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calibre: update to 3.40.1.
Add more dependencies. Probably still more to do in that regard.
- version: 3.40.1
date: 2019-03-08
new features:
- title: "TXT Input: Use markdown 3.0 with support for new extensions \
such as code highlighting and smarten punctuation."
- title: "Book details panel: Allow editing the identifiers for the \
book by right clicking on the existing Ids."
tickets: [1815005]
- title: "Content server: Allow specifying custom URLs for the 'Search \
the internet' feature via Preferences->Sharing over the net->Search the \
internet."
tickets: [1810923]
- title: "Tag browser: Category editor: Add a checkbox to restrict the \
entries shown to only those present in the current Virtual library"
- title: "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"
tickets: [1815419]
- title: "Tag browser: When right clicking on a saved search add a menu \
option to search using the raw search expression."
tickets: [1816274]
- title: "Tag browser: Have pressing the Enter key find the next \
match."
tickets: [1816276]
- title: "Windows: Add a button to Preferences->Sharing over the net \
to set calibre to run when the computer starts"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Copy to \
library and delete after when copying a duplicated book."
tickets: [1816224]
- title: "Edit book: Fix pasting of image from clipboard using (Ctrl-V) \
not working"
- title: "Content server: Fix {id} not working in the custom list \
template"
tickets: [1818308]
- title: "EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not saving title and format \
information."
tickets: [1818838]
- title: "macOS: Respect the system setting for text insertion cursor \
blink time"
- title: "FB2 Output: Fix comments from the input document not present \
in the output."
tickets: [1815357]
- title: "calibredb: Fix adding books with an OPF file to a remote \
server not picking up the cover specified in the OPF file"
- title: "TXT Input: Fix option to remove indents at the start of lines \
breaking conversion of markdown documents."
tickets: [1814989]
- title: "EPUB/MOBI Catalog generation: Allow matching empty fields in \
exclusion rules."
tickets: [1814458]
- title: "EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix multiple books with the same title \
but different authors in a genre not being listed."
tickets: [1415990]
- title: "Update the Get Books and metadata Amazon.com plugins to \
handle changes to the markup on the Amazon results page"
- title: "Version 3.40.1 fixes a bug in 3.40 that could prevent calibre \
starting when using a custom date column"
improved recipes:
- Scientific American
- Taipei Times
- Harpers Magazine
- General Knowledge Today
- Granma
- South China Morning Post
- New York Times (Web)
- China Daily
- "1843"
- Pro Physik
- Caravan Magazine
- Spektrum der Wissenchaft
new recipes:
- title: Quanta Magazine
author: lui1
- title: El Periodico Mediterraneo
author: benages
- version: 3.39.1
date: 2019-02-01
new features:
- title: "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\""
tickets: [1810486]
- title: "Content server: Add Next/Previous buttons to the book details \
page"
bug fixes:
- title: "Content server: Fix editing metadata that affects multiple \
books causing all the metadata for all the books to become the same."
tickets: [1812781]
- title: "Open With: Fix using .bat files as the program not working."
tickets: [1811045]
- title: "ZIP Output: Fix an error when building the ToC on macOS for \
some books with non-ASCII ToC entries"
tickets: [1813905]
- title: "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"
- title: "Fix font mime-types not being auto-corrected when upgrading \
EPUBs from 2 to 3"
- title: "Content server: Try to detect if a book file has been edited \
outside of calibre and serve the updated copy"
- title: "Fix merging books not updating author if the source book has \
no title"
- title: "Content server: Fix heading for custom comments columns being \
duplicated in the book details page"
- title: "Fix editing of dates not working is the date format is set to \
iso."
tickets: [1812560]
- title: "Version 3.39.1 fixes a bug in 3.39.0 that broke copy to \
library for books that have saved conversion options"
tickets: [1814279]
improved recipes:
- Spiegel Online
- Il Post
new recipes:
- title: BSI News
author: Volker Heggemann
- title: Science Advances
author: Jose Ortiz
- version: 3.38.1
date: 2019-01-18
new features:
- title: "Tag browser: When using the Find function have unaccented \
characters match their accented equivalents, if the setting for it is set in \
Preferences->Searching"
- title: "DOCX Input: When converting indices, put each sub-entry on \
its own line."
tickets: [1811611]
- title: "Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Add history for the template"
- title: "Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Add a few more variables for the \
link template: _SOURCE_FILENAME_, _DEST_FILENAME_ and _ANCHOR_"
bug fixes:
- title: "Catalogs: Set the language of created catalogs to the calibre \
interface language instead of English"
tickets: [1810936]
- title: "DOCX Input: Do not display section breaks that have a \
numbering style applied to them."
tickets: [1811611]
- title: "Content server: Fix listening on :: not also listening on \
IPv4 interfaces on Windows"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix heading styles that have the same font size \
as body text getting incorrect font sizes after conversion."
tickets: [1811616]
- title: "EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix prefix rules not working when calibre \
UI language is something other than English"
- title: "EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix exclusion by tag not working for tags \
that have spaces in them"
- title: "Subset fonts: Fix error when trying to subset unicode \
characters that require two UTF-16 code points on Windows."
tickets: [1811224]
- title: "Content server: Fix option to restrict displayed user field \
not working in the /opds view"
- title: "Tag browser: Fix incorrect icon for user categories."
tickets: [1810217]
- title: "PDF Output: Fix conversion failing when fonts with \
non-English names are used."
tickets: [1812218]
- title: "3.38.1 fixes a typo in 3.38.0 that caused the Polish books \
function to not work when polishing small numbers of books"
improved recipes:
- Chicago Tribune
- New York Times Book Review
new recipes:
- title: Nature
author: Jose Ortiz
- version: 3.37.0
date: 2019-01-04
bug fixes:
- title: "Switch from cssutils to css_parser for parsing CSS. Fixes \
various minor, long standing bugs"
- title: "calibredb: Fix adding books from directories to a remote \
server running on Windows not working"
- title: "Edit Book: Fix style attribute on <html> tags not being \
preserved when editing AZW3 files."
tickets: [1810193]
- title: "Get Books: Use an external browser for Google Books"
tickets: [1810205]
- title: "Saving to disk: Fix errors on Linux/macOS if the \
title/authors are long enough to make individual path components larger than 255 \
characters."
tickets: [1807525]
- title: "PDF Input: Fix non-breaking spaces represented as entities in \
the output of pdftohtml, which breaks some search/replace expressions"
- title: "Edit book: Fix a crash when mousing over links in an instance \
of the editor launched standalone on macOS Mojave"
tickets: [1805521]
- title: "Conversion: When converting with font size rescaling \
disabled, convert font size names to rem unit rather than pt units."
tickets: [1809671]
- title: "Windows: When registering calibre programs as possible \
handlers for various file types, dont set the AllowSilentDefaultTakeOver \
registry key"
- title: "macOS: PDF Output: Fix bold fonts not working on Mojave."
tickets: [1799750]
- title: "Content server: Fix strings with double quotes not being \
translated."
improved recipes:
- Il Post
- version: 3.36.0
date: 2018-12-21
new features:
- title: "Happy Holidays to everyone!"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add supported for newly released firmware \
update"
bug fixes:
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix a regression in the last release that caused \
book title
to appear as Unknown if metadata management was set to manual in calibre."
tickets: [1807914]
- title: "PDF Output: Do not fail if one of the fonts from the source \
document has no name metadata"
improved recipes:
- Wall Street Journal
- ESPN
- Al Jazeera (English)
- version: 3.35.0
date: 2018-12-07
new features:
- title: "Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Allow specifying a template to \
control the markup that is inserted for the hyperlink."
tickets: [1804250]
- title: "Metadata download: Add an option (in Preferences->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."
tickets: [1802293]
- title: "KoboTouch driver: Extend the metadata updated in the Kobo \
device database to all metadata displayed on the device. The update is only done \
for books already on the device. Needs to be enabled via \
Preferences->Plugins->Customize the KoboTouch device plugin."
bug fixes:
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke viewing of HTMLZ \
files"
tickets: [1691976]
- title: "Edit book: Fix suggestions in completion popup not being \
sorted."
tickets: [1803985]
- title: "Windows: Fix restarting calibre with system tray icon enabled \
causing duplicate defunct icons in the tray."
tickets: [1803034]
improved recipes:
- Wired Magazine
- Wall Street Journal
- Telepolis
- Yahoo News
- Associated Press
- Mother Jones
new recipes:
- title: Macrobusinness
author: 2018robert
- title: Sports Illustrated
author: Kovid Goyal
- title: Le Peuple Breton
author: Lionel Plais
- title: Mandiner
author: pofa
- version: 3.34.0
date: 2018-11-08
new features:
- title: "Support for the new Kindle Paperwhite 2018"
tickets: [1802088]
- title: "Metadata plugboards: Allow defining plugboards that modify \
comments metadata as well"
- title: "E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+M) for toggling \
between paged and flow mode"
bug fixes:
- title: "EPUB Input: Handle invalid EPUB files that have their NCX \
documents in the spine."
tickets: [1796497]
- title: "EPUB3 Input: Handle EPUB 3 files that incorrectly use EPUB 2 \
markup to identify cover images."
- title: "Content server: Fix --url-prefix feature not working with \
book conversion"
improved recipes:
- Business Standard
- Washington Post
- General Knowledge Today
- How To Geek
new recipes:
- title: Arts and Letters Daily
author: pjpaulpj
- title: Magyar Idok
author: pofa
- version: 3.33.1
date: 2018-10-19
new features:
- title: "Driver for the new Kobo Forma"
- title: "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."
tickets: [1796902]
- title: "Edit book: Insert image: remember size of displayed \
thumbnails."
tickets: [1795845]
- title: "Edit book: Compress images losslessly: Remember the last used \
compression quality for jpeg compression."
tickets: [1796950]
bug fixes:
- title: "CHM Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that \
broke processing of CHM files."
tickets: [1796889]
- title: "Fix clearing of metadata download author and tag map rules \
not working"
- title: 'Fix notifications from calibre being displayed as \
"Others" on the GNOME desktop'
improved recipes:
- Ambito Financiero
- Pagina 12
- stuff.co.nz
- The New Zealand Herald
- Various Polish news sources
- version: 3.32.0
date: 2018-09-28
new features:
- title: "Edit book: Insert image dialog: Add buttons to change the \
image thumbnail size."
tickets: [1791428]
- title: "Book details panel: Allow right clicking on a format to open \
it in the calibre editor"
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Allow viewing or editing specific \
formats by right clicking the format in the formats list"
- title: "When creating a metadata jacket allow HTML in custom long \
text columns"
- title: "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."
tickets: [1794123]
- title: "Content server: Date edit: Add buttons to clear the date or \
set it to today's date"
bug fixes:
- title: "When showing books on the device, disable keyboard shortcuts \
for actions that operate on library books"
- title: "Content server: Custom List: Fix a zero series index being \
displayed as one"
- title: "Content server: Fix covers not being updated in downloaded \
copies of some books."
tickets: [1699932]
- title: "PDF Output: Fix an error that could occur in rare \
circumstances when using the option to read page margins from the input \
document"
tickets: [1792616]
- title: "Edit book: Check book: Fix an error if a filename contains a \
% character"
- title: "PDF Output: Fix CSS opacity property causing text to not be \
rendered. Now opacity is ignored, as it is unsupported by Qt WebKit."
tickets: [1792048]
- title: "Create custom column dialog: Ensure that the format numbers \
field is always visible"
improved recipes:
- Washington Post
- version: 3.31.0
date: 2018-09-07
new features:
- title: "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'."
description: "Note that this setting is per-library so it has to be \
done once for the book list in every calibre library."
tickets: [1758434]
- title: "fetch-ebook-metadata.exe: Allow specifying identifiers other \
than just ISBN"
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Add support for Amazon Australia \
(can be configured via Preferences->Metadata download->customize the \
amazon metadata source)"
- title: "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."
tickets: [1790761]
- title: "Edit book: Allow disabling the popup to show changes after \
running the Fix HTML and Beautify all files tools."
tickets: [1789540]
bug fixes:
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix figures in newer Word documents being \
duplicated."
tickets: [1789238]
- title: "Content server: Disable offline access if application cache \
is not available, rather than failing."
tickets: [1737642]
- title: "DOCX Output: Workaround for broken CSS that uses -o-pre-wrap \
for the white-space property"
tickets: [1786410]
- title: "Metadata download: Remove the option to lookup first edition \
dates as the service used to get the data no longer exists"
improved recipes:
- Howto Geek
- Welt der Physik
- Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung
- Fortune Magazine
- version: 3.30.0
date: 2018-08-24
new features:
- title: "ToC Editor: When generating ToCs using headings/XPath ignore \
duplicate entries at the same level that have the same text."
tickets: [1735799]
- title: "Windows: The default calibre library location is now not in \
My Documents but instead in the user home folder, to avoid issues with OneDrive \
auto-syncing calibre libraries"
tickets: [1787488]
- title: "Kobo driver: Support for new firmware version"
- title: "Add a tweak (in Preferences->Tweaks) to allow skipping \
network check on news download"
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Show a confirmation dialog on cancel if \
some changes have been made."
tickets: [1786544]
bug fixes:
- title: "Downloaded metadata review dialog: Fix a regression in the \
last release that broke the revert buttons"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix clicking links in the footnote popup \
ignoring the anchor part of the link."
tickets: [1786577]
- title: "ToC editor: Fix generating toc entries from links not working \
for links that start with #"
- title: "HTML Input: Collapse multiple spaces in filenames when \
sanitizing them."
tickets: [1788187]
- title: "Edit book: Remove matching tag: Fix incorrect removal if the \
remove matching function is triggered in rapid succession"
- title: "Edit book: Fix some links in the file being split not being \
adjusted when splitting HTML files."
tickets: [1787892]
- title: 'Fix a crash when using some third party plugins and enabling the \
"two lines for text under icons" option'
tickets: [1787700]
- title: "Make the create catalog dialog freely resizable"
tickets: [1787523]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix an error when converting some DOCX files with \
inherited fonts."
tickets: [1786414]
- version: 3.29.0
date: 2018-08-10
new features:
- title: "Add a option to draw a grid in the main book list \
(Preferences->Look & feel)"
- title: "Edit book: Allow removing the currently highlighted tag \
(while keeping its contents) by pressing Ctrl+>. You can also add a tool to \
do it via Preferences->Toolbars"
- title: "Content server: When defining a color scheme for the in \
browser viewer allow specifying the link color as well as the foreground and \
background."
tickets: [1735904]
- title: "Edit book: Show a popup after a fix all HTML/Beautify all \
files so the user can easily see what was changed, if needed."
tickets: [1785482]
- title: "Kindle driver: Create cover thumbnails on the device when \
transferring KFX format books"
- title: "Edit Book: Recognize numbers in image names in the 'Insert \
image' dialog"
tickets: [1782981]
bug fixes:
- title: "Content server: Display custom comments field on the book \
details page in the same order as in the calibre GUI"
- title: "Edit book: Fix open image editors not being updated when \
image file is replaced"
- title: "Fix keyboard shortcuts for Edit book tools created from \
plugins not working"
- title: "PDF Output: Fix error when trying to convert books that do \
not specify a language in their metadata."
tickets: [1783563]
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix inability to open books that contain \
zero-byte stylesheets/images"
improved recipes:
- Boston Globe
- Newsweek
- Ambito and Ambito Financiero
- New York Times
- New England Journal of Medicine
- The Hindu Business Line
- Private Eye
- Le Temps
- version: 3.28.0
date: 2018-07-20
new features:
- title: "Allow creating rules to transform author names when adding \
books to calibre. Accessible via Preferences->Adding books->Adding \
actions"
tickets: [1780152]
- title: "Add a similar author mapper tool to manipulate author names \
in the existing library. Accessible via Preferences->Toolbars"
- title: "Add a similar author mapper tool for metadata downloading, \
accessible via Preferences->Metadata download"
- title: "Comments Editor: Add options to change the case of the \
selected text to the right click menu"
tickets: [1780469]
- title: "Edit book: When sorting non text files in the File list \
recognize numbers in the file names"
tickets: [1781721]
bug fixes:
- title: "calibredb catalog: Recognize file extensions even when they \
are not lowercase"
improved recipes:
- Sunday Times Magazine UK
- The Economist
- The Houston Chronicle
- El cohete a la luna
- CBC Canada
new recipes:
- title: Il Post
author: frafra
- title: Bloomberg Columnists
author: Dale Furrow
- version: 3.27.1
date: 2018-07-06
new features:
- title: "Content server: Allow conversion of books"
type: major
description: "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."
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware"
- title: 'Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an "edit tags" button for \
tags like custom columns.'
tickets: [1779299]
- title: "Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel to disable \
the new 'drag and drop to merge books feature'"
- title: "E-book viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+B) to toggle the \
bookmarks panel."
tickets: [1780097]
- title: "Edit book: Add a copy to clipboard button on the various \
report dialogs"
- title: "Edit book: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Down) to edit the next \
file in the book spine."
tickets: [1779616]
- title: "calibre-smtp: Verify relay server TLS certificates by \
default. New option --dont-verify-server-certificate to restore old \
behavior."
bug fixes:
- title: "Version 3.27.1 fixes a build error in 3.27.0 that caused \
calibre not to start on macOS older than High Sierra"
- title: "Conversion: Fix a regression in the previous release that \
caused conversion of EPUB 3 to EPUB 3 to fail."
tickets: [1779518]
- title: "Fix detection of the Bookeen NolimbookXL on macOS and Linux"
tickets: [1780302]
- title: "Fix a regression that broke the fetching of annotations from \
Kobo and Kindle devices."
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix failure to convert some DOCX files that use \
Symbol fonts."
tickets: [1777390]
- title: "When exporting very large libraries fix failures due to busy \
errors."
tickets: [1779664]
- title: "Fix commas not working in identifiers that are transformed to \
URLs via rules."
tickets: [1779602]
- title: "Review downloaded metadata: Fix cancel button on the confirm \
reject all dialog not working."
tickets: [1779576]
- title: '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.'
- title: "Linux installer: Also fix the execute bits in the umask if \
the user runs the installer with a umask that prevents files from being world \
executable."
- title: "Sort the entries in the show column menu alphabetically."
tickets: [1778155]
improved recipes:
- Gosc Niedzielny
- Cracked.com
- Psychology Today
- The Atlantic
- LA Times
- Handelsblatt
- Newsweek
- version: 3.26.1
date: 2018-06-15
new features:
- title: "Book list: Allow drag and drop of books onto other books to \
merge the book records."
tickets: [1775123]
- title: "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."
- title: "Edit Book: Preview panel: Show previews when editing SVG \
files"
- title: "Edit book: When downloading external resources, also convert \
data URLs into files."
tickets: [1774945]
- title: "E-book viewer: When the controls are hidden show the progress \
in the window title."
tickets: [1776710]
- title: "Library Quick switch menu: Highlight the previously switched \
from library in bold."
tickets: [1775888]
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF Input: Fix a regression in 3.24 that caused conversion of \
PDF to be significantly worse."
tickets: [1775984]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix very slow loading for HTML files with very \
many images on Linux."
tickets: [1774884]
- title: "Content server: Fix a regression in 3.14 that removed the \
separator between books in the detailed list view mode."
tickets: [1776294]
- title: "Edit book: Fix SVG files not being beautified by the Beautify \
all files tool"
- title: "Edit book: Fix searching in selected files not searching SVG \
files"
- title: "Fix Tweaks help string not being displayed translated"
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix distorted rendering of some labels \
in the custom metadata tab in rare circumstances."
tickets: [1766762]
- title: "version 3.26.1 prevents dropping of a book onto itself from \
triggering the merge dialog, which should reduce accidental triggers"
tickets: [1777054]
improved recipes:
- Slate
- New York Times Book Review
- The Independent UK
- NYTimes Tech Beat
- New York Times
- Cracked.com
new recipes:
- title: El Cronista
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 3.25.0
date: 2018-06-01
new features:
- title: "Kobo driver: Support the new Clara HD"
- title: "PDF Output: Add an option to use page margins from the input \
document, specified via @page CSS rules."
description: "Allows individual HTML files in the input document to \
have different page margins in the output PDF."
tickets: [1773319]
bug fixes:
- title: 'Fix 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".'
tickets: [1773426]
- title: "Update notification: When both calibre and plugin updates are \
available and the user updates only the plugins, fix the restart calibre button \
not working."
tickets: [1774059]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix printing of comics (cbz/cbr files) not \
working."
tickets: [1774163]
- title: "EPUB3 Input: Fix Table of Contents not being recognized for \
some EPUB 3 books that placed their nav document in-side a sub-folder."
tickets: [1773627]
improved recipes:
- Associated Press
- version: 3.24.2
date: 2018-05-25
new features:
- title: "Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 \
files."
type: major
- title: "PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of \
lines."
tickets: [1773111]
- title: "PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer \
templates"
- title: "Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar \
button in Preferences->Look & feel"
- title: "Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled \
words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words."
tickets: [1772276]
- title: "Edit book: Fix HTML: Automatically resolve private entities"
tickets: [1772157]
- title: "Improve formatting of help in Preferences->Tweaks"
- title: "ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well."
tickets: [1769442]
bug fixes:
- title: "Version 3.24.2 fixes a bug in the new EPUB 3 output \
functionality that prevented conversion of non-EPUB 3 books to EPUB 3"
- title: "Version 3.24.1 fixes 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"
- title: "PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text \
as their presence prevents searching from working"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix <pre> tags not being converted \
correctly."
tickets: [1772219]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix incorrect conversion of a framed block that \
contains a list."
tickets: [1771279]
- title: "Conversion: Fix private entities that use the same name as an \
HTML entity not being handled correctly"
tickets: [1772157]
- title: "Viewer: Fix HTML files with private entities displaying an \
artifact at the top"
tickets: [1772157]
- title: "Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with \
private entities"
tickets: [1772157]
- title: "EPUB3 Input: Fix titlepage being referred to in the nav \
causing two titlepage entries in the final book."
- title: "Fix throbber buttons not being perfectly aligned inside \
toolbars"
- title: "Quickview: Fix sizes not being displayed."
tickets: [1772151]
- title: "Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as \
changed if no images could be further compressed."
- title: "Book list split-view: Fix horizontal scroll position of split \
view can change when changing the current column in one view."
- title: "Fix Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux."
tickets: [1769681]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix undo last trim not working for \
automatic trims."
tickets: [1769606]
- title: "Content server: Fix series field blank in Italian \
translation"
- title: "BeautifulSoup: Port fix from upstream for outputting bare \
ampersands in strings."
tickets: [1769481]
- title: "calibredb add: Run the input plugins before reading metadata \
instead of after."
improved recipes:
- The New York Times Book Review
- New York Times
- Le Devoir
new recipes:
- title: The Federalist
author: Kovid Goyal
- version: 3.23.0
date: 2018-05-04
new features:
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware"
tickets: [1767589]
- title: "Book polishing: Add an option to upgrade EPUB 2 to EPUB 3"
- title: "DOCX Input: Convert text written with dingbat fonts such as \
Wingding or Symbol correctly."
- title: "When choosing the page to use as a cover from a PDF file, add \
a button to render more pages, if needed"
- title: "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."
- title: "Edit book: Insert special character: Add an option to select \
if searching should match all words or any of the words"
- title: 'Edit book: Insert special character: When searching by name match \
prefixes in addition to whole words. So you can now type "horiz" to \
match "horizontal".'
- title: "Linux installer: Simplify the command used to install calibre \
and add support for Ubuntu 18.04 which is missing a default python \
executable"
- title: "When upgrading EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 add the 'epub' namespace to \
all HTML files, for convenience."
tickets: [1765944]
- title: "Kobo driver: Add an option to not maintain bookmarks/read \
status/etc. when resending a book already on the device."
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit Book: Fix an error caused by a landmark entry in EPUB 3 \
files that has an <a> tag without an href attribute."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix names for some control characters not being \
displayed in the status bar"
- title: "Searching: Fix A (B) not being treated as A AND (B)"
- title: "DOCX Input: Ignore complex script font styles. Fixes \
conversion of documents that specify only complex script styles and no simple \
script styles."
tickets: [1766650]
- title: "When updating EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 ensure only a single dc:date \
element is present in the OPF"
- version: 3.22.1
date: 2018-04-19
new features:
- title: "Edit book: Add a tool to upgrade books from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 \
(Tools->Upgrade book internals)"
description: "Automatically upgrades metadata, converts the NCX table \
of contents and adds required manifest annotations"
type: major
- title: "Add support for the FBZ format (zipped FB2)"
tickets: [1762634]
- title: "Kindle driver: Change the height of generated thumbnails to \
500px, needed for the Oasis 2017"
- title: "Edit book: When bulk renaming files add an option to rename \
by the order in which the files appear in the book."
- title: "Polishing: Recognize titlepages that are marked as covers in \
the EPUB 3 landmarks section"
- title: "Edit Book: Automatically updated the modified timestamp in \
the OPF when saving EPUB 3 books."
- title: "Remove the ISBNDB metadata plugin as ISBNDB no longer allows \
free lookups."
tickets: [1761906]
bug fixes:
- title: "EPUB 3 metadata: If the book defines more than one author \
sort value for an author use the first instead of the last"
- title: "Check Book: Dont warn for nav document not in spine in EPUB 3 \
books"
- title: "Linux installer: Fix umask question not working with the \
recommended install command because stdin is a pipe"
- title: "Browser viewer: Show an error message when trying to use the \
Sync function without being logged in"
- title: "When setting cover from a PDF file and the user clicks \
cancel, do not delete the existing cover"
improved recipes:
- Globe & Mail
- National Geographic
- Slate
- GoComics
- Oregonian
new recipes:
- title: "Le Monde: subscriber paper edition"
author: Remi Vanicat
- version: 3.21.0
date: 2018-04-06
new features:
- title: "Browser viewer: Allow showing the time left in the current \
chapter/book in the header and footer areas of the book."
description: "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."
- title: "Manage tags dialog: Searching now shows all matching tags and \
there is an undo button to undo changes."
tickets: [1743896]
- title: "Add an output profile for the Kindle Oasis 2017"
tickets: [1759434]
bug fixes:
- title: "Content server: Fix adding/deleting books and editing \
metadata not updating the main calibre book list automatically."
tickets: [1761017]
- title: "Viewer: When doing a dictionary lookup, remove soft hyphens \
from the word, if any are present."
tickets: [1760292]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix tab order for buttons to the left \
of the title and author"
- title: "Trim cover dialog: Remove the redundant Trim & OK button, \
instead have the OK button trim automatically if there is a selection."
tickets: [1759671]
- title: "Update Amazon metadata plugin for a website change"
- title: "Content server: Fix translations not being updated without \
clearing the browser cache"
- title: "Content server: Fix switching from translations to no \
translations not working"
- title: "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 recipes:
- The Atlantic
- Fortune Magazine
- Telegraph UK
- Hot Air
- Reader's Digest
- The Economist
- version: 3.20.0
date: 2018-03-23
new features:
- title: "Content server: Allow editing the metadata of books from the \
book details page"
type: major
description: "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."
- title: "Kobo driver: Recognize Kobo Aura 2 with new firmware \
(4.6.10188)"
bug fixes:
- title: 'When reading metadata from HTML also recognize <meta \
name="dc.description"> as being comments'
improved recipes:
- Danas
- Al monitor
- Folha de Sao Paolo
- New York Times
- Wirtschaft's Woche
- version: 3.19.0
date: 2018-03-09
new features:
- title: "Driver for the new PocketBook 740"
- title: "Allow using relative URLs in comments type metadata. The \
relative URLs are interpreted relative to the book folder in the calibre \
library"
- title: "Edit book: Reports: Do not show characters from the HTML \
markup in the characters report."
tickets: [1753788]
- title: "Allow adding the Virtual library button to any toolbar/menu \
via Preferences->Toolbars & menus"
bug fixes:
- title: "Server: Fix server becoming unresponsive if a client sends \
invalid SSL data at exactly the right moment"
- title: "Conversion heuristics: Make unwrapping recognize Georgian \
letters as well."
tickets: [1753533]
- title: "Make de-serialization of stored conversion options safe \
against maliciously crafted input"
tickets: [1753870]
- title: "E-book viewer: Change the file format used to import/export \
bookmarks to use JSON. This prevents malicious bookmarks files from causing code \
execution."
tickets: [1753870]
- title: "Make the history completion for the search and replace edit \
box case-sensitive."
tickets: [1752447]
- title: "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."
tickets: [1752825]
- title: "FB2 Input: Add <div> to <blockquote> content to \
silence the useless epubcheck"
tickets: [1752141]
improved recipes:
- WirtschaftsWoche Online
- Spektrum der Wissenschaft
new recipes:
- title: Granta
author: Gary Arnold
- version: 3.18.0
date: 2018-02-23
new features:
- title: "Browser viewer: Allow long tapping a word to look it up in a \
dictionary or search the internet for it."
tickets: [1738995]
bug fixes:
- title: "Conversion: Handle the deprecated type attribute on \
<ol> tags."
tickets: [1751148]
- title: "Fix metadata download from amazon stopped working because of \
a website change"
- title: "Fix re-ordering of columns causing split book splitter state \
not being restored on restart"
- title: "Fix errors when using strftime with unicode strings on \
non-utf-8 windows systems."
tickets: [1749219]
- title: "Split book view: Fix vertical scroll position of the two \
views getting out of sync after doing some searches."
tickets: [1748739]
- title: "Fix some edit widget appearing in the wrong place when \
editing in the right hand panel of the new split book list."
tickets: [1748713]
- title: "Portable build: Fix cache directory not always being \
auto-created"
tickets: [1747887]
- title: "Workaround for Qt 5.10 on Linux resetting the global font, \
preventing custom interface font settings from working"
improved recipes:
- New York Times
- The Economist
- Gosc
- Various Uruguayan recipes
- version: 3.17.0
date: 2018-02-09
new features:
- title: "Allow splitting the book list, by right clicking on the \
column headers and choosing 'Split the book list'"
type: major
description: "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->Toolbars and menus"
- title: "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"
bug fixes:
- title: "EPUB3 Input: Fix HTML covers and titlepages that are marked \
using the deprecated <guide> element not being recognized."
tickets: [1746794]
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression in 3.13 that made it \
impossible to use the Force numbering checkbox for custom series"
- title: "Conversion: Fix the valign attribute on <td> tags not \
being honored"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix the 'Copy' keyboard shortcut/context menu \
action not working on some Windows systems"
tickets: [1477696]
- title: "E-book viewer: Make the semi-transparent background for \
viewing metadata a little more opaque."
tickets: [1745812]
improved recipes:
- New York Times
- Le Devoir
- New Statesman
- London Review of Books
- New York Post
- LWN Weekly
- Associated Press
new recipes:
- title: Computing
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 3.16.0
date: 2018-01-26
new features:
- title: "Content server: Allow adding and deleting of books using the \
web interface"
type: major
description: "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."
- title: "Allow removing the close button from tabs in the Virtual \
library tab bar. Right click the tab bar and choose 'Lock tabs' to do \
that."
- title: "calibredb export: Add --progress option"
- title: "Bulk metadata editing: Show progress bars to track progress \
of the operation"
- title: "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."
- title: "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."
bug fixes:
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix links without anchors in the input document \
not being converted correctly."
tickets: [1741098]
- title: "calibredb: Fix a regression that broke reading of passwords \
from stdin"
- title: "Edit book: Fix an error when saving files with filenames that \
cannot be encoded using the system codepage on Windows"
- title: "Pasting metadata: Fix excluding title and authors not \
working"
improved recipes:
- The Galaxy's Edge
- Orange County Register
- Danas
new recipes:
- title: Revista Veintitres
author: Darko Miletic
- title: Cronica
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 3.15.0
date: 2018-01-05
new features:
- title: "Browser viewer: Allow customizing what information is \
displayed in the header and footer areas. Access Preferences from the viewer \
controls to change."
- title: "Add support for MTP devices on FreeBSD"
- title: "ToC editor: Add more case changing operations to the right \
click menu"
- title: "Content server: Redirect pre 2.x book URLs to new 3.x URLs \
via a JavaScript redirect"
- title: "Content server: Allow opening entries in the book list in a \
new tab via middle click/right click"
- title: "Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to exclude some fields \
when using the Edit metadata->Copy/paste actions"
- title: "Linux: Allow using calibre-tray.png in the calibre resources \
folder to override the system tray icon."
tickets: [1738518]
bug fixes:
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix goto next/previous section actions not \
working when the sections are in different individual HTML files."
tickets: [1740333]
- title: "Edit book/Book polishing: When compressing images and the \
compressed image is larger thant he original, use the original image."
tickets: [1741063]
- title: "PDF input: Fix conversion of multi-level PDF Outline causing \
duplicate entries in the Table of Contents."
tickets: [1738385]
- title: "Edit book: Fix incorrect EPUB 3 declarations being added to \
the OPF file when adding covers to an EPUB 2 book"
- title: "Edit book: Fix backspace key un-indenting instead of deleting \
even when text is selected if the cursor is at the start of the line"
- title: "Tag browser: Fix position not being preserved when deleting \
books."
tickets: [1740387]
- title: "Edit Book: Use the cache directory rather than the temp \
directory to store working files. Hopefully prevents temp file cleaners from \
destroying books."
tickets: [1740460]
- title: "EPUB input: Handle books that erroneously set the mimetype \
for font files to text/plain"
- title: "AZW3 input: Do not fail to process files with invalid \
internal flow references."
tickets: [1740140]
- title: "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."
- title: "Content server: Fix using the Clear logs button preventing \
the server from restarting until calibre itself is restarted."
tickets: [1738433]
improved recipes:
- LA Times
- Popular Science
- Nikkei News
- version: 3.14.0
date: 2017-12-15
new features:
- title: "User manual: A new quick reference primer for regular \
expression syntax \
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/regexp_quick_reference.html"
- title: "Content server: Allow viewing the book metadata while reading \
a book. In the viewer controls, tap Goto and then Metadata to see the \
metadata."
tickets: [1736312]
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware"
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Allow choosing the algorithm used for \
changing the case of titles"
- title: "Get books: The koobe.pl store plugin has now become the Swiat \
Ebookow store plugin"
- title: "Allow Copy/paste of book metadata from the main book list. \
Right click the Edit metadata button to access these actions."
- title: "Allow disabling the confirmation popup when opening the \
containing folder of many books at once."
tickets: [1735862]
bug fixes:
- title: "Nook driver: Fix books sent via calibre not appearing under \
My Files on the Glowlight 3 Plus"
- title: "Get Books: Update Mills & Boon, publio, empik, legimi, \
woblink and beam-ebooks.de plugins for website changes"
- title: "Book polishing: Do not scan book for font usage when \
subsetting if no embedded fonts are available."
tickets: [1737400]
- title: "Content server: Open links in the comments section from the \
book details page in new windows."
tickets: [1737644]
- title: "Choose English as the User interface language when a locale \
related environment variable is set to the C locale"
- title: "Linux installer: A nicer error message if the user tries to \
run the installer on an ARM machine"
improved recipes:
- Boston Globe
- The Times
- Economist
new recipes:
- title: El Cohete a la luna
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 3.13.0
date: 2017-12-01
new features:
- title: "Driver for the new Bq Cervantes 4"
- title: "Edit book: Auto-generate links to existing stylesheets when \
adding a new HTML file."
tickets: [1733845]
- title: "Add a button to easily clear server logs in \
Preferences->Sharing over the net->Show server logs."
tickets: [1730046]
- title: "Catalog generation: Store the list of fields to be used in \
generating CSV/XML catalogs per library."
tickets: [1730500]
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Make the custom series controls similar \
to the builtin series ones, with the same set of features"
- title: "Edit book: Pre-select existing cover image (if any) in add \
cover dialog"
- title: "Make the Manage saved searches dialog a little easier for new \
users."
tickets: [1733163]
- title: "Add a tweak to control behavior of Enter on the book list"
- title: "Content server: Fix random book button on book details page \
multiplying."
tickets: [1732493]
- title: "Edit Book: Bulk file rename dialog: Remember last used prefix \
for renaming files"
bug fixes:
- title: "Tag browser: Fix use of the tweak to control order of items \
in the Tag browser causing unexpected expansion of items after editing \
metadata."
tickets: [1730245]
- title: "Content server: Improve rendering of tags/categories with \
long words on small screens."
tickets: [1734119]
- title: "Fix first added saved search not appearing in Tag browser \
until calibre restart."
tickets: [1733151]
- title: "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."
- title: "Edit Book: Spell check should not fail if there are non-HTML \
files in the spine"
- title: "Conversion: Fix an error when using the embed_all_fonts \
option with certain books"
- title: "Save to disk: Dont error out if the user deletes all formats \
to be saved."
- title: "Linux binary: Fix calibre not starting on systems where \
QT_QPA_PLATFORM is set to use wayland"
improved recipes:
- The Economist
- The Walrun Magazine
- China Daily
- Telepolis
new recipes:
- title: Various Russian news source
author: bugmen00t
- version: 3.12.0
date: 2017-11-09
new features:
- title: "Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 3"
tickets: [1731024]
- title: "Allow configuring the metadata fields displayed in the pop-up \
Book details window. To configure, simply click the 'Configure' link at the \
bottom of the window."
- title: "Wireless driver: Allow specifying extra file formats (unknown \
to calibre) to send"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a regression that caused clicking the clear button in the \
main search bar to not unapply the current search until enter is pressed."
- title: "Linux: Fix a regression causing calibre to fail to start on \
systems with no DBUS session bus"
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix body font being forced to sans-serif, \
overriding in book and user stylesheet settings"
- title: "Fix sending email failing of the computer's FQDN is set to a \
single period."
tickets: [1730166]
improved recipes:
- New Yorker
- Geopolityka
- version: 3.11.1
date: 2017-11-02
new features:
- title: "Kindle driver: Add support for the new Kindle Oasis"
- title: "Browser viewer: Allow the user to specify a CSS style sheet \
to control the look and feel of the text"
- title: "Edit book spell check: In the list of suggestions show the \
original word in italics."
tickets: [1727827]
- title: "Edit Book: When adding a new HTML file, add it after the file \
being currently edited instead of at the end."
tickets: [1728601]
- title: "Column coloring: Add a contains rule type."
tickets: [1728464]
- title: "Book details panel: Allow saving the displayed cover to disk \
via the right click context menu."
tickets: [1728251]
bug fixes:
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix font size and color scheme settings not \
being respected in the footnote popup"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix comments/XML processing instructions in the \
middle of text causing text to be skipped."
tickets: [1727599]
- title: "Book details panel: Fix metadata field titles not being top \
aligned"
- title: "Linux: Fix long startup delay on systems that do not have a \
desktop notification service running"
- title: "3.11.1 fixes a couple of regression in 3.11.0 that broke \
configuring Get books and creating catalogs"
improved recipes:
- Financial Times
- computerworld.pl
- Tulsa World
- Science Daily
- El Mundo
- version: 3.10.0
date: 2017-10-20
new features:
- title: "Browser viewer: Show footnotes in a popup window. Similar to \
the popup footnote functionality in the calibre viewer."
type: major
- title: "Content server: Add an option to control the timeout for \
making AJAX queries to the server."
tickets: [1722016]
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression that broke \
Preferences->Conversion->Common options in version 3.9"
- title: "Server: Fix adding expressions to the search always using AND \
instead of respecting the setting to use OR or AND."
tickets: [1724405]
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix 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."
- title: "Jobs list: Fix killing of job killing the wrong job if other \
jobs are completed while waiting for kill confirmation."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix preserve cover aspect ratio option still \
distorting the aspect ratio slightly."
tickets: [1721864]
improved recipes:
- Lomza
- Go Comics
- Various Polish news sources
- version: 3.9.0
date: 2017-10-06
new features:
- title: "Remove the Connect to iTunes function since Apple has removed \
that functionality from iTunes"
description: "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"
- title: "Kobo driver: Support for new firmware"
- title: "Allow changing the icons in yes/no columns via column icon \
rules."
tickets: [1721374]
- title: 'Quickview panel: Add a context menu with a "View" action \
to the book table.'
- title: "Make the elapsed time display in the jobs dialog more human \
friendly."
tickets: [1719059]
bug fixes:
- title: "EPUB Input: Fix styles in existing titlepage not being \
flattened when the titlepage is preserved during conversion."
tickets: [1720715]
- title: "Fix conversion of grayscale JPEG-XR images not working"
tickets: [1720638]
- title: "Update the douban metadata download plugin to match changes \
to the website"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix the preserve cover aspect ratio option not \
visible"
tickets: [1719026]
improved recipes:
- Respekt Magazine
- Associated Press
- Heraldo de Aragon
- El Correo
- El Periodico de Aragon
- A List Apart
- version: 3.8.0
date: 2017-09-22
new features:
- title: "Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an action to set metadata from \
e-book files."
tickets: [1717755]
- title: "Server: Add an option to control the number of books \
displayed per page in the browser (Preferences->Sharing over the \
net->Advanced)."
tickets: [1715283]
- title: "DOCX Output: Add an option to preserve the cover aspect ratio \
in the output document."
tickets: [1715800]
- title: "Book details panel: An option to control the layout of the \
panel in 'Narrow' mode (Preferences->Look & feel->Book details)"
tickets: [1714613]
- title: "If the --start-in-tray option is specified, create a tray \
icon even if the configuration option to enable tray icons is off."
bug fixes:
- title: "Possible fix for issue 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."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix text immediately after a hidden tag not \
being included."
tickets: [1717403]
- title: "Fix a regression that broke fetching of metadata from Douban"
- title: "Cover grid: Fix Shift+arrow keys to manipulate selection not \
working."
tickets: [1717828]
- title: "Editor snippets: Dont lose the last selected word when the \
user triggers a non-existent snippet."
tickets: [1713244]
- title: "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."
tickets: [1716520]
- title: "Linux: Fix regression that broke using calibre on some older \
VNC servers"
- title: "Browser viewer: Do not fail if the book contains javascript \
that has errors."
tickets: [1715781]
- title: "Linux: Fix file open dialog on older KDE desktops not working \
correctly."
tickets: [1715648]
- title: "Update Ozon.ru metadata plugin for website changes."
tickets: [1715347]
- title: "LIT Input: Fix a buffer overflow caused by malformed LIT \
files."
tickets: [1713716]
- title: "Conversion: Expand -epub-writing-mode to -webkit-writing-mode \
and writing-mode properties for maximum compatibility."
tickets: [1713509]
- title: "Linux: Fix SONY PRS-650 not being detected"
improved recipes:
- The Hindu
- Le Monde
- Wired Monthly
- Cracked.com
- Carta
- FAZ.NET
- Newsweek
- Financial Times
new recipes:
- title: Dunya Halleri
author: Sukru Alatas
- version: 3.7.0
date: 2017-08-25
new features:
- title: "Allow searching for books in a virtual library using a new \
'vl:' prefix"
- title: "Server: Show file sizes in the tooltips for the download \
buttons."
tickets: [1708762]
- title: "Server: Reduce the grid view minimum cover thumbnail size \
from 150px to 105px"
- title: "Narrow layout: Fix wasted space to the left of the comments \
in the Book details panel"
bug fixes:
- title: "Server: Fix downloading files via the list of formats not \
working when launching calibre from the home screen on iOS"
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix controls help overlay not being displayed \
the first time the viewer is used"
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix a regression causing a crash for some input \
documents that specify text-transform or font-variant CSS properties."
tickets: [1711776]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix framed lists being rendered with the frame \
inside the bullets instead of outside it."
tickets: [1709569]
- title: "Fix a regression that could cause conversion to crash when \
using the first-letter CSS pseudo selector and outputting to MOBI or DOCX."
tickets: [1711224]
- title: "Conversion: Fix remove first image option not working for \
comic input with the disable comic processing option."
tickets: [1709150]
- title: "Server: Fix tooltip not working in the cover grid view."
tickets: [1708760]
- title: "Workaround for Qt bug that prevented using the shift and ctrl \
keys with the touchscreen"
- title: "Linux: fix native KDE file dialog not working on older \
systems"
- title: "Linux: Fix KDE dialogs not supporting multiple file name \
filter groups"
- title: "Fix libraries being sorted alphabetically by full path rather \
than just library name"
- title: "Server: Allow hyphens in user names"
- title: "calibredb.exe: Fix misleading error message when connecting \
to a server with incorrect username or password"
improved recipes:
- Asian review of Books
- Financial Times
- National Post
- Go Comics
new recipes:
- title: Paris Review and Public Domain Review by fenuks
author: fenuks
- title: IDPixel and The Insider
author: bugmen00t
- version: 3.6.0
date: 2017-08-04
new features:
- title: "Linux: Use native file dialogs via zenity or kdialog, if \
available"
- title: "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."
tickets: [1706198]
- title: 'Server: Allow deleting a downloaded book from the "Browse all \
downloaded books" screen'
bug fixes:
- title: "Hopefully fix an issue with the book list jumping around when \
using the mouse on some computers"
- title: "E-book viewer: Change the default fonts on windows to the \
Liberation font family. This matches the other platforms and avoids rendering \
issues with Times New Roman."
tickets: [1706491]
- title: "DOCX Output: Convert images placed by themselves inside block \
tags as block images rather than inline images."
tickets: [1707430]
- title: "Fix a typo that broke the download of a few news sources"
- title: "ebook-viewer.exe: Fix --continue-reading not working"
- title: "Fix non XML safe characters in feed descriptions causing news \
download to fail."
tickets: [1707545]
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix books that contain broken links with \
unicode characters in their paths not working."
tickets: [1704498]
- title: "Quickview: Fix regression in previous release that broke the \
'Lock quickview' control"
improved recipes:
- Navy Times
new recipes:
- title: Various Sardinian news
author: tzium
- version: 3.5.0
date: 2017-07-28
new features:
- title: "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->Sharing over the net->Book list template)"
- title: "Speed up HTML parsing by an order of magnitude, by switching \
from html5lib to html5-parser"
- title: "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."
- title: "Server: Add an option to ban IP addresses if there are too \
many failed login attempts"
- title: "calibre-debug: 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."
- title: "Book details panel: Add Manage authors/series/tags/etc. to \
the menu when right clicking on the item"
- title: "Kobo driver: Update for new firmware"
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF Output: Fix a regression in 2.82 that caused conversion \
of comics to PDF files to have successive images become smaller and smaller in \
some circumstances."
tickets: [1706814]
- title: "PDF Output: Fix a regression in 2.83 that caused occasional \
blank pages at the end of chapters when using headers/footers."
tickets: [1706484]
- title: "Get books: Update store plugins for ebook.nl and the various \
amazon websites"
- title: "Edit book: Hide editor toolbars if they are empty."
tickets: [1706343]
- title: "Server: Fix failed login attempts using digest auth not being \
logged to the main log"
- title: "Quickview: for non-text fields, sort on native values instead \
of text."
- title: "Fix hidden search bar state not being restored on calibre \
restart."
tickets: [1705916]
- title: "Fix option to not save cover separately when using Save to \
disk not working."
tickets: [1704925]
- title: "Server: Fix an error on browsers that do not support blob \
storage in IndexedDB."
tickets: [1704912]
- title: "Comic input: Fix a bug in the normalize image filter that \
caused a crash when converting comics that contain a page with only a single \
color."
tickets: [1704778]
- title: "Edit Book: Handle non-normalized unicode characters in file \
names better"
tickets: [1704225]
improved recipes:
- Mediapart
- New Yorker
- Boston Globe
- Private Eye
- version: 3.4.0
date: 2017-07-14
new features:
- title: "Edit book: Allow exporting all selected files to the computer \
from the 'File browser' by right clicking and choosing 'Export selected \
files'"
- title: "Server: When returning to the search page, remember the last \
used state of the Tag browser"
- title: "Template language: Allow the in_list() functions to return \
different values depending on what is found"
- title: "Add a configurable shortcut to move the focus from Quickview \
to the book list"
bug fixes:
- title: "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."
tickets: [1703439]
- title: "Server OPDS feeds: Fix incorrect counts in letter categories \
when there are lowercase names."
tickets: [1703251]
- title: "Edit book: Fix 'Show details' button not visible when doing \
'Replace all' rather than 'Count all'"
- title: "Nook driver: Remove the % character from filenames sent to \
the Nook."
tickets: [1703284]
- title: "Fix calibre startup crash caused by Quickview when the \
applied virtual library is empty (has no books)."
improved recipes:
- FOX News
- Private Eye
- version: 3.3.0
date: 2017-07-07
new features:
- title: "Quickview panel: Allow opening and closing the panel via the \
Layout button in the bottom right corner."
details: "Also make various improvements to the panel's operation, \
see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui.html#quickview"
tickets: [1701833]
- title: "Book details panel: Allow right clicking on author names to \
search for books by the author on Amazon."
tickets: [1702446]
- title: "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."
- title: "Comments editor: Add a button to easily insert separators \
(i.e. <hr> tags) when editing comments"
bug fixes:
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix back/forward buttons not working \
correctly when clicking on links that lead to different internal files in the \
book."
tickets: [1700004]
- title: "Server: Fix using 'Show more books' button and then changing \
list mode setting causing resulting book list to be incomplete"
- title: "Server: Fix changing sort/search in the /mobile view only \
working with the default library."
tickets: [1701704]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix alt and title attributes for some images not \
being preserved"
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Change the default source from Bing \
to Google as the Bing cache seems to be having trouble at the moment"
- title: "ISBNDB metadata download: Ignore SSL errors when contacting \
isbndb.com as they seem to have no intention of fixing their broken SSL \
certificate"
- title: "Conversion: Fix heuristics processing incorrectly removing \
some <br> tags."
tickets: [1205637]
- title: "Handle non-ASCII binary strings in the \
author_name_prefix/suffix tweaks."
tickets: [1701138]
improved recipes:
- Politico
- The Times
- The Sunday Times Magazine
- version: 3.2.1
date: 2017-06-29
new features:
- title: "Server: Allow logged in users to change their passwords by \
clicking the user icon in the top right corner of the home screen."
tickets: [1700631]
- title: "macOS: Add headless support: calibre command-line utilities \
can now run on macOS machines without a screen"
bug fixes:
- title: "3.2.1 has a fix for an issue that broke mouse wheel scrolling \
in the cover grid view"
- title: "Viewer: Fix incorrect display of pages in paged mode for \
books that override the box-sizing CSS property on the <body> \
element."
tickets: [1700109]
- title: "Server: Fix timeout errors when using SSL (particularly \
common when running the server on windows)"
- title: "Linux: Fix slow mouse wheel scrolling in Cover grid because \
of Qt bug"
- title: "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"
- title: "Fix for in-program restart not working on some Windows 10 \
Home machines"
- title: "EPUB3 metadata: Fix handling of <dc:creator> elements \
with multiple roles."
tickets: [1699918]
- title: "Server: Disallow client initiated SSL renegotiation"
- title: "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"
tickets: [1701399]
improved recipes:
- The Australian
- Wired Daily
new recipes:
- title: Kitekinto
author: pofa
- version: 3.1.0
date: 2017-06-23
new features:
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking the Paste ISBN \
button to instead paste an identifier with a different prefix."
tickets: [1698543]
- title: "Tag browser: Add an option to control the spacing between \
items"
- title: "Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel to show \
individual layout buttons in the status bar, as was the case in calibre \
2.x"
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Add buttons to easily set/clear Yes/no \
columns"
tickets: [1698331]
- title: "Support for RAR 5.0 format RAR and CBR files"
bug fixes:
- title: "Version 3.1.1 fixes a regression in 3.1.0 that prevented the \
standalone calibre-server.exe from working on Windows and macOS"
- title: "Content server: Fix various bugs in the SSL implementation \
causing aborted transfers when enabling SSL in the server"
- title: "Content server: Fix connections not being closed after \
errors/timeouts on the server side"
- title: "Fix an error during startup on Windows systems where the home \
directory is in a character encoding different from the system encoding"
tickets: [1699435]
- title: "Edit book: Fix escaping of text for regular expression \
searches unnecessarily escaping spaces"
- title: "Get Books: Search the entire catalog, including restricted \
books"
tickets: [1698943]
- title: "Fix regression in previous release that caused the Tag \
browser view to jump around when renaming items"
- title: "Splash screen: Fix text vertical overlap for some \
systems/font sizes"
- title: "Server: --daemonize option should not be present on Windows \
and macOS as it does not work on those platforms"
- title: "macOS: Fix some keyboard shortcuts not working in calibre \
3.0"
tickets: [1698545]
- title: "Server interface: Fix error in the Browse all downloaded page \
when the book list mode is set to detailed list"
- title: "Get books: Update amazon.fr and ebooks.com plugins for \
website changes"
- title: "Content server: Fix for home screen being empty if the path \
to the calibre library has a trailing slash."
tickets: [1698489]
- title: "Content server: Fix the new server interface not working with \
the --url-prefix option when the trailing slash is omitted on the URL used in \
the browser."
tickets: [1698406]
- title: "Google images metadata download plugin: Fix for change in \
website causing no covers to be downloaded"
improved recipes:
- The Times
- Wall Street Journal
- New Yorker
- BBC News
- version: 3.0.0
date: 2017-06-16
new features:
- title: "For details on the major changes in calibre between 2.0 and \
3.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve"
type: major
- title: "A completely re-written Content server with support for \
reading books in-browser on your phone/tablet. Also works in offline mode."
type: major
- title: "Support for high resolution (Retina screens)"
type: major
- title: "A new splash screen to celebrate the release of calibre 3"
- title: "Minor tweaking of the main user interface to emphasize the \
core features"
bug fixes:
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix for detection of some devices, with SD card \
not working on macOS"
- title: "Tag browser: Fix preservation of state when recounting and \
the visible categories have changed."
tickets: [1696596]
- title: "CHM Input: Handle CHM files that have missing or empty root \
files."
tickets: [1697764]
- title: "Fix Page flips options box in viewer preferences bot being \
laid out properly"
- title: "Fix initial down arrow in search box jumping two places"
- title: "Fix editing the authors via the book list not respecting the \
tweak to control author name splitting"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix external links not working in the footnote \
popup panel"
- title: "Fix a regression that broke command line completion in bash"
improved recipes:
- Economist
- New York Times
- Private Eye
- The Hindu
- Harper's Magazine
- Lifehacker
- The Daily Mail
new recipes:
- title: RussiaFeed
author: Darko Miletic