# 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: 2011-??-?? # # new features: # - title: # # bug fixes: # - title: # # improved recipes: # - # # new recipes: # - title: - 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 tags convert them to
instead of 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 " tickets: [872883] - title: "calibredb add_format does not refresh running calibre instance" tickets: [872961] - title: "Conversion pipeline: Translate 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