# 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: 2012-??-?? # # new features: # - title: # # bug fixes: # - title: # # improved recipes: # - # # new recipes: # - title: - version: 0.8.61 date: 2012-07-20 new features: - title: "E-book viewer: Add a paged mode that splits up the text into pages, like in a paper book instead of presenting it as a single column. To activate click the button with the yellow scroll icon in the top right corner." type: major description: "In paged mode, the ebook viewer no longer cuts off the last line of text at the bottom of the screen, and it respects CSS page-break directives. You can also set page margins and control the number of pages displayed on screen by clicking the Preferences button in the viewer and going to 'Text layout in paged mode'." - title: "Digitally sign the calibre OS X and windows builds" - title: "Get Books: Add Mills and Boon UK" - title: "Various minor improvements to the Bulk metadata edit dialog" tickets: [1025825, 1025838, 1025628] - title: "Fix various regression in the auto-complete functionality for authors/series/tags etc introduced in 0.8.60" - title: "Drivers for various new Android devices" tickets: [1024934] - title: "MOBI: Add support for the new language EXTH header field in MOBI files generated by kindlegen 2.5" bug fixes: - title: "KF8 Output: Fix calibre produced KF8 files not showing the 'Use publisher font' option on the Kindle Touch when they have embedded fonts" - title: "Txt/fb2/rtf/pml/rb output: Fix non-visibile element's tail text (which should be visible) is being ignored when it shouldn't." tickets: [1026541] - title: "Book details panel: When displaying a link to amazon, use a country specific name like amazon.fr instead of using amazon.com for all countries" - title: "Conversion: When splitting on page breaks, ignore page-breaks with values of auto and inherit. " tickets: [1018875] - title: "Metadata jacket: Specify foreground in addition to the background color for the title banner so that it remain readable if the user tries to monkey with the CSS in the viewer." - title: "PDF Output: Fix rendering of cover as first age of PDF (ignore margins so that the image covers the entire page)" - title: "Linux binaries: Bundle libglib to avoid incompatibilities with glib on various distros." tickets: [1022019] - title: "Fix find_identical_books() choking on books with too many authors" improved recipes: - Toronto Star - American Prospect - faz.net - version: 0.8.60 date: 2012-07-13 new features: - title: "When searching, allow use of un-accented characters to match accented characters in all fields and all languages (not just authors and English as before)" description: "The rules for matching un-accented characters are done in a language dependent way. So if your calibre interface language is set to English, n will match both n and ñ, but if it is set to Spanish, it will match only n, as in Spanish ñ is a separate alphabet in Spanish. This makes searching a little slower, so if you have a very large library you can turn it off via Preferences->Searching." type: major - title: "Content server: Show a best guess for the IP address the content server is currently listening at in the connect/share menu." tickets: [1024128] - title: "E-book viewer: Add an option to show a clock in full screen mode." tickets: [1022086] - title: "Drivers for Paquito Imaginarium and a few Android phones" tickets: [1024021,1023613,1023461,1022401] - title: "HTMLZ Output: Add option to use the book title as the filename for the html file inside the archive" - title: "Make the list of displayed fields in the book details panel a per library setting" - title: "Have autocomplete on authors/series/tags/etc. ignore accented characters when finding matches (similar to the changes to search above)" - title: "Support for retina displays in OS X (I hope)" tickets: [1022191] - title: "Remove the dependency on the zip command line tool when developing plugins" bug fixes: - title: "Kobo driver: Do not perform write operations on the Kobo database if its version is newer than the latest version the driver supports, for safety" - title: "KF8 Input: Ignore encoding declarations inside the html markup, as they are sometimes incorrect." tickets: [1022933] - title: "Force refresh of cached composite column values when values in the cache are changed" - title: "Fix a regression that broke calibre --shutdown-running-calibre on windows." tickets: [1022504] - title: "Possible workaround for Qt 4.8.2 open file dialog failing on some linux distros." tickets: [1022019] - title: "Catalogs: Fix some epubcheck errors when generating catalogs in EPUB format" - title: "Linux installer: When calling the xdg utilities use system libraries rather than the libraries bundled with calibre" - title: "Fix numeric sort for composite custom columns that use custom separators" tickets: [1021814] - title: "Tag browser: When grouping by first letter, handle languages that have 'letters' made of more than one character. This can be turned off via Preferences->Tweaks" improved recipes: - Hola magazine - Adventure Gamers - Cosmopolitan UK - Onda Rock new recipes: - title: Empire Magazine author: Dave Asbury - title: NZZ Folio author: Bernd Leinfelder - title: Warentest author: asdfdsfksd - version: 0.8.59 date: 2012-07-06 new features: - title: "Drivers for Samsung SGH-T989 and Sony Ericsson Sola" tickets: [1021365] - title: "Conversion pipeline: When removing the first image, also remove the html file the image is found in, if that file has no other content. Allows this option to be used to remove covers from EPUB files without leaving behind a blank page." - title: "Content server: Add a navigation panel at the bottom of each page." tickets: [1020225] - title: "calibredb: Add a backup_metadata command to manually run the backup to opf from the command line" - title: "User defined driver: Add option to swap main memory and card a." tickets: [1020056] - title: "Add new option to the series_index_auto_increment tweak, no_change, that causes calibre not to change the series_index when the series is changed" bug fixes: - title: "PDF Output: Resize large images so that they do not get off at the right edge of the page." - title: "On linux ensure that WM_CLASS for the main calibre GUI is set to 'calibre-gui' to match the name of the calibre-gui.desktop file. This is apparently required by the GNOME 3 shell." tickets: [1020297] - title: "Update ICU in all builds to version 49.1" - title: "Tag browser: Fix regression that broke drag and drop between user categories in the tag browser" - title: "When copying to library and deleting after copy, do not place deleted files in recycle bin, as this is redundant and slow (they have already been copied into another library)" - title: "Fix yes/no fields with value of No not showing up in the book details panel" - title: "Catalogs: Better sorting for non English languages" tickets: [930882] - title: "Get Books: Fix Foyles UK, Weightless books, ebooks.com and ozon.ru" - title: "CHM Input: Fix handling of chm files that split their html into multiple sub-directories." tickets: [1018792] improved recipes: - FHM UK - The Age - weblogs_ssl - Heraldo.es new recipes: - title: CATO Institute and Heritage Foundation author: _reader - version: 0.8.58 date: 2012-06-29 new features: - title: "Add some texture to calibre generated covers" - title: "Drivers for Sogo SS-4370, HTC G2 and Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet" tickets: [1019050, 1017010] - title: "Add search to the Manage tags/series/etc. dialogs" - title: "News download: Add support for images embedded in the HTML" - title: "calibre -s now waits for calibre to shutdown" bug fixes: - title: "Workaround for iTunes breaking scripting with version 10.6.3 on OS X." tickets: [1012243] - title: "EPUB Input: When there are multiple elements of the same type in the OPF guide, use the first rather than the last element." - title: "Windows: Disable the new UI style if the color depth of the desktop is less than 32 bits per pixel" - title: "ISBNDB metadata plugin: Return results even though they have no comments" - title: "More robust handling of EINTR during IPC" - title: "Metadata download: Support for amazon's new results page markup" - title: "EPUB Output: Fix a bug that could cause corrupted output when doing an EPUB/OEB to EPUB conversion if the input EPUB had multiple files with the same name" - title: "KF8 Output: Fix a couple of bugs that could lead to generation of invalid KF8 files." tickets: [1016672] improved recipes: - ABC Digital - O Globo new recipes: - title: Sign of the Times and New Statesman author: TerminalVeracity - title: CT24 author: zoidozoido - title: SmileZilla author: Will - title: Marketing Sensoriale author: NotTaken - version: 0.8.57 date: 2012-06-22 new features: - title: "PDF Output: Full pagination support. No more cutoff bottom line." type: major description: "Fixes a long standing bug in calibre's PDF Output that caused the bottom line of some pages to be partially cut off and prevented top and bottom margins from working." - title: "calibredb add now prints out the ids of added books" tickets: [1014303] - title: "Kobo Vox driver: Add support for new Google Play firmware" tickets: [1014129] - title: "Driver for Prestigio PMP5097PRO" tickets: [1013864] - title: "Add option to disable tooltips in the book list under Preferences->Look & Feel" - title: "When customizing builtin recipes download the latest version of the recipe to customize instead of using the possibly out of date bundled version" bug fixes: - title: "PDF Output: Use the cover from the input document when no cover is specified during a conversion" - title: "E-book Viewer: Printing now has proper pagination with top and bottom margins no lines partially cut-off at the bottom and full style retention" - title: "KF8 Input: Handle files with incorrectly encoded guide type entries." tickets: [1015020] - title: "E-book viewer: Disable hyphenation on windows xp as Qt WebKit barfs on soft hyphens on windows XP" - title: "Handle OS X systems with invalid palette colors." tickets: [1014900] - title: "Tag Browser: Fix regression that broke partitioning of hierarchical categories." tickets: [1014065] - title: "LRF Output: Handle negative page margins" tickets: [1014103] - title: "Template language: Fix arithmetic functions to tolerate the value 'None' as returned by raw_field()" - title: "Fix custom title sort set in the edit metadata dialog getting reset by the conversion dialog" improved recipes: - The Economist - Akter - 24 Sata sr - Novi List - Metro Montreal - Mode Durable - CanardPC - The Economic Collapse - Our Daily Bread new recipes: - title: Akter Daily author: Darko MIletic - title: BBC Brasil author: Claviola - title: Homopedia.pl author: rainbowwarrior - title: National Geographic Magazine author: Terminal Veracity - title: Something Awful author: atordo - title: Huffington Post UK author: Krittika Goyal - version: 0.8.56 date: 2012-06-15 new features: - title: "Make the new calibre style default on Windows and OS X." type: major description: "This change gives a more 'modern' feel to the calibre user interface with focus highlighting, gradients, rounded corners, etc. In case you prefer the old look, you can restore under Preferences->Look & Feel->User interface style" - title: "Get Books: Add the new SONY Reader store" - title: "Read metadata from .docx (Microsoft Word) files" - title: "Allow customizing the behavior of the searching for similar books by right clicking the book. You can now tell calibre to search different columns than the traditional author/series/publisher/tags/etc. in Preferences->Searching" - title: "Add option to restore alternating row colors to the Tag Browser under Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser" - title: "Update to Qt 4.8.2 on windows compiled with link time code generation for a small performance boost" bug fixes: - title: "Get Books: Update plugins to handle website changes at ebooks.com, project gutenberg, and virtualo" - title: "AZW3 Output: Fix TOC at start option not working" - title: "AZW3 Output: Close self closing script/style/title/head tags explicitly as they cause problems in webkit based renderers like the Kindle Fire and calibre's viewers." - title: "Fix the current_library_name() template function not updating after a library switch" - title: "AZW3 Output: Handle the case of a link pointing to the last line of text in the document." tickets: [1011330] - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.55 that broke highlighting of items matching a search in the Tag Browser" tickets: [1011030] - title: "News download: Handle query only relative URLs" improved recipes: - Christian Science Monitor - Neue Zurcher Zeitung - Birmignham Post - Metro UK - New Musical Express - The Independent - The Daily Mirror - Vreme - Smithsonian Magazine new recipes: - title: NZZ Webpaper author: Bernd Leinfelder - version: 0.8.55 date: 2012-06-08 new features: - title: "Add a new 'Calibre style' interface look that is more modern than the default look. You can select it via Preferences->Look & Feel->User interface style." - title: "New, subtler look for the Tag Browser" - title: "Driver for Trekstor Pyrus and Pantech Android Tablet" tickets: [1008946, 1007929] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle guide elements with incorrectly cased hrefs. Also handle guide elements of type coverimagestandard and thumbimagestandard." - title: "Allow user to customize trekstor plugin to send books into sub directories." tickets: [1007646] - title: "EPUB Input: Add support for EPUB files that use the IDPF font obfuscation algorithm. Apparently, people have started producing these now." tickets: [1008810] - title: "Save single format to disk: Only show the format available in the selected books." tickets: [1007287] bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: When using the insert metadata at start of book option, do not use a table to layout the metadata, as the Kindle Fire crashes when rendering the table." tickets: [1002119] - title: "Device detection: Fix a bug that could cause device detection to fail completely if devices with certain vendor/product ids are connected." tickets: [1009718] - title: "MOBI Output: When rasterizing svgs only compute style information when an actual svg image is present. Small speedup when converting large svg-free documents to MOBI." - title: "SONY T1 driver: Fix support for collections of books placed on the SD card" tickets: [986044] - title: "Fix partitioning problems in tag browser with fields that have no name, such as identifiers and formats" - title: "Welcome wizard: Preferentially use the kindle email address set as default when more than one such address exists." tickets: [1007932 ] - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.54 that broke the use of the shortcut Alt+A to select books by the same author" improved recipes: - Various Polish recipes - Vice Magazine - EL Mundo Today - Haaretz - Good Housekeeping - El Pais - Christian Science Monitor - Marketing Magazine - Instapaper new recipes: - title: Various Philippine news sources author: jde - title: Natemat.pl and wirtualnemedia.pl author: fenuks - title: Rabble.ca author: timtoo - version: 0.8.54 date: 2012-05-31 new features: - title: "E-book viewer: The Table of contents panel now tracks the current position in the book. As you scroll through the book, the entry you are currently on is highlighted." type: major description: "To see this feature in action, open the Table of Contents panel in the viewer by clicking the button with three blue lines on it. As you page through the book, the chapter you are reading currently is highlighted in the Table of Contents Panel. Obviously, this will only work if the book you are reading has a Table of Contents. You can also use the Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn keys to quickly skip between chapters." - title: "calibredb: Allow setting metadata for individual fields with the set_metadata command" - title: "Make it a little harder to accidentally change the sorting of items in the Tag Browser. Also frees up more vertical space for the Tag Browser itself." - title: "The calibre user manual is now available in AZW3 format as well as EPUB" bug fixes: - title: "Automatic titlecasing: No longer try to capitalize scottish names, as there are too many special cases." tickets: [775825] - title: "Never crash when reading metadata from PDF files (reading now always happens in a worker process)" tickets: [1006452] - title: "EPUB Input: Do no skip the valid children of an NCX node that has no text/href" - title: "Archos driver: Detect SD card" tickets: [1005650] - title: "When bulk downloading metadata and the user deletes one of the books for which metadata is being downloaded, just ignore it, instead of erroring out" - title: "When deleting books from the bottom of the booklist, ensure that the bottom book after deleting is selected" - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.53 that broke sending APNX files to older Kindle devices" - title: "Use correct text color for selected rows in the list of matches when downloading metadata and showing results in get books." tickets: [1004568] improved recipes: - The Independent - Welt der Physik - China Daily - The Grid - Prospect Magazine new recipes: - title: La gazetta del Mezzogiorno author: faber1971 - version: 0.8.53 date: 2012-05-25 new features: - title: "Kindle Touch/4 driver: Upload cover thumbnails when sending books to device by USB to workaround Amazon bug of not displaying covers for sync-enabled books" - title: "Support for updating metadata in FB2 files" - title: "Set a different background color when choosing formats to not delete as opposed to choosing format to delete." tickets: [ 1001741 ] - title: "E-book viewer: Add an option to prevent the up and down arrow keys from scrolling past page breaks" - title: "Get Books: Remove ebookshoppe.com at the website's request" bug fixes: - title: "PDF Input: Support image rotation commands in PDF files. Fixes the long standing problem of some images being flipped when converting from PDF in calibre." - title: "Fix a regression in 0.8.51 that caused conversion to HTMLZ to not have any CSS" - title: "Get Books: Fix website change at kobo.com causing prices not to be found" - title: "Edit the time in the 24 hour clock when calibre's interface language is set to German." tickets: [ 1001809 ] - title: "MOBI Output: When generating joint KF8/MOBI6 .mobi files set the text length field in the MOBI 6 header correctly. " tickets: [ 1003489 ] - title: "ODT Input: More workarounds for LibreOffice 3.5's habit of inserting pointless margin:100% directives everywhere." tickets: [ 1002702 ] - title: "Fix regression that broke smarten punctuation when quotes were next to html tags." tickets: [ 998900 ] - title: "Fix published date from ozon.ru wrong in some timezones" tickets: [ 975338 ] - title: "Catalogs: Handle the use of custom columns with non-ascii names correctly" tickets: [1001437] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Remove the attempt to detect and autocorrect if text will go off the left edge of the page, as it was a rather crude heuristic. Also do not remove fake margins if the book uses negative text indents on the margined elements." - title: "KF8 Output: Set offsets to tags in the skeleton the same way kindlegen does. Also linearize non linear ToCs to ensure section to section jumping works." - title: "Conversion pipeline: Use correct default value of 'inherit' for font-family and font-size when normalizing the shorthand font property." - title: "When running python scripts via calibre-debug ensure that user plugins are loaded" improved recipes: - Business Week Magazine - Metro Nieuws NL new recipes: - title: Attac.es author: Marc Busque - title: Drytooling.com author: Damian Granowski - title: Shortlist.com author: Dave ASbury - title: National Geographic (es) author: vakya - version: 0.8.52 date: 2012-05-18 new features: - title: "EPUB Input: When setting the cover for a book that identifies its cover image, but not the html wrapper around the cover, try to detect and remove that wrapper automatically." tickets: [ 999959 ] - title: "When deleting books of a specific format, show the number of books with each format available" - title: "Linux install: No longer create MAN pages as all utilities have more comprehensive command line --help anyway" - title: "Add a tweak Preferences->Tweaks to control the default choice of format for the Tweak Book feature" - title: "Conversion: Allow setting negative page margins. A negative page margin means that calibre will not specify any page margin in the output document (for formats that support this)" bug fixes: - title: "Tweak book: Fix handling of covers when tweaking KF8 books" - title: "KF8 Output: Handle input documents with out of sequence ToC entries. Note that currently section jumping in the KF8 output produced by calibre for such files does not work." tickets: [1000493] - title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix the edit values button for custom tag-like columns showing a unneeded warning about changed values" - title: "EPUB Output: Be a little more conservative when removing
tags. Only remove them if they have actual forms inside. " tickets: [ 1000384 ] - title: "EPUB Input: Correctly update the Cover entry in the ToC even when the entry has a fragment reference. " tickets: [ 999973 ] - title: "Update ImagMagick DLLs in all calibre binary builds to fix security vulnerabilities in ImageMagick" tickets: [ 999496 ] - title: "Advanced search dialog: Fix equals and regex matching not being applied for custom column searches." tickets: [ 980221 ] - title: "RTF Input: Handle old RTF files that have commands without braces." tickets: [ 994133 ] - title: "Get Books: Diesel, fix results not showing when only a single match is found" - title: "Get Books: Fix DRM status indicators for Kobo and Diesel stores. Fix smashwords not returning results." tickets: [ 993755 ] - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.51 that broke viewing of LIT and some EPUB files" tickets: [998248, 998216] improved recipes: - Clarin - Spiegel - Spiegel International - Montreal Gazette - Gosc Niedzelny - Ars Technica new recipes: - title: "Army/Navy/Air force/Marine Times and News busters" author: jde - title: "Ads of the World, Heavy Meta (Italian) and Juve La Stampa" author: faber1971 - title: "Revista Summa" author: Vakya - title: "Strategic culture" author: Darko Miletic - title: Stars and Stripes author: adoucette - title: Nackdenkseiten author: jrda - version: 0.8.51 date: 2012-05-11 new features: - title: "When switching libraries preserve the position and selected books if you switch back to a previously opened library." tickets: [994514] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Filter out the useless font-face rules inserted by Microsoft Word for every font on the system" - title: "Driver for Motorola XT875 and Pandigital SuperNova" tickets: [996890] - title: "Add a colour swatch the the dialog for creating column coloring rules, to ease selection of colors" tickets: [994811] - title: "EPUB Output: Consolidate internal CSS generated by calibre into external stylesheets for ease of editing the EPUB" - title: "List EPUB and MOBI at the top of the dropdown list fo formats to convert to, as they are the most common choices" tickets: [994838] bug fixes: - title: "E-book viewer: Improve performance when switching between normal and fullscreen views." tickets: [996102] - title: "Edit metadata dialog: When running download metadata do not insert duplicate tags into the list of tags" - title: "KF8 Input: Do not error out if the file has a few invalidly encoded bytes." tickets: [997034] - title: "Fix download of news in AZW3 format not working" tickets: [996439] - title: "Pocketbook driver: Update for new PB 611 firmware." tickets: [903079] - title: "ebook-convert: Error out if the user prvides extra command line args instead of silently ignoring them" tickets: [994939] - title: "EPUB Output: Do not self close any container tags to prevent artifacts when EPUBs are viewed using buggy browser based viewers." tickets: [994861] - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.50 that broke the conversion of HTML files that contained non-ascii font-face declarations, typically produced by Microsoft Word" improved recipes: - Mainichi news - derStandard - Endgadget Japan new recipes: - title: Mainichi English author: Hiroshi Miura - title: The Grid TO author: Yusuf W - title: National Geographic (Italy) author: faber1971 - title: Rebelion author: Marc Busque - version: 0.8.50 date: 2012-05-04 new features: - title: "Tweak Book: Allow tweaking of KF8 MOBI files. Useful to fine-tune the result of a conversion. Right click on the book and select Tweak Book to use the feature. Note that tweaking a MOBI file that contains both KF8 and older MOBI6 will cause the MOBI6 version to be discarded." - title: "AZW3 output plugin. This output plugin generates pure KF8 mobi files. These only work on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch with latest firmware." - title: "Conversion: Allow easy re-ordering of the search and replace expressions in the conversion dialog. Also apply the expressions in the same order that they were entered when doing the conversion." - title: "Automatically add the Tag 'Sample Book' when an Amazon sample is added to calibre" - title: "FB2 Input: Better handling of inline images." tickets: [989869] bug fixes: - title: "KF8 Output: Fix section to section jumps not working for documents with multi-level ToCs" - title: "EPUB Input: Handle the case of the metadata ToC containing a reference to the cover HTML file." tickets: [993812] - title: "CHM Input: Handle files with deeply nested markup and non html files listed at the start of the manifest." tickets: [993607] - title: "KF8 Output: Workaround Kindle Touch bug that causes the book to be rendered as black pages when a height is specified for " - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.49 that broke italics detection in heuristic processing on 32-bit systems." tickets: [991380] - title: "KF8 Output: Fix joint MOBI6/KF8 books not being recognized as MOBI files by older Kindles" - title: "KF8 Output: Fix errors when processing documents with HTML comments and/or XML processing instructions" - title: "Get Books: Amazon fix prices not being found. B&N fix details link. ebooks.com: fix cover image. Website changes to various EU stores" - title: "FB2 Input: More robust base64 decoding to handle embedded images that are incorrectly encoded." tickets: [990929] - title: "Fix scrolling with the cover browser updating only the selection in the book list, not the current book." tickets: [990881] - title: "Save to Disk: Do not run out memory when saving very large files on systems with low RAM." tickets: [990741] - title: "FB2 Output: Use 2 letter language codes in preference to 3-letter ones to not break poorly implemented FB2 readers" tickets: [990026] - title: "EPUB Input: Auto set the media-type for OPF manifest entries with an empty media-type" improved recipes: - National Post - Daily Mirror - Sun - Newsweek Polska - Max-Planck - derStandard - tweakers.net new recipes: - title: George Monbiot author: Darko Miletic - title: El Mundo author: atordo - title: AraInfo and Diagonal author: Ruben Pollan - version: 0.8.49 date: 2012-04-27 new features: - title: "Experimental support for generating Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files" description: "calibre can now generate Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files. To turn on this feature, go to Preferences->Tweaks and click Plugin Tweaks. In the box add: test_mobi_output_type = 'both' calibre will now produce MOBI files that have both the old MOBI format and the new KF8 format in them. To learn more about KF8, see: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000729511 Note that calibre support for KF8 is still experimental and there will likely be bugs." - title: "Upgrade to using cssutils 0.9.9 for CSS parsing. Improved speed and robustness." - title: "Show cover size in a tooltip in the conversion dialog" tickets: [986958] - title: "Driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light" tickets: [989264] bug fixes: - title: "Heuristics: When italicizing words do not operate on words not in between HTML tags." tickets: [986298] - title: "Fix (I hope) the bulk metadata download process crashing for some people on OS X when clicking the Yes button to apply the updates." tickets: [986658] - title: "Fix tooltip not being updated in the book details panel when pasting in a new cover" tickets: [986958] - title: "Cover Browser: Wrap the title on space only, not in between words." tickets: [986516] - title: "Edit metadata dialog: If a permission denied error occurs when clicking the next or prev buttons, stay on the current book." tickets: [986903] - title: "Fix heuristics not removing unnecessary hyphens from the end of lines." tickets: [822744] improved recipes: - Metro Nieuws NL - Der Tagesspiegel new recipes: - title: Berria author: Alayn Gortazar - title: Sol Haber author: Onur Gungor - title: Telam author: Darko Miletic - title: Richmond Times-Dispatch author: jde - version: 0.8.48 date: 2012-04-20 new features: - title: "Conversion: The search and replace feature has been completely revamped." description: "You can now use any number of search and replace expression, not just three. You can also store and load frequently used sets of search and replace expressions. Also, the wizard generates its preview in a separate process to protect against crashes/memory leaks." tickets: [983476,983484,983478] - title: "Support for the new '.azw3' files that Amazon recently started generating. calibre will now detect them as ebooks. It can also view/convert them, if they are DRM free." - title: "Drivers for Samsung Galaxy ACE GT-S5830L and HTC One X" tickets: [981185] bug fixes: - title: "Get Books: Support the new website design of Barnes & Noble" - title: "T1 driver: Fix books sent to SD card sometimes resulting problems when deleted." tickets: [943586] - title: "Do not allow author names to be set to blank via the Manage authors function. Blank authors are now automatically set to 'Unknown'" - title: "MOBI Output: Handle background color specified on and in addition to tags." tickets: [980813] - title: "MOBI Output: Fix underline style applied to parent element not getting inherited by children." tickets: [985711] improved recipes: - xkcd - Metro Nieuws - Calgary Herald - Orlando Sentinel - countryfile - Heise new recipes: - title: Various new Polish news sources author: fenuks - title: Various Italian news sources author: faber1971 - title: Jakarta Globe author: rty - title: Acim Bilim Dergisi author: thomass - version: 0.8.47 date: 2012-04-13 new features: - title: "Conversion pipeline: Add support for all the named entities in the HTML 5 spec." tickets: [976056] - title: "Support for viewing and converting the Haodoo PDB ebook format" tickets: [976478] - title: "Device driver for Laser EB720" bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in automatic adding in 0.8.46 that broke automatic adding if adding of duplicates is enabled and auto convert is also enabled" tickets: [976336] - title: 'Fix "Tags" field in advanced search does not obey regex setting' tickets: [980221] - title: "EPUB Input: Automatically extract cover image from simple HTML title page that consists of only a single tag, instead of rendering the page" - title: "Prevent errors when both author and author_sort are used in a template for reading metadata from filenames for files on a device" - title: "Amazon metadata download: Handle books whose titles start with a bracket." tickets: [976365] - title: "Get Books: Fix downloading of purchased books from Baen" tickets: [975929] improved recipes: - Forbes - Caros Amigos - Trouw - Sun UK - Metro - Daily Mirror new recipes: - title: "Melbourne Herald Sun" author: Ray Hartley - title: "Editoriali and Zerocalcare" author: faber1971 - version: 0.8.46 date: 2012-04-06 new features: - title: "Auto adding: When automatically adding files from a folder, automatically convert the files to the current output format after adding. This can be turned off via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding." tickets: [969053] - title: "E-book viewer: When reading a MOBI file that is actually a KF8 book, show the format as being KF8" - title: "Content server: Workaround for android stock browser not support HTTP AUTH." - title: "Edit metadata dialog: Change the remove unused series button to a clear series button (as the remove unused series function is now automatic)" - title: "Driver for PocketBook 622." tickets: [969875] bug fixes: - title: "Run metadata downloads in a separate process to workaround memory leaks in third party plugins. Also removes the need to break up bulk metadata downloads into 100 book batches." - title: "Make tag browser filtering work when capital letters are entered." - title: "EPUB metadata: Ignore urn:isbn: prefix from ISBN declaration when reading metadata" - title: "Get books: Fix feedbooks store not showing all available formats" - title: "KF8 Input: When the KF8 book has no metadata ToC, try to extract the ToC from the HTML instead." tickets: [969238] - title: "Fix regression that broke access to Preferences via the Preferences item in the calibre menu on OS X" tickets: [969418] - title: "Fix bug that ignored metadata specified on the command line when using calibredb add" improved recipes: - OReilly Premium - Real Clear - Soldier's Magazine - Rue89 new recipes: - title: The Southern Star author: watou - title: Buenos Aires Herald author: Darko Miletic - version: 0.8.45 date: 2012-03-30 new features: - title: "E-book viewer: Allow the up and down keys to scroll past section boundaries" - title: "calibredb: Allow specification of basic metadata on the command line when adding books." tickets: [951063] - title: "Driver for Samsung Galaxy Plus GT-I9001" - title: "KF8 Input: Support KF8 format Amazon book samples." tickets: [963418] - title: "When a new plugin is added to calibre for the first time, have its icon (if any) show up even when a device is connected (this can be changed by the user at the time of plugin installation)" - title: "Add keyboard shortcuts for Bold, Italic and Underline to the comments editor in the edit metadata dialog" tickets: [963559] bug fixes: - title: "E-book viewer: Fix last read position (and bookmarks in general) being inaccurate for some books." description: "The technique for marking locations in books used by the viewer has changed. The new technique should be much more accurate than the last one, especially when the font size at which the book is being viewed is changed. Note that this change means that bookmarks created with this release of calibre will not be read by previous calibre versions. On a technical note, the viewer now uses the CFI specification from the EPUB 3 standard for bookmarks." type: major - title: "Workarounds for a few regressions in the user interface in 0.8.44 caused by the update to Qt 4.8.0" - title: "Books list: Preserve the horizontal scroll position when sorting by a column" - title: "Fix saving to disk and then adding the book back not restoring tags-like custom columns" - title: "Linux installer: Fix completion for ebook-convert not working." tickets: [967834] - title: "MOBI Output: Recognize type=text in addition to type=start guide elements" - title: "Get Books: Updates to Nexto, Ebookpoint and Woblink stores" - title: "Fix unable to clear username/password in Fetch news dialog" - title: "PDF Output: Fix margin specifications not being applied" - title: "Linux installer: Manually preserve the defaults.list mimetype association file to workaround buggy xdg-desktop-menu implementations in some distros." tickets: [926559] - title: "E-book viewer: Fix regression that caused the ebook viewer to stop functioning if it is launched from the main calibre program and then the main calibre program is closed." tickets: [963960] improved recipes: - Our Daily Bread new recipes: - title: NRC Handelsblad (free) author: veezh - version: 0.8.44 date: 2012-03-23 new features: - title: "E-book viewer: A whole new full screen mode." description: "The new mode has no toolbars to distract from the text and the ability to set the width of the column of text via Preferences in the ebook viewer. Click the Fullscreen button on the toolbar in the viewer to enter fullscreen mode (or press the F11 or Ctrl+Shit+F keys)" type: major tickets: [959830] - title: "Copy to Library: If books were auto merged by the copy to library process, popup a message telling the user about it, as otherwise some people forget they have turned on auto merge and accuse calibre of losing their books." - title: "Unix driver for Ectaco JetBook color" tickets: [958442] - title: "Add a link to the 'Adding Books Preferences' in the drop down menu of the Add Books button for easier access and more prominence" tickets: [958145] - title: "Smarten punctuation: Add a few more cases for detecting opening and closing quotes" bug fixes: - title: "Get Books: Updates to various store plugins to deal with website changes: Amazon Europe, Waterstones, Foyles, B&N, Kobo, Woblink and Empik" - title: "Catalog generation: Do not error out when generating csv/xml catalogs if the catalog title contains filename invalid characters." tickets: [960154] - title: "RTF Output: Ignore corrupted images in the input document, instead of erroring out." tickets: [959600] - title: "E-book viewer: Try to preserve page position when the window is resized" - title: "Fix bug that caused wrong series to be shown when clicking on the first letter of a series group in the Tag Browser" - title: "Fix calibre not supporting different http and https proxies." tickets: [960173] - title: "MOBI Input: Fix regression caused by KF8 support that broke reading of ancient non-Amazon PRC files" - title: "Fix EPUB to EPUB conversion of an EPUB with obfuscated fonts resulting in the fonts not being readable in Adobe Digital Editions" tickets: [957527] - title: "RTF Output: Fix bug that broke conversion to RTF when the input document contains tags with no src attribute." - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.43 that broke use of general mode templates that ended in a semi-colon." tickets: [957295] improved recipes: - b92 - Various Polish news sources - Le Monde - FHM UK new recipes: - title: Ivana Milakovic and Klub knjige author: Darko Miletic - version: 0.8.43 date: 2012-03-16 new features: - title: "Template language: Speedup evaluation of general program mode templates by pre-compiling them to python. If you experience errors with this optimization, you can turn it off via Preferences->Tweaks. Also other miscellaneous optimizations in evaluating templates with composite columns." - title: "MOBI Output: Add an option to not convert all images to JPEG when creating MOBI files. For maximum compatibility of the produced MOBI files, do not use this option." tickets: [954025] - title: "Add iPad3 Output Profile" bug fixes: - title: "KF8 Input: Add support for KF8 files with obfuscated embedded fonts" tickets: [953260] - title: "Make the stars in the book list a little larger on windows >= vista" - title: "Revised periodical Section layout, for touchscreen devices resolving iBooks problem with tables spanning multiple pages" - title: "Read dc:contributor metadata from MOBI files" - title: "MOBI Output: Fix a regression that caused the generated thumbnail embedded in calibre produced MOBI files to be a large, low quality image instead of a small, high quality image. You would have been affected by this bug only if you directly used the output from calibre, without exporting it via send to device or save to disk." tickets: [954254] - title: "KF8 Input: Recognize OpenType embedded fonts as well." tickets: [954728] - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.41 that caused file:/// URLs to stop working in the news download system on windows." tickets: [955581] - title: "When setting metadata in MOBI files fix cover not being updated if the mobi file has its first image record as the cover" - title: "Fix column coloring rules based on the size column not working" tickets: [953737] improved recipes: - Microwaves and RF - idg.se new recipes: - title: SatMagazine author: kiavash - version: 0.8.42 date: 2012-03-12 new features: - title: "Support for reading Amazon's new KF8 format" type: major description: "calibre can now both view and convert MOBI files that contain Amazon's new KF8 (Kindle Fire) format" - title: "Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the font size used in the book details panel" tickets: [948357] - title: "Allow specifying a list of file types to exclude when automatically adding files from a folder" tickets: [943025] - title: "Show ratings in the book details panel as stars. Also allow the user to change the alignment of the ratings column in the main books list. No longer display the stars in blue, instead their color can be customized via the column coloring rules, like any other column" - title: "When setting metadata in EPUB ensure that the tag has its name attribute first. Needed for the Nook." - title: "Drivers for Novo 7, LG G2x and Zenithink T-280" tickets: [941671, 940625, 940527] - title: "Update linux binaries to Qt 4.8.0" bug fixes: - title: "Fix some rar files causing crashes on OS X (updated libunrar.dylib in the OS X build)" tickets: [951185] - title: "MOBI Output: Ignore the Table of Contents pointed to by the guide, if it contains no links" - title: "ODT Input: Ignore margin declaration in ODT styles if more specific margin-* declarations are present" tickets: [941134] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix @import rules in CSS stylesheets that have comments on their first few lines being ignored." - title: "EPUB Input: When extracting the contents of epub files on windows, do not error out if one or more of the components in the epub file have filepaths containing characters that are invalid for the windows filesystem, instead, just replace those characters, since those entries are likely to be errors in the zip container anyway." tickets: [950081] - title: "Textile output: Fix issue with blockquotes and sentences getting removed." - title: "MOBI Output: When using the prefer author sort conversion option, handle multiple authors better." tickets: [947146] - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.41 that broke direct connection to iDevices in windows" tickets: [944534] - title: "Fix the download bulk metadata completed popup causing a crash if the Esc key is pressed." tickets: [943056] - title: "Fix rating values doubled in CSV/XML catalogs" tickets: [942790] - title: "EPUB Input: Remove non markup documents from the spine automatically, instead of erroring out" - title: "When formatting ratings in templates, etc., do not have an unnecessary .0" - title: "Calibre portable: Do not allow calibre portable to run if it is placed in a location whose path is too long. Also hide the library location setup in the welcome wizard when running the portable build." - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.41 that broke calibre if the TMP or TEMP environment variable is set to the root of a drive." tickets: [952284] - title: "Fix display of ratings type custom fields in the content server" tickets: [940600] improved recipes: - La Jornada - Chicago Tribune - Mediapart - rue89 new recipes: - title: Racjonalista author: Racjonlista - title: JAPAA author: adoucette - version: 0.8.41 date: 2012-02-24 new features: - title: "Driver for Sony Experia Play 4G" tickets: [938831] - title: "News download system: Allow use of __future__ in recipes, and do not change line numbers of code in the recipe when compiling it" - title: "Use the My Documents folder as the default location for the Calibre Library folder on first start in windows" tickets: [934840] - title: "Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the order in which categories appear in the Tag Browser" - title: "Tag Browser: Add an entry to the right click menu to quickly delete tags" tickets: [934509] - title: "Amazon metadata download: Try to scrape series information from the amazon details page. Note that currently very few books have series info available. Often the page for hardcover will have series, but the Kindle edition will not. In such cases calibre may or may not find the series, depending on which page it ends up using." - title: "Content server: Add favicon to OPDS feeds." tickets: [934731] bug fixes: - title: "RTF Input: Fix some WMF images embedded in RTF files being distorted on conversion." tickets: [934167] - title: "Fix long standing bug preventing calibre from working on east asian windows installs when the user name in windows has non-ascii characters" tickets: [937389] - title: "Get Books: Fix Baen Webscription and O'Reilly stores. Fix price detection for Google Books" - title: "MOBI Output: When the same anchor is present more than once in the input document, use the first occurrence rather than the last one." tickets: [934031] - title: "Use the 'default cover font' tweak when generating default masthead images as well" tickets: [939256] - title: "Fix content server does not correctly display custom field of type 'rating'" tickets: [938303] - title: "Fix welcome wizard does not save send-from email info unless send-to field is filled" tickets: [937087] - title: "When reading metadata from odt files, use initial-creator in preference to creator for setting the author field" tickets: [934564] - title: "Fix conversion erroring out when the input document has very long and thin images" tickets: [935234] improved recipes: - The Sun - Various Polish news sources - Mediapart new recipes: - title: La pausa caffe author: faber1971 - title: Various Polish news sources author: fenuks - version: 0.8.40 date: 2012-02-17 new features: - title: "Amazon metadata download: Support the new 'Book Description' section that Amazon publishes for some books. Also workaround the amazon US servers occasionally returning broken markup leading to calibre not finding any matches for books on Amazon." - title: "Kindle driver: Add an option to allow using page counts stored in a custom column. Go to Preferences->Plugins and customize the Kindle driver, to tell it to use a custom column to get page count data. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1963075&postcount=215 for details." - title: "Template language: Add a current_library_name() function that can be used to return the name of the currently opened library in calibre" - title: "Driver for Xperia Neo and PocketBook A10" tickets: [930788] bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not properly refresh format information in standalone calibre-server processes" - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.39 that broke getting covers from some epub files on OS X." tickets: [932507] - title: "Reading metadata from HTML files: Do not take a very long time for very large HTML files. Also fix reading metadata from meta tags with multiple spaces before the content attribute." tickets: [932262] - title: "EPUB Output: Fix splitting breaking internal links in the epub, if the links pointed to files with URL unsafe characters in their file names." tickets: [929966] - title: "Fix auto adding not leaving languages field blank when book has no defined laguage" tickets: [930648] improved recipes: - Samanyolu Haber - Kurier - Le devoir - Daily Mirror - Common Dreams - Pescanik new recipes: - title: Asian Review of Books author: Darko Miletic - title: Albert Mohler, Desiring God, Living Stones and Resurgence author: Peter Grungi - title: Novinite BG author: M3 Web - title: Catholic Daily Readings author: adoucette - title: Consortium News and Microwave and RF magazine author: kiavash - version: 0.8.39 date: 2012-02-10 new features: - title: "Auto-adding: Add an option to check for duplicates when auto adding." tickets: [926962] - title: "Content server: Export a second record via mDNS that points to the full OPDS feed in addition to the one pointing to the Stanza feed. The new record is of type _calibre._tcp." tickets: [929304] - title: "Allow specifying a set of categories that are not partitioned even if they contain a large number of items in the Tag Browser. Preference is available under Look & Feel->Tag Browser" - title: "Allow setting a URL prefix for the content server that run embedded in the calibre GUI as well." tickets: [928905] - title: "Allow output of identifiers data in CSV/XML/BiBTeX catalogs" tickets: [927737] - title: "Driver for Motorola Droid XT910, Nokia E71 and HTC EVO 3D." tickets: [928202, 927818, 929400] - title: "Cut down the time taken to launch worker processes by 40%" - title: "You can now configure the calibre settings for the currently connected device by right clicking on the device icon in the toolbar, instead of having to go through Preferences->Plugins" bug fixes: - title: "Auto-adding: Do not add incomplete files when files are downloaded directly into the auto add folder." tickets: [926578] - title: "When running multiple delete from device jobs, fix the device view sometimes marking the wrong books as being deleted, after the first delete job completes." tickets: [927972] - title: "MOBI Input: Handle files that have spurious closing and/or tags in their markup." tickets: [925833] - title: "RTF Input: Strip out false color specifications, as they cause artifacts when converted to MOBI" improved recipes: - Updated Postmedia publications - Foreign Affairs - Read It Later - Microwave Journal - taggeschau.de new recipes: - title: Vancouver Province and Windsor Star author: Nick Redding - title: Onda Rock author: faber1971 - title: Il Manifesto author: Giacomo Lacava - version: 0.8.38 date: 2012-02-03 new features: - title: "Implement the ability to automatically add books to calibre from a specified folder." type: major description: "calibre can now watch a folder on your computer and instantly add any files you put there to the calibre library as new books. You can tell calibre which folder to watch via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding." tickets: [920249] - title: "Conversion: When automatically inserting page breaks, do not put a page break before a

or

tag if it is immediately preceded by another

or

tag." - title: "Driver for EZReader T730 and Point-of-View PlayTab Pro" tickets: [923283, 922969] bug fixes: - title: "Fix device entry not visible in menubar even when it has been added via Preferences->Toolbars." tickets: [923175] - title: "Fix metadata plugboards not applied when auto sending news by email" - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.34 that broke recipes that used skip_ad_pages() but not get_browser(). " tickets: [923724] - title: "Restore device support on FreeBSD, by using HAL" tickets: [924503] - title: "Get books: Show no more than 10 results from the Gandalf store" - title: "Content server: Fix metadata not being updated when sending for some MOBI files." tickets: [923130] - title: "Heuristic processing: Fix the italicize common patterns algorithm breaking on some HTML markup." tickets: [922317] - title: "When trying to find an ebook inside a zip file, do not fail if the zip file itself contains other zip files." tickets: [925670] - title: "EPUB Input: Handle EPUBs with duplicate entries in the manifest." tickets: [925831] - title: "MOBI Input: Handle files that have extra tags sprinkled through out their markup." tickets: [925833] improved recipes: - Metro Nieuws NL - FHM UK new recipes: - title: Strange Horizons author: Jim DeVona - title: Telegraph India and Live Mint author: Krittika Goyal - title: High Country News author: Armin Geller - title: Countryfile author: Dave Asbury - title: Liberation (subscription version) author: Remi Vanicat - title: Various Italian news sources author: faber1971 - version: 0.8.37 date: 2012-01-27 new features: - title: "Allow calibre to be run simultaneously in two different user accounts on windows." tickets: [919856] - title: "Driver for Motorola Photon and Point of View PlayTab" tickets: [920582, 919080] - title: "Add a checkbox to preferences->plugins to show only user installed plugins" - title: "Add a restart calibre button to the warning dialog that pops up after changing some preference that requires a restart" bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the remove format from book function to only delete the entry from the database and not delete the actual file from the disk" tickets: [921721] - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not properly refresh the format information in the GUI" tickets: [919494] - title: "E-book viewer: Preserve the current position more accurately when changing font size/other preferences." tickets: [912406] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix items in the that refer to files with URL unsafe filenames being ignored." tickets: [920804] - title: "Fix calibre not running on linux systems that set LANG to an empty string" - title: "On first run of calibre, ensure the columns are sized appropriately" - title: "MOBI Output: Do not collapse whitespace when setting the comments metadata in newly created MOBI files" - title: "HTML Input: Fix handling of files with ä characters in their filenames." tickets: [919931] - title: "Fix the sort on startup tweak ignoring more than three levels" tickets: [919584] - title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix a bug that broke adding of a file to the book that calibre did not previously know about in the books directory while simultaneously changing the author or title of the book." tickets: [922003] improved recipes: - People's Daily - Plus Info - grantland.com - Eret es irodalom - Sueddeutsche.de new recipes: - title: Mumbai Mirror author: Krittika Goyal - title: Real Clear author: TMcN - title: Gazeta Wyborcza author: ravcio - title: The Daily News Egypt and al masry al youm author: Omm Mishmishah - title: Klip.me author: Ken Sun - version: 0.8.36 date: 2012-01-20 new features: - title: "Decrease startup time for large libraries with at least one composite custom column by reading format info on demand" - title: "When automatically deleting news older than x days, from the calibre library, only delete the book if it both has the tag News and the author calibre. This prevents accidental deletion of books tagged with News by the user." - title: "Driver for Infibeam Pi 2" - title: "Add a Tag Editor for tags like custom columns to the edit metadata dialog" bug fixes: - title: "E-book viewer: Fix regression in 0.8.35 that caused viewer to raise an error on books that did not define a language" - title: "Content server: Fix grouping for categories based on custom columns." tickets: [919011] - title: "Edit metadata dialog: When setting the series from a format or via metadata download, ensure that the series index is not automatically changed, when closing the dialog." tickets: [918751] - title: "When reading metadata from Topaz (azw1) files, handle non ascii metadata correctly." tickets: [917419] - title: "CHM Input: Do not choke on CHM files with non ascii internal filenames on windows." tickets: [917696] - title: "Fix reading metadata from CHM files with non-ascii titles" - title: "Fix HTML 5 parser choking on comments" - title: "If calibre is started from a directory that does not exist, automatically use the home directory as the working directory, instead of crashing" - title: "Fix iriver story HD Wi-Fi device and external SD card swapped" tickets: [916364] - title: "Content server: Fix ugly URLs for specific format download in the book details and permalink panels" - title: "When adding FB2 files do not set the date field from the metadata in the file" improved recipes: - OReilly Premuim - Variety - Blic - New Journal of Physics - Der Tagesspiegel new recipes: - title: Tweakers.net author: Roedi06 - title: Village Voice author: Barty - title: Edge.org Conversations author: levien - title: Novi list - printed edition author: Darko Miletic - version: 0.8.35 date: 2012-01-13 new features: - title: "Metadata plugboards: Allow creation of plugboards for email delivery." tickets: [914012] - title: "Tweak EPUB: Also allow tweaking of HTMLZ files (when both EPUB and HTMLZ are present, EPUB is preferred, this can be changed via Preferences->Tweaks)." - title: "TXT Input: Support direct conversion of files with extensions .md, .markdown and .textile." tickets: [912931] - title: "E-book viewer: Speed up the optional hyphenation algorithm by upgrading the hyphenator library calibre uses" - title: "Drivers for PocketBook 611, Motorola Razr Droid and Onyx Boox i62" bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: When converting a paragraph that contains only a non-breaking space into a line break, ignore paragraphs with height less than 2pt." tickets: [915150] - title: "MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that specify anchor point exactly at pagebreaks. These are apparently produced by John Wiley and Sons." tickets: [914036] - title: "Fetch news dialog: The Download now button is no longer scrolled out of view on OS X for news sources that require credentials" - title: "Fix commas being removed from author names when generating filenames in the calibre library" - title: "ODT Input: Dont crash on empty links" - title: "ebook-convert: Allow use of leading ./ when specifying output file names." tickets: [913954] - title: "Fix deleting of hierarchical searches broken in Tag Browser" tickets: [912345] - title: "Metadata search and replace: Fix rendering error when choosing {template}" tickets: [913154] - title: "Fix calibre not starting when stray .po files are present in the working directory" tickets: [913054] - title: "Do not error out when getting metadata for authors if the author name has either ::: or :#: in it." tickets: [912713] improved recipes: - Pagina 12 - USA Today - LWN Weekly - Seattle Times - San Jose Mercury - Grantland.com new recipes: - title: Lega Nerd and Pambianco author: faber1971 - title: Various Turkish news sources author: asalet_r - title: Microwave Journal author: Kiavash - title: OReilly Premium author: TechnoCat - title: Hamilton Spectator and Tillsonburg/Norfolk County author: Eric Coolman - title: Opinion Bolivia author: Piet van Oostrum - title: ideal.es author: Josemi Liebana - title: Novilist Portal author: Darko Miletic - version: 0.8.34 date: 2012-01-06 new features: - title: "Apple driver: Set the year field in iTunes based on the published date in calibre." tickets: [909050] - title: "EPUB Input: When converting a file that has entries in the manifest that do no exist, remove them, instead of aborting the conversion." tickets: [910933] - title: "Kindle driver: Ensure page counts are correctly sent to the device when connecting to Kindle 4/Touch." tickets: [910279] - title: "Allow user to set the number of recently viewed books shown in the dropdown menu of the view button, via a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks." tickets: [910292] bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.33 that caused calibre to crash when starting the Content Server, if the port the content server is trying to listen on is blocked/busy." tickets: [910512] - title: "MOBI Input: Fix regression that caused a mixup of images when the MOBI file header contains an incorrect first image index pointer." tickets: [911243] - title: "Do not remove leading and trailing spaces from the replace fields in the Search and Replace conversion options" tickets: [910523] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix regression in 0.8.31 that broke parsing of documents containing a self closing tag." tickets: [910325] improved recipes: - Kopalnia Wiedzy - Alternet - Tagesspiegel - Philadelphia Inquirer - Seattle Times - La Razon new recipes: - title: Various Italian news sources author: faber1971 - title: money.pl author: intromatyk - title: Diario Rio Negro author: Darko Miletic. - title: FHM UK author: Dave Asbury - version: 0.8.33 date: 2011-12-30 new features: - title: "LIT Input: Switch to non-recursive algorithm, to allow conversion of files with deeply nested markup." tickets: [909535] - title: "Content server: Do not show the original_* formats in the mobile interface. Also upgrade to the latest CherryPy release." - title: "E-book viewer: Add option in viewer preferences to control how much the font size is changed when you click the make fonts bigger/smaller buttons." tickets: [908980] - title: "E-book viewer: Allow changing font size via Ctrl+Mouse wheel" tickets: [908975] - title: "Kobo driver: Hide previews and recommendations from the book list. You can customize the Kobo plugin if you would like to see them via Preferences->Plugins" bug fixes: - title: "Copy to library: Fix title sort not being copied" - title: "PDF Output: Add custom size conversion option to the GUI (it was only present on the command line before)" - title: "Add missing --keep-ligatures option to the ebook-convert command line" tickets: [909182] - title: "Fix rendering of non ascii characters in generated masthead images when downloading news for the Kindle" - title: "Linux binary: Disable qt-sp-api as it causes crashes/performance issues on various distros" - title: "E-book viewer: Ensure that reference mode highlighting is removed from the book when reference mode is closed." tickets: [908982] - title: "Fix unable to load plugins from files on GNOME/XFCE desktops" - title: "Fix regression that broke customizing toolbars on non English calibre installs" - title: "Conversion pipeline: Disable HTML 5 parsing if it results in deeply nested trees." tickets: [908818] - title: "Do not loose position in book list on device connection/sync, if a search is active." tickets: [908553] - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.32 that broke deleting books if the path to the library contained non-ascii characters on linux" tickets: [908068] improved recipes: - Echo Online - La Razon new recipes: - title: NYTimes Global author: Krittika Goyal - title: Grantland author: Barty - version: 0.8.32 date: 2011-12-23 new features: - title: "Linux: When deleting books, send them to the recycle bin, instead of permanently deleting. This is the same behavior as on Windows and OS X." - title: "Add a checkbox to allow users to disable the popup that asks if books should be auto-converted before sending to device" - title: "Drivers for Droid Razr, Samsung GT-I9003 and Bookeen Odyssey" tickets: [906356, 906056, 905862] - title: "Allow passing multiple filenames as command line arguments to calibre, to add multiple books." tickets: [907968] bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: Fix regression in 0.8.30 that caused the use of hidden heading elements for the TOC to generate links in the wrong place." tickets: [907156] - title: "EPUB Output: Ensure directories have the correct permissions bits set when unzipping an epub with unzip on Unix" - title: "Fix bottom most shortcuts in keyboard shortcuts for viewer not editable" - title: "EPUB Output: Fix handling of self closing <audio> tags." tickets: [906521] - title: "MOBI Input: Map invalid <o:p> tags to <p> tags before parsing, to handle broken nesting." tickets: [905715] - title: "Conversion pipeline: HTML5 parsing: Fix handling of XML namespaces. Fixes regression in 0.8.30 that caused some articles in some news downloads to appear blank when viewed in Adobe Digital Editions based readers" - title: "Get Books: Gandalf store, fix price and cover detection" - title: "EPUB Output: Fix the Flatten filenames option in EPUB Output causing duplicated manifest ids in rare cases." tickets: [905692] - title: "When adding books via ISBN, show the user the list of invalid ISBNs that will be ignored, if any, before starting the add operation." tickets: [905690] - title: "Fix unsmarten punctuation conversion option broken in 0.8.31." tickets: [905596] - title: "Fix broken evaluation of composite columns in save-to-disk" improved recipes: - Cosmopolitan UK - Hindustan Times - HVG - moneynews.com - Ming Pao - Glasgow Herald - Times of India - Focus Magazine - Hacker News - Independent - Sueddeutsche new recipes: - title: Prospect Magazine UK author: Barty and duoloz - title: Elet es Irodalom and NOL author: Bigpapa - title: Salonica Press News author: SteliosGero - title: Echo Online author: Armin Geller - title: Various Polish news sources author: fenuks - title: Various Italian news sources author: faber1971 - version: 0.8.31 date: 2011-12-16 new features: - title: "Conversion engine: When parsing invalid XHTML use the HTML 5 algorithm, for greater robustness." tickets: [901466] - title: "Driver for PocketBook 611 and Lenovo IdeaPad" - title: "Allow customization of the order in which custom column editing is performed in the edit metadata dialog. Setting is available via Preferences->Tweaks." tickets: [902731] - title: "MOBI news download: Allow recipes to set a thumbnail for entries in the periodical table of contents. Currently used by the NYTimes, WSJ, Independent, GUardian and Globe and Mail recipes" tickets: [900130] - title: "E-book viewer: Add an option to the right click menu to search for the currently selected word" - title: "Automatically hide the no internet connection available error message if the connection is restored before the user clicks OK" bug fixes: - title: "Fix comments not hidden in Book details panel when they are turned off via Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details" - title: "E-book viewer: Do not popup an error message if the user tries to use the mouse wheel to scroll before a document is loaded." tickets: [903449] - title: "Add docx to the list of ebook extensions." tickets: [903452] - title: "When downloading metadata from non-English Amazon websites, do not correct the case of book titles." - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.30 that broke bulk conversion of a single book." tickets: [902506] - title: "When minimized to system tray do not display the no internet connection error as a dialog box, instead use a system tray notification" - title: "Catalog generation: Include the series_index field for custom series columns as well" - title: "Comic Input: Do not rescale images when using the Tablet output profile (or any output profile with a screen size larger than 3000x3000)" - title: "HTML Input: Ignore unparseable URLs instead of crashing on them." tickets: [902372] improved recipes: - La Republica - CND - Berliner Zeitung - Zaman Gazetesi new recipes: - title: CND Weekly author: Derek Liang - title: descopera.org author: Marius Ignatescu - title: Rynek Zdrowia author: spi630 - version: 0.8.30 date: 2011-12-09 new features: - title: "Get Books: Add amazon.es and amazon.it" - title: "Bulk convert dialog: Disable the Use saved conversion settings checkbox when none of the books being converted has saved conversion settings" - title: "ebook-viewer: And a command line switch to specify the position at which the file should be opened." tickets: [899325] - title: "Distribute calibre source code compressed with xz instead of gzip for a 40% reduction in size" bug fixes: - title: "Get Books: Fix ebooks.com and amazon.fr. Fix cover display in Diesel ebooks store." - title: "HTML Input: Fix regression that broke processing of a small fraction of HTML files encoded in a multi-byte character encoding." tickets: [899691] - title: "Greatly reduce the delay at the end of a bulk metadata edit operation that operates on a very large number (thousands) of books" - title: "Template language: Fix the subitems formatter function to split only when the period is surrounded by non-white space and not another period" - title: "Fix ampersands in titles not displaying in the Cover Browser" - title: "MOBI Output: Do not ignore an empty anchor at the end of a block element." - title: "MOBI Output: Handle links to inline anchors placed inside large blocks of text correctly, i.e. the link should not point to the start of the block." tickets: [899831] - title: "E-book viewer: Fix searching for text that is represented as entities in the underlying HTML." tickets: [899573] - title: "Have the Esc shortcut perform exactly the same set of actions as clicking the clear button." tickets: [900048] - title: "Prevent the adding books dialog from becoming too wide" - title: "Fix custom column editing not behaving correctly with the Previous button in the edit metadata dialog." tickets: [899836] - title: "T1 driver. More fixes to datetime handling to try to convince the T1's buggy firmware to not rescan metadata." tickets: [899514] - title: "Only allow searching via non accented author names if the user interface language in calibre is set to English." tickets: [899227] improved recipes: - Die Zeit subscription - Metro UK - suedeutsche.de new recipes: - title: Blues News author: Oskar Kunicki - title: "TVXS" author: Hargikas - version: 0.8.29 date: 2011-12-02 new features: - title: "When searching for author names with accented characters, allow the non accented version to match. For example, searching for Nino will now match Niño." tickets: [879729] - title: "Driver for Blackberry Playbook, Motorola Electrify and Samsung Galaxy GIO S5660" tickets: [805745,898123,897330] - title: "Metadata search and replace, make the regular expressions unicode aware" bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.28 that broke sending PDF files to iTunes" tickets: [896791] - title: "Metadata download, do not strip # from titles." tickets: [898310] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Do not error out on books that set font size to zero." tickets: [898194] - title: "News download: Respect the delay setting when downloading RSS feeds as well." tickets: [897907] - title: "EPUB Output: Ensure that xml:lang is set if lang is set as ADE looks for xml:lang, not lang" tickets: [897531] - title: "Content server: Reduce memory consumption when sending very large files" tickets: [897343] - title: "Preserve capitalization of Scottish author names when downloading metadata" - title: "Fix update title sort in bulk metadata edit not using language information" - title: "Fix sorting by published column in the download metadata dialog broken" tickets: [896832] - title: "Allow use of languages field when generating CSV/XML catalogs" tickets: [896620] - title: "Get Books: Fix ebookpoint.pl" - title: "When calculating title sort for a book based on its language, only use the specified language not a combination of the language and english" tickets: [896412] improved recipes: - Metro NL - Ming Pao - Rolling Stones Mag - Buffalo News new recipes: - title: gs24.pl and Gazeta.pl Szczecin author: Michal Szkutnik - title: Vanity Fair author: Barty - title: Skylife author: thomass - title: Daily Writing Tips author: NotTaken - title: TechDirt author: Krittika Goyal - title: Cosmopolitan UK author: Dave Asbury - version: 0.8.28 date: 2011-11-25 new features: - title: "Get Books: Add litres.ru store" - title: "Change the algorithm that generates title sort strings to strip leading articles from both english and the current language set for the calibre user interface. In addition, in the edit metadata dialog, calibre will use the book's language when calculating the sort string. This behavior can be adjusted via Preferences->Tweaks." tickets: [886763] - title: "Driver for Cybook Odyssey." tickets: [893457] - title: "Irex driver: Put books into the top level directory instead of into /ebooks or /Books." tickets: [883616] bug fixes: - title: "Have downloaded periodicals recognized when transferred via USB to the Kindle Fire" - title: "MOBI Output: Fix underline and strikethrough properties declared on parents not being rendered on child tags." tickets: [894245] - title: "Template language: Fix regression that broke ordering of items when formatting a list" - title: "Conversion pipeline: When removing obsolete <font> tags convert them to <div> instead of <span> if they contain block level tags." tickets: [892525] - title: "When downloading metadata, fix the case normalization of double-barelled author names." tickets: [893257] - title: "Template language: Fix regression that broke using general program mode in save to disk templates" - title: "calibredb: Fix use of ranges when specifying ids for the remove command" - title: "Apple driver: Add ids for iPhone 4S. More robust against iTunes automation errors when adding artwork." tickets: [892468] - title: "Fix encoding of comments incorrectly detected when downloading metadata from ozon.ru" - title: "Fix calibre not getting list of books on the Kindle Fire" improved recipes: - El Mundo - BBC - NIN Online - ABC Australia - Salon.com - Expansion (Spanish) - The Week - Heise Online new recipes: - title: Give me something to read and Let's get Critical author: Barty - title: Worldcrunch author: Krittika Goyal - version: 0.8.27 date: 2011-11-18 new features: - title: "Drivers for the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet" tickets: [890918] - title: "Conversion: Add an option under Look & Feel to remove specified style information (CSS) from the document during conversion." tickets: [871384] - title: "Add an option in the bulk metadata edit dialog to restore the pre-conversion files for many books with a single click." tickets: [886116] - title: "Jobs list: Add the ability to search for and to hide jobs, useful if you have run a lot of jobs and the list is getting crowded." tickets: [883734] - title: "Book jacket generation: Add ability to customize the book jacket template and add custom columns into the jacket." tickets: [889912] - title: "MOBI Input: Performance improvement when viewing/converting a file with a lot of links" bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.26 that broke disabling the update of particular fields during a bulk metadata download." tickets: [889696] - title: "Get Books: Fix DRM status for legimi" - title: "When parsing for lxml via BeatifulSoup, use the calibre modified copy of BeautifulSoup (more robust)." tickets: [889890] - title: "HTML Input: Handle double encoded URLs in img tags" tickets: [889323] improved recipes: - Various Polish recipes - Academia Catavencu - El Periodico de Aragon - Weblogs SL - Folha de Sao Paolo (subscription) new recipes: - title: News on Japan author: Krittika Goyal - title: Formula AS author: Silviu Cotoara - title: Various Turkish news sources author: Osman Kaysan - title: Infra.pl and Spider's Web author: fenuks - version: 0.8.26 date: 2011-11-12 new features: - title: "Tweak to control sorting of date type columns. You can choose to have them sorted only by displayed fields" - title: "Driver for the Trekstor 3.0" - title: "Performance improvements when evaluating templates, and in particular general program mode templates" bug fixes: - title: "ODT Input: When converting to EPUB improve handling of large images placed inside small frames, to prevent them from obscuring text." tickets: [860272,884759] - title: "EPUB Input: Automatically strip entries of type application/text from the spine. Apparently there are EPUB production tools out there that create them." tickets: [884792] - title: "Keep the startup splash screen visible until the GUI has fully completed initializing." tickets: [885827] - title: "ODT Input: Fix handling of span tags containing only whitespace." tickets: [887311] - title: "On windows when changing title or author via the main book list, handle the case of one of the books files being open in another program more gracefully." tickets: [880585] - title: "When adding a format to an existing book record, ensure that no changes are made to the database until after the file operations have succeeded." - title: "Fix bug that prevented configuring which fields to download metadata for when adding books by ISBN" tickets: [856076] - title: "Fix Japanese characters not being crrectly displayed on index pages in news downloads for the SONY T1" tickets: [888029] - title: "Get Books: Fix booleans in search expressions not working in non-English calibre versions" tickets: [887554] - title: "Fix a bug in the support for hours/minutes/seconds in datetime format strings" tickets: [887412] - title: "Treat an author_sort value of 'Unknown' the same way as unknown authors are treated in template processing" - title: "Detect SD card in Kobo Vox" - title: "Amazon metadata download: Workaround for change in Amazon website causing some books to have incorrect ratings downloaded" improved recipes: - Metro NL - The Independent - Frankfurter Rundschau - L'Espresso - Il Giornale - Berlingske.dk - Suedeutsche Zeitung new recipes: - title: Techtarget author: Julio Map - version: 0.8.25 date: 2011-11-06 new features: - title: "Drivers for the LG Optimus 2X, HTC Incredible S, Samsung Stratosphere and the Kobo Vox" tickets: [886558, 885058, 884762, 884039] - title: "Get books: Add ebookpoint.pl store" - title: "Support hour/minute/seconds in datetime format strings in the template language and in tweaks" bug fixes: - title: "Fix Book detils preferences showing custom columns even after they have been deleted" tickets: [884799] - title: "Replace use of insecure tempfile in the bundled rtf2xml library." tickets: [885245] - title: "Remove the suid mount helper used on linux and bsd, as it proved impossible to make it secure." description: "This means that if you are on BSD or an older linux distribution, without support for udisks, device detection will no longer work in calibre. You will have to either mount the devices by hand before starting calibre, or stick with version 0.8.24 (the vulnerability in the mount helper is a privilege escalation, which is relatively harmless on the vast majority of single user systems)." tickets: [885027] - title: "Do not error out if there is an invalid regex for title sort set in tweaks" - title: "Content server: Fix another place where --url-prefix was forgotten" tickets: [885332] - title: "HTML Input: Limit memory consumption when converting HTML files that link to large binary files." tickets: [884821] - title: "T1 driver: Workaround for T1 showing error messages when opening some news downloads on the device" - title: "Kobo driver: Fix longstanding bug that would prevent re-adding a epub that has been previously deleted from the Kobo using calibre" - title: "Fix partial cover search not resuming after pressing back in the metadata download dialog" tickets: [875196] - title: "T1 driver: Fix auto refresh covers option" - title: "Content server: Do not show tracebacks in HTML output when not running in develop mode" - title: "Textile output; Fix out of memory issue when dealing with large margins." improved recipes: - The Independent - Die Zeit subscription version - NIN online - Science News - Updated Daily Mirror - Science AAAS new recipes: - title: b365 Realitatea and Catavencii author: Silviu Cotoara - title: Various Greek news sources author: Stelios - title: Real world economics blog author: Julio Map - version: 0.8.24 date: 2011-10-27 new features: - title: "Kobo: Add support for fetching annotations from the kobo reader." description: "Right click the send to device button in calibre with your kobo connected and choose fetch annotations. The annotations are placed into the comments of the corresponding books in the calibre library. This feature is still experimental." type: major - title: "Preserve the set of selected books in the library view when a device is connected, fixing a long standing annoyance" bug fixes: - title: "Prevent changing of device metadata management option while a device is connected." tickets: [874118] - title: "Book details panel: Show tooltip only when hovering over cover, not the rest of the book information, as it makes it hard to read." tickets: [876454] - title: "MOBI Output: Fix use of list elements as link anchors caused links to always point to start of list." tickets: [879391] - title: "RB Output: Fix calibre generated rb files not being opened by the RocketBook." tickets: [880930] - title: "FB2 Input: Dont choke on FB2 files that have empty embedded content tags." tickets: [880904] - title: "ODT Input: CSS rationalization should not fail with non ascii class names" - title: "Fix creating new library using the copy structure option incorrectly setting all text type columns to be like the tags column" - title: "E-book viewer: Don't choke on windows installs with a non UTF-8 filesystem encoding." tickets: [879740] improved recipes: - Novaya Gazeta - El Universal (Venezuela) - The Australian (subscription enabled) - Metro NL - The Scotsman - Japan Times new recipes: - title: Silicon Republic author: Neil Grogan - title: Calibre Blog author: Krittika Goyal - version: 0.8.23 date: 2011-10-21 new features: - title: "Drivers for T-Mobile Move, new Pandigital Novel, New Onyx Boox and Freescale MX 515" - title: "SONY T1 driver: Support for periodicals and better timezone detection" - title: "Add a remove cover entry to the right click menu of the cover display in the right panel" tickets: [874689] bug fixes: - title: "Amazon metadata download: Fix for change in Amazon website that broke downloading metadata." tickets: [878395] - title: "MOBI metadata: When reading titles from MOBI files only use the title in the PDB header if there is no long title in the EXTH header" tickets: [ 875243 ] - title: "Fix regression that broke use of complex custom columns in save to disk templates." tickets: [877366] - title: "Fix regression that broke reading metadata from CHM files" - title: "Fix a bug that broke conversion of some zipped up HTML files with non ascii filenames on certain windows installs." tickets: [873288] - title: "RTF Input: Fix bug in handling of paragraph separators." tickets: [863735] - title: "Fix a regression that broke downloading certain periodicals for the Kindle." tickets: [875595] - title: "Fix regression that broke updating of covers inside ebook files when saving to disk" - title: "Fix regression breaking editing the 'show in tag browser' checkbox in custom column setup editing" - title: "Fix typo that broke stopping selected jobs in 0.8.22" improved recipes: - Columbus Dispatch - Ming Pao - La Republica - Korea Times - USA Today - CNN - Liberation - El Pais - Helsingin Sanomat new recipes: - title: Kyugyhang, Hankyoreh and Hankyoreh21 author: Seongkyoun Yoo. - title: English Katherimini author: Thomas Scholl - title: Various French news sources author: Aurelien Chabot. - version: 0.8.22 date: 2011-10-14 new features: - title: "Input plugin for OCR-ed DJVU files (i.e. .djvu files that contain text. Only the text is converted)" type: major - title: "Driver for the SONY PRS T1" - title: "Add a 'Back' button to the metadata download dialog while downloading covers, so that you can go back and select a different match if you dont lke the covers, instead of having to re-do the entire download." tickets: [855055] - title: "Add an option in Preferences->Saving to disk to not show files in file browser after saving to disk" - title: "Get Books: Add the amazon.fr store. Remove leading 'by' from author names. Fix encoding issues with non English titles/names" - title: "Driver for Onyx BOOX A61S/X61S" tickets: [872741] - title: "Kobo: Add support for uploading new covers to the device without converting the ePub. You can just resend the book to have the cover updated" - title: "Make it a little harder to ignore the fact that there are multiple toolbars when customizing toolbars" tickets: [864589] bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Input: Remove invalid tags of the form <xyz: >" tickets: [872883] - title: "calibredb add_format does not refresh running calibre instance" tickets: [872961] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Translate <font face> to CSS font-family" tickets: [871388] - title: "When sending email add a Date: header so that amavis does not consider the emails to be spam" - title: "Fix for the problem where setting the restriction to an empty current search clears the restriction box but does not clear the restriction." tickets: [871921] - title: "Fix generation of column coloring rules for date/time columns" - title: "Fix plugboard problem where customizations to formats accepted by a device were ignored." - title: "Enable adding of various actions to the toolbar when device is connected (they had been erroneously marked as being non-addable)" - title: "Fixable content in library check is not hidden after repair" tickets: [864096] - title: "Catalog generation: Handle a corrupted thumbnail cache." - title: "Do not error out when user clicks stop selected job with no job selected." tickets: [863766] improved recipes: - automatiseringgids - CNET - Geek and Poke - Gosc Niedzielny - Dilbert - Economist - Ming Pao - Metro UK - Heise Online - FAZ.net - Houston Chronicle - Slate - Descopera new recipes: - title: WoW Insider author: Krittika Goyal - title: Merco Press and Penguin news author: Russell Phillips - title: Defense News author: Darko Miletic - title: Revista Piaui author: Eduardo Simoes - title: Dark Horizons author: Jaded - title: Various polish news sources author: fenuks - version: 0.8.21 date: 2011-09-30 new features: - title: "A Tips and Tricks blog at http://blog.calibre-ebook.com to introduce less well known calibre features in a simple way" - title: "News download: Add list of articles in the downloaded issue to the comments metadata of the generated ebook. Makes it possible to search for a particular article in the calibre library." ticket: [851717] - title: "Toolbar buttons: You can now also right click the buttons to bring the popup of extra actions, in addition to clicking the small arrow next to the button." - title: "Amazon metadata download plugin: Add option to download metadata from amazon.es" - title: Driver for Vizio and iRobot A9 Android tablets tickets: [854408,862175] - title: "When switching to/starting with a library with a corrupted database, offer the user the option of rebuilding the database instead of erroring out." - title: "Template language: Add list_equals function" - title: "Add a special output profile for the PocketBook 900 as it does not resize images correctly by itself" bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression that cause PDF Output to generate very large files" - title: Fix Title Sort field not being displayed in Book details panel - title: Prevent renaming of languages in the Tag browser tickets: [860943] - title: "Get books: Fix getting price from Foyles" - title: "Content server: When a search matches no queries, do not show an error message" - title: "ODT Input: Add workaround for ADE to fix centering of block level images when converting to EPUB" tickets: [859343] - title: "Content server: When WSGI embedding fix handling of empty URL" - title: "RTF Input: Fix spurious spaces inserted after some unicode characters" tickets: [851215] - title: "Fix regression that broke clicking on the first letter of author names in the Tag Browser when grouped" tickets: [860615] - title: "Fix reading metadata from filenames when the author regexp does not match anything" - title: "Fix incorrect display of the month September in Finnish calibre" tickets: [858737] - title: "Do not delete the file when the user tries to add a format to a book from a file already in the books directory" tickets: [856158] - title: "Fix regression that broke customization of Kobo device plugin" - title: "Allow user defined templates to be used in save to disk" improved recipes: - Read It Later - American Spectator - Sydney Morning Herald - Chicago Tribune - American Prospect - DNA India - Times of India - Kurier - xkcd - Cnet new recipes: - title: Various Colombian news sources author: BIGO-CAVA - title: Gosc Niedzielny author: Piotr Kontek - title: Leipzer Volkszeitung author: a.peter - title: Folha de Sao Paulo (full edition) author: fluzao - title: Den of Geek author: Jaded - title: Republica author: Manish Bhattarai - title: Sign on San Diego author: Jay Kindle - version: 0.8.20 date: 2011-09-23 new features: - title: "MOBI Output: Map a larger set of font names to sans-serif/monospace font in the MOBI file" - title: "Get Books: Allow searching on the DRM column in the results." tickets: [852514] - title: "Manage tags/series/etc dialog: Add a was column to show the old value when changing values." tickets: [846538] - title: "Template language: Add new functions to manipulate language codes" tickets: [832084] bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: Don't set cdetype when option to enable sharing instead of syncing is specified. This fixes the option." - title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix crash caused by empty <style> elements." tickets: [775277] - title: "Get Books: Fix Woblink store" - title: "MOBI Input: Correctly handle MOBI files that have been passed through a DRM removal tool that leaves the DRM fields in the header." tickets: [855732] - title: "Fix typo preventing the updating of metadata in MOBI files serverd by the content server" - title: "Get Books: Handle non ASCII filenames for downloaded books" tickets: [855109] - title: "When generating the title sort string and stripping a leading article, strip leading punctuation that remains after removing the article" tickets: [855070] - title: "Fix downloading metadata in the Edit metadata dialog could result in off by one day published dates, in timezones behind GMT" tickets: [855143] - title: "Fix handing of title_sort and custom columns when creating a BiBTeX catalog." tickets: [853249] - title: "TXT Markdown Input: Change handling of _ to work mid word." - title: "Fix Check library reporting unknown files ad both missing an unknown" tickets: [846926] - title: "Search/Replace: Permit .* to match empty tag like columns." tickets: [840517] improved recipes: - Cicero (DE) - Taz.de - Ming Pao - HK - Macleans Magazine - IDG.se - PC World (eng) - LA Times new recipes: - title: Ekantipur (Nepal) author: fab4.ilam - title: Various Polish news sources author: fenuks - title: Taipei Times and China Post author: Krittika Goyal - title: Berliner Zeitung author: ape - version: 0.8.19 date: 2011-09-16 new features: - title: "Driver for Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc" - title: "MOBI Output: Add option in Preferences->Output Options->MOBI Output to enable the share via Facebook feature for calibre produced MOBI files. Note that enabling this disables the sync last read position across multiple devices feature. Don't ask me why, ask Amazon." - title: "Content server: Update metadata when sending MOBI as well as EPUB files" - title: "News download: Add an auto_cleanup_keep variable that allows recipe writers to tell the auto cleanup to never remove a specified element" - title: "Conversion: Remove paragraph spacing: If you set the indent size negative, calibre will now leave the indents specified in the input document" bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.18 that broke PDF Output" - title: "MOBI Output: Revert change in 0.8.18 that marked news downloads with a single section as blogs, as the Kindle does not auto archive them" - title: "PDF output on OSX now generates proper non image based documents" - title: "RTF Input: Fix handling of internal links and underlined text" tickets: [845328] - title: "Fix language sometimes not getting set when downloading metadata in the edit metadata dialog" - title: "Fix regression that broke killing of multiple jobs" tickets: [850764] - title: "Fix bug processing author names with initials when downloading metadata from ozon.ru." tickets: [845420] - title: "Fix a memory leak in the Copy to library operation which also fixes the metadata.db being held open in the destination library" tickets: [849469] - title: "Keyboard shortcuts: Allow use of symbol keys like >,*,etc." tickets: [847378] - title: "EPUB Output: When splitting be a little cleverer about discarding 'empty' pages" improved recipes: - Twitch Films - Japan Times - People/US Magazine mashup - Business World India - Inquirer.net - Guardian/Observer new recipes: - title: RT author: Darko Miletic - title: CIO Magazine author: Julio Map - title: India Today and Hindustan Times author: Krittika Goyal - title: Pagina 12 Print Edition author: Pablo Marfil - version: 0.8.18 date: 2011-09-09 new features: - title: "Kindle news download: On Kindle 3 and newer have the View Articles and Sections menu remember the current article." tickets: [748741] - title: "Conversion: Add option to unsmarten puctuation under Look & Feel" - title: "Driver of Motorola Ex124G and Pandigital Nova Tablet" - title: "Allow downloading metadata from amazon.co.jp. To use it, configure the amazon metadata source to use the Japanese amazon site." tickets: [842447] - title: "When automatically generating author sort for author name, ignore common prefixes like Mr. Dr. etc. Controllable via tweak. Also add a tweak to allow control of how a string is split up into multiple authors." tickets: [795984] - title: "TXT Output: Preserve as much formatting as possible when generating Markdown output including various CSS styles" bug fixes: - title: "Fix pubdate incorrect when used in save to disk template in timezones ahead of GMT." tickets: [844445] - title: "When attempting to stop multiple device jobs at once, only show a single error message" tickets: [841588] - title: "Fix conversion of large EPUB files to PDF erroring out on systems with a limited number of available file handles" tickets: [816616] - title: "EPUB catalog generation: Fix some entries going off the left edge of the page for unread/wishlist items" - title: "When setting language in an EPUB file always use the 2 letter language code in preference to the three letter code, when possible." tickets: [841201] - title: "Content server: Fix --url-prefix not used for links in the book details view." - title: "MOBI Input: When links in a MOBI file point to just before block elements, and there is a page break on the block element, the links can end up pointing to the wrong place on conversion. Adjust the location in such cases to point to the block element directly." improved recipes: - Kopalnia Wiedzy - FilmWeb.pl - Philadelphia Inquirer - Honolulu Star Advertiser - Counterpunch - Philadelphia Inquirer new recipes: - title: Various Polish news sources author: fenuks - version: 0.8.17 date: 2011-09-02 new features: - title: "Basic support for Amazon AZW4 format (PDF wrapped inside a MOBI)" - title: "When showing the cover browser in a separate window, allow the use of the V, D shortcut keys to view the current book and send it to device respectively." tickets: [836402] - title: "Add an option in Preferences->Miscellaneous to abort conversion jobs that take too long." tickets: [835233] - title: "Driver for HTC Evo and HP TouchPad (with kindle app)" - title: "Preferences->Adding books, detect when the user specifies a test expression with no file extension and popup a warning" bug fixes: - title: "E-book viewer: Ensure toolbars are always visible" - title: "Content server: Fix grouping of Tags/authors not working for some non english languages with Internet Explorer" tickets: [835238] - title: "When downloading metadata from amazon, fix italics inside brackets getting lost." tickets: [836857] - title: "Get Books: Add EscapeMagazine.pl and RW2010.pl stores" - title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix conversion of cm/mm to pts. Fixes use of cm as a length unit when converting to MOBI." - title: "When showing the cover browser in a separate window, focus the cover browser so that keyboard shortcuts work immediately." tickets: [835933] - title: "HTMLZ Output: Fix special chars like ampersands, etc. not being converted to entities" - title: "Keyboard shortcuts config: Fix clicking done in the shortcut editor with shortcuts set to default caused the displayed shortcut to be always set to None" - title: "Fix bottom most entries in keyboard shortcuts not editable" improved recipes: - Hacker News - Nikkei News new recipes: - title: "Haber 7 and Hira" authors: thomass - title: "NTV and NTVSpor by A Erdogan" author: A Erdogan - version: 0.8.16 date: 2011-08-26 new features: - title: "News download: Add algorithms to automatically clean up downloaded HTML" description: "Use the algorithms from the Readability project to automatically cleanup downloaded HTML. You can turn this on in your own recipes by adding auto_cleanup=True to the recipe. It is turned on by default for basic recipes created via the GUI. This makes it a little easier to develop recipes for beginners." type: major - title: "Add an option to Preferences->Look and Feel->Cover Browser to show the cover browser full screen. When showing the cover browser in a separate window, you can make it fullscreen by pressing the F11 key." tickets: [829855 ] - title: "Show the languages currently used at the top of the drop down list of languages" - title: "When automatically computing author sort from author's name, if the name contains certain words like Inc., Company, Team, etc. use the author name as the sort string directly. The list of such words can be controlled via Preferences->Tweaks." tickets: [797895] - title: "Add a search for individual tweaks to Preferences->Tweaks" - title: "Drivers for a few new android phones" bug fixes: - title: "Fix line unwrapping algorithms to account for some central European characters as well." tickets: [822744] - title: "Switch to using more modern language names/translations from the iso-codes package" - title: "Allow cases insensitive entering of language names for convenience." tickets: [832761] - title: "When adding a text indent to paragraphs as part of the remove spacing between paragraphs transformation, do not add an indent to paragraphs that are directly centered or right aligned." tickets: [830439] - title: "Conversion pipeline: More robust handling of case insensitive tag and class css selectors" - title: "MOBI Output: Add support for the start attribute on <ol> tags" - title: "When adding books that have no language specified, do not automatically set the language to calibre's interface language." tickets: [830092] - title: "Fix use of tag browser to search for languages when calibre is translated to a non English language" tickets: [830078] - title: "When downloading news, set the language field correctly" - title: "Fix languages field in the Edit metadata dialog too wide" tickets: [829912] - title: "Fix setting of languages that have commas in their names broken" - title: "FB2 Input: When convert FB2 files, read the cover from the FB2 file correctly." tickets: [829240] improved recipes: - Politifact - Reuters - Sueddeutsche - CNN - Financial Times UK - MSDN Magazine - Houston Chronicle - Harvard Business Review new recipes: - title: CBN News and Fairbanks Daily author: by Roger - title: Hacker News author: Tom Scholl - title: Various Turkish news sources author: thomass - title: Cvece Zla author: Darko Miletic - title: Various Polish news sources author: fenuks - title: Fluter author: Armin Geller - title: Brasil de Fato author: Alex Mitrani - version: 0.8.15 date: 2011-08-19 new features: - title: "Add a 'languages' metadata field." type: major description: "This is useful if you have a multi-lingual book collection. You can now set one or more languages per book via the Edit Metadata dialog. If you want the languages column to be visible, then go to Preferences->Add your own columns and unhide the languages columns. You can also bulk set the languages on multiple books via the bulk edit metadata dialog. You can also have the languages show up in the book details panel on the right by going to Preferences->Look and Feel->Book details" - title: "Get Books: Add XinXii store." - title: "Metadata download plugin for ozon.ru, enabled only when user selects russian as their language in the welcome wizard." - title: "Bambook driver: Allow direct transfer of PDF files to Bambook devices" - title: "Driver for Coby MID7015A and Asus EEE Note" - title: "Edit metadata dialog: The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+D can now be used to trigger a metadata download. Also show the row number of the book being edited in the titlebar" - title: "Add an option to not preserve the date when using the 'Copy to Library' function (found in Preferences->Adding books)" bug fixes: - title: "Linux binary: Use readlink -f rather than readlink -e in the launcher scripts so that they work with recent releases of busybox" - title: "When bulk downloading metadata for more than 100 books at a time, automatically split up the download into batches of 100." tickets: [828373] - title: "When deleting books from the Kindle also delete 'sidecar' .apnx and .ph1 files as the kindle does not clean them up automatically" tickets: [827684] - title: "Fix a subtle bug in the device drivers that caused calibre to lose track of some books on the device if you used author_sort in the send to device template and your books have author sort values that differ only in case." tickets: [825706] - title: "Fix scene break character pattern not saved in conversion preferences" tickets: [826038] - title: "Keyboard shortcuts: Fix a bug triggered by some third party plugins that made the keyboard preferences unusable in OS X." tickets: [826325] - title: "Search box: Fix completion no longer working after using Tag Browser to do a search. Also ensure that completer popup is always hidden when a search is performed." - title: "Fix pressing Enter in the search box causes the same search to be executed twice in the plugins and keyboard shortcuts preferences panels" - title: "Catalog generation: Fix error creating epub/mobi catalogs on non UTF-8 windows systems when the metadata contained non ASCII characters" improved recipes: - Financial Times UK - La Tercera - Folha de Sao Paolo - Metro niews NL - La Nacion - Juventud Rebelde - Rzeczpospolita Online - Newsweek Polska - CNET news new recipes: - title: El Mostrador and The Clinic author: Alex Mitrani - title: Patente de Corso author: Oscar Megia Lopez - version: 0.8.14 date: 2011-08-12 new features: - title: "Make the keyboard shortcuts used by the main calibre interface user customizable, via Preferences->Advanced->Keyboard" type: major - title: "When switching libraries, if the library no longer exists, give the user a chance to specify a new location for the library, in case it was moved, before forgetting it." tickets: [822018] - title: "Template language: Add strcat and strlen builtin functions." tickets: [821935] bug fixes: - title: "The various options to control how automerging works when adding books now also apply when copying a book from one library to another." tickets: [822033] - title: "Ebook viewer: Respond to key presses even when the book display area does not have keyboard focus" - title: "Allow integer and float column values to go to -999999. -1000000 is the value of 'undefined'." tickets: [821941] - title: "Fix in calibre browser not working for the Open books store in Get Books." tickets: [822359] - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.13 that caused incorrect title/author for downloaded news if you turned off reading metadata from file contents in Preferences->Adding books" - title: "Save to disk: When saving to a single directory, handle the case of the save to disk template containing path separators inside template expression correctly." tickets: [821912] - title: "Get Books: Always read metadata from the file contents, ignoring the setting in Preferences->Adding books" - title: "Fix merge_metadata to not overwrite non-text fields ('bool', 'int', 'float', 'rating', 'datetime') that have a value of zero/false instead of None." tickets: [821665] improved recipes: - The Independent new recipes: - title: "Novinite" author: Martin Tsanchev - title: "Blog Escrevinhador" author: Diniz Bortolotto - version: 0.8.13 date: 2011-08-05 new features: - title: "Add a new action 'Pick Random Book' that can be added to the toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars." tickets: [818315] - title: "Driver for Droid X2" tickets: [821053] - title: "PDF metadata: Support reading/writing of tags from the Keywords field in PDF files." - title: "MOBI Input: Speedup reading of HUFF/CDIC compressed files" - title: "MOBI Output: Add a command line option --extract-to that uses the inspect MOBI tool to extract the created MOBI file to the specified directory" - title: "Template language: Add a few new functions to manipulate lists (list_difference, list_intersection, list_sort)" - title: "Make the Manage Tags/Publishers/etc. dialog show a column with counts for each item, to easily sort by number of items" - title: "MOBI Output: Generate navpoints for items at every level in the TOC, not just the deepest level" bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: Remove option to choose masthead font as the font selection control causes crashes on some windows systems" - title: "MOBI Output: Fix bug that caused paragraphs that had only a non breaking space as text before the first child element to be removed." tickets: [819058] - title: "Display undefined dates properly in the Book details panel." tickets: [819222] - title: "Fix regression that broke deleting of books from first generation Kobos with un-upgraded firmware" tickets: [818704] - title: "Get books: Fix Gutenberg store and improvements to chitanka.info and e-knigni.net" - title: "News download: Support https proxies" - title: "Check library did not know about original_* files" - title: "Fix crash caused by having very large numbers of authors > 100 for a book" improved recipes: - Nikkei News new recipes: - title: Carta Capital author: Pablo Aldama - title: El Tiempo, El Colombiano and Portafolio Colombia author: Cavalencia - version: 0.8.12 date: 2011-07-29 new features: - title: "Content server: Return the correct last modified date when serving ebook files. Also allow getting of book metadata as /get/opf/<book_id>" - title: "Driver for the COBY MP977" - title: "Get Books: Remove epub bud store. Add Ozon.ru and e-knigni.net stores. Fix broken amazon UK and DE stores." tickets: [816091] - title: "Add a new tweak to Preferences->Tweaks that allows auto generation of series numbers when importing books with a series name, but no number" tickets: [815573] bug fixes: - title: "Fix a regression in 0.8.11 that broke calibre on linux systems that use a file system encoding that cannot support cyrillic characters" tickets: [815224] - title: "Fix long titles not wrapping in cover browser" tickets: [816595] - title: "When adding books, handle the case of files without read permission more gracefully." tickets: [814771] - title: "When changing metadata in EPUB files do not use the opf: namespace prefix on newly created elements. Apparently, FBReaderJ doesn't understand XML namespaces." tickets: [814722] - title: "Prevent metadata download from returning published dates earlier than 101 A.D." - title: "Fix a bug where dates before 101AD in the database could cause errors" tickets: [814964] - title: "Fix an error in the book details panel if the user sets the default author link to blank" improved recipes: - The Economist - Instapaper - Corren new recipes: - title: Counterpunch author: O. Emmerson - title: National Geographic (PL) author: Marcin Urban - title: Caros Amigos author: Pablo Aldama - title: Aksiyon Dergisi author: thomass - title: Dnevnik (MK) and +Info author: Darko Spasovski - title: Dagens Industri author: Jonas Svensson - version: 0.8.11 date: 2011-07-22 new features: - title: "When doing a conversion from some format to the same format, save the original file" description: "When calibre does a conversion from the same format to the same format, for example, from EPUB to EPUB, the original file is saved as original_epub, so that in case the conversion is poor, you can change the settings and run it again. The original is automatically used every time you run a conversion with that format as input. If you want to disable this, there is a tweak that prevents calibre from saving the originals in Preferences->Tweaks. You can easily replace the converted version with the original in the Edit metadata dialog by right clicking on the list of formats in the top right corner." type: major - title: "Conversion pipeline: Add an option to control the height of the blank lines inserted by calibre" - title: "Drivers for bq DaVinci, Samsung Galaxy ACE GT-S5830 and Medion e-reader" - title: "Get Books: Add stores Chitanka and Bookoteka. Remove epubbuy.de at store's request" - title: "Content server: Add a link at the bottom of the mobile interface to switch to the full interface." tickets: [812525] - title: "Update the kindle icon shown when a Kindle is connected to use a picture of the Kindle 3" tickets: [810852] - title: "MOBI Output: When converting epub documents that have a start element in their guide, use it to mark the starting position at which the MOBI file will be opened." tickets: [804755] - title: "News download: Add a default Accept header to all requests" bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression that broke loading translations from .po files in the working directory" - title: "Fix conversion dialog not allowing series numbers larger than 9999" tickets: [813281] - title: "Conversion pipeline: When adding/removing entries to the manifest, ignore unparseable URLs instead of erroring out on them" - title: "SD Card in Azbooka not being detected" tickets: [812750] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Strip out large blocks of contiguous space (more than 10000 contiguous blanks) as these slow down the conversion process and are almost always indicative of an error in the input document." - title: "ebook-convert: Abort if a keyboard interrupt is raised during parsing" - title: "Regex builder: Show a nicer error message when the user has the file open in another program on windows." tickets: [811641] - title: "When converting in the GUI, set all identifiers present in the book's metadata in the output file, if the output format supports them." improved recipes: - NBObline - JBPress - Instapaper - Die Zeit - Wired (UK) new recipes: - title: Utrinski Vesnik author: Darko Spasovski - title: IDG.se author: zapt0 - title: Los Andes author: Darko Miletic - title: De Luns a Venres author: Susana Sotelo Docío - title: "Nikkei News subscription version" author: Ado Nishimura - version: 0.8.10 date: 2011-07-15 new features: - title: "Add a right click menu to the cover browser. It allows you to view a book, edit metadata etc. from within the cover browser. The menu can be customized in Preferences->Toolbars" - title: "Allow selecting and stopping multiple jobs at once in the jobs window" tickets: [810349] - title: "When editing metadata directly in the book list, have a little pop up menu so that all existing values can be accessed by mouse only. For example, when you edit authors, you can use the mouse to select an existing author." - title: "Get Books: Add ebook.nl and fix price parsing for the legimi store" - title: "Drivers for Samsung Infuse and Motorola XPERT" - title: "Tag Browser: Make hierarchical items work in group searched terms." bug fixes: - title: "Allow setting numbers larger than 99 in custom series columns" - title: "Fix a bug that caused the same news download sent via a USB connection to the device on two different days resulting in a duplicate on the device" - title: "Ensure English in the list of interface languages in Preferences is always listed in English, so that it does not become hard to find" - title: "SNB Output: Fix bug in handling unicode file names" - title: "Fix sorting problem in manage categories. Fix poor performance problem when dropping multiple books onto a user category." - title: "Remove 'empty field' error dialogs in bulk search/replace, instead setting the fields to their default value." - title: "Fix regression that broke communicating with Kobo devices using outdated firmware" tickets: [807832] - title: "LRF Input: Fix conversion of LRF files with non ascii titles on some windows systems" tickets: [807641] improved recipes: - Time - Freakonomics Blog - io9 - "Computer Act!ve" new recipes: - title: Techcrunch and Pecat author: Darko Miletic - title: "Vio Mundo, IDG Now! and Tojolaco" author: Diniz Bortolotto - title: Geek and Poke, Automatiseringgids IT author: DrMerry - version: 0.8.9 date: 2011-07-08 new features: - title: "Kobo Touch: Display Preview Tag for book previews on the device" - title: "Improved display of grouped search terms in Tag Browser" - title: "When adding HTML files to calibre, add an option to process links in breadth first rather than depth first order. Access it via Preferences->Plugins and customize the HTML to ZIP plugin" - title: "Conversion pipeline: Add option to control if duplicate entries are allowed when generating the Table of Contents from links." tickets: [806095] - title: "Metadata download: When merging results, if the query to the xisbn service hangs, wait no more than 10 seconds. Also try harder to preserve the month when downloading published date. Do not throw away isbnless results if there are some sources that return isbns and some that do not." tickets: [798309] - title: "Get Books: Remove OpenLibrary since it has the same files as archive.org. Allow direct downloading from Project Gutenberg." - title: "Add functions to the template language that allow getting the last modified time and size of the individual format files for a book. Also add a has_cover() function." bug fixes: - title: "Fix true/false searches dont work on device views" tickets: [807262] - title: "Fix renaming of collections in device views" tickets: [807256] - title: "Fix regression that broke the use of the device_db plugboard" tickets: [806483] - title: "Kobo driver: Hide Expired Book Status for deleted books. Also fix regression that broke connecting to Kobo devices running very old firmware." tickets: [802083] - title: "Fix bug in 0.8.8 that could cause the metadata.db to be left in an unusable state if calibre is interrupted at just the wrong moment or if the db is stored in dropbox" - title: "Fix sorting of composite custom columns that display numbers." improved recipes: - "Computer Act!ve" - Metro News NL - Spiegel Online International - cracked.com - Endgadget - Independent - Telegraph UK new recipes: - title: "Blog da Cidadania and Noticias UnB" author: Diniz Bortolotto - title: "Galicia Confidential" author: Susana Sotelo Docio - title: "South China Morning Post" author: llam - title: "Szinti Derigisi" author: thomass - version: 0.8.8 date: 2011-07-01 new features: - title: "Make author names in the Book Details panel clickable. Clicking them takes you to the wikipedia page for the author by default. You may have to tell calibre to display author names in the Book details panel first via Preferences->Look & Feel->Book details. You can change the link for individual authors by right clicking on the author's name in the Tag Browser and selecting Manage Authors." - title: "Get Books: Add 'Open Books' as an available book source" - title: "Get Books: When a free download is available for a search result, for example, for public domain books, allow direct download of the book into your calibre library." - title: "Support for detecting and mounting reader devices on FreeBSD." tickets: [802708] - title: "When creating a composite custom column, allow the use of HTML to create links and other markup that display in the Book details panel" - title: "Add the swap_around_comma function to the template language." - title: "Drivers for HTC G2, Advent Vega, iRiver Story HD, Lark FreeMe and Moovyman mp7" - title: "Quick View: Survives changing libraries. Also allow sorting by series index as well as name." - title: "Connect to iTunes: Add an option to control how the driver works depending on whether you have iTunes setup to copy files to its media directory or not. Set this option by customizing the Apple driver in Preferences->Plugins. Having iTunes copy media to its storage folder is no longer neccessary. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118559 for details" - title: "Remove the delete library functionality from calibre, instead you can now remove a library, so calibre will forget about it, but you have to delete the files manually" bug fixes: - title: "Fix a regression introduced in 0.8.7 in the Tag Browser that could cause calibre to crash after performing various actions" - title: "Fix an unhandled error when deleting all saved searches" tickets: [804383] - title: "Fix row numbers in a previous selection being incorrect after a sort operation." - title: "Fix ISBN identifier type not recognized if it is in upper case" tickets: [802288] - title: "Fix a regression in 0.8.7 that broke reading metadata from MOBI files in the Edit metadata dialog." tickets: [801981] - title: "Fix handling of filenames that have an even number of periods before the file extension." tickets: [801939] - title: "Fix lack of thread saefty in template format system, that could lead to incorrect template evaluation in some cases." tickets: [801944] - title: "Fix conversion to PDB when the input document has no text" tickets: [801888] - title: "Fix clicking on first letter of author names generating incorrect search." - title: "Also fix updating bulk metadata in custom column causing unnneccessary Tag Browser refreshes." - title: "Fix a regression in 0.8.7 that broke renaming items via the Tag Browser" - title: "Fix a regression in 0.8.7 that caused the regex builder wizard to fail with LIT files as the input" improved recipes: - Zaman Gazetesi - Infobae - El Cronista - Critica de la Argentina - Buenos Aires Economico - El Universal (Venezuela) - wprost - Financial Times UK new recipes: - title: "Today's Zaman by thomass" - title: "Athens News by Darko Miletic" - title: "Catholic News Agency" author: Jetkey - title: "Arizona Republic" author: Jim Olo - title: "Add Ming Pao Vancouver and Toronto" author: Eddie Lau - version: 0.8.7 date: 2011-06-24 new features: - title: "Connect to iTunes: You now need to tell iTunes to keep its own copy of every ebook. Do this in iTunes by going to Preferences->Advanced and setting the 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library' option. To learn about why this is necessary, see: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140260" - title: "Add a couple of date related functions to the calibre template langauge to get 'todays' date and create text based on the value of a date type field" - title: "Improved reading of metadata from FB2 files, with support for reading isbns, tags, published date, etc." - title: "Driver for the Imagine IMEB5" tickets: [800642] - title: "Show the currently used network proxies in Preferences->Miscellaneous" - title: "Kobo Touch driver: Show Favorites as a device collection. Various other minor fixes." - title: "Content server now sends the Content-Disposition header when sending ebook files." - title: "Allow search and replace on comments custom columns." - title: "Add a new action 'Quick View' to show the books in your library by the author/tags/series/etc. of the currently selected book, in a separate window. You can add it to your toolbar or right click menu by going to Preferences->Toolbars." - title: "Get Books: Add libri.de as a book source. Fix a bug that caused some books downloads to fail. Fixes to the Legimi and beam-ebooks.de stores" tickets: [799367] bug fixes: - title: "Fix a memory leak that could result in the leaking of several MB of memory with large libraries" tickets: [800952] - title: "Fix the read metadata from format button in the edit metadata dialog using the wrong timezone when setting published date" tickets: [799777] - title: "Generating catalog: Fix occassional file in use errors when generating catalogs on windows" - title: "Fix clicking on News in Tag Browser not working in non English locales." tickets: [799471] - title: "HTML Input: Fix a regression in 0.8.6 that caused CSS stylesheets to be ignored" tickets: [799171] - title: "Fix a regression that caused restore database to stop working on some windows sytems" - title: "EPUB Output: Convert <br> tags with text in them into <divs> as ADE cannot handle them." tickets: [794427] improved recipes: - Le Temps - Perfil - Financial Times UK new recipes: - title: "Daytona Beach Journal" author: BRGriff - title: "El club del ebook and Frontline" author: Darko Miletic - version: 0.8.6 date: 2011-06-17 new features: - title: "Builtin support for downloading and installing/updating calibre plugins. Go to Preferences->Plugins and click 'Get new plugins'" description: "When updates for installed plugins are available, calibre will automatically (unobtrusively) notify you" type: major - title: "Metadata download configuration: Allow defining a set of 'default' fields for metadata download and quichly switching to/from them" - title: "Allow clicking on the news category in the Tag Browser to display all downloaded periodicals" - title: "Driver for the Libre Air" - title: "Email sending: Allow user to stop email jobs (note that stopping may not actually prevent the email from being sent, depending on when the stop happens). Also automatically abort email sending if it takes longer than 15mins." tickets: [795960] bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: Allow setting of background color on tables also set the border attribute on the table if the table has any border related css defined." tickets: [797580] - title: "Nook TSR: Put news sent to the device in My Files/Newspapers instaed of My Files/Books." tickets: [796674] - title: "MOBI Output: Fix a bug where linking to the very first element in an HTML file could sometimes result in the link pointing to the last element in the previous file." tickets: [797214] - title: "CSV catalog: Convert HTML comments to plain text" - title: "HTML Input: Ignore links to text files." tickets: [791568] - title: "EPUB Output: Change orphaned <td> tags to <div> as they cause ADE to crash." - title: "Fix 'Stop selected jobs' button trying to stop the same job multiple times" - title: "Database: Explicitly test for case sensitivity on OS X instead of assuming a case insensitive filesystem." tickets: [796258] - title: "Get Books: More fixes to the Amazon store plugin" - title: "FB2 Input: Do not specify font families/background colors" improved recipes: - Philadelphia Inquirer - Macleans Magazone - Metro UK new recipes: - title: "Christian Post, Down To Earth and Words Without Borders" author: sexymax15 - title: "Noticias R7" author: Diniz Bortolotto - title: "UK Daily Mirror" author: Dave Asbury - title: "New Musical Express Magazine" author: scissors - version: 0.8.5 date: 2011-06-10 new features: - title: "A new 'portable' calibre build, useful if you like to carry around calibre and its library on a USB key" type: major description: "For details, see: http://calibre-ebook.com/download_portable" - title: "E-book viewer: Remember the last used font size multiplier." tickets: [774343] - title: "Preliminary support for the Kobo Touch. Drivers for the ZTE v9 tablet, Samsung S2, Notion Ink Adam and PocketBook 360+" - title: "When downloading metadata merge rather than replace tags" - title: "Edit metadata dialog: When pasting in an ISBN, if not valid ISBN if present on the clipboard popup a box for the user to enter the ISBN" - title: "Windows build: Add code to load .pyd python extensions from a zip file. This allows many more files in the calibre installation to be zipped up, speeding up the installer." - title: "Add an action to remove all formats from the selected books to the remove books button" bug fixes: - title: "Various minor bug fixes to the column coloring code" - title: "Fix the not() template function" - title: "Nook Color/TSR: When sending books to the storage card place them in the My Files/Books subdirectory. Also do not upload cover thumbnails as users report that the NC/TSR don't use them." tickets: [792842] - title: "Get Books: Update plugins for Amazon and B&N stores to handle website changes. Enable some stores by default on first run. Add Zixo store" tickets: [792762] - title: "Comic Input: Replace the # character in filenames as it can cause problem with conversion/vieweing." tickets: [792723] - title: "When writing files to zipfile, reset timestamp if it doesn't fit in 1980's vintage storage structures" - title: "Amazon metadata plugin: Fix parsing of published date from amazon.de when it has februar in it" improved recipes: - Ambito - GoComics - Le Monde Diplomatique - Max Planck - express.de new recipes: - title: Ambito Financiero author: Darko Miletic - title: Stiin Tas Technica author: Silviu Cotoara - title: "Metro News NL" author: DrMerry - title: "Brigitte.de, Polizeipresse DE and Heise Online" author: schuster - version: 0.8.4 date: 2011-06-03 new features: - title: "New and much simpler interface for specifying column coloring via Preferences->Look & Feel->Column Coloring" - title: "Driver for Trekstor eBook Player 5M, Samsung Galaxy SII I9100, Motorola Defy and miBuk GAMMA 6.2" tickets: [792091, 791216] - title: "Get Books: Add EpubBud, WH Smits and E-book Shoppe stores" - title: "When deleting 'all formats except ...', do not delete if it leaves a book with no formats" - title: "Change default toolbar to make it a little more new user friendly. The icons have been re-arranged and now the text is always visiblke by default. You can change that in Preferences->Look & Feeel and Preferences->Toolbar" - title: "Windows installer: Remember and use previous settings for installing desktop icons, adding to path, etc. This makes the installer a little slower, complaints should go to Microsoft." - title: "Template language: Add str_in_list and on_device formatter functions. Make debugging templates a little easier" - title: "Allow the user to specify formatting for number type custom columns" bug fixes: - title: "Fix typo in NOOK TSR driver that prevented it from working on windows" - title: "Fix quotes in identifiers causing Tag Browser to be blank." tickets: [791044] - title: "Speedup auto complete when there are lots of items (>2500) the downside being that non ASCII characters are not sorted correctly. The threshold can be controlled via Preferences->Tweaks" tickets: [792191] - title: "RTF Output: Fix handling of curly brackets" tickets: [791805] - title: "Fix searching in Get Books not working with non ASCII characters" tickets: [791788] - title: "Fix excessive memory consumption when moving very large files during a metadata change" tickets: [791806] - title: "Fix series index being overwritten even when series is turned off in bulk metadata download" tickets: [789990] - title: "Fix regression in templates where id and other non standard fields no longer worked." - title: "EPUB Output: Fix crash caused by ids with non-ascii characters in them" - title: "Try to preserve the timestamps of files in a ZIP container" - title: "After adding books always select the most recently added book." tickets: [789343] improved recipes: - bild.de - CNN - BBC News (fast) - Dilema Veche new recipes: - title: Metro UK author: Dave Asbury - title: Alt om Herning and Version2.dk author: Rasmus Lauritsen - title: Observatorul cultural author: song2 - version: 0.8.3 date: 2011-05-27 new features: - title: "Allow the coloring of columns in the book list." description: "You can either create a custom column with a fixed set of values and assign a color to each value, or you can use the calibre template language to color any column in arbitrarily powerful ways. For example, you can have the title appear in red if the book has a particular tag." type: major - title: "Support for the Nook Simple Reader" - title: "Get Books, new stores: Virtualo, lulu.net" - title: "A store chooser dialog for Get Books (click the little preferences icon at the bottom of the Get Books screen)." - title: "Add a merge_lists, and, or, not template functions to the calibre template language" - title: "EPUB Output: Change any white-space:pre declarations in the CSS to pre-wrap to accomodate readers that cannot scroll horizontally." tickets: [786722] - title: "Windows installer: Remember and use previous installation folder when upgrading. Note that this will work for future upgrades, after this one." bug fixes: - title: "MOBI Output: Fix hidden tags with id attributes also hiding their trailing text" tickets: [788570] - title: "Fix switching from one news source to another via a search not saving changes to the scheduling of the first source" tickets: [774849] - title: "Dont allow user to use non email usernames when setting up Hotmail or Gmail accounts" - title: "Amazon metadata download: Use separate identifiers for country specific downloads so that the links to Amazon in the Book details panel work when downloading metadata from country specific amazon websites." tickets: [786146] - title: "Nicer error message when user attempts to set title/author via Edit metadata dialog and one of the files is open in another program." - title: "Fix {id} not working in send to device templates" - title: "Windows: If creating a bytestring temp dir fails, create a unicode one and hope the rest of calibre can handle it" - title: "Get Books: Fix some results from Amazon missing." tickets: [785962] improved recipes: - Kathermini - Faz.net - The Washington Post - El Mundo - Marca - The Nation new recipes: - title: Various German news sources author: schuster - title: "George R. R. Martin's Blog" author: Darko Miletic - title: "Focus (DE) and National Geographic" auhtor: Anonymous - version: 0.8.2 date: 2011-05-20 new features: - title: "Various new ebook sources added to Get Books: Google Books, O'Reilly, archive.org, some Polish ebooks stores, etc." - title: "Amazon metadata download: Allow user to configure Amazon plugin to use any of the US, UK, German, French and Italian Amazon websites" - title: "When deleting large numbers of books, give the user the option to skip the Recycle Bin, since sending lots of files to the recycle bin can be very slow." tickets: [784987] - title: "OS X: The unified title+toolbar was disabled as it had various bugs. If you really want it you can turn it on again via Preferences->Tweaks, but be aware that you will see problems like the calibre windowd being too wide, weird animations when a device is detected, etc." - title: "Add a tweak that controls what words are treated as suffixes when generating an author sort string from an author name." - title: "Get Books: Store last few searches in history" bug fixes: - title: "Fix a crash when a device is connected/disconnected while a modal dialog opened from the toolbar is visible" tickets: [780484] - title: "Fix incorrect results from ebooks.com when searching via Get Books" - title: "Metadata plugboards: Add prioritization scheme to allow for using different settings for different locations" tickets: [783229] - title: "Fix manage authors dialog too wide" tickets: [783065] - title: "Fix multiple bracket types in author names not handled correctly when generating author sort string" tickets: [782551] - title: "MOBI Input: Don't error out when detecting TOC structure if one of the elements has an invalid margin unit" - title: "More fixes for japanese language calibre on windows" tickets: [782408] - title: "Linux binaries: Always use either Cleanlook or Plastique styles for the GUI if no style can be loaded from the host computer" improved recipes: - Newsweek - Economist - Dvhn - United Daily - Dagens Nyheter - GoComics - faz.net - golem.de new recipes: - title: National Geographic author: gagsays - title: Various German news sources author: schuster - title: Dilema Veche author: Silviu Cotoara - title: "Glamour, Good to Know, Good Housekeeping and Men's Health" author: Anonymous - title: "Financial Sense and iProfessional" author: Darko Miletic - version: 0.8.1 date: 2011-05-13 new features: - title: "Add Amazon DE, Beam EBooks, Beam DE, Weightless Books, Wizards Tower Books to the list of ebook stores searched by Get Books" - title: "TXT output: All new Textile output with much greater preservation of formatting from the input document" - title: "Migrate metadata plugin for Douban Books to the 0.8 API" - title: "Driver for Dell Streak on windows" - title: "Add menu items to Get Books action to search by title and author of current book" - title: "Add title_sort as available field to CSV/XML catalogs" - title: "Add a context menu to the manage authors dialog" - title: "Add a button to paste isbn into the identifiers field in the edit metadata dialog automatically" bug fixes: - title: "Amazon metadata download plugin: Fix links being stripped from comments. Also fix ratings/isbn not being parsed from kindle edition pages." tickets: [782012] - title: "Fix one source of segfaults on shutdown in the linux binary builds." - title: "Allow the use of condensed/expanded fonts as interface fonts" - title: "EPUB Input: Ignore missing cover file when converting, instead of erroring out." tickets: [781848] - title: "Fix custom identifier being erased by metadata download" tickets: [781759] - title: "Fix regression that broke various things when using Japanese language calibre on windows" tickets: [780804] - title: "RTF Input: Handle null color codes correctly" tickets: [780728] - title: "ODT Input: Handle inline special styles defined on <text:span> tags." tickets: [780250] - title: "Fix error when pressing next previous button with an empty search in the Plugins preferences" tickets: [781135] - title: "Ignore 'Unknown' author when downloading metadata." tickets: [779348] - title: "Fix timezone bug when setting dates in the edit metadata dialog" tickets: [779497] - title: "Fix ebook-convert not recognizing output paths starting with .." tickets: [779322] improved recipes: - "Strategy+Business" - Readers Digest - Ming Pao - Telepolis - Fronda - Rzeczpospolita new recipes: - title: "Various Taiwanese news sources" author: Eddie Lau - title: Replica Vedetelor, Ziua Veche author: Silviu Cotoara - title: Welt der Physik author: schuster - title: Korea Herald author: Seongkyoun Yoo - version: 0.8.0 date: 2011-05-06 new features: - title: "Go to http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/eight to see what's new in 0.8.0" type: major