the --open-at command line parameter.
Tag Mapper: Allow Title-casing of tags.
Manage authors dialog: Add an entry to the right click menu to show books by the current author in the main book list.
Lots of internal changes to calibre's codebase to prepare it for Python 3 support.
Content server: links to external resources in book details and the viewer not working.
Content server: using a bookmark to load the book list not working if server is password protected.
Content server: Book details page: button not going back to book list after using Next/previous buttons.
Kobo driver: update device metadata setting not being saved. Also book language not being set correctly on newer firmware.
PDF Output: 'stroke-dasharray' lines in SVG images in the input document not being rendered correctly.
searching for authors on amazon not working because of a change in the amazon URL structure.
Cover grid: Check for cover size change due to screen scale change on every paint event and invalidate cache if there is a change.
Edit book: Option key + ; not working in the editor.
Edit book: pasting images into a book with no Images folder not working correctly.
Confirm cancel on library restore dialog
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: presets not being applied for some options.
using --insert-metadata with ebook-convert not inserting the title and author metadata from the source document.
Adding books: When adding with auto-merge and auto-convert enabled, also run conversions for books into which the added files are merged.
Versions 3.41.1, 3.41.2, 3.41.3 various
3.40.109 Mar 2019 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.40.1 08 Mar, 2019
New features TXT Input: Use markdown 3.0 with support for new extensions such as code highlighting and smarten punctuation.
Book details panel: Allow editing the identifiers for the book by right clicking on the existing Ids.
Content server: Allow specifying custom URLs for the 'Search the internet' feature via Preferences- gt;Sharing over the net- gt;Search the internet.
Tag browser: Category editor: Add a checkbox to restrict the entries shown to only those present in the current Virtual library.
Allow adding files to selected book records from the clipboard. To use copy a file from windows explorer, right click the Add books button and choose: Add files to selected books from clipboard
Tag browser: When right clicking on a saved search add a menu option to search using the raw search expression.
Tag browser: Have pressing the Enter key find the next match.
Windows: Add a button to Preferences- gt;Sharing over the net to set calibre to run when the computer starts.
a regression in the previous release that broke Copy to library and delete after when copying a duplicated book.
Edit book: pasting of image from clipboard using (Ctrl-V) not working.
Content server: id not working in the custom list template
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: presets not saving title and format information.
macOS: Respect the system setting for text insertion cursor blink time.
FB2 Output: comments from the input document not present in the output.
calibredb: adding books with an OPF file to a remote server not picking up the cover specified in the OPF file.
TXT Input: option to remove indents at the start of lines breaking conversion of markdown documents.
EPUB/MOBI Catalog generation: Allow matching empty fields in exclusion rules.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: multiple books with the same title but different authors in a genre not being listed.
Update the Get Books and metadata Amazon.com plugins to handle changes to the markup on the Amazon results page.
Version 3.40.1 a
3.39.102 Feb 2019 12:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.39.1 01 Feb, 2019
New features Content server: Implement the "Copy to library" function. To use it click the three dots in the top right corner of a book's page and choose "Copy to library"
Content server: Add Next/Previous buttons to the book details page.
Content server: editing metadata that affects multiple books causing all the metadata for all the books to become the same.
Open With: using.bat files as the program not working.
ZIP Output: an error when building the ToC on macOS for some books with non-ASCII ToC entries
Edit book: Check book: Follow recent releases of epubcheck in expecting.ttf files to have the mime-type application/vnd.ms-opentype in EPUB 3 books.
font mime-types not being auto-corrected when upgrading EPUBs from 2 to 3.
Content server: Try to detect if a book file has been edited outside of calibre and serve the updated copy.
merging books not updating author if the source book has no title.
Content server: heading for custom comments columns being duplicated in the book details page.
editing of dates not working is the date format is set to iso.
Version 3.39.1 a in 3.39.0 that broke copy to library for books that have saved conversion options
New news sources.
BSI News by Volker Heggemann. Science Advances by Jose Ortiz
Improved news sources.
Spiegel Online. Il Post.
3.38.122 Jan 2019 15:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.38.1 18 Jan, 2019
New features Tag browser: When using the Find function have unaccented characters match their accented equivalents, if the setting for it is set in Preferences- gt;Searching.
DOCX Input: When converting indices, put each sub-entry on its own line.
Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Add history for the template.
Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Add a few more variables for the link template: _SOURCE_FILENAME_, _DEST_FILENAME_ and _ANCHOR_.
Catalogs: Set the language of created catalogs to the calibre interface language instead of English
DOCX Input: Do not display section breaks that have a numbering style applied to them.
Content server: listening on :: not also listening on IPv4 interfaces on Windows.
DOCX Output: heading styles that have the same font size as body text getting incorrect font sizes after conversion.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: prerules not working when calibre UI language is something other than English.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: exclusion by tag not working for tags that have spaces in them.
Subset fonts: error when trying to subset unicode characters that require two UTF-16 code points on Windows.
Content server: option to restrict displayed user field not working in the /opds view.
Tag browser: incorrect icon for user categories.
PDF Output: conversion failing when fonts with non-English names are used.
38.1 a typo in 3.38.0 that caused the Polish books function to not work when polishing small numbers of books.
New news sources.
Nature by Jose Ortiz
Improved news sources.
Chicago Tribune. New York Times Book Review.
3.3818 Jan 2019 06:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.38 18 Jan, 2019
New features Tag browser: When using the Find function have unaccented characters match their accented equivalents, if the setting for it is set in Preferences- gt;Searching.
DOCX Input: When converting indices, put each sub-entry on its own line.
Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Add history for the template.
Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Add a few more variables for the link template: _SOURCE_FILENAME_, _DEST_FILENAME_ and _ANCHOR_.
Catalogs: Set the language of created catalogs to the calibre interface language instead of English
DOCX Input: Do not display section breaks that have a numbering style applied to them.
Content server: listening on :: not also listening on IPv4 interfaces on Windows.
DOCX Output: heading styles that have the same font size as body text getting incorrect font sizes after conversion.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: prerules not working when calibre UI language is something other than English.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: exclusion by tag not working for tags that have spaces in them.
Subset fonts: error when trying to subset unicode characters that require two UTF-16 code points on Windows.
Content server: option to restrict displayed user field not working in the /opds view.
Tag browser: incorrect icon for user categories.
PDF Output: conversion failing when fonts with non-English names are used.
New news sources.
Nature by Jose Ortiz
Improved news sources.
Chicago Tribune. New York Times Book Review.
3.3704 Jan 2019 10:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.37 04 Jan, 2018
calibredb: adding books from directories to a remote server running on Windows not working.
Edit Book: style attribute on lt;html gt; tags not being preserved when editing AZW3 files.
Get Books: Use an external browser for Google Books
Saving to disk: errors on Linux/macOS if the title/authors are long enough to make individual path components larger than 255 characters.
PDF Input: non-breaking spaces represented as entities in the output of pdftohtml, which breaks some search/replace expressions.
Edit book: a crash when mousing over links in an instance of the editor launched standalone on macOS Mojave
Conversion: When converting with font size rescaling disabled, convert font size names to rem unit rather than pt units.
Windows: When registering calibre programs as possible handlers for various file types, dont set the AllowSilentDefaultTakeOver registry key.
macOS: PDF Output: bold fonts not working on Mojave.
Content server: strings with double quotes not being translated.
Improved news sources.
Il Post.
3.3622 Dec 2018 12:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.36 21 Dec, 2018
New features Happy Holidays to everyone!.
Kobo driver: Add supported for newly released firmware update.
Kobo driver: a regression in the last release that caused book title to appear as unknown if metadata management was set to manual in calibre.
PDF Output: Do not fail if one of the fonts from the source document has no name metadata.
Improved news sources.
Wall Street Journal. ESPN. Al Jazeera (English).
3.3508 Dec 2018 09:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.35 07 Dec, 2018
New features Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Allow specifying a template to control the markup that is inserted for the hyperlink.
Metadata download: Add an option (in Preferences- gt;Metadata download) to keep multiple results from individual metadata sources, useful if you prefer to pick the best result by hand and use only one or two metadata sources.
Kobo driver: Add an option to directly update metadata in the Kobo device database, instead of waiting for the Kobo to update the database after disconnecting. (Preferences- gt;Plugins- gt;Customize the Kobo device plugin).
E-book viewer: a regression that broke viewing of HTMLZ files
Edit book: suggestions in completion popup not being sorted.
Windows: restarting calibre with system tray icon enabled causing duplicate defunct icons in the tray.
New news sources.
Macrobusinness by 2018robert. Sports Illustrated by Kovid Goyal. Le Peuple Breton by Lionel Plais. Mandidner by pofa
Improved news sources.
Wired Magazine. Wall Street Journal. Telepolis. Yahoo News. Associated Press. Mother Jones.
3.3409 Nov 2018 10:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.34 08 Nov, 2018
New features Support for the new Kindle Paperwhite 2018
Metadata plugboards: Allow defining plugboards that modify comments metadata as well.
E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+M) for toggling between paged and flow mode.
EPUB Input: Handle invalid EPUB files that have their NCX documents in the spine.
EPUB3 Input: Handle EPUB 3 files that incorrectly use EPUB 2 markup to identify cover images.
Content server: --url-prefeature not working with book conversion.
New news sources.
Arts and Letters Daily by pjpaulpj. Magyar Idok by pofa
Improved news sources.
Business Standard. Washington Post. General Knowledge Today. How To Geek.
3.33.123 Oct 2018 14:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.33.1 19 Oct, 2018
New features Driver for the new Kobo Forma.
PDF Output: Add a new 'page number map' setting to easily modify page numbers as needed in headers/fotters and the generated inline table of contents.
Edit book: Insert image: remember size of displayed thumbnails.
Edit book: Compress images losslessly: Remember the last used compression quality for jpeg compression.
CHM Input: a regression in the previous release that broke processing of CHM files.
clearing of metadata download author and tag map rules not working.
notifications from calibre being displayed as "Others" on the GNOME desktop.
Improved news sources.
Ambito Financiero. Pagina 12. stuff.co.nz. The New Zealand Herald. Various Polish news sources.
3.3319 Oct 2018 18:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.33 19 Oct, 2018
New features Driver for the new Kobo Forma.
PDF Output: Add a new 'page number map' setting to easily modify page numbers as needed in headers/fotters and the generated inline table of contents.
Edit book: Insert image: remember size of displayed thumbnails.
Edit book: Compress images losslessly: Remember the last used compression quality for jpeg compression.
CHM Input: a regression in the previous release that broke processing of CHM files.
clearing of metadata download author and tag map rules not working.
notifications from calibre being displayed as "Others" on the GNOME desktop.
Improved news sources.
Ambito Financiero. Pagina 12. stuff.co.nz. The New Zealand Herald. Various Polish news sources.
3.3228 Sep 2018 03:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.32 28 Sep, 2018
New features Edit book: Insert image dialog: Add buttons to change the image thumbnail size.
Book details panel: Allow right clicking on a format to open it in the calibre editor.
Edit metadata dialog: Allow viewing or editing specific formats by right clicking the format in the formats list.
When creating a metadata jacket allow HTML in custom long text columns.
Content server: When editing metadata add a button to remove the existing cover. Note that after removing the cover a auto-generated cover is displayed instead. You might need to hit refresh in your browser to see the change.
Content server: Date edit: Add buttons to clear the date or set it to today's date.
When showing books on the device, disable keyboard shortcuts for actions that operate on library books.
Content server: Custom List: a zero series index being displayed as one.
Content server: covers not being updated in downloaded copies of some books.
PDF Output: an error that could occur in rare circumstances when using the option to read page margins from the input document
Edit book: Check book: an error if a filename contains a character.
PDF Output: CSS opacity property causing text to not be rendered. Now opacity is ignored, as it is unsupported by Qt WebKit.
Create custom column dialog: Ensure that the format numbers field is always visible.
Improved news sources.
Washington Post.
3.3108 Sep 2018 11:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.31 07 Sep, 2018
New features Book list: Allow changing the font used for any column to bold and/or italic by right clicking on the column header and choosing 'Change font style'.
Note that this setting is per-library so it has to be done once for the book list in every calibre library.
fetch-ebook-metadata.exe: Allow specifying identifiers other than just ISBN.
Amazon metadata download: Add support for Amazon Australia (can be configured via Preferences- gt;Metadata download- gt;customize the amazon metadata source).
Table of Contents Edit tool: When generating from XPath's add a checkbox to control if duplicate entries at the same level are added or not.
Edit book: Allow disabling the popup to show changes after running the HTML and Beautify all files tools.
DOCX Input: figures in newer Word documents being duplicated.
Content server: Disable offline access if application cache is not available, rather than failing.
DOCX Output: Workaround for broken CSS that uses -o-pre-wrap for the white-space property
Metadata download: Remove the option to lookup first edition dates as the service used to get the data no longer exists.
Improved news sources.
Howto Geek. Welt der Physik. Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung. Fortune Magazine.
3.3024 Aug 2018 14:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.30 24 Aug, 2018
New features ToC Editor: When generating ToCs using headings/XPath ignore duplicate entries at the same level that have the same text.
Windows: The default calibre library location is now not in My Documents but instead in the user home folder, to avoid with OneDrive auto-syncing calibre libraries
Kobo driver: Support for new firmware version.
Add a tweak (in Preferences- gt;Tweaks) to allow skipping network check on news download.
Edit metadata dialog: Show a confirmation dialog on cancel if some changes have been made.
Downloaded metadata review dialog: a regression in the last release that broke the revert buttons.
E-book viewer: clicking links in the footnote popup ignoring the anchor part of the link.
ToC editor: generating toc entries from links not working for links that start with #.
HTML Input: Collapse multiple spaces in filenames when sanitizing them.
Edit book: Remove matching tag: incorrect removal if the remove matching function is triggered in rapid succession.
Edit book: some links in the file being split not being adjusted when splitting HTML files.
a crash when using some third party plugins and enabling the "two lines for text under icons" option
Make the create catalog dialog freely resizable
DOCX Input: an error when converting some DOCX files with inherited fonts.
3.2911 Aug 2018 13:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.29 10 Aug, 2018
New features Add a option to draw a grid in the main book list (Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel).
Edit book: Allow removing the currently highlighted tag (while keeping its contents) by pressing Ctrl+ gt;. You can also add a tool to do it via Preferences- gt;Toolbars.
Content server: When defining a color scheme for the in browser viewer allow specifying the link color as well as the foreground and background.
Edit book: Show a popup after a all html/beautify all files so the user can easily see what was changed, if needed.
Kindle driver: Create cover thumbnails on the device when transferring KFX format books.
Edit Book: Recognize numbers in image names in the 'Insert image' dialog
Content server: Display custom comments field on the book details page in the same order as in the calibre GUI.
Edit book: open image editors not being updated when image file is replaced.
keyboard shortcuts for Edit book tools created from plugins not working.
PDF Output: error when trying to convert books that do not specify a language in their metadata.
Browser viewer: inability to open books that contain zero-byte stylesheets/images.
Improved news sources.
Boston Globe. Newsweek. Ambito and Ambito Financiero. New York Times. New England Journal of Medicine. The Hindu Business Line. Private Eye. Le Temps.
3.2821 Jul 2018 18:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.28 20 Jul, 2018
New features Allow creating rules to transform author names when adding books to calibre. Accessible via Preferences- gt;Adding books- gt;Adding actions
Add a similar author mapper tool to manipulate author names in the existing library. Accessible via Preferences- gt;Toolbars.
Add a similar author mapper tool for metadata downloading, accessible via Preferences- gt;Metadata download.
Comments Editor: Add options to change the case of the selected text to the right click menu
Edit book: When sorting non text files in the File list recognize numbers in the file names
calibredb catalog: Recognize file extensions even when they are not lowercase.
New news sources.
Il Post by frafra. Bloomberg Columnists by Dale Furrow
Improved news sources.
Sunday Times Magazine UK. The Economist. The Houston Chronicle. El cohete a la luna. CBC Canada.
3.27.107 Jul 2018 03:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.27.1 06 Jul, 2018
New features Content server: Allow conversion of books
Click the convert icon in the top bar of the book details page to convert a book. Note that conversion only works for logged in users who have permission to make changes to the calibre library.
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware.
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an "edit tags" button for tags like custom columns.
Add an option in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel to disable the new 'drag and drop to merge books feature'.
E-book viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+B) to toggle the bookmarks panel.
Edit book: Add a copy to clipboard button on the various report dialogs.
Edit book: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Down) to edit the next file in the book spine.
calibre-smtp: Verify relay server TLS certificates by default. New option --dont-verify-server-certificate to restore old behavior.
Version 3.27.1 a build error in 3.27.0 that caused calibre not to start on macOS older than High Sierra.
Conversion: a regression in the previous release that caused conversion of EPUB 3 to EPUB 3 to fail.
detection of the Bookeen NolimbookXL on macOS and Linux
a regression that broke the fetching of annotations from Kobo and Kindle devices.
DOCX Input: failure to convert some DOCX files that use Symbol fonts.
When exporting very large libraries failures due to busy errors.
commas not working in identifiers that are transformed to URLs via rules.
Review downloaded metadata: cancel button on the confirm reject all dialog not working.
Kindle Fire driver: Send books by default to the "kindle" folder instead of the "Books" folder to workaround a change in the Fire firmware that causes the Kindle to not recognize files in the Books folder.
Linux installer: Also the execute bits in the umask if the user runs the installer with a umask that prevents files from being world executable.
Sort the entries in the show column menu alphabetically.
Improved news sources.
Gosc Niedzielny. Cracked.com. Psychology Today. T
3.26.119 Jun 2018 10:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.26.1 15 Jun, 2018
New features Book list: Allow drag and drop of books onto other books to merge the book records.
Check Book: External link checker: Also check HTML anchors (the part after the # in the link). Can be turned off via a checkbox at the bottom of the link checker window.
Edit Book: Preview panel: Show previews when editing SVG files.
Edit book: When downloading external resources, also convert data URLs into files.
E-book viewer: When the controls are hidden show the progress in the window title.
Library Quick switch menu: Highlight the previously switched from library in bold.
PDF Input: a regression in 3.24 that caused conversion of PDF to be significantly worse.
E-book viewer: very slow loading for HTML files with very many images on Linux.
Content server: a regression in 3.14 that removed the separator between books in the detailed list view mode.
Edit book: SVG files not being beautified by the Beautify all files tool.
Edit book: searching in selected files not searching SVG files.
Tweaks help string not being displayed translated.
Edit metadata dialog: distorted rendering of some labels in the custom metadata tab in rare circumstances.
version 3.26.1 prevents dropping of a book onto itself from triggering the merge dialog, which should reduce accidental triggers
New news sources.
El Cronista by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
Slate. New York Times Book Review. The Independent UK. NYTimes Tech Beat. New York Times. Cracked.com.
3.2615 Jun 2018 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.26 15 Jun, 2018
New features Book list: Allow drag and drop of books onto other books to merge the book records.
Check Book: External link checker: Also check HTML anchors (the part after the # in the link). Can be turned off via a checkbox at the bottom of the link checker window.
Edit Book: Preview panel: Show previews when editing SVG files.
Edit book: When downloading external resources, also convert data URLs into files.
E-book viewer: When the controls are hidden show the progress in the window title.
Library Quick switch menu: Highlight the previously switched from library in bold.
PDF Input: a regression in 3.24 that caused conversion of PDF to be significantly worse.
E-book viewer: very slow loading for HTML files with very many images on Linux.
Content server: a regression in 3.14 that removed the separator between books in the detailed list view mode.
Edit book: SVG files not being beautified by the Beautify all files tool.
Edit book: searching in selected files not searching SVG files.
Tweaks help string not being displayed translated.
Edit metadata dialog: distorted rendering of some labels in the custom metadata tab in rare circumstances.
New news sources.
El Cronista by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
Slate. New York Times Book Review. The Independent UK. NYTimes Tech Beat. New York Times. Cracked.com.
3.2503 Jun 2018 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.25 01 Jun, 2018
New features Kobo driver: Support the new Clara HD.
PDF Output: Add an option to use page margins from the input document, specified via @page CSS rules.
Allows individual HTML files in the input document to have different page margins in the output PDF.
option to "show text under buttons only if there is enough space" not working well with the option to use "two lines for the text under the buttons".
Update notification: When both calibre and plugin updates are available and the user updates only the plugins, the restart calibre button not working.
E-book viewer: printing of comics (cbz/cbr files) not working.
EPUB3 Input: Table of Contents not being recognized for some EPUB 3 books that placed their nav document in-side a sub-folder.
Improved news sources.
Associated Press.
3.24.230 May 2018 10:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.24.2 25 May, 2018
New features Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files.
PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines.
PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates.
Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel.
Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words.
Edit book: HTML: Automatically resolve private entities
Improve formatting of help in Preferences- gt;Tweaks.
ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well.
Version 3.24.2 a in the new EPUB 3 output functionality that prevented conversion of non-EPUB 3 books to EPUB 3.
Version 3.24.1 a regression in the 3.24 in the editor that caused syncing between the editor and the Preview panel/Live CSS panel to not work correctly.
PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text as their presence prevents searching from working.
DOCX Output: lt;pre gt; tags not being converted correctly.
DOCX Input: incorrect conversion of a framed block that contains a list.
Conversion: private entities that use the same name as an HTML entity not being handled correctly
Viewer: HTML files with private entities displaying an artifact at the top
Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with private entities
EPUB3 Input: titlepage being referred to in the nav causing two titlepage entries in the final book.
throbber buttons not being perfectly aligned inside toolbars.
Quickview: sizes not being displayed.
Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as changed if no images could be further compressed.
Book list split-view: horizontal scroll position of split view can change when changing the current column in one view.
Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux.
Edit metadata dialog: undo last trim not working for automatic trims.
Content server: series field blank in Italian translation.
Beaut
3.2426 May 2018 17:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.24 25 May, 2018
New features Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files.
PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines.
PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates.
Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel.
Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words.
Edit book: HTML: Automatically resolve private entities
Improve formatting of help in Preferences- gt;Tweaks.
ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well.
PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text as their presence prevents searching from working.
DOCX Output: lt;pre gt; tags not being converted correctly.
DOCX Input: incorrect conversion of a framed block that contains a list.
Conversion: private entities that use the same name as an HTML entity not being handled correctly
Viewer: HTML files with private entities displaying an artifact at the top
Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with private entities
EPUB3 Input: titlepage being referred to in the nav causing two titlepage entries in the final book.
throbber buttons not being perfectly aligned inside toolbars.
Quickview: sizes not being displayed.
Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as changed if no images could be further compressed.
Book list split-view: horizontal scroll position of split view can change when changing the current column in one view.
Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux.
Edit metadata dialog: undo last trim not working for automatic trims.
Content server: series field blank in Italian translation.
BeautifulSoup: Port from upstream for outputting bare ampersands in strings.
calibredb add: Run the input plugins before reading metadata instead of after.
New news sources.
The Federalist by Kovid Goyal
Improved news sources.
The New York Times Book Review. New York Times
3.2305 May 2018 17:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.23 04 May, 2018
New features Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
Book polishing: Add an option to upgrade EPUB 2 to EPUB 3.
DOCX Input: Convert text written with dingbat fonts such as Wingding or Symbol correctly.
When choosing the page to use as a cover from a PDF file, add a button to render more pages, if needed.
TXT Input: Add support for embedded images that use relative URLs when converting markdown or textile. Note that this will only work if you are converting using the ebook-convert command line tool as the main calibre program moves files around, so relative references will not be valid.
Edit book: Insert special character: Add an option to select if searching should match all words or any of the words.
Edit book: Insert special character: When searching by name match prein addition to whole words. So you can now type "horiz" to match "horizontal".
Linux installer: Simplify the command used to install calibre and add support for Ubuntu 18.04 which is missing a default python executable.
When upgrading EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 add the 'epub' namespace to all HTML files, for convenience.
Edit Book: an error caused by a landmark entry in EPUB 3 files that has an lt;a gt; tag without an href attribute.
Edit Book: names for some control characters not being displayed in the status bar.
Searching: A (B) not being treated as A AND (B).
Kobo driver: Add an option to not maintain bookmarks/read status/etc. when resending a book already on the device.
DOCX Input: Ignore complex script font styles. conversion of documents that specify only complex script styles and no simple script styles.
When updating EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 ensure only a single dc:date element is present in the OPF.
3.22.122 Apr 2018 01:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.22.1 19 Apr, 2018
New features Edit book: Add a tool to upgrade books from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 (Tools- gt;Upgrade book internals)
Automatically upgrades metadata, converts the NCX table of contents and adds required manifest annotations.
Add support for the FBZ format (zipped FB2)
Kindle driver: Change the height of generated thumbnails to 500px, needed for the Oasis 2017.
Edit book: When bulk renaming files add an option to rename by the order in which the files appear in the book.
Polishing: Recognize titlepages that are marked as covers in the EPUB 3 landmarks section.
Edit Book: Automatically updated the modified timestamp in the OPF when saving EPUB 3 books.
Remove the ISBNDB metadata plugin as ISBNDB no longer allows free lookups.
EPUB 3 metadata: If the book defines more than one author sort value for an author use the first instead of the last.
Check Book: Dont warn for nav document not in spine in EPUB 3 books.
Linux installer: umask question not working with the recommended install command because stdin is a pipe.
Browser viewer: Show an error message when trying to use the Sync function without being logged in.
When setting cover from a PDF file and the user clicks cancel, do not delete the existing cover.
New news sources.
Le Monde: subscriber paper edition by Remi Vanicat
Improved news sources.
Globe amp; Mail. National Geographic. Slate. GoComics. Oregonian.
3.2107 Apr 2018 11:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.21 06 Apr, 2018
New features Browser viewer: Allow showing the time left in the current chapter/book in the header and footer areas of the book.
To use go to the preferences of the browser viewer and customize the headers and footers to display the time left. Note that time left in chapter only works correctly if chapters are in separate HTML files in the book.
Manage tags dialog: Searching now shows all matching tags and there is an undo button to undo changes.
Add an output profile for the Kindle Oasis 2017
Content server: adding/deleting books and editing metadata not updating the main calibre book list automatically.
Viewer: When doing a dictionary lookup, remove soft hyphens from the word, if any are present.
Edit metadata dialog: tab order for buttons to the left of the title and author.
Trim cover dialog: Remove the redundant Trim amp; OK button, instead have the OK button trim automatically if there is a selection.
Update Amazon metadata plugin for a website change.
Content server: translations not being updated without clearing the browser cache.
Content server: switching from translations to no translations not working.
Content server: When updating interface data do not transmit translations if they have not been changed. Saves 30-60KB bandwidth when using non-English interface language.
Improved news sources.
The Atlantic. Fortune Magazine. Telegraph UK. Hot Air. Reader's Digest. The Economist.
3.2025 Mar 2018 02:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.20 23 Mar, 2018
New features Content server: Allow editing the metadata of books from the book details page
On the book details page, you can now edit any metadata and change covers by clicking the edit metadata icon in the right area of the top bar. Note that only users that have write permissions for the library can edit metadata.
Kobo driver: Recognize Kobo Aura 2 with new firmware (4.6.10188).
When reading metadata from HTML also recognize lt;meta name="dc.description" gt; as being comments.
Improved news sources.
Danas. Al monitor. Folha de Sao Paolo. New York Times. Wirtschaft's Woche.
3.1911 Mar 2018 02:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.19 09 Mar, 2018
New features Driver for the new PocketBook 740.
Allow using relative URLs in comments type metadata. The relative URLs are interpreted relative to the book folder in the calibre library.
Edit book: Reports: Do not show characters from the HTML markup in the characters report.
Allow adding the Virtual library button to any toolbar/menu via Preferences- gt;Toolbars amp; menus.
Server: server becoming unresponsive if a client sends invalid SSL data at exactly the right moment.
Conversion heuristics: Make unwrapping recognize Georgian letters as well.
Make de-serialization of stored conversion options safe against maliciously crafted input
E-book viewer: Change the file format used to import/export bookmarks to use JSON. This prevents malicious bookmarks files from causing code execution.
Make the history completion for the search and replace edit box case-sensitive.
PDF Output: When the input document contains multiple anchors with the same value, use the first anchor rather than the last. This follows browser behavior.
FB2 Input: Add lt;div gt; to lt;blockquote gt; content to silence the useless epubcheck
New news sources.
Granta by Gary Arnold
Improved news sources.
WirtschaftsWoche Online. Spektrum der Wissenschaft.
3.1824 Feb 2018 15:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.18 23 Feb, 2018
New features Browser viewer: Allow long tapping a word to look it up in a dictionary or search the internet for it.
Conversion: Handle the deprecated type attribute on lt;ol gt; tags.
metadata download from amazon stopped working because of a website change.
re-ordering of columns causing split book splitter state not being restored on restart.
errors when using strftime with unicode strings on non-utf-8 windows systems.
Split book view: vertical scroll position of the two views getting out of sync after doing some searches.
some edit widget appearing in the wrong place when editing in the right hand panel of the new split book list.
Portable build: cache directory not always being auto-created
Workaround for Qt 5.10 on Linux resetting the global font, preventing custom interface font settings from working.
Improved news sources.
New York Times. The Economist. Gosc. Various Uruguayan recipes.
3.1710 Feb 2018 21:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.17 09 Feb, 2018
New features Allow splitting the book list, by right clicking on the column headers and choosing 'Split the book list'
This is useful to 'lock' one or more columns in place so that they are always visible even when scrolling through other columns. Also, the split list has a separate right click menu which you can configure via Preferences- gt;Toolbars and menus.
Store temporary files used by the editor and viewer in the cache directory to try to prevent errors caused by 'file cleaner' programs deleting temporary files still in use.
EPUB3 Input: HTML covers and titlepages that are marked using the deprecated lt;guide gt; element not being recognized.
Bulk metadata edit: regression in 3.13 that made it impossible to use the Force numbering checkbox for custom series.
Conversion: the valign attribute on lt;td gt; tags not being honored.
E-book viewer: the 'Copy' keyboard shortcut/context menu action not working on some Windows systems
E-book viewer: Make the semi-transparent background for viewing metadata a little more opaque.
New news sources.
Computing by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
New York Times. Le Devoir. New Statesman. London Review of Books. New York Post. LWN Weekly. Associated Press.
3.1627 Jan 2018 19:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.16 26 Jan, 2018
New features Content server: Allow adding and deleting of books using the web interface
Use the + icon in the top bar of the book list to add new books and the trash icon in the top bar of the book details page to a delete a book. Note that only authenticated users are allowed to perform these actions, so you have to setup user accounts for the server to use these features.
Allow removing the button from tabs in the Virtual library tab bar. Right click the tab bar and choose 'Lock tabs' to do that.
calibredb export: Add --progress option.
Bulk metadata editing: Show progress bars to track progress of the operation.
Content server: When downloading books from the server send both the ASCII and full Unicode file names. Browsers that support RFC 6266 can make use of the unicode file name.
Content server: Show a warning popup on Apple devices when the user tries to search with an expression containing smart quotes, since Apple devices now automatically replace quotes with smart quotes when typing.
DOCX Output: links without anchors in the input document not being converted correctly.
calibredb: a regression that broke reading of passwords from stdin.
Edit book: an error when saving files with filenames that cannot be encoded using the system codepage on Windows.
Pasting metadata: excluding title and authors not working.
New news sources.
Revista Veintitres by Darko Miletic. Cronica by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
The Galaxy's Edge. Orange County Register. Danas.
3.1507 Jan 2018 00:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.15 04 Jan, 2018
New features Browser viewer: Allow customizing what information is displayed in the header and footer areas. Access Preferences from the viewer controls to change.
Add support for MTP devices on FreeBSD.
ToC editor: Add more case changing operations to the right click menu.
Content server: Redirect pre 2.x book URLs to new 3.x URLs via a JavaScript redirect.
Content server: Allow opening entries in the book list in a new tab via middle click/right click.
Add a tweak in Preferences- gt;Tweaks to exclude some fields when using the Edit metadata- gt;Copy/paste actions.
Linux: Allow using calibre-tray.png in the calibre resources folder to override the system tray icon.
Browser viewer: goto next/previous section actions not working when the sections are in different individual HTML files.
Edit book/Book polishing: When compressing images and the compressed image is larger thant he original, use the original image.
PDF input: conversion of multi-level PDF Outline causing duplicate entries in the Table of Contents.
Edit book: incorrect EPUB 3 declarations being added to the OPF file when adding covers to an EPUB 2 book.
Edit book: backspace key un-indenting instead of deleting even when text is selected if the cursor is at the start of the line.
Tag browser: position not bing preserved when deleting books.
Edit Book: Use the cache directory rather than the temp directory to store working files. Hopefully prevents temp file cleaners from destroying books.
EPUB input: Handle books that erroneously set the mimetype for font files to text/plain.
AZW3 input: Do not fail to process files with invalid internal flow references.
When updating plugins, do not show the dialog asking which toolbar to put the plugin, even if the user has removed the plugin for all toolbars.
Content server: using the Clear logs button preventing the server from restarting until calibre itself is restarted.
Improved news sources.
LA Times. Popular Science. Nikkei News.
3.1416 Dec 2017 19:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.14 15 Dec, 2017
New features User manual: A new quick reference primer for regular expression syntax https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/regexp_quick_reference.html.
Content server: Allow viewing the book metadata while reading a book. In the viewer controls, tap Goto and then Metadata to see the metadata.
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware.
Bulk metadata edit: Allow choosing the algorithm used for changing the case of titles.
Get books: The koobe.pl store plugin has now become the Swiat Ebookow store plugin.
Allow Copy/paste of book metadata from the main book list. Right click the Edit metadata button to access these actions.
Allow disabling the confirmation popup when opening the containing folder of many books at once.
Nook driver: books sent via calibre not appearing under My Files on the Glowlight 3 Plus.
Get Books: Update Mills amp; Boon, publio, empik, legimi, woblink and beam-ebooks.de plugins for website changes.
Book polishing: Do not scan book for font usage when subsetting if no embedded fonts are available.
Content server: Open links in the comments section from the book details page in new windows.
Choose English as the User interface language when a locale related environment variable is set to the C locale.
Linux installer: A nicer error message if the user tries to run the installer on an ARM machine.
New news sources.
El Cohete a la luna by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
Boston Globe. The Times. Economist.
3.1302 Dec 2017 20:25
minor feature:
Release: 3.13 01 Dec, 2017
New features Driver for the new Bq Cervantes 4.
Edit book: Auto-generate links to existing stylesheets when adding a new HTML file.
Add a button to easily clear server logs in Preferences- gt;Sharing over the net- gt;Show server logs.
Catalog generation: Store the list of fields to be used in generating CSV/XML catalogs per library.
Bulk metadata edit: Make the custom series controls similar to the builtin series ones, with the same set of features.
Edit book: Pre-select existing cover image (if any) in add cover dialog.
Make the Manage saved searches dialog a little easier for new users.
Add a tweak to control behavior of Enter on the book list.
Content server: random book button on book details page multiplying.
Edit Book: Bulk file rename dialog: Remember last used prefor renaming files.
Tag browser: use of the tweak to control order of items in the Tag browser causing unexpected expansion of items after editing metadata.
Content server: Improve rendering of tags/categories with long words on small screens.
first added saved search not appearing in Tag browser until calibre restart.
When checking added books for duplicates, also check on the language field. So books with the same title/authors but different languages are not considered duplicates.
Edit Book: Spell check should not fail if there are non-HTML files in the spine.
Conversion: an error when using the embed_all_fonts option with certain books.
Save to disk: Dont error out if the user deletes all formats to be saved.
Linux binary: calibre not starting on systems where QT_QPA_PLATFORM is set to use wayland.
New news sources.
Various Russian news source by men00t
Improved news sources.
The Economist. The Walrun Magazine. China Daily. Telepolis.
3.1210 Nov 2017 20:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.12 09 Nov, 2017
New features Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 3
Allow configuring the metadata fields displayed in the popup book details window. To configure, simply click the 'Configure' link at the bottom of the window.
Wireless driver: Allow specifying extra file formats (unknown to calibre) to send.
a regression that caused clicking the clear button in the main search bar to not unapply the current search until enter is pressed.
Linux: a regression causing calibre to fail to start on systems with no DBUS session bus.
Browser viewer: body font being forced to sans-serif, overriding in book and user stylesheet settings.
sending email failing of the computer's FQDN is set to a single period.
Improved news sources.
New Yorker. Geopolityka.
3.11.104 Nov 2017 07:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.11.1 02 Nov, 2017
New features Kindle driver: Add support for the new Kindle Oasis.
Browser viewer: Allow the user to specify a CSS style sheet to control the look and feel of the text.
Edit book spell check: In the list of suggestions show the original word in italics.
Edit Book: When adding a new HTML file, add it after the file being currently edited instead of at the end.
Column coloring: Add a contains rule type.
Book details panel: Allow saving the displayed cover to disk via the right click context menu.
Browser viewer: font size and color scheme settings not being respected in the footnote popup.
DOCX Output: comments/XML processing instructions in the middle of text causing text to be skipped.
Book details panel: metadata field titles not being top aligned.
Linux: long startup delay on systems that do not have a desktop notification service running.
3.11.1 a couple of regression in 3.11.0 that broke configuring Get books and creating catalogs.
Improved news sources.
Financial Times. computerworld.pl. Tulsa World. Science Daily. El Mundo.
3.1021 Oct 2017 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.10 20 Oct, 2017
New features Browser viewer: Show footnotes in a popup window. Similar to the popup footnote functionality in the calibre viewer.
Content server: Add an option to control the timeout for making AJAX queries to the server.
regression that broke Preferences- gt;Conversion- gt;Common options in version 3.9.
Server: adding expressions to the search always using AND instead of respecting the setting to use OR or AND.
Browser viewer: a regression that caused loading more than one book in the same session or using the back/forward browser buttons to require refreshing the browser.
Jobs list: killing of job killing the wrong job if other jobs are completed while waiting for kill confirmation.
DOCX Output: preserve cover aspect ratio option still distorting the aspect ratio slightly.
Improved news sources.
Lomza. Go Comics. Various Polish news sources.
3.907 Oct 2017 17:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.9 06 Oct, 2017
New features Remove the Connect to iTunes function since Apple has removed that functionality from iTunes
Now you have to use one of the wireless connection methods to connect to an iPad/iPhone, as described at: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#how-do-i-use-calibre-with-my-ipad-iphone-ipod-touch.
Kobo driver: Support for new firmware.
Allow changing the icons in yes/no columns via column icon rules.
Quickview panel: Add a context menu with a "View" action to the book table.
Make the elapsed time display in the jobs dialog more human friendly.
EPUB Input: styles in existing titlepage not being flattened when the titlepage is preserved during conversion.
conversion of grayscale JPEG-XR images not working
Update the douban metadata download plugin to match changes to the website.
DOCX Output: the preserve cover aspect ratio option not visible
Improved news sources.
Respekt Magazine. Associated Press. Heraldo de Aragon. El Correo. El Periodico de Aragon. A List Apart.
3.823 Sep 2017 22:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.8 22 Sep, 2017
New features Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an action to set metadata from e-book files.
Server: Add an option to control the number of books displayed per page in the browser (Preferences- gt;Sharing over the net- gt;Advanced).
DOCX Output: Add an option to preserve the cover aspect ratio in the output document.
Book details panel: An option to control the layout of the panel in 'Narrow' mode (Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Book details)
If the --start-in-tray option is specified, create a tray icon even if the configuration option to enable tray icons is off.
Possible for with pinning calibre to taskbar on windows. Note that as an unfortunate side-effect, you will have to unpin and re-pin calibre to the taskbar after updating.
DOCX Output: text immediately after a hidden tag not being included.
a regression that broke fetching of metadata from Douban.
Cover grid: Shift+arrow keys to manipulate selection not working.
Editor snippets: Dont lose the last selected word when the user triggers a non-existent snippet.
Book details popup window: Show the cover size in the bottom right corner if the option to show cover size in the Book details panel is set.
Linux: regression that broke using calibre on some older VNC servers.
Browser viewer: Do not fail if the book contains javascript that has errors.
Linux: file open dialog on older KDE desktops not working correctly.
Update Ozon.ru metadata plugin for website changes.
LIT Input: a buffer overflow caused by malformed LIT files.
Conversion: Expand -epub-writing-mode to -webkit-writing-mode and writing-mode properties for maximum compatibility.
Linux: SONY PRS-650 not being detected.
New news sources.
Dunya Halleri by Sukru Alatas
Improved news sources.
The Hindu. Le Monde. Wired Monthly. Cracked.com. Carta. FAZ.NET. Newsweek. Financial Times.
3.727 Aug 2017 01:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.7 25 Aug, 2017
New features Allow searching for books in a virtual library using a new 'vl:' pre
Server: Show file sizes in the tooltips for the download buttons.
Server: Reduce the grid view minimum cover thumbnail size from 150px to 105px.
Narrow layout: wasted space to the left of the comments in the Book details panel.
Server: downloading files via the list of formats not working when launching calibre from the home screen on iOS.
Browser viewer: controls help overlay not being displayed the first time the viewer is used.
MOBI Output: a regression causing a crash for some input documents that specify text-transform or font-variant CSS properties.
DOCX Input: framed lists being rendered with the frame inside the bullets instead of outside it.
a regression that could cause conversion to crash when using the first-letter CSS pseudo selector and outputting to MOBI or DOCX.
Conversion: remove first image option not working for comic input with the disable comic processing option.
Server: tooltip not working in the cover grid view.
Workaround for Qt that prevented using the shift and ctrl keys with the touchscreen.
Linux: native KDE file dialog not working on older systems.
Linux: KDE dialogs not supporting multiple file name filter groups.
libraries being sorted alphabetically by full path rather than just library name.
Server: Allow hyphens in user names.
calibredb.exe: misleading error message when connecting to a server with incorrect username or password.
New news sources.
Paris Review and Public Domain Review by fenuks by fenuks. IDPixel and The Insider by men00t
Improved news sources.
Asian review of Books. Financial Times. National Post. Go Comics.
3.605 Aug 2017 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.6 04 Aug, 2017
New features Linux: Use native file dialogs via zenity or kdialog, if available.
Copy to library: Add an action to show a dialog that allows for easy selection of libraries for copy/move. Useful when there are a large number of libraries to choose from.
Server: Allow deleting a downloaded book from the "Browse all downloaded books" screen.
Hopefully an with the book list jumping around when using the mouse on some computers.
E-book viewer: Change the default fonts on windows to the Liberation font family. This matches the other platforms and avoids rendering with Times New Roman.
DOCX Output: Convert images placed by themselves inside block tags as block images rather than inline images.
a typo that broke the download of a few news sources.
ebook-viewer.exe: --continue-reading not working.
non XML safe characters in feed descriptions causing news download to fail.
Browser viewer: books that contain broken links with unicode characters in their paths not working.
Quickview: regression in previous release that broke the 'Lock quickview' control.
New news sources.
Various Sardinian news by tzium
Improved news sources.
Navy Times.
3.529 Jul 2017 15:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.5 28 Jul, 2017
New features Server: Add a new 'custom' mode for the book list, where you can specify exactly what metadata fields are displayed, via a template (see Preferences- gt;Sharing over the net- gt;Book list template).
Speed up HTML parsing by an order of magnitude, by switching from html5lib to html5-parser.
Add support for touch screens to the main calibre book list. You can now flick to scroll, tap to select and double-tap to view books.
Server: Add an option to ban IP addresses if there are too many failed login attempts.
calibre-de: Change the --explode-book action to only create the exploded directory and not rebuild the file. Add a new --implode-book action to rebuild the file, separately.
Book details panel: Add Manage authors/series/tags/etc. to the menu when right clicking on the item.
Kobo driver: Update for new firmware.
PDF Output: a regression in 2.82 that caused conversion of comics to PDF files to have successive images become smaller and smaller in some circumstances.
PDF Output: a regression in 2.83 that caused occasional blank pages at the end of chapters when using headers/footers.
Get books: Update store plugins for ebook.nl and the various amazon websites.
Edit book: Hide editor toolbars if they are empty.
Server: failed login attempts using digest auth not being logged to the main log.
Quickview: for non-text fields, sort on native values instead of text.
hidden search bar state not being restored on calibre restart.
option to not save cover separately when using Save to disk not working.
Server: an error on browsers that do not support blob storage in IndexedDB.
Comic input: a in the normalize image filter that caused a crash when converting comics that contain a page with only a single color.
Edit Book: Handle non-normalized unicode characters in file names better
Improved news sources.
Mediapart. New Yorker. Boston Globe. Private Eye.
3.415 Jul 2017 19:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.4 14 Jul, 2017
New features Edit book: Allow exporting all selected files to the computer from the 'File browser' by right clicking and choosing 'Export selected files'.
Server: When returning to the search page, remember the last used state of the Tag browser.
Template language: Allow the in_list() functions to return different values depending on what is found.
Add a configurable shortcut to move the focus from Quickview to the book list.
Conversion: When inserting the publication year in the metadata jacket, do so in the local time zone, so it matches what is displayed in the main calibre program.
Server OPDS feeds: incorrect counts in letter categories when there are lowercase names.
Edit book: 'Show details' button not visible when doing 'Replace all' rather than 'Count all'.
Nook driver: Remove the character from filenames sent to the Nook.
calibre startup crash caused by Quickview when the applied virtual library is empty (has no books).
Improved news sources.
FOX News. Private Eye.
3.308 Jul 2017 20:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.3 07 Jul, 2017
New features Quickview panel: Allow opening and closing the panel via the Layout button in the bottom right corner.
Book details panel: Allow right clicking on author names to search for books by the author on Amazon.
Edit book: When doing a Replace/Count all with multiple searches add a 'Show details' button on the result dialog that shows the individual counts for each search.
Comments editor: Add a button to easily insert separators (i.e. lt;hr gt; tags) when editing comments.
Browser viewer: back/forward buttons not working correctly when clicking on links that lead to different internal files in the book.
Server: using 'Show more books' button and then changing list mode setting causing resulting book list to be incomplete.
Server: changing sort/search in the /mobile view only working with the default library.
DOCX Input: alt and title attributes for some images not being preserved.
Amazon metadata download: Change the default source from Bing to Google as the Bing cache seems to be having trouble at the moment.
ISBNDB metadata download: Ignore SSL errors when contacting isbndb.com as they seem to have no intention of ing their broken SSL certificate.
Conversion: heuristics processing incorrectly removing some lt;br gt; tags.
Handle non-ASCII binary strings in the author_name_pre/suftweaks.
Improved news sources.
Politico. The Times. The Sunday Times Magazine.
3.2.102 Jul 2017 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 3.2.1 29 Jun, 2017
New features Server: Allow logged in users to change their passwords by clicking the user icon in the top right corner of the home screen.
macOS: Add headless support: calibre command-line utilities can now run on macOS machines without a screen.
3.2.1 has a for an that broke mouse wheel scrolling in the cover grid view.
Viewer: incorrect display of pages in paged mode for books that override the box-sizing CSS property on the lt;body gt; element.
Server: timeout errors when using SSL (particularly common when running the server on windows).
Linux: slow mouse wheel scrolling in Cover grid because of Qt
Blacklist the iOS Reader applications and Marvin XD plugins as they were preventing calibre from starting up and they have not worked in a long time anyway, since Apple restricted USB access to their iOS devices.
for in-program restart not working on some Windows 10 Home machines.
EPUB3 metadata: handling of lt;dc:creator gt; elements with multiple roles.
Server: Disallow client initiated SSL renegotiation.
Windows: Try to prevent windows from showing the annoying 'no disk in drive' error messages at calibre startup if one of the calibre libraries is on a removable disk that is missing from the system
New news sources.
Kitekinto by pofa
Improved news sources.
The Australian. Wired Daily.
3.125 Jun 2017 06:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.1 23 Jun, 2017
New features Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking the Paste ISBN button to instead paste an identifier with a different pre.
Tag browser: Add an option to control the spacing between items.
Add an option in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel to show individual layout buttons in the status bar, as was the case in calibre 2.x.
Edit metadata dialog: Add buttons to easily set/clear Yes/no columns
Support for RAR 5.0 format RAR and CBR files.
Version 3.1.1 a regression in 3.1.0 that prevented the standalone calibre-server.exe from working on Windows and macOS.
Content server: various in the SSL implementation causing aborted transfers when enabling SSL in the server.
Content server: connections not being after errors/timeouts on the server side.
an error during startup on Windows systems where the home directory is in a character encoding different from the system encoding
Edit book: escaping of text for regular expression searches unnecessarily escaping spaces.
Get Books: Search the entire catalog, including restricted books
regression in previous release that caused the Tag browser view to jump around when renaming items.
Splash screen: text vertical overlap for some systems/font sizes.
Server: --daemonize option should not be present on Windows and macOS as it does not work on those platforms.
macOS: some keyboard shortcuts not working in calibre 3.0
Server interface: error in the Browse all downloaded page when the book list mode is set to detailed list.
Get books: Update amazon.fr and ebooks.com plugins for website changes.
Content server: for home screen being empty if the path to the calibre library has a trailing slash.
Content server: the new server interface not working with the --url-preoption when the trailing slash is omitted on the URL used in the browser.
Google images metadata download plugin: for change in website causing no covers to be downloaded.
Improved news sources.
The Times. Wall Street Journal. New Yorker. BBC N
3.017 Jun 2017 19:05
minor feature:
Release: 3.0 16 Jun, 2017
New Features For details on the major changes in calibre between 2.0 and 3.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve.
A completely re-written Content server with support for reading books in-browser on your phone/tablet. Also works in offline mode.
Support for high resolution (Retina screens).
A new splash screen to celebrate the release of calibre 3.
Minor tweaking of the main user interface to emphasize the core features.
Kobo driver: for detection of some devices, with SD card not working on macOS.
Tag browser: preservation of state when recounting and the visible categories have changed.
CHM Input: Handle CHM files that have missing or empty root files.
Page flips options box in viewer preferences bot being laid out properly.
initial down arrow in search box jumping two places.
editing the authors via the book list not respecting the tweak to control author name splitting.
E-book viewer: external links not working in the footnote popup panel.
a regression that broke command line completion in bash.
New news sources.
RussiaFeed by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
Economist. New York Times. Private Eye. The Hindu. Harper's Magazine. Lifehacker. The Daily Mail.
2.85.118 May 2017 06:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.85.1 12 May, 2017
New Features Book details panel: Allow right click to search the internet for the current book.
Book details panel: Allow right clicking on an author name to search the internet for works by that author.
Book details panel: Clicking an author name now searches Goodreads by default instead of Wikipedia. Can be changed in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Book details.
Kobo driver: Add support for the Kobo Auro H2O Edition 2.
PDF Output: a regression in the previous release that broke conversion to PDF for some files.
DOCX Output: lengths specified in percentage of page size not being converted correctly.
DOCX Output: some hyperlinks not working in word because the bookmark name is longer than forty characters.
DOCX Output: Prevent images from being larger than the page size.
Comic Input: the number of colors control not allowing values less than 8.
Kobo driver: main memory and Card A being swapped on some systems.
Kobo driver: the ignore collections option being accidentally case-insensitive.
Preferences- gt;Toolbars: Show an error message when the user tries to remove either the Preferences or Location Manager buttons instead of just silently adding them back.
version 2.85.1 contains a for a regression that cause the Open with action to go missing from the right click menu of the Book details panel.
New news sources.
Balkanist by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
Private Eye.
2.8513 May 2017 20:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.85 12 May, 2017
New Features Book details panel: Allow right click to search the internet for the current book.
Book details panel: Allow right clicking on an author name to search the internet for works by that author.
Book details panel: Clicking an author name now searches Goodreads by default instead of Wikipedia. Can be changed in Preferences- gt;Look amp; feel- gt;Book details.
Kobo driver: Add support for the Kobo Auro H2O Edition 2.
PDF Output: a regression in the previous release that broke conversion to PDF for some files.
DOCX Output: lengths specified in percentage of page size not being converted correctly.
DOCX Output: some hyperlinks not working in word because the bookmark name is longer than forty characters.
DOCX Output: Prevent images from being larger than the page size.
Comic Input: the number of colors control not allowing values less than 8.
Kobo driver: main memory and Card A being swapped on some systems.
Kobo driver: the ignore collections option being accidentally case-insensitive.
Preferences- gt;Toolbars: Show an error message when the user tries to remove either the Preferences or Location Manager buttons instead of just silently adding them back.
New news sources.
Balkanist by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
Private Eye.
2.8409 May 2017 02:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.84 05 May, 2017
New Features Kindle driver: Also delete book thumbnails from the system directory when deleting books.
Conversion: Use the same regular expression engine as is used by the Edit Book tool. The new engine has much better support for Unicode characters/character classes.
Edit Book: Add keyboard shortcuts to jump to opening and closing tags (Ctrl+ and Ctrl+ ).
Add API to pre-process image data in recipes easily.
fetch-ebook-metadata: add option to use only a single metadata plugin.
E-book viewer: a regression in the previous release that broke printing from inside the viewer.
DOCX Output: When the input document contains paragraphs inside a block with a background color preserve the background color in the resulting paragraphs in the DOCX document.
DOCX Output: links to empty inline tags not working.
DOCX Input: links that point to anchors placed in empty paragraphs not working.
PDF Output: Do not crash when unable to find page for link destination, instead use previous page.
Edit Book: sorting by language in Report- gt;Words not working.
Edit Book: drag and drop of multiple items in the File Browser causing item order to be reversed.
Get Books: Update Baen store plugin for website changes.
Linux: When adding books from directories ignore files that have undecodable names.
AZW3: Preserve the primary-writing-mode EXTH header field when round-tripping AZW3 files. Should editing/conversion of RTL AZW3 files causing page turning to become left-to-right on the Kindle.
AZW3 Output: Set the primary-writing-mode EXTH header when the input document has page-progression-direction set to RTL as this is apparently required on newer Kindle firmware for right-to-left page turning.
a misbehaving wireless device connection can cause calibre to hang when opening the Connect/Share menu.
New news sources.
First Things by John Hutson
Improved news sources.
Private Eye. Die Zeit. NYTimes Tech Beat.
2.8316 Apr 2017 20:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.83 15 Apr, 2017
New Features PDF Output: Default to generating PDFs with a page size of letter instead of taking the page size from the output profile.
This avoids user confusion/reports about PDF Output having "too large fonts". There is a new option "Use profile size" to have the conversion use the output profile page size instead.
PDF/DOCX Output: Add separate, pdf/docx specific, page margin settings that override the common settings.
Useful because page margin settings for page oriented formats, such as PDF and DOCX are usually different than those for reflowable formats such as EPUB.
Table of Contents tool: Add an undo button.
Metadata jacket: Show custom rating columns using stars.
Metadata jacket: Change formatting of series to match that used by the book details panel. Also allow access to the raw series name and number when customizing the jacket template.
calibredb check_library: Vacuum database when running the check.
Check Book: Add a check for empty identifier elements.
Edit book/Book polishing: When adding a cover to an EPUB 3.0 file set the svg property if a SVG cover wrapper is used.
Refresh the book list when a User Category is added/edited.
EPUB metadata: deleting ISBN from EPUB file could result in an EPUB file without a package identifier if the ISBN was used as the package identifier.
Amazon metadata download: title and author names being bold in the downloaded comments when using bing to get amazon metadata.
PDF Output: a regression that broke PDF Output for documents containing mathematics.
E-book viewer: a regression that broke the "Clear recently read books" action in the viewer.
New news sources.
Jacobin magazine by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
Go Comics. Die Zeit (subscription). Pagina12. New York Magazine.
2.8219 Mar 2017 21:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.82 18 Mar, 2017
New Features Edit Book: Saved Searches: Add keyboard shortcut (Alt+Up/Down Arrow) to move selected searches.
a typo in the previous release that caused dynamically updated metadata source plugins to stop working.
Catalog generation: Ignore tags with commas in them when generating genres.
News download: Do not use Microsoft user agents as more and more websites are serving JPEG XR images to these browsers.
Amazon metadata download: spurious results when searching for books that are not present on amazon using a search engine.
Get Books: free samples being detected as independent books when searching OPDS based stores such as Feedbooks.
Edit Book: Saved Searches: Preserve selection when using arrows to move multiple items.
template formatter functions not being reloaded after a check library operation.
an error during shutdown caused by some library plugins.
New news sources.
The Morning Paper by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources.
The Economist. Telegraph UK.
2.8112 Mar 2017 02:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.81 10 Mar, 2017
New Features Amazon metadata download: Allow downloading amazon metadata from multiple sources. You can now configure the Amazon plugin via Preferences- gt;Metadata download to use either the amazon servers, or various search engine caches to get the metadata. Should help with the recent CAPTCHA problems when downloading metadata from amazon.
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware.
Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Always add the original word as one of the spelling corrections, so that small edits to the word can be made easily.
Edit Book: Saved searched Dialog: Allow re-arranging the saved searches using drag and drop.
Implement auto update of builtin metadata download plugins, just as for recipes and Get Books plugins. Needed as the websites they get data from often change.
Edit Book: When inserting full screen images, use the actual image dimensions in the generated SVG code, when available.
Linux installer: Check that the umask is suitable before running the installer. Should breakage on systems where users have changed the user umask but neglected to also alter it for sudo.
Bulk metadata edit: Remove the control to delete specific formats as it is redundant. This functionality is already present by right clicking the Remove books button.
TXT Input: When detecting the encoding of txt files only use the first four kilobytes of text. excessively slow conversion of very large text files.
Get Books: price not being displayed for books from Amazon dues to website changes.
GetBooks: Update Google Books plugin for website changes.
E-book viewer: slow startup when recently opened files are on a slow/malfunctioning networked filesystem.
Google metadata download: metadata not being found when the title of the book includes a sub-title.
Improve downloading of covers from the google books metadata source.
News download: a that could cause a crash when downloading an SVG image.
Edit book: a regression that caused pasting copied text from prog
2.8026 Feb 2017 06:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.80 24 Feb, 2017
New Features Add support for sideloading of KFX files created with the third-party KFX calibre plugin
Edit book: Allow drag and drop of image files, stylesheets and html files into the editor to insert the appropriate lt;img gt; and lt;link gt; tags and add the files to the book automatically.
Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware.
Edit Book: Spell Check: If there are no suggestions fill the suggested word box with the original word.
Viewer: add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to show/hide toolbars.
PDF Output: courier font not being rendered when converting on windows.
E-mail delivery: Add a Message-ID header when sending emails. Reduces probability of mails sent from calibre being marked as spam.
Save to disk: path shortening being applied to entire save template even when saving to singe directory.
Get Books: Update the Virualo and Publi store plugins for website changes.
Viewer: regression that caused slow opening of some books with missing font/css/image files.
Viewer: Pressing Ctrl+F in fullscreen mode should show the controls.
Edit book: Do not allow creating multiple new files whose names differ only by case.
Viewer: Use heuristics to try to detect comics encoded as layout EPUBs to ensure they are displayed as intended.
New news sources.
Various new and improved Belgian news sources by erkfuizfeuadjfjzefzfuzeff
Improved news sources.
The Atlantic. The Financial Times.
2.79.115 Feb 2017 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.79.1 10 Feb, 2017
New Features Windows: Make recently opened books show up in the jump lists for the standalone viewer and editor programs.
OS X/Linux: Show an informational popup message when an Android device is plugged in that needs the user to tap Allow for the connection to work.
Conversion: Log options that are different from the defaults separately, for easy reference.
2.79.1 a regression in 2.79.0 that broke the file open dialogs on windows vista.
Conversion: regression that broke conversion of some epub files when using the 'Remove first image' option.
Get Books: Update Kobo plugin for website changes.
Windows MTP driver: error when enumerating device storage not being reported during dedevice detection.
Tag Browser: When dragging and dropping a book onto a series increment the series number.
crash when generating covers with Qt 5.8 on linux.
Get Books result list and jobs list not being populated on Qt 5.8.
importing rules in the coloring/icon rules dialog not enabling the apply button.
Improved news sources.
Strange Horizons. Wall Street Journal. Bangkok Post. The Atlantic. NYTimes. LA Times. New Yorker. The Straits Times.
2.7911 Feb 2017 19:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.79 10 Feb, 2017
New Features Windows: Make recently opened books show up in the jump lists for the standalone viewer and editor programs.
OS X/Linux: Show an informational popup message when an Android device is plugged in that needs the user to tap Allow for the connection to work.
Conversion: Log options that are different from the defaults separately, for easy reference.
Conversion: regression that broke conversion of some epub files when using the 'Remove first image' option.
Get Books: Update Kobo plugin for website changes.
Windows MTP driver: error when enumerating device storage not being reported during dedevice detection.
Tag Browser: When dragging and dropping a book onto a series increment the series number.
crash when generating covers with Qt 5.8 on linux.
Get Books result list and jobs list not being populated on Qt 5.8.
importing rules in the coloring/icon rules dialog not enabling the apply button.
Improved news sources.
Strange Horizons. Wall Street Journal. Bangkok Post. The Atlantic. NYTimes. LA Times. New Yorker. The Straits Times.
2.7828 Jan 2017 23:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.78 27 Jan, 2017
New Features View button: Add an action to the right click menu that always opens the book with the calibre viewer, regardless of the preferences.
Kobo driver: Update to support the newest firmware from Kobo.
E-book viewer: Allow opening a specific item from the Table of Contents via the --open-at command line parameter.
Amazon metadata download: Add support for downloading from amazon.ca.
Edit Book: Do not condense CSS rules when saving AZW3 files regardless of the value of Preferences- gt;Common Options- gt;Look amp; Feel- gt;Expand CSS.
EPUB Output: a duplicate id created in rare circumstances when splitting on page breaks.
DOCX Input: error when converting documents that have images pointing to web resources.
E-book viewer: a regression that caused an increase in load times when loading the individual HTML files inside an EPUB book.
setting a similar books search to use the formats field in Preferences- gt;Searching resulting in an error.
Kobo driver: incorrect cover size being uploaded to the Glo HD.
E-book viewer: 'View Image' right click menu action not available for svg files included via lt;img gt; tags.
HTML Input: Remove the # character from input filenames, for maximum compatibility.
Edit Book: spell check treating the unicode hyphen (U+2010) differently from the normal hyphen (U+002d).
New news sources.
The Sunday Times Magazine by Bobby Steel
Improved news sources.
FOX News. Oriental Daily. AM730. The Times. NYTimes. Mediapart. Echo Online. kath.net. GoComics. The Hindu.
2.7715 Jan 2017 10:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.77 13 Jan, 2017
Conversion: changing the cover image not updating references to the old cover image inside SVG wrappers.
E-book viewer: a regression that caused clicking links in the footnote popup window to stop working.
Edit Book: importing DOCX file as new book not setting the version attribute in the OPF.
Kindle driver: some newer KFX books not being recognized on e-ink kindles, because of a change in how metadata is stored in the KFX format.
DOCX Output: missing lt;td gt; tag causing conversion to fail.
Edit Book: group references causing errors when used in replace string in the normal mode search and replace.
Edit Book: Check Book reporting a spurious mime/type mismatch error after replacing a file with a file having a different mime type.
Amazon metadata download: detection of series not working for some books due to changes in the amazon website.
Nook HD+ not being detected on windows.
Edit Book: Ensure keyboard focus stays with Files Browser when renaming files.
Improved news sources.
kath.net. publico.pt. Telepolis. The Times. Helsingin Sanomat.
2.7602 Jan 2017 22:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.76 30 Dec, 2016
E-book viewer: a regression in the previous release that broke the viewer on systems where the temporary directory is a symlink (common on OSX).
EPUB Input: EPUB2 files that specify a cover image via a lt;meta gt; tag but not in the lt;guide gt; not getting a cover when converted to PDF.
PDF Output: conversion failure when input document contains first page with no renderable content.
Editor: incorrect handling of some regular expressions in the Search tool.
OS X: dynamically generated context menus, such as the sort by menu not working.
a crash when running with assertions turned on in Qt.
Edit Book: Reports tool: an error when right clicking on items in the Links view.
Improved news sources.
Clarin. La Prensa. Telam. iProfesional. Buenos Aires Economico.
2.75.129 Dec 2016 13:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.75.1 23 Dec, 2016
New Features Happy Holidays everyone!.
Add support for new Kobo firmware version 4.2.
Allow using amazon_in, amazon_au, amazon_com identifiers in the Book details panel.
Version 2.75.1 has for a regression in 2.75.0 that broke the Live CSS feature in the editor and caused some minor problems in the viewer.
Kobo driver: incorrectly sized covers being sent to some Kobo devices.
E-book viewer: Prevent javascript in the book from accessing files on the computer using XMLHttpRequest.
Edit Book: the 'Search ignoring markup tool' not ignoring comments/processing instructions, etc.
CSS Transforms: 'is'/'is not' rules not matching currentColor.
E-book viewer: Make the swipe up gesture move to next section instead of previous section.
Edit Book: Allow the Spell Check dialog and the search panel to be made much narrower than before.
Edit Book: customize template window not freely resizable on windows.
Edit Book: newlines not being matched by the 'Search ignoring markup' tool.
EPUB Input: incorrect handling of html files that are in a folder above the OPF file.
Improved news sources.
Ambito Financiero. Die Zeit (subscription). Irish Times. Guardian. Independent. Ambito.com.
2.7525 Dec 2016 19:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.75 23 Dec, 2016
New Features Happy Holidays everyone!.
Add support for new Kobo firmware version 4.2.
Allow using amazon_in, amazon_au, amazon_com identifiers in the Book details panel.
Kobo driver: incorrectly sized covers being sent to some Kobo devices.
E-book viewer: Prevent javascript in the book from accessing files on the computer using XMLHttpRequest.
Edit Book: the 'Search ignoring markup tool' not ignoring comments/processing instructions, etc.
CSS Transforms: 'is'/'is not' rules not matching currentColor.
E-book viewer: Make the swipe up gesture move to next section instead of previous section.
Edit Book: Allow the Spell Check dialog and the search panel to be made much narrower than before.
Edit Book: customize template window not freely resizable on windows.
Edit Book: newlines not being matched by the 'Search ignoring markup' tool.
EPUB Input: incorrect handling of html files that are in a folder above the OPF file.
Improved news sources.
Ambito Financiero. Die Zeit (subscription). Irish Times. Guardian. Independent. Ambito.com.
2.7412 Dec 2016 01:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.74 09 Dec, 2016
New Features Amazon metadata download: Allow downloading from amazon.cn as well. To use go to Preferences- gt;Metadata download and customize the amazon plugin to download from amazon.cn.
Edit Book: Allow disabling the 'Files already arranged into folders' message popup.
Edit Book: selected text not being fully highlighted when using the solarized color schemes.
calibredb: CSV output for the check_library command not being properly escaped.
subsetting of fonts whose names start with 'and' not working.
a regression in 2.72 that broke the --start-in-tray command line option.
third party plugins that create dynamic context menus not working in linux.
DOCX Input: images wider than 50 of the page width being incorrectly right aligned even when anchored to the center of the page.
Catalog generation: Ensure all citation keys in BiBTeX catalogs have only ascii characters.
Get Books: Update ebookpoint and legimi plugins for website changes.
EPUB3 metadata: Ensure updating metadata never produces empty dc:contributor elements.
DOCX Output: an error when converting tables with spanning cells.
Nicer error message if the user tries to import data while the content server is running.
Improved news sources.
Frontline. Korea Herald. Pagina 12. Edge Conversations. Kitsapun. Mobile Nations. NME. Security Watch. Sign on SD. Star Advertiser. tyzden.
2.7326 Nov 2016 21:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.73 25 Nov, 2016
New Features Add a preference in Preferences- gt;Look amp; Feel to hide the row numbers in the main book list.
Allow Export/Import of column coloring and icon rules.
Edit Book: Allow bulk changing of file extension for selected files by right clicking ont he selected files in the file browser.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for nav documents that contain no ToC in EPUB 3 books.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a test to check if the embedded fonts in the book have their embedding permissions enabled.
Pressing the up arrow in an date edit with undefined value should jump to the current date rather than Feb 101.
EPUB Input: When an invalid nav based ToC is used in an EPUB 3.0 document that also has a fallback NCX ToC, use the fallback ToC.
a regression that broke the icon theme creation tool in the previous release
insert character dialog not reflowing characters on resize. Also only allow the search bar in the dialog to get input focus.
Improved news sources.
Dilbert. The Hindu.
2.7220 Nov 2016 07:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.72 18 Nov, 2016
New Features Font embedding: Implement automatic embedding for fonts with non-normal stretch and weight values such as Condensed/Light/Extra Bold fonts.
Allow aborting an in-progress Copy-to-library action.
Edit Book: When adding a font file via File- gt;New automatically generate the appropriate @font-face rule and copy it to the clipboard so that it can be easily inserted into the appropriate CSS files.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a warning for links with the : character in them on windows.
Conversion: When converting markdown documents recognize basic metadata in the markdown document formatted as per the markdown metadata extension.
Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Various small usability enhancements -- preserve position in word list on refresh, ensure that new current word is highlighted after changing a word, etc.
Edit Book: Flash the taskbar icon after beautify all files completes.
creating an empty library with the same structure as current library not creating custom columns on the first restart after creating the new custom columns.
Edit Book: Dont fail to rename files on windows if there is a link containing the colon character.
PDF Output: Dont fail if one of the embedded fonts has no names.
Edit Book: When downloading external resources, ensure the generated filenames are valid.
Windows: file extension not being added automatically when missing in save dialogs.
calibre not opening full-screen in windows tablet mode.
Edit Book: check external links tool not detecting changes that have not yet been saved.
Generate covers: amp; in the series causing incorrect formatting of series number.
Edit Book: a regression in the last release that broke the Arrange into folders tool when arranging into sub-folders of a folder that does not exist.
Improved news sources.
Mediapart.
2.7102 Nov 2016 01:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.71 31 Oct, 2016
New Features calibre's tenth birthday edition!
calibre was first released (as libprs500) ten years ago today. A big thank you to the entire calibre community -- users, contributors and developers -- for keeping it humming for so long.
A new set of icons for calibre
To celebrate calibre turning ten, calibre now has a brand new set of icons designed from scratch. Note that you can choose between many different icon sets for calibre, including the original icons, from Preferences- gt;Look amp; Feel- gt;Choose icon theme.
A short video commemorating the occasion: https://youtu.be/Q95NfFKc0v8.
Book details panel: Add a copy all action to the right click menu.
Get Books: Update ebookpoint and woblink store plugins for website changes.
Edit Book: When un-marking text auto-change the 'search where' location to what it was before text was marked rather than 'current file'.
Automatic adding: Show an error if the user specifies a folder whose name starts with a dot or underscore.
OS X: a regression that caused incorrect display of the icon in pop-up message boxes when using a Retina display.
Kobo driver: an error when migrating very old settings
Kobo driver: a regression that broke handling of reading status for devices running old 1.9x versions of the Kobo firmware.
Edit Book: When using the arrange into folders tool do not change the case of already existing folders in the book.
Improved news sources.
LWN Weekly. Financial Times. MIT Technology Review. The Hindu.
2.7015 Oct 2016 17:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.70 14 Oct, 2016
New Features Edit Book: Add a tool to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.) that are not included in the book.
Make custom columns available in the Alter Tag Browser- gt;Manage categories sub menu.
Conversion: incorrect resolution of references to resources in HTML files that exist in a folder level above the OPF file. This could lead to styles being incorrectly processed in such HTML files.
Get Books: Update the amazon store plugins for website changes.
Update ozon.ru metadata download plugin to searching for books by ISBN.
Edit Book: a regression in the previous release that broke the preferences dialog for changing color schemes.
Edit Book: Better error message when user tries to open a Check Book item that refers to a file that has been deleted since the last time Check Book was run.
New news sources.
Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen
Improved news sources.
Wired. Ambito. InfoWorld. Instapaper. San Jose Mercury News. South China Morning Post. Journal Gazette. JPost. Las Vegas Review. Marietta Daily Journal. DziennikBaltycki. biweekly. dwutygodnik. GRY Online. ESO. TVN24. And many more, see commit logs for details.
2.6902 Oct 2016 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.69 30 Sep, 2016
New Features Kobo driver: Support for firmware version 4.1 and Overdrive books on the device.
Edit Book: Highlight class names inside HTML tags.
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow search amp; replace to work for ratings columns as well.
downloading of metadata from ozon.ru, which broke due to website changes.
Kobo driver: delete of empty collections.
Kobo driver: book previews being sometimes detected as actual books.
Cover Browser: setting an empty template for the title causes an error.
Edit Book: On windows do not trigger shortcuts when using the right Alt (AltGr) key. This allows it to be used for entering special characters instead.
Edit Book: Auto-add file extension when using the Save a Copy dialog if it is missing.
Linux: calibre not launching when used with some old VNC server implementations.
Windows: Run library restore in a separate process as on some windows machines, running it in the main process causes something in the system to lock the db file.
some news downloads in east asian languages not working because the truncation of article descriptions could cause invalid UTF-16 bytes in the string.
incorrect timezone when editing custom date columns directly in the book list.
New news sources.
Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen
Improved news sources.
New York Times. Independent. El tribuno de Salta.
2.6816 Sep 2016 21:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.68 16 Sep, 2016
New Features Add a tweak to Preferences- gt;Tweaks to control the list of servers calibre considers public email servers.
Content server: a regression in the previous release that broke the OPDS feeds for libraries with no custom columns
Edit metadata dialog: auto-generation/validation of author sort values not working when only changing case of the author name.
A nicer error message when calibre fails to create the temporary directory.
dates being set to empty in bulk search/replace not becoming UNDEFINED.
Edit metadata dialog: Make pressing up on an undefined numeric field set the value to zero instead of -99999.
Conversion: Handle corrupted JPEG files that have valid headers but invalid data.
Conversion: Improve detection of input documents that use uppercase tag/attribute names.
regression in previous release that caused incorrect display of ratings in the side panel of the metadata download dialog.
Get Books: Update publio and virtualo store plugins for website changes.
reading metadata from PDF files broken by poppler gt;= 0.47.0.
Change the application name set in Qt to calibre from libprs500.
Improved news sources.
Respekt Magazine. Punto Informatico. El universal.
2.6709 Sep 2016 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.67 08 Sep, 2016
New Features Allow creating custom rating columns that support half-stars via Preferences- gt;Add your own columns.
Tag Browser: Add an option in Preferences- gt;Look amp; Feel- gt;Tag Browser to turn off the display of counts in the Tag Browser.
Tag browser: Show the book counts on the right edge of the Tag Browser.
Cover Browser: Allow any metadata field to be used as the sub-title, not just the rating.
Edit Book: A new tool to sort the rules in a CSS stylesheet. To use it add it to the toolbar for CSS editors.
Edit Book: The Remove Unused CSS tool now has an option to also merge CSS rules that have identical selectors.
Add a tweak in Preferences- gt;Tweaks to exclude some images types from being treated a covers when dropped onto the Book Details panel.
Allow reading more image formats as covers (All images will be converted to JPEG when stored).
Content server: OPDS feeds: Change the value of lt;updated gt; for entries in the acquisition feed to be the last modified date for the book. Also make the size and last modified timestamp available as attributes in the acquisition links. Useful for integration with third party applications.
Kobo driver: Add support for firmware version 4 available on the new Kobo Aura One.
ODT Input: Add support for continued lists.
Edit Book: high-dpi rendering of emblems in the File Browser.
regression in previous release that caused wide column icons to be scaled incorrectly.
Metadata download dialog: https links in the download summary not working.
DOCX Output: Handle nested display:table tags with no rows.
PDF Output: OpenType fonts with CFF font data not embeddable on windows.
Improved news sources.
Ars Technica.
2.6604 Sep 2016 00:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.66 02 Sep, 2016
New Features A simplified calibre logo.
Edit Book: Allow restricting a search to the files currently open for editing.
Driver for the PocketBook Touch HD
Kobo driver: Add support for firmware version 3.20.
DOCX Input: right-to-left alignment not working for footnotes.
Sending email: Allow setting up a mail relay that uses encryption without a username and password.
Linux: calibre not working when the username is non-ASCII.
DOCX Output: Ignore invalid text-indent values in the input document instead of erroring out.
Portable Installer: Auto-create the installation folder specified on the command line if it does not exist.
Kobo driver: the ignore collections in option not working.
More user interface for high DPI screens.
DOCX Input: a regression in the previous release that could cause invalid values to be output for the text-align CSS property.
New news sources.
Contropiano by michele.
2.65.130 Aug 2016 21:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.65.1 26 Aug, 2016
New Features Driver for Kobo Aura One and Aura Edition 2.
Kobo driver: Add an option to ignore some collections on the device. The specified collections will not be touched by the driver.
Add an option in Preferences- gt;Searching to make searching case-sensitive.
DOCX Input: Add support for right-to-left text/tables
some icons/images in the user interface looking blurred in environments with High DPI scaling enabled, such as OS X retina screens.
DOCX Input: images that have the # character in their filenames not being converted correctly.
ToC wizard: generating toc from headings/xpath yielding unexpected results when tags are present out of sequence.
Edit Book: drag and drop of text replacing non-breaking spaces with normal spaces.
E-book viewer: duplicate names in hyphenation dictionary chooser.
a regression in the previous release that caused the completion popups for some custom column types in the book list to stop working.
Version 2.65.1 contains a quick-for a typo in 2.65.0 that caused calibre to crash when a device is connected and the cover grid is enabled.
Improved news sources.
Le Scienze. New Yorker.
2.6526 Aug 2016 16:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.65 26 Aug, 2016
New Features Driver for Kobo Aura One and Aura Edition 2.
Kobo driver: Add an option to ignore some collections on the device. The specified collections will not be touched by the driver.
Add an option in Preferences- gt;Searching to make searching case-sensitive.
DOCX Input: Add support for right-to-left text/tables
some icons/images in the user interface looking blurred in environments with High DPI scaling enabled, such as OS X retina screens.
DOCX Input: images that have the # character in their filenames not being converted correctly.
ToC wizard: generating toc from headings/xpath yielding unexpected results when tags are present out of sequence.
Edit Book: drag and drop of text replacing non-breaking spaces with normal spaces.
E-book viewer: duplicate names in hyphenation dictionary chooser.
a regression in the previous release that caused the completion popups for some custom column types in the book list to stop working.
Improved news sources.
Le Scienze. New Yorker.
2.6414 Aug 2016 10:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.64 12 Aug, 2016
New Features Custom columns: Add a new 'Short text' column type that behaves like the builtin title column
More generally, you can now customize Comments-like columns, controlling how their headings are displayed in the Book Details panel and also specifying what kind of data they contain (plain text, HTML or even Markdown).
Edit book: Function mode: Allow appending text to the end of the marked text when running function mode search/replace on marked text.
PDF Output: Add a new variable _TOP_LEVEL_SECTION_ for use in header/footer templates that resolves to the current top-most section in the Table of Contents.
Linux/OSX: Shutdown gracefully on receiving the interrupt or terminate Unix signals.
PDF Output: a regression that caused the last page of a chapter to sometimes be dropped from the output.
Do not show an error if the user tries to quit calibre while editing a cell in the book list. Instead, just silently abort the edit.
E-book viewer: px margins and percentage margins not being respected when the option to override book margins is turned off.
Book Details: Do not show the 'Copy link' context menu item unless there is an actual link at the cursor location.
Get Books: Update store plugin for nexto.
New news sources.
Data News by oCkz7bJ_
Improved news sources.
Private Eye. Prospect Magazine. De Standaard. Jot Down. Weblogs SL. Hola. El Correo.
2.6323 Jul 2016 03:17
minor feature:
Release: 2.63 22 Jul, 2016
New Features News download: Allow controlling which periodicals are automatically sent to a specific email in Preferences- gt;Sharing by email.
Edit Book: Update regex engine to support Unicode 9.0.
Edit metadata dialog: pasting ISBN from clipboard not stripping garbage characters after a valid ISBN.
Edit Book: Also refresh the Preview and Live CSS panels after performing any action that changes files other than the currently displayed file.
E-book viewer: the show metadata button not reading EPUB 3 metadata.
MOBI Output: lt;hr gt; not being rendered as full-width in old MOBI files.
CSV Catalog output: incorrect formatting of is_multiple custom columns.
CSV Catalog Output: Separate multiple authors with amp; instead of comma. problems when the author name contains commas.
EPUB 3 metadata: updating metadata in EPUB 3 files not overwriting existing authors.
duplicate detection when adding books not working when the book title has leading or trailing whitespace.
Book details panel: Pick the color used for links from the current system color theme.
Windows: file selection dialogs blurry on HiDPI monitors.
Improved news sources.
Gosc Niedzielny. Nikkei Free. Financial Times (UK). Foreign Affairs. Berlin Policy Journal. Gazet van Antwerpen. Hurriyet.
2.6209 Jul 2016 17:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.62 08 Jul, 2016
New Features EPUB metadata: Support for reading and writing EPUB 3 specific metadata. Now when processing EPUB 3 files, calibre will generate/use EPUB 3 specific metadata constructs when available, for example for series.
Recognize the newest Kindle model, that started shipping today.
Tag Mapper: Allow specifying a space as the split character when creating a split tags rule.
Tag mapper: upper case characters not working in 'contains' rules.
Smarten punctuation: double dashes and triple dots being smartened even inside attribute values.
HTML Input: Sanitize semi-colons from HTML filenames as they can cause problems with other EPUB consuming software.
EPUB Input: Speed up reading of the book spine from the OPF file for books with a very large number of entries in the spine.
Edit Book: Reports: Characters: sorting by count and name not working.
KoboTouch configuration migration not working for older settings
New news sources.
Various Russian news sources by men00t
Improved news sources.
The Skeptic.
2.6103 Jul 2016 07:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.61 01 Jul, 2016
New Features Driver for FNAC (re-branded Bq) with new firmware.
1595924.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add an auto action to remove all links to a missing resource (such as a deleted stylesheet) automatically.
Edit Book: Check Book: incorrect handling of font family names with spaces in them that are not quoted.
E-book viewer: Qt 5.7 breaking mouse wheel scrolling.
Kobo driver: a regression in the last release that broke connecting to older devices
Get Books: detection of book formats broken for the Legimi plugin by a website change.
Update builtin metadata source ozon.ru to handle website changes.
Font subsetting: incorrect handling of fonts whose names are included in font rules without quotes.
ebook-viewer broken when running the binary calibre release on systems with very old versions of glibc.
Improved news sources.
derStandard. Kurier. Kliene Zeitung.
2.6024 Jun 2016 16:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.60 24 Jun, 2016
New Features Edit metadata: In the drop down list for languages, show the five most recently used languages first.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for missing navigation documents in EPUB 3 books.
Kobo driver: Improved configuration dialog for the Kobo Touch device driver.
Copy to Library: Do not abort the copy process if only some books fail to copy, instead report which books failed and copy the rest.
News download: Make all relative links (those starting with /) absolute. Useful when reading on a device that supports web browsing.
EPUB metadata: Add an option to disable adding of cover images to EPUB files that declare no cover image in their metadata (Preferences- gt;Plugins- gt;Customize the Set EPUB metadata plugin).
ToC Editor: ToC detection in EPUB 3 files with only an NCX and no nav not working.
E-book viewer: In paged mode, when the window is toggled between full screen and window, repeatedly, preserve the position more accurately.
E-book viewer: incorrect page turning when multiple pages are displayed on screen for books that wrap all their content in a single 100 height tag.
a regression that broke scheduling a new news download in timezones west of GMT.
Edit Book: undocked windows not resizable on OS X.
a regression in 2.57 that broke rescaling of images to fit the output profile screen size during conversion.
for file dialogs not working on windows when non-ascii environment variables are present.
HTML Input: error when converting HTML file with URL encoded filename.
Improved news sources.
Handelsblatt. New York Times Book Review. Antyweb.
2.5919 Jun 2016 01:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.59 17 Jun, 2016
New Features Amazon metadata download: Download the series information when available from amazon.com.
Amazon metadata download: Recognize common patterns of embedding the series name after the title and remove it automatically.
Edit Book: Add support for EPUB 3 to the Table of Contents tool. Now when editing EPUB 3 files using the tool will automatically generate both the EPUB 3 navigation document and the NCX table of contents for backwards compatibility.
EPUB Input: Implement reading of Table of Contents from EPUB 3 files that do not specify a fallback NCX ToC.
EPUB metadata: When setting a cover image for an EPUB file that has no metadata cover image defined, add the new cover image as a pure metadata cover instead of aborting.
crash on exit if any plugins have loaded code that raises exceptions during shutdown.
Copy to library: Speed up checking for duplicates when copying multiple books to a large library.
Get Books: Update Smashwords plugin for website changes.
Edit Book: a in the new text search facility that could cause searches to fail when searching from the current cursor position instead of the top of the file.
Bulk conversion dialog: page margin settings being ignored when converting to DOCX.
Make the default shortcut for remove books Backspace on OS X since many mac keyboards have no delete key and the backspace key is labelled as delete.
Edit Book: Check Book: Do not warn if a cover image is not referenced in the text.
E-book viewer: a that could cause incorrect rendering of chapter titles in some rare circumstances.
Windows console output: Handle consoles with non black and white color scheme correctly.
a regression in 2.57 that caused auto-removal of borders from covers to become much less proficient at detecting borders.
a regression in 2.57 that broke grayscaling of images.
Improved news sources.
Technology Review (DE).
2.5804 Jun 2016 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.58 02 Jun, 2016
New Features Edit Book: A text search tool to conveniently search for text even if it crosses multiple HTML tags (Search- gt;Search ignoring HTML markup).
OSX: Allow drag and drop of file onto viewer dock icon to view file.
Workaround for incompatibility between Qt 5.5+ and Ubuntu that caused the context menu for the book list to flicker.
Windows: Workaround for explorer shell extensions on windows that write to stdout.
Edit Book: When jumping to next occurrence of a word, take language into account.
Edit Book: import of words into user dictionary not working.
use of non-ascii characters in identifiers causing an error when identifier rules are used.
a regression that caused the paste from clipboard button to paste two times in the Add books from ISBN dialog.
for incompatibility with PyQt 5.6.
Improved news sources.
Denver Post. Financial Times. bild.de.
2.57.122 May 2016 21:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.57.1 20 May, 2016
New Features Driver for the Bq Cervantes 3.
A new "Ornamental" cover design for the "Generate cover" feature.
Windows: Use a helper process that does not load any calibre DLLs to display file open/save dialogs. This should most crashes caused by poorly designed windows shell extensions.
Allow pressing Alt+O as a shortcut for click the OK button in the Add from ISBN dialog.
Remove the calibre dependency on ImageMagick -- reduces calibre install size by 15MB.
Edit book: Add a new image filter: Normalize -- to improve the contrast in images.
Edit book: Add a filter to make images look like oil paintings.
Use 'Not rated' for zero stars in all rating spin boxes.
Edit Book: a crash in the Insert Link tool if one of the HTML files contains an empty id.
tag like custom columns not sorted when displayed in the Book Details panel.
transient window shown during Edit Book startup.
Preserve booklist horizontal scroll position when merging books.
Google Images metadata download plugin: error when searching for books with non-English characters in the title or author names.
Template language: an error formatting dates when the underlying date does not have a day.
Preferences- gt;Keyboard: unable to use Alt+A and Alt+S as custom shortcuts.
Version 2.57.1 is a hotto a regression that broke conversion of ODT files in 2.57.0.
Improved news sources.
Folha de Sao Paolo. Barrons. Economist. Deutsche Welle (English and Spanish editions). Die Presse. MIT Technology Review. Financial Times UK. Telegraph UK. The Guardian. Spiegel Online. Brand Eins. Focus.de. The Toronto Star. The Atlantic. Capital.de. The Times of India. The Economic Times India.
2.5601 May 2016 13:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.56 29 Apr, 2016
New Features Edit Book: Add an option to show full file paths in the Files Browser instead of just the file name (in Preferences- gt;Main window).
Allow creating a keyboard shortcut to minimize the calibre window (Preferences- gt;Keyboard- gt;Miscellaneous).
the Google Images based cover download plugin not working because of changes to Google's image search service.
E-book viewer: Prevent the TAB key from causing partial scrolling in paged mode.
Book details panel: regression in previous release that broke url:http ... style identifiers.
OS X: Redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null instead of ASL since ASL is flaky on some OS X machines. This should prevent errors in third party plugins that print a lot of demessages even when not in demode.
for OS X upgrade 10.11.4 breaking detection of Kobo devices on some systems.
Edit Book: filename being duplicated in the Files Browser when multiple files with the same name are present.
PDF Output: Make for blank page at end of HTML file also work when headers/footers are specified.
New news sources.
1843 by Kovid Goyal. Berlin Policy Journal by Aimylios
Improved news sources.
Forbes. Wall Street Journal. Berliner Zeitung. Tagesspiegel. TIME. Foreign Affairs. New Yorker.
2.5518 Apr 2016 08:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.55 15 Apr, 2016
New Features Allow creation of rules to convert arbitrary identifiers into clickable links in the book details panel (Prefrences- gt;Look amp; Feel- gt;Book details).
Tag mapper: A new rule type 'split' allows you to easily split tags on a character.
Make the shutting down message an overlay so it is less disruptive.
Allow right clicking on Virtual Library tabs to edit/delete the virtual library.
Tag mapper: Add a button to edit the list of tags in a tag mapper rule using the tag editor dialog.
Conversion: the obsolete HTML align=center markup not working for tables.
Font subsetting: When font-variant: small-caps is used include the capital letters as well, in case either the font or the renderer do not support OpenType smcp.
Font subsetting: Implement support for text-transform.
the target book entry in the book list not being refreshed after merging books. Only matters if you have a column based on book formats.
E-book viewer: a link that has some text along with a superscript/subscript being incorrectly detected as a footnote link.
device detection on windows failing if the registry entries for the device contain a very long item.
Edit Book: an extra colon being added when setting the 'notes' semantic.
Ensure that author folder names are never windows reserved names.
E-book viewer: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being shown together.
PDF Output: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being rendered together.
exception in custom column preferences when the column lookup key is changed.
Catalog generation: Do not crash is a book in the library has no uuid.
New news sources.
Kitekinto by pofa
Improved news sources.
Brand Eins. Handelsblatt. tyzden. Newsweek.
2.5404 Apr 2016 21:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.54 01 Apr, 2016
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.
auto-mounting of some types of devices not working on FreeBSD.
calibredb add: the --cover option not working if the book being added has its own cover.
E-book viewer: mathematics being typeset at too small a font size on windows.
PDF Output: occasional blank pages erroneously inserted in the text (at the end of an internal html file).
Book details panel: url:file:// identifiers not becoming links.
fetch news dialog not rendering properly on HiDPI screens.
a hard to trigger crash introduced in the previous release when using the conversion dialog
New news sources.
Magyar Nemzet and Mult Kor by pofa
Improved news sources.
Nature News. TIME Magazine. Folha de Sao Paolo. Endgadget. MSNBC. The New York Times Book Review.
2.5313 Mar 2016 07:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.53 11 Mar, 2016
New Features Edit Book: A new tool to transform book styling using easy to create rules.
For example, you can create rules to change colors in the book or to double the font size of all text in the book, etc. For details, see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#transforming-css-properties.
Conversion: Allow creating rules to transform styles during conversion, as above. Available in the conversion dialog at 'Look amp; Feel- gt;Transform style'.
Edit metadata dialog: Make the hide toolbars right click menu action persistent. Also 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.
E-book viewer: Hide list numbers for popup footnotes when the footnotes are use lt;ol gt; 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.
keyboard focus lost after merging book records
E-book viewer: Handle lt;! CDATA escapes correctly.
Edit Book: spelling correction suggestions not being shown when using the context menu key with the cursor at the end of the word.
Improved news sources.
Mediapart.
2.5227 Feb 2016 06:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.52 26 Feb, 2016
New Features Allow creating rules to ignore files when adding books based on the filename
Useful when using the auto-add feature or when adding in bulk. Preferences- gt;Adding Books- gt;Rules to filter added files.
calibredb add: Allow specifying filters to control adding of books from directories.
E-book viewer: Allow copying the Table of Contents to the clipboard by right clicking on it.
FB2 metadata: Ignore invalid (unidentifiable) cover images.
FB2 metadata: error when adding books with non-numeric series numbers.
DOCX Input: handling of toggle properties such as bold/italic/strikethrough/etc. when specified as document defaults.
Conversion pipeline: Add support for the q CSS length unit.
New news sources.
Al-Masry Alyoum by Hassan Williamson
Improved news sources.
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.
2.5113 Feb 2016 19:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.51 12 Feb, 2016
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.
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: published date not being downloaded from amazon.it.
a regression in 2.50 that broke the user created device driver feature on windows.
EPUB Input: 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.
calibre on OS X unable to connect to sites that support only TLS gt;= 1.1. Also update the version of Qt bundled on OS X to 5.5.1.
Improved news sources.
Endgadget. The Economic Times India. Discover Magazine.
2.50.131 Jan 2016 21:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.50.1 29 Jan, 2016
New Features Change the way that devices are detected on Windows. This 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
DOCX Input: empty paragraphs with borders being rendered with an empty line inside the borders.
ODT Input: fallback PNG images generated by LibreOffice 4.x for SVG images not being ignored.
restore library failing on some windows systems with non-ascii library paths.
Edit Book: error when merging an empty HTML document or one that contains only text and no tags.
failure to add FB2 files that contain published dates.
Use a private certificate when downloading plugins via HTTPS. This errors on some windows machines that have missing root certificates.
tag editor not working correctly for comma-separated custom columns.
existing rating not being removed when using Polish Books or Embed Metadata tools on EPUB files.
Improved news sources.
New Scientist. FAZ.net. Scientific American. Business World Magazine. Houston Chronicle.
2.4916 Jan 2016 20:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.49 15 Jan, 2016
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.
splash screen getting stuck on OSX when restarting calibre in demode.
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: some non-ASCII characters not display in embedded MathML.
Download calibre plugins securely using HTTPS.
MOBI Output: Try to autocorrupted PNG images in the input document.
Nook Glowlight Plus: Send files by default to the NOOK/My Files folder.
E-book viewer: failure to view comic files that contain non-ASCII characters int heir internal filenames.
New news sources.
LaRed21 by Carlos Alves
Improved news sources.
Echo Online. Various Uruguayan news sources. Economic and Political Weekly. Tagesanzeiger.
2.4804 Jan 2016 02:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.48 01 Jan, 2016
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- gt;Look amp; Feel- gt;Tag Browser).
Image compression: spurious zero byte.bak files being created when compressing png images inside epub files.
Image compression: that could cause zero byte images files/or file in use errors when compressing images.
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.
Improved news sources.
Rzeczpospolita. New York Times Book Review. der Standard. More Intelligent Life. Reader's Digest. Financial Times. New Scientist.
2.4723 Dec 2015 00:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.47 21 Dec, 2015
New Features A new tool to easily export and import all calibre data -- books, settings and plugins
Right click the calibre icon in the main calibre toolbar and choose "Export/import all calibre data" to run this tool. It is useful if you want to move to a new computer or duplicate your calibre setup on a second computer, with minimal effort. This tool is very new, so if you run into problems, please report. You can always use the old manual method of copying library folders as a fallback.
Get Books: Add plugins for Amazon Australia and Amazon India. Also restore the Amazon EU plugins.
PDF Input: conversion of PDF documents that contain ASCII control codes in their outlines not working.
Edit book: 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.
a regression that caused book titles in the Book Details panel to become clickable.
Improved news sources.
Fox News. Le Devoir. Le Monde diplomatique.fr.
2.4612 Dec 2015 20:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.46 11 Dec, 2015
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.
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: single value custom text column not clickable.
Saving to disk: custom date column being rendered in GMT instead of the local time zone when used in a save to disk template.
Improved news sources.
New York Review of Books. Caravan Magazine. heise.
2.4528 Nov 2015 07:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.45 27 Nov, 2015
New Features Cover browser: Allow customizing the text that appears under the covers with a template in Preferences- gt;Look amp; Feel- gt;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- gt;Add your own columns: Show more information about existing columns.
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: renaming a custom series via search and replace causing the series index to be reset to 1.
Bulk metadata dialog: search and replace not working for text like custom columns if the column contains only a single value.
Content server: 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: error when trying to add words to user dictionary for a book with a language that has no dictionary available.
Tag browser: various in how grouped search terms are displayed. Also counts and average rating for items in user categories.
When using copy to library also create missing composite columns in the destination library.
Improved news sources.
The Guardian and The Observer.
2.44.118 Nov 2015 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.44.1 15 Nov, 2015
Update the version of libpng bundled with calibre to a security vulnerability in libpng
See https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8126 for details on the vulnerability.
2.4414 Nov 2015 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.44 13 Nov, 2015
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.
Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog.
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 prefor bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.
On Linux, use the system tray icon from the system theme, if available.
for error when connecting to some Android phones/tablets that have an SD card on OS X and Linux.
Linux build: problem with pointing hand mouse cursor not using the system theme on some Linux systems.
the device view state not being saved when a connected device is ejected/disconnected.
Edit Book: saving fails if the original file is deleted during editing session
E-book viewer: When doing a search do not match text in comments, attributes and inappropriate tags, such as lt;script gt; and lt;style gt;.
Improved news sources.
Gamasutra.
2.4309 Nov 2015 01:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.43 06 Nov, 2015
New Features Edit Book: Add a 'Smart Comment' tool to easily comment/uncomment text
Press Ctrl+` to trigger the tool, or add the tool to your toolbar via Preferences- gt;Toolbar- gt;Tools for all editors. It will either insert comments around the selected text or uncomment an existing comment if the cursor is inside one.
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
Amazon metadata download: 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.
New news sources.
La Politica Online by Darko Miletic.
2.4201 Nov 2015 02:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.42 30 Oct, 2015
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.
Edit metadata dialog: When downloading metadata with download of authors turned off, do not regenerate the author sort field after the download.
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: pre-selection of filename when renaming a file in the root.
Tag mapper: when replacement tag has comma in it and the replacement rule is not the last rule.
Improved news sources.
Sueddeutsche.de. NRC. Various Polish news sources. Pocket.
2.4118 Oct 2015 00:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.41 16 Oct, 2015
New Features Edit Book: Allow editing an unzipped EPUB (a folder) as a book
Useful if you wish to store your ebook in a version control system and edit it directly with the calibre ebook editor (File- gt;Open folder as 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- gt;Keyboard- gt;Tag Browser.
ToC editor: Add context menu item to change selected entries to upper case.
Edit Book: Preview panel: Render in XHTML mode. svg elements using a global svg namespace not rendering.
Tag Browser: 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: 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 lt;title gt; to the book title.
Improved news sources.
Boston Globe. Wall Street Journal. Komputerra. Spectator Magazine. The Independent.
2.4003 Oct 2015 23:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.40 02 Oct, 2015
New Features A new tool to apply Tag mapper rules to existing books in the library. To use it, go to Preferences- gt;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.
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: order of checkboxes in filter style information tool is random.
PDB Input: Ingore malformed metadata records.
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.
ZIP Output: system encoding being used instead of UTF-8 for html files.
Improved news sources.
The Philosopher's Magazine. Harper's Magazine. Ambito. Perfil. Telam. Infobae.com. La Nacion. Clarin.
2.3926 Sep 2015 16:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.39 25 Sep, 2015
New Features Implement tag mapping to automatically filter/transform tags when adding books or downloading metadata
Now you can create simple rules that will filter/transform the tags when adding new books or downloading metadata for books. To setup the rules, go to Preferences- gt;Adding books and Preferences- gt;Downloading metadata.
Kobo driver: Support for newly firmware version 3.18
Edit Book: Add a setting to control icon size for the toolbars (Preferences- gt;Toolbars).
Edit Book: Check Book: automatic correction of missing unique id sometimes not working
Edit Book: (hopefully) View- gt;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: 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: HTML files being created with system encoding instead of UTF-8.
New news sources.
Various Korean news sources by Hoje Lee. Presseportal DE by Volker Heggemann
Improved news sources.
TIME Magazine. The Atlantic. Instapaper. Trouw.
2.3813 Sep 2015 20:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.38 11 Sep, 2015
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- gt;Check external links.
Edit Book: Add an option to turn off drag and drop editing of text (Preferences- gt;Editor).
Two new icon themes: Primo+ and Black Edition (Preferences- gt;Look amp; Feel- gt;Change icon theme).
Copy to Library: 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: conversion options not being copied when copying books between libraries.
New news sources.
Karsi Gazete by Voltran
Improved news sources.
Strategy+Business. Ars Technica. National Geographic. New York Times Technology Beat.
2.37.106 Sep 2015 17:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.37.1 04 Sep, 2015
New Features 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- gt;Look amp; Feel- gt;Change icon theme).
Add a check box to control copying ebook files when duplicating book records via the Add Empty Book dialog.
Edit Book: Check Book: automatic ing of unsafe ids not working if the file containing the unsafe also needs to be for an unsafe filename.
E-book viewer: Informative error message for themes button when no themes have been created.
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.
2.3629 Aug 2015 23:05
minor feature:
Icon themes: Change the calibre icons easily via icon themes
You can now change the icons calibre uses easily via Preferences- gt;Look amp; Feel- gt;Change icon theme. Several icon themes are already available for calibre.
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
Amazon metadata download: Support for yet another variant of amazon cover image markup.
E-book viewer: --open-at sometimes giving inaccurate results (depends on speed of book loading).
EPUB Metadata: Add workaround for in PocketBook firmware which causes it to fail to read series metadata if the series number is declared before the series.
user defined template functions leaking from one library to another when switching libraries/using copy to library.
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: incorrect links that consist only of an anchor and no filename not being detected.
AZW3 Output: large tables (with many columns) not rendering correctly on Kindles.
Improved news sources.
tyzden. Forbes. Clarin.
2.3514 Aug 2015 22:45
minor feature:
New Features: Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware version 3.17.
E-book viewer: Allow setting the number of pages per screen separately for portrait and landscape modes.
Bug Fixes: DOCX Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of some documents that specify vertical alignment in absolute units.
Book list: Fix the current row number being partially cutoff on some windows 10 machines.
Fix 'stopping content server' message popping up repeatedly even when it is closed while the content server has not fully stopped.
Conversion: Fix error when converting a file that uses media queries with comments in the media selector.
New news sources:
3D News and iXBT.com by bugmen00t.
Improved news sources
American Spectator. South China Morning Post.
2.3408 Aug 2015 13:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.34 07 Aug, 2015
New FeaturesAmazon metadata download: Add support for amazon.nl. To use it go to Preferences- gt;Metadata download and configure the amazon plugin to use Netherlands as the source.
Catalogs: Add an option to not add the generated catalog to the library.
Closes tickets: 1481529
E-book viewer: Improve performance of hyphenation.
Bug FixesDOCX Input: Add support for text whose vertical position is adjusted by offsets from the baseline.
DOCX Output: Handle length and percentage values for vertical-align in the input document.
Closes tickets: 1480300
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.
Closes tickets: 1479462
E-book viewer: Fix printing to PDF could result in filenames with characters not supported by windows.
Closes tickets: 1478515
E-book viewer: Also fix a bug in the hyphenation algorithm that could cause the word 'undefined' to be mangled during hyphenation.
Closes tickets: 1478292
ODT Input: Fix custom styles with a dot in their name not being inherited.
Closes tickets: 1478346
Improved news sources.
Daily Express. The New Yorker. XKCD. Wired Magazine. Wired UK.
2.3326 Jul 2015 11:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.33 24 Jul, 2015
New FeaturesDriver for SONY DPT-S1.
Closes tickets: 1476093
Edit Book: When showing suggestions for mis-spelled words, also show suggestions from user created word lists.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for "invalid" ids.
Bug FixesConversion: Ignore stylesheets linked via media queries that use device specific features.
Closes tickets: 1476089
Fix covers not being read from some TXTZ files.
Closes tickets: 1475984
ODT Input: Add support for numbered lists that do not start numbering at 1.
Closes tickets: 1475846
Improved news sources.
msnbc.com. Houston Chronicle.
2.32.122 Jul 2015 11:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.32 17 Jul, 2015
New FeaturesE-book viewer: Automatically save the current reading position every ten seconds. Prevents loss of reading position on crash/forced shutdown.
Closes tickets: 1473737
Edit Book: Check Book: Add checks for missing OPF version and toc references and for text placed directly inside the lt;body gt; tag.
Closes tickets: 1468649
calibredb: Add a new search sub-command that can be used to generate a list of book ids from a search expression.
Tag Editor: Place the keyboard focus on the last edited field.
Closes tickets: 1473140
Edit metadata dialog: When clicking Next and Previous preserve the current tab of the edit comments widget.
Closes tickets: 1467129
Linux: Various fixes to make calibre work when compiled against the latest versions of Qt and PyQt.
Closes tickets: 1471083
Edit Book: Allow drag and drop of files onto dock icon on OS X.
Bug FixesE-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.
Closes tickets: 1467164
Fix error in template dialog when using id in send to device preferences.
Closes tickets: 1474513
Edit Book/Book polishing: Fix EPUB books with opf files that use a non-default namespace for the OPF namespace being corrupted.
Closes tickets: 1471419
OS X: Workaround for Qt 5 regression that causes any errors during startup to be hidden behind the splash screen.
Closes tickets: 1473017
Conversion: Fix incorrect relative URLs being generated when an HTML or CSS file is placed higher in the folder hierarchy than the opf file.
Closes tickets: 1474287
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.
Closes tickets: 1471125
Conversion: Fix error when input document contains a font size exactly one point away from the base size.
Closes tickets: 1472291
Device drivers: Handle devices wi
2.3217 Jul 2015 20:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.32 17 Jul, 2015
New FeaturesE-book viewer: Automatically save the current reading position every ten seconds. Prevents loss of reading position on crash/forced shutdown.
Closes tickets: 1473737
Edit Book: Check Book: Add checks for missing OPF version and toc references and for text placed directly inside the lt;body gt; tag.
Closes tickets: 1468649
calibredb: Add a new search sub-command that can be used to generate a list of book ids from a search expression.
Tag Editor: Place the keyboard focus on the last edited field.
Closes tickets: 1473140
Edit metadata dialog: When clicking Next and Previous preserve the current tab of the edit comments widget.
Closes tickets: 1467129
Linux: Various fixes to make calibre work when compiled against the latest versions of Qt and PyQt.
Closes tickets: 1471083
Edit Book: Allow drag and drop of files onto dock icon on OS X.
Bug FixesE-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.
Closes tickets: 1467164
Fix error in template dialog when using id in send to device preferences.
Closes tickets: 1474513
Edit Book/Book polishing: Fix EPUB books with opf files that use a non-default namespace for the OPF namespace being corrupted.
Closes tickets: 1471419
OS X: Workaround for Qt 5 regression that causes any errors during startup to be hidden behind the splash screen.
Closes tickets: 1473017
Conversion: Fix incorrect relative URLs being generated when an HTML or CSS file is placed higher in the folder hierarchy than the opf file.
Closes tickets: 1474287
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.
Closes tickets: 1471125
Conversion: Fix error when input document contains a font size exactly one point away from the base size.
Closes tickets: 1472291
Device drivers: Handle devices wi
2.3120 Jun 2015 23:45
minor feature:
New Features: An option to auto-convert a book on adding even if it is already in the output format (Preferences- Adding Books).
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.
Closes tickets: 1460093
News download: Add support for turning off SSL certificate verification in individual recipes.
Kobo driver: Support for upcoming firmware version 3.16.
Bug FixesDOCX Output: Fix aspect ratio of images being distorted when the input document specifies image width but not height or vice-versa.
DOCX Output: Fix extra page breaks being inserted in some situations.
LIT Input: Fix smarten punctuation not working for text (as opposed to HTML) based LIT files.
Closes tickets: 1460998
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.
Book details panel: On windows use only as a path separator when copying file paths.
Edit Book: Fix Saved searches panel not working well with very long search/replace expressions.
OS X: Fix changing preferences causing 'Email to selected recipients...' appearing multiple times in the Connect/Share menu.
2.3007 Jun 2015 22:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.30 05 Jun, 2015
New FeaturesAn option to auto-convert a book on adding even if it is already in the output format (Preferences- gt;Adding Books).
Closes tickets: 1460477
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.
Closes tickets: 1460093
News download: Add support for turning off SSL certificate verification in individual recipes.
Kobo driver: Support for upcoming firmware version 3.16.
Closes tickets: 1461964
Bug FixesDOCX Output: Fix aspect ratio of images being distorted when the input document specifies image width but not height or vice-versa.
Closes tickets: 1455502
DOCX Output: Fix extra page breaks being inserted in some situations.
Closes tickets: 1455502
LIT Input: Fix smarten punctuation not working for text (as opposed to HTML) based LIT files.
Closes tickets: 1460998
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.
Closes tickets: 1461321
Book details panel: On windows use only as a path separator when copying file paths.
Edit Book: Fix Saved searches panel not working well with very long search/replace expressions.
OS X: Fix changing preferences causing 'Email to selected recipients...' appearing multiple times in the Connect/Share menu.
Closes tickets: 1460089
2.2930 May 2015 16:45
minor feature:
New FeaturesAllow 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
Tag Browser: Allow undoing the deletion of items in the Manage categories window.
calibredb add: Allow setting arbitrary identifiers, not just ISBN.
Add a 'Retry' button to the news download failed error message.
Bug FixesDOCX 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.
DOCX Output: Fix incorrect handling of bold/italic in paragraphs where the majority of text is either bold or italic instead of normal.
Table of Contents editor: Fix save/load of settings in the XPath wizard not working across restarts.
Get Books: Update the Kobo Store plugin for website changes.
Improved news sources.
Popular Science. General Knowledge Today. Scientific American. Wired Magazine.
2.2817 May 2015 08:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.28 15 May, 2015
New FeaturesConversion of all ebook formats to Microsoft Word (DOCX) files
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.
Add keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Right, Ctrl+Left) to switch between virtual library tabs.
Closes tickets: 1453497
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- gt;Tweaks.
Bug FixesOpen With: Fix application icons in XDG_DATA_HOME on linux not being found and fix unhandled error when choosing non-executable files as applications.
AZW3 Output: Remove duplicate anchors to workaround some Kindle renderers using the last occurrence of an anchor as the target instead of the first.
Closes tickets: 1454199
Fix language definition on body tag being ignored during conversion.
Edit book: When importing multiple files into the book, import them in the order sorted by their filenames instead of in random order.
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.
Edit Book: Fix TOC editor window not remembering its last used size.
Improved news sources.
Field and Stream. Linux Magazine. Brand Eins. Courrier International. Wired Magazine. The Onion.
2.2702 May 2015 17:25
minor feature:
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.
2.2625 Apr 2015 12:25
minor feature:
New Features: Driver for the soon to be released Kobo Glo HD
Bug Fixes: 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.
MOBI Ouput: Fix :first-letter applied to elements containing a comment causing conversion to fail.
Properly display names of libraries containing the ampersand character.
When sorting filenames in comics treat the file extension as a secondary sort key. Fixes xyz.jpg sorting before xyz_1.jpg.
Fix a regression in 2.25 that broke the search amp; replace wizard in the conversion dialog when converting a book with multiple formats.
Content server: Fix errors when library contains enough virtual libraries to cause grouping.
Manage tags dialog: Fix setting a tag to empty causes an unhandled error.
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.
Edit Book: Fix open OPF file not being refreshed when deleting items from the file browser.
New news sources.
Discover Magazine Monthly by Michael Marotta.
Improved news sources
WirtschaftsWoche Online. Wired. CNN.
2.2519 Apr 2015 07:05
minor feature:
New Features: 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.
Book Details panel: Allow deleting tags/series/publisher/etc. by right clicking on the link in the book details panel.
E-book viewer: Allow expanding/collapsing all items in the Table of Contents view by right clicking.
When using the View specific format action add an 'Open With' button to choose a specific program to view the specified format.
Fetch News: Add API to allow recipe writers to easily resolve internal links to point to the downloaded versions of articles.
DOCX Input: Add support for DOCX files created by Word 2013 in 'Strict' mode.
When getting cover from comic files, use smart filename sorting to find the first filename, recognizing numbers inside the filenames.
Bug FixesE-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.
DOCX Input: Automatically resize large images used as bullets in lists, to compensate for the fact that HTML renderers do not do this.
Book list: Prevent yes/no columns from making the minimum row height too large.
Template language: Fix raw_field() function returning incorrect values for lists.
Edit book: Fix book locale changing when OPF edited if OPF contains a country code in addition to a language code.
Edit Book: Fix escaped HTML tags in the comments metadata being reported as mis-spelled words.
Edit Book: Fix regression that caused copying of non-breaking spaces to not work when using the keyboard shortcuts.
Open With: Fix open with not working for programs from the Microsoft Office suite.
New news sources.
MIT Technology Review Magazine by Michael Marotta. The Codeless Code by April King.
Improved news sources
Die Zeit. NZZ Webpaper. Arca
2.2411 Apr 2015 01:25
minor feature:
New Features: E-book viewer: Add an option to not save the bookmarks inside EPUB files, under the Miscellaneous section of the viewer preferences.
Manage User Categories: Allow restricting the visible items to only those present in the current Virtual Library (if any).
Book details panel: Allow copying full path to ebook files by right clicking on the format link.
Bug FixesEdit Book: Fix GIF format images being corrupted when using the builtin image editor to make changes to them.
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.
Conversion: Fix error when converting a document that contains an invalid function based CSS selector without parentheses.
Edit Book: Fix regression that caused pressing Alt+X to type unicode characters to not work.
Device view: Preserve position in list of books when deleting books from the device view.
Make the context menu for the book details popup window work the same way as for the book details panel.
Get Books: Update amazon store plugin for website changes.
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.
Fix a regression that caused ebook viewer to remember the state of the Table of Contents panel when quitting on OS X.
Prevent Enter key on Manage authors/tags/etc. dialogs from closing the dialog.
Improved news sources.
Le Temps. United Daily. Liberty Times. Apple Daily. China Times. House News. Providence Journal. Harvard Business Review.
2.2304 Apr 2015 20:05
minor feature:
New FeaturesAllow adding an empty ebook in various formats to existing book records by right clicking the Add Books button.
Add ability to create additional empty formats to the 'Add empty book' command.
News download: Add API to cleanly abort the download of an article during the preprocess stage based on the article's contents.
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 FixesMOBI Input: Fix links not working in viewer for MOBI files that contain anchors placed on linebreak elements.
Book details panel: Fix copying Path link by right clicking on it not working.
Fix a regression that caused importing of a single book from a directory to fail if the directory has no ebook files in it.
Column Icons: Fix apostrophes in icon filenames causing errors.
Edit Book: Fix a regression that caused Remove unused CSS to fail on invalid CSS selectors, instead of ignoring them.
Open With: Fix open with failing to get list of default programs on windows if the registry contains missing ProgIDs.
Improved news sources: Esquire, Courrier International, CNET, Tagesschau.
2.2222 Mar 2015 04:25
minor feature:
New Features: 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
Edit Book: When re-opening a previously edited book, restore all open files and the cursor position. Can be disabled in Preferences- gt;Main Window.
Advanced search builder: Allow using days/weeks/months/years when building a date based search with number of days ago.
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.
Implement updating metadata in DOCX files.
Bug FixesODT Input: Add support for intra-document cross-references.
PDF Output: Fix incorrect encoding of ASCII control characters and some Chines characters in metadata and Table of Contents strings.
Amazon metadata download: Work around amazon server problems where it does not return Kindle Editions in search results when not logged in.
Fix Manage Authors dialog causing current search in the book list to be cleared.
Conversion: Fix a regression in 2.21 that caused conversion to fail for books with invalid pseudo-class CSS selectors.
Content server: Fix OPDS categories not showing books for composite column categories if the column contains a colon.
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.
Open With: Fix error when scanning for default programs on windows for some file types.
Edit Book: Fix Preview panel sometimes not working when opening multiple html files one after the other very quickly.
Improved news sources.
Wired Daily.
2.2114 Mar 2015 03:17
minor feature:
Release: 2.21 13 Mar, 2015
New FeaturesAllow 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 FixesE-book viewer: Fix regression that prevented pasting of text with formatting from the viewer.
Closes tickets: 1428018
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.
Closes tickets: 1428212
DOCX Input: Fix incorrect bold font weight being used for heading styles even if the style definition does not specify bold.
Closes tickets: 1430831
AZW3 Input: Fix a bug that prevented conversion of AZW3 files that contained an empty CSS media block.
Closes tickets: 1426220
PDF Output: Fix incorrect rendering of text in elements that use font-variant:small-caps and also have children.
Closes tickets: 1425094
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 elem
2.2021 Feb 2015 07:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.20 20 Feb, 2015
New FeaturesODT Input: Add backlinks for footnotes/endnotes and improve their formatting.
Closes tickets: 1421056
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.
Closes tickets: 1422248
Make publishers in the book details panel clickable.
Closes tickets: 1419313
Edit Book spell check: For mis-spelled words of the form one:two offer one: two as a suggested correction.
Closes tickets: 1422133
Bug FixesFix a regression that caused incorrect results when searching on numeric or date fields with relational operators.
Closes tickets: 1423390
DOCX Input: Fix regression in 2.19 that broke handling of text with leading or trailing non-breaking spaces/en-spaces/quad-spaces.
Closes tickets: 1422844
Amazon metadata download: Update plugin for website changes to Amazon Brazil.
Closes tickets: 1420629
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.
Closes tickets: 1422116
Conversion: Ignore incorrectly URL encoded links instead of erroring out on them.
Closes tickets: 1421996
E-book viewer: Remove soft-hyphens when copying text to clipboard
Improved news sources
aktualne.cz
2.1908 Feb 2015 10:25
minor feature:
Release: 2.19 06 Feb, 2015
New Features: Quick view window: Allow the quickview window to be docked into the main calibre window.
Add empty book: Allow setting the title as well as the author and series for the added empty book records
Windows driver for Grammata Papyre 602.
Edit Book: Add an option to turn off auto-completion of closing tags
Allow adding a description for custom columns.
Book Details panel: Allow any identifier of the form url+number to become a clickable link. For example: url1:http://example.com
Bug FixesConversion: Convert entities that reference non-BMP unicode codepoints on Windows and OS X correctly. Linux was not affected by this bug.
Edit Book: Do not autocomplete the closing tag wen typing the / key inside an existing tag.
Fix Booken Lev e-book reader not being detected in OS X and Linux.
DOCX Input: Change handling of sequences of space characters to more closely follow Microsoft Word.
Edit Book: Fix Table of Contents editor not remembering its saved state across calibre sessions
Edit book: Disallow drag and drop of documents onto the preview panel to workaround crashing bug in Qt.
E-book viewer: Fix current page not being preserved when opening and then immediately closing the footnote window.
PDF Output: Fix incorrect encoding for some chinese characters in the PDF Outline (Table of Contents)
Improved news sources:
FAZ.net
Indian Express
CNN
2.1801 Feb 2015 03:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.18 30 Jan, 2015
New FeaturesEdit Book: Add 'Style Classes' and 'Links' report pages to the Reports tool
Tag browser: Allow expanding all children of a node by right clicking and choosing 'Expand All'
Closes tickets: 1414315
Preferences: Re-arrange the controls to avoid needing to move the mouse from the top to the bottom of the dialog when closing the dialog after making some changes
Bug FixesSave to Disk: Fix a bug where when multiple books are being saved to disk, if the save to disk template results in identical filenames, the filenames were not being properly disambiguated.
Preferences: Use a dialog instead of a main window to workaround Qt's poor handling of full screen mode on OS X Yosemite.
Closes tickets: 1414497
Improved news sources
Al Jazeera in English
2.1724 Jan 2015 15:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.17 23 Jan, 2015
New FeaturesEdit Book: A new reports tool that shows a summary of files, images, words, characters and styles used in the book.
The reports tool is a great way to get an overview of the different parts of your book. Every line in the report is hot-linked, double clicking it jumps to the places in the book where that item is used.
Edit Book: Allow adding the 'Manage Snippets' action to the toolbar, for easy access
Bug FixesUpdate Ozon.ru metadata download plugin for website changes.
Closes tickets: 1407265
E-book viewer: Fix regression in 'flow' mode that caused horizontal scrollbar to be rendered as vertical.
Closes tickets: 1409916
Fix a regression that prevented adding of books from sub-folders if the folder contained only an OPF file and no actual ebook files.
Closes tickets: 1411240
New news sources
TheAtlantic.com by ebrandon
The Conversation by Krittika Goyal
Apple Daily (TW) by Yulun Shih
Improved news sources
Salon.com
The Onion
Haaretz
Jot Down
Le Monde Diplomatique
tyzden
The AJC
2.1610 Jan 2015 14:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.16 10 Jan, 2015
New FeaturesEdit Book: Add support for snippets -- small pieces of text that are often re-used.
You can now create your own snippets and insert them into the text with only a few keystrokes. The snippets include support for placeholders that you can jump between. See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/snippets.html for details.
Bug FixesEdit Book: When importing files and the book has an orphaned entry in the manifest for that file, but the file itself is not present, rename the file instead of erroring out.
Closes tickets: 1407860
Book Details panel: Fix author links with URL schemes other than http or file preventing context menu from working.
Closes tickets: 1408174
PDF Output: Make the minimum height for headers and footers scale with the base font size
Fix a typo that prevented the Cybook Muse from being detected on some computers.
Closes tickets: 1407435
Fix regression in 2.15 that broke calibre on OS X 10.7 and 10.8
Closes tickets: 1407102
New news sources
Ajans Firat and Edebiyat Haber by asalet_r
Improved news sources
Various updated Turkish news sources
tyzden
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
2.1502 Jan 2015 23:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.15 02 Jan, 2015
New FeaturesEdit Book: Add auto-completion for links.
Now as you type the filename in href or src attributes, a popup with possible completions is displayed. See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#auto-complete for details.
Edit Book Function mode: Add builtin functions to change case of text, ignoring HTML tags in the matched text
Edit Book - Check Book: Allow auto-fixing of file not in spine errors
Driver for Papyre 624 ml
Closes tickets: 1405901
Conversion: Convert images encoded as data URIs in the input document into normal images, as some ebook reader software cannot handle data URIs.
Closes tickets: 1405803
Bug FixesAZW3 Input: Handle AZW3 files that contain Amazon specific CSS media queries.
Closes tickets: 1406708
Fix regression that broke the markdown-calibre command
Edit Book - Show what changed: Fix scrollbar sometimes not visible if the differences contain a few, very long lines. Also fix the line numbers being partially obscured on some systems (depending on the font used).
Closes tickets: 1406056
Edit Book: Fix a regression that caused the Home key to not move to the start of the line on lines containing un-indented tags
Get Books: Update the Amazon (US) plugin for website changes.
Closes tickets: 1406040
MOBI Input: Fix incorrect conversion of MOBI files that wrap their content inside lt;a gt; anchor tags.
Closes tickets: 1405858
2.1427 Dec 2014 14:05
minor feature:
Release: 2.14 26 Dec, 2014
New FeaturesMetadata review dialog: Automatically insert series number when selecting a series from the completion dropdown. Also if the user does not specify a series number, use 1 as the default, instead of not setting the series.
Closes tickets: 1404692
Bug FixesFix regression that broke error reporting for save to disk for books that contain no formats.
Closes tickets: 1405674
Metadata download: Fix metadata download not working for titles that contain a apostrophes in languages other than English.
Closes tickets: 1403677
Fix deleting a book from both the library and the device causing the next selected book to be incorrect, when the library is sorted by the On Device column.
Closes tickets: 1404629
FB2 Output: Fix generation of FB2 sections based on a multi-level Table of Contents in the input document.
Closes tickets: 1393514
Tolino Shine driver: Fix option to swap main memory and SD card not working on OS X.
Closes tickets: 1404793
FB2 Input: Workaround for broken FB2 files produced by convertonlinefree.com.
Closes tickets: 1404701
OS X: Workaround for OS X installs that have incorrect permissions set on their home directories. calibre will now no longer refuse to start on such machines.
MOBI Input: Dont crash on corrupted JPG images.
Closes tickets: 1404590
Fix column icons not displaying for custom comments type columns
Closes tickets: 1404234
Metadata review dialog: Show a confirmation for the 'Reject all remaining' button.
Closes tickets: 1404386
New news sources
OSEL.cz by spacekpe
Courier Mail by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources
Nikkei News
2.1320 Dec 2014 19:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.13 19 Dec, 2014
New FeaturesDriver for the new CYBOOK MUSE ebook reader
Closes tickets: 1398672
Edit metadata dialog: Allow editing identifiers in a dedicated window by right clicking on the identifiers edit box.
Closes tickets: 1400925
Allow generating a cover from metadata by right clicking the cover are in the book details panel also.
Closes tickets: 1401972
Content server: Server KEPUB files with the extension kepub.epu when connecting to the browser on Kobo devices
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware version 3.12
Edit metadata dialog: Add a keyboard shortcut to swap title and author Alt+Down
Closes tickets: 1397701
Bug FixesSave to disk: Fix a regression that prevented saving of files into the root of a drive on Windows
FB2 Input: Add support for FB2 books that incorrectly use the FictionBook 2.1 XML schema.
Closes tickets: 1401915
Fix command line arguments not being ignored on windows and linux when restarting calibre.
Closes tickets: 1401991
E-book viewer: Fix sorting of bookmarks by position in book not working on windows and OS X.
Closes tickets: 1402152
Kobo driver: Fix bookmarks not being deleted from device when deleting books on the device
Closes tickets: 1401502
Edit book: Fix auto-complete of closing tag not working when typing the closing tag at just before a word (the word would become the closing tag name).
calibredb: Fix list --for-machine ignoring custom columns
Closes tickets: 1401085
Edit book/Book polishing: Fix subsetting of fonts whose @font-face rules use the local() or format() CSS functions not working
Edit book: Fix regression that broke typing of XML entities for ampersand, less-than and greater-than
Edit Book: Do not change the current selected text when right clicking on a mis-spelled word
Improved news sources
The Australian
The New Yorker
The Guardian
Ars Technica
2.1229 Nov 2014 06:45
minor feature:
Release: 2.12 28 Nov, 2014
New FeaturesEdit Book: Automatically complete the closing tag in HTML/XML files when typing lt;/
Edit Book: Implement auto-indent, now when pressing the Enter key to start a new line, the new line's indentation is automatically created
Driver for the Verso E71b ebook reader
Closes tickets: 1395289
Redesigned the 'Add a custom news source' dialog to make it easier to use, with a more powerful python editor
Make translations of the User Manual available in many different languages (fully or partially translated). Click the 'Change Language' link in the sidebar of the manual to change the language
Edit Book: Search amp; Replace function mode: Add a new function annotation (replace.file_order) to control what order multiple files are processed in, when doing Replace All. See the User Manual for details.
Bug FixesGet Books: Update Woblink store plugin for website changes
Book polishing: Ignore zero byte font files in the ebook instead of erroring out on them when subsetting fonts.
Closes tickets: 1395694
E-book viewer: Tighten heuristic used to detect footnote links. Do not consider a link that is the only content inside a block level tag as an endnote link, even if it is linked back to from its destination.
Update the version of libimobiledevice shipped in the Linux and OS X builds to 1.1.7, should help with some connection issues to Apple devices
PDF Output: Add support for font-family aliasing in @font-face rules.
Closes tickets: 1395176
Improved news sources
Wall Street Journal
New Yorker
Le Monde
Defense News
Digital Journal
Cracked.com
Boston Globe
RealClear Politics
EcoGeek
The Friday Times
2.1121 Nov 2014 05:35
minor feature:
Release: 2.11 21 Nov, 2014 New Features: Edit Book: Add a new 'function mode' for the Search and Replace tool The function mode allows you to create python functions that run on the results of Search and Replace. This allows you to do arbitrarily powerful text processing. For example, you can automatically fix the case of text, automatically add section number to headings, and so on. For examples and documentation, see: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/function_mode.html Bug Fixes: DOCX Input: Add support for multilingual documents. Closes tickets: 1394428 Edit metadata dialog: Fix date fields being displayed in the UTC timezone instead of the local timezone, causing the day to be off by one in some timezones. Closes tickets: 1393166 Conversion/Book polishing: Fix ampersands in title/series/publisher/author not being properly escaped. Closes tickets: 1393230 Update the bundled version of libimobiledevice on windows, so that the iOS Reader plugin can connect to iOS 8 devices again Fix a regression in 2.10 that causes Adding books from sub-folders, one book per folder to incorrectly add OPF files present in the sub-folders as an extra format. Closes tickets: 1392864 Fix a regression in 2.10 that caused changes in Preferences- Adding books to not work for the next immediate add Fix Ctrl-R while in debug mode not restarting in debug mode properly Fix regression in evaluating composite columns that use other composite columns. Improved news sources Nikkei News
2.1015 Nov 2014 03:16
minor feature:
Release: 2.10 14 Nov, 2014
New FeaturesDriver for the PocketBook Lux 2 with latest firmware.
Closes tickets: 1390720
Review downloaded metadata: Add suggestions for the tags, authors, publishers and series fields. Suggestions will pop-up as you type.
Closes tickets: 1390887
Add Books: Improve performance when adding large numbers of books at once
Add Books: Allow adding books from multiple ZIP/RAR archives, each containing many books, by right clicking on the Add Books and choosing 'Add from Archive'
Metadata download: Prioritize results that have the same language as the current calibre user interface language
Edit Book: Make the CSS used for styling the generated HTML Table of Contents user customizable via http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/customize.html#overriding-icons-templates-et-cetera
Bug FixesE-book viewer: Fix popup footnotes not working on windows
Fix saving of searches that use the backslash to escape special characters not working
Closes tickets: 1392052
Save to disk: When multiple books end up with the same file name because they have the same metadata, automatically adjust the filename to make it unique.
Closes tickets: 863472
Fix ebook editor global menu not working on Unity when started from inside calibre
Get Books: Update the Amazon European store plugins for website changes
Edit Book: Fix handling of XML unsafe characters (like lt;, gt; and amp;) inside lt;style gt; tags
Linux: Fix regression on Unity that prevented some keyboard shortcuts from working because of the global menu bar.
Closes tickets: 1390901
Amazon metadata download: Do not prefer results with an ISBN, since Amazon now lists a large number of ISBN less titles
Amazon metadata download: Fix cover not being found for some books because of a website change at amazon.com
Conversion: Fix incorrect conversion of east-asian characters in CSS class names.
Closes tickets: 1390527
New news sources
Various German news sources by Bernd Boehm
The Daily WTF by Jelle van der Waa
Improved new
2.907 Nov 2014 10:05
major feature:
E-book viewer: Show footnotes in a
separate popup window Now when you click on a link to a footnote/endnote,
the corresponding note is shown in a separate popup window, for convenient
reference. Footnote links are recognized using the EPUB 3 footnote markup as
well as some heuristics. Any superscript or subscript links are assumed to
be footnote links. Any link that links to another file which in turn links
back to the original link, is assumed to be an endnote. Cover Grid: Improve
scroll wheel based scrolling. On windows and linux a single "tick" of the
wheel now scrolls by about half a row instead of a full screen. On OS X,
scrolling is pixel based, so as you scroll faster, more content is scrolled.
Get Books: Add the Bubok Portugal store Performance improvement for large
libraries that using custom columns built with templates Review downloaded
metadata dialog: Allow merging tags by long clicking the revert button Bug
FixesFix a regression in 2.8 that caused the clear button next to date
fields to set the date to Jan 101 instead of undefined.
Linux: Fix Unity global menu bar stops working after minimizing
calibre to the dock or the system tray. Sanitize the
ImageMagick environment variables before launching external utilities.
Prevent stale 'On Device' info (from the previous
connection) from showing during subsequent device connections Conversion:
Add workaround for converting EPUB files with syntactically invalid
(probably hand edited) OPF files. Fix e-book viewer
not displaying cover from HTMLZ files. Conversion:
Handle input documents with crazy font sizes (1000pt +) Improved news
sources Boston Globe Brand Eins
2.801 Nov 2014 03:15
minor feature:
Release: 2.8 31 Oct, 2014
New FeaturesLinux: Add support for the global menubar in Ubuntu Unity (The menu that is displayed in the top most on screen bar). It now works both with the main calibre program and the e-book editor. You can customize what appears in the menubar via Preferences- gt;Toolbars
Get Books: Add a new store, Bubok (bubok.es)
Driver for Tolino Vision 2.
Closes tickets: 1385904
Review downloaded metadata: Allow merging downloaded and current identifiers by long-clicking the revert button.
Closes tickets: 1387619
Template language: New function user_categories() to return the list of User Categories for a given book (only works in the GUI).
E-book viewer: Add an option to prevent tapping on the page from turning pages.
Bug FixesRe-enable the system tray icon on linux. System tray icons now work in any desktop environment that supports the StatusNotifier spec, such as Ubuntu Unity, KDE 4+, GNOME 3, etc.
System tray icon: On windows if the calibre window is minimized, fix clicking on the system tray icon not restoring the window.
Closes tickets: 1387596
E-book viewer: Clear history when reloading the book, to avoid errors, since the locations pointed to by the history may no longer be valid anyway
Linux: Force use of GNOME button layout for dialogs when running under the GNOME, UNITY or MATE desktop environments
Check Book: Silence incorrect warning about guide references to cover image in AZW3 Format
Fix text entry widgets' popup completion window not working well with windows on-screen keyboard.
Closes tickets: 1385586
Edit Book: Fix links that are absolute paths causing crashes in windows
Fix the read metadata from format button in the edit metadata dialog not working for FB2 files.
Closes tickets: 1385237
New news sources
Planet Python and Krebs on security recipe by Jelle van der Waa
Improved news sources
Tyzden
Countryfile.com
FAZ net
The New Yorker
2.725 Oct 2014 03:15
minor feature:
Release: 2.7 24 Oct, 2014
New FeaturesSupport for the new Kindle Voyage
The notification for the completion of background jobs, such as bulk metadata download, has been redesigned to not interrupt your work. It now waits in the lower right corner of the main window until you are ready to deal with it
Closes tickets: 1382795
Insert metadata as jacket page: Make the invisible tags used for searching across books format better, by giving them their own table row.
Book details panel: Show custom column values for numeric columns even when the value is zero
Allow clearing of date and number type fields by right clicking and choosing clear when editing the fields in the book list or edit metadata dialog
Bug FixesMOBI/AZW3 Output: When converting an EPUB document that specifies an SVG image as its cover image, convert the cover to JPEG as the Kindle cannot handle SVG cover images.
Closes tickets: 1384375
AZW3 Input: Fix crash when processing AZW3 files that contain certain SVG images dies to a bug in ImageMagick.
Closes tickets: 1384375
Conversion: Ignore un-parseable links when trying to generate ToC from links, instead of aborting the conversion.
Closes tickets: 1383365
Edit metadata dialog: Fix window title not changing when using the Next/previous buttons if the books being edited have the same title.
Closes tickets: 1383014
Fix regression in previous release that prevented arrow keys/tab key from working in completion popups on OSX.
Closes tickets: 1382633
Improved news sources
Folha de Sao Paolo
LWN Weekly
2.617 Oct 2014 03:15
minor feature:
Release: 2.6 17 Oct, 2014
New FeaturesCatalogs: CSV Output: Allow changing the order of fields in the generated CSV catalog by using drag and drop to re-arrange the fields in the create catalog dialog.
Closes tickets: 1379048
Edit metadata dialog: When editing metadata individually for multiple books, popup a confirmation if the user clicks OK before finishing the editing of all the books.
Closes tickets: 1378072
Allow configuring a keyboard shortcut to toggle highlighting of search results via Preferences- gt;Keyboard (under Miscellaneous).
Closes tickets: 1380528
Edit Book: Saved searches window: Remember the last used values for where to search and search direction
E-book viewer: Allow right clicking on the toolbar buttons to popup the optional menus, useful when using the viewer on a touch screen.
Closes tickets: 1380359
E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut to toggle the Table of Contents Ctrl+T
Performance improvement when renaming/deleting large numbers of items via the Manage Tags/Series/Publishers/etc dialogs
Kobo driver: Update to support soon to be released firmware update from Kobo
Bug FixesAmazon metadata download: Update the amazon metadata download plugin to handle changes to the amazon.com website.
Closes tickets: 1379305
AZW3 Output: Ignore invalid attribute names in the input document rather than aborting the conversion on them.
Book details panel: Fix custom columns built from other columns with tag like values not clickable in the book details panel.
Closes tickets: 1381323
Edit Book: Fix changing the editor undo/redo keyboard shortcuts not preventing the old shortcuts from working.
CSV Catalogs: Output all custom datetime columns in the local timezone to match the format for builtin columns
E-book viewer: When looking up words in the dictionary for a book that has no language set, use the current calibre interface language
Fix comments editor widget in the edit metadata dialog swallowing Tab key presses, preventing the
2.504 Oct 2014 03:16
minor feature:
Release: 2.5 03 Oct, 2014
New FeaturesE-book viewer: Allow changing the website that is used as a dictionary for looking up words in the viewer. Click the Preferences button in the viewer and choose the dictionaries tab to customize the website.
Edit book/Book polishing: When embedding fonts or subsetting embedded fonts, handle the :first-letter and :first-line pseudo-element style rules.
Closes tickets: 1373649
Windows driver for Trekstor Pyrus 2 LED.
Closes tickets: 1376018
Bug FixesFix a typo preventing calibre from recognizing the new Kobo Aura H2O
Edit Book: Spell Check: Fix replaced words coming back into the list when toggling the "Show only misspelled words" setting
Edit Book: Spell Check: Fix replacing a word with multiple words causing the replacements to show up erroneously in the list of misspelled words
Closes tickets: 1370294
Edit Book: Fix leading or trailing hyphens on words being ignored when spell checking.
Closes tickets: 1370288
E-book viewer: Fix a regression, caused by a Qt 5 behavior change, that caused incorrect colors to be shown when viewing MOBI files that use CSS 3 color specifications internally.
MOBI Output: Handle input documents that use CSS 3 syntax for colors by converting the color to the #RRGGBB format required for MOBI
Tag Browser: Fix drag and drop of books onto a language not setting the language.
Closes tickets: 1373504
Tag Browser: When renaming an item that is currently being searched for, remove the search indicator, as the search will no longer match the renamed item.
Closes tickets: 1374624
Bulk metadata edit: Fix getting cover from EPUB files that have no cover image by rendering the first page as the cover not working.
Closes tickets: 1374243
Custom cover generation: Fix disabled color schemes not being saved
Closes tickets: 1374337
Wireless device driver: Fix a regression in 2.4 that caused book matching to run slowly when connecting to calibre companion
Improved news sources
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
The Hindu
Carta
2.4.026 Sep 2014 09:57
minor feature:
An all new random cover generation algorithm, which generates covers using many different color schemes and cover styles.
Edit Book: Redesign the saved searches pop-up as a dockable window.
DOCX Input: Support for the keepNext paragraph property to keep successive paragraphs on the same page.
Fix a regression in 2.3 that broke creation of collections on the device when metadata management was set to manual.
Conversion: Do not allow default (user-agent) style rules to ever override style rules defined in the input document, regardless of CSS selector specificity.
Workaround for Qt 5 regression that broke selecting multiple icons in Preferences- Column icon rules.
Fix tags with angle brackets not being displayed in the Book Details panel.
2.3.012 Sep 2014 11:28
minor feature:
Cover Grid: Dynamically adjust the size of the in memory cover thumbnail cache based on the window size to ensure flicker free rendering even on very large screens.
Template tester: Remember last used template.
Get Books: When downloading books show a popup message telling the user that the books will be added to the calibre library automatically, to help new users understand what is happening. The popup message can be disabled.
E-book viewer: Try to detect when a chapter has a page break before the start of the chapter's text resulting in a leading blank page and override the page break.
Improved news sources:
Strategy+Business,
Dawn,
American Thinker,
Anchorage Daily News,
Financial Times.
2.2.005 Sep 2014 08:30
minor feature:
Kindle driver adds option to retain page numbers or customize them. Jacket template allows tags in alphabetical order. Automatic window updates for background conversion jobs. Hide inactive mouse curser in E-book reader. New driver for SurfPad 3.
CSS conversion fixes, Qt5 on OS X startup fixed, DOCX non-breaking hypens work now, prefer HTML5 for imports. And new news sources were added.
2.1.029 Aug 2014 16:27
minor feature:
Windows XP installations have been disabled due to Qt5 incompatibilities. Drivers for Kobo Aura H2O and HTC C were added. New toolbar settings were added. EPUB and MOBI catalogs now use the full template.
Various bugfixes for Qt5 support and MaxOSX were applied, hypenation fixed, book browsing, PDF generation, image zooming, bookmark switching, flow scrolling, and invalid EPUB ZIP containers were corrected.
2.0.022 Aug 2014 22:19
major feature:
Major feature in comparison to Calibre 1.x is the addition of an e-book editor, which supports both EPUB und AZW3 formats. Version 2.0.0 now also supports comparing books, brings Android and OS X version with tablet and touchscreen functionality, is Qt5-based now, and improves the library organisation.