# 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: 0.7.18 date: 2010-09-10 new features: - title: "All new Preferences dialog, with nicer layout and the ability to restore settings to defaults" type: major - title: "Add series info when available to generated cover. Also auto-resize the logo on the cover to ensure all text fits" tickets: [6724] - title: "On device column: Now indicates when multiple copies of the same book are present on the device" - title: "Driver for the Gemei GM2000" - title: "Extract fb2 files from zip container when adding to calibre. Can be disables by disabling the Archive Extract file type plugin." tickets: [6739] - title: "Switch to using raster icons for a small speedup in startup time" bug fixes: - title: "On device column: Fix matching bug when multiple books in the library have the same title and author" - title: "Content server: Use /mobile version for Kindle browser" - title: "E-book viewer: When adding a bookmark, a default name is generated" tickets: [6450] - title: "Hide visible menus before clearing toolbar." tickets: [6706] - title: "Batch conversion: Don't overwrite the insert page break before setting" tickets: [6729] - title: "Catalog generation: Fixed improper title display in catalog when title contains ':'. Added 'ondevice' field to CSV/XML catalog output (only with connected device|folder|iTunes). Added optional 'Series' section to generated catalogs with hyperlinks between books and series. Tweaks to catalog formatting." - title: "Fix regression when checking database integrity with custom columns introduced in 0.7.17" - title: "Sending email: Ignore geenric records when trying to resolve domain" tickets: [6723] - title: "Fix a bug where the open state of the splitter was not being saved on shutdown if the splitter had been closed at startup and was opened by dragging the center line" - title: "MOBI Output: Fix bug generating index when chapter names contained non ASCII characters" tickets: [6595] - title: "PDF Input: Fix handling of more non ascii characters" - title: "Content server: Triple AJAX timeout for main book list to 30 seconds" - title: "Use ImageMagick instead of Qt to generate thumbnails when sending covers to device. Should fix corrupted nook covers on some windows installs" - title: "FB2 Output: Improve creation of sections and fix a couple of bugs that could result in invalid output" new recipes: - title: "Journal Gazette" author: cynvision - title: "Milenio" author: bmsleight - title: "Winnipeg Free Press" author: buyo - title: "Buckmasters in the kitchen, The Walrus Magazine and Kansas City Star" author: Tony Stegall - title: "Europa Sur" author: "Darko Miletic" improved recipes: - El Pais - La Jornada - nrcnext - WSJ (free) - version: 0.7.17 date: 2010-09-03 new features: - title: "Content server: Show custom column data in the book listing" - title: "Add preference to automatically set a tag when adding books (Preferences->General)" - title: "Add a tweak to create compound search terms. Show error message in tooltip when user inputs an invalid search query." - title: "Managing multiple libraries: Allow renaming/deleting libraries from the Choose library menu" - title: "Searching on series index is now possible. See the User Manual for details." bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.16 that broke conversion of HTML files with preprocess turned on" - title: "MOBI Output: When converting an input document that specifies an inline TOC in the but not in the , add it correctly. Fixes #6661 (Conversion to MOBI fails to create TOC)" tickets: [6661] - title: "JetBook driver: Only use JetBook naming scheme for txt, pdf and fb2 files." tickets: [6638] - title: "Copy to library action now respects merge preferences" tickets: [6641] - title: "Fix bug in email sending when using an SSL connection" - title: "Kobo driver: Fix bug that prevented metadata caching from working correctly" tickets: [6015] - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.16 that caused calibre to forget its preferences on each restart for new installs on linux" - title: "News downloads: Cut off long downloaded from URLs" tickets: [6649] new recipes: - title: "HOY" author: Fco Javier Nieto - title: "Milenio" author: bmsleight - title: "Winnipeg Free Press" author: buyo - title: "Field and stream blog, West Hawaii Today, Marietta Daily Journal" author: Tony Stegall - title: "Europa Sur" author: "Darko Miletic" improved recipes: - La Jornada - Slate - version: 0.7.16 date: 2010-08-27 new features: - title: "Driver for the Kindle 3" - title: "Users can now customize what actions appear in the toolbar and context menus via Preferences->Interface->Toolbars" - title: "Draw a thin broder around the cover in the edit metadata dialog." tickets: [6605] - title: "Create (almost) all temporary files in a subdirectory so as not to clutter up temp directory" - title: "FB2 Output: Add option to try to generate FB2 sections from the TOC. This may or may not work, depending on the file, so use with care." - title: "Add an option to remove all tags from selected books in the bulk metadata editor." - title: "Add a tweak to control how the dates in the Date column are formatted." bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.15 that broke the Similar books action and the add books to library from device action" tickets: [6630, 6576] - title: "Add ZIP and RAR to the input format order preferences." tickets: [5879] - title: "Update podofo in all binary builds to 0.8.2. Should fix bug where setting metadata in some PDF files would cause file truncation." - title: "Add/remove header wizard: When running on PDF input, replace non breaking spaces with normal spaces, since it is hard to write regexps to match non breaking spaces with the regex builder wizard." - title: "Fix crash is user tries to switch libraries whiel a device is being detected" tickets: [6589] - title: "Title sort now ignores leading quite character. Only applies to newly added books." tickets: [6594] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Don't fail if parsing extra css raises an exception. Instead just ignore it." - title: "SONY driver: Use the tz field (available in newer readers) to set timestamps correctly, when available." - title: "Shortening file paths: Handle the case of very long filenames with periods in them." tickets: [6566] new recipes: - title: "The TMZ and Atlanta Journal Constitution" author: Tony Stegall - title: "Consumerist and Gawker Media" author: Trickery improved recipes: - National Review Online - version: 0.7.15 date: 2010-08-20 new features: - title: "Multiple library support: Various improvements to make using multiple calibre libraries easier." type: major desc: > "Now, when you switch libraries using the Choose Library button on the toolbar, entries are created in the menu of that button to easily switch to that library in the future. Also, you can now right click on a book in the calibre library and use the 'Copy to library' action to copy the book to another library, that you have switched to at least once. The name of the current library is shown in the titlebar. " - title: "Content server: Allow setting a restriction so that the server shares only some of the books in the library." type: major desc: > "You can now use a Saved Search as a restiction for the content server, via Preferences->Content Server. This will cause the server to share only those books that match the saved search. " - title: "Speed up metadata editing. Small speed up for single book editing and major speedup for bulk editing." tickets: [6472] - title: "Drivers for the Kogan and Spectra e-book readers and the Samsung Captivate" - title: "Allow calibredb to manage saved searches stored in the library." - title: "Add a tweak to automatically connect to a folder on startup. Accessible via Preferences->Advanced->Tweaks" - title: "You can specify a restriction based on a saved search to be applied on calibre startup" - title: "All actions in toolbar/context menus have been refactored to become plugins" bug fixes: - title: "Content server: Fix Saved Search and User Category handling in the OPDS feeds." tickets: [6549, 6551] - title: "Fix regression that broke reading covers from CBR files" - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.13 that broke Comic Input when image output format was set to JPEG" - title: "Fix Comic Input default settings not being used when bulk converting comics" - title: "SONY driver: Fix series order being lost when metadata management is set to manual" - title: "Fix behavior of Tag Browser and search restictions when switching libraries" tickets: [6511] - title: "Do not allow the user to override the default tweaks or the hyphenate javascript. Also if a file is not found, do not use the user location as the default base." tickets: [6524] - title: "Catalog generation: Changed default regex for genre tags to allow punctuation within genre tags." - title: "Linux environment: Use a temporary dir as the config directory if write access to the normal config directory is unavailable. Can be overriden by using the CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY environment variable" - title: "Jobs window now remebers its size and can be launched by a keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+J)" tickets: [6505] - title: "Fixing regression that broke clicking on links in the Book Details window" tickets: [6509] - title: "Parallel job management: Do not allow new jobs to start when all cores are used." - title: "Fix a bug that could cause the jobs window to show details for the wrong job" tickets: [6130] - title: "Workaround for PyQt4/util-linux conflict on gentoo" new recipes: - title: "La Jornada" author: rogliedoh - title: "Futurismic" author: Darko Miletic improved recipes: - GoComics - version: 0.7.14 date: 2010-08-13 new features: - title: "Device drivers for the: Teclast K-5, Samsung SNE-60 and Samsung i7500" - title: "When showing cover browser in a separate window, remember the last used window size" - title: "Add keyboard shortcuts to show/hide the Tag Browser, Book details and Cover Browser panels. Hover your mouse over the buttons that toggle them to see the shortcuts." - title: "Calibre library: When the case of title or author is changed, automatically rename the folders to reflect the new case, even on case insensitive filesystems" - title: "Metadata download: If downloaded title or author is all upper case, automatically fix the case" - title: "Add method to add books by ISBN. Click the arrow next to Add Books to add from a list of ISBNs." tickets: [6327] - title: "Allow editing of tweaks via Preferences->Advanced" - title: "Add button to the manage authors dialog to automatically reset all author sort values" bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.13 that broke changing libraries" - title: "MOBI Output: When processing an input document that specifies non-existant files in the OPF guide, don't crash." tickets: [6490] - title: "E-book viewer: When opening consecutive documents in the same viewer, show the correct title in the titlebar" - title: "Set screen size to 540x718 in Kobo output profile" - title: "Dont allow calibredb to create custom columns with invalid labels." tickets: [6487] - title: "Fix preference to 'search as you type' not working" - title: "iTunes driver: Fixed bug in PDF file name searching after adding to iTunes database (Windows only)" - title: "Displaying HTML comments: Do not start a new paragraph at the period in words like Ph.D" tickets: [6462] - title: "Respect restriction in effect when refreshing book list" - title: "Fix drives being reversed for softrooted nook" new recipes: - title: "Yahoo News, Skeptical Enquirer and Skeptic" author: Starson17 - title: "Bolivian newspapers" author: Darko Miletic improved recipes: - Esquire - Big Oven - NSPM - version: 0.7.13 date: 2010-08-06 new features: - title: "Add a button to the edit metadata dialog to generate a cover based on the book metadata" tickets: [5959] - title: "When using series or title in a save template to generate a file path, remove leading prepositions. This behavior can be controlled via a tweak." - title: "News download: When downloading news for the Kindle, do not add date to the title, to allow the Kindle's periodical archiving to work." tickets: [6411] - title: "Content Server OPDS feeds: Grouping of items by first alphabet is now case-insensitive." - title: "Do not allow the user to use save to disk to save files into the calibre library" tickets: [6392] - title: "Switch to a new C based API for using ImageMagick. More robust and a minor speedup when doing image manipulations" - title: "Move cover downloading to a plugin based API. You can now add new cover sources to calibre using plugins." bug fixes: - title: "Content server OPDS feeds: Handle the case when the author field is blank" tickets: [6371] - title: "TXT Input: Strip out illegal chars from txt files." tickets: [6335] - title: "Save to disk/send to device templates: Always render {series_index} as an empty string when the book has no series." tickets: [6409] - title: "PD Novel driver: Remove covers when deleting books" new recipes: - title: "Snopes" author: Startson17 - title: "dr.dk and Balkan Insight" author: Darko Miletic - title: Folha de Sao Paulo author: Saverio Palmieri Neto improved recipes: - Honolulu Star Advertiser - Nature News - Associated Press - Scientific American - New Scientist - version: 0.7.12 date: 2010-07-30 bug fixes: - title: "Fix a typo that caused a harmless error message after setting preferences" - title: "Linux build system: No longer search for poppler-qt4 libraries as they are not needed" - version: 0.7.11 date: 2010-07-30 new features: - title: "EPUB metadata: When setting metadata in an EPUB file, if it has a well defined image based cover, update it" - title: "Support for Droid X, Samsung Vibrant and Promedia ebook reader" - title: "Add entry to Connect/share menu to conveniently stop and start the Content Server" - title: "News download: Make the navbars on the section index pages more useful, adding links to net and previous section" - title: "Add a button to reset confirm dialogs to Preferences->General" bug fixes: - title: "Fix crash in edit metadata dialog if you click OK before cover download completes" tickets: [6337] - title: "Kobo driver: Show a warning when the user tries to export/view .kobo files. Also add support for the new sofroot vendor id" - title: "Update check. Do not be fooled by a redirecting proxy when checking for new version" tickets: [6325] - title: "Add book count to tooltip of library button in toolbar" tickets: [6340] - title: "Content server: When serving OPDS feeds send the correct content-type header." tickets: [6329] - title: "PDF Output: Don't insert blank pages before every individual HTML file in the ebook." tickets: [6315] - title: "Fix saving of cover when path to book folder contains non ascii characters" tickets: [6328] - title: "Fix regression that broke showing send to actions for multiple email accounts" - title: "Fix bug in handlling of hexadecimal entities" tickets: [6305] - title: "SONY driver: More fixes to handle broken media.xml files" tickets: [6296] - title: "Linux installer: Fix rendering of viewer icon and restrict all icons to 128x128 since GNOME can't handle large icons" - title: "RTF Input: Fix handling of hard linebreaks" tickets: [6208] - title: "RTF Output: Fix regression that broke rendering of bold and italic text" tickets: [6098] new recipes: - title: "Draw and Cook" author: Startson17 improved recipes: - La Nacion - Vecernje Novosti - Der Tagesspiegel - Die Zeit Nachrichten - Toms Hardware (DE) - Welt Online - version: 0.7.10 date: 2010-07-23 new features: - title: "Allow user customization of static resources such as icons and templates" type: major description: > "You can now change the icons used in the User Interface and other static resources. Details on how to do this are at: http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/customize.html#overriding-icons-templates-etcetera" - title: "Split the 'Send to device' button into two buttons, 'Connect/share' and 'Send to device'. The new 'Send to device' button will now only be available when a device is connected." - title: "Store column layout, saved searches and user categories seprately per calibre library. This makes it possible to easily switch between libraries with different custom column setups" - title: "See the last modofied date for each format in the edit metadata dialog via a tooltip" tickets: [6252] - title: "PD Novel driver: Add support for uploading cover thumbnails to device" - title: "More sophisticated metadata extraction from HTML files" tickets: [6223] bug fixes: - title: "Fix problems with a few windows installs caused by the upgrade to Qt 4.6.3 in the previous release. These would manifest as a not working Add Books button, or deletes not actually deleting files, etc." - title: "Restore configurability of toolbar, which was temporarily removed in 0.7.9. You can once again set icon size via Preferences->Interface" - title: "Fix regression in iTunes driver in 0.7.9 when sending series info" - title: "Search: Fix parsing of search terms that contain a word that starts with 'and' or 'or' and is not the first word" - title: "When merging records also merge metadata in custom columns" tickets: [6120] - title: "When scrolling to show a particular row, handle the case when the first column is a custom column" tickets: [6176] - title: "Fix SD card detection for The Augen Book" tickets: [6224] - title: "CHM Input: Fix a couple of bugs that could cause crashes" tickets: [6240] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle zero width elements with non zero indents gracefully" tickets: [6230] new recipes: - title: "daum.net" author: trustin - title: "MIT Technology Review, Alternet, Waco Tribune Herald and Orlando Sentinel" author: rty improved recipes: - The BBC - heise - version: 0.7.9 date: 2010-07-17 new features: - title: "New unified toolbar" type: major description: > "A new unified toolbar combines the old toolbar and device display, to save space. Now when a device is connected, buttons are created in the unified toolbar for the device and its storage cards. Click the arrow next to the button to eject the device." - title: "Device drivers: Add option to allow calibre to automatically manage metadata on the device in Preferences->Add/Save->Sending to device" - title: "BibTeX output for catalogs. The list of books in calibre can now also be output as a .bib file" - title: "A new toolbar button to choose/create different calibre libraries. Be careful using it if you also use custom columns." - title: "Support for the MiBuk" bug fixes: - title: "MOBI metadata: Replace HTML entities in the title read from the MOBI file" - title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle elements with percentage sizes that are children of zero size parents correctly." tickets: [6155] - title: "Fix regression that made LRF conversion less robust" tickets: [6180] - title: "FB2 Input: Handle embedded images correctly, so that EPUB generated from FB2 works with Adobe Digital Editions." tickets: [6183] - title: "Fix regression that prevented old news from being deleted in the calibre library if calibre is never kept running for more than an hour" - title: "RTF Input: Fix handling of text align and superscript/subscripts" tickets: [3644,5060] - title: "Fix long series or publisher names causing convert dialog to become too wide" - title: "SONY driver: Fix handling of invalid XML databases with null bytes" tickets: [6165] - title: "iTunes driver: Better series_index sorting" - title: "Improved editing of dates for custom columns" - title: "Linux USB scanner: Don't fail to start calibre if SYFS is not present. Instead simply fail to detect devices" tickets: [6156] - title: "Android driver: Show books on device if Aldiko is being used" tickets: [6100] - title: "Upgrade to Qt 4.6.3 in all binary builds to ensure proper rendering of the new toolbar icons" - title: "Fix handling of entities in epub files by the epub-fix command" tickets: [6136] new recipes: - title: "EL Pain Impresso" author: Darko Miletic - title: "MIT Technology Review, Alternet, Waco Tribune Herald and Orlando Sentinel" author: rty improved recipes: - Google Reader - version: 0.7.8 date: 2010-07-09 new features: - title: "New tool to help prepare EPUBs for publication" type: major description: > "calibre now contains a new command line tool called epub-fix that can automatically fix common problems in EPUB files that cause them to be rejected by poorly designed publishing services. The tool is plugin based for extensible functionality in the future. Currently, it can fix unmanifested files and workaround the date and svg preserveaspectratio bugs of epubcheck." - title: "New icons for the toolbar buttons by Kamil Tatara" - title: "Display rating (when available) in cover browser" - title: "Clicking on the central cover int the cover browser now opens that book in the viewer" - title: "Use the status bar instead of the area to the right of the location view to display status information" - title: "Driver for the Pandigital Novel e-book reader" bug fixes: - title: "News download: Don not specify a font family for article descriptions" - title: "News download: Fix regression introduced in 0.7.0 that broke download of some embedded content feeds" - title: "MOBI Output: Partial support for nested superscript and subscripts." tickets: [6132] - title: "CHM Input: Fix handling of buggy CHM files with no .hhc" tickets: [6087] - title: "EPUB Input: Fix bug in unzipping EPUB files that have been zipped in depth first order." tickets: [6127] - title: "TXT Input: Convert HTML entities to characters." tickets: [6114] - title: "LRF Input: Handle LRF files with random null bytes in the text" tickets: [6097] - title: "Kobo driver: Fix detection of txt/html files on the device" - title: "Fix opening of books when calibre library is on an unmapped network share in windows" - title: "SONY driver: Only update the timestamp in the XML db for newly added books" - title: "Cover browser: Fix rendering of center cover when width of cover browser is less than the width of a single cover" - title: "Cover browser: Correct fix for setPixel out of bounds warning causing UI slowdown in calibre" new recipes: - title: "evz.ro" author: Darko Miletic - title: "Anchorage Daily News, China Economic Net, BBC Chinese and Singtao Daily" author: rty - title: Big Oven author: Starson17 improved recipes: - Haaretz - Editor and Publisher - Estadao - version: 0.7.7 date: 2010-07-02 new features: - title: "Support for the Nokia E52" - title: "Searching on the size column" - title: "iTunes driver: Add option to disable cover fetching for speeding up the fetching of large book collections" bug fixes: - title: "SONY driver: Only update metadata when books are sent to device." - title: "TXT Input: Ensure the generated html is splittable" tickets: [5904] - title: "Fix infinite loop in default cover generation." tickets: [6061] - title: "HTML Input: Fix a parsing bug that was triggered in rare conditions" tickets: [6064] - title: "HTML2Zip plugin: Do not replace ligatures" tickets: [6019] - title: "iTunes driver: Fix transmission of non integral series numbers" tickets: [6046] - title: "Simplify implementation of cover caching and ensure cover browser is updated when covers are changed" - title: "PDF metadata: Fix last character corrupted when setting metadata in encrypted files." - title: "PDF metadata: Update the version of PoDoFo used to set metadata to 0.8.1. Hopefully that means more PDF files will work" - title: "Device drivers: Speedup for dumping metadata cache to devices on Windows XP" - title: "EPUB Output: Ensure that language setting is conformant to the specs" - title: "MOBI Output: Fix a memory leak and a crash in the palmdoc compression routine" - title: "Metadata download: Fix a regression that resulted in a failed download for some books" new recipes: - title: "Foreign Policy and Alo!" author: Darko Miletic - title: Statesman and ifzm author: rty improved recipes: - Akter - The Old New Thing - version: 0.7.6 date: 2010-06-28 new features: - title: "Add support for the new firmware of the Azbooka" tickets: [5994] - title: "A few speedups for calibre startup, should add up to a few seconds of startup time on slower machines" - title: "Support for the Sweem MM300" - title: "Add keyboard shorcut for Download metadata and covers" bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.5 that broke conversion of malformed HTML files (like those Microsoft Word outputs)" type: major tickets: [5991] - title: "Don't download tags from librarything, as the tagging there is not very good" - title: "Add mimetype for FB2 so that it can be served by the content server" tickets: [6011] - title: "Ensure cover is not resized to less than the available space in the Edit Meta Information dialog" tickets: [6001] - title: "SONY driver: Only update collections when sending book to device for the first time" - title: "calibre should now work on windows when the location for the library contains non-ascii characters" tickets: [5983] - title: "Cover browser once again distorts instead of cropping covers that have an incorrect aspect ratio" - title: "ISBNDb metadata plugin: Fix bug causing only first page of results to be fetched" - title: "Move iTunes driver to the bottom so that it doesn't interfere with device detection for people that have iphones and an ereader plugged in" improved recipes: - Houston Chronicle - Hindu - Times of India - New York Times new recipes: - title: Winnipeg Sun author: rty - version: 0.7.5 date: 2010-06-25 new features: - title: "New driver for the Kobo featuring closer integration with the device." - title: "Support for the Dell Streak, Eken Android tablet and the Astak Mentor EB600" - title: "New series type custom column" - title: "Add option in Send to device menu to connect to iTunes without any iDevice (experimental)" - title: "iPad driver: Make setting iTunes Category from series optional. News download now optimizations for iPad output." - title: "Add option to disable book cover animation" tickets: [5909] - title: "Edit meta information dialog: Remember last used size and splitter position." tickets: [5908] - title: "Metadata download: If any results have a published date, ensure they all do" - title: "SONY driver: Add a preference setting in Preferences->Add/Save->Send to device to control how colelctions are managed on the device by calibre" - title: "Metadata download: Filter out non book results. Also sort results by availability of covers for the isbn" tickets: [5946] - title: "Bulk editing for device collections in the device view via the context menu" bug fixes: - title: "When converting books using the calibre GUI, set the language of the output book to be the same as the language of the User Interface, instead of undefined. Fixes use of dictionary in iBooks" - title: "PDF Output: Fix setting top/bottom margnis has no effect" - title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix typo causing remove footer regex to always fail" - title: "Handle device being yanked with queued device jobs gracefully" - title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle deeply nested XML structures" tickets: [5931] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix handling of lists with a specified left margin" tickets: [5877] - title: "Restore workaround for ADE buggy rendering of anchors as links. However, make it overridable by extra CSS" - title: "Fix LibraryThing metadata download plugin" - title: "Fix multiple ratings displayed in Tag Browser for some legacy databases" - title: "Fix invocation of postprocess file type plugins plugins" - title: "HTML Input: Handle @import directives in linked css files." tickets: [5135] - title: "HTML Input: Handle absolute paths in resource links on windows correctly." tickets: [3031] - title: "E-book viewer: Handle font-face rules specify multiple families to be substituted" - title: "Cover browser: Set aspect ratio of covers to 3:4 instead of 2:3. Crop rather than distort covers whoose aspect ratio is different from this. Antialias the rendering of the central cover" - title: "Reset Tag browser if the text in the search box is edited" - title: "Fix detection of SD card in Samsung Galaxy windows driver" new recipes: - title: "L'Osservatore Romano" author: Darko Miletic - title: China Press, London Free Press, People Daily author: rty improved recipes: - Zaobao - New Scientist - National Post - London review of books - version: 0.7.4 date: 2010-06-19 bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.3 that broke creating custom columns of rating or text types" - title: "Fix cover browser breaking if you click on a book in the book list while cover browser is animated" - title: "Fix a bug that could be triggered with the new book details pane if a book has a zero size cover" tickets: [5889] - title: "SONY driver: Fix bug preventing the editing of collections in the device view" new recipes: - title: Auto Prove author: Gabriele Marini - title: Forbes India, Maximum PC, Today Online author: rty improved recipes: - WSJ - Psychology Today - version: 0.7.3 date: 2010-06-18 new features: - title: "The Tag Browser now display an average rating for each item" type: major description: > " The icons of each individual item in the Tag Browser are now partially colored to indicate the average rating of all books belonging to that category. For example, the icon next to each author is partially colored based on the averagerating of all books by that author in your calibre library. You can also hover your mouse over the item to see the average rating in a tooltip. Can be turned off via Preferences->Interface " - title: "Editable author sort for each author" type: major description: > "calibre has always allowed you to specify the author sort for each bookin your collection. Now you can also specify the way the name of each individual author should be sorted. This is used to display the list of authors in the Tag Browser and OPDS feeds in the Content Server" - title: "When downloading metadata, also get series information from librarything.com" type: major tickets: [5148] - title: "Redesign of the Book Details pane" type: major description: > "The Book details pane now display covers with animation. Also instead of showing the full path to the book, you now have clickable links to open the containing folder or individual formats. The path information is still accessible via a tooltip" - title: "New User Interface layouts" type: major description: > "calibre now has two user interface layouts selectable from Preferences->Interface. The 'wide' layout has the book details pane on the side and the 'narrow' layout has it on the bottom. The default layout is now wide." - title: "You can now add books directly from the device to the calibre library by right clicking on the books in the device views" - title: "iPad driver: Create category from series preferentially, also handle series sorting" - title: "SONY driver: Add an option to use author_sort instead of author when sending to device" - title: "Hitting Enter in the search box now causes the search to be re-run" tickets: [5856] - title: "Boox driver: Make destination directory for books customizable" - title: "Add plugin to download metadata from douban.com. Disabled by default." - title: "OS X/linux driver for PocketBook 301" - title: "Support for the Samsung Galaxy and Sigmatek EBK52" - title: "On startup do not focus the search bar. Instead you can acces the search bar easily by pressing the / key or the standard search keyboard shortcut for your operating system" bug fixes: - title: "iPad driver: Various bug fixes" - title: "Kobo Output profile: Adjust the screen dimensions when converting comics" - title: "Fix using Preferences when a device is connected causes items in device menu to be disabled" - title: "CHM Input: Skip files whoose names are too long for windows" - title: "Brighten up calibre icon on dark backgrounds" - title: "Ignore 'Unknown' in title/autors when downloading metadata" tickets: [5633] - title: "Fix regression that broke various entries in the menus - Preferences, Open containing folder and Edit metadata individually" - title: "EPUB metadata: Handle comma separated entries in tags correctly" tickets: [5855] - title: "MOBI Output: Fix underlines not being rendered" tickets: [5830] - title: "EPUB Output: Remove workaround for old versions of Adobe Digital Editions' faulty rendering of links in html. calibre no longer forces links to be blue and underlined" - title: "Fix a bug that could cause the show pane buttons to not show hidden panes" - title: "Fix Tag Editor does not reflect recently changed data in Tag Catagory Text Box" tickets: [5809] - title: "Content server: Fix sorting of books by authors instead of author_sort in the main and mobile views" - title: "Cover cache: Resize covers larger than 600x800 in the cover cache to reduce memory consumption in the GUI" - title: "EPUB Output: Default cover is generated is now generated as a JPEG instead of PNG32, reducing size by an order of magnitude." tickets: [5810] - title: "Cover Browser: Scale text size with height of cover browser. Only show a reflection of half the cover. Also restore rendering quality after regression in 0.7.1" tickets: [5808] - title: "Book list: Do not let the default layout have any column wider than 350 pixels" new recipes: - title: Akter author: Darko Miletic - title: Thai Rath and The Nation (Thailand) author: Anat Ruangrassamee improved recipes: - Wall Street Journal - New York Times - Slashdot - Publico - Danas - version: 0.7.2 date: 2010-06-11 new features: - title: "The Cover Browser can now be freely resized." description: > "You can now resize the Cover Browser just like the other areas of the user interface by dragging the edge. The Cover Browser now also emphasizes the cetral book cover, making it larger than the others. Also on widescreen monitors the cover browser is now automatically placed to the side of the book list instead of below it." - title: "Added tweak to control how titles and series names are sorted" - title: "Clicking on row numbers no longer open the viewer. Instead you have to double click" bug fixes: - title: "SONY driver: The regression causing slow perfomance has been corrected. Various bug fixes to deal with corner cases" - title: "iPad driver: Various bugfixes, should now work much more seamlessly." - title: "Fix regression causing calibre to not start if the library path is invalid, because say a drive has been removed" tickets: [5787] - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.1 that broke searching in the e-book viewers and for news sources" - title: "Fix regressions that caused the Publisher to change when updating Series and floating point custom columns to be rounded to integers." tickets: [5788] - title: "Fix regression that broke check database integrity in the presence of custom coulmns or user categories" tickets: [5779] - title: "Fix regresison that broke the Email to submenu in the send to device menu" - title: "Fix Tag browser re-opening closed tree after editing metadata" tickets: [5744] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle missing/obsolete input/output profiles gracefully" - title: "Fix Adding/Deleting Search does not refresh Left Pane Correctly" tickets: [5751] - title: "Content server: Fix serving of CBZ/CBR files to stanza" new recipes: - title: Repantes, Haaretz author: Darko Miletic - title: CBC Canada author: rty improved recipes: - The Sun - The Economist - Boston Globe - Honolulu Star Advertiser - SMH - Sueddeutsche - Our Daily Bread - version: 0.7.1 date: 2010-06-04 new features: - title: "Content server: Add option to control category groupiong in OPDS feeds" - title: "Make the book details pane occupy the full lower part of the window" - title: "Add true and false searches for date based columns" tickets: [5717] bug fixes: - title: "iPad driver: Various bug fixes." - title: "SONY driver: Fix Launcher partition being detected as storage card in linux" - title: "Fix news downloading breaking on windows systems with local encoding other than UTF-8." - title: "SONY driver: Fix problem caused by null titles" - title: "Make the new splash screen not always stay on top" tickets: [5700] - title: "When setting an image with transparent pixels as the book cover, overlay it on a white background first. Fixes transparent covers getting random backgrounds." - title: "Content server: Fix stanza integration when entering the server URL my hand" improved recipes: - Gizmodo - Vreme - version: 0.7.0 date: 2010-06-04 new features: - title: "Go to http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/seven to see what's new in 0.7.0" type: major - version: 0.6.55 date: 2010-05-28 new features: - title: "Support for the Nokia E71X" - title: "EPUB Output: Generate a default one entry TOC if no TOC is present. This allows the EPUB to pass epubcheck and work on the Kobo" - title: "Kobo driver: Add support for storage card" - title: "PDF Output: Improved cover and comic handling" - title: "EPUB metadata: When setting authors, always move the new dc:creator element to the top so broken implementations don't get confused" bug fixes: - title: "Make the HTML shown in the regex builder closer to that actually processed by the conversion pipeline." tickets: [5549] - title: "Fix tab ordering in Bulk edit meta information dialog" tickets: [5624] - title: "EPUB Input: Ignore __MACOSX directories inside the EPUB file" - title: "EPUB Input: Raise an appropriate error for DTBook EPUB files" - title: "EPUB Output: Use correct SVG code when not preserving aspect ratio for covers" - title: "Use PNP drive number based sorting on windows when the device has identical main memory and card ids" new recipes: - title: Infomotori author: Gabriele Marini - title: Las Vegas Review author: Joel - title: Troitskiy variant author: Vadim Dyadkin - title: American Thinker author: Walt Anthony - title: The Observer author: jbambridge improved recipes: - The BBC - The New York Times - Wired - Corriere della Serra - Leggo - darknet - Freakonomics Blog - version: 0.6.54 date: 2010-05-21 new features: - title: "EPUB Output: Add option to toggle preserving the aspect ratio of the cover." type: major description: > "By default calibre creates an SVG based cover that scales with the screen size of the reader used to view it. Previosuly this scaling was limited to preserve the aspect ratio of the image. This would often result in white borders at the sides or top and bottom of the image. No, by default, calibre will setup the cover to not preserve aspect ratio, doing away with the white borders. The downside is that if the aspect ratio of the cover is very different from the reader, it will look distorted. The old behavior can be restored via Preferences->Conversion->EPUB Output." - title: "Conversion pipeline: calibre will now automatically replace all ligatures in the input document." type: major description: > "Conversion pipeline: calibre will now automatically replace all ligatures in the input document with the normal character sequence they are meant to represent. This is because most readers lack the font support to display ligatures. This can be turned off via an option under Look & Feel, in the Conversion settings." - title: "Support for the iPapyrus and Newsmy readers and the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10" - title: "PDF Output: Set the first page to the cover." tickets: [5581] bug fixes: - title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle input documents with no text. Allows conversion of MOBI files tha are only a sequence of images." tickets: [5554] - title: "Fix text justification control not working with translated version of calibre" tickets: [5551] - title: "HTML Input: Encoding detection fixed for tags that have newlines in their content attributes" tickets: [5567] - title: "EPUB Input: Handle malformed UUID in EPUB with obfuscated fonts." tickets: [5552] - title: "Don't resort when editing columns in the main GUI" - title: "Fix regression in Kobo driver that caused it to only detect books in the root directory of the device" new recipes: - title: La Stampa and Libero author: Gabriele Marini - title: Der Tagesspiegel author: ipaschke - title: EMG and Agro Gerilla author: Darko Miletic - title: American Prospect, FactCheck and PolitiFact author: Michael Heinz improved recipes: - Times Online - The Atlantic - Il Messagero - Leggo - Instapaper - New York Review of Books - NIN Online - version: 0.6.53 date: 2010-05-15 new features: - title: "Clean up GUI initialization and add support for restoring corrupted databases automatically" - title: "Make proxy detection more robust on windows and OS X. calibre now queries OS X Network Settigns if no environment variables are set. Also handle proxies with a trailing slash correctly" - title: "Add EPUB advanced formatting demo to User Manual" - title: "Support for the Booq Avant, Azbooka and the Samsung GT-I5700" - title: "Backwards search in the E-book viewer" - title: "calibredb: Add ability to create empty books in the database." tickets: [5504] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Support for the :first-letter pseudo selector" - title: "Interpret a Keyboard interrupt (Ctrl+C) as a request to quit the main GUI" - title: "CBC Input: Handle comics.txt encoded in UTF-16 with a BOM" bug fixes: - title: "HTML Input: Fix silly bug in case sensitivity detection" - title: "Kobo driver: Show all sideloaded content on the device." tickets: [5492] - title: "EPUB metadata: Fix bug with relative apths in encryption detection when reading cover" tickets: [5471] - title: "E-book viewer: Fix next page scrolling when current document is just a little more than a screenfull. Also use a more robust method to insert blank space at the end of the document when the last screenfull is partially empty." - title: "EPUB metadata: Allow deletion of series/tags/isbn from EPUB files when Saving to Disk" tickets: [5518] - title: "Fix regression that caused temporary blank line at the bottom of the books list when adding duplicates" tickets: [5500] - title: "Add icon for RTF" tickets: [5503] - title: "Amazon metadata: If ISBN is not found, don't report an error message." tickets: [5501] - title: "EPUB Input: Fix typo that caused incorrect processing of EPUB files with more than one identifier element and encrypted fonts" - title: "Fix bug that caused send to device to send multiple copies to the device if you had previously used Prefrences" - title: "Linux prs 500 udev rule: Use SUBSYSTEMS instead of the deprecated BUS" - title: "PML2PMLZ plugin: Actually compress the PML file stored in the PMLZ archive" tickets: [5511] - title: "SONY drivers: Fix regression that broke collection ordering by series when sending to device. And fix another rare error condition." tickets: [5487] - title: "CHM Input: Regression that broke CHM conversion on OS X." tickets: [5483] - title: "Fix PDB created in Dropbook not convertable by Calibre" tickets: [5441] new recipes: - title: APCOM, Leggo (it), Ansa and Punto Informatico author: Gabriele Marini - title: Scinexx.de author: JSuer - title: Various Russian news sources author: Darko Miletic improved recipes: - Christian Science Monitor - The Nation - Physics World - Discover Magazine - version: 0.6.52 date: 2010-05-07 new features: - title: "Support for the Kobo Reader and the HTC Desire" - title: "PDB Input: Add support for PDB files created with incorrect encodings" - title: "EPUB Output: Make the file size splitting algorithm more intelligent. If a split results in a tree that is very small, choose another split point." - title: "Add an entry to the Fetch News menu to fetch all scheduled news" tickets: [5436] - title: "MOBI Output: When inserting metadata, hide the searchable version of the tags (append with ttt). They are still searchable, but not visible." bug fixes: - title: "HTML Input: Handle case sensitive file systems on OS X" tickets: [5083] - title: "EPUB Output: When rescaling PNG images, write out the rescaled data in PNG format as ADE cannot handle JPEG data in a PNG file" - title: "SONY drivers: Fix corner case that could cause errors when transferring books with series to the device." tickets: [5431] - title: "Allow users to set the content server port to < 1025 (system ports) with a warning." tickets: [5470] - title: "Don't popup an error message when adding books if the cover is not a valid image" - title: "SONY drivers: Fix bug that prevented detection SD cards that had the Sony Reader/database folders, but no cache.xml" - title: "EPUB Input: Handle invalid EPUB files that have manifest entries pointing to non existent files" tickets: [5444] - title: "Fix the get cover/metadata from specific format buttons when the user has chosen to read metadata only from filenames" tickets: [5445] - title: "Conversion pipeline: More robust conversion of HTML tags to text when detecting structure" - title: "Fix 'Open containing folder' does not work if the path name contains '#'" tickets: [5424] new recipes: - title: The Old New Thing, Berlingske, ABC, Ultima Hora, China Daily, Dani author: Darko Miletic - title: Arbetaren, Ekot and Fria Tidningen author: Joakim Lindskog - title: Il Messaggero, Il Giornale and ADN Kronos author: Gabriele Marini - title: Onion AV Club author: Stephen Williams improved recipes: - Jerusalem Post - version: 0.6.51 date: 2010-04-30 bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression that broke EPUB output in 0.6.50 when converting lists" - version: 0.6.50 date: 2010-04-30 new features: - title: "Add merge book feature" type: major description: > "You can now merge multiple books into a single book, by clicking the arrow next to the edit meta information button. Meta information from the books will be merged as well as individual book files in different formats" - title: "Support for the Samsung Galaxy Spica and the Palm Pre" - title: "Add a 'Go to' context menu to the ebook viewer" tickets: [1230] - title: "Show an asterisk next to version number when user is using CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM" tickets: [5417] - title: "Import ComicBookLover metadata from CBZ files" tickets: [5402] - title: "Add keyboard shortcut for viewing a specific format" tickets: [5408] - title: "EPUB Output: Add option to not use SVG for covers. Useful if you want to generate an EPUB for devices like the iPhone or JetBook Lite that don't support SVG covers" tickets: [5409] - title: "In the book info display area, only show series and tags if there are any. Move comments to the bottom." tickets: [5391] bug fixes: - title: "E-book viewer: Use the Qt API to set document padding during next page operation, instead of javascript." tickets: [5343] - title: "E-book viewer: Handle self-closing heading tags in XHTML documents correctly." tickets: [5413] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Ignore CSS pseudo selectors" tickets: [5337] - title: "MOBI Input: Ignore form tags" tickets: [5378] - title: "Handle a scheduled custom recipe being deleted gracefully" tickets: [5366] - title: "ebook-convert: Don't rename PNG covers to JPG" tickets: [5379] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Respect width and height attributes in addition to width and height in CSS" - title: "Fix regression which broke the use of HTML files in the regexp testing wizard" tickets: [5341] - title: "Fix match highlighting for multi-line regexps in the regexp testing wizard" tickets: [5414] - title: "EPUB Output: Workaround Adobe Digital Editions bug in rendering of lists with a left margin set." tickets: [5415] - title: "PRS 505/600/700/300 driver: Don't give an error message when editing metadata on SD card and cache directory does not exist" tickets: [5410] - title: "When converting EPUB to EPUB multiple times and creating book jacket from metadata, if an existing book jacket is found, replace it. This will only work with EPUBs created with the current release onwards" - title: "Correctly handle HTML in comments" tickets: [5237] - title: "Kindle driver: When transferring files whose names start witha period, replace the period." tickets: [5367] - title: "Conversion pipeline: When decoding XML (but not XHTML) if no encoding is specified, assume utf-8. Make entity conversion more robust. When splitting html handle ids with quotes in them correctly" new recipes: - title: The Old New Thing, Berlingske, ABC, Ultima Hora, China Daily, Dani author: Darko Miletic - title: Observa Digital author: yrvn - title: "Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity" author: Rob Lammert improved recipes: - PC Magazine - Reuters - Sueddeutsche Zeitung - "il Sole 24 Ore" - La Repubblica - version: 0.6.49 date: 2010-04-23 new features: - title: "Support for the SpringDesign Alex and the Nokia 5800XM" tickets: [5215] - title: "Justification control is now more sophisticated. You can choose to have either un-justified text, justified text or leave the justification specified in the input document as is." tickets: [4921] bug fixes: - title: "Fix regression that broke database integrity checking in 0.6.48" tickets: [5329] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Ignore links in the HTML that have quoted non-ASCII characters, since there is no way to decode them correctly." tickets: [5354] - title: "Make title casing more intelligent, based on the guidelines for the New York Times style manual" tickets: [3086] - title: "MOBI Input: Handle hexadecimal entities used to specify angle brackets" tickets: [5336] - title: "Fix rendering of ratings column in linux when using a 'fancy' style." - title: "MOBI Input: Don't fail when the MOBI metadata species a cover that does not exist." tickets: [5333] - title: "Fix display of covers in the ebook viewer from MOBI and LIT files" tickets: [5342] - title: "MOBI Input: Fix regression that broke detection of covers in MOBI files when converting" - title: "Restore blank lines in text only comments when displaying the detailed view for a book" new recipes: - title: The West Australian, Kurier, Virtual Shackles author: Darko Miletic - title: NPR Music Blogs author: cix3 improved recipes: - New York Review of Books - USA Today - Guardian - La Republica - version: 0.6.48 date: 2010-04-18 new features: - title: "Add an output profile for the iPad" - title: "An option for ejecting the connected device from the system tray icon" - title: "Support for the Samsung SNE 60K and Acer Liquid A1" - title: "Programmatic auto-numbering of books in a series" tickets: [2418] description: > "Added an option to the bulk metadata edit dialog to automatically sequentially order the selected books in a series, in the order they were selected." bug fixes: - title: "Unmount Bebook Mini on OS X instead of eject" tickets: [5269] - title: "Perfomance tweaks to improve startup time with large libraries" - title: "Fix changing port of content server only takes effect after a restart of calibre" tickets: [5308] - title: "News download: Retry article download if temporary failure in DNS. Makes downloading more robust." - title: "Handle DRMed EPUB files correctly when getting cover." tickets: [5304] - title: "CHM Metadata: Fix bug in cover detection" - title: "Detect zip/rar files that are actually comics even if they contain a mix of PNG/JPG files" tickets: [5300] - title: "Fix sending multiple files by email causes them to be mixed up. Also show error message when sending by email fails." tickets: [5069] - title: "EPUB Output: When rescaling images from a comic use the same screen size as used by the input plugin" - title: "EPUB Output: Fix memory leak when converting documents with large collections of images" - title: "Fix regression in 0.6.47 that would cause the main window to expand unctrollably horizontally when using long serach terms" - title: "Fix periodicals generated by calibre not using kindle back issue archiving" tickets: [5271] new recipes: - title: Canard PC author: zorgluf - title: FOX News author: Darko Miletic - title: Nation and Standard Media Kenya author: Hans Donner - title: El Pais Semanal and Axxon author: Darko MIletic improved recipes: - Pescanik - NSPM - The Atlantic - version: 0.6.47 date: 2010-04-09 new features: - title: "Saved searches" type: major description : > "You can now save your frequently used searches and access them with a single click. For details see http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/gui.html#search-sort" - title: "Add searching by date/published date" tickets: [5244] - title: "News download: Implement is_link_wanted a method for context sensitive link filtering" - title: "Preliminary drivers for The Entourage Edge and Samsung Moment" - title: "Indicate number of matches when searching" bug fixes: - title: "Optimize performance with large libraries (several thousand books or more)." type: major description : > "There should be a mojor speedup in operations like adding books and editing metadata for users with large libraries of several thousand books or more." - title: "Don't crash when converting EPUB files with missing NCX TOCs" tickets: [5234] - title: "RTF Input: Fix EPUBs generated from some RTF files not displaying in Stanza/iBooks" tickets: [5231] - title: "News download: Remove all