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# vim:fileencoding=utf-8:ts=2:sw=2:sta:et:sts=2:ai
# Each release can have new features and bug fixes. Each of which
# must have a title and can optionally have linked tickets and a description.
# In addition they can have a type field which defaults to minor, but should be major
# for important features/bug fixes.
# Also, each release can have new and improved recipes.
# - version: ?.?.?
# date: 2017-??-??
#
# new features:
# - title:
#
# bug fixes:
# - title:
#
# improved recipes:
# -
#
# new recipes:
# - title:
- version: 3.12.0
date: 2017-11-09
new features:
- title: "Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 3"
tickets: [1731024]
- title: "Allow configuring the metadata fields displayed in the popup book details window. To configure, simply click the 'Configure' link at the bottom of the window."
- title: "Wireless driver: Allow specifying extra file formats (unknown to calibre) to send"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a regression that caused clicking the clear button in the main search bar to not unapply the current search until enter is pressed."
- title: "Linux: Fix a regression causing calibre to fail to start on systems with no DBUS session bus"
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix body font being forced to sans-serif, overriding in book and user stylesheet settings"
- title: "Fix sending email failing of the computer's FQDN is set to a single period."
tickets: [1730166]
improved recipes:
- New Yorker
- Geopolityka
- version: 3.11.1
date: 2017-11-02
new features:
- title: "Kindle driver: Add support for the new Kindle Oasis"
- title: "Browser viewer: Allow the user to specify a CSS style sheet to control the look and feel of the text"
- title: "Edit book spell check: In the list of suggestions show the original word in italics."
tickets: [1727827]
- title: "Edit Book: When adding a new HTML file, add it after the file being currently edited instead of at the end."
tickets: [1728601]
- title: "Column coloring: Add a contains rule type."
tickets: [1728464]
- title: "Book details panel: Allow saving the displayed cover to disk via the right click context menu."
tickets: [1728251]
bug fixes:
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix font size and color scheme settings not being respected in the footnote popup"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix comments/XML processing instructions in the middle of text causing text to be skipped."
tickets: [1727599]
- title: "Book details panel: Fix metadata field titles not being top aligned"
- title: "Linux: Fix long startup delay on systems that do not have a desktop notification service running"
- title: "3.11.1 fixes a couple of regression in 3.11.0 that broke configuring Get books and creating catalogs"
improved recipes:
- Financial Times
- computerworld.pl
- Tulsa World
- Science Daily
- El Mundo
- version: 3.10.0
date: 2017-10-20
new features:
- title: "Browser viewer: Show footnotes in a popup window. Similar to the popup footnote functionality in the calibre viewer."
type: major
- title: "Content server: Add an option to control the timeout for making AJAX queries to the server."
tickets: [1722016]
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression that broke Preferences->Conversion->Common options in version 3.9"
- title: "Server: Fix adding expressions to the search always using AND instead of respecting the setting to use OR or AND."
tickets: [1724405]
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix a regression that caused loading more than one book in the same session or using the back/forward browser buttons to require refreshing the browser."
- title: "Jobs list: Fix killing of job killing the wrong job if other jobs are completed while waiting for kill confirmation."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix preserve cover aspect ratio option still distorting the aspect ratio slightly."
tickets: [1721864]
improved recipes:
- Lomza
- Go Comics
- Various Polish news sources
- version: 3.9.0
date: 2017-10-06
new features:
- title: "Remove the Connect to iTunes function since Apple has removed that functionality from iTunes"
description: "Now you have to use one of the wireless connection methods to connect to an iPad/iPhone, as described at: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#how-do-i-use-calibre-with-my-ipad-iphone-ipod-touch"
- title: "Kobo driver: Support for new firmware"
- title: "Allow changing the icons in yes/no columns via column icon rules."
tickets: [1721374]
- title: 'Quickview panel: Add a context menu with a "View" action to the book table.'
- title: "Make the elapsed time display in the jobs dialog more human friendly."
tickets: [1719059]
bug fixes:
- title: "EPUB Input: Fix styles in existing titlepage not being flattened when the titlepage is preserved during conversion."
tickets: [1720715]
- title: "Fix conversion of grayscale JPEG-XR images not working"
tickets: [1720638]
- title: "Update the douban metadata download plugin to match changes to the website"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix the preserve cover aspect ratio option not visible"
tickets: [1719026]
improved recipes:
- Respekt Magazine
- Associated Press
- Heraldo de Aragon
- El Correo
- El Periodico de Aragon
- A List Apart
- version: 3.8.0
date: 2017-09-22
new features:
- title: "Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an action to set metadata from e-book files."
tickets: [1717755]
- title: "Server: Add an option to control the number of books displayed per page in the browser (Preferences->Sharing over the net->Advanced)."
tickets: [1715283]
- title: "DOCX Output: Add an option to preserve the cover aspect ratio in the output document."
tickets: [1715800]
- title: "Book details panel: An option to control the layout of the panel in 'Narrow' mode (Preferences->Look & feel->Book details)"
tickets: [1714613]
- title: "If the --start-in-tray option is specified, create a tray icon even if the configuration option to enable tray icons is off."
bug fixes:
- title: "Possible fix for issue with pinning calibre to taskbar on windows. Note that as an unfortunate side-effect, you will have to unpin and re-pin calibre to the taskbar after updating."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix text immediately after a hidden tag not being included."
tickets: [1717403]
- title: "Fix a regression that broke fetching of metadata from Douban"
- title: "Cover grid: Fix Shift+arrow keys to manipulate selection not working."
tickets: [1717828]
- title: "Editor snippets: Dont lose the last selected word when the user triggers a non-existent snippet."
tickets: [1713244]
- title: "Book details popup window: Show the cover size in the bottom right corner if the option to show cover size in the Book details panel is set."
tickets: [1716520]
- title: "Linux: Fix regression that broke using calibre on some older VNC servers"
- title: "Browser viewer: Do not fail if the book contains javascript that has errors."
tickets: [1715781]
- title: "Linux: Fix file open dialog on older KDE desktops not working correctly."
tickets: [1715648]
- title: "Update Ozon.ru metadata plugin for website changes."
tickets: [1715347]
- title: "LIT Input: Fix a buffer overflow caused by malformed LIT files."
tickets: [1713716]
- title: "Conversion: Expand -epub-writing-mode to -webkit-writing-mode and writing-mode properties for maximum compatibility."
tickets: [1713509]
- title: "Linux: Fix SONY PRS-650 not being detected"
improved recipes:
- The Hindu
- Le Monde
- Wired Monthly
- Cracked.com
- Carta
- FAZ.NET
- Newsweek
- Financial Times
new recipes:
- title: Dunya Halleri
author: Sukru Alatas
- version: 3.7.0
date: 2017-08-25
new features:
- title: "Allow searching for books in a virtual library using a new 'vl:' prefix"
- title: "Server: Show file sizes in the tooltips for the download buttons."
tickets: [1708762]
- title: "Server: Reduce the grid view minimum cover thumbnail size from 150px to 105px"
- title: "Narrow layout: Fix wasted space to the left of the comments in the Book details panel"
bug fixes:
- title: "Server: Fix downloading files via the list of formats not working when launching calibre from the home screen on iOS"
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix controls help overlay not being displayed the first time the viewer is used"
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix a regression causing a crash for some input documents that specify text-transform or font-variant CSS properties."
tickets: [1711776]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix framed lists being rendered with the frame inside the bullets instead of outside it."
tickets: [1709569]
- title: "Fix a regression that could cause conversion to crash when using the first-letter CSS pseudo selector and outputting to MOBI or DOCX."
tickets: [1711224]
- title: "Conversion: Fix remove first image option not working for comic input with the disable comic processing option."
tickets: [1709150]
- title: "Server: Fix tooltip not working in the cover grid view."
tickets: [1708760]
- title: "Workaround for Qt bug that prevented using the shift and ctrl keys with the touchscreen"
- title: "Linux: fix native KDE file dialog not working on older systems"
- title: "Linux: Fix KDE dialogs not supporting multiple file name filter groups"
- title: "Fix libraries being sorted alphabetically by full path rather than just library name"
- title: "Server: Allow hyphens in user names"
- title: "calibredb.exe: Fix misleading error message when connecting to a server with incorrect username or password"
improved recipes:
- Asian review of Books
- Financial Times
- National Post
- Go Comics
new recipes:
- title: Paris Review and Public Domain Review by fenuks
author: fenuks
- title: IDPixel and The Insider
author: bugmen00t
- version: 3.6.0
date: 2017-08-04
new features:
- title: "Linux: Use native file dialogs via zenity or kdialog, if available"
- title: "Copy to library: Add an action to show a dialog that allows for easy selection of libraries for copy/move. Useful when there are a large number of libraries to choose from."
tickets: [1706198]
- title: 'Server: Allow deleting a downloaded book from the "Browse all downloaded books" screen'
bug fixes:
- title: "Hopefully fix an issue with the book list jumping around when using the mouse on some computers"
- title: "E-book viewer: Change the default fonts on windows to the Liberation font family. This matches the other platforms and avoids rendering issues with Times New Roman."
tickets: [1706491]
- title: "DOCX Output: Convert images placed by themselves inside block tags as block images rather than inline images."
tickets: [1707430]
- title: "Fix a typo that broke the download of a few news sources"
- title: "ebook-viewer.exe: Fix --continue-reading not working"
- title: "Fix non XML safe characters in feed descriptions causing news download to fail."
tickets: [1707545]
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix books that contain broken links with unicode characters in their paths not working."
tickets: [1704498]
- title: "Quickview: Fix regression in previous release that broke the 'Lock quickview' control"
improved recipes:
- Navy Times
new recipes:
- title: Various Sardinian news
author: tzium
- version: 3.5.0
date: 2017-07-28
new features:
- title: "Server: Add a new 'custom' mode for the book list, where you can specify exactly what metadata fields are displayed, via a template (see Preferences->Sharing over the net->Book list template)"
- title: "Speed up HTML parsing by an order of magnitude, by switching from html5lib to html5-parser"
- title: "Add support for touch screens to the main calibre book list. You can now flick to scroll, tap to select and double-tap to view books."
- title: "Server: Add an option to ban IP addresses if there are too many failed login attempts"
- title: "calibre-debug: Change the --explode-book action to only create the exploded directory and not rebuild the file. Add a new --implode-book action to rebuild the file, separately."
- title: "Book details panel: Add Manage authors/series/tags/etc. to the menu when right clicking on the item"
- title: "Kobo driver: Update for new firmware"
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF Output: Fix a regression in 2.82 that caused conversion of comics to PDF files to have successive images become smaller and smaller in some circumstances."
tickets: [1706814]
- title: "PDF Output: Fix a regression in 2.83 that caused occasional blank pages at the end of chapters when using headers/footers."
tickets: [1706484]
- title: "Get books: Update store plugins for ebook.nl and the various amazon websites"
- title: "Edit book: Hide editor toolbars if they are empty."
tickets: [1706343]
- title: "Server: Fix failed login attempts using digest auth not being logged to the main log"
- title: "Quickview: for non-text fields, sort on native values instead of text."
- title: "Fix hidden search bar state not being restored on calibre restart."
tickets: [1705916]
- title: "Fix option to not save cover separately when using Save to disk not working."
tickets: [1704925]
- title: "Server: Fix an error on browsers that do not support blob storage in IndexedDB."
tickets: [1704912]
- title: "Comic input: Fix a bug in the normalize image filter that caused a crash when converting comics that contain a page with only a single color."
tickets: [1704778]
- title: "Edit Book: Handle non-normalized unicode characters in file names better"
tickets: [1704225]
improved recipes:
- Mediapart
- New Yorker
- Boston Globe
- Private Eye
- version: 3.4.0
date: 2017-07-14
new features:
- title: "Edit book: Allow exporting all selected files to the computer from the 'File browser' by right clicking and choosing 'Export selected files'"
- title: "Server: When returning to the search page, remember the last used state of the Tag browser"
- title: "Template language: Allow the in_list() functions to return different values depending on what is found"
- title: "Add a configurable shortcut to move the focus from Quickview to the book list"
bug fixes:
- title: "Conversion: When inserting the publication year in the metadata jacket, do so in the local time zone, so it matches what is displayed in the main calibre program."
tickets: [1703439]
- title: "Server OPDS feeds: Fix incorrect counts in letter categories when there are lowercase names."
tickets: [1703251]
- title: "Edit book: Fix 'Show details' button not visible when doing 'Replace all' rather than 'Count all'"
- title: "Nook driver: Remove the % character from filenames sent to the Nook."
tickets: [1703284]
- title: "Fix calibre startup crash caused by Quickview when the applied virtual library is empty (has no books)."
improved recipes:
- FOX News
- Private Eye
- version: 3.3.0
date: 2017-07-07
new features:
- title: "Quickview panel: Allow opening and closing the panel via the Layout button in the bottom right corner."
details: "Also make various improvements to the panel's operation, see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui.html#quickview"
tickets: [1701833]
- title: "Book details panel: Allow right clicking on author names to search for books by the author on Amazon."
tickets: [1702446]
- title: "Edit book: When doing a Replace/Count all with multiple searches add a 'Show details' button on the result dialog that shows the individual counts for each search."
- title: "Comments editor: Add a button to easily insert separators (i.e. <hr> tags) when editing comments"
bug fixes:
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix back/forward buttons not working correctly when clicking on links that lead to different internal files in the book."
tickets: [1700004]
- title: "Server: Fix using 'Show more books' button and then changing list mode setting causing resulting book list to be incomplete"
- title: "Server: Fix changing sort/search in the /mobile view only working with the default library."
tickets: [1701704]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix alt and title attributes for some images not being preserved"
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Change the default source from Bing to Google as the Bing cache seems to be having trouble at the moment"
- title: "ISBNDB metadata download: Ignore SSL errors when contacting isbndb.com as they seem to have no intention of fixing their broken SSL certificate"
- title: "Conversion: Fix heuristics processing incorrectly removing some <br> tags."
tickets: [1205637]
- title: "Handle non-ASCII binary strings in the author_name_prefix/suffix tweaks."
tickets: [1701138]
improved recipes:
- Politico
- The Times
- The Sunday Times Magazine
- version: 3.2.1
date: 2017-06-29
new features:
- title: "Server: Allow logged in users to change their passwords by clicking the user icon in the top right corner of the home screen."
tickets: [1700631]
- title: "macOS: Add headless support: calibre command-line utilities can now run on macOS machines without a screen"
bug fixes:
- title: "3.2.1 has a fix for an issue that broke mouse wheel scrolling in the cover grid view"
- title: "Viewer: Fix incorrect display of pages in paged mode for books that override the box-sizing CSS property on the <body> element."
tickets: [1700109]
- title: "Server: Fix timeout errors when using SSL (particularly common when running the server on windows)"
- title: "Linux: Fix slow mouse wheel scrolling in Cover grid because of Qt bug"
- title: "Blacklist the iOS Reader applications and Marvin XD plugins as they were preventing calibre from starting up and they have not worked in a long time anyway, since Apple restricted USB access to their iOS devices"
- title: "Fix for in-program restart not working on some Windows 10 Home machines"
- title: "EPUB3 metadata: Fix handling of <dc:creator> elements with multiple roles."
tickets: [1699918]
- title: "Server: Disallow client initiated SSL renegotiation"
- title: "Windows: Try to prevent windows from showing the annoying 'no disk in drive' error messages at calibre startup if one of the calibre libraries is on a removable disk that is missing from the system"
tickets: [1701399]
improved recipes:
- The Australian
- Wired Daily
new recipes:
- title: Kitekinto
author: pofa
- version: 3.1.0
date: 2017-06-23
new features:
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking the Paste ISBN button to instead paste an identifier with a different prefix."
tickets: [1698543]
- title: "Tag browser: Add an option to control the spacing between items"
- title: "Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel to show individual layout buttons in the status bar, as was the case in calibre 2.x"
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Add buttons to easily set/clear Yes/no columns"
tickets: [1698331]
- title: "Support for RAR 5.0 format RAR and CBR files"
bug fixes:
- title: "Version 3.1.1 fixes a regression in 3.1.0 that prevented the standalone calibre-server.exe from working on Windows and macOS"
- title: "Content server: Fix various bugs in the SSL implementation causing aborted transfers when enabling SSL in the server"
- title: "Content server: Fix connections not being closed after errors/timeouts on the server side"
- title: "Fix an error during startup on Windows systems where the home directory is in a character encoding different from the system encoding"
tickets: [1699435]
- title: "Edit book: Fix escaping of text for regular expression searches unnecessarily escaping spaces"
- title: "Get Books: Search the entire catalog, including restricted books"
tickets: [1698943]
- title: "Fix regression in previous release that caused the Tag browser view to jump around when renaming items"
- title: "Splash screen: Fix text vertical overlap for some systems/font sizes"
- title: "Server: --daemonize option should not be present on Windows and macOS as it does not work on those platforms"
- title: "macOS: Fix some keyboard shortcuts not working in calibre 3.0"
tickets: [1698545]
- title: "Server interface: Fix error in the Browse all downloaded page when the book list mode is set to detailed list"
- title: "Get books: Update amazon.fr and ebooks.com plugins for website changes"
- title: "Content server: Fix for home screen being empty if the path to the calibre library has a trailing slash."
tickets: [1698489]
- title: "Content server: Fix the new server interface not working with the --url-prefix option when the trailing slash is omitted on the URL used in the browser."
tickets: [1698406]
- title: "Google images metadata download plugin: Fix for change in website causing no covers to be downloaded"
improved recipes:
- The Times
- Wall Street Journal
- New Yorker
- BBC News
- version: 3.0.0
date: 2017-06-16
new features:
- title: "For details on the major changes in calibre between 2.0 and 3.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve"
type: major
- title: "A completely re-written Content server with support for reading books in-browser on your phone/tablet. Also works in offline mode."
type: major
- title: "Support for high resolution (Retina screens)"
type: major
- title: "A new splash screen to celebrate the release of calibre 3"
- title: "Minor tweaking of the main user interface to emphasize the core features"
bug fixes:
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix for detection of some devices, with SD card not working on macOS"
- title: "Tag browser: Fix preservation of state when recounting and the visible categories have changed."
tickets: [1696596]
- title: "CHM Input: Handle CHM files that have missing or empty root files."
tickets: [1697764]
- title: "Fix Page flips options box in viewer preferences bot being laid out properly"
- title: "Fix initial down arrow in search box jumping two places"
- title: "Fix editing the authors via the book list not respecting the tweak to control author name splitting"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix external links not working in the footnote popup panel"
- title: "Fix a regression that broke command line completion in bash"
improved recipes:
- Economist
- New York Times
- Private Eye
- The Hindu
- Harper's Magazine
- Lifehacker
- The Daily Mail
new recipes:
- title: RussiaFeed
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 2.85.1
date: 2017-05-12
new features:
- title: "Book details panel: Allow right click to search the internet for the current book"
- title: "Book details panel: Allow right clicking on an author name to search the internet for works by that author"
- title: "Book details panel: Clicking an author name now searches Goodreads by default instead of Wikipedia. Can be changed in Preferences->Interface->Look & feel->Book details"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for the Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2"
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion to PDF for some files"
tickets: [1689192]
- title: "DOCX output: Fix lengths specified in percentage of page size not being converted correctly"
tickets: [1688690]
- title: "DOCX output: Fix some hyperlinks not working in word because the bookmark name is longer than forty characters"
tickets: [1688690]
- title: "DOCX output: Prevent images from being larger than the page size"
tickets: [1688690]
- title: "Comic input: Fix the number of colors control not allowing values less than 8"
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix main memory and Card A being swapped on some systems"
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix the ignore collections option being accidentally case-insensitive"
- title: "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"
tickets: [1689022]
- title: "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"
improved recipes:
- Private Eye
new recipes:
- title: Balkanist
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 2.84.0
date: 2017-05-05
new features:
- title: "Kindle driver: Also delete book thumbnails from the system directory when deleting books"
- title: "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"
- title: "Edit book: Add keyboard shortcuts to jump to opening and closing tags (Ctrl+{ and Ctrl+})"
- title: "Add API to pre-process image data in recipes easily"
- title: "fetch-ebook-metadata.exe: add option to use only a single metadata plugin"
bug fixes:
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke printing from inside the viewer"
- title: "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"
tickets: [1683188]
- title: "DOCX output: Fix links to empty inline tags not working"
tickets: [1683188]
- title: "DOCX input: Fix links that point to anchors placed in empty paragraphs not working"
tickets: [1683017]
- title: "PDF output: Do not crash when unable to find page for link destination, instead use previous page"
tickets: [1687914]
- title: "Edit book: Fix sorting by language in Report->Words not working"
- title: "Edit book: Fix drag and drop of multiple items in the File Browser causing item order to be reversed"
- title: "Get books: Update Baen store plugin for website changes"
- title: "Linux: When adding books from directories ignore files that have undecodable names"
tickets: [1685819]
- title: "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"
- title: "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"
- title: "Fix a misbehaving wireless device connection can cause calibre to hang when opening the Connect/share menu"
tickets: [1676522]
improved recipes:
- Private Eye
- Die Zeit
- NYTimes Tech Beat
new recipes:
- title: First Things
author: John Hutson
- version: 2.83.0
date: 2017-04-15
new features:
- title: "PDF output: Default to generating PDFs with a page size of letter instead of taking the page size from the output profile"
description: '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'
- title: "PDF/DOCX output: Add separate, PDF/DOCX specific, page margin settings that override the common settings"
description: "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"
- title: "Table of Contents tool: Add an undo button"
- title: "Metadata jacket: Show custom rating columns using stars"
- title: "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"
- title: "calibredb check_library: Vacuum database when running the check"
- title: "Check Book: Add a check for empty identifier elements"
bug fixes:
- title: "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"
- title: "Refresh the book list when a User category is added/edited"
tickets: [1675535]
- title: "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"
tickets: [1677383]
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Fix title and author names being bold in the downloaded comments when using bing to get Amazon metadata"
tickets: [1674088]
- title: "PDF output: Fix a regression that broke PDF output for documents containing mathematics"
tickets: [1673983]
- title: 'E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the "Clear recently read books" action in the viewer'
improved recipes:
- Go Comics
- Die Zeit (subscription)
- Pagina12
- New York Magazine
new recipes:
- title: Jacobin magazine
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 2.82.0
date: 2017-03-18
new features:
- title: "Edit book: Saved searches: Add keyboard shortcut (Alt+Up/Down Arrow) to move selected searches"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a typo in the previous release that caused dynamically updated metadata source plugins to stop working"
tickets: [1673884]
- title: "Catalog generation: Ignore tags with commas in them when generating genres"
- title: "News download: Do not use Microsoft user agents as more and more websites are serving JPEG XR images to these browsers"
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Fix spurious results when searching for books that are not present on Amazon using a search engine"
- title: "Get books: Fix free samples being detected as independent books when searching OPDS based stores such as Feedbooks"
tickets: [1672500]
- title: "Edit book: Saved searches: Preserve selection when using arrows to move multiple items"
- title: "Fix template formatter functions not being reloaded after a check library operation"
- title: "Fix an error during shutdown caused by some library closed plugins"
improved recipes:
- The Economist
- Telegraph UK
new recipes:
- title: The Morning Paper
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 2.81.0
date: 2017-03-10
new features:
- title: "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"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware"
- title: "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"
tickets: [1667914]
- title: "Edit book: Saved searched Dialog: Allow re-arranging the Saved searches using drag and drop"
tickets: [1669514]
- title: "Implement auto update of built-in metadata download plugins, just as for recipes and Get books plugins. Needed as the websites they get data from often change"
- title: "Edit book: When inserting full screen images, use the actual image dimensions in the generated SVG code, when available"
- title: "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"
- title: "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:
- title: "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"
tickets: [1668246]
- title: "Get books: Fix price not being displayed for books from Amazon dues to website changes"
- title: "Get books: Update Google Books plugin for website changes"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix slow startup when recently opened files are on a slow/malfunctioning networked filesystem"
tickets: [1669497]
- title: "Google metadata download: Fix metadata not being found when the title of the book includes a sub-title"
- title: "Improve downloading of covers from the Google Books metadata source"
- title: "News download: Fix a bug that could cause a crash when downloading an SVG image"
tickets: [1669530]
- title: "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 recipes:
- tyzden
- The Economist
- Kansas City Star
- NYTimes
- The Spectator
- version: 2.80.0
date: 2017-02-24
new features:
- title: "Add support for sideloading of KFX files created with the third-party KFX calibre plugin"
tickets: [1666040]
- title: "Edit book: Allow drag and drop of image files, stylesheets and HTML files into the editor to insert the appropriate <img> and <link> tags and add the files to the book automatically"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware"
- title: "Edit book: Spell check: If there are no suggestions fill the suggested word box with the original word"
tickets: [1664284]
- title: "Viewer: add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to show/hide toolbars"
tickets: [1664077]
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF output: Fix courier font not being rendered when converting on Windows"
tickets: [1665835]
- title: "E-mail delivery: Add a Message-ID header when sending emails. Reduces probability of mails sent from calibre being marked as spam"
- title: "Save to disk: Fix path shortening being applied to entire save template even when saving to singe directory"
tickets: [1665964]
- title: "Get books: Update the Virualo and Publi store plugins for website changes"
- title: "Viewer: Fix regression that caused slow opening of some books with missing font/CSS/image files"
- title: "Viewer: Pressing Ctrl+F in fullscreen mode should show the controls"
tickets: [1664076]
- title: "Edit book: Do not allow creating multiple new files whose names differ only by case"
tickets: [1664027]
- title: "Viewer: Use heuristics to try to detect comics encoded as fixed layout EPUBs to ensure they are displayed as intended"
tickets: [1667357]
improved recipes:
- The Atlantic
- The Financial Times
new recipes:
- title: Various new and improved Belgian news sources
author: erkfuizfeuadjfjzefzfuzeff
- version: 2.79.1
date: 2017-02-10
new features:
- title: "Windows: Make recently opened books show up in the jump lists for the standalone viewer and editor programs"
- title: "macOS/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"
- title: "Conversion: Log options that are different from the defaults separately, for easy reference"
bug fixes:
- title: "2.79.1 fixes a regression in 2.79.0 that broke the file open dialogs on Windows Vista"
- title: "Conversion: Fix regression that broke conversion of some EPUB files when using the 'Remove first image' option"
tickets: [1660699]
- title: "Get books: Update Kobo plugin for website changes"
- title: "Windows MTP driver: Fix error when enumerating device storage not being reported during debug device detection"
- title: "Tag browser: When dragging and dropping a book onto a series increment the series number"
tickets: [1661588]
- title: "Fix crash when generating covers with Qt 5.8 on Linux"
- title: "Fix Get books result list and jobs list not being populated on Qt 5.8"
- title: "Fix importing rules in the coloring/icon rules dialog not enabling the Apply button"
improved recipes:
- Strange Horizons
- Wall Street Journal
- Bangkok Post
- The Atlantic
- NYTimes
- LA Times
- New Yorker
- The Straits Times
- version: 2.78.0
date: 2017-01-27
new features:
- title: "View button: Add an action to the right click menu that always opens the book with the calibre viewer, regardless of the preferences"
- title: "Kobo driver: Update to support the newest firmware from Kobo"
- title: "E-book viewer: Allow opening a specific item from the Table of Contents via the --open-at command line parameter"
tickets: [1656573]
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Add support for downloading from Amazon.ca"
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit book: Do not condense CSS rules when saving AZW3 files regardless of the value of Preferences->Common options->Look & feel->Expand CSS"
- title: "EPUB output: Fix a duplicate id created in rare circumstances when splitting on page breaks"
tickets: [1658744]
- title: "DOCX input: Fix error when converting documents that have images pointing to web resources"
tickets: [1659142]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused an increase in load times when loading the individual HTML files inside an EPUB book"
tickets: [1658578]
- title: "Fix setting a similar books search to use the formats field in Preferences->Searching resulting in an error"
tickets: [1658386]
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix incorrect cover size being uploaded to the Glo HD"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix 'View image' right click menu action not available for SVG files included via <img> tags"
tickets: [1657717]
- title: "HTML input: Remove the # character from input filenames, for maximum compatibility"
tickets: [1656833 ]
- title: "Edit book: Fix Spell check treating the unicode hyphen (U+2010) differently from the normal hyphen (U+002d)"
tickets: [1656319]
improved recipes:
- FOX News
- Oriental Daily
- AM730
- The Times
- NYTimes
- Mediapart
- Echo Online
- kath.net
- GoComics
- The Hindu
new recipes:
- title: The Sunday Times Magazine
author: Bobby Steel
- version: 2.77.0
date: 2017-01-13
bug fixes:
- title: "Conversion: Fix changing the cover image not updating references to the old cover image inside SVG wrappers"
tickets: [1655309]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused clicking links in the footnote popup window to stop working"
- title: "Edit book: Fix importing DOCX file as new book not setting the version attribute in the OPF"
- title: "Kindle driver: Fix some newer KFX books not being recognized on e-ink Kindle devices, because of a change in how metadata is stored in the KFX format"
- title: "DOCX output: Fix missing <td> tag causing conversion to fail"
tickets: [1654463]
- title: "Edit book: Fix group references causing errors when used in replace string in the normal mode search and replace"
- title: "Edit book: Fix Check Book reporting a spurious mime/type mismatch error after replacing a file with a file having a different mime type"
tickets: [1653977]
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Fix detection of series not working for some books due to changes in the Amazon website"
- title: "Fix Nook HD+ not being detected on Windows"
- title: "Edit book: Ensure keyboard focus stays with Files Browser when renaming files"
tickets: [1653311]
improved recipes:
- kath.net
- publico.pt
- Telepolis
- The Times
- Helsingin Sanomat
- version: 2.76.0
date: 2016-12-30
bug fixes:
- title: "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 macOS)"