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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: 3.?.?
# date: 2018-??-??
#
# new features:
# - title:
#
# bug fixes:
# - title:
#
# improved recipes:
# -
#
# new recipes:
# - title:
- version: 3.31.0
date: 2018-09-07
new features:
- title: "Book list: Allow changing the font used for any column to bold and/or italic by right clicking on the column header and choosing 'Change font style'."
description: "Note that this setting is per-library so it has to be done once for the book list in every calibre library."
tickets: [1758434]
- title: "fetch-ebook-metadata.exe: Allow specifying identifiers other than just ISBN"
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Add support for Amazon Australia (can be configured via Preferences->Metadata download->customize the amazon metadata source)"
- title: "Table of Contents Edit tool: When generating from XPath's add a checkbox to control if duplicate entries at the same level are added or not."
tickets: [1790761]
- title: "Edit book: Allow disabling the popup to show changes after running the Fix HTML and Beautify all files tools."
tickets: [1789540]
bug fixes:
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix figures in newer Word documents being duplicated."
tickets: [1789238]
- title: "Content server: Disable offline access if application cache is not available, rather than failing."
tickets: [1737642]
- title: "DOCX Output: Workaround for broken CSS that uses -o-pre-wrap for the white-space property"
tickets: [1786410]
- title: "Metadata download: Remove the option to lookup first edition dates as the service used to get the data no longer exists"
improved recipes:
- Howto Geek
- Welt der Physik
- Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung
- Fortune Magazine
- version: 3.30.0
date: 2018-08-24
new features:
- title: "ToC Editor: When generating ToCs using headings/XPath ignore duplicate entries at the same level that have the same text."
tickets: [1735799]
- title: "Windows: The default calibre library location is now not in My Documents but instead in the user home folder, to avoid issues with OneDrive auto-syncing calibre libraries"
tickets: [1787488]
- title: "Kobo driver: Support for new firmware version"
- title: "Add a tweak (in Preferences->Tweaks) to allow skipping network check on news download"
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Show a confirmation dialog on cancel if some changes have been made."
tickets: [1786544]
bug fixes:
- title: "Downloaded metadata review dialog: Fix a regression in the last release that broke the revert buttons"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix clicking links in the footnote popup ignoring the anchor part of the link."
tickets: [1786577]
- title: "ToC editor: Fix generating toc entries from links not working for links that start with #"
- title: "HTML Input: Collapse multiple spaces in filenames when sanitizing them."
tickets: [1788187]
- title: "Edit book: Remove matching tag: Fix incorrect removal if the remove matching function is triggered in rapid succession"
- title: "Edit book: Fix some links in the file being split not being adjusted when splitting HTML files."
tickets: [1787892]
- title: 'Fix a crash when using some third party plugins and enabling the "two lines for text under icons" option'
tickets: [1787700]
- title: "Make the create catalog dialog freely resizable"
tickets: [1787523]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix an error when converting some DOCX files with inherited fonts."
tickets: [1786414]
- version: 3.29.0
date: 2018-08-10
new features:
- title: "Add a option to draw a grid in the main book list (Preferences->Look & feel)"
- title: "Edit book: Allow removing the currently highlighted tag (while keeping its contents) by pressing Ctrl+>. You can also add a tool to do it via Preferences->Toolbars"
- title: "Content server: When defining a color scheme for the in browser viewer allow specifying the link color as well as the foreground and background."
tickets: [1735904]
- title: "Edit book: Show a popup after a fix all html/beautify all files so the user can easily see what was changed, if needed."
tickets: [1785482]
- title: "Kindle driver: Create cover thumbnails on the device when transferring KFX format books"
- title: "Edit Book: Recognize numbers in image names in the 'Insert image' dialog"
tickets: [1782981]
bug fixes:
- title: "Content server: Display custom comments field on the book details page in the same order as in the calibre GUI"
- title: "Edit book: Fix open image editors not being updated when image file is replaced"
- title: "Fix keyboard shortcuts for Edit book tools created from plugins not working"
- title: "PDF Output: Fix error when trying to convert books that do not specify a language in their metadata."
tickets: [1783563]
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix inability to open books that contain zero-byte stylesheets/images"
improved recipes:
- Boston Globe
- Newsweek
- Ambito and Ambito Financiero
- New York Times
- New England Journal of Medicine
- The Hindu Business Line
- Private Eye
- Le Temps
- version: 3.28.0
date: 2018-07-20
new features:
- title: "Allow creating rules to transform author names when adding books to calibre. Accessible via Preferences->Adding books->Adding actions"
tickets: [1780152]
- title: "Add a similar author mapper tool to manipulate author names in the existing library. Accessible via Preferences->Toolbars"
- title: "Add a similar author mapper tool for metadata downloading, accessible via Preferences->Metadata download"
- title: "Comments Editor: Add options to change the case of the selected text to the right click menu"
tickets: [1780469]
- title: "Edit book: When sorting non text files in the File list recognize numbers in the file names"
tickets: [1781721]
bug fixes:
- title: "calibredb catalog: Recognize file extensions even when they are not lowercase"
improved recipes:
- Sunday Times Magazine UK
- The Economist
- The Houston Chronicle
- El cohete a la luna
- CBC Canada
new recipes:
- title: Il Post
author: frafra
- title: Bloomberg Columnists
author: Dale Furrow
- version: 3.27.1
date: 2018-07-06
new features:
- title: "Content server: Allow conversion of books"
type: major
description: "Click the convert icon in the top bar of the book details page to convert a book. Note that conversion only works for logged in users who have permission to make changes to the calibre library."
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware"
- title: 'Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an "edit tags" button for tags like custom columns.'
tickets: [1779299]
- title: "Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel to disable the new 'drag and drop to merge books feature'"
- title: "E-book viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+B) to toggle the bookmarks panel."
tickets: [1780097]
- title: "Edit book: Add a copy to clipboard button on the various report dialogs"
- title: "Edit book: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Down) to edit the next file in the book spine."
tickets: [1779616]
- title: "calibre-smtp: Verify relay server TLS certificates by default. New option --dont-verify-server-certificate to restore old behavior."
bug fixes:
- title: "Version 3.27.1 fixes a build error in 3.27.0 that caused calibre not to start on macOS older than High Sierra"
- title: "Conversion: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused conversion of EPUB 3 to EPUB 3 to fail."
tickets: [1779518]
- title: "Fix detection of the Bookeen NolimbookXL on macOS and Linux"
tickets: [1780302]
- title: "Fix a regression that broke the fetching of annotations from Kobo and Kindle devices."
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix failure to convert some DOCX files that use Symbol fonts."
tickets: [1777390]
- title: "When exporting very large libraries fix failures due to busy errors."
tickets: [1779664]
- title: "Fix commas not working in identifiers that are transformed to URLs via rules."
tickets: [1779602]
- title: "Review downloaded metadata: Fix cancel button on the confirm reject all dialog not working."
tickets: [1779576]
- title: 'Kindle Fire driver: Send books by default to the "kindle" folder instead of the "Books" folder to workaround a change in the Fire firmware that causes the Kindle to not recognize files in the Books folder.'
- title: "Linux installer: Also fix the execute bits in the umask if the user runs the installer with a umask that prevents files from being world executable."
- title: "Sort the entries in the show column menu alphabetically."
tickets: [1778155]
improved recipes:
- Gosc Niedzielny
- Cracked.com
- Psychology Today
- The Atlantic
- LA Times
- Handelsblatt
- Newsweek
- version: 3.26.1
date: 2018-06-15
new features:
- title: "Book list: Allow drag and drop of books onto other books to merge the book records."
tickets: [1775123]
- title: "Check Book: External link checker: Also check HTML anchors (the part after the # in the link). Can be turned off via a checkbox at the bottom of the link checker window."
- title: "Edit Book: Preview panel: Show previews when editing SVG files"
- title: "Edit book: When downloading external resources, also convert data URLs into files."
tickets: [1774945]
- title: "E-book viewer: When the controls are hidden show the progress in the window title."
tickets: [1776710]
- title: "Library Quick switch menu: Highlight the previously switched from library in bold."
tickets: [1775888]
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF Input: Fix a regression in 3.24 that caused conversion of PDF to be significantly worse."
tickets: [1775984]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix very slow loading for HTML files with very many images on Linux."
tickets: [1774884]
- title: "Content server: Fix a regression in 3.14 that removed the separator between books in the detailed list view mode."
tickets: [1776294]
- title: "Edit book: Fix SVG files not being beautified by the Beautify all files tool"
- title: "Edit book: Fix searching in selected files not searching SVG files"
- title: "Fix Tweaks help string not being displayed translated"
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix distorted rendering of some labels in the custom metadata tab in rare circumstances."
tickets: [1766762]
- title: "version 3.26.1 prevents dropping of a book onto itself from triggering the merge dialog, which should reduce accidental triggers"
tickets: [1777054]
improved recipes:
- Slate
- New York Times Book Review
- The Independent UK
- NYTimes Tech Beat
- New York Times
- Cracked.com
new recipes:
- title: El Cronista
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 3.25.0
date: 2018-06-01
new features:
- title: "Kobo driver: Support the new Clara HD"
- title: "PDF Output: Add an option to use page margins from the input document, specified via @page CSS rules."
description: "Allows individual HTML files in the input document to have different page margins in the output PDF."
tickets: [1773319]
bug fixes:
- title: 'Fix option to "show text under buttons only if there is enough space" not working well with the option to use "two lines for the text under the buttons".'
tickets: [1773426]
- title: "Update notification: When both calibre and plugin updates are available and the user updates only the plugins, fix the restart calibre button not working."
tickets: [1774059]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix printing of comics (cbz/cbr files) not working."
tickets: [1774163]
- title: "EPUB3 Input: Fix Table of Contents not being recognized for some EPUB 3 books that placed their nav document in-side a sub-folder."
tickets: [1773627]
improved recipes:
- Associated Press
- version: 3.24.2
date: 2018-05-25
new features:
- title: "Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files."
type: major
- title: "PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines."
tickets: [1773111]
- title: "PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates"
- title: "Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences->Look & feel"
- title: "Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words."
tickets: [1772276]
- title: "Edit book: Fix HTML: Automatically resolve private entities"
tickets: [1772157]
- title: "Improve formatting of help in Preferences->Tweaks"
- title: "ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well."
tickets: [1769442]
bug fixes:
- title: "Version 3.24.2 fixes a bug in the new EPUB 3 output functionality that prevented conversion of non-EPUB 3 books to EPUB 3"
- title: "Version 3.24.1 fixes a regression in the 3.24 in the editor that caused syncing between the editor and the Preview panel/Live CSS panel to not work correctly"
- title: "PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text as their presence prevents searching from working"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix <pre> tags not being converted correctly."
tickets: [1772219]
- title: "DOCX Input: Fix incorrect conversion of a framed block that contains a list."
tickets: [1771279]
- title: "Conversion: Fix private entities that use the same name as an HTML entity not being handled correctly"
tickets: [1772157]
- title: "Viewer: Fix HTML files with private entities displaying an artifact at the top"
tickets: [1772157]
- title: "Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with private entities"
tickets: [1772157]
- title: "EPUB3 Input: Fix titlepage being referred to in the nav causing two titlepage entries in the final book."
- title: "Fix throbber buttons not being perfectly aligned inside toolbars"
- title: "Quickview: Fix sizes not being displayed."
tickets: [1772151]
- title: "Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as changed if no images could be further compressed."
- title: "Book list split-view: Fix horizontal scroll position of split view can change when changing the current column in one view."
- title: "Fix Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux."
tickets: [1769681]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix undo last trim not working for automatic trims."
tickets: [1769606]
- title: "Content server: Fix series field blank in Italian translation"
- title: "BeautifulSoup: Port fix from upstream for outputting bare ampersands in strings."
tickets: [1769481]
- title: "calibredb add: Run the input plugins before reading metadata instead of after."
improved recipes:
- The New York Times Book Review
- New York Times
- Le Devoir
new recipes:
- title: The Federalist
author: Kovid Goyal
- version: 3.23.0
date: 2018-05-04
new features:
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware"
tickets: [1767589]
- title: "Book polishing: Add an option to upgrade EPUB 2 to EPUB 3"
- title: "DOCX Input: Convert text written with dingbat fonts such as Wingding or Symbol correctly."
- title: "When choosing the page to use as a cover from a PDF file, add a button to render more pages, if needed"
- title: "TXT Input: Add support for embedded images that use relative URLs when converting markdown or textile. Note that this will only work if you are converting using the ebook-convert command line tool as the main calibre program moves files around, so relative references will not be valid."
- title: "Edit book: Insert special character: Add an option to select if searching should match all words or any of the words"
- title: 'Edit book: Insert special character: When searching by name match prefixes in addition to whole words. So you can now type "horiz" to match "horizontal".'
- title: "Linux installer: Simplify the command used to install calibre and add support for Ubuntu 18.04 which is missing a default python executable"
- title: "When upgrading EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 add the 'epub' namespace to all HTML files, for convenience."
tickets: [1765944]
- title: "Kobo driver: Add an option to not maintain bookmarks/read status/etc. when resending a book already on the device."
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit Book: Fix an error caused by a landmark entry in EPUB 3 files that has an <a> tag without an href attribute."
- title: "Edit Book: Fix names for some control characters not being displayed in the status bar"
- title: "Searching: Fix A (B) not being treated as A AND (B)"
- title: "DOCX Input: Ignore complex script font styles. Fixes conversion of documents that specify only complex script styles and no simple script styles."
tickets: [1766650]
- title: "When updating EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 ensure only a single dc:date element is present in the OPF"
- version: 3.22.1
date: 2018-04-19
new features:
- title: "Edit book: Add a tool to upgrade books from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3 (Tools->Upgrade book internals)"
description: "Automatically upgrades metadata, converts the NCX table of contents and adds required manifest annotations"
type: major
- title: "Add support for the FBZ format (zipped FB2)"
tickets: [1762634]
- title: "Kindle driver: Change the height of generated thumbnails to 500px, needed for the Oasis 2017"
- title: "Edit book: When bulk renaming files add an option to rename by the order in which the files appear in the book."
- title: "Polishing: Recognize titlepages that are marked as covers in the EPUB 3 landmarks section"
- title: "Edit Book: Automatically updated the modified timestamp in the OPF when saving EPUB 3 books."
- title: "Remove the ISBNDB metadata plugin as ISBNDB no longer allows free lookups."
tickets: [1761906]
bug fixes:
- title: "EPUB 3 metadata: If the book defines more than one author sort value for an author use the first instead of the last"
- title: "Check Book: Dont warn for nav document not in spine in EPUB 3 books"
- title: "Linux installer: Fix umask question not working with the recommended install command because stdin is a pipe"
- title: "Browser viewer: Show an error message when trying to use the Sync function without being logged in"
- title: "When setting cover from a PDF file and the user clicks cancel, do not delete the existing cover"
improved recipes:
- Globe & Mail
- National Geographic
- Slate
- GoComics
- Oregonian
new recipes:
- title: "Le Monde: subscriber paper edition"
author: Remi Vanicat
- version: 3.21.0
date: 2018-04-06
new features:
- title: "Browser viewer: Allow showing the time left in the current chapter/book in the header and footer areas of the book."
description: "To use go to the preferences of the browser viewer and customize the headers and footers to display the time left. Note that time left in chapter only works correctly if chapters are in separate HTML files in the book."
- title: "Manage tags dialog: Searching now shows all matching tags and there is an undo button to undo changes."
tickets: [1743896]
- title: "Add an output profile for the Kindle Oasis 2017"
tickets: [1759434]
bug fixes:
- title: "Content server: Fix adding/deleting books and editing metadata not updating the main calibre book list automatically."
tickets: [1761017]
- title: "Viewer: When doing a dictionary lookup, remove soft hyphens from the word, if any are present."
tickets: [1760292]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix tab order for buttons to the left of the title and author"
- title: "Trim cover dialog: Remove the redundant Trim & OK button, instead have the OK button trim automatically if there is a selection."
tickets: [1759671]
- title: "Update Amazon metadata plugin for a website change"
- title: "Content server: Fix translations not being updated without clearing the browser cache"
- title: "Content server: Fix switching from translations to no translations not working"
- title: "Content server: When updating interface data do not transmit translations if they have not been changed. Saves ~30-60KB bandwidth when using non-English interface language."
improved recipes:
- The Atlantic
- Fortune Magazine
- Telegraph UK
- Hot Air
- Reader's Digest
- The Economist
- version: 3.20.0
date: 2018-03-23
new features:
- title: "Content server: Allow editing the metadata of books from the book details page"
type: major
description: "On the book details page, you can now edit any metadata and change covers by clicking the edit metadata icon in the right area of the top bar. Note that only users that have write permissions for the library can edit metadata."
- title: "Kobo driver: Recognize Kobo Aura 2 with new firmware (4.6.10188)"
bug fixes:
- title: 'When reading metadata from HTML also recognize <meta name="dc.description"> as being comments'
improved recipes:
- Danas
- Al monitor
- Folha de Sao Paolo
- New York Times
- Wirtschaft's Woche
- version: 3.19.0
date: 2018-03-09
new features:
- title: "Driver for the new PocketBook 740"
- title: "Allow using relative URLs in comments type metadata. The relative URLs are interpreted relative to the book folder in the calibre library"
- title: "Edit book: Reports: Do not show characters from the HTML markup in the characters report."
tickets: [1753788]
- title: "Allow adding the Virtual library button to any toolbar/menu via Preferences->Toolbars & menus"
bug fixes:
- title: "Server: Fix server becoming unresponsive if a client sends invalid SSL data at exactly the right moment"
- title: "Conversion heuristics: Make unwrapping recognize Georgian letters as well."
tickets: [1753533]
- title: "Make de-serialization of stored conversion options safe against maliciously crafted input"
tickets: [1753870]
- title: "E-book viewer: Change the file format used to import/export bookmarks to use JSON. This prevents malicious bookmarks files from causing code execution."
tickets: [1753870]
- title: "Make the history completion for the search and replace edit box case-sensitive."
tickets: [1752447]
- title: "PDF Output: When the input document contains multiple anchors with the same value, use the first anchor rather than the last. This follows browser behavior."
tickets: [1752825]
- title: "FB2 Input: Add <div> to <blockquote> content to silence the useless epubcheck"
tickets: [1752141]
improved recipes:
- WirtschaftsWoche Online
- Spektrum der Wissenschaft
new recipes:
- title: Granta
author: Gary Arnold
- version: 3.18.0
date: 2018-02-23
new features:
- title: "Browser viewer: Allow long tapping a word to look it up in a dictionary or search the internet for it."
tickets: [1738995]
bug fixes:
- title: "Conversion: Handle the deprecated type attribute on <ol> tags."
tickets: [1751148]
- title: "Fix metadata download from amazon stopped working because of a website change"
- title: "Fix re-ordering of columns causing split book splitter state not being restored on restart"
- title: "Fix errors when using strftime with unicode strings on non-utf-8 windows systems."
tickets: [1749219]
- title: "Split book view: Fix vertical scroll position of the two views getting out of sync after doing some searches."
tickets: [1748739]
- title: "Fix some edit widget appearing in the wrong place when editing in the right hand panel of the new split book list."
tickets: [1748713]
- title: "Portable build: Fix cache directory not always being auto-created"
tickets: [1747887]
- title: "Workaround for Qt 5.10 on Linux resetting the global font, preventing custom interface font settings from working"
improved recipes:
- New York Times
- The Economist
- Gosc
- Various Uruguayan recipes
- version: 3.17.0
date: 2018-02-09
new features:
- title: "Allow splitting the book list, by right clicking on the column headers and choosing 'Split the book list'"
type: major
description: "This is useful to 'lock' one or more columns in place so that they are always visible even when scrolling through other columns. Also, the split list has a separate right click menu which you can configure via Preferences->Toolbars and menus"
- title: "Store temporary files used by the editor and viewer in the cache directory to try to prevent errors caused by 'file cleaner' programs deleting temporary files still in use"
bug fixes:
- title: "EPUB3 Input: Fix HTML covers and titlepages that are marked using the deprecated <guide> element not being recognized."
tickets: [1746794]
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression in 3.13 that made it impossible to use the Force numbering checkbox for custom series"
- title: "Conversion: Fix the valign attribute on <td> tags not being honored"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix the 'Copy' keyboard shortcut/context menu action not working on some Windows systems"
tickets: [1477696]
- title: "E-book viewer: Make the semi-transparent background for viewing metadata a little more opaque."
tickets: [1745812]
improved recipes:
- New York Times
- Le Devoir
- New Statesman
- London Review of Books
- New York Post
- LWN Weekly
- Associated Press
new recipes:
- title: Computing
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 3.16.0
date: 2018-01-26
new features:
- title: "Content server: Allow adding and deleting of books using the web interface"
type: major
description: "Use the + icon in the top bar of the book list to add new books and the trash icon in the top bar of the book details page to a delete a book. Note that only authenticated users are allowed to perform these actions, so you have to setup user accounts for the server to use these features."
- title: "Allow removing the close button from tabs in the Virtual library tab bar. Right click the tab bar and choose 'Lock tabs' to do that."
- title: "calibredb export: Add --progress option"
- title: "Bulk metadata editing: Show progress bars to track progress of the operation"
- title: "Content server: When downloading books from the server send both the ASCII and full Unicode file names. Browsers that support RFC 6266 can make use of the unicode file name."
- title: "Content server: Show a warning popup on Apple devices when the user tries to search with an expression containing smart quotes, since Apple devices now automatically replace quotes with smart quotes when typing."
bug fixes:
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix links without anchors in the input document not being converted correctly."
tickets: [1741098]
- title: "calibredb: Fix a regression that broke reading of passwords from stdin"
- title: "Edit book: Fix an error when saving files with filenames that cannot be encoded using the system codepage on Windows"
- title: "Pasting metadata: Fix excluding title and authors not working"
improved recipes:
- The Galaxy's Edge
- Orange County Register
- Danas
new recipes:
- title: Revista Veintitres
author: Darko Miletic
- title: Cronica
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 3.15.0
date: 2018-01-05
new features:
- title: "Browser viewer: Allow customizing what information is displayed in the header and footer areas. Access Preferences from the viewer controls to change."
- title: "Add support for MTP devices on FreeBSD"
- title: "ToC editor: Add more case changing operations to the right click menu"
- title: "Content server: Redirect pre 2.x book URLs to new 3.x URLs via a JavaScript redirect"
- title: "Content server: Allow opening entries in the book list in a new tab via middle click/right click"
- title: "Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to exclude some fields when using the Edit metadata->Copy/paste actions"
- title: "Linux: Allow using calibre-tray.png in the calibre resources folder to override the system tray icon."
tickets: [1738518]
bug fixes:
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix goto next/previous section actions not working when the sections are in different individual HTML files."
tickets: [1740333]
- title: "Edit book/Book polishing: When compressing images and the compressed image is larger thant he original, use the original image."
tickets: [1741063]
- title: "PDF input: Fix conversion of multi-level PDF Outline causing duplicate entries in the Table of Contents."
tickets: [1738385]
- title: "Edit book: Fix incorrect EPUB 3 declarations being added to the OPF file when adding covers to an EPUB 2 book"
- title: "Edit book: Fix backspace key un-indenting instead of deleting even when text is selected if the cursor is at the start of the line"
- title: "Tag browser: Fix position not being preserved when deleting books."
tickets: [1740387]
- title: "Edit Book: Use the cache directory rather than the temp directory to store working files. Hopefully prevents temp file cleaners from destroying books."
tickets: [1740460]
- title: "EPUB input: Handle books that erroneously set the mimetype for font files to text/plain"
- title: "AZW3 input: Do not fail to process files with invalid internal flow references."
tickets: [1740140]
- title: "When updating plugins, do not show the dialog asking which toolbar to put the plugin, even if the user has removed the plugin for all toolbars."
- title: "Content server: Fix using the Clear logs button preventing the server from restarting until calibre itself is restarted."
tickets: [1738433]
improved recipes:
- LA Times
- Popular Science
- Nikkei News
- version: 3.14.0
date: 2017-12-15
new features:
- title: "User manual: A new quick reference primer for regular expression syntax https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/regexp_quick_reference.html"
- title: "Content server: Allow viewing the book metadata while reading a book. In the viewer controls, tap Goto and then Metadata to see the metadata."
tickets: [1736312]
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware"
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Allow choosing the algorithm used for changing the case of titles"
- title: "Get books: The koobe.pl store plugin has now become the Swiat Ebookow store plugin"
- title: "Allow Copy/paste of book metadata from the main book list. Right click the Edit metadata button to access these actions."
- title: "Allow disabling the confirmation popup when opening the containing folder of many books at once."
tickets: [1735862]
bug fixes:
- title: "Nook driver: Fix books sent via calibre not appearing under My Files on the Glowlight 3 Plus"
- title: "Get Books: Update Mills & Boon, publio, empik, legimi, woblink and beam-ebooks.de plugins for website changes"
- title: "Book polishing: Do not scan book for font usage when subsetting if no embedded fonts are available."
tickets: [1737400]
- title: "Content server: Open links in the comments section from the book details page in new windows."
tickets: [1737644]
- title: "Choose English as the User interface language when a locale related environment variable is set to the C locale"
- title: "Linux installer: A nicer error message if the user tries to run the installer on an ARM machine"
improved recipes:
- Boston Globe
- The Times
- Economist
new recipes:
- title: El Cohete a la luna
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 3.13.0
date: 2017-12-01
new features:
- title: "Driver for the new Bq Cervantes 4"
- title: "Edit book: Auto-generate links to existing stylesheets when adding a new HTML file."
tickets: [1733845]
- title: "Add a button to easily clear server logs in Preferences->Sharing over the net->Show server logs."
tickets: [1730046]
- title: "Catalog generation: Store the list of fields to be used in generating CSV/XML catalogs per library."
tickets: [1730500]
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Make the custom series controls similar to the builtin series ones, with the same set of features"
- title: "Edit book: Pre-select existing cover image (if any) in add cover dialog"
- title: "Make the Manage saved searches dialog a little easier for new users."
tickets: [1733163]
- title: "Add a tweak to control behavior of Enter on the book list"
- title: "Content server: Fix random book button on book details page multiplying."
tickets: [1732493]
- title: "Edit Book: Bulk file rename dialog: Remember last used prefix for renaming files"
bug fixes:
- title: "Tag browser: Fix use of the tweak to control order of items in the Tag browser causing unexpected expansion of items after editing metadata."
tickets: [1730245]
- title: "Content server: Improve rendering of tags/categories with long words on small screens."
tickets: [1734119]
- title: "Fix first added saved search not appearing in Tag browser until calibre restart."
tickets: [1733151]
- title: "When checking added books for duplicates, also check on the language field. So books with the same title/authors but different languages are not considered duplicates."
- title: "Edit Book: Spell check should not fail if there are non-HTML files in the spine"
- title: "Conversion: Fix an error when using the embed_all_fonts option with certain books"
- title: "Save to disk: Dont error out if the user deletes all formats to be saved."
- title: "Linux binary: Fix calibre not starting on systems where QT_QPA_PLATFORM is set to use wayland"
improved recipes:
- The Economist
- The Walrun Magazine
- China Daily
- Telepolis
new recipes:
- title: Various Russian news source
author: bugmen00t
- version: 3.12.0
date: 2017-11-09
new features:
- title: "Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 3"
tickets: [1731024]
- title: "Allow configuring the metadata fields displayed in the pop-up Book details window. To configure, simply click the 'Configure' link at the bottom of the window."
- title: "Wireless driver: Allow specifying extra file formats (unknown to calibre) to send"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a regression that caused clicking the clear button in the main search bar to not unapply the current search until enter is pressed."
- title: "Linux: Fix a regression causing calibre to fail to start on systems with no DBUS session bus"
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix body font being forced to sans-serif, overriding in book and user stylesheet settings"
- title: "Fix sending email failing of the computer's FQDN is set to a single period."
tickets: [1730166]
improved recipes:
- New Yorker
- Geopolityka
- version: 3.11.1
date: 2017-11-02
new features:
- title: "Kindle driver: Add support for the new Kindle Oasis"
- title: "Browser viewer: Allow the user to specify a CSS style sheet to control the look and feel of the text"
- title: "Edit book spell check: In the list of suggestions show the original word in italics."
tickets: [1727827]
- title: "Edit Book: When adding a new HTML file, add it after the file being currently edited instead of at the end."
tickets: [1728601]
- title: "Column coloring: Add a contains rule type."
tickets: [1728464]
- title: "Book details panel: Allow saving the displayed cover to disk via the right click context menu."
tickets: [1728251]
bug fixes:
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix font size and color scheme settings not being respected in the footnote popup"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix comments/XML processing instructions in the middle of text causing text to be skipped."
tickets: [1727599]
- title: "Book details panel: Fix metadata field titles not being top aligned"
- title: "Linux: Fix long startup delay on systems that do not have a desktop notification service running"
- title: "3.11.1 fixes a couple of regression in 3.11.0 that broke configuring Get books and creating catalogs"
improved recipes:
- Financial Times
- computerworld.pl
- Tulsa World
- Science Daily
- El Mundo
- version: 3.10.0
date: 2017-10-20
new features:
- title: "Browser viewer: Show footnotes in a popup window. Similar to the popup footnote functionality in the calibre viewer."
type: major
- title: "Content server: Add an option to control the timeout for making AJAX queries to the server."
tickets: [1722016]
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression that broke Preferences->Conversion->Common options in version 3.9"
- title: "Server: Fix adding expressions to the search always using AND instead of respecting the setting to use OR or AND."
tickets: [1724405]
- title: "Browser viewer: Fix a regression that caused loading more than one book in the same session or using the back/forward browser buttons to require refreshing the browser."
- title: "Jobs list: Fix killing of job killing the wrong job if other jobs are completed while waiting for kill confirmation."
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix preserve cover aspect ratio option still distorting the aspect ratio slightly."
tickets: [1721864]
improved recipes:
- Lomza
- Go Comics
- Various Polish news sources
- version: 3.9.0
date: 2017-10-06
new features:
- title: "Remove the Connect to iTunes function since Apple has removed that functionality from iTunes"
description: "Now you have to use one of the wireless connection methods to connect to an iPad/iPhone, as described at: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#how-do-i-use-calibre-with-my-ipad-iphone-ipod-touch"
- title: "Kobo driver: Support for new firmware"
- title: "Allow changing the icons in yes/no columns via column icon rules."
tickets: [1721374]
- title: 'Quickview panel: Add a context menu with a "View" action to the book table.'
- title: "Make the elapsed time display in the jobs dialog more human friendly."
tickets: [1719059]
bug fixes:
- title: "EPUB Input: Fix styles in existing titlepage not being flattened when the titlepage is preserved during conversion."
tickets: [1720715]
- title: "Fix conversion of grayscale JPEG-XR images not working"
tickets: [1720638]
- title: "Update the douban metadata download plugin to match changes to the website"
- title: "DOCX Output: Fix the preserve cover aspect ratio option not visible"
tickets: [1719026]
improved recipes:
- Respekt Magazine
- Associated Press
- Heraldo de Aragon
- El Correo
- El Periodico de Aragon
- A List Apart
- version: 3.8.0
date: 2017-09-22
new features:
- title: "Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an action to set metadata from e-book files."
tickets: [1717755]