Version history for Calibre (PortableApps)
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Changes for v4.22 - v4.23
- New features
- Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware. Also add recognition of 'Kobo Plus' subscription books
- Edit book: Allow customizing the base background/foreground and link colors for the preview window.
- Closes tickets: 1889925
- Quickview panel: Add actions to the context menu to search for book in library, open in viewer, etc.
- Closes tickets: 1891765
- Allow forcing calibre to remember the column width for the On device column by right clicking the header of the column
- Template language: Add functions to perform math operations to convert fractional numbers to integers
- Bug fixes
- Content server: Fix Esc key not working in several views.
- Closes tickets: 1849958
- Fix unable to delete default value for custom columns of boolean type, once set
- Closes tickets: 1889973
- EPUB Output: When splitting dont consider files with only a single character empty
- Comments editor: Fix syntax coloring for HTML view in dark mode
- Book list: When a series column is not wide enough, elide text in the middle so that the series number is visible
- New news sources
- linuxnews.de and t3n.de by Volker Heggemann
- Improved news sources
- El Diplo
- calibre Blog
- ESPN
- LA Times
- Winnipeg Free Press
- Popular Science
- Science News Recent Issues
Changes for v4.16 - v4.17
- New features
- Add a workaround for Amazon destroying cover thumbnails on e-ink Kindles.
- For books sent with this release of calibre, reconnecting the Kindle to calibre after the cover has been destroyed will restore it automatically
- Viewer: Group search results by section
- Viewer: When the search results panel is expanded, show more context
- Tag browser: Add options in Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser to hide empty categories and also to have the Find in the Tag browser show all matches instead of jumping from match to match.
- Tag browser: The Find function for searching for items in the Tag browser can now do exact matching by using = as a prefix.
- Manage tags/authors/etc dialogs: Allow searching and filtering the list of items.
- Closes tickets: 1879134
- Book details panel contenxt menu: Add an action to open the Book details window.
- Closes tickets: 1878768
- Viewer: Add Next and Previous buttons in the bookmarks panel.
- Closes tickets: 1878691
- Conversion: Change the default white-space CSS for
tags to pre-wrap as this suits ebooks better
- Bug fixes
- Edit Book: Fix default CSS template not quoting the charset, causing Check book to complain about the CSS.
- Closes tickets: 1879618
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the losslessly compress images tool when the image filenames had upper case characters on Windows.
- Closes tickets: 1879313
- Fix a regression that broke drag and drop of images from browsers to the book details panel on some platforms.
- Closes tickets: 1879120
- FB2 metadata: Fix setting dates before 1900 failing
- Fix Bookeen Diva HD not being detected.
- Closes tickets: 1877965
- New news sources
- Independent Australia by Pat Stapelton
- Improved news sources
- How To Geek
- Tagespost by Pat Stapleton
- ABC News
Changes for v4.15 - v4.16
- Viewer/Edit book fuzzy search: Ignore soft hyphens and zero-width joiner characters when searching for text.
- Closes tickets: 1878046
- Tag browser: Allow adding/removing tags/authors/etc. to the currently selected book by right clicking on that tag and choosing "Apply to selected books".
- Closes tickets: 1878308
- Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware
- Manage categories dialog: When editing a value with multiple values selected, change them all
- Book list column header context menu: Add an entry to resize the column to fit its current contents.
- Closes tickets: 1878450
- Show completions when editing tags/authors/series etc in the Tag browser and Manage tags dialog.
- Closes tickets: 1878302
- Quickview: Double clicking an item now searches for it
- Closes tickets: 1878393
- Comments editor: Add an action to the context menu to smarten punctuation.
- Closes tickets: 1876381
- FB2 metadata: Add support for setting publisher and publish year
- Bug fixes
- Edit book: Fix compress images losslessly failing for a few images on windows when there are a lot of images in the book.
- Closes tickets: 1877066
- Fix a regression in 4.13 that broke the user category editor for all custom columns.
- Closes tickets: 1877101
- Viewer: Fix font size changes not applying to monospaced fonts.
- Closes tickets: 1876580
- Improved news sources
- Ars Technica
- Washington Post
Changes for v4.14 - v4.15
- New features
- Viewer: Improve the interface for changing font sizes
- Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+b) for adding a bookmark
- Bug fixes
- Bulk metadata edit: Fix a regression causing scrollbars to not appear in Custom metadata tab.
- Closes tickets: 1875090
- Viewer: Fix a regression that broke searching in flow mode.
- Closes tickets: 1874877
- BibTeX Catalog: Dont output comment describing the catalog as Zotero fails to process it.
- Closes tickets: 1876302
- Linux: Fix uninstaller not working on Linux distros that have no python symlink.
- Closes tickets: 1876164
- Viewer: Fix zoom step size setting ignored.
- Closes tickets: 1875840
- Viewer: Fix text that has font sizes specified using keywords not being scaleable by the viewer's font size controls.
- Closes tickets: 1875021
- Viewer: Fix LRF files not opening
- MOBI metadata: When reading author sort from MOBI files, construct the final value from all author fields
- macOS: hide accelerator key underlines since they dont work anyway as Apple does not believe in them
- macOS: Fix keyboard shortcuts for select all, copy and paste not working in file dialogs.
- Closes tickets: 1874499
- Improved news sources
- The Nation
- Animal Politico
Changes for v4.8.0 - v4.9.1
- New features
- Viewer: Much improved search functionality
- Closes tickets: 1834247
- Now all matches are displayed when searching in a side bar with a few words of context. Also supports searching using regular expressions.
- Edit book: The Check book function has a new, improved CSS checker with support for CSS 3
- Edit book: Add an "Open with" action to the context menu of the files browser to easily open files with external programs.
- Closes tickets: 1860462
- Viewer toolbar: Add button to easily change color schemes
- Closes tickets: 1859547
- Bug fixes
- version 4.9.1 fixes a couple of regressions in 4.9.0 with Check Book reporting false positives and an error when using the source editing view in the comments editor
- Comments editor: Fix inserted blank paragraph being rendered as two lines.
- PDF Output: Fix conversion of files containing
Changes for v3.45.2 - v3.46
- Bug fixes
- Manage tags dialog: When searching for a tag also search the "Was" column to see if the original tag name matches.
- Closes tickets: 1836813
- Windows: Fix calibre-server --manage-users not working correctly
- MOBI Input: Fix conversion of MOBI files with malformed markup and embedded
tags not working. - Closes tickets: 1836548
- Edit book: Allow the search expression history to remember very short terms and also preserve leading and trailing whitespace.
- Closes tickets: 1836559
- Fix a regression in 3.45 that broke conversion of SVG images when converting to formats such as MOBI that do not support SVG.
- Closes tickets: 1836463
- Fix a regression in 3.45 that broke parsing of old-style .py config files
Changes for v3.38.1 - v3.45.2
- New features
- Content server: Allow adding or removing formats to a book via the edit metadata page.
- Closes tickets: 1831304
- ToC Editor: Allow user to control whether duplicate headings are included or not when generating ToC from headings
- Advanced search dialog: Remember the last focused field in the search by title/authors tab
- Conversion: Performance improvement for books that have many HTML files that all include the same CSS stylesheets
- Kobo driver: Add options to more precisely control the generation of cover images, to reduce size and enhance quality
- Support subtitle in Douban metadata plugin
- Bug fixes
- Fix a Windows-specific regression in 3.45.0 that caused various errors in the viewer and editor
- Closes tickets: 1836294
- Fix a Windows-specific regression in 3.45.0 that prevented calibre from starting on non UTF-8 locales with non-ASCII usernames
- Closes tickets: 1836360
- Linux: Workaround for bug in recent Linux kernels that causes the Kindle to eject after calibre connects to it.
- Closes tickets: 1834641
- DOCX Input: When autodetecting the Table of Contents from headings, work even if the headings use numbering.
- Closes tickets: 1834661
- EPUB Output: If there are no guide elements do not output an empty guide tag. Makes epubcheck happy.
- Closes tickets: 1835560
- Workaround for sortByColumn being partially broken in Qt 5.13.0
- Closes tickets: 1834989
- Fix a regression that broke the per_lang_title_sort_articles tweak.
- Closes tickets: 1834329
- Sending email: Fix an error on some windows machines with non-ASCII hostnames
- EPUB Output: When generating EPUB 3 preserve the old style meta tag to identify the cover as Google Play Books does not recognize EPUB 3 cover markup.
- Closes tickets: 1832660
- Create catalog: Fix handling of the tilde character in BiBTeX catalogs.
- Closes tickets: 1832726
- News downloads: Fix incorrect font sizes for some text in the index pages.
- Closes tickets: 1832628
- Comic Input: Fix incorrect processing of comics with pages that have the same file names in different folders when using the "No process" option.
- Closes tickets: 1831487
- CHM Input: Fix a regression that broke processing of some CHM files.
- Closes tickets: 1831511
- Edit book: When auto-closing tags on typing Kobo driver: Fix for ContentType not being defined error for extension-less non kepub files on a Kobo
- Content server: Book details page: Do not display empty rows for undefined dates
- Get books: Update Google books and amazon plugins for markup changes
- Edit book: Text search: Fix searching for a single character backwards not working
- New news sources
- Aviation International News by Jose Ortiz
- Improved news sources
- Art and Letters Daily
- The Wall Street Journal
- Barrons
- Newsweek
Changes for v3.19 - v3.20
- New features
- Content server: Allow editing the metadata of books from the book details page
- On the book details page, you can now edit any metadata and change covers by clicking the edit metadata icon in the right area of the top bar. Note that only users that have write permissions for the library can edit metadata.
- Kobo driver: Recognize Kobo Aura 2 with new firmware (4.6.10188)
- Bug fixes
- When reading metadata from HTML also recognize as being comments
- Improved news sources
- Danas
- Al monitor
- Folha de Sao Paolo
- New York Times
- Wirtschaft's Woche
