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Version history for Calibre (64-bit)

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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 v4.21 - v4.22

New features
Edit book: In dark mode, make the preview panel also dark.
Closes tickets: 1888071
PDF Output: Headers/footers: Allow displaying the current page number and total number of pages in the top level section/chapter.
Closes tickets: 1889000
Edit book: Show EPUB version in window title
Allow testing if a number column is set or not set in coloring/icon/emblem rules.
Closes tickets: 1888456
Viewer: Add a setting to control how many pixels a scroll wheel should generate before triggering a page turn
Bug fixes
Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused poor performance when editing large files.
Closes tickets: 1889047
DOCX Input: Leave undefined text colors in the input document as undefined
Closes tickets: 1888897
Viewer: Fix using a very small font step size not working.
Closes tickets: 1888609
Font scanner: Also scan the new win 10 local font paths
Closes tickets: 1888798
Viewer: Fix typing values in font size adjust control not working
Improved news sources
Respekt
The Atlantic

Changes for v4.20 - v4.21

New features
Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Nia
Cover grid: Vertically center covers that are smaller than the available space.
Closes tickets: 1886731
Quickview panel: Add a checkbox to easily toggle if virtual libraries are respected.
Closes tickets: 1886347
When creating custom columns allow specifying a default value to be applied to new books for that column
Closes tickets: 1886079
Bug fixes
Edit book: Fix initial sync of preview panel to cursor position sometimes not working when a new HTML file is opened for editing
Fix changed author sort name not being used when adding another book by the author to the library.
Closes tickets: 1886492
Cover browser: improve rendering of text with heavily hinted fonts.
Closes tickets: 1886239
Viewer: Fix CBC comic files not being viewed correctly. Note that you have to reload the book via the viewer controls to apply the fix.
Closes tickets: 1886307
Viewer: Fix Table of Contents not correct for comics.
Viewer: Ignore the zero width non-joiner character in searches
Viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke reading of books with mathematics and also tags without href attributes.
Closes tickets: 1886192
Cover grid: When using a background image do not scroll it with the covers.
Closes tickets: 1886139
Improved news sources
1843 magazine
Caravan Magazine

Changes for v4.16 - v4.17

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 v4.13 - v4.14

New features
Viewer: Add an option to have taps turn by screen fulls instead of pages, under Scrolling behavior
Viewer: Allow double clicking or long tapping on images to view then in a new window.
Closes tickets: 1872759
Edit Book: Add a new fuzzy search mode in which typographical quotes and various space types are matched by the plain equivalents
Content server: Add a new setting to allow un-authenticated users from specific IP addresses to make changes to the calibre library
Quick view: Double click in a column to show that column in the main book list
Bug fixes
Book details panel: Fix copy path to file not copying full path to file when right clicking on a format entry
Windows: Fix error when applying hyphenation in bulk with Polish books.
Closes tickets: 1873949
macOS: Fix selecting applications that use binary plist files such as Kindle.app with Open With not working.
Closes tickets: 1873972
DOCX Output: Fix images that use URL unsafe characters in their filenames being dropped during conversion.
Closes tickets: 1873571
DOCX Output: Fix internal links not working when converted files contain URL unsafe characters in their filenames
Viewer: Fix view image popup not remembering its geometry
Viewer: Allow leading and trailing whitespace in search expressions
HTMLZ Output: Fix SVG images that use xlink:href not working.
Closes tickets: 1869856
Windows: Fix drag and drop from SMB shares to the edit metadata dialog formats list not working.
Closes tickets: 1869471
Comments editor: Dont insert blank lines between list elements
Allow using Quick view from the Book grid view.
Closes tickets: 1869550
Fix tri-state booleans not working with color/icon rules and undefined values
Closes tickets: 1873106
New news sources
Heise ct and iX by Ralf Hein
Saechsische Zeitung by by epubli
Improved news sources
London Review of Books
Seattle Times
MIT Technology Review
Zeit Online
Handelsblatt
Spectator Magazine
Spektrum der Wissenschaft

Changes for v4.12 - v4.13

New features
Edit book: When searching in normal mode, have spaces in the search expression match multiple spaces and line breaks in the text.
Closes tickets: 1868847
When running calibre-portable.exe popup a more useful error message if it is placed in a location with a too long path.
Closes tickets: 1866739
Edit book: Allow skipping confirmation dialog when marking non-first file as cover page
Add a shortcut [Ctrl+Alt+p] to switch to the previously opened library.
Closes tickets: 1866742
Bug fixes
Viewer: Fix searching in flow mode not scrolling to display the search results.
Closes tickets: 1866519
Viewer search: Fix jumping to next match sometimes selecting previous match if the searched for expression occurs with identical context in multiple places.
Closes tickets: 1868633
Viewer: Ensure there is no bleed between pages when using single page per screen
Fix shift click not working reliably in the book list
Fix edit open with applications not working from files browser in editor
MOBI Input: Upshift non-animated GIF to PNG as it is a more widely supported format
MOBI Input: Dont auto-convert images in PNG/GIF formats to JPEG
MOBI Output: Improve conversion of PNG images with transparency to GIF
Check Book: Do not fail if non-UTF-8 stylesheets are present in the book.
Closes tickets: 1866701
Viewer: Maximum font size for margin text should be the body font size not hardcoded to 12px
PDF Output: Ignore glyph size mismatches when merging fonts for TTF.
Closes tickets: 1866364
New news sources
Istorias and Sardinia Post by tzium
Improved news sources
Forbes
LA Times
Glasgow Herald
Spectator Magazine
Newsweek

Changes for v4.11.2 - v4.12

New features
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware with the series list on the device
Automatically extract the source DOCX file from Kindle Create KPF files when adding them to calibre. If you prefer to preserve the KPF file you can disable the KPF Extract plugin in Preferences->Plugins
Content server: Add a button to delete all locally cached books.
Closes tickets: 1864305
Edit Book: Allow selecting the contents of a tag with Ctrl+Alt+t
Viewer: Save current position after 3 seconds of last position change. Useful if the viewer crashes on resume from sleep.
Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+w) to toggle the scrollbar.
Closes tickets: 1864356
Viewer: Keyboard shortcuts to change number of columns (Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+])
Bug fixes
Fix the Douban metadata download plugin
Closes tickets: 1853091
Viewer: Fix searching in Regex and Whole words mode not working well.
Viewer: Fix searching for multiple words in fixed layout books not working.
Closes tickets: 1863464
RTF Input: Fix handling of RTF files with invalid encoded text.
Closes tickets: 1864719
PDF Output: Add a hangcheck for loading HTML if there is no progress for sixty seconds abort
Closes tickets: 1865380
Viewer: When starting without a book allowing quitting the viewer by clicking the close button on the "Open book" page
Closes tickets: 1864343
New news sources
Spectator Australia by James Cridland
Improved news sources
Wired
ABC News Australia

Changes for v4.11.1 - v4.11.2

4.11.2 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the New bookmark button in the viewer and scrolling in the content server library view. Also fixes calculation of default column widths in viewer not changing when font size is changed.

Changes for v4.10 - v4.11.1

New features
Viewer: Allow right clicking on the scrollbar to easily access commonly used scrolling shortcuts
Edit book: Preview panel: Allow right clicking on images to edit them
Add a new Quick select action to quickly select a virtual library with a few keystrokes. Activated by Ctrl+t or the Virtual library menu
Viewer: Calculate default column widths based on current font size
Viewer: Add a control to quit the viewer useful on touchscreens.
Closes tickets: 1862441
Viewer: Add shortcut for showing metadata (Ctrl+n)
Closes tickets: 1862432
Bug fixes
Viewer: Fix a regression that broke detection of pop-up footnotes using EPUB 3 markup
Viewer: Fix current reading position not preserved when changing preferences and auto scroll is active.
Closes tickets: 1863438
Viewer: Fix stopping autoscroll at end of chapter not stopping next chapter jump.
Closes tickets: 1863487
Fix for viewer window going off screen even when not restoring window geometry
Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting for break-(before|after)
Closes tickets: 1863020
Fix drag and drop of some image files onto edit metadata dialog not working
Closes tickets: 1862440
Conversion pipeline: Fix styles applied via selectors to the element being ignored
Closes tickets: 1862401
Bulk metadata edit: Fix clear series not resetting series index
Fix clicking on author name in book details panel to search in Goodreads not working if author has more than two parts in his name
Improved news sources
New York Times

Changes for v4.9.1 - v4.10

New features
Viewer: When searching have single and double quotes match their curly variants as well.
Closes tickets: 1861715
Bug fixes
Fix a regression that caused the edit metadata individually and convert individually actions to use the bulk actions when multiple books are selected.
Linux: Fix a crash caused by broken/incompatible CUPS Qt system plugin.
Closes tickets: 1861741
Viewer: Fix search shortcut button not focusing search input if the search panel is placed in a tab or a floating window
Update Google Images cover download plugin for website markup changes
Closes tickets: 1862034
Catalog generation: Ignore invalid pubdates
Viewer: Stop autoscroll when changing page layout mode.
Closes tickets: 1861621
zipfile: Fix regression that broke handling of zipfiles with internal filenames not encoded in UTF-8.
Closes tickets: 1860889
Check Book: Turn off unique headings CSS warning
DOCX Output: When a list item contains a nested list but no text, it should be output as an empty list item.
Improved news sources
The New Yorker
Financiele Dagblad

Changes for v4.8 - 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
Closes tickets: 1859040
Viewer: Fix failure to open some books that contain unparseable URLs.
Closes tickets: 1858836
Viewer: Fix data displayed in side margins getting moved out of position when mouse hovers over side margin.
Closes tickets: 1858263
Book details panel: When right clicking to save the cover, replace invalid characters in the suggested filename
Fix harmless error popup when adding SSL key/certificate in server settings
Closes tickets: 1858198
Dark mode: Fix colors in remove all formats except dialog
Improved news sources
Liberty Times

Changes for v4.7 - v4.8

New features
Viewer in flow mode: Add auto-scrolling which can be triggered from the viewer controls and also make smooth scrolling by pressing down the arrow keys configurable
Viewer: Allow showing data in left and right margins in addition to headers/footers.
Closes tickets: 1855121
Viewer: Allow right clicking in the lookup panel to zoom in/out.
Closes tickets: 1857989
Viewer: Allow setting colors for the margins when creating new color schemes in Preferences->Colors
Viewer: Ctrl+, to show preferences
Bug fixes
PDF Output: Fix extracting text from generated PDFs not working if more than 100 characters per font are used in the text.
Closes tickets: 1857886
macOS: Fix viewer controls not using system UI font
Viewer: Fix images not being rendered at certain sizes when they are the only content on the page in paged mode with single page per screen.
Closes tickets: 1857803
Viewer: Fix svg links not working.
Closes tickets: 1857812
Viewer: Fix a bug that could allow maliciously crafted EPUB files to read data from files on the computer. Thanks to dozernz for discovering this attack vector.
Closes tickets: 1857800
macOS: Fix regression in previous release that caused link color to be light blue even when not using dark color themes
RTF Output: Fix a regression that slowed down conversion of images.
Closes tickets: 1857732
Server viewer: Make the Exit full screen action available in viewer controls.
Closes tickets: 1857677
Viewer: Fix error when trying to change more than a single keyboard shortcut at once
Closes tickets: 1858117
Fix typo causing a harmless error message when downloading covers and only a single cover is found
Improved news sources
London Review of Books

Changes for v4.6 - v4.7

New features
macOS: Use transient scrollbars unless they are disabled in system preferences
Viewer toolbar: Add actions for next and previous section. They are not added to the toolbar by default, customize it to add them.
Viewer: Add an option to keep the toolbar visible in full screen mode (Viewer Preferences->Miscellaneous)
Viewer: Allow modifying the current selection using Ctrl+Shift+Arrow.
Closes tickets: 1855942
Book details: Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel->Book details to show a heading for the comments in the book details panel
Closes tickets: 1855942
Edit book: Spell check: Ignore soft hyphens in words
Viewer: In multiple pages per screen mode, When paging back to a chapter we have just paged forward from return to the exact position we left from in terms of number of blank trailing pages displayed.
Closes tickets: 1856472
Viewer: Add a setting under Preferences->Colors to control when the viewer will override all book colors or not.
Bug fixes
Viewer: Fix flick scrolling in flow mode jumping to next chapter.
Closes tickets: 1856398
Windows: Possible fix for some windows appearing off screen on multi-monitor setups
Closes tickets: 1857651
macOS: Fix PDF Output not working when running ebook-convert via symlink on the command line.
Closes tickets: 1857377
PDF Output: Ignore upto 8 byte glyph data size mismatches when merging identical glyphs.
Closes tickets: 1857268
Edit Book: Spell Check: Fix words surrounded by narrow non-breaking spaces being incorrectly detected as mis-spelled
Get books: Update various Polish language stores
macOS: Fix drag and drop to re-arrange items in the viewer toolbar not working
PDF Output: When an inline image is placed alone inside a block tag, ensure that it is not split over two pages.
ToC editor: Fix generate from links not working correctly when links have no fragments.
Closes tickets: 1856395
PDF Output: Dont dedup images that cannot be uncompressed
Closes tickets: 1856564
Advanced search dialog: Fix an error when closing dialog if on the second tab and no field is focused
Improved news sources
Global Times
London Review of Books
The Telegraph (UK)
The Economist

Changes for v4.5 - v4.6

New features
Windows 10: Add support for the dark mode.
If you turn on dark mode under the Windows Settings->Personalisation->Colors and restart calibre it will use dark colors. Can also be enabled by setting the CALIBRE_USE_DARK_PALETTE environment variable.
Polish books tool: Add a setting to add or remove soft hyphens from the book text
Viewer: Re-enable the old reference mode from calibre 3.x
Bug fixes
PDF Output: Fix the option to break long words at the end of lines not working since calibre 4.
Closes tickets: 1854349
DOCX Input: Fix incorrect font sizes for footnote references in paragraphs that have text with multiple font sizes.
Closes tickets: 1855403
DOCX Input: Avoid nested ^{tags for footnote references}
Viewer: Fix max text width/height settings not being applied correctly on window resize.
Closes tickets: 1854211
Viewer: Auto-expand entries in the Table of Contents when viewing the corresponding location in the book.
Viewer: When creating a new bookmark, if there is selected text use it as the default bookmark title.
Closes tickets: 1854611

Changes for v4.4 - v4.5

New features
Driver for the new PocketBook Inkpad X
Closes tickets: 1854335
Driver for the new Bookeen Diva HD
Closes tickets: 1854063
PDF Output: Add an option to shift text horizontally on odd/even pages.
Closes tickets: 1853155
Image viewing popup dialog: Add a checkbox to fit image to window.
Closes tickets: 1853671
Edit book: Create @font-face rules when importing multiple font files into book automatically, similar to how it is done when importing a single font file.
Bug fixes
PDF Output: Fix incorrect rendering if the input document has too many anchors.
Closes tickets: 1854345
Fix a regression that could cause window layout settings to sometimes not be saved during shutdown
Improved news sources
L'express
The Toronto Star

Changes for v4.3 - v4.4

New features
Viewer: Allow customizing what actions appear on the toolbar (Preferences->Miscellaneous->Customize toolbar).
Closes tickets: 1852017
Viewer: The --open-at command line argument now allows matching on ToC hrefs as well as titles
Book details window: Show path to book in cover tooltip.
Closes tickets: 1853184
Book details popup window: Add Open with actions to context menu when right clicking the cover image.
Closes tickets: 1852626
Edit book: Check book: Mark empty id attributes in the OPF as errors.
Closes tickets: 1852318
Viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to toggle the toolbar
Bulk metadata download review dialog: When clicking cancel ask for confirmation if some books have already been reviewed
Bug fixes
PDF Output: Fix an error when using fonts with vertical metrics.
Closes tickets: 1852036
Viewer: Fix flickering when scrollbar is enabled and the header/footer is too wide for the screen.
PDF Output: Improve handling of images that do not fit on a page.
Closes tickets: 1852205
Viewer: In paged mode break long text without spaces at arbitrary points instead of overflowing to the next page.
Closes tickets: 1852192
Viewer: Fix hang when using --open-at with single instance viewer and the specified location is already open.
Closes tickets: 1656573
Viewer: Fix opening .txt files in the standalone viewer leaving behind a temporary index.html file in the directory of the txt file.
Closes tickets: 1853232
Linux: Make some cache removal code robust against un-decodeable filenames in the cache directories
Viewer: Fix scrolling of panels in preferences causing artifacts.
Closes tickets: 1851933
Viewer: improve appearance of controls on small screens.
Closes tickets: 1851921
Move close button in viewer preferences to left to match the rest of the content server UI.
Closes tickets: 1851937
Viewer: Fix restoring user stylesheet to default not being applied until a viewer restart
Viewer: Do not wait for loading of tags that are not stylesheets.
Closes tickets: 1851814
Viewer: When using the system color theme only override link colors in the book if the theme is dark.
Closes tickets: 1852990
Improved news sources
The Atlantic
LifeHacker

Changes for v4.2 - v4.3

New features
Viewer: Halve the time taken to prepare large EPUB files for first open
Viewer: Add an optional toolbar with common actions turn it on under Preferences->Miscellaneous
Viewer: Change the default color scheme to "System" which matches the colors used by the rest of calibre/the operating system. Also means the colors change automatically when the system color theme changes.
Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut ; to go to a book location or position
Viewer: Add a control to easily reset the interface to defaults
Viewer: Allow also using --open-at with book positions
Viewer: Add command line option to force reloading of books
Bug fixes
Content server: Fix conversion of comics not working.
Closes tickets: 1847017
Book details: Allow right click to copy author links and identifiers
Book details: Fix removal of identifiers via right click not working
Book details: Fix clicking on tags etc not generating exact match searches
Viewer: When resizing and the resizing back to the old size ensure we return to the same page in paged mode.
Closes tickets: 1847507
Duplicates dialog: Sort sub-list of matching books already in calibre by author for easier inspection.
Closes tickets: 1851386
PDF Output: Fix links that go to destinations in the same file not working.
Closes tickets: 1849529
Viewer: Fix changes to keyboard shortcuts not being applied until viewer is restarted.
Closes tickets: 1851045
DOCX Input: Fix AlternateContent blocks rendering both choice and fallback sections.
Closes tickets: 1847365
macOS: Fix unable to re-arrange entries in the CSV catalog list.
Closes tickets: 1850918
Windows: fix UTF-16/truncated output when reporting unhandled exceptions
Viewer: Fix mouse wheel not working when mouse is over page margins.
Closes tickets: 1850845
Linux: Install bash completions as individual files for each calibre binary
Content server: Fix download button not working with non-ebook formats.
Closes tickets: 1850078
Fix a crash in popup completion lists if the mouse is over the list and list is scrolled with the keyboard
Viewer: Fix rare exception when navigating to a CFI.
Closes tickets: 1849775
Viewer: Ignore failures printing console message when the viewer is launched with broken stderr.
Closes tickets: 1849612
Amazon metadata: Fix failure to get published date from audible book pages.
Closes tickets: 1849400
Viewer: Fix shortcuts preferences not being translated
Tag browser: Fix incorrect text color when using dark theme for hovered item
Fix crash if canceling the icon theme download while covers are downloading
Viewer: Fix non-ASCII content in stylesheets not being interpreted correctly.
Closes tickets: 1848858
Viewer/Content server: Fix history for completion popups such as search bars not being stored correctly.
Closes tickets: 1847976
PDF Output: When a link with a fragment points to a non-existent anchor link to the top of the file instead of not linking at all
PDF Output: Fix standard svg fullscreen image markup not working
PDF Output: Fix some books with full screen images failing to convert.
Closes tickets: 1848701
Improved news sources
Clarin
Various Polish news source

Changes for v4.1 - v4.2

New features
macOS: Various improvements to dark mode support
Viewer: Dont generate covers for books that dont have a cover. Note that because of this all previously opened books will again be prepared for first time reading.
Viewer: Restore print to PDF functionality
Viewer: Allow also jumping to book positions in Goto->Location
Content server: When adding books and a duplicate is suspected provide more information about what books match the duplicate
FB2 Output: Speed up conversion of images and handle external links
Viewer: If the book has no ToC try to generate one from headings, if any.
Closes tickets: 1847277
Viewer: Improve rendering of comics. No blank pages after large images or after every image in multi-page mode.
Viewer: Make it easier to use the bookmarks panel with only keyboard.
Closes tickets: 1847423
Viewer: Set the classes calibre-viewer-paginated and calibre-viewer-scrolling on the tag in Paged and Flow modes. This allows the User styles to target these modes, if needed.
Closes tickets: 1847427
Viewer: Use the same loading spinner as is used by the rest of calibre
Bug fixes
Edit book: Fix a crash when editing CSS files caused by a behavior change in Qt 5.13.
Closes tickets: 1846760
Fix a regression in 4.0 that broke rendering of PDF covers for PDF files that used JPEG2000 compression.
Closes tickets: 1847567
Viewer: Fix a regression in 4.1 that broke creating new color schemes
Closes tickets: 1847407
Viewer: Fix error while viewing books with a comment after a tag.
Closes tickets: 1847977
Viewer: Fix an error when processing a CFI with an invalid text offset.
Closes tickets: 1848320
Viewer: Fix scrolling backwards to previous chapter not always scrolling to the end of the chapter, if the chapter loads external resources.
Closes tickets: 1847818
Viewer: Fix hang on books with namespaced attributes on that do not belong to a known ebook namespace.
Closes tickets: 1846886
Viewer: Fix search history not persisting between viewer restarts.
Closes tickets: 1847976
Viewer: Fix scrollbar showing up on initial book open even if disabled in preferences.
Closes tickets: 1847323
Viewer: Fix rendering of books with mathematics failing
Viewer: When changing between individual sections/chapters in the book, only render the new chapter after loading is complete
Viewer: Fix scrolling by screenfuls not working correctly in flow mode
EPUB 2 metadata: Fix obfuscated fonts being broken when updating metadata if the file uses Adobe font obfuscation and the identifier with the key has an uppercase UUID scheme name.
Closes tickets: 1847890
Viewer: Fix right clicking on margins not showing controls
Viewer: Preselect text in search box when showing it.
Closes tickets: 1847677
Viewer: Fix SVG images that use xlink:href to refer to paths not being displayed.
Closes tickets: 1847181
Content server: Fix detection of iOS on iPAD with iOS 13 which defaults to desktop mode
Metadata jacket: Fix
tags in the comments not being rendered correctly when inserting the comments into the jacket page.
Closes tickets: 1848327
Viewer: Show nicer error message for DRMed books
Closes tickets: 1847468
Viewer: Fix preferences under Scrolling behavior not being saved correctly
Viewer: Fix remembered position sometimes off by one page in paged mode.
Closes tickets: 1847322
Viewer: restrict max size of margin page turn indicators to 25px rather than 75px
Viewer: Dont flash the home page before loading a book if a book has been specified
Viewer: Fix ctrl+m shortcut not working on windows
Content server: Fix regression that caused series name in book details view not not be blue to indicate it is clickable
Improved news sources
Various Polish news sources
Il Sole 24 Ore

Changes for v4.0 - v4.1

New features
Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences)
Viewer: Allow showing the 'position in book', as was displayed in the top left of the viewer in calibre 3, in the header or footer of the viewer.
Closes tickets: 1846700
Viewer: Add options to control scrolling using the mouse in paged mode.
Closes tickets: 1846800
Viewer: Allow copying images by right clicking on them.
Closes tickets: 1846903
Viewer: Add a preference under Miscellaneous to allow only a single instance of the viewer
Viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to toggle between paged mode and flow mode and to quit
Content server: Make the book size useable in custom book list templates.
Closes tickets: 1846839
Edit metadata: Use a border rather than background color to indicate correct title and author sort values. Works better with dark themes.
Closes tickets: 1846967
Kobo driver: Support for new firmware
Bug fixes
Viewer: Fix a couple of bugs in flow mode. Scrolling to anchors was not working and remembering last read position was not working
Viewer: Fix text after comments not being rendered. Note that the book has to be reloaded if already viewed for the fix to apply.
Closes tickets: 1846875
Viewer: Fix loading progress screen sometimes getting stuck if changing pages rapidly.
Closes tickets: 1846751
Viewer: Fix failing to open books if path to cache contains symbolic links.
Closes tickets: 1846834
Viewer: When restoring from fullscreen go back to maximized state if window was maximized when entering full screen.
Closes tickets: 1846753
Viewer: Fix shortcut changes not being applied after pressing OK if shortcut list is closed by pressing Esc.
Closes tickets: 1846765
Fix a regression that broke reading metadata from ODT files that do not have keywords.
Closes tickets: 1846828
PDF Output: Fix a bug that prevented the first style property in the header or footer template from being applied
PDF Output: Fix error with a few embedded TTF fonts.
Closes tickets: 1846982
Edit book: Font manager: Fix removing embedded font failing if @font-face rule has no src.
Closes tickets: 1847052
Viewer: Hide the browser provided scrollbar that flashes momentarily on page load.
Closes tickets: 1846922
Viewer: Fix clicking on margins causing keyboard shortcuts to not work until the main text is clicked on again
Comments editor: Workaround for Qt converting ids into anchors
Possible workaround for some windows machines where the viewer is getting access denied errors while renaming a directory
Viewer: When there is empty text for an header footer section render it as blank instead of moving the remaining sections to the left
Improved news sources
Fortune Magazine

Changes for v3.48 - v4.0

For details on the major changes in calibre between 3.0 and 4.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/thirteen
A completely re-written E-book viewer with an emphasis on presenting the book text, distraction free
Note that the system requirements needed for calibre have been increased, details are present on the calibre download pages for each operating system

Changes for v3.47.1 - v3.48

New features
Driver for Kobo Libra H2O
Bug fixes
Kobo driver: Fix some annotations getting missed for kepubs
Improved news sources
Boston Globe
Scientific American

Changes for v3.46 - v3.47.1

New features
HTML metadata: Support reading identifiers from HTML files
Preferences->Ignored devices: Add a button to reset the list of devices that calibre is allowed to manage
Bug fixes
macOS: Fix a regression that could cause a crash on exit if any books were deleted while calibre was running.
Closes tickets: 1839044
Content server OPDS: Handle form encoded search queries.
Closes tickets: 1841464
Fix an error when adding files from clipboard and file is of unknown type
Speed up restoring original format by doing a rename rather than a copy and re-add.
Closes tickets: 1839733
EPUB 3: Fix setting metadata in EPUB 3 files without a title not working
PML Input: Modernize the generated HTML a bit.
Closes tickets: 1839689
HTMLZ Output: Fix svg content from HTML files that contain only SVG being removed.
Closes tickets: 1839522
Content server: Fix OPDS feed for category based browsing listing restricted books, even though these books cannot be actually downloaded.
Closes tickets: 1839173
Preserve tag order when reading metadata from MOBI files
Add missing 'language' field to ComicBookInfo metadata for .CBR files.
LIT Output: Fix regression in 3.41 caused by py3 porting that broke conversion of some files to LIT.
Closes tickets: 1837561
Version 3.47.1 fixes an error when using internet lookup from the book details panel and the e-book viewer, and also the tweak to control number of columns in the edit metadata dialog not working
Closes tickets: 1842158, 1842183, 1842090, 1842201
Improved news sources
Esquire
Foreign Affairs
derStandaard
Globe and Mail
CNET News
National Geographic
New Yorker
Chicago Tribune

Changes for v3.46 - v3.47

New features
HTML metadata: Support reading identifiers from HTML files
Preferences->Ignored devices: Add a button to reset the list of devices that calibre is allowed to manage
Bug fixes
macOS: Fix a regression that could cause a crash on exit if any books were deleted while calibre was running.
Closes tickets: 1839044
Content server OPDS: Handle form encoded search queries.
Closes tickets: 1841464
Fix an error when adding files from clipboard and file is of unknown type
Speed up restoring original format by doing a rename rather than a copy and re-add.
Closes tickets: 1839733
EPUB 3: Fix setting metadata in EPUB 3 files without a title not working
PML Input: Modernize the generated HTML a bit.
Closes tickets: 1839689
HTMLZ Output: Fix svg content from HTML files that contain only SVG being removed.
Closes tickets: 1839522
Content server: Fix OPDS feed for category based browsing listing restricted books, even though these books cannot be actually downloaded.
Closes tickets: 1839173
Preserve tag order when reading metadata from MOBI files
Add missing 'language' field to ComicBookInfo metadata for .CBR files.
LIT Output: Fix regression in 3.41 caused by py3 porting that broke conversion of some files to LIT.
Closes tickets: 1837561
Improved news sources
Esquire
Foreign Affairs
derStandaard
Globe and Mail
CNET News
National Geographic
New Yorker
Chicago Tribune

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 v3.43 - 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 v3.42 - v3.43

New features
Kobo driver: Support for new Kobo firmware
Edit metadata dialog: Remember relative sizes of the cover and comments editors.
Closes tickets: 1828291
Bug fixes
PDF Output: Fix hang when converting some documents.
Handle newlines when serializing to csr files
Closes tickets: 1827198
Fix searching in manage tags throws away all changes
Closes tickets: 1828986
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke using the wireless device driver with the device_for_template option
Fix metadata download from Amazon stripping accents from comments text in the binary builds
Amazon metadata download: Fix some downloads failing when a mobile user agent is randomnly selected.
Closes tickets: 1827027
LRF Input: Fix a regression that broke parsing LRF files.
Closes tickets: 1826970
PDF Input: Workaround for pdftohtml not always producing valid UTF-8.
Closes tickets: 1830568
New news sources
The Baffler by Jose Ortiz
Improved news sources
The Toronto Star
The Financial Express
London Review of Books
Boston Globe Subscription

Changes for v3.41.3 - v3.42

Bug fixes
Conversion: Transform styles: When using regular expressions fix substitution groups not working.
Closes tickets: 1825764
Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the conversion of HTML to text in comments when output to catalogs or converting downloaded metadata to behave slightly differently.
Closes tickets: 1826654
Edit book: Fix beautify not handling and tags correctly.
Closes tickets: 1826631
DOCX Input: Fix cross-references using the 'fldSimple' markup not being recognized by calibre.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused ampersands and middle-dots to appear as HTML entities in the output.
Closes tickets: 1826127
Prevent a malformed tweaks.json file from stopping calibre startup
Fix a regression that broke completion for ebook-convert
News fetching: Fix a regression that broke removal of attributes/javascript/srcset because of bugs in the new BeautifulSoup
TXT Output: Fix Vietnamese Â character being stripped from output.
Closes tickets: 1825770
E-book viewer: Fix specifying a non-existen location via --open-at causing viewer to hang
New news sources
Magyar Nemzet by pofa
Improved news sources
Global Times
Corriere della Serra

Changes for v3.40.1 - v3.41.3

New features
Kobo driver: Support for new firmware
Content server: Add an option to control which book list mode is used by default for new users (Preferences->Sharing over the net->Choose book list mode)
Content server: Allow clicking on book cover in details page to read the book.
Closes tickets: 1819058
Amazon metadata plugin: Add a option to use the mobi-asin to find books.
Closes tickets: 1823520
E-book viewer: Allow specifying ToC hrefs via the --open-at command line parameter.
Closes tickets: 1656573
Tag Mapper: Allow Title-casing of tags.
Closes tickets: 1823097
Manage authors dialog: Add an entry to the right click menu to show books by the current author in the main book list.
Closes tickets: 1821992
Lots of internal changes to calibre's codebase to prepare it for Python 3 support.
Bug fixes
Content server: Fix links to external resources in book details and the viewer not working
Content server: Fix using a bookmark to load the book list not working if server is password protected.
Closes tickets: 1819025
Content server: Book details page: Fix close button not going back to book list after using Next/previous buttons.
Closes tickets: 1819060
Kobo driver: Fix update device metadata setting not being saved. Also fix book language not being set correctly on newer firmware.
PDF Output: Fix 'stroke-dasharray' lines in SVG images in the input document not being rendered correctly.
Closes tickets: 1821923
Fix searching for authors on amazon not working because of a change in the amazon URL structure.
Closes tickets: 1822532
Cover grid: Check for cover size change due to screen scale change on every paint event and invalidate cache if there is a change.
Closes tickets: 1723972
Edit book: Fix Option key + ; not working in the editor.
Closes tickets: 1823040
Edit book: Fix pasting images into a book with no Images folder not working correctly.
Closes tickets: 1817405
Confirm cancel on library restore dialog
Closes tickets: 1823204
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not being applied for some options.
Closes tickets: 1821968
Fix using --insert-metadata with ebook-convert not inserting the title and author metadata from the source document
Adding books: When adding with auto-merge and auto-convert enabled, also run conversions for books into which the added files are merged.
Closes tickets: 1822018
Versions 3.41.1, 3.41.2, 3.41.3 fix various regressions in the previous release that affect a few people.
Closes tickets: 1825472, 1825494, 1825542
New news sources
The New Criterion by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Il Post
Le Monde Edition Abonnes Papier
Le Temps
NASA
1843
derStandard
LA Times

Changes for v3.39.1 - v3.40.1

New features
TXT Input: Use markdown 3.0 with support for new extensions such as code highlighting and smarten punctuation.
Book details panel: Allow editing the identifiers for the book by right clicking on the existing Ids.
Closes tickets: 1815005
Content server: Allow specifying custom URLs for the 'Search the internet' feature via Preferences->Sharing over the net->Search the internet.
Closes tickets: 1810923
Tag browser: Category editor: Add a checkbox to restrict the entries shown to only those present in the current Virtual library
Allow adding files to selected book records from the clipboard. To use copy a file from windows explorer, right click the Add books button and choose: Add files to selected books from clipboard
Closes tickets: 1815419
Tag browser: When right clicking on a saved search add a menu option to search using the raw search expression.
Closes tickets: 1816274
Tag browser: Have pressing the Enter key find the next match.
Closes tickets: 1816276
Windows: Add a button to Preferences->Sharing over the net to set calibre to run when the computer starts
Bug fixes
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Copy to library and delete after when copying a duplicated book.
Closes tickets: 1816224
Edit book: Fix pasting of image from clipboard using (Ctrl-V) not working
Content server: Fix {id} not working in the custom list template
Closes tickets: 1818308
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not saving title and format information.
Closes tickets: 1818838
macOS: Respect the system setting for text insertion cursor blink time
FB2 Output: Fix comments from the input document not present in the output.
Closes tickets: 1815357
calibredb: Fix adding books with an OPF file to a remote server not picking up the cover specified in the OPF file
TXT Input: Fix option to remove indents at the start of lines breaking conversion of markdown documents.
Closes tickets: 1814989
EPUB/MOBI Catalog generation: Allow matching empty fields in exclusion rules.
Closes tickets: 1814458
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix multiple books with the same title but different authors in a genre not being listed.
Closes tickets: 1415990
Update the Get Books and metadata Amazon.com plugins to handle changes to the markup on the Amazon results page
Version 3.40.1 fixes a bug in 3.40 that could prevent calibre starting when using a custom date column
New news sources
Quanta Magazine by lui1
El Periodico Mediterraneo by benages
Improved news sources
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

Changes for v3.38.1 - v3.39

New features
Content server: Implement the "Copy to library" function. To use it click the three dots in the top right corner of a book's page and choose "Copy to library"
Closes tickets: 1810486
Content server: Add Next/Previous buttons to the book details page
Bug fixes
Content server: Fix editing metadata that affects multiple books causing all the metadata for all the books to become the same.
Closes tickets: 1812781
Open With: Fix using .bat files as the program not working.
Closes tickets: 1811045
ZIP Output: Fix an error when building the ToC on macOS for some books with non-ASCII ToC entries
Closes tickets: 1813905
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
Fix font mime-types not being auto-corrected when upgrading EPUBs from 2 to 3
Content server: Try to detect if a book file has been edited outside of calibre and serve the updated copy
Fix merging books not updating author if the source book has no title
Content server: Fix heading for custom comments columns being duplicated in the book details page
Fix editing of dates not working is the date format is set to iso.
Closes tickets: 1812560
New news sources
BSI News by Volker Heggemann
Science Advances by Jose Ortiz
Improved news sources
Spiegel Online
Il Post

Changes for v3.37 - v3.38.1

New features
Tag browser: When using the Find function have unaccented characters match their accented equivalents, if the setting for it is set in Preferences->Searching
DOCX Input: When converting indices, put each sub-entry on its own line.
Closes tickets: 1811611
Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Add history for the template
Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Add a few more variables for the link template: _SOURCE_FILENAME_, _DEST_FILENAME_ and _ANCHOR_
Bug fixes
Catalogs: Set the language of created catalogs to the calibre interface language instead of English
Closes tickets: 1810936
DOCX Input: Do not display section breaks that have a numbering style applied to them.
Closes tickets: 1811611
Content server: Fix listening on :: not also listening on IPv4 interfaces on Windows
DOCX Output: Fix heading styles that have the same font size as body text getting incorrect font sizes after conversion.
Closes tickets: 1811616
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix prefix rules not working when calibre UI language is something other than English
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix exclusion by tag not working for tags that have spaces in them
Subset fonts: Fix error when trying to subset unicode characters that require two UTF-16 code points on Windows.
Closes tickets: 1811224
Content server: Fix option to restrict displayed user field not working in the /opds view
Tag browser: Fix incorrect icon for user categories.
Closes tickets: 1810217
PDF Output: Fix conversion failing when fonts with non-English names are used.
Closes tickets: 1812218
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
New news sources
Nature by Jose Ortiz
Improved news sources
Chicago Tribune
New York Times Book Review

Changes for v3.36 - v3.37

Bug fixes
calibredb: Fix adding books from directories to a remote server running on Windows not working
Edit Book: Fix style attribute on tags not being preserved when editing AZW3 files.
Closes tickets: 1810193
Get Books: Use an external browser for Google Books
Closes tickets: 1810205
Saving to disk: Fix errors on Linux/macOS if the title/authors are long enough to make individual path components larger than 255 characters.
Closes tickets: 1807525
PDF Input: Fix non-breaking spaces represented as entities in the output of pdftohtml, which breaks some search/replace expressions
Edit book: Fix a crash when mousing over links in an instance of the editor launched standalone on macOS Mojave
Closes tickets: 1805521
Conversion: When converting with font size rescaling disabled, convert font size names to rem unit rather than pt units.
Closes tickets: 1809671
Windows: When registering calibre programs as possible handlers for various file types, dont set the AllowSilentDefaultTakeOver registry key
macOS: PDF Output: Fix bold fonts not working on Mojave.
Closes tickets: 1799750
Content server: Fix strings with double quotes not being translated.
Improved news sources
Il Post

Changes for v3.35 - v3.36

New features
Happy Holidays to everyone!
Kobo driver: Add supported for newly released firmware update
Bug fixes
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.
Closes tickets: 1807914
PDF Output: Do not fail if one of the fonts from the source document has no name metadata
Improved news sources
Wall Street Journal
ESPN
Al Jazeera (English)

Changes for v3.34 - v3.35

New features
Edit book: Insert hyperlink: Allow specifying a template to control the markup that is inserted for the hyperlink.
Closes tickets: 1804250
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.
Closes tickets: 1802293
Kobo driver: Add an option to directly update metadata in the Kobo device database, instead of waiting for the Kobo to update the database after disconnecting. (Preferences->Plugins->Customize the Kobo device plugin)
Bug fixes
E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke viewing of HTMLZ files
Closes tickets: 1691976
Edit book: Fix suggestions in completion popup not being sorted.
Closes tickets: 1803985
Windows: Fix restarting calibre with system tray icon enabled causing duplicate defunct icons in the tray.
Closes tickets: 1803034
New news sources
Macrobusinness by 2018robert
Sports Illustrated by Kovid Goyal
Le Peuple Breton by Lionel Plais
Mandidner by pofa
Improved news sources
Wired Magazine
Wall Street Journal
Telepolis
Yahoo News
Associated Press
Mother Jones

Changes for v3.33 - v3.34

New features
Support for the new Kindle Paperwhite 2018
Closes tickets: 1802088
Metadata plugboards: Allow defining plugboards that modify comments metadata as well
E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+M) for toggling between paged and flow mode
Bug fixes
EPUB Input: Handle invalid EPUB files that have their NCX documents in the spine.
Closes tickets: 1796497
EPUB3 Input: Handle EPUB 3 files that incorrectly use EPUB 2 markup to identify cover images.
Content server: Fix --url-prefix feature not working with book conversion
New news sources
Arts and Letters Daily by pjpaulpj
Magyar Idok by pofa
Improved news sources
Business Standard
Washington Post
General Knowledge Today
How To Geek

Changes for v3.31 - v3.32

New features
Edit book: Insert image dialog: Add buttons to change the image thumbnail size.
Closes tickets: 1791428
Book details panel: Allow right clicking on a format to open it in the calibre editor
Edit metadata dialog: Allow viewing or editing specific formats by right clicking the format in the formats list
When creating a metadata jacket allow HTML in custom long text columns
Content server: When editing metadata add a button to remove the existing cover. Note that after removing the cover a auto-generated cover is displayed instead. You might need to hit refresh in your browser to see the change.
Closes tickets: 1794123
Content server: Date edit: Add buttons to clear the date or set it to today's date
Bug fixes
When showing books on the device, disable keyboard shortcuts for actions that operate on library books
Content server: Custom List: Fix a zero series index being displayed as one
Content server: Fix covers not being updated in downloaded copies of some books.
Closes tickets: 1699932
PDF Output: Fix an error that could occur in rare circumstances when using the option to read page margins from the input document
Closes tickets: 1792616
Edit book: Check book: Fix an error if a filename contains a % character
PDF Output: Fix CSS opacity property causing text to not be rendered. Now opacity is ignored, as it is unsupported by Qt WebKit.
Closes tickets: 1792048
Create custom column dialog: Ensure that the format numbers field is always visible
Improved news sources
Washington Post

Changes for v3.30 - v3.31

New features
Book list: Allow changing the font used for any column to bold and/or italic by right clicking on the column header and choosing 'Change font style'.
Closes tickets: 1758434
Note that this setting is per-library so it has to be done once for the book list in every calibre library.
fetch-ebook-metadata.exe: Allow specifying identifiers other than just ISBN
Amazon metadata download: Add support for Amazon Australia (can be configured via Preferences->Metadata download->customize the amazon metadata source)
Table of Contents Edit tool: When generating from XPath's add a checkbox to control if duplicate entries at the same level are added or not.
Closes tickets: 1790761
Edit book: Allow disabling the popup to show changes after running the Fix HTML and Beautify all files tools.
Closes tickets: 1789540
Bug fixes
DOCX Input: Fix figures in newer Word documents being duplicated.
Closes tickets: 1789238
Content server: Disable offline access if application cache is not available, rather than failing.
Closes tickets: 1737642
DOCX Output: Workaround for broken CSS that uses -o-pre-wrap for the white-space property
Closes tickets: 1786410
Metadata download: Remove the option to lookup first edition dates as the service used to get the data no longer exists
Improved news sources
Howto Geek
Welt der Physik
Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung
Fortune Magazine

Changes for v3.29 - v3.30

New features
ToC Editor: When generating ToCs using headings/XPath ignore duplicate entries at the same level that have the same text.
Closes tickets: 1735799
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
Closes tickets: 1787488
Kobo driver: Support for new firmware version
Add a tweak (in Preferences->Tweaks) to allow skipping network check on news download
Edit metadata dialog: Show a confirmation dialog on cancel if some changes have been made.
Closes tickets: 1786544
Bug fixes
Downloaded metadata review dialog: Fix a regression in the last release that broke the revert buttons
E-book viewer: Fix clicking links in the footnote popup ignoring the anchor part of the link.
Closes tickets: 1786577
ToC editor: Fix generating toc entries from links not working for links that start with #
HTML Input: Collapse multiple spaces in filenames when sanitizing them.
Closes tickets: 1788187
Edit book: Remove matching tag: Fix incorrect removal if the remove matching function is triggered in rapid succession
Edit book: Fix some links in the file being split not being adjusted when splitting HTML files.
Closes tickets: 1787892
Fix a crash when using some third party plugins and enabling the "two lines for text under icons" option
Closes tickets: 1787700
Make the create catalog dialog freely resizable
Closes tickets: 1787523
DOCX Input: Fix an error when converting some DOCX files with inherited fonts.
Closes tickets: 1786414

Changes for v3.28 - v3.29

New features
Add a option to draw a grid in the main book list (Preferences->Look & feel)
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
Content server: When defining a color scheme for the in browser viewer allow specifying the link color as well as the foreground and background.
Closes tickets: 1735904
Edit book: Show a popup after a fix all html/beautify all files so the user can easily see what was changed, if needed.
Closes tickets: 1785482
Kindle driver: Create cover thumbnails on the device when transferring KFX format books
Edit Book: Recognize numbers in image names in the 'Insert image' dialog
Closes tickets: 1782981
Bug fixes
Content server: Display custom comments field on the book details page in the same order as in the calibre GUI
Edit book: Fix open image editors not being updated when image file is replaced
Fix keyboard shortcuts for Edit book tools created from plugins not working
PDF Output: Fix error when trying to convert books that do not specify a language in their metadata.
Closes tickets: 1783563
Browser viewer: Fix inability to open books that contain zero-byte stylesheets/images
Improved news sources
Boston Globe
Newsweek
Ambito and Ambito Financiero
New York Times
New England Journal of Medicine
The Hindu Business Line
Private Eye
Le Temps

Changes for v3.26.1 - v3.28

New features
Allow creating rules to transform author names when adding books to calibre. Accessible via Preferences->Adding books->Adding actions
Closes tickets: 1780152
Add a similar author mapper tool to manipulate author names in the existing library. Accessible via Preferences->Toolbars
Add a similar author mapper tool for metadata downloading, accessible via Preferences->Metadata download
Comments Editor: Add options to change the case of the selected text to the right click menu
Closes tickets: 1780469
Edit book: When sorting non text files in the File list recognize numbers in the file names
Closes tickets: 1781721
Bug fixes
calibredb catalog: Recognize file extensions even when they are not lowercase
New news sources
Il Post by frafra
Bloomberg Columnists by Dale Furrow
Improved news sources
Sunday Times Magazine UK
The Economist
The Houston Chronicle
El cohete a la luna
CBC Canada

Changes for v3.24.2 - v3.26.1

New features
Book list: Allow drag and drop of books onto other books to merge the book records.
Closes tickets: 1775123
Check Book: External link checker: Also check HTML anchors (the part after the # in the link). Can be turned off via a checkbox at the bottom of the link checker window.
Edit Book: Preview panel: Show previews when editing SVG files
Edit book: When downloading external resources, also convert data URLs into files.
Closes tickets: 1774945
E-book viewer: When the controls are hidden show the progress in the window title.
Closes tickets: 1776710
Library Quick switch menu: Highlight the previously switched from library in bold.
Closes tickets: 1775888
Bug fixes
PDF Input: Fix a regression in 3.24 that caused conversion of PDF to be significantly worse.
Closes tickets: 1775984
E-book viewer: Fix very slow loading for HTML files with very many images on Linux.
Closes tickets: 1774884
Content server: Fix a regression in 3.14 that removed the separator between books in the detailed list view mode.
Closes tickets: 1776294
Edit book: Fix SVG files not being beautified by the Beautify all files tool
Edit book: Fix searching in selected files not searching SVG files
Fix Tweaks help string not being displayed translated
Edit metadata dialog: Fix distorted rendering of some labels in the custom metadata tab in rare circumstances.
Closes tickets: 1766762
version 3.26.1 prevents dropping of a book onto itself from triggering the merge dialog, which should reduce accidental triggers
Closes tickets: 1777054
New news sources
El Cronista by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Slate
New York Times Book Review
The Independent UK
NYTimes Tech Beat
New York Times
Cracked.com

Changes for v3.23 - v3.24.1

New features
Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files.
PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines.
Closes tickets: 1773111
PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates
Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences->Look & feel
Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words.
Closes tickets: 1772276
Edit book: Fix HTML: Automatically resolve private entities
Closes tickets: 1772157
Improve formatting of help in Preferences->Tweaks
ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well.
Closes tickets: 1769442
Bug fixes
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
PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text as their presence prevents searching from working

DOCX Output: Fix

 tags not being converted correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1772219
    DOCX Input: Fix incorrect conversion of a framed block that contains a list.

    Closes tickets: 1771279
    Conversion: Fix private entities that use the same name as an HTML entity not being handled correctly

    Closes tickets: 1772157
    Viewer: Fix HTML files with private entities displaying an artifact at the top

    Closes tickets: 1772157
    Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with private entities

    Closes tickets: 1772157
    EPUB3 Input: Fix titlepage being referred to in the nav causing two titlepage entries in the final book.
    Fix throbber buttons not being perfectly aligned inside toolbars
    Quickview: Fix sizes not being displayed.

    Closes tickets: 1772151
    Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as changed if no images could be further compressed.
    Book list split-view: Fix horizontal scroll position of split view can change when changing the current column in one view.
    Fix Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux.

    Closes tickets: 1769681
    Edit metadata dialog: Fix undo last trim not working for automatic trims.

    Closes tickets: 1769606
    Content server: Fix series field blank in Italian translation
    BeautifulSoup: Port fix from upstream for outputting bare ampersands in strings.

    Closes tickets: 1769481
    calibredb add: Run the input plugins before reading metadata instead of after.

New news sources

    The Federalist by Kovid Goyal

Improved news sources

    The New York Times Book Review
    New York Times
    Le Devoir

Changes for v3.23 - v3.24

New features
Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files.
PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines.
Closes tickets: 1773111
PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates
Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences->Look & feel
Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words.
Closes tickets: 1772276
Edit book: Fix HTML: Automatically resolve private entities
Closes tickets: 1772157
Improve formatting of help in Preferences->Tweaks
ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well.
Closes tickets: 1769442
Bug fixes
PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text as their presence prevents searching from working

DOCX Output: Fix

 tags not being converted correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1772219
    DOCX Input: Fix incorrect conversion of a framed block that contains a list.

    Closes tickets: 1771279
    Conversion: Fix private entities that use the same name as an HTML entity not being handled correctly

    Closes tickets: 1772157
    Viewer: Fix HTML files with private entities displaying an artifact at the top

    Closes tickets: 1772157
    Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with private entities

    Closes tickets: 1772157
    EPUB3 Input: Fix titlepage being referred to in the nav causing two titlepage entries in the final book.
    Fix throbber buttons not being perfectly aligned inside toolbars
    Quickview: Fix sizes not being displayed.

    Closes tickets: 1772151
    Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as changed if no images could be further compressed.
    Book list split-view: Fix horizontal scroll position of split view can change when changing the current column in one view.
    Fix Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux.

    Closes tickets: 1769681
    Edit metadata dialog: Fix undo last trim not working for automatic trims.

    Closes tickets: 1769606
    Content server: Fix series field blank in Italian translation
    BeautifulSoup: Port fix from upstream for outputting bare ampersands in strings.

    Closes tickets: 1769481
    calibredb add: Run the input plugins before reading metadata instead of after.

New news sources

    The Federalist by Kovid Goyal

Improved news sources

    The New York Times Book Review
    New York Times
    Le Devoir

Changes for v3.22.1 - v3.23

Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
Closes tickets: 1767589
Book polishing: Add an option to upgrade EPUB 2 to EPUB 3
DOCX Input: Convert text written with dingbat fonts such as Wingding or Symbol correctly.
When choosing the page to use as a cover from a PDF file, add a button to render more pages, if needed
TXT Input: Add support for embedded images that use relative URLs when converting markdown or textile. Note that this will only work if you are converting using the ebook-convert command line tool as the main calibre program moves files around, so relative references will not be valid.
Edit book: Insert special character: Add an option to select if searching should match all words or any of the words
Edit book: Insert special character: When searching by name match prefixes in addition to whole words. So you can now type "horiz" to match "horizontal".
Linux installer: Simplify the command used to install calibre and add support for Ubuntu 18.04 which is missing a default python executable
When upgrading EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 add the 'epub' namespace to all HTML files, for convenience.
Closes tickets: 1765944
Bug fixes
Edit Book: Fix an error caused by a landmark entry in EPUB 3 files that has an tag without an href attribute.
Edit Book: Fix names for some control characters not being displayed in the status bar
Searching: Fix A (B) not being treated as A AND (B)
Kobo driver: Add an option to not maintain bookmarks/read status/etc. when resending a book already on the device.
DOCX Input: Ignore complex script font styles. Fixes conversion of documents that specify only complex script styles and no simple script styles.
Closes tickets: 1766650
When updating EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 ensure only a single dc:date element is present in the OPF

Changes for v3.21 - v3.22.1

New features
Edit book: Add a tool to upgrade books from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 (Tools->Upgrade book internals)
Automatically upgrades metadata, converts the NCX table of contents and adds required manifest annotations
Add support for the FBZ format (zipped FB2)
Closes tickets: 1762634
Kindle driver: Change the height of generated thumbnails to 500px, needed for the Oasis 2017
Edit book: When bulk renaming files add an option to rename by the order in which the files appear in the book.
Polishing: Recognize titlepages that are marked as covers in the EPUB 3 landmarks section
Edit Book: Automatically updated the modified timestamp in the OPF when saving EPUB 3 books.
Remove the ISBNDB metadata plugin as ISBNDB no longer allows free lookups.
Closes tickets: 1761906
Bug fixes
EPUB 3 metadata: If the book defines more than one author sort value for an author use the first instead of the last
Check Book: Dont warn for nav document not in spine in EPUB 3 books
Linux installer: Fix umask question not working with the recommended install command because stdin is a pipe
Browser viewer: Show an error message when trying to use the Sync function without being logged in
When setting cover from a PDF file and the user clicks cancel, do not delete the existing cover
New news sources
Le Monde: subscriber paper edition by Remi Vanicat
Improved news sources
Globe & Mail
National Geographic
Slate
GoComics
Oregonian

Changes for v3.20 - v3.21

New features
Browser viewer: Allow showing the time left in the current chapter/book in the header and footer areas of the book.
To use go to the preferences of the browser viewer and customize the headers and footers to display the time left. Note that time left in chapter only works correctly if chapters are in separate HTML files in the book.
Manage tags dialog: Searching now shows all matching tags and there is an undo button to undo changes.
Closes tickets: 1743896
Add an output profile for the Kindle Oasis 2017
Closes tickets: 1759434
Bug fixes
Content server: Fix adding/deleting books and editing metadata not updating the main calibre book list automatically.
Closes tickets: 1761017
Viewer: When doing a dictionary lookup, remove soft hyphens from the word, if any are present.
Closes tickets: 1760292
Edit metadata dialog: Fix tab order for buttons to the left of the title and author
Trim cover dialog: Remove the redundant Trim & OK button, instead have the OK button trim automatically if there is a selection.
Closes tickets: 1759671
Update Amazon metadata plugin for a website change
Content server: Fix translations not being updated without clearing the browser cache
Content server: Fix switching from translations to no translations not working
Content server: When updating interface data do not transmit translations if they have not been changed. Saves ~30-60KB bandwidth when using non-English interface language.
Improved news sources
The Atlantic
Fortune Magazine
Telegraph UK
Hot Air
Reader's Digest
The Economist

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

Changes for v3.18 - v3.19

New features
Driver for the new PocketBook 740
Allow using relative URLs in comments type metadata. The relative URLs are interpreted relative to the book folder in the calibre library
Edit book: Reports: Do not show characters from the HTML markup in the characters report.
Closes tickets: 1753788
Allow adding the Virtual library button to any toolbar/menu via Preferences->Toolbars & menus
Bug fixes
Server: Fix server becoming unresponsive if a client sends invalid SSL data at exactly the right moment
Conversion heuristics: Make unwrapping recognize Georgian letters as well.
Closes tickets: 1753533
Make de-serialization of stored conversion options safe against maliciously crafted input
Closes tickets: 1753870
E-book viewer: Change the file format used to import/export bookmarks to use JSON. This prevents malicious bookmarks files from causing code execution.
Closes tickets: 1753870
Make the history completion for the search and replace edit box case-sensitive.
Closes tickets: 1752447
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.
Closes tickets: 1752825
FB2 Input: Add
to
content to silence the useless epubcheck
Closes tickets: 1752141

New news sources

Granta by Gary Arnold
Improved news sources

WirtschaftsWoche Online
Spektrum der Wissenschaft

Changes for v3.17 - v3.18

New features
Browser viewer: Allow long tapping a word to look it up in a dictionary or search the internet for it.
Closes tickets: 1738995
Bug fixes
Conversion: Handle the deprecated type attribute on
1. Closes tickets: 1751148
3. Fix metadata download from amazon stopped working because of a website change
4. Fix re-ordering of columns causing split book splitter state not being restored on restart
5. Fix errors when using strftime with unicode strings on non-utf-8 windows systems.
6. Closes tickets: 1749219
8. Split book view: Fix vertical scroll position of the two views getting out of sync after doing some searches.
9. Closes tickets: 1748739
11. Fix some edit widget appearing in the wrong place when editing in the right hand panel of the new split book list.
12. Closes tickets: 1748713
14. Portable build: Fix cache directory not always being auto-created
15. Closes tickets: 1747887
17. Workaround for Qt 5.10 on Linux resetting the global font, preventing custom interface font settings from working
18. Improved news sources
20. New York Times
21. The Economist
22. Gosc
23. Various Uruguayan recipes

Changes for v3.16 - v3.17

New features
Allow splitting the book list, by right clicking on the column headers and choosing 'Split the book list'
This is useful to 'lock' one or more columns in place so that they are always visible even when scrolling through other columns. Also, the split list has a separate right click menu which you can configure via Preferences->Toolbars and menus
Store temporary files used by the editor and viewer in the cache directory to try to prevent errors caused by 'file cleaner' programs deleting temporary files still in use
Bug fixes
EPUB3 Input: Fix HTML covers and titlepages that are marked using the deprecated element not being recognized.
Closes tickets: 1746794
Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression in 3.13 that made it impossible to use the Force numbering checkbox for custom series
Conversion: Fix the valign attribute on tags not being honored
E-book viewer: Fix the 'Copy' keyboard shortcut/context menu action not working on some Windows systems
Closes tickets: 1477696
E-book viewer: Make the semi-transparent background for viewing metadata a little more opaque.
Closes tickets: 1745812
New news sources
Computing by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
New York Times
Le Devoir
New Statesman
London Review of Books
New York Post
LWN Weekly
Associated Press

Changes for v3.15 - v3.16

New features
Content server: Allow adding and deleting of books using the web interface
Use the + icon in the top bar of the book list to add new books and the trash icon in the top bar of the book details page to a delete a book. Note that only authenticated users are allowed to perform these actions, so you have to setup user accounts for the server to use these features.
Allow removing the close button from tabs in the Virtual library tab bar. Right click the tab bar and choose 'Lock tabs' to do that.
calibredb export: Add --progress option
Bulk metadata editing: Show progress bars to track progress of the operation
Content server: When downloading books from the server send both the ASCII and full Unicode file names. Browsers that support RFC 6266 can make use of the unicode file name.
Content server: Show a warning popup on Apple devices when the user tries to search with an expression containing smart quotes, since Apple devices now automatically replace quotes with smart quotes when typing.
Bug fixes
DOCX Output: Fix links without anchors in the input document not being converted correctly.
Closes tickets: 1741098
calibredb: Fix a regression that broke reading of passwords from stdin
Edit book: Fix an error when saving files with filenames that cannot be encoded using the system codepage on Windows
Pasting metadata: Fix excluding title and authors not working
New news sources
Revista Veintitres by Darko Miletic
Cronica by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
The Galaxy's Edge
Orange County Register
Danas

Changes for v3.14 - v3.15

New features
Browser viewer: Allow customizing what information is displayed in the header and footer areas. Access Preferences from the viewer controls to change.
Add support for MTP devices on FreeBSD
ToC editor: Add more case changing operations to the right click menu
Content server: Redirect pre 2.x book URLs to new 3.x URLs via a JavaScript redirect
Content server: Allow opening entries in the book list in a new tab via middle click/right click
Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to exclude some fields when using the Edit metadata->Copy/paste actions
Linux: Allow using calibre-tray.png in the calibre resources folder to override the system tray icon.
Closes tickets: 1738518
Bug fixes
Browser viewer: Fix goto next/previous section actions not working when the sections are in different individual HTML files.
Closes tickets: 1740333
Edit book/Book polishing: When compressing images and the compressed image is larger thant he original, use the original image.
Closes tickets: 1741063
PDF input: Fix conversion of multi-level PDF Outline causing duplicate entries in the Table of Contents.
Closes tickets: 1738385
Edit book: Fix incorrect EPUB 3 declarations being added to the OPF file when adding covers to an EPUB 2 book
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
Tag browser: Fix position not bing preserved when deleting books.
Closes tickets: 1740387
Edit Book: Use the cache directory rather than the temp directory to store working files. Hopefully prevents temp file cleaners from destroying books.
Closes tickets: 1740460
EPUB input: Handle books that erroneously set the mimetype for font files to text/plain
AZW3 input: Do not fail to process files with invalid internal flow references.
Closes tickets: 1740140
When updating plugins, do not show the dialog asking which toolbar to put the plugin, even if the user has removed the plugin for all toolbars.
Content server: Fix using the Clear logs button preventing the server from restarting until calibre itself is restarted.
Closes tickets: 1738433
Improved news sources
LA Times
Popular Science
Nikkei News

Changes for v3.12 - v3.14

New features
User manual: A new quick reference primer for regular expression syntax https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/regexp_quick_reference.html
Content server: Allow viewing the book metadata while reading a book. In the viewer controls, tap Goto and then Metadata to see the metadata.
Closes tickets: 1736312
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
Bulk metadata edit: Allow choosing the algorithm used for changing the case of titles
Get books: The koobe.pl store plugin has now become the Swiat Ebookow store plugin
Allow Copy/paste of book metadata from the main book list. Right click the Edit metadata button to access these actions.
Allow disabling the confirmation popup when opening the containing folder of many books at once.
Closes tickets: 1735862
Bug fixes
Nook driver: Fix books sent via calibre not appearing under My Files on the Glowlight 3 Plus
Get Books: Update Mills & Boon, publio, empik, legimi, woblink and beam-ebooks.de plugins for website changes
Book polishing: Do not scan book for font usage when subsetting if no embedded fonts are available.
Closes tickets: 1737400
Content server: Open links in the comments section from the book details page in new windows.
Closes tickets: 1737644
Choose English as the User interface language when a locale related environment variable is set to the C locale
Linux installer: A nicer error message if the user tries to run the installer on an ARM machine
New news sources
El Cohete a la luna by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Boston Globe
The Times
Economist

Changes for v3.11.1 - v3.12

New features
Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 3
Closes tickets: 1731024
Allow configuring the metadata fields displayed in the popup book details window. To configure, simply click the 'Configure' link at the bottom of the window.
Wireless driver: Allow specifying extra file formats (unknown to calibre) to send
Bug fixes
Fix a regression that caused clicking the clear button in the main search bar to not unapply the current search until enter is pressed.
Linux: Fix a regression causing calibre to fail to start on systems with no DBUS session bus
Browser viewer: Fix body font being forced to sans-serif, overriding in book and user stylesheet settings
Fix sending email failing of the computer's FQDN is set to a single period.
Closes tickets: 1730166
Improved news sources
New Yorker
Geopolityka

Changes for v3.10 - v3.11.1

New features
Kindle driver: Add support for the new Kindle Oasis
Browser viewer: Allow the user to specify a CSS style sheet to control the look and feel of the text
Edit book spell check: In the list of suggestions show the original word in italics.
Closes tickets: 1727827
Edit Book: When adding a new HTML file, add it after the file being currently edited instead of at the end.
Closes tickets: 1728601
Column coloring: Add a contains rule type.
Closes tickets: 1728464
Book details panel: Allow saving the displayed cover to disk via the right click context menu.
Closes tickets: 1728251
Bug fixes
Browser viewer: Fix font size and color scheme settings not being respected in the footnote popup
DOCX Output: Fix comments/XML processing instructions in the middle of text causing text to be skipped.
Closes tickets: 1727599
Book details panel: Fix metadata field titles not being top aligned
Linux: Fix long startup delay on systems that do not have a desktop notification service running
3.11.1 fixes a couple of regression in 3.11.0 that broke configuring Get books and creating catalogs
Improved news sources
Financial Times
computerworld.pl
Tulsa World
Science Daily
El Mundo

Changes for v3.9 - v3.10

New features
Browser viewer: Show footnotes in a popup window. Similar to the popup footnote functionality in the calibre viewer.
Content server: Add an option to control the timeout for making AJAX queries to the server.
Closes tickets: 1722016
Bug fixes
Fix regression that broke Preferences->Conversion->Common options in version 3.9
Server: Fix adding expressions to the search always using AND instead of respecting the setting to use OR or AND.
Closes tickets: 1724405
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.
Jobs list: Fix killing of job killing the wrong job if other jobs are completed while waiting for kill confirmation.
DOCX Output: Fix preserve cover aspect ratio option still distorting the aspect ratio slightly.
Closes tickets: 1721864
Improved news sources
Lomza
Go Comics
Various Polish news sources

Changes for v3.8 - v3.9

New features
Remove the Connect to iTunes function since Apple has removed that functionality from iTunes
Now you have to use one of the wireless connection methods to connect to an iPad/iPhone, as described at: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#how-do-i-use-calibre-with-my-ipad-iphone-ipod-touch
Kobo driver: Support for new firmware
Allow changing the icons in yes/no columns via column icon rules.
Closes tickets: 1721374
Quickview panel: Add a context menu with a "View" action to the book table.
Make the elapsed time display in the jobs dialog more human friendly.
Closes tickets: 1719059
Bug fixes
EPUB Input: Fix styles in existing titlepage not being flattened when the titlepage is preserved during conversion.
Closes tickets: 1720715
Fix conversion of grayscale JPEG-XR images not working
Closes tickets: 1720638
Update the douban metadata download plugin to match changes to the website
DOCX Output: Fix the preserve cover aspect ratio option not visible
Closes tickets: 1719026
Improved news sources
Respekt Magazine
Associated Press
Heraldo de Aragon
El Correo
El Periodico de Aragon
A List Apart

Changes for v3.7 - v3.8

New features
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an action to set metadata from e-book files.
Closes tickets: 1717755
Server: Add an option to control the number of books displayed per page in the browser (Preferences->Sharing over the net->Advanced).
Closes tickets: 1715283
DOCX Output: Add an option to preserve the cover aspect ratio in the output document.
Closes tickets: 1715800
Book details panel: An option to control the layout of the panel in 'Narrow' mode (Preferences->Look & feel->Book details)
Closes tickets: 1714613
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
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.
DOCX Output: Fix text immediately after a hidden tag not being included.
Closes tickets: 1717403
Fix a regression that broke fetching of metadata from Douban
Cover grid: Fix Shift+arrow keys to manipulate selection not working.
Closes tickets: 1717828
Editor snippets: Dont lose the last selected word when the user triggers a non-existent snippet.
Closes tickets: 1713244
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.
Closes tickets: 1716520
Linux: Fix regression that broke using calibre on some older VNC servers
Browser viewer: Do not fail if the book contains javascript that has errors.
Closes tickets: 1715781
Linux: Fix file open dialog on older KDE desktops not working correctly.
Closes tickets: 1715648
Update Ozon.ru metadata plugin for website changes.
Closes tickets: 1715347
LIT Input: Fix a buffer overflow caused by malformed LIT files.
Closes tickets: 1713716
Conversion: Expand -epub-writing-mode to -webkit-writing-mode and writing-mode properties for maximum compatibility.
Closes tickets: 1713509
Linux: Fix SONY PRS-650 not being detected
New news sources
Dunya Halleri by Sukru Alatas
Improved news sources
The Hindu
Le Monde
Wired Monthly
Cracked.com
Carta
FAZ.NET
Newsweek
Financial Times

Changes for v3.6 - v3.7

New features
Allow searching for books in a virtual library using a new 'vl:' prefix
Server: Show file sizes in the tooltips for the download buttons.
Closes tickets: 1708762
Server: Reduce the grid view minimum cover thumbnail size from 150px to 105px
Narrow layout: Fix wasted space to the left of the comments in the Book details panel
Bug fixes
Server: Fix downloading files via the list of formats not working when launching calibre from the home screen on iOS
Browser viewer: Fix controls help overlay not being displayed the first time the viewer is used
MOBI Output: Fix a regression causing a crash for some input documents that specify text-transform or font-variant CSS properties.
Closes tickets: 1711776
DOCX Input: Fix framed lists being rendered with the frame inside the bullets instead of outside it.
Closes tickets: 1709569
Fix a regression that could cause conversion to crash when using the first-letter CSS pseudo selector and outputting to MOBI or DOCX.
Closes tickets: 1711224
Conversion: Fix remove first image option not working for comic input with the disable comic processing option.
Closes tickets: 1709150
Server: Fix tooltip not working in the cover grid view.
Closes tickets: 1708760
Workaround for Qt bug that prevented using the shift and ctrl keys with the touchscreen
Linux: fix native KDE file dialog not working on older systems
Linux: Fix KDE dialogs not supporting multiple file name filter groups
Fix libraries being sorted alphabetically by full path rather than just library name
Server: Allow hyphens in user names
calibredb.exe: Fix misleading error message when connecting to a server with incorrect username or password
New news sources
Paris Review and Public Domain Review by fenuks by fenuks
IDPixel and The Insider by bugmen00t
Improved news sources
Asian review of Books
Financial Times
National Post
Go Comics

Changes for v3.5 - v3.6

New features
Linux: Use native file dialogs via zenity or kdialog, if available
Copy to library: Add an action to show a dialog that allows for easy selection of libraries for copy/move. Useful when there are a large number of libraries to choose from.
Closes tickets: 1706198
Server: Allow deleting a downloaded book from the "Browse all downloaded books" screen
Bug fixes
Hopefully fix an issue with the book list jumping around when using the mouse on some computers
E-book viewer: Change the default fonts on windows to the Liberation font family. This matches the other platforms and avoids rendering issues with Times New Roman.
Closes tickets: 1706491
DOCX Output: Convert images placed by themselves inside block tags as block images rather than inline images.
Closes tickets: 1707430
Fix a typo that broke the download of a few news sources
ebook-viewer.exe: Fix --continue-reading not working
Fix non XML safe characters in feed descriptions causing news download to fail.
Closes tickets: 1707545
Browser viewer: Fix books that contain broken links with unicode characters in their paths not working.
Closes tickets: 1704498
Quickview: Fix regression in previous release that broke the 'Lock quickview' control
New news sources
Various Sardinian news by tzium
Improved news sources
Navy Times

Changes for v3.4 - v3.5

New features
Server: Add a new 'custom' mode for the book list, where you can specify exactly what metadata fields are displayed, via a template (see Preferences->Sharing over the net->Book list template)
Speed up HTML parsing by an order of magnitude, by switching from html5lib to html5-parser
Add support for touch screens to the main calibre book list. You can now flick to scroll, tap to select and double-tap to view books.
Server: Add an option to ban IP addresses if there are too many failed login attempts
calibre-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.
Book details panel: Add Manage authors/series/tags/etc. to the menu when right clicking on the item
Kobo driver: Update for new firmware
Bug fixes
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.
Closes tickets: 1706814
PDF Output: Fix a regression in 2.83 that caused occasional blank pages at the end of chapters when using headers/footers.
Closes tickets: 1706484
Get books: Update store plugins for ebook.nl and the various amazon websites
Edit book: Hide editor toolbars if they are empty.
Closes tickets: 1706343
Server: Fix failed login attempts using digest auth not being logged to the main log
Quickview: for non-text fields, sort on native values instead of text.
Fix hidden search bar state not being restored on calibre restart.
Closes tickets: 1705916
Fix option to not save cover separately when using Save to disk not working.
Closes tickets: 1704925
Server: Fix an error on browsers that do not support blob storage in IndexedDB.
Closes tickets: 1704912
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.
Closes tickets: 1704778
Edit Book: Handle non-normalized unicode characters in file names better
Closes tickets: 1704225
Improved news sources
Mediapart
New Yorker
Boston Globe
Private Eye

Changes for v3.3 - v3.4

New features
Edit book: Allow exporting all selected files to the computer from the 'File browser' by right clicking and choosing 'Export selected files'
Server: When returning to the search page, remember the last used state of the Tag browser
Template language: Allow the in_list() functions to return different values depending on what is found
Add a configurable shortcut to move the focus from Quickview to the book list
Bug fixes
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.
Closes tickets: 1703439
Server OPDS feeds: Fix incorrect counts in letter categories when there are lowercase names.
Closes tickets: 1703251
Edit book: Fix 'Show details' button not visible when doing 'Replace all' rather than 'Count all'
Nook driver: Remove the % character from filenames sent to the Nook.
Closes tickets: 1703284
Fix calibre startup crash caused by Quickview when the applied virtual library is empty (has no books).
Improved news sources
FOX News
Private Eye

Changes for v3.2.1 - v3.3

New features
Quickview panel: Allow opening and closing the panel via the Layout button in the bottom right corner.
Closes tickets: 1701833
Book details panel: Allow right clicking on author names to search for books by the author on Amazon.
Closes tickets: 1702446
Edit book: When doing a Replace/Count all with multiple searches add a 'Show details' button on the result dialog that shows the individual counts for each search.
Comments editor: Add a button to easily insert separators (i.e.
tags) when editing comments
Bug fixes
Browser viewer: Fix back/forward buttons not working correctly when clicking on links that lead to different internal files in the book.
Closes tickets: 1700004
Server: Fix using 'Show more books' button and then changing list mode setting causing resulting book list to be incomplete
Server: Fix changing sort/search in the /mobile view only working with the default library.
Closes tickets: 1701704
DOCX Input: Fix alt and title attributes for some images not being preserved
Amazon metadata download: Change the default source from Bing to Google as the Bing cache seems to be having trouble at the moment
ISBNDB metadata download: Ignore SSL errors when contacting isbndb.com as they seem to have no intention of fixing their broken SSL certificate
Conversion: Fix heuristics processing incorrectly removing some
tags.
Closes tickets: 1205637
Handle non-ASCII binary strings in the author_name_prefix/suffix tweaks.
Closes tickets: 1701138
Improved news sources
Politico
The Times
The Sunday Times Magazine

Changes for v3.1.1 - v3.2.1

New features
Server: Allow logged in users to change their passwords by clicking the user icon in the top right corner of the home screen.
Closes tickets: 1700631
macOS: Add headless support: calibre command-line utilities can now run on macOS machines without a screen
Bug fixes
3.2.1 has a fix for an issue that broke mouse wheel scrolling in the cover grid view
Viewer: Fix incorrect display of pages in paged mode for books that override the box-sizing CSS property on the element.
Closes tickets: 1700109
Server: Fix timeout errors when using SSL (particularly common when running the server on windows)
Linux: Fix slow mouse wheel scrolling in Cover grid because of Qt bug
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
Fix for in-program restart not working on some Windows 10 Home machines
EPUB3 metadata: Fix handling of elements with multiple roles.
Closes tickets: 1699918
Server: Disallow client initiated SSL renegotiation
Windows: Try to prevent windows from showing the annoying 'no disk in drive' error messages at calibre startup if one of the calibre libraries is on a removable disk that is missing from the system
Closes tickets: 1701399
New news sources
Kitekinto by pofa
Improved news sources
The Australian
Wired Daily

Changes for v3.0.0 - v3.1.1

New features
Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking the Paste ISBN button to instead paste an identifier with a different prefix.
Closes tickets: 1698543
Tag browser: Add an option to control the spacing between items
Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel to show individual layout buttons in the status bar, as was the case in calibre 2.x
Edit metadata dialog: Add buttons to easily set/clear Yes/no columns
Closes tickets: 1698331
Support for RAR 5.0 format RAR and CBR files
Bug fixes
Version 3.1.1 fixes a regression in 3.1.0 that prevented the standalone calibre-server.exe from working on Windows and macOS
Content server: Fix various bugs in the SSL implementation causing aborted transfers when enabling SSL in the server
Content server: Fix connections not being closed after errors/timeouts on the server side
Fix an error during startup on Windows systems where the home directory is in a character encoding different from the system encoding
Closes tickets: 1699435
Edit book: Fix escaping of text for regular expression searches unnecessarily escaping spaces
Get Books: Search the entire catalog, including restricted books
Closes tickets: 1698943
Fix regression in previous release that caused the Tag browser view to jump around when renaming items
Splash screen: Fix text vertical overlap for some systems/font sizes
Server: --daemonize option should not be present on Windows and macOS as it does not work on those platforms
macOS: Fix some keyboard shortcuts not working in calibre 3.0
Closes tickets: 1698545
Server interface: Fix error in the Browse all downloaded page when the book list mode is set to detailed list
Get books: Update amazon.fr and ebooks.com plugins for website changes
Content server: Fix for home screen being empty if the path to the calibre library has a trailing slash.
Closes tickets: 1698489
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.
Closes tickets: 1698406
Google images metadata download plugin: Fix for change in website causing no covers to be downloaded
Improved news sources
The Times
Wall Street Journal
New Yorker
BBC News

Changes for v2.85.1 - v3.0.0

New Features
For details on the major changes in calibre between 2.0 and 3.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve
A completely re-written Content server with support for reading books in-browser on your phone/tablet. Also works in offline mode.
Support for high resolution (Retina screens)
A new splash screen to celebrate the release of calibre 3
Minor tweaking of the main user interface to emphasize the core features
Bug Fixes
Kobo driver: Fix for detection of some devices, with SD card not working on macOS
Tag browser: Fix preservation of state when recounting and the visible categories have changed.
Closes tickets: 1696596
CHM Input: Handle CHM files that have missing or empty root files.
Closes tickets: 1697764
Fix Page flips options box in viewer preferences bot being laid out properly
Fix initial down arrow in search box jumping two places
Fix editing the authors via the book list not respecting the tweak to control author name splitting
E-book viewer: Fix external links not working in the footnote popup panel
Fix a regression that broke command line completion in bash
New news sources
RussiaFeed by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Economist
New York Times
Private Eye
The Hindu
Harper's Magazine
Lifehacker
The Daily Mail

Changes for v2.84 - v2.85.1

New Features
Book details panel: Allow right click to search the internet for the current book
Book details panel: Allow right clicking on an author name to search the internet for works by that author
Book details panel: Clicking an author name now searches Goodreads by default instead of Wikipedia. Can be changed in Preferences->Look & feel->Book details
Kobo driver: Add support for the Kobo Auro H2O Edition 2
Bug Fixes
PDF Output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion to PDF for some files.
Closes tickets: 1689192
DOCX Output: Fix lengths specified in percentage of page size not being converted correctly.
Closes tickets: 1688690
DOCX Output: Fix some hyperlinks not working in word because the bookmark name is longer than forty characters.
Closes tickets: 1688690
DOCX Output: Prevent images from being larger than the page size.
Closes tickets: 1688690
Comic Input: Fix the number of colors control not allowing values less than 8
Kobo driver: Fix main memory and Card A being swapped on some systems
Kobo driver: Fix the ignore collections option being accidentally case-insensitive
Preferences->Toolbars: Show an error message when the user tries to remove either the Preferences or Location Manager buttons instead of just silently adding them back.
Closes tickets: 1689022
version 2.85.1 contains a fix for a regression that cause the Open with action to go missing from the right click menu of the Book details panel
New news sources
Balkanist by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Private Eye

Changes for v2.84 - v2.85

New Features
Book details panel: Allow right click to search the internet for the current book
Book details panel: Allow right clicking on an author name to search the internet for works by that author
Book details panel: Clicking an author name now searches Goodreads by default instead of Wikipedia. Can be changed in Preferences->Look & feel->Book details
Kobo driver: Add support for the Kobo Auro H2O Edition 2
Bug Fixes
PDF Output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion to PDF for some files.
Closes tickets: 1689192
DOCX Output: Fix lengths specified in percentage of page size not being converted correctly.
Closes tickets: 1688690
DOCX Output: Fix some hyperlinks not working in word because the bookmark name is longer than forty characters.
Closes tickets: 1688690
DOCX Output: Prevent images from being larger than the page size.
Closes tickets: 1688690
Comic Input: Fix the number of colors control not allowing values less than 8
Kobo driver: Fix main memory and Card A being swapped on some systems
Kobo driver: Fix the ignore collections option being accidentally case-insensitive
Preferences->Toolbars: Show an error message when the user tries to remove either the Preferences or Location Manager buttons instead of just silently adding them back.
Closes tickets: 1689022
New news sources
Balkanist by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Private Eye

Changes for v2.83 - v2.84

New Features
Kindle driver: Also delete book thumbnails from the system directory when deleting books.
Conversion: Use the same regular expression engine as is used by the Edit Book tool. The new engine has much better support for Unicode characters/character classes.
Edit Book: Add keyboard shortcuts to jump to opening and closing tags (Ctrl+{ and Ctrl+})
Add API to pre-process image data in recipes easily
fetch-ebook-metadata: add option to use only a single metadata plugin
Bug Fixes
E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke printing from inside the viewer.
DOCX Output: When the input document contains paragraphs inside a block with a background color preserve the background color in the resulting paragraphs in the DOCX document.
Closes tickets: 1683188
DOCX Output: Fix links to empty inline tags not working.
Closes tickets: 1683188
DOCX Input: Fix links that point to anchors placed in empty paragraphs not working.
Closes tickets: 1683017
PDF Output: Do not crash when unable to find page for link destination, instead use previous page.
Closes tickets: 1687914
Edit Book: Fix sorting by language in Report->Words not working
Edit Book: Fix drag and drop of multiple items in the File Browser causing item order to be reversed.
Get Books: Update Baen store plugin for website changes
Linux: When adding books from directories ignore files that have undecodable names.
Closes tickets: 1685819
AZW3: Preserve the primary-writing-mode EXTH header field when round-tripping AZW3 files. Should fix editing/conversion of RTL AZW3 files causing page turning to become left-to-right on the Kindle
AZW3 Output: Set the primary-writing-mode EXTH header when the input document has page-progression-direction set to RTL as this is apparently required on newer Kindle firmware for right-to-left page turning
Fix a misbehaving wireless device connection can cause calibre to hang when opening the Connect/Share menu.
Closes tickets: 1676522
New news sources
First Things by John Hutson
Improved news sources
Private Eye
Die Zeit
NYTimes Tech Beat

Changes for v2.82 - v2.83

New Features
PDF Output: Default to generating PDFs with a page size of letter instead of taking the page size from the output profile.
This avoids user confusion/bug reports about PDF Output having "too large fonts". There is a new option "Use profile size" to have the conversion use the output profile page size instead.
PDF/DOCX Output: Add separate, pdf/docx specific, page margin settings that override the common settings.
Useful because page margin settings for page oriented formats, such as PDF and DOCX are usually different than those for reflowable formats such as EPUB
Table of Contents tool: Add an undo button
Metadata jacket: Show custom rating columns using stars
Metadata jacket: Change formatting of series to match that used by the book details panel. Also allow access to the raw series name and number when customizing the jacket template.
calibredb check_library: Vacuum database when running the check
Check Book: Add a check for empty identifier elements
Bug Fixes
Edit book/Book polishing: When adding a cover to an EPUB 3.0 file set the svg property if a SVG cover wrapper is used
Refresh the book list when a User Category is added/edited.
Closes tickets: 1675535
EPUB metadata: Fix deleting ISBN from EPUB file could result in an EPUB file without a package identifier if the ISBN was used as the package identifier.
Closes tickets: 1677383
Amazon metadata download: Fix title and author names being bold in the downloaded comments when using bing to get amazon metadata.
Closes tickets: 1674088
PDF Output: Fix a regression that broke PDF Output for documents containing mathematics.
Closes tickets: 1673983
E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the "Clear recently read books" action in the viewer
New news sources
Jacobin magazine by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Go Comics
Die Zeit (subscription)
Pagina12
New York Magazine

Changes for v2.81 - v2.82

New Features
Edit Book: Saved Searches: Add keyboard shortcut (Alt+Up/Down Arrow) to move selected searches
Bug Fixes
Fix a typo in the previous release that caused dynamically updated metadata source plugins to stop working.
Closes tickets: 1673884
Catalog generation: Ignore tags with commas in them when generating genres
News download: Do not use Microsoft user agents as more and more websites are serving JPEG XR images to these browsers
Amazon metadata download: Fix spurious results when searching for books that are not present on amazon using a search engine.
Get Books: Fix free samples being detected as independent books when searching OPDS based stores such as Feedbooks.
Closes tickets: 1672500
Edit Book: Saved Searches: Preserve selection when using arrows to move multiple items
Fix template formatter functions not being reloaded after a check library operation
Fix an error during shutdown caused by some library closed plugins
New news sources
The Morning Paper by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
The Economist
Telegraph UK

Changes for v2.80 - v2.81

New Features
Amazon metadata download: Allow downloading amazon metadata from multiple sources. You can now configure the Amazon plugin via Preferences->Metadata download to use either the amazon servers, or various search engine caches to get the metadata. Should help with the recent CAPTCHA problems when downloading metadata from amazon
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Always add the original word as one of the spelling corrections, so that small edits to the word can be made easily.
Closes tickets: 1667914
Edit Book: Saved searched Dialog: Allow re-arranging the saved searches using drag and drop.
Closes tickets: 1669514
Implement auto update of builtin metadata download plugins, just as for recipes and Get Books plugins. Needed as the websites they get data from often change.
Edit Book: When inserting full screen images, use the actual image dimensions in the generated SVG code, when available
Linux installer: Check that the umask is suitable before running the installer. Should fix breakage on systems where users have changed the user umask but neglected to also alter it for sudo
Bulk metadata edit: Remove the control to delete specific formats as it is redundant. This functionality is already present by right clicking the Remove books button
Bug Fixes
TXT Input: When detecting the encoding of txt files only use the first four kilobytes of text. Fixes excessively slow conversion of very large text files.
Closes tickets: 1668246
Get Books: Fix price not being displayed for books from Amazon dues to website changes
GetBooks: Update Google Books plugin for website changes
E-book viewer: Fix slow startup when recently opened files are on a slow/malfunctioning networked filesystem.
Closes tickets: 1669497
Google metadata download: Fix metadata not being found when the title of the book includes a sub-title
Improve downloading of covers from the google books metadata source
News download: Fix a bug that could cause a crash when downloading an SVG image.
Closes tickets: 1669530
Edit book: Fix a regression that caused pasting copied text from programs that generate both HTML and plain text when copying to paste the HTML in preference to the plain text
Improved news sources
tyzden
The Economist
Kansas City Star
NYTimes
The Spectator

Changes for v2.79.1 - v2.80

New Features
Add support for sideloading of KFX files created with the third-party KFX calibre plugin
Closes tickets: 1666040
Edit book: Allow drag and drop of image files, stylesheets and html files into the editor to insert the appropriate and tags and add the files to the book automatically.
Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware
Edit Book: Spell Check: If there are no suggestions fill the suggested word box with the original word.
Closes tickets: 1664284
Viewer: add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to show/hide toolbars.
Closes tickets: 1664077
Bug Fixes
PDF Output: Fix courier font not being rendered when converting on windows.
Closes tickets: 1665835
E-mail delivery: Add a Message-ID header when sending emails. Reduces probability of mails sent from calibre being marked as spam
Save to disk: Fix path shortening being applied to entire save template even when saving to singe directory.
Closes tickets: 1665964
Get Books: Update the Virualo and Publi store plugins for website changes
Viewer: Fix regression that caused slow opening of some books with missing font/css/image files
Viewer: Pressing Ctrl+F in fullscreen mode should show the controls.
Closes tickets: 1664076
Edit book: Do not allow creating multiple new files whose names differ only by case.
Closes tickets: 1664027
Viewer: Use heuristics to try to detect comics encoded as fixed layout EPUBs to ensure they are displayed as intended.
Closes tickets: 1667357
New news sources
Various new and improved Belgian news sources by erkfuizfeuadjfjzefzfuzeff
Improved news sources
The Atlantic
The Financial Times

Changes for v2.78 - v2.79.1

New Features
Windows: Make recently opened books show up in the jump lists for the standalone viewer and editor programs
OS X/Linux: Show an informational popup message when an Android device is plugged in that needs the user to tap Allow for the connection to work.
Conversion: Log options that are different from the defaults separately, for easy reference
Bug Fixes
2.79.1 fixes a regression in 2.79.0 that broke the file open dialogs on windows vista
Conversion: Fix regression that broke conversion of some epub files when using the 'Remove first image' option.
Closes tickets: 1660699
Get Books: Update Kobo plugin for website changes
Windows MTP driver: Fix error when enumerating device storage not being reported during debug device detection
Tag Browser: When dragging and dropping a book onto a series increment the series number.
Closes tickets: 1661588
Fix crash when generating covers with Qt 5.8 on linux
Fix Get Books result list and jobs list not being populated on Qt 5.8
Fix importing rules in the coloring/icon rules dialog not enabling the apply button
Improved news sources
Strange Horizons
Wall Street Journal
Bangkok Post
The Atlantic
NYTimes
LA Times
New Yorker
The Straits Times

Changes for v2.78 - v2.79

New Features
Windows: Make recently opened books show up in the jump lists for the standalone viewer and editor programs
OS X/Linux: Show an informational popup message when an Android device is plugged in that needs the user to tap Allow for the connection to work.
Conversion: Log options that are different from the defaults separately, for easy reference
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Fix regression that broke conversion of some epub files when using the 'Remove first image' option.
Closes tickets: 1660699
Get Books: Update Kobo plugin for website changes
Windows MTP driver: Fix error when enumerating device storage not being reported during debug device detection
Tag Browser: When dragging and dropping a book onto a series increment the series number.
Closes tickets: 1661588
Fix crash when generating covers with Qt 5.8 on linux
Fix Get Books result list and jobs list not being populated on Qt 5.8
Fix importing rules in the coloring/icon rules dialog not enabling the apply button
Improved news sources
Strange Horizons
Wall Street Journal
Bangkok Post
The Atlantic
NYTimes
LA Times
New Yorker
The Straits Times

Changes for v2.77 - v2.78

New Features
View button: Add an action to the right click menu that always opens the book with the calibre viewer, regardless of the preferences
Kobo driver: Update to support the newest firmware from Kobo
E-book viewer: Allow opening a specific item from the Table of Contents via the --open-at command line parameter.
Closes tickets: 1656573
Amazon metadata download: Add support for downloading from amazon.ca
Bug Fixes
Edit Book: Do not condense CSS rules when saving AZW3 files regardless of the value of Preferences->Common Options->Look & Feel->Expand CSS
EPUB Output: Fix a duplicate id created in rare circumstances when splitting on page breaks.
Closes tickets: 1658744
DOCX Input: Fix error when converting documents that have images pointing to web resources.
Closes tickets: 1659142
E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused an increase in load times when loading the individual HTML files inside an EPUB book.
Closes tickets: 1658578
Fix setting a similar books search to use the formats field in Preferences->Searching resulting in an error.
Closes tickets: 1658386
Kobo driver: Fix incorrect cover size being uploaded to the Glo HD
E-book viewer: Fix 'View Image' right click menu action not available for svg files included via tags.
Closes tickets: 1657717
HTML Input: Remove the # character from input filenames, for maximum compatibility.
Closes tickets: 1656833
Edit Book: Fix spell check treating the unicode hyphen (U+2010) differently from the normal hyphen (U+002d).
Closes tickets: 1656319
New news sources
The Sunday Times Magazine by Bobby Steel
Improved news sources
FOX News
Oriental Daily
AM730
The Times
NYTimes
Mediapart
Echo Online
kath.net
GoComics
The Hindu

Changes for v2.76 - v2.77

Bug Fixes
Conversion: Fix changing the cover image not updating references to the old cover image inside SVG wrappers.
Closes tickets: 1655309
E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused clicking links in the footnote popup window to stop working
Edit Book: Fix importing DOCX file as new book not setting the version attribute in the OPF
Kindle driver: Fix some newer KFX books not being recognized on e-ink kindles, because of a change in how metadata is stored in the KFX format
DOCX Output: Fix missing tag causing conversion to fail.
Closes tickets: 1654463
Edit Book: Fix group references causing errors when used in replace string in the normal mode search and replace
Edit Book: Fix Check Book reporting a spurious mime/type mismatch error after replacing a file with a file having a different mime type.
Closes tickets: 1653977
Amazon metadata download: Fix detection of series not working for some books due to changes in the amazon website
Fix Nook HD+ not being detected on windows
Edit Book: Ensure keyboard focus stays with Files Browser when renaming files.
Closes tickets: 1653311
Improved news sources
kath.net
publico.pt
Telepolis
The Times
Helsingin Sanomat

Changes for v2.74 - v2.76

Bug Fixes
E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the viewer on systems where the temporary directory is a symlink (common on OSX).
EPUB Input: Fix EPUB2 files that specify a cover image via a tag but not in the not getting a cover when converted to PDF
PDF Output: Fix conversion failure when input document contains first page with no renderable content.
Closes tickets: 1652825
Editor: Fix incorrect handling of some regular expressions in the Search tool.
Closes tickets: 1652621
OS X: Fix dynamically generated context menus, such as the sort by menu not working.
Closes tickets: 1652694
Fix a crash when running with assertions turned on in Qt.
Closes tickets: 1652685
Edit Book: Reports tool: Fix an error when right clicking on items in the Links view.
Closes tickets: 1652960
Improved news sources
Clarin
La Prensa
Telam
iProfesional
Buenos Aires Economico
Release: 2.75.1 [23 Dec, 2016]
New Features
Happy Holidays everyone!
Add support for new Kobo firmware version 4.2
Allow using amazon_in, amazon_au, amazon_com identifiers in the Book details panel.
Closes tickets: 1649371
Bug Fixes
Version 2.75.1 has fixes for a regression in 2.75.0 that broke the Live CSS feature in the editor and caused some minor problems in the viewer
Kobo driver: Fix incorrectly sized covers being sent to some Kobo devices
E-book viewer: Prevent javascript in the book from accessing files on the computer using XMLHttpRequest.
Closes tickets: 1651728
Edit Book: Fix the 'Search ignoring markup tool' not ignoring comments/processing instructions, etc.
Closes tickets: 1651160
CSS Transforms: Fix 'is'/'is not' rules not matching currentColor.
Closes tickets: 1650930
E-book viewer: Make the swipe up gesture move to next section instead of previous section.
Closes tickets: 1651034
Edit Book: Allow the Spell Check dialog and the search panel to be made much narrower than before.
Closes tickets: 1650932
Edit Book: Fix customize template window not freely resizable on windows.
Closes tickets: 1650924
Edit Book: Fix newlines not being matched by the 'Search ignoring markup' tool.
Closes tickets: 1649383
EPUB Input: Fix incorrect handling of html files that are in a folder above the OPF file.
Closes tickets: 1649357
Improved news sources
Ambito Financiero
Die Zeit (subscription)
Irish Times
Guardian
Independent
Ambito.com

Changes for v2.73 - v2.74

New Features
Amazon metadata download: Allow downloading from amazon.cn as well. To use go to Preferences->Metadata download and customize the amazon plugin to download from amazon.cn
Edit Book: Allow disabling the 'Files already arranged into folders' message popup
Bug Fixes
Edit Book: Fix selected text not being fully highlighted when using the solarized color schemes.
Closes tickets: 1647448
calibredb: Fix CSV output for the check_library command not being properly escaped
Fix subsetting of fonts whose names start with 'and' not working
Fix a regression in 2.72 that broke the --start-in-tray command line option.
Closes tickets: 1644876
Fix third party plugins that create dynamic context menus not working in linux
DOCX Input: Fix images wider than 50% of the page width being incorrectly right aligned even when anchored to the center of the page.
Closes tickets: 1646086
Catalog generation: Ensure all citation keys in BiBTeX catalogs have only ascii characters.
Closes tickets: 1646239
Get Books: Update ebookpoint and legimi plugins for website changes
EPUB3 metadata: Ensure updating metadata never produces empty dc:contributor elements.
Closes tickets: 1644702
DOCX Output: Fix an error when converting tables with spanning cells.
Closes tickets: 1644912
Nicer error message if the user tries to import data while the content server is running
Improved news sources
Frontline
Korea Herald
Pagina 12
Edge Conversations
Kitsapun
Mobile Nations
NME
Security Watch
Sign on SD
Star Advertiser
tyzden

Changes for v2.72 - v2.73

New Features
Add a preference in Preferences->Look & Feel to hide the row numbers in the main book list.
Closes tickets: 1643313
Allow Export/Import of column coloring and icon rules.
Closes tickets: 1643314
Edit Book: Allow bulk changing of file extension for selected files by right clicking ont he selected files in the file browser.
Closes tickets: 1643232
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for nav documents that contain no ToC in EPUB 3 books
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a test to check if the embedded fonts in the book have their embedding permissions enabled
Bug Fixes
Pressing the up arrow in an date edit with undefined value should jump to the current date rather than Feb 101
EPUB Input: When an invalid nav based ToC is used in an EPUB 3.0 document that also has a fallback NCX ToC, use the fallback ToC.
Closes tickets: 1643247
Fix a regression that broke the icon theme creation tool in the previous release
Closes tickets: 1643228
Fix insert character dialog not reflowing characters on resize. Also only allow the search bar in the dialog to get input focus
Improved news sources
Dilbert
The Hindu

Changes for v2.71 - v2.72

New Features
Font embedding: Implement automatic embedding for fonts with non-normal stretch and weight values such as Condensed/Light/Extra Bold fonts
Allow aborting an in-progress Copy-to-library action.
Closes tickets: 1641458
Edit Book: When adding a font file via File->New automatically generate the appropriate @font-face rule and copy it to the clipboard so that it can be easily inserted into the appropriate CSS files.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a warning for links with the : character in them on windows
Conversion: When converting markdown documents recognize basic metadata in the markdown document formatted as per the markdown metadata extension.
Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Various small usability enhancements -- preserve position in word list on refresh, ensure that new current word is highlighted after changing a word, etc.
Edit Book: Flash the taskbar icon after beautify all files completes.
Closes tickets: 1639024
Bug Fixes
Fix creating an empty library with the same structure as current library not creating custom columns on the first restart after creating the new custom columns.
Closes tickets: 1641278
Edit Book: Dont fail to rename files on windows if there is a link containing the colon character.
Closes tickets: 1641202
PDF Output: Dont fail if one of the embedded fonts has no names
Edit Book: When downloading external resources, ensure the generated filenames are valid.
Closes tickets: 1639448
Windows: Fix file extension not being added automatically when missing in save dialogs.
Closes tickets: 1637353
Fix calibre not opening full-screen in windows tablet mode.
Closes tickets: 1638158
Edit Book: Fix check external links tool not detecting changes that have not yet been saved
Generate covers: Fix & in the series causing incorrect formatting of series number.
Closes tickets: 1638759
Edit Book: Fix a regression in the last release that broke the Arrange into folders tool when arranging into sub-folders of a folder that does not exist.
Improved news sources
Mediapart

Changes for v2.70 - v2.71

New Features
calibre's tenth birthday edition!
calibre was first released (as libprs500) ten years ago today. A big thank you to the entire calibre community -- users, contributors and developers -- for keeping it humming for so long.
A new set of icons for calibre
To celebrate calibre turning ten, calibre now has a brand new set of icons designed from scratch. Note that you can choose between many different icon sets for calibre, including the original icons, from Preferences->Look & Feel->Choose icon theme
A short video commemorating the occasion: https://youtu.be/Q95NfFKc0v8
Book details panel: Add a copy all action to the right click menu.
Closes tickets: 1633477
Bug Fixes
Get Books: Update ebookpoint and woblink store plugins for website changes
Edit Book: When un-marking text auto-change the 'search where' location to what it was before text was marked rather than 'current file'.
Automatic adding: Show an error if the user specifies a folder whose name starts with a dot or underscore.
Closes tickets: 1637021
OS X: Fix a regression that caused incorrect display of the icon in pop-up message boxes when using a Retina display.
Closes tickets: 1635999
Kobo driver: Fix an error when migrating very old settings
Closes tickets: 1635909
Kobo driver: Fix a regression that broke handling of reading status for devices running old 1.9x versions of the Kobo firmware
Edit Book: When using the arrange into folders tool do not change the case of already existing folders in the book.
Closes tickets: 1633875
Improved news sources
LWN Weekly
Financial Times
MIT Technology Review
The Hindu

Changes for v2.69 - v2.70

New Features
Edit Book: Add a tool to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.) that are not included in the book.
Closes tickets: 1620058
Make custom columns available in the Alter Tag Browser->Manage categories sub menu
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Fix incorrect resolution of references to resources in HTML files that exist in a folder level above the OPF file. This could lead to styles being incorrectly processed in such HTML files.
Get Books: Update the amazon store plugins for website changes
Update ozon.ru metadata download plugin to fix searching for books by ISBN
Edit Book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the preferences dialog for changing color schemes.
Closes tickets: 1629294
Edit Book: Better error message when user tries to open a Check Book item that refers to a file that has been deleted since the last time Check Book was run.
Closes tickets: 1632897
New news sources
Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen
Improved news sources
Wired
Ambito
InfoWorld
Instapaper
San Jose Mercury News
South China Morning Post
Journal Gazette
JPost
Las Vegas Review
Marietta Daily Journal
DziennikBaltycki
biweekly
dwutygodnik
GRY Online
ESO
TVN24
And many more, see commit logs for details

Changes for v2.68 - v2.69

New Features
Kobo driver: Support for firmware version 4.1 and Overdrive books on the device
Edit Book: Highlight class names inside HTML tags
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow search & replace to work for ratings columns as well.
Bug Fixes
Fix downloading of metadata from ozon.ru, which broke due to website changes
Kobo driver: Fix delete of empty collections
Kobo driver: Fix book previews being sometimes detected as actual books
Cover Browser: Fix setting an empty template for the title causes an error
Edit Book: On windows do not trigger shortcuts when using the right Alt (AltGr) key. This allows it to be used for entering special characters instead.
Closes tickets: 1627487
Edit Book: Auto-add file extension when using the Save a Copy dialog if it is missing.
Closes tickets: 1627482
Linux: Fix calibre not launching when used with some old VNC server implementations
Windows: Run library restore in a separate process as on some windows machines, running it in the main process causes something in the system to lock the db file.
Fix some news downloads in east asian languages not working because the truncation of article descriptions could cause invalid UTF-16 bytes in the string
Fix incorrect timezone when editing custom date columns directly in the book list
New news sources
Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen
Improved news sources
New York Times
Independent
El tribuno de Salta

Changes for v2.67 - v2.68

New Features
Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the list of servers calibre considers public email servers
Bug Fixes
Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the OPDS feeds for libraries with no custom columns
Closes tickets: 1621642
Edit metadata dialog: Fix auto-generation/validation of author sort values not working when only changing case of the author name.
Closes tickets: 1623593
A nicer error message when calibre fails to create the temporary directory.
Closes tickets: 1622131
Fix dates being set to empty in bulk search/replace not becoming UNDEFINED
Edit metadata dialog: Make pressing up on an undefined numeric field set the value to zero instead of -99999.
Closes tickets: 1622757
Conversion: Handle corrupted JPEG files that have valid headers but invalid data.
Closes tickets: 1622416
Conversion: Improve detection of input documents that use uppercase tag/attribute names.
Closes tickets: 1622261
Fix regression in previous release that caused incorrect display of ratings in the side panel of the metadata download dialog
Get Books: Update publio and virtualo store plugins for website changes
Fix reading metadata from PDF files broken by poppler >= 0.47.0
Change the application name set in Qt to calibre from libprs500.
Closes tickets: 1623397
Improved news sources
Respekt Magazine
Punto Informatico
El universal

Changes for v2.65.1 - v2.67

New Features
Allow creating custom rating columns that support half-stars via Preferences->Add your own columns
Tag Browser: Add an option in Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser to turn off the display of counts in the Tag Browser
Tag browser: Show the book counts on the right edge of the Tag Browser
Cover Browser: Allow any metadata field to be used as the sub-title, not just the rating
Edit Book: A new tool to sort the rules in a CSS stylesheet. To use it add it to the toolbar for CSS editors
Edit Book: The Remove Unused CSS tool now has an option to also merge CSS rules that have identical selectors
Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to exclude some images types from being treated a covers when dropped onto the Book Details panel.
Closes tickets: 1620198
Allow reading more image formats as covers (All images will be converted to JPEG when stored).
Closes tickets: 1619993
Content server: OPDS feeds: Change the value of for entries in the acquisition feed to be the last modified date for the book. Also make the size and last modified timestamp available as attributes in the acquisition links. Useful for integration with third party applications.
Kobo driver: Add support for firmware version 4 available on the new Kobo Aura One
Bug Fixes
ODT Input: Add support for continued lists.
Closes tickets: 1620581
Edit Book: Fix high-dpi rendering of emblems in the File Browser
Fix regression in previous release that caused wide column icons to be scaled incorrectly
Metadata download dialog: Fix https links in the download summary not working
DOCX Output: Handle nested display:table tags with no rows.
Closes tickets: 1619662
PDF Output: Fix OpenType fonts with CFF font data not embeddable on windows
Improved news sources
Ars Technica

Changes for v2.64 - v2.65.1

New Features
Driver for Kobo Aura One and Aura Edition 2
Kobo driver: Add an option to ignore some collections on the device. The specified collections will not be touched by the driver.
Add an option in Preferences->Searching to make searching case-sensitive
DOCX Input: Add support for right-to-left text/tables
Closes tickets: 1569771
Bug Fixes
Fix some icons/images in the user interface looking blurred in environments with High DPI scaling enabled, such as OS X retina screens
DOCX Input: Fix images that have the # character in their filenames not being converted correctly.
Closes tickets: 1616482
ToC wizard: Fix generating toc from headings/xpath yielding unexpected results when tags are present out of sequence
Edit Book: Fix drag and drop of text replacing non-breaking spaces with normal spaces
E-book viewer: Fix duplicate names in hyphenation dictionary chooser.
Closes tickets: 1615040
Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the completion popups for some custom column types in the book list to stop working.
Closes tickets: 1612640
Version 2.65.1 contains a quick-fix for a typo in 2.65.0 that caused calibre to crash when a device is connected and the cover grid is enabled
Improved news sources
Le Scienze
New Yorker

Changes for v2.63 - v2.64

New Features
Custom columns: Add a new 'Short text' column type that behaves like the builtin title column
More generally, you can now customize Comments-like columns, controlling how their headings are displayed in the Book Details panel and also specifying what kind of data they contain (plain text, HTML or even Markdown)
Edit book: Function mode: Allow appending text to the end of the marked text when running function mode search/replace on marked text
PDF Output: Add a new variable _TOP_LEVEL_SECTION_ for use in header/footer templates that resolves to the current top-most section in the Table of Contents
Linux/OSX: Shutdown gracefully on receiving the interrupt or terminate Unix signals
Bug Fixes
PDF Output: Fix a regression that caused the last page of a chapter to sometimes be dropped from the output
Do not show an error if the user tries to quit calibre while editing a cell in the book list. Instead, just silently abort the edit.
Closes tickets: 1610539
E-book viewer: Fix 0px margins and percentage margins not being respected when the option to override book margins is turned off.
Closes tickets: 1608458
Book Details: Do not show the 'Copy link' context menu item unless there is an actual link at the cursor location.
Closes tickets: 1605594
Get Books: Update store plugin for nexto
New news sources
Data News by oCkz7bJ_
Improved news sources
Private Eye
Prospect Magazine
De Standaard
Jot Down
Weblogs SL
Hola
El Correo

Changes for v2.60 - v2.62

New Features
EPUB metadata: Support for reading and writing EPUB 3 specific metadata. Now when processing EPUB 3 files, calibre will generate/use EPUB 3 specific metadata constructs when available, for example for series.
Recognize the newest Kindle model, that started shipping today.
Closes tickets: 1599970
Bug Fixes
Tag Mapper: Allow specifying a space as the split character when creating a split tags rule
Tag mapper: Fix upper case characters not working in 'contains' rules
Smarten punctuation: Fix double dashes and triple dots being smartened even inside attribute values.
Closes tickets: 1598465
HTML Input: Sanitize semi-colons from HTML filenames as they can cause problems with other EPUB consuming software.
Closes tickets: 1598719
EPUB Input: Speed up reading of the book spine from the OPF file for books with a very large number of entries in the spine
Edit Book: Reports: Characters: Fix sorting by count and name not working.
Closes tickets: 1598518
Fix KoboTouch configuration migration not working for older settings
Closes tickets: 1598017
New news sources
Various Russian news sources by bugmen00t
Improved news sources
The Skeptic

Changes for v2.59 - v2.60

New Features
Edit metadata: In the drop down list for languages, show the five most recently used languages first.
Closes tickets: 1594089
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for missing navigation documents in EPUB 3 books
Kobo driver: Improved configuration dialog for the Kobo Touch device driver
Copy to Library: Do not abort the copy process if only some books fail to copy, instead report which books failed and copy the rest.
Closes tickets: 1594100
News download: Make all relative links (those starting with /) absolute. Useful when reading on a device that supports web browsing.
EPUB metadata: Add an option to disable adding of cover images to EPUB files that declare no cover image in their metadata (Preferences->Plugins->Customize the Set EPUB metadata plugin)
Bug Fixes
ToC Editor: Fix ToC detection in EPUB 3 files with only an NCX and no nav not working
E-book viewer: In paged mode, when the window is toggled between full screen and window, repeatedly, preserve the position more accurately.
Closes tickets: 1595307
E-book viewer: Fix incorrect page turning when multiple pages are displayed on screen for books that wrap all their content in a single 100% height tag.
Closes tickets: 1594657
Fix a regression that broke scheduling a new news download in timezones west of GMT
Edit Book: Fix undocked windows not resizable on OS X
Fix a regression in 2.57 that broke rescaling of images to fit the output profile screen size during conversion.
Closes tickets: 1594098
Fix for file dialogs not working on windows when non-ascii environment variables are present
HTML Input: Fix error when converting HTML file with URL encoded filename.
Closes tickets: 1593632
Improved news sources
Handelsblatt
New York Times Book Review
Antyweb

Changes for v2.58 - v2.59

New Features
Amazon metadata download: Download the series information when available from amazon.com
Amazon metadata download: Recognize common patterns of embedding the series name after the title and remove it automatically
Edit Book: Add support for EPUB 3 to the Table of Contents tool. Now when editing EPUB 3 files using the tool will automatically generate both the EPUB 3 navigation document and the NCX table of contents for backwards compatibility.
EPUB Input: Implement reading of Table of Contents from EPUB 3 files that do not specify a fallback NCX ToC
EPUB metadata: When setting a cover image for an EPUB file that has no metadata cover image defined, add the new cover image as a pure metadata cover instead of aborting.
Bug Fixes
Fix crash on exit if any plugins have loaded code that raises exceptions during shutdown.
Closes tickets: 1592414
Copy to library: Speed up checking for duplicates when copying multiple books to a large library.
Closes tickets: 1593027
Get Books: Update Smashwords plugin for website changes.
Closes tickets: 1590653
Edit Book: Fix a bug in the new text search facility that could cause searches to fail when searching from the current cursor position instead of the top of the file.
Closes tickets: 1588778
Bulk conversion dialog: Fix page margin settings being ignored when converting to DOCX
Make the default shortcut for remove books Backspace on OS X since many mac keyboards have no delete key and the backspace key is labelled as delete
Edit Book: Check Book: Do not warn if a cover image is not referenced in the text
E-book viewer: Fix a bug that could cause incorrect rendering of chapter titles in some rare circumstances.
Windows console output: Handle consoles with non black and white color scheme correctly
Fix a regression in 2.57 that caused auto-removal of borders from covers to become much less proficient at detecting borders
Fix a regression in 2.57 that broke grayscaling of images
Improved news sources
Technology Review (DE)

Changes for v2.57.1 - v2.58

New Features
Edit Book: A text search tool to conveniently search for text even if it crosses multiple HTML tags (Search->Search ignoring HTML markup)
OSX: Allow drag and drop of file onto viewer dock icon to view file
Bug Fixes
Workaround for incompatibility between Qt 5.5+ and Ubuntu that caused the context menu for the book list to flicker.
Closes tickets: 1534936
Windows: Workaround for explorer shell extensions on windows that write to stdout
Edit Book: When jumping to next occurrence of a word, take language into account
Edit Book: Fix import of words into user dictionary not working
Fix use of non-ascii characters in identifiers causing an error when identifier rules are used.
Closes tickets: 1584470
Fix a regression that caused the paste from clipboard button to paste two times in the Add books from ISBN dialog
Fix for incompatibility with PyQt 5.6
Improved news sources
Denver Post
Financial Times
bild.de

Changes for v2.57 - v2.57.1

Version 2.57.1 is a hotfix to fix a regression that broke conversion of ODT files in 2.57.0

Changes for v2.56 - v2.57

New Features
Driver for the Bq Cervantes 3
A new "Ornamental" cover design for the "Generate cover" feature
Windows: Use a helper process that does not load any calibre DLLs to display file open/save dialogs. This should fix most crashes caused by poorly designed windows shell extensions.
Allow pressing Alt+O as a shortcut for click the OK button in the Add from ISBN dialog.
Closes tickets: 1578692
Remove the calibre dependency on ImageMagick -- reduces calibre install size by ~ 15MB
Edit book: Add a new image filter: Normalize -- to improve the contrast in images
Edit book: Add a filter to make images look like oil paintings
Use 'Not rated' for zero stars in all rating spin boxes
Bug Fixes
Edit Book: Fix a crash in the Insert Link tool if one of the HTML files contains an empty id.
Closes tickets: 1580928
Fix tag like custom columns not sorted when displayed in the Book Details panel.
Closes tickets: 1578688
Fix transient window shown during Edit Book startup
Preserve booklist horizontal scroll position when merging books.
Closes tickets: 1579637
Google Images metadata download plugin: Fix error when searching for books with non-English characters in the title or author names.
Closes tickets: 1577036
Template language: Fix an error formatting dates when the underlying date does not have a day.
Closes tickets: 1576742
Preferences->Keyboard: Fix unable to use Alt+A and Alt+S as custom shortcuts.
Closes tickets: 1576721
Improved news sources
Folha de Sao Paolo
Barrons
Economist
Deutsche Welle (English and Spanish editions)
Die Presse
MIT Technology Review
Financial Times UK
Telegraph UK
The Guardian
Spiegel Online
Brand Eins
Focus.de
The Toronto Star
The Atlantic
Capital.de
The Times of India
The Economic Times India

Changes for v2.55 - v2.56

New Features
Edit Book: Add an option to show full file paths in the Files Browser instead of just the file name (in Preferences->Main window)
Allow creating a keyboard shortcut to minimize the calibre window (Preferences->Keyboard->Miscellaneous).
Closes tickets: 1573775
Bug Fixes
Fix the Google Images based cover download plugin not working because of changes to Google's image search service
E-book viewer: Prevent the TAB key from causing partial scrolling in paged mode.
Closes tickets: 1571304
Book details panel: Fix regression in previous release that broke url:http|... style identifiers
OS X: Redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null instead of ASL since ASL is flaky on some OS X machines. This should prevent errors in third party plugins that print a lot of debug messages even when not in debug mode
Fix for OS X upgrade 10.11.4 breaking detection of Kobo devices on some systems
Edit Book: Fix filename being duplicated in the Files Browser when multiple files with the same name are present.
PDF Output: Make fix for blank page at end of HTML file also work when headers/footers are specified
New news sources
1843 by Kovid Goyal
Berlin Policy Journal by Aimylios
Improved news sources
Forbes
Wall Street Journal
Berliner Zeitung
Tagesspiegel
TIME
Foreign Affairs
New Yorker

Changes for v2.54 - v2.55

New Features
Allow creation of rules to convert arbitrary identifiers into clickable links in the book details panel (Prefrences->Look & Feel->Book details)
Tag mapper: A new rule type 'split' allows you to easily split tags on a character
Make the shutting down message an overlay so it is less disruptive
Allow right clicking on Virtual Library tabs to edit/delete the virtual library.
Closes tickets: 1568306
Tag mapper: Add a button to edit the list of tags in a tag mapper rule using the tag editor dialog.
Closes tickets: 1568376
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Fix the obsolete HTML align=center markup (produced by Microsoft Word) not working for tables.
Closes tickets: 1569583
Font subsetting: When font-variant: small-caps is used include the capital letters as well, in case either the font or the renderer do not support OpenType smcp.
Closes tickets: 1568555
Font subsetting: Implement support for text-transform.
Closes tickets: 1568555
Fix the target book entry in the book list not being refreshed after merging books. Only matters if you have a column based on book formats.
Closes tickets: 1568091
E-book viewer: Fix a link that has some text along with a superscript/subscript being incorrectly detected as a footnote link
Fix device detection on windows failing if the registry entries for the device contain a very long item.
Closes tickets: 1567569
Edit Book: Fix an extra colon being added when setting the 'notes' semantic
Ensure that author folder names are never windows reserved names
E-book viewer: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being shown together.
PDF Output: When displaying an EPUB 3 document that uses epub:switch to provide a fallback for MathML content, prevent both the MathML and fallback from being rendered together.
Fix exception in custom column preferences when the column lookup key is changed
Catalog generation: Do not crash is a book in the library has no uuid.
Closes tickets: 1565242
New news sources
Kitekinto by pofa
Improved news sources
Brand Eins
Handelsblatt
tyzden
Newsweek

Changes for v2.53 - v2.54

New Features
Edit metadata in bulk dialog: Allow configuring the types of generated covers.
Closes tickets: 1559257
E-book viewer: Make the detection of note boundaries for popup footnotes a little more robust
E-book viewer: Add options to control the amount the mouse wheel and arrow keys scroll by in flow mode
When running the content server do not hide the main calibre window during shutdown until the content server has stopped. Show a shutting down message in the window so that the user knows what is happening.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for empty links
DOCX Input: When the document has a Table of Contents created using the Word Table of Contents tool, keep a reference to it in the metadata. This is useful when converting to old style MOBI and you want to precisely control placement of the ToC.
Closes tickets: 1556983
Bug Fixes
Fix auto-mounting of some types of devices not working on FreeBSD
calibredb add: Fix the --cover option not working if the book being added has its own cover.
Closes tickets: 1562507
E-book viewer: Fix mathematics being typeset at too small a font size on windows
PDF Output: Fix occasional blank pages erroneously inserted in the text (at the end of an internal html file).
Closes tickets: 1559855
Book details panel: Fix url:file:// identifiers not becoming links
Fix fetch news dialog not rendering properly on HiDPI screens
Fix a hard to trigger crash introduced in the previous release when using the conversion dialog
Closes tickets: 1557147
New news sources
Magyar Nemzet and Mult Kor by pofa
Improved news sources
Nature News
TIME Magazine
Folha de Sao Paolo
Endgadget
MSNBC
The New York Times Book Review

Changes for v2.52 - v2.53

New Features
Edit Book: A new tool to transform book styling using easy to create rules.
For example, you can create rules to change colors in the book or to double the font size of all text in the book, etc. For details, see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html#transforming-css-properties
Conversion: Allow creating rules to transform styles during conversion, as above. Available in the conversion dialog at 'Look & Feel->Transform style'
Edit metadata dialog: Make the hide toolbars right click menu action persistent. Also fix very large number of custom fields causing the basic metadata tab to not be aligned properly
Portable Installer: Do not ask to launch calibre when running an automated install. Automated installs will now never launch calibre.
Bug Fixes
E-book viewer: Hide list numbers for popup footnotes when the footnotes are use
1. DOCX Input: Ignore the hidden bookmark Word 2010 inserts to enable the go to last edit feature.
2. Closes tickets: 1552972
4. Fix keyboard focus lost after merging book records
5. Closes tickets: 1550520
7. E-book viewer: Handle Closes tickets: 1550966
9. Edit Book: Fix spelling correction suggestions not being shown when using the context menu key with the cursor at the end of the word
10. Improved news sources
12. Mediapart

Changes for v2.51 - v2.52

New Features
Allow creating rules to ignore files when adding books based on the filename
Useful when using the auto-add feature or when adding in bulk. Preferences->Adding Books->Rules to filter added files
calibredb add: Allow specifying filters to control adding of books from directories
E-book viewer: Allow copying the Table of Contents to the clipboard by right clicking on it.
Closes tickets: 1548791
Bug Fixes
FB2 metadata: Ignore invalid (unidentifiable) cover images.
Closes tickets: 1548417
FB2 metadata: Fix error when adding books with non-numeric series numbers.
Closes tickets: 1548405
DOCX Input: Fix handling of toggle properties such as bold/italic/strikethrough/etc. when specified as document defaults.
Closes tickets: 1548187
Conversion pipeline: Add support for the q CSS length unit
New news sources
Al-Masry Alyoum by Hassan Williamson
Improved news sources
AsiaOne
Today Online - Singapore
Foreign Policy
Outlook India
Economic and Political Weekly
Foreign Affairs
El Pais
LA Times
Al-Ahram
New York Times Book Review

Changes for v2.50.1 - v2.51

New Features
Add an action to the context menu for the search bar to paste and instantly execute the search.
Closes tickets: 1541286
When adding multiple books from a single directory, added the books in order of the last modified time of the book files.
Bug Fixes
Fix a regression in 2.50 that prevented a small number of devices from being detected on windows
PDF metadata: Workaround for PDF files with corrupted XMP metadata packets, generated by Nitro PDF.
Closes tickets: 1541981
Edit Book Beautify: Do not beautify the insides of heading/p tags even when they are the only child of body
Amazon metadata download: Fix published date not being downloaded from amazon.it
Fix a regression in 2.50 that broke the user created device driver feature on windows
EPUB Input: Fix error when processing EPUB files that uses non-ascii characters for their unique ids.
Closes tickets: 1540496
When reading the cover from comic files, ignore any image files inside __MACOSX/ directories.
Closes tickets: 1539414
Fix calibre on OS X unable to connect to sites that support only TLS >= 1.1. Also update the version of Qt bundled on OS X to 5.5.1
Improved news sources
Endgadget
The Economic Times India
Discover Magazine

Changes for v2.49 - v2.50.1

New Features
Change the way that devices are detected on Windows. This fixes device detection problems on some Windows 10 computers
Edit Book: When inserting images, add an option to insert the image as a full page image
DOCX Input: Add support for framed text created by setting the same border style on neighboring paragraphs.
Closes tickets: 1526663
Update PocketBook 650 driver for latest firmware revision
Closes tickets: 1535801
Bug Fixes
DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs with borders being rendered with an empty line inside the borders
ODT Input: Fix fallback PNG images generated by LibreOffice 4.x for SVG images not being ignored
Fix restore library failing on some windows systems with non-ascii library paths
Edit Book: Fix error when merging an empty HTML document or one that contains only text and no tags.
Closes tickets: 1535427
Fix failure to add FB2 files that contain published dates.
Closes tickets: 1535007
Use a private certificate when downloading plugins via HTTPS. This fixes errors on some windows machines that have missing root certificates.
Fix tag editor not working correctly for comma-separated custom columns
Fix existing rating not being removed when using Polish Books or Embed Metadata tools on EPUB files.
Closes tickets: 1534597
Improved news sources
New Scientist
FAZ.net
Scientific American
Business World Magazine
Houston Chronicle

Changes for v2.48 - v2.49

New Features
E-book viewer: Add an option to allow only a single book to be viewed at a time. Trying to view a second book will cause it to replace the currently viewed book.
Closes tickets: 1526504
Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware 3.19.5761
Linux build: Update bundled version of Qt to 5.5.1
Bug Fixes
Fix splash screen getting stuck on OSX when restarting calibre in debug mode
Get Books: Update plugins for various Polish language book stores to handle changes to the website
Amazon metadata download: Handle a change in the amazon website that prevented review metadata from being downloaded
Better algorithm for guessing the 'external' network interface that is displayed to the user
Tag Mapper: Do not allow the user to create rules with invalid regular expressions
E-book viewer: Disallow hyphenation in documents that use mathematical typesetting as the hyphenation breaks that typesetting
E-book viewer: Fix some non-ASCII characters not display in embedded MathML.
Closes tickets: 1532323
Download calibre plugins securely using HTTPS
MOBI Output: Try to autofix corrupted PNG images in the input document.
Closes tickets: 1531738
Nook Glowlight Plus: Send files by default to the NOOK/My Files folder.
Closes tickets: 1531394
E-book viewer: Fix failure to view comic files that contain non-ASCII characters int heir internal filenames.
Closes tickets: 1530517
New news sources
LaRed21 by Carlos Alves
Improved news sources
Echo Online
Various Uruguayan news sources
Economic and Political Weekly
Tagesanzeiger

Changes for v2.47 - v2.48

New Features
Driver for Energy Ereader Screenlight.
Closes tickets: 1529108
DOCX Input: Add option to have superscripts/subscripts converted so that they do not affect the line height of the line containing them.
Closes tickets: 1528055
New option to hide empty categories in Tag Browser (Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser)
Bug Fixes
Image compression: Fix spurious zero byte .bak files being created when compressing png images inside epub files
Image compression: Fix bug that could cause zero byte images files/or file in use errors when compressing images
Fix some icons not being themeable
Closes tickets: 1529501
E-book viewer: When using heuristics to detect footnote links check for vertical-align set to top and bottom as well as sub and super
Book details panel: Display data in right-to-left format when the calibre interface language is set to a right-to-left language such as Hebrew or Arabic
Improved news sources
Rzeczpospolita
New York Times Book Review
der Standard
More Intelligent Life
Reader's Digest
Financial Times
New Scientist

Changes for v2.46 - v2.47

New Features
A new tool to easily export and import all calibre data -- books, settings and plugins
Right click the calibre icon in the main calibre toolbar and choose "Export/import all calibre data" to run this tool. It is useful if you want to move to a new computer or duplicate your calibre setup on a second computer, with minimal effort. This tool is very new, so if you run into problems, please report bugs. You can always use the old manual method of copying library folders as a fallback.
Get Books: Add plugins for Amazon Australia and Amazon India. Also restore the Amazon EU plugins.
Closes tickets: 1526089
Bug Fixes
PDF Input: Fix conversion of PDF documents that contain ASCII control codes in their outlines not working.
Closes tickets: 1527697
Edit book: Fix image compression utilities opening a new console per invocation on windows
Image compression: If the compression tools return a zero byte image ignore it and use the original image
Fix a regression that caused book titles in the Book Details panel to become clickable
Improved news sources
Fox News
Le Devoir
Le Monde diplomatique.fr

Changes for v2.45 - v2.46

New Features
PDF Input: Add support for PDF outlines (bookmarks), if present, they are used as the metadata Table of Contents.
Closes tickets: 1524522
Book polishing: Add tool to losslessly compress images in the book in order to reduce its filesize, without affecting image quality
Edit Book: Add a new tool to compress images in the book losslessly, accessed from the Tools menu
Kobo driver: add support for new Kobo firmware
Closes tickets: 1524742
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow entering fractional numbers into the series number start with control.
Closes tickets: 1523253
Speed up moving libraries by using hardlinks instead of file copies when moving to a location on the same filesystem
Get Books: Disable the Amazon EU stores, at Amazon's request
Bug Fixes
Fix moving libraries via calibre leaving behind a copy of the metadata_db_prefs_backup.json file in the original library folder
MOBI Input: Warn about corrupted trailing data entries, instead of aborting. Getting some, even partially corrupted text is better than no text.
Closes tickets: 1521830
Book details: Fix single value custom text column not clickable.
Closes tickets: 1521004
Saving to disk: Fix custom date column being rendered in GMT instead of the local time zone when used in a save to disk template.
Closes tickets: 1520895
Improved news sources
New York Review of Books
Caravan Magazine
heise

Changes for v2.44 - v2.45

New Features
Cover browser: Allow customizing the text that appears under the covers with a template in Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover browser
When sending books without a cover to the device, generate a cover with book metadata instead of using the blank book icon
Preferenes->Add your own columns: Show more information about existing columns
Bug Fixes
PDF Output: Handle input documents with fonts that do not have either postscript or full name information.
Closes tickets: 1518678
DOCX Input: Handle numbering styles that use non-decimal number formats and custom templates.
Closes tickets: 1519962
Allow restoring of corrupted library to work even if the metadata.db file is missing from the library folder
Closes tickets: 1519855
Bulk metadata dialog: Fix renaming a custom series via search and replace causing the series index to be reset to 1.
Closes tickets: 1519599
Bulk metadata dialog: Fix search and replace not working for text like custom columns if the column contains only a single value.
Closes tickets: 1516890
Content server: Fix next and previous links not working in the mobile view when using a search query that includes url unsafe characters.
Closes tickets: 1519606
Update Amazon metadata download plugin to handle amazon.com website change that was preventing any metadata from being downloaded
Edit Book: Fix error when trying to add words to user dictionary for a book with a language that has no dictionary available.
Closes tickets: 1517928
Tag browser: Fix various bugs in how grouped search terms are displayed. Also fix counts and average rating for items in user categories
When using copy to library also create missing composite columns in the destination library.
Closes tickets: 1516880
Improved news sources
The Guardian and The Observer

Changes for v2.43 - v2.44

New Features
Allow setting the cover for a book from one of the book's formats by right clicking on the format in the Book details panel.
Closes tickets: 1515411
Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog.
Closes tickets: 1515407
Edit Book: When inserting an image into the current document, add a button to paste the image from the clipboard
Edit Book: Change the suggested prefix for bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.
Closes tickets: 1514468
On Linux, use the system tray icon from the system theme, if available
Bug Fixes
Fix for error when connecting to some Android phones/tablets that have an SD card on OS X and Linux
Linux build: Fix problem with pointing hand mouse cursor not using the system theme on some Linux systems
Fix the device view state not being saved when a connected device is ejected/disconnected
Edit Book: Fix saving fails if the original file is deleted during editing session
Closes tickets: 1513849
E-book viewer: When doing a search do not match text in comments, attributes and inappropriate tags, such as

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