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What's new in this version:
Calibre 5.44.0 (32-bit)
New features:
- Amazon metadata download: Add an option to prefer the Kindle edition when multiple book types are returned by the search (Preferences->Metadata download->Configure the Amazon plugin)
- Kobo driver: Support for updated firmware
- Allow customizing how yes/no columns are displayed (Preferences->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
Fixed:
- Edit book: Live CSS: Fix @namespace rules causing jumping to rule definition to go to the wrong definition
- Workaround for Apple bug 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
- Business Standard Print Edition
- The Economic Times India Print Edition
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
Calibre 5.43.0 (32-bit)
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.
Bug fixes:
- Fix Book details blank when switching from device view to library view
- TXT Input: Fix a regression in 5.39 that caused the option to remove indents also removing blank lines
- E-book viewer: Fix 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
Calibre 5.42.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- Edit book: Reduce memory consumption by the checkpoint system when doing operations that involve parsing all book files
- Amazon metadata download: Fix titles starting with [ being ignored
- Edit metadata dialog: Undo not working correctly in identifiers field
- Fix viewing LRF files not working
- PDF Output: Fix an error on some invalid CSS in the input document
- Linux binary: Workaround for Qt WebEngine not working on systems with glibc > 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
Calibre 5.41.0 (32-bit)
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->Toolbars & menus)
- Kobo driver: Support updated firmware
- Show a popup message when a Kindle is connected mentioning the Amazon cover bug 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
Fixed:
- Edit book: Fix AltGr+{ not working on some keyboard layouts
- TXT Input: Fix 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
Calibre 5.40.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- DOCX Output: Fix a comment immediately after a
tag breaking the conversion
- Standalone ToC editor: Fix spurious error message if left open for more than two minutes
- Fix 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
Calibre 5.39.1 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- 5.39.1 fixes 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: Fix reading of books with thousands of internal files not working in the Chrome browser
- Catalog generation: Fix a rare crash when generating very large catalogs
- Edit/Polish book: Fix hardcoded Unicode ligatures not being preserved in AZW3 format books
- Fix automatic searches causing search box to lose focus when search as you type is enabled in Preferences->Searching
- Edit book: Check book: Auto fix package identifier being empty
- Amazon metadata download: Fix 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 fix 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
Calibre 5.39.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- Content server: Fix reading of books with thousands of internal files not working in the Chrome browser
- Catalog generation: Fix a rare crash when generating very large catalogs
- Edit/Polish book: Fix hardcoded Unicode ligatures not being preserved in AZW3 format books
- Fix automatic searches causing search box to lose focus when search as you type is enabled in Preferences->Searching
- Edit book: Check book: Auto fix package identifier being empty
- Amazon metadata download: Fix 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 fix 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
Calibre 5.38.0 (32-bit)
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->Look & feel->Edit metadata)
Fixed:
- Tag editor: Fix regression in previous release that caused double clicking on tags to not work on non Linux platforms
- Copy to library: Fix annotations not being copied
- Edit book: Spell check: Fix words after a comment not being checked
- PDF Output: Fix conversion failing if there are ToC entries pointing to removed content
- E-book viewer: Fix an error when opening books with MathML for the second time if the last read position was at a MathML element
- Edit book: Fix double clicking to select a word also selecting smart quotes surrounding the word
- EPUB 3 metadata: Fix non-integer series index being sometimes represented using exponential notation
New news sources:
- Hindustan Times by unkn0wn
- India Legal Magazine by unkn0wn
Improved news sources:
- Lenta.ru and aif.ru
- Indian Express
- Live Mint
- Mainichi
- Japan Times
Calibre 5.37.0 (32-bit)
New features:
- Book details: Add actions to trim the cover to the right-click m
- Allow removing multiple email addresses at once in Preferences->Sharing by email
- Book details: Use a better mono-spaced font on Windows by default
- Add a tweak in Preferences->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
Fixed:
- Textile output: Dont fail if input document has invalid padding or margin specifications
- E-book viewer: Fix image display window not remembering its size and settings when run from within calibre
- E-book viewer: Fix 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 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
Calibre 5.36.0 (32-bit)
New features:
- Edit metadata dialog: Allow controlling which custom columns are present in this dialog via Preferences->Look & feel->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
Fixed:
- Amazon metadata download: Fix paragraphs in the comments being merged
- Amazon.de metadata download: Fix published date and series information not being fetched for some books
- Email delivery: Fix 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: Fix Ctrl+p shortcut for printing not working
- Show an error when viewing a specific format and the file is missing
- Edit book: Fix renaming of classes that start/end with non word characters not working
- Edit book: Preview panel: Fix hyphenation at end of line being rendered as boxes on macOS
- Fix incorrect selection size displayed in Trim image dialog when image is scaled down to fit
- Edit book: Fix 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
Calibre 5.35.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- E-book viewer: Fix searching for text near the end of a chapter sometimes not working
- E-book viewer: Fix auto hyphenation on macOS not rendering the hyphens correctly
- Edit book: Reports: Fix thumbnails of SVG images not rendered
- ODT metadata: Support reading tags from multiple elements
- LRF Input: Fix 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: Fix 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: Fix --ids and --search options not working for CSV/XML catalogs
- Tag browser: Fix 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: Fix display of items containing line breaks
- Fix line breaks in custom column descriptions not being rendered in their tooltips
- Fix Preferences->Searching->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
Calibre 5.34.0 (32-bit)
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->Shortcuts->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->Tweaks to provide the sort value for undefined numbers
Fixed:
- Edit book: Fix pressing F8 to jump to next misspelled word not working after last word in current file
- Fix PDB E-reader output broken in calibre 5
- Edit book: Reports: Include descendant selectors that use classes when counting class usage
- E-book viewer: Fix 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
- Fix 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 fixes for Python 3.10 used by some Linux distributions
Improved news sources:
- Pocket
- El Pais
- American Prospect
- Mediapart
Calibre 5.33.2 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- E-book viewer: Fix an occasional hang on startup at "Loading section"
- Get books: Update the Kobo plugin for website changes
- Bulk edit metadata dialog: Fix changing the search mode resetting other fields
- E-book viewer: Fix sorting of highlights incorrect in books that use HTML ids with a hyphen in them
- PDF Output: Fix 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
Calibre 5.32.0 (32-bit)
New features:
- Edit book: Add a tool to transform HTML tags based on rules (Tools->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 & feel->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
Fixed:
- 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: Fix 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: Fix 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 issues with non-ASCII filenames with these services.
- Book Details: Fix missing copy options on composite columns
- Ask for confirmation when deleting covers from books
New news sources:
- India speaks reddit feed
Improved news sources:
- New York Post
- Liberation
- Boston Globe
- The Globe and Mail
- LeMonde
Calibre 5.31.1 (32-bit)
New:
- Kindle driver: Support the new Kindle PaperWhite 2021
- Add an option under Preferences->Behavior to have calibre recognize numbers when sorting (this was previously under Preferences->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
Fixed:
- Content server: Fix some OPDS feeds failing with non-ASCII content
- Tag browser: Fix incorrect first letter partitioning when enabling numeric collation of items that start with a number
- 5.31.1 fixes a bug in an HTML serialization library calibre uses that broke a few things, such as the comments editor tool in the metadata dialog
Calibre 5.30.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- E-book viewer: Fix 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: Fix the formatting buttons not showing the current state correctly and fix some keyboard shortcuts not working when more than one comments editor is present in a single window
- Tag browser: Fix 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
Calibre 5.29.0 (32-bit)
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->Toolbars & 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
Fixed:
- Auto adding: Run relevant plugins before reading metadata from the book. Matches behavior of manual adding
- Content server: Fix category collapse by partition not working
- Prevent Tab from causing focus to leave the Tag browser
- Edit book: See what changed: Fix non-BMP unicode characters causing highlighting of changed words to be slightly misplaced
- PDF Output: Fix a regression that broke conversion of comics that contain 1-bit images
- Edit book: Fix pressing Ctrl+Tab inserting a tab at the start of a line instead of switching tabs
- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused identifiers set by some plugins to not be saved in the database
- Template language: Fix 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
Calibre 5.28.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- Edit book: When renaming classes in style sheets only recognize class names preceded by a period
- E-book viewer: Fix lookup in Google partially hidden due to change in Google results page markup
- Conversion dialog: Search replace expression builder: Fix incorrect search result highlighting when non-BMP unicode characters are present in the text
- E-book viewer: Fix popup footnote blank when the footnote link points to atag
- E-book viewer: Fix 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 issues with it
Improved news sources:
- India Today
Calibre 5.27.0 (32-bit)
New features:
- When adding markdown (.md) or textile (.textile) files that contain references to images, automatically add them as txtz with the images
Fixed:
- DOCX Output: Correctly convert soft hyphens in the input document to DOCX soft hyphens
- DOCX Input: Fix a bookmark at the end of a paragraph causing the bookmark at the start of the paragraph to be skipped
- Edit book: Spell check: Fix EPUB 3 nav document not being spell checked when not in the spine
- PDF Output: Fix a rare failure when the input document has a ToC item pointing to the last page
- Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused drag and drop from WinZip to not work
- TXT Output: Fix 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
Calibre 5.26.0 (32-bit)
New features:
- Dark color scheme: Use a darker blue for highlighted items
Fixed:
- Content server book viewer: Show a message when a search finds no matches
- MOBI Output: Fix JPEG images without any JFIF metadata not being rendered on the Kindle
- Comic input: Fix single color images having their colors changed by normalization
- E-book viewer: Fix 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: Fix 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
Calibre 5.25.0 (32-bit)
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
- 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
Fixed:
- 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: Fix read aloud not working on mobile browsers
Improved news sources:
- The Guardian and The Observer
- Wall Street Journal
- The Atlantic
Calibre 5.24.0 (32-bit)
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->Look & feel->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
Fixed:
- fetch-ebook-metadata: Fix an error when using the --cover option and no cover is found
- HTML Input: Fix 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
Calibre 5.23.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- Annotations browser: Fix searching for words in languages such as Chinese that do not have word delimiters not working
- News download: Fix 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: Fix invalid color specification as plain numbers causing conversion to fail
- MOBI Output: Fix 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 bug 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
Calibre 5.22.1 (32-bit)
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->Tweaks->Control behavior of book list
Linux: Drop support for the global menu bar
Fixed:
- E-book viewer: Fix font sizes specified in absolute units not being honored in locales where the decimal separator is not the period
- E-book viewer: Fix searching for short strings in text with lots of similar entries displaying incorrect matches
- MOBI Output: Fix using percentage units for margins resulting in too large margins when using the tablet output profile
- E-book viewer: Fix back button not working after jumping to a bookmark
- Content server: OPDS feed: Fix incorrect up URL in category group feeds
- Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke editing of series metadata
- E-book viewer: Fix scrolling backwards by screen-fulls not working with very large page margins.
- MOBI Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of Haodoo format files
- Conversion: Fix the smarten punctuation option not applying to inserted jacket page
- 5.22.1 fixes a typo in the previous release that broke device detection on Linux
Improved news sources:
- TheAtlantic.com
- Hindu
- People Daily
Calibre 5.22.0 (32-bit)
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->Tweaks->Control behavior of book list
Linux: Drop support for the global menu bar
Fixed:
- E-book viewer: Fix font sizes specified in absolute units not being honored in locales where the decimal separator is not the period
- E-book viewer: Fix searching for short strings in text with lots of similar entries displaying incorrect matches
- MOBI Output: Fix using percentage units for margins resulting in too large margins when using the tablet output profile
- E-book viewer: Fix back button not working after jumping to a bookmark
- Content server: OPDS feed: Fix incorrect up URL in category group feeds
- Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke editing of series metadata
- E-book viewer: Fix scrolling backwards by screen-fulls not working with very large page margins
- MOBI Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of Haodoo format files
- Conversion: Fix the smarten punctuation option not applying to inserted jacket page
Improved news sources:
- TheAtlantic.com
- Hindu
- People Daily
Calibre 5.21.0 (32-bit)
New:
- 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
Fixed:
- HTML Input: Fix handling of @import rules in stylesheets nested more than one level deep
- Fix viewer search context menu to clear searches not clearing search settings
- E-book viewer image popup: Fix full screen button in incorrect state when starting in full screen
Improved news sources:
- Associated Press
- The Hindu
Calibre 5.20.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- Get books: Fix the Kobo store plugin for changes to the website
- Edit book: Fix non breaking spaces in snippets being converted to normal spaces
- ToC Editor: Fix a regression that caused changes to not be saved on machines where running a worker process takes more than ten seconds
- Fix error when changing the "Search the net" URLs for the Content server
Improved news sources:
- Jerusalem Post
- Popular Science
- Ambito Financiero
- Ambito.com
- Infobae
Calibre 5.19.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- E-book viewer: Fix regression in 5.15 that caused incorrect display of font sizes that contain a period and use absolute units
- PDF Output: Fix font kerning issues with some TrueType fonts
- Edit book: Fix a regression in 5.18 that broke editing/creating saved searches
- Windows: Fix 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: Fix a regression that broke choosing split points in some XHTML files
- PDB Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing some plucker format PDB files
- Edit book: Fix sorting in spell check dialog on language broken for books that have unknown languages
- Annotations browser: Fix a typo that broke sorting for highlights
- Annotations browser: When showing a highlight preserve paragraph boundaries for multi-paragraph highlights
- Viewer highlights panel: Fix 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 closer to the click point
Calibre 5.18.0 (32-bit)
New:
- 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
Fixed:
- Edit book: Fix ctrl-clicking on a class name jumping to the wrong CSS rule if the stylesheet contains top level comments
- Fix 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: Fix colors in location selection panel not dark
- E-book viewer: Fix 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: Fix sorting bookmarks by title not working
- Windows WPD driver: Fix an error reading the filesystem on some MTP based devices
Improved news sources:
- IEEE Spectrum
Calibre 5.17.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- Windows MTP driver: Rewrite parts of the driver in the hope of fixing 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: Fix switching away from viewer while in full screen and switching back causing some corruption until the page is scrolled
- Fix 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: Fix 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
- Fix settings in the ToC Editor tool being forgotten when calibre is closed
- DOCX Output: Fix conversion failing if the input document has missing images
- Content server viewer: Fix mouse wheel scrolling not working on the box used to edit notes for highlights
- E-book viewer: Fix read aloud word tracking in flow mode not very reliable
- E-book viewer: Fix navigation shortcuts not working in Read aloud mode
Improved news sources:
- Barrons
- Krebs On Security
Calibre 5.16.1 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and dont specify a character encoding in their metadata
- Fix a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin
- Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats
- Fix using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that causes the viewer to ignore page-break CSS properties (in 5.16.1)
- Fix a regression that broke using stored templates (in 5.16.1)
- Fix auto scroll books shortcut not working in standalone cover browser window (in 5.16.1)
- E-book viewer: Fix jumping to previous section sometimes not working in flow mode (in 5.16.1)
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke changing keyboard shortcuts in the viewer preferences (in 5.16.1)
- E-book viewer: Fix 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
Calibre 5.16.0 (32-bit)
Fixed:
- CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and dont specify a character encoding in their metadata
- Fix a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin
- Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats
- Fix using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values
New news sources:
- The Saturday paper
Calibre 5.15.0 (32-bit)
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->Look & feel->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
- 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->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->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
Fixed:
- FB2 Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused paragraphs containing only non-breaking spaces to be removed
- Metadata comments editor: Fix setting block alignment destroying other block level properties
- E-book viewer: Fix margins not being adjusted immediately when preferences are changed
- Edit book: Upgrade book internals: Fix skipping the NCX removal dialog not remembering the chosen option
- Conversion: When specifying a line-height do not apply it to the tag, as it is pointless and causes the execrable epubcheck to complain
- E-book viewer: Improve scrolling behavior when extending the selection using keyboard shortcuts
- E-book viewer: Fix read percent for HTML files that are rendered in a single screen being 0% rather than 100%
- E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Do not expand all sections when adding/deleting/modifying highlights
- CHM Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke opening of some files that dont specify a character encoding
- EPUB2 metadata: Read ISBNs in identifier elements without schemes if they are valid ISBNs and no properly identified isbns are present
- Update Amazon metadata plugin for changes to amazon websites
- Edit book: Fix detection of class names containing hyphens/underscores
New news sources:
- Los Danieles – Columnas sin techo by CAVALENCIA
Improved news sources:
- New Scientist
- Irish Times
- 1843
- The Straits Times
Calibre 5.14.0 (32-bit)
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.
Fixed:
- MOBI Output: Fix latest kindle firmware not displaying select publisher font option for calibre produced azw3 files
- E-book viewer: Fix errors when viewing books with mathematics that are split over multiple internal files
- Content server viewer: Fix highlights not sorted correctly in the highlights panel
- Get books: Fix 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: Fix Go to Location not working for positions
- E-book viewer: Fix searching in the Table of Contents not working
- E-book viewer: In paged mode, fix scrolling not working correctly when margins are set to zero
- E-book viewer: Fix 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: Fix a hang caused by long sequences of non-word characters when heuristics are enabled, either explicitly or for some input formats such as TXT
- Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke --explode-book and --implode-book actions for calibre-debug.exe
- Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke setting metadata in RTF files
New news sources:
- ZackZack.at
Calibre 5.13.0 (32-bit)
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
Fixed:
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke sending of emails with text longer than 900 characters
- E-book viewer: Fix using keyboard to extend selection not turning pages
- Fix searching for items from the Manage dialog not working correctly
- PDF input: Replace paragraph separator characters with spaces
Improved news sources:
- The Conversation
Calibre 5.12.0 (32-bit)
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
- 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
Bug-fixes:
- E-book viewer: Fix 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: Fix editing of JavaScript files not working
Improved news sources:
- Slate
- Harper's Magazine
Calibre 5.11.0 (32-bit)
New:
- 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
Fixed:
- Content server: Fix dragging selection handles not working in Safari
- E-book viewer: Fix 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: Fix incorrect tooltip when hovering over a section title in the search results list
- HTMLZ Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke creating HTMLZ documents when using the option to place CSS inline
Improved news sources:
- Endgadget
Calibre 5.10.1 (32-bit)
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->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to optionally recognize common surname prefixes such as von, van, de, etc. when generating sort names.
Bug-fixes:
- E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode
- E-book viewer: Fix scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth
- PDF Output: When converting fixed layout input documents fix anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes
- Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Fix selectors that don't match from CSS rules containing multiple selectors not being removed
- Bulk metadata download: Fix series number not being changes if the series is the same as the existing series
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused non-HTML descriptions to not be displayed in the metadata page
- E-book viewer: Fix clock being displayed in 24 hr format on some systems even though system locale is set to use 12 hr format
- Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression that inverted the meaning of the case sensitivity setting in the Search & replace tab
- calibredb list: Fix incorrect output when redirecting to file
- 5.10.1 fixes a regression in 5.10.0 that broke conversion when including metadata as a jacket page and using long text custom columns
Improved news sources:
- Jacobin
- Japan Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- Mediapart
Calibre 5.10.0 (32-bit)
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 thecurrently 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->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to optionally recognizecommon surname prefixes such as von, van, de, etc. when generating sort names
Bug-fixes:
- E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode
- E-book viewer: Fix scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth
- PDF Output: When converting fixed layout input documents fix anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes
- Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Fix selectors that don't match from CSS rules containing multiple selectors not being removed
- Bulk metadata download: Fix series number not being changes if the series is the same as the existing series
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused non-HTML descriptions to not be displayed in the metadata page
- E-book viewer: Fix clock being displayed in 24 hr format on some systems even though system locale is set to use 12 hr format.
- Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression that inverted the meaning of the case sensitivity setting in the Search & replace tab
- calibredb list: Fix incorrect output when redirecting to file
Improved news sources:
- Jacobin
- Japan Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- Mediapart
Calibre 5.9.0 (32-bit)
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
Bug-fixes:
- Fix a regression that caused the Content server to crash if a client closed a connection during a file transfer on macOS and Linux.
- LRF Output: Fix 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: Fix duplicate rule button not working correctly
- Fix 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
Calibre 5.8.1 (32-bit)
New features:
- Happy holidays to all calibre users
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- 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)
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