# Each release can have new features and bug fixes. Each of which
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# 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.
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- version: 0.8.0
date: 2010-05-06
new features:
- title: "Go to http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/eight to see what's new in 0.8.0"
type: major
- version: 0.7.59
date: 2011-04-30
bug fixes:
- title: "Fixes a bug in 0.7.58 that caused too small fonts when converting to MOBI for the Kindle. Apologies."
- title: "Apple driver: Handle invalid EPUBs that do not contain an OPF file"
new recipes:
- title: The Big Picture and Auto industry news
author: welovelucy
- title: Gazeta Prawna
author: Vroo
- title: Various Czech news sources
author: Tomas Latal
- title: Diario de Ibiza
author: Joan Tur
- version: 0.7.58
date: 2011-04-29
new features:
- title: "Support for converting and reading metadata from Plucker format PDB files"
type: major
- title: "The metadata that is displayed in the book details panel on the right is now completely configurable via Preferences->Look & Feel"
- title: "Add a column that shows the date when the metadata of a book record was last modified in calibre. To see the column, right click on the column headers in calibre and select Show column->Modified. Note that the dates may be incorrect for books added with older versions of calibre."
- title: "Add command line option to shutdown running calibre"
- title: "CHM Input: Store extracted files in the input/ sub dir for easy debugging when --debug-pipeline is specified"
- title: "Add a popup menu to the 'Create saved search button' to allow easy deleting of saved searches"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression that broke converting to LIT in 0.7.57"
tickets: [769334]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Remove encoding declarations from input HTML documents to guarantee that there is only a single encoding declaration in the output HTML."
tickets: [773337]
- title: "Correctly parenthesize searches that are used to make search restrictions"
- title: "Fix ratings in save to disk templates not being divided by 2"
- title: "TXT to EPUB: Underlined words (following quotes?) fail to become italics"
tickets: [772267]
- title: "Fix template function source code unavailable when not running calibre from source"
- title: "Fix adding html books from the top of a deep folder hierarchy very slow"
- title: "Only set language in MOBI metadata if it is not null"
- title: "Fix 'count-of' searches (e.g., tags:#>3)."
tickets: [771175]
- title: "Fix regression that broke connection to iTunes in some cases"
tickets: [771164]
- title: "Fix buggy regex that made converting PDFs with the string ****************** very slow"
tickets: [770534]
- title: "Fix Ctrl+L shortcut to lookup word not working in ebook viewer"
tickets: [769492]
- title: "Fix regression that broke searching on boolean columns"
improved recipes:
- HBR Blogs
- The Marker
- Financial Times
- Clarin
- Honolulu Star Advertiser
new recipes:
- title: Novi Standard
author: Darko Miletic
- title: Autobild.ro and Social Diva
author: Silviu Cotoara
- title: Novinky
author: Tomas Latal
- title: "De Volksrant (subscriber version)"
author: Selcal
- version: 0.7.57
date: 2011-04-22
new features:
- title: "Launch worker processes on demand instead of keeping a pool of them in memory. Reduces memory footprint."
- title: "Use the visual formatting of the Table of Contents to try to automatically create a multi-level TOC when converting/viewing MOBI files."
tickets: [763681]
- title: "Add a new function booksize() to the template language to get the value of the size column in calibre."
- title: "Add support for using metadata plugboards with the content server (only with the epub format)"
- title: "Change default algorithm for automatically computing author sort to be more intelligent and handle the case when the author name has a comma in it"
- title: "Show cover size in the tooltips of the book details panel and book details popup window"
bug fixes:
- title: "Dragging and dropping a cover onto the book details panel did not change the cover size"
tickets: [768332]
- title: "Fix non-escaped '|' when searching for commas in authors using REGEXP_MATCH"
- title: "Fix ratings in templates being multiplied by 2"
- title: "Fix adding a comma to custom series values when using completion."
tickets: [763788]
- title: "CHM Input: Another workaround for a Microsoft mess."
tickets: [763336]
- title: "Fix job count in the spinner not always being updated when a job completes"
- title: "Changing case only of a title does not update title sort"
tickets: [768904]
improved recipes:
- ecuisine.ro, egirl.ro and tabu.ro
- Daily Telegraph
- Handelsblatt
- Il Sole 24 Ore
- Newsweek
- Arcamax
new recipes:
- title: BabyOnline.ro
author: Silviu Cotoara
- title: "The Journal.ie"
author: Phil Burns
- title: "Der Spiegel"
author: Nikolas Mangold
- version: 0.7.56
date: 2011-04-17
new features:
- title: "This is primarily a bug fix release that fixes a bug in 0.7.55 that caused calibre to rescan the files on the device every time the device is connected. If you updated to 0.7.55 it is highly recommended you update to 0.7.56"
- title: "Device driver for Coby Kyros"
- title: "Remove the quick access to search options from next to the search bar, as we now have a separate search highlights toggle button"
- title: "MOBI Output: Ensure that MOBI files always have 8KB worth of null bytes at the end of record 0. This appears to be necessary for Amazon to be able to add DRM to calibre generated MOBI files sent to their publishing service."
- title: "Add a tool to inspect MOBI files. To use: calibre-debug -m file.mobi"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fixed regression taht caused calibre to rescan files on the device on every reconnect"
- title: "Fix donate button causing the toolbar to be too large on OS X"
- title: "MOBI Input: Fix detection of Table of Contents for MOBI files that have a page break between the location designated as the Table of Contents and the actual table of contents."
tickets: [763504]
- title: "Comic Input: Fix handling of some CBZ files that have wrongly encoded non ASCII filenames on windows."
tickets: [763280]
- title: "PML Input: Fix multi-line chapter title causing a spurious page break"
tickets: [763238]
- title: "EPUB Input: Speed up processing of files with very large manifest/spines"
- title: "Fix regression that broke cover:False searches in 0.7.55"
improved recipes:
- Suedduetsche Zeitung
- Irish Times
- Big Oven
- NSPM
- version: 0.7.55
date: 2011-04-15
new features:
- title: "Add a menu bar. Useful if you use a lot of plugins and are running out of space in your toolbars. By default the menu bar is hidden (except on OS X). You can add actions to it via Preferences->Toolbars. As soon as you add actions, it will become visible."
- title: "OS X: Make the main calibre window look a little more 'native' on OS X"
- title: "Show recently viewed books in the View button's drop down menu"
- title: "Add a button next to the search bar to toggle easily between highlight and restrict search modes"
- title: "Allow the use of arbitrary searches as search restrictions, rather than just saved searches. Do this by using the special entry '*Current Search' in the Search Restriction dropdown."
- title: "The Connect/share icon now changes color to indicate that the content server is running"
tickets: [755444]
- title: "Device drivers for Viewpad 7, Motorola Xoom and Asus Eee Note"
- title: "Add tags like composite custom column."
tickets: [759663]
- title: "Add a new date format code 'iso'. Permits formatting dates to see the complete time (via Preferences->Tweaks)"
- title: "Allow the use of data from the size column in the template language"
tickets: [759645]
- title: "Support reading/writing covers to txtz/htmlz files"
- title: "Speedup for large library sorting when using composite custom columns"
- title: "Move the boolean columns are tristate tweak to Preferences->Behavior"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a regression in 0.7.54 that broke reading covers/metadata from cbz files."
tickets: [756892]
- title: "Fix tweak names and help not translatable"
tickets: [756736]
- title: "When the size of a book is less that 0.1MB but not zero, display the size as <0.1 instead of 0.0."
tickets: [755768]
- title: "HTMLZ input: Fix handling of HTML files encoded in an encoding other than UTF-8"
- title: "EPUB Input: Fix EPUB files with empty Adobe PAGE templates causing conversion to abort."
tickets: [760390]
- title: "Fix CHM input plugin not closing opened input file"
tickets: [760589]
- title: "MOBI Output: Make super/subscripts use a slightly smaller font when rendered on a Kindle. Also allow the use of vertical-align:top/bottom in the CSS to specify a super/subscript."
tickets: [758667]
- title: "LRF Input: Detect and workaround LRF files that have deeply nested spans, instead of crashing."
tickets: [759680]
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix bug that would cause conversion to unneccessarily abort when malformed hyperlinks are present in the input document."
tickets: [759313]
- title: "Make true and false searches work correctly for numeric fields."
- title: "MOBI Output: The Ignore margins setting no longer ignores blockquotes, only margins set via CSS on other elements."
tickets: [758675]
- title: "Fix regression that caused clicking auto send to also change the email address in Preferences->Email"
improved recipes:
- Wall Street Journal
- Weblogs SL
- Tabu.ro
- Vecernje Novosti
new recipes:
- title: Hallo Assen and Dvhn
author: Reijendert
- version: 0.7.54
date: 2011-04-08
new features:
- title: "New output format, HTMLZ which is a single HTML file with its associated images/stylesheets in a zipped up file"
description: "Useful when you want to convert your ebook into a single HTML file for easy editing. Note that this output plugin is still new and needs testing"
- title: "When dealing with ZIP/RAR archives, use the file header rather than the file extension to detrmine the file type, when possible. This fixes the common case of CBZ files being actually cbr files and vice versa"
- title: "Support for the Motorola Atrix"
- title: "Allow the icons in the toolbar to be turned off completely via Preferences->Look & Feel"
- title: "When downloading metadata use the gzip transfer encoding when possible for a speedup."
tickets: [749304]
bug fixes:
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Workaround for bug in lxml that causes a massive mem leak on windows and OS X when the input document contains non ASCII CSS selectors."
tickets: [754555]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle inline <style> tags that put all the actual CSS inside an XML comment."
tickets: [750063]
- title: "The 'Choose Library' button now shows its popup menu when you already have more than one library instead of the dialog to create a new library"
tickets: [754154]
- title: "Apply all content server setting when clicking the Start Server button in Preferences->Sharing over the net"
tickets: [753122]
- title: "Fix content server breaking if its restriction is set to a saved search that was deleted"
tickets: [751950]
- title: "Fix detection of PocketBook with 2.0.6 firmware on windows"
tickets: [750336]
- title: "ODT Input: Fix handling of the <text:s> element."
tickets: [749655]
- title: "MOBI Output: Don't use self closed tags"
- title: "Fix book details popup becoming too tall if there is a lot of metadata"
- title: "Fix new PDF engine crashing on PDF files with embedded fonts with null names"
improved recipes:
- Kommersant
- Perfil
- Times of India
- IHT
- Guardian
new recipes:
- title: "Al Ahram"
authors: Hassan Williamson
- title: "F-Secure and developpez.com"
authors: louhike
- version: 0.7.53
date: 2011-04-01
new features:
- title: "Email delivery: You can now specify a subject that calibre will use when sending emails per email account, configured in Preferences->Sending by email. The subject is a template of the same kind used in Save to Disk, etc. So you can specift the title/authors/series/whatever in the template."
tickets: [743535]
- title: "Apple driver: When an iDevice is detected, inform the user about the Connect to iTunes method instead of trying to connect directly to the device, as the latter can be buggy. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=127883 for details"
- title: "SONY driver: Search for books on the device in all directories not just database/media/books. This can be turned off by customizing the SONY plugin in Preferences->Plugins"
- title: "EPUB Output: Remove any margins specified via an Adobe page template in the input document. This means that the margins specified in calibre are more likely to be the actual margins used."
- title: "When reading metadata from filenames, allow publisher and published date to be read from the filename"
tickets: [744020]
- title: "Remove the option to show a second tool bar from Preferences->Look & Feel. Instead go to Preferences->Toolbars and add items to the second toolbar to control exactly what is visible there."
tickets: [742686]
- title: "Add a tweak that can be used to have the calibre content server listen for IPv6 connections."
tickets: [743486]
- title: "When clicking Next or Previous in the edit metadata dialog, then active book in the main book list is also changed"
tickets: [743533]
- title: "Remember the previously used setting for Match all/Match any under the Tag Browser when calibre restarts"
tickets: [743645]
- title: "FB2 Output: Option to set the FB2 genre explicitly."
tickets: [743178]
- title: "Plugin developers: calibre now has a new plugin API, see http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/creating_plugins.html. Your existing plugins should continue to work, but it would be good to test them to make sure."
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix text color in the search bar set to black instead of the system font color"
tickets: [746846]
- title: "Workaround for Word bug where Word uses gb2312 as the encoding when exporting CHinese docs to HTML istead of gbk"
tickets: [745428]
- title: "Make sorting on the device view faster and more robust."
tickets: [742626]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix viewer losing place in very long single file documents when window resized."
tickets: [745001]
- title: "MOBI Output: Workaround for Amazon's MOBI renderer not rendering top margins on ul and ol tags."
tickets: [744365]
- title: "EPUB Input: Workaround for invalid EPUBs produced by someone named 'ibooks, Inc.'."
tickets: [744122]
- title: "RTF Input: Handle RTF files with too many levels of list nesting."
tickets: [743243]
improved recipes:
- Irish Times
- LifeHacker
- Estadao
- Folha de Sao Paulo
new recipes:
- title: Financieele Dagblad
author: marvin_2
- title: "Prost Amerika, WV Hooligan and SB Nation"
author: rylsfan
- title: "Cracked.com"
author: Nudgenudge
- version: 0.7.52
date: 2011-03-25
bug fixes:
- title: "Fixes a typo in 0.7.51 that broke the downloading of some news. Apologies."
tickets: [742840]
- version: 0.7.51
date: 2011-03-25
new features:
- title: "Conversion: Detect and remove fake page margins that are specified as a margin on (nearly) every paragraph."
description: "This can be turned off via an option under Structure Detection, in case it removes margins that should have been kept."
- title: "Windows build: All the python code and recipes are now put into zip files. This should decrease the amount of time the windows installer spends 'calculating free space'"
- title: "OSX and Linux: Add a setting in Preferences->Behavior to control the priority with which calibre worker processes run. This setting was already available on windows."
tickets: [741231]
- title: "Driver for HTC Thunderbolt, T-Mobile Optimus, Archos 43 and Blackberry OS6"
- title: "A new 'authors type' custom column"
- title: "When building calibre from source note that calibre now absolutely requires python >= 2.7"
- title: "Add the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+R to restart calibre in debug mode"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix dragging and dropping lots of books from the book list to the Tag Browser was broken"
- title: "Change the shebang in the calibre launcher script on linux to explicitly use python2 rather than python"
- title: "When adding formats do not corrupt the added file if the user tries to add an existing format to itself"
- title: "Fix drag and drop to add files that contain the # character in the filename"
- title: "Tag editor shouldn't add empty tags"
tickets: [740890]
- title: "MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that have a too large 'number of records' field in their headers."
tickets: [740713]
- title: "News download: Update RSS feedparser module to latest version"
- title: "Various fixes to the zipfile module in calibre to handle 64 bit zipfiles and bring it up to date with the zip file module in the python stdlib"
- title: "News download: Handle titles with ASCII control codes in them."
tickets: [739322]
- title: "Make search hierarchies show simple names instead of compound ones."
- title: "Fix commas in author names being converted to pipe symbols in the book details window"
- title: "Fix PocketBook can't always find epub cover image to create thumbnail"
tickets: [9445]
improved recipes:
- "168 ora"
- "LWN weekly"
- Christian Science Monitor
- Washington Post
- West Hawaii Today
new recipes:
- title: "Planet KDE"
author: Riccardo Iaconelli
- title: "HVG"
author: Istvan Papp
- title: "Caijing Magazine"
auhtor: Eric Chen
- version: 0.7.50
date: 2011-03-18
new features:
- title: "Add 'Read a random book' to the view menu"
- title: "Add option to show composite columns in the tag browser."
- title: "Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to control where news that is automatically uploaded to a reader is sent."
tickets: [9427]
- title: "Do not also show text in composite columns when showing an icon"
- title: "Add a menu item to clear the last viewed books history in the ebook viewer"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for the 'Closed' collection"
- title: "Add rename/delete saved search options to Tag browser context menu"
- title: "Make searches in the tag browser a possible hierarchical field"
- title: "Allow using empty username and password when setting up an SMTP relay"
tickets: [9195]
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.49 that broke deleting of news downloads older than x days."
tickets: [9417]
- title: "Restore the ability to remove missing formats from metadata.db to the Check Library operation"
tickets: [9377]
- title: "EPUB metadata: Read ISBN from Penguin epubs that dont correctly specify it"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle the case where the ncx file is incorrectly given an HTML mimetype"
- title: "Make numpad navigation keys work in viewer"
tickets: [9428]
- title: "Fix ratings not being downloaded from Amazon"
- title: "Content server: Add workaround for Internet Explorer not supporting the ' entity."
tickets: [9413]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: When detecting chapters/toc links from HTML normalize spaces and increase maximum TOC title length to 1000 characters from 100 characters."
tickets: [9363]
- title: "Fix regression that broke Search and Replace on custom fields"
tickets: [9397]
- title: "Fix regression that caused currently selected row to be unfocussed int he device view when updataing metadata"
tickets: [9395]
- title: "Coversion S&R: Do not strip leading and trailing whitespace from the search and replace expressions in the GUI"
improved recipes:
- Sports Illustrated
- Draw and Cook
new recipes:
- title: "Evangelizo.org and pro-linux.de"
author: Bobus
- title: "Office Space and Modoros"
author: Zsolt Botykai
- version: 0.7.49
date: 2011-03-11
new features:
- title: "News download: More flexible news downlaod scheduling. You can now schedule by days of the week, days of the month and an interval, which can be as small as an hour for news sources that change rapidly"
- title: "Improved support for dragging and dropping cover images directly from web browsers into calibre."
description: >
"You can drop the images onto the cover in calibre and it will be replaced. Tested on a number of OS/browser combinations, but I am sure there a still a few for which it wont work."
- title: "Add shortcuts of Alt+Left and Alt+Right for the next and previous buttons in the edit metadata dialog."
tickets: [9360]
- title: "When adding a GUI plugin, prompt the user for where the plugin should be displayed"
- title: "Conversion: When using the Level x Table of Contents options, support the case when the level 1,2,3 items are spread over multiple HTML files."
- title: "Support for the Optimus V"
- title: "FB2 Input: Support for tables"
tickets: [9302]
- title: "Display a checkmark/cross next to 'true' and 'false' items in custom columns. Controlled via Preferences->Add a custom column"
- title: "Catalog generation: Reuse cover from existing catalog, allows the use of a custom cover for catalogs"
- title: "When setting covers in calibre, resize to fit within a maximum size of (1200, 1600), to prevent slowdowns due to extra large covers. This size can be controlled via Preferences->Tweaks."
tickets: [9277]
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix long standing bug that caused errors when saving books to disk if the book metadata has certain chinese/russian characters on windows. The fix required some changes to how unicode paths are handled in calibre, so it might have broken something else. If so, please open a ticket."
tickets: [7250]
- title: "Custom recipes: Store custom recipes in the calibre config directory instead of the library database. This allows scheduling of custom recipes to work with multiple libraries. Note that you may have to re-schedule any existing custom recipes."
- title: "Restore the ability to do search and replace on ISBN. Use the 'identifiers' field with type isbn to do this"
- title: "Fix amazon metadata download plugin not working with ISBN-13 and social metadata not downloading if the supplied ISBN 10 is not for an edition available on Amazon"
- title: "Workaround for openlibrary blocking the user agent used by calibre, preventing cover downloads from that site"
- title: "FB2 Output: Add sequence to metadata. Fix bugs with author names. Fix bug where <empty-line/> elements were put inside <p> tags."
- title: "Conversion pipeline: If the input HTML document uses uppercase tag and attribute names, convert them to lowercase"
- title: "RTF Input: Fix space after unicode quote character being incorrectly removed"
tickets: [9343]
- title: "Fix regression that broke the ebook-device command line program in the previous release"
- title: "Fix custom columns with numbers not allowing entry of positive numbers of 64-bit machines"
tickets: [9283]
- title: "Fix regression that caused focus to be lost when editing metadata in the device view"
tickets: [9323]
- title: "CHM Input: If an input encoding is specified, use it rather than trying to detect the encoding of the text in the CHM file."
tickets: [9173]
- title: "Fix regression that caused the viewer to forget its window size and other attributes when launched from within calibre, after calibre is restarted."
tickets: [9326]
- title: "News download: Fix regression that caused the delay parameter in recipes to not actually delay downloads."
tickets: [9332]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: When converting the :first-letter pseudo CSS selector to a <span> follow W3C rules for handling leading punctuation characters."
tickets: [9319]
- title: "Fix regression that caused clicking saved searches in the Tag Browser to not work"
- title: "Comic Input: Fix conversion failing when output profile is set to Tablet Output"
- title: "Replace leading periods in all path components generated by calibre with underscores"
- title: "Search and replace preferences: Prevent very long strings from causing the wizard button to get pushed off the screen"
- title: "Content server: Fix regression that caused various metadata to be missing in the book details view."
ticckets: [8929]
- title: "Apple driver: Ignore invalid EPUBs when sending to iTunes"
improved recipes:
- golem.de
- gulli.de
- La Nacion
- Ming Pao
- evz.ro
- Kompiuterra
- NRC Handelsblad (EPUB)
- The Leduc - Wetaskiwin Pipestone Flyer
new recipes:
- title: "Various Romanian news sources"
author: Silviu Cotoara
- title: "Salt Lake City Tribune"
author: Charles Holbert
- title: "Bay Citizen and Oakland North"
author: noah
- title: "Nikkei Business and JB Press"
author: Ado Nishimura
- title: "El Pais Babelia"
author: oneillpt
- title: "Komchadluek"
author: ballsai
- version: 0.7.48
date: 2011-03-04
new features:
- title: "Changes to the internal database structure used by calibre"
description: >
"These changes will allow calibre, in the future, to support book language, arbitrary book identifiers and keep track of when the metadata for a book was last modified. WARNING: Because of these changes, if you downgrade calibre versions after upgrading to 0.7.48, you will lose any changes you make to the ISBN of book entries in your calibre database, so do not downgrade unless you really have to. Also note that the first time you start calibre after this update, the startup will be slow as the database structure is being changed."
- title: "Launch of a new website that catalogues DRM free ebooks. http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com"
description: "A growing catalogue of DRM free ebooks. Ebooks that you actually own after paying, instead of just renting."
type: major
- title: "News download: Add an option to keep at most x issues of a particular periodical in the calibre library. Use the Advanced tab in the Fetch news dialog for your news source to set this option."
tickets: [9168]
- title: "You can now right click on the cover in the book details panel to copy/paste a new cover."
tickets: [9255]
- title: "Add an entry to the add books drop down menu to easily add formats to an existing book record"
- title: "Tag browser: Clicking on a nested category now searches for the category alone. Clicking twice searches for the category and all its descendants and so on."
tickets: [9166, 9169]
- title: "Add a button to the Manage authors dialog to copy author sort values to author"
- title: "Decrease startup times on large libraries by using a faster algorithm to parse stored dates"
- title: "Add quick create links to easily create custom columns of commonly used types to the add custom column dialog"
- title: "Allow drag drop of images to change cover in book details window."
tickets: [9226]
- title: "Device susbsytem: Create a drive info file named driveinfo.calibre in the root of each device drive for USB connected devices. This file contains various useful data. API Change: The open method of the device plugins now accepts an extra parameter library_uuid which is the id of the calibre library connected tot eh device"
bug fixes:
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix regression in 0.7.46 that caused loss of some CSS information when converting HTML produced by Microsoft Word. Also remove empty tags from microsoft namespaces when parsing HTML"
- title: "Try harder to ensure that the worker log temporary files are deleted in windows"
- title: "CHM Input: Handle CHM files that dont specify a topics file."
tickets: [9253]
- title: "Fix regression that caused memory leak in Tag Browser. This would show up as the memory usage of calibre increasing when switching libraries."
tickets: [9246]
- title: "Fix bug that caused preferences->behavior to not show the output format set by the welcome wizard, and instead default to showing EPUB"
- title: "Fix bug that caused wrong books to be deleted from library if you choose 'delete from library and device' while the library is sorted by the On device column"
- title: "MOBI Input: Ignore all ASCII control codes except CR, NL and Tab."
tickets: [9219]
improved recipes:
- Credit Slips
- Seattle Times
- MacWorld
- Austin Statesman
- EPL Talk
- Gawker
- Deadspin
new recipes:
- title: "Thai Post Today and Daily Post"
author: "Chotechai P."
- title: "RBC.ru"
author: Chewi
- title: Helsingin Sanomat
author: oneillpt
- title: "LWN Weekly"
author: David Cavalca
- title: "New York Times Sports and Technology Blogs"
author: rylsfan
- title: "Historia and Buctaras"
author: Silviu Cotoara
- title: "Buffalo News"
author: ChappyOnIce
- title: "Dotpod"
author: Federico Escalada
- version: 0.7.47
date: 2011-02-25
new features:
- title: "Tag Browser: Support the creation of nested User Categories"
description: "See http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/gui.html#tag-browser for details"
type: major
- title: "Disable Kent District Library plugin to download series information. The website could not handle the load calibre's 2 million users put on it. You can manually re-enable it if you really want series information, but it is very slow"
- title: "Drivers for the Wexler T7001, Archos 7, Wink and Xperia X10"
- title: "Comic Input: Add option to not add links to individual pages to the Table of Contents when converting CBC files"
- title: "EPUB Output: Try to ensure that the cover image always has an id='cover' to workaround Nook cover reading bug."
tickets: [8182]
- title: "ODT input: Update odfpy library to latest version, adds support for bookmarks"
- title: "EPUB Output: Remove unnecessary CSS page breaks as they confuse the latest release of iBooks"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.46 that broke creating date and composite custom columns"
- title: "Linux binary build: Fix ImageMagick trying to load system modules instead of bundled modules"
- title: "Kobo driver: Handle missing firmware version file"
- title: "ODT Input: Do not force the background color to white."
tickets: [9118]
- title: "MOBI Input: Do not speciy text-align for every paragraph. Fixes text-align inheritance issues for newer MOBIs with nested divs."
tickets: [9098]
- title: "EPUB Output: Do not set the file-as attribute on title elements in the OPF as the current OPF spec does not support file-as. Instead use a calibre extension to OPF."
tickets: [9109]
- title: "Content server: Fix regression that broke browsing User Categories via OPDS"
tickets: [9090]
- title: "Update the book details panel after adding books incase automerge is turned on and the current book is affected"
tickets: [9073]
- title: "FB2 Output: Fix paragraph spacing sometime incorrect."
tickets: [8927]
- title: "Tag Browser: Fix generation of search query for authors with quote characters in their names"
tickets: [9071]
- title: "Fix bug that could cause download of cover/social metadata from Amazon to sometimes fail"
- title: "LRF Input: Workaround for broken LRF files from BookDesigner that have incomplete TextStyle elements"
improved recipes:
- Le Monde
- Gizmodo
- Lifehacker
- ESPN
- Adevarul
- gsp.ro
- Ming Pao
new recipes:
- title: "Flickr Blog"
author: Ricardo Jurado
- title: "Various Romanian news sources"
author: Silviu Cotoara
- title: "Osnews.pl and SwiatCzytnikow"
author: Tomasz Dlugosz
- title: "Roger Ebert Journal"
author: Shane Erstad
- version: 0.7.46
date: 2011-02-18
new features:
- title: "Replace LibraryThing cover download plugin with a new plugin to download covers from Amazon"
- title: "Kindle driver: Add an option to turn off sending page number information. Also add an option to use a more accurate but slower algorithm to calculate page numbers."
- title: "E-book viewer: Maintain a list of recently opened books (to see the list click the arrow next to the open button"
tickets: [8921]
- title: "Improve performance of device connection with huge libraries."
- title: "Add a button ot the search preferences to clear search history."
tickets: [8953]
- title: "Device driver customization: Allow user to tell calibre to send any ebook format to the device rather than just the list of formats that calibre thinks the device will support"
- title: "Metadata search and replace: Allow case changes and also fix search and replace when the destination field is a tags like field"
tickets: [9027]
- title: "FB2 Input: Add support for super and sub-scripts"
tickets: [9018]
- title: "When converting non english texts to english for filenames, use the users currect calibre interface language. This allows Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese characters to be correctly converted. Previously they were assumed to be Chinese."
tickets: [7622]
- title: "Content server: Make the authors/series/tags/publisher/etc. in the book details box clickable so that similar books can be found easily."
tickets: [8929]
- title: "Dragging from book list: Only start drag if user clicks on an already selected item. Makes multi-selecting with the mouse easier"
- title: "Move the grouped search terms option from tweaks to the Search Customization prefrences. Also allow grouped search terms to be displayed in the Tag browser"
- title: "When adding .txt files, if they reference images, autoconvert them to a txtz file containing all referenced images. This is simliar to the way HTML files are converted to ZIP"
- title: "MOBI Output: Partially support CSS vertical-align length values, converting them to <sup> or <sub> tags. Also support vertical-align for images"
- title: "TXT Input: New paragraph-type option (off) to disable modifying the paragraph structure."
- title: "Device driver for the Kendo/Yifang M7 and the Wolder Mibuk Life"
- title: "For people building calibre from source, note that calibre now requires SIP >= 4.12 to build"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix main memory and storage card for Cybook Orizon being swapped with some firmwares"
tickets: [8916]
- title: "Fix regression that broke deleting items from the Manage X dialogs."
tickets: [8925]
- title: "Disable driver for Huawei android tablet/phones as Huawei for some reason seems to think that using the same USB ids for devices and USB sticks is a good idea. This would cause calibre to try to connect to the USB stick as a device continuously"
- title: "MOBI Output: Normalize unicode strings when writing metadata to MOBI files as the Kindle cannot handle non-normalized unicode."
tickets: [8229]
- title: "Fix regression that broke completion of tags with special characters"
tickets: [9028]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Discard invalid CSS generated by Microsoft products before parsing. Should improve performance when converting HTML from Word in particular."
- title: "Fix completion popups in the edit metadata dialog partially obscuring text in windows 7"
tickets: [9021]
- title: "Allow the left panel of the tweaksdialog to be resized"
tickets: [9012]
- title: "Fix reported number of books in library sometimes incorrect when using restrictions"
tickets: [9011]
- title: "PML Output: Don't write Cn tags when we are within a heading. Put images in DropBook required image subfolder. Remove Cn tags written inside of x and Xn tags."
- title: "Kobo driver: Handle Kobo databases that contain corrupted strings that cannot be decoded from UTF-8"
- title: "Adding from ISBN: Show a progress dialog for record creation as well as metadata download."
tickets: [9005]
- title: "PDB Input: Fix some TOCs not being detected"
tickets: [9009]
- title: "Heuristics: Fix italicize patterns sometime breaking HTML tags."
tickets: [8986]
- title: "When trying to detect the encoding of html, do not use more than the first 50KB so that detection is not too slow"
- title: "Fix regresion that caused calibre to loose track of whether the content server is running if the content server is started from the preferences"
- title: "Smarten punctuation: Handle non breaking spaces used as indents when converting opening quotes"
- title: "Catalog generation: Do not abort on author sort mismatches when generating an EPUB catalog"
- title: "When editing emtadata by clicking on the book list, remove leading and trailing whitespace"
tickets: [8993]
- title: "Fix typo that removed the date format tweaks from the new style tweaks interface"
- title: "TXTZ Input: Fix images being lost"
- title: "TXT Input: Rename none formatting-type to plain to correspond to the output option."
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Correctly handle align attribute on img tags."
- title: "Fix regression that caused completion in authors/series/tags fields on OS X to return extra text."
tickets: [8963]
- title: "Heuristics processing: Fix bug in italicize regeps that could cuase a scenebreak consisting of multiple underscores to be prefixed by the word None."
tickets: [8960]
improved recipes:
- NRC Handelsblad
- De Standaard
- Sydney morning Herald
- Lifehacker
new recipes:
- title: "Big Hollywood"
author: Darko Miletic
- title: "Detroit News"
author: DTM
- title: "Media Indonesia"
author: bakthariq
- title: "Credit Slips, EPL, Fan Graphs and The Oregonian"
author: zotzo
- title: "Various Romanian news sources"
author: Silviu Cotoara
- title: "Workers World"
author: usrlnx
- title: "Apple Daily"
author: MrLai
- version: 0.7.45
date: 2011-02-11
new features:
- title: "Add plugin to download series information from the Kent District Library"
- title: "Kindle driver: When uploading MOBI files to the device, upload page number information as well (used by the not yet released Kindle 3.1 firmware)"
- title: "When automatically sending news to device, send to main memory preferentially, if it has enough space."
tickets: [8877]
- title: "Allow customization of which metadata fields are searched by default (click the preferences icon next to the search box)"
- title: "New format TXTZ: which is a zip file containing the TXT file and associated images + metadata. calibre can convert to and from this format and read/write metadata to it."
- title: "New option to control how automerge handles duplicate formats when adding books to your calibre library. See Preferences->Adding books"
- title: "Driver for Nokia X6, Nexus S, WiBook, MyTouch 4G and Huawei Ideos S7"
- title: "Nicer interface for editing tweaks"
- title: "Add tweak to remove yellow lines from edges of book list"
- title: "Completion: Restore adding of comma at end after completion for tags type fields. Add a tweak to control if an & is added after completion for author type fields"
- title: "Turn search as you type off by default for searching the book list. You can turn it on by clicking the preferences button next to the search bar."
- title: "TXT Input: Add option to remove indents and fix bug where spaces were not retained properly."
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a regression in 0.7.44 that could cause setting authors to fail in windows when the author name is very long"
tickets: [8797]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix bug that could cause the bottom of chapters to get cut-off if the topmost element had a large top margin."
tickets: [8791]
- title: "Fix regression that caused a spurious error message after moving a library. Also ensure that the entries in the Copy to Library menu are updated after a library is moved/renamed/deleted."
tickets: [8905]
- title: "PML Input: New handling of t and T tags. T's that do not start the line are ignored. t's that start and end the line use a margin for the text block"
- title: "News download: Remove all invalid ASCII control characters from article descriptions as they cause XML parsing to fail"
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix bug that was discarding non breaking spaces at the start of a paragraph when they were followed immediately by a tag."
tickets: [4887]
- title: "LIT Input: Fix a regression in handling LIT files that contain txt rather than html data"
tickets: [8904]
- title: "Fix bug in search box in the plugins dialog"
tickets: [8882]
- title: "Fix renaming of categories via the Tag Browser"
tickets: [8807]
- title: "Content server: Do not send mobile version to iPad"
tickets: [8820]
- title: "Fix undefined publication date appearing in book jacket as 101"
tickets: [8799]
- title: "Heuristics: Fix issue with invalid markup from italicize patterns."
- title: "TXT Input: De-hyphenate textile and markdown inpu as well. Fix inline toc not showing all items."
- title: "RTF Input: More encoding token splitting fixes."
- title: "Fix regression that broke the convenience Email to xxx entry in the connect share menu."
tickets: [8775]
- title: "Fix editing of series type custom columns in the book list."
tickets: [8765]
improved recipes:
- El periodico de Aragon
- B92
- French Belgian news sources
new recipes:
- title: "ABC.es"
author: "Ricardo Jurado"
- title: "Korespondent and Kopalnia Wiedzy"
author: "Attis"
- title: "Radio Prague"
author: "Francois Pellicaan"
- title: "Europa Press"
author: "Luis Hernandez"
- title: "Interoperability Happens and njuz.net"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "Weblogs SL"
author: "desUBIKado"
- title: "Kompas and Jakarta Post"
author: "Adrian Gunawan"
- version: 0.7.44
date: 2011-02-04
new features:
- title: "Nook Color driver: Send downloaded news to the My Files/Magazines folder on the Nook Color. Also when getting the list of books on the device look at all folders in My Files, not just My Files/Books."
- title: "MOBI Output: Use the book uuid as the ASIN field and set cdetype to EBOK to allow Amazon furthest read tracking to work with calibre generated MOBI files."
tickets: [8721]
- title: "Comic input: Add an option to override the image size in the generated comic. Useful if you have a device whose screen size is not coverred by one of the available output profiles."
tickets: [7837]
- title: "Add a restore database option to the Library maintenance menu in the GUI"
- title: "TXT Output: Allow output in the textile markup language"
- title: "PML Output: Create multi-level Table of Contents"
- title: "Driver for the Archos 7O"
- title: "Search and Replace in the Bulk metadata dialog can now operate on the title_sort field as well"
tickets: [8732]
- title: "Allow changing the case of authors/tags/series etc. via the edit metadata dialog"
- title: "Connect/share menu: Re-organize to make it a little less easy to select email and delete instead of just email by mistake"
- title: "Heuristics: Improved Scene break detection and add option to control what scene breaks are replaced by."
- title: "SONY driver: Add option to not preserve aspect ratio of cover thumbnails."
- title: "BiBTeX catalog: Add on device column when available"
- title: "Add search to the plugin preferences dialog"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix a bug that could cause files to be lost when changing metadata on east asian windows installs if the title and/or author is very long."
tickets: [8620]
- title: "Tag browser: Fix searching with items in a user category not owrking if the main category is hidden"
tickets: [8741]
- title: "Make completion for author/series/tags/etc. fields less disruptive"
- title: "Fix regression that broke the content server when user categories/custom columns are present"
- title: "Catalog generation: Handle user supplied templates more robustly"
- title: "Move the Tags to apply to newly added books option into Preferences->Adding books"
tickets: [8730]
- title: "Workaround for bug in Qt on OS X that caused crashes when reading metedata from two or more EPUB files with HTML covers that used embedded fonts. Now the embedded fonts are ignored on OS X."
tickets: [8643]
- title: "Fix regression that broke the use of the group searched terms tweak"
tickets: [8739]
- title: "Fix template program regression triggered by recursively calling the processor"
- title: "Fix mimetype sent by content server for PDB files"
- title: "OPF: Write title_sort as a calibre custom metadata field rather than as a file-as attribute on the title. This conforms to the OPF spec"
tickets: [7883]
- title: "SONY driver: Fix thumbnails being sent to SD card are sent to the wrong location. Also use correct thumbnail size so that the SONY does not regenerate the thumbnail on disconnect"
- title: "Do not discard the result of a conversion if the user opens the edit metadata dialog while the conversion is running"
tickets: [8672]
- title: "CHM Input: When the chm file lacks a hhc, look for index.html instead"
tickets: [8688]
- title: "EPUB Input: Filter some invalid media types from the spine"
- title: "RTF Input: More encoding handlig fixes."
tickets: [8678]
- title: "Linux binary build: Restore functioning of CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM, which was accidentally removed a few versions ago"
- title: "RTF Output: Retain html headings as rtf headings when converting to rtf. Also fix output of italics."
tickets: [8641, 8640]
- title: "LIT Input: Fix regression that broke handling of LIT files that contain txt data instead of html"
- title: "MOBI Input: Handle more non printing ASCII codes"
tickets: [8646]
- title: "Handle empty cover files more gracefully"
tickets: [8656]
- title: "Catalog geenration: Fix error when Pocketbook is connected and trying to geenrate catalog"
tickets: [8651]
- title: "Heuristics: Italicize common cases, reduce false positives."
- title: "Fix regression that caused reporting of device connection errors to break"
improved recipes:
- MSN Japan
- The Onion
- La Tribuna de
- Wall Street Journal
- "20 Minutos"
- LA Times
- Endgadget Japan
- Ledevoir
- Vijesti
new recipes:
- title: "Cinco Dias and BBC Mundo"
author: Luis Hernandez
- title: "Explosm"
author: Andromeda Rabbit
- title: "Cinco Dias"
author: Luis Hernandez
- version: 0.7.43
date: 2011-01-28
new features:
- title: "Ask for confirmation when stopping running jobs"
tickets: [3101]
- title: "Combine the database integrity check and library check into a single menu item. Also nicer implementation of the db integrity check."
- title: "BiBTeX Catalog: Add option to include file paths in the catalog."
tickets: [8589]
- title: "Create 'generic' output profiles and generic devices in the welcome wizard"
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Custom column widgets all have an apply checkbox next to them."
- title: "Only use LibraryThing to download metadata if the user provides a library thing username and password. Since LT doesn't like web scraping"
- title: "Allow renaming of user categories in the manage categories dialog. Also allow searching for books in a category from the Tag Browser by right clicking ona a category"
- title: "Folder device plugin: Add option to disable the use of sub folders"
- title: "Allow saving/loading of search and replace expressions in the bulk metadata edit dialog."
- title: "Remeber previously used regular expression in the add books preferences dialog"
- title: "Search and replace wizard: Cache the previously used input document."
- title: "Pressing Esc clears the current search in the main book list"
- title: "Preselct right formats when using send specific format to device"
tickets: [7834]
- title: "Regex wizard gets find next and previous match buttons"
tickets: [4486]
bug fixes:
- title: "Do not allow customization of user interface plugins until calibre is restarted"
tickets: [8621]
- title: "EPUB Output: When using preserve cover aspect ratio, use the actual image sizes in the SVG template as otherwise ADE doesn't fully preserve the aspect ratio"
- title: "Fix completion on a word with a trailing space causing the first letter to be duplicated in the edit metadata dialog"
- title: "PML Input: PML x and Xn tags don't indent properly in TOC. Also handle invalid T markup and retain soft scene breaks"
tickets: [6194, 8565]
- title: "TXT Input: Retain whitespace at the beginning of lines. Don't preserve spaces in heuristic processing. Detect and retain soft scene breaks."
- title: "Fix Adding empty book - cover browser doesn't update"
tickets: [8557]
- title: "When generating author sort string ignore trailing Inc."
tickets: [8539]
- title: "When converting HTML/ZIP files do not leave temporary files that are only deleted on application shutdown."
tickets: [8597]
- title: "Don't crash if the prefs stored in the db are corrupted"
- title: "Catalog generation: Do not use inline-block CSS as apparently Adobe Digital Editions cannot handle it."
tickets: [8566]
- title: "Fix extra spaces being inserted into TOC title when reading TOC from OPF guide element."
tickets: [8569]
- title: "Remember window size for bulk metadata edit and catalog generation dialogs"
tickets: [8525]
- title: "Heuristics, italicize common cases: Enhance pattern matching to match punctuation after pattern."
- title: "Fix regression in converting HTML files that have ASCII-encoded non unicode characters inside their <style> tags. Apparently Word generates these."
tickets: [8494]
improved recipes:
- Calgary Herald
- The Economist
- New Yorker
- Heise
- HNA
- ZDNet
- NRC Handelsblad
new recipes:
- title: "SPIN Magazine"
author: Quistopher
- title: "Caps n Babes"
author: skyhawker
- title: "Leduc"
author: Brian Hahn
- title: "David Bravo's Blog, La Nueva Espana, 20 Minutos and La Tribuna de Talavera"
author: Luis Hernandez
- title: "Sinfest"
author: nadid
- title: "Various Czech news sources"
author: FunThomas
- title: "tportal.h"
author: Darko Miletic
- title: "Everett Herald"
author: "77jag5"
- title: "Roger Ebert"
author: Shane Erstad
- version: 0.7.42
date: 2011-01-21
new features:
- title: "Conversions: Replace the remove header/footer options with a more geenric search replace option, that allows you to not only remove but also replace text"
- title: "Conversion: The preprocess html option has now become a new 'Heuristic Processing' option which allows you to control exactly which heuristics are used"
- title: "Conversion: Various improvements to Heuristic Processing (used to be preprocess HTML)"
- title: "When adding empty books to calibre, optionally set the author to the author of the currently selected book"
tickets: [7702]
- title: "Device drivers for the Archos 101, SmatQ T7 and Acer Lumiread"
- title: "Catalog generation: Make By Authors optional"
- title: "Allow bulk editing of Date and Published columns."
- title: "Add a little button to clear date and published values to the edit metadata dialogs"
- title: "When adding books by ISBN, allow the specification of special tags that will be added to the new book entries"
tickets: [8436]
- title: "Completion on multiple authors"
tickets: [8405]
- title: "Add AZW to default list of internally viewed formats, a I am tired of getting tickets about it"
- title: "Nicer error message when catalog generation fails"
- title: "Add capitalize option to context menus in the edit metadata dialog"
bug fixes:
- title: "RTF Input: Fix regression in 0.7.40 that broke conversion of some old style RTF files"
- title: "Fix Tag editor forgets position"
tickets: [8271]
- title: "When converting books in the calibre GUI, override metadata from the input document, even when empty."
description: >
"So if you have removed all the tags and comments in the calibre GUI for the book in the calibre GUI, but the actual file that is being converted still has tags and comments, they are ignored. This affects only conversions in the calibre GUI, not from the command line via ebook-convert."
tickets: [8390]
- title: "Fix memory leak when switching libraries"
- title: "RTF Output: Fix incorrent spacing between letters."
tickets: [8422]
- title: "Catalog generation: Add composite columns to Merge Comments eligible types"
- title: "Add a confirmation when closing the add a custom news source dialog."
tickets: [8460]
- title: "Another workaround for LibraryThing UA sniffing that was preventing series metadata download, sigh."
tickets: [8477]
- title: "PD Novel driver: Put books on the SD card into the eBooks folder"
- title: "When shortening filepaths to conform to windows path length limitations, remove text from the middle of each component instead of the ends."
tickets: [8451]
- title: "Make completion in most places case insensitive"
tickets: [8441]
- title: "Fix regression that caused the N key to stop working when editing a Yes/no column"
tickets: [8417]
- title: "Email: Fix bug when connecting to SMTP relays that use MD5 auth"
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix bug that could cause a link pointing to the start of a section to go to a point later in the section is the section contained an empty id attribute"
- title: "When auto converting books and the device is unplugged, do not raise an error."
tickets: [8426]
- title: "Ebook-viewer: Display cover when viewing FB2 files"
- title: "MOBI Input: Special case handling of emptu div tags with a defined height used as paragraph separators."
tickets: [8391]
- title: "Fix sorting of author names into sub categories by first letter in the Tag Browser when the first letter has diacritics"
tickets: [8378]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.40 that caused commas in author names to become | when converting/saving to disk"
- title: "Fix view specific format on a book with no formats gives an error"
tickets: [8352]
improved recipes:
- Blic
- Las Vegas Review Journal
- La Vanguardia
- New York Times
- El Pais
- Seattle Times
- Ars Technica
- Dilbert
- Nature News
new recipes:
- title: "kath.net"
author: "Bobus"
- title: "iHNed"
author: "Karel Bilek"
- title: "Gulf News"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "South Africa Mail and Guardian"
author: "77ja65"
- version: 0.7.40
date: 2011-01-14
new features:
- title: "A new 'highlight matches' search mode"
description: >
"There is now a checkbox next to the search bar named 'Highlight'. If you check it, searching will highlight
all matched books instead of filtering the book list to all matched books."
- title: "RTF Input: Improved support for conversion of images. The bug where some images were shrunk should no longer happen"
- title: "Template language: Allow you to create your own formatting functions. Accessible via Preferences->Advanced->Template functions"
- title: "News download: Convert various HTML 5 tags into <div> to support readers that cannot handle HTML 5 tags"
- title: "RTF metadata: Add support for publisher and tags."
tickets: [6657]
- title: "BibTeX catalog: Add support for custom columns"
- title: "TXT Input: Support for textile markup"
- title: "Various minor tweaks to improve usability of Preferences->Plugins"
- title: "TXT Output: Convert <hr> to scene break marker."
- title: "Support for the Archos 70"
- title: "SONY Driver: Add an option to automatically refresh the covers on every connect. Accessible via: Preferences->Plugins->Device interface plugins"
- title: "Add access to the larger template editor from plugboards via context menu."
- title: "Speed improvement when connecting a large library to a device"
- title: "Speedup when searching on multiple words in a large library"
- title: "TXT Input: Add a heauristic formatting processor"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix bug that caused automatic news removal to remove any book that has a tag that contains the word 'news' instead of only books that have the tag News"
- title: "Refactor the downloading social metadata message box to allow canceling."
tickets: [8234]
- title: "Kobo drive does not deal with Null value in DateCreated column"
tickets: [8308]
- title: "MOBI Input: Fix regression that caused images placed inside svg tags to be discarded"
- title: "Fix selecting Tablet output profile would actually select the Samsung Galaxy S profile"
- title: "Catalog generation: Fix a condition that could cause TOCs to not be properly generated in MOBI format catalogs"
tickets: [8295]
- title: "Zip file reading: Be more tolerant when a zip file has a damaged file directory"
- title: "RTF Input: Various code cleanups. Go back to trying to handle unicode mappings without pre-processing. This will mean that some RTF files that used to convert, won't anymore. Please open tickets and attach them."
tickets: [8171]
- title: "ImageMagick: When identifying an image don't read the entire image"
- title: "FB2 Output: Add cover to FB2 metadata."
- title: "Fix inability to customize builting recipe when more than one recipe has the same name"
tickets: [8281]
- title: "RTF Input: Fix regression that broke the Preprocess HTML option"
- title: "Fix XSS vulnerability in content server."
tickets: [7980]
- title: "TXT Output: Clean up and produce consistant output. Spacing around headings. Headings are not indented when using the remove paragraph spacing option."
- title: "Catalog generation: Handle invalid covers gracefully"
- title: "Email settings: Before displaying the email test dialog warn the user that it will expose their email password"
- title: "PDB Output: Fix regression that caused some PDB files to not work with other software"
tickets: [8231]
improved recipes:
- Financial Times UK
- Globe and Mail
- Wired Daily
- MIT Technology Review
- MSNBC
- expansion.com
- New York Times
- Heraldo de Aragon
- Exiled online
new recipes:
- title: "Yakima Herald and Tri-City Herald"
author: "Laura Gjovaag"
- title: "Wichita Eagle"
author: "Jason Cameron"
- title: "Pressthink and Zero Hedge"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "tyzden"
author: "zemiak"
- title: "El Correo"
author: "desUBIKado"
- title: "Cicero"
author: "mad"
- title: "El Publico"
author: "Gerardo Diez"
- version: 0.7.38
date: 2011-01-07
new features:
- title: "Reduce startup time when using a composite custom column"
- title: "Template language: Add a list_item function for use with tags like columns. See User Manual for details"
- title: "TXT Input: Attempt to detect the input encoding when not specified. Auto detect paragraph structure and formatting markup."
- title: "Search & replace: Add ability to manipulate number and boolean columns."
- title: "Add type ahead completion to the advanced search dialog."
tickets: [8035]
- title: "Double click on plugin in Preferences dialog to customize"
tickets: [8175]
- title: "Allow customization of the SONY driver to send thumbnail to the device. Useful with newer SONY readers"
tickets: [8161]
- title: "Smarten punctuation: Convert double dashes to em dashes. Preprocessing: Various tweaks"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression causing the template formatter to intepret a missing format letter as ERROR instead of 's'."
- title: "Fix regression that broke conversion of PNG images in PDF files on OS X."
tickets: [8215]
- title: "Content server: Fix improper XML escaping of category titles in the OPDS feeds"
tickets: [8225]
- title: "When decoding XML if the XML starts with a UTF-8 BOM decode as UTF-8. Fixes parsing of FB2 files with UTF-8 BOMs"
- title: "E-book viewer: When scrolling to a bookmark and the content is wider than the window, do not scroll in the horizontal direction"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix next page skipping the bottom of chapters when the content is wider than the window."
tickets: [8153]
- title: " FB2 Output: Insert covers."
tickets: [8172]
- title: "Content server: When serving OPDS feeds handle html descriptions that have namespaced attributes."
tickets: [7938]
- title: "When downloading metadata from isbndb.com, download a maximum of 30 results rather than 1000"
- title: "Fix sorting of tags column"
- title: "Change search/replace to show commas instead of vertical bars as the separator for multiple authors"
- title: "Template language: Make all column names case insensitive"
- title: "Fix bug that prevent the Disabled option for Tag Browser partiotining from working in the Preferences dialog"
- title: "Fix bug when using tags like custom column in the template language"
- title: "Fix bug where composite custom columns using general_program_mode fields are not evaluated correctly when used in a template."
- title: "ImageMagick interface: Don't crash when asked to open empty image files"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add TXT,CBZ,CBR to supported formats list"
tickets: [8124]
- title: "Don't uneccessarily scroll the book list horizontally when re-selcting previously selected rows."
new recipes:
- title: "New London Day"
author: "Being"
- title: "Walla"
author: "marbs"
- title: "New Journal of Physics"
author: "Chema Cortes"
- title: "The Baltimore Sun"
author: "Josh Hall"
- title: "Arabian Business and Sunday Times (UK)"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "Deia"
author: "Gerardo Diez"
- title: "Smarter Planet"
author: "Jack Mason"
improved recipes:
- The Atlantic
- Danas
- Ledevoir
- version: 0.7.37
date: 2011-01-02
new features:
- title: "This realease is mostly a bug fix release to fix various things that got broken by all the changes in 0.7.36"
- title: "Tag browser: Move the configuration of the sub-category grouping from tweaks to the Preferences dialog"
- title: "Tag browser: Allow changing the sub-categorization scheme from the right click menu"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.36 that caused the Tag Browser to break if you have items in it with empty sort values"
- title: "Catalog generation: Fix various regressions introduced in 0.7.36 on windows"
description: >
"Database integrity check not working after catalog generation. Catalog generation failing with a file in use error. Spurious question marks appearing in the catalog"
- title: "Catalog generation: Work on a copy of the library database so as not to lock it"
- title: "Catalog generation: Handle merge of comments + custom field when custom filed is None"
- title: "Fix regression that broke sort_columns_at_startup tweak in 0.7.36"
- title: "Tag Browser: Fix the Manage X items in the right click menu, which broke in 0.7.36"
- title: "Tag Browser: Fix grouping by name for authors"
- title: "Nook color: Fix main memory and SD card swapped in calibre"
tickets: [8159]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.36 that broke PDF Output when specifying a cover"
- title: "Catalog generation: Fix regression in MOBI catalog that caused it to not appear as periodical on Kindle"
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.36 that broke opening the book details dialog by double clicking on the book details panel"
- version: 0.7.36
date: 2011-01-01
new features:
- title: "Tag browser: Add subcategories and search"
description: "When a category has many items, it will be automatically split up. Also add a search to quickly find an item in the Tag Browser. The sub categories can be controlled via preferences->Tweaks. Also add a button to collapse all categories"
type: major
- title: "Device drivers for the Google Nexus S, Motorola Backflip, Samsung Galaxy Tablet, PocketBook 603/903, EEEReader DR900 and the NextBook"
- title: "Tag editor dialog now remebers its last used size"
tickets: [8063]
- title: "OS X dmg: Add a symlink pointing to the Applications folder for easy installation"
tickets: [8052]
- title: "Catalog generation: CSV/XML catalogs now support custom fields. Also write UTF-8 BOM to CSV output file."
tickets: [8014]
- title: "EPUB/MOBI catalogs: Various new features"
description: "Added a custom field/value for excluding books, OR'd with existing tag list. Added a thumbnail width hint, from 1.0 - 2.0 inches. Deprecated support for special note tag '*', added support for custom column containing note to be inserted in Description header. Added 'Merge with comments' feature, which non-destructively combines Comments with a custom field when generating Descriptions. Moved Description header into a user-editable template file. All fields except thumb and comments accessible to template."
tickets: [7820, 5297, 6765]
- title: "SONY driver: Allow the creation of an All by Something category via the tweaks."
- title: "Add a tweak to control the delay when sending mails using gmail or hotmail."
tickets: [8064]
- title: "Add output encoding option for TXT/PDB/PMLX output plugins to the GUI"
- title: "Add an environment variable to control the temporary directory calibre uses"
- title: "Use the new HTML editor widget for comments custom columns as well"
- title: "Content server: Fix regression that broke saved searches"
tickets: [8047]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix regression that broke previous page button"
- title: "Add a tweak to allow double clicking on the book list to open the edit metadata dialog"
tickets: [8032]
- title: "Add a tweak to use a template for formatting SONY collection names"
tickets: [8033]
- title: "Bulk edit metadata, search and replace: Show all values for multiple fields in the text region, separated by :::"
tickets: [8030]
- title: "Update user agent used by calibre when connecting to websites"
bug fixes:
- title: "FB2 Output: Fix regression that broke images in generated FB2 files"
tickets: [8142]
- title: "When unzipping zip files that contain filenames with unknown character encoding, sanitize the filenames correctly"
tickets: [8050]
- title: "TCR Output: Fix TCR compression adding junk to the end of the text. Remove compression level option."
- title: "PDF Output: Fix regression that broke the margin options."
- title: "FB2 Input: Handle non UTF-8 encodings on OS X"
tickets: [8115]
- title: "SNB Input: Better error handling if some metadata is missing in the SNB file. Add Wi-Fi connection support for the Bambook"
- title: "Allow hyperlinks to be clicked in comments metadata in the book details panel"
tickets: [8054]
improved recipes:
- Brand Eins
- Volksrant
- Smithsonian
- Business World
- El Universal
- Salon
- The Week
- EL Pais
- Wired Magazine
- Heraldo de Aragon
new recipes:
- title: "Karlsruhe News"
author: "tfeld"
- title: "El Periodico and Red Aragon"
author: "desUBIKado"
- title: "Business Insider"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- version: 0.7.35
date: 2010-12-23
new features:
- title: "Add a simple to use Rich text editor for comments to the edit metadata dialog."
description: >
"You can now easily add formatting like bold/italic/lists/headings/colors/etc. to book comments via the
edit metadata dialog"
type: major
- title: "E-book viewer: Add a right click menu item 'Inspect' that allows you to inspect the underlying HTML/CSS source of the currently displayed content"
type: major
- title: "When deleting books from the library if a device is connected and the books are also present on the device ask the user if the books should be deleted from the device, the library, or both."
- title: "Add device drivers for Trekstore eBook Player 7, Sanda Bambook, ALuratek Color, Samsung Galaxy, LG Optimus, Motorola Droid 2 and Sunstech EB700"
tickets: [8021, 7966, 7973, 7956]
- title: "Add an entry to the menu of the calibre library button to select a random book from your calibre library"
tickets: [8010]
- title: "SONY driver: Add a couple of special extra collections for all books by author and all books by title, to workaround the broken sorting on newer SONY models. To enable these collections, go to Preferences->Plugins->Device Interface plugins and customize the SONY plugin."
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: When downloading metadata, make the table of matching books sortable"
tickets: [7951]
- title: "Add a success message after a database integrity check completes successfully"
- title: "Search and replace: When using regular expression mode, add a special input field '{template}' that allows use the templating language to create complex input fields. Also allow setting of series_index by search and replace using the same syntax as in the book list, namely, Series Name [series number]"
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Add option to automatically set cover from the cover present in the actual ebook files"
tickets: [7947]
- title: "E-book viewer: Show format of current book in the title bar."
tickets: [7974]
- title: "Add a tweak to control how author names are displayed in the Tag Browser and Content Server"
- title: "FB2 Output: Restore sectionizing functionality"
bug fixes:
- title: "When in narrow layout, reserve 40% of available width in the book details panel for series/formats/etc and use the rest for comments"
tickets: [8028]
- title: "PDB Input: Fix failure to block-indent PML \t sections"
tickets: [8019]
- title: "Tag browser: When renaming items dont reset the library view and try not to scroll the Tag Browser itself"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix broken link rewriting for inline CSS embedded in HTML"
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.34 that broke recipes using extra_css to link to SONY device fonts"
tickets: [7995]
- title: "SONY driver: Don't upload thumbnails as they slow down post disconnect processing on older models"
- title: "Content server: Fix a bug that allowed remote users to read arbitrary png/gif/js/css/html files"
tickets: [7980]
- title: "On X11 initialize fontconfig in the GUI thread as Qt also uses fontconfig internally and fontconfig is not thread safe. Fixes a few random crashes on calibre strartup"
- title: "When using the remove specific format actions, only show available formats in the selected books"
tickets: [7967]
- title: "Linux binary build: If setting system default locale fails, try setting locale to en_US.UTF-8 instead"
- title: "Have the title sort tweak respected everywhere"
- title: "PocketBook 701 driver: Swap the main memory and card drives on windows"
- title: "Fix regression in templating that caused series_index to be shown even when book had no series"
tickets: [7949]
- title: "Content server: Fix regressiont hat broke browsing by rating"
- title: "Content server OPDS feeds: Fix parsing of author names as XML"
tickets: [7938]
improved recipes:
- Business Week Magazine
- Gazet van Antwerpen
- La Nacion
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Journal of Hospital Medicine
new recipes:
- title: "NRC Handelsblad (EPUB version)"
author: "veezh"
- title: "CND and wenxuecity - znjy"
author: "Derek Liang"
- title: "Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- version: 0.7.34
date: 2010-12-17
new features:
- title: "Page turn animations in the e-book viewer"
type: major
description: >
"Now when you use the Page Down/Page Up keys or the next/previous page buttons in the viewer, page turning will be animated. The duration of the animation can be controlled in the viewer preferences. Setting it to 0 disables the animation completely."
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Add an option to set the minimum line height of all elemnts as a percentage of the computed font size. By default, calibre now sets the line height to 120% of the computed font size."
- title: "Large speedup in startup times and post metadata edit wait for large libraries"
- title: "Allow changing the font used in the calibre interface via Preferences->Look and feel"
- title: "Allow editing of the title sort value for a book via the edit metadata dialog"
- title: "Disable the cover cache. This means that if you are running calibre on an underpowered machine, you might notice some slow down in the cover browser. On the other hand, calibre's memory consumption is reduced."
- title: "You can now restart calibre in debug mode by clicking the arrow next to the Preferences button. In debug mode, after you quit calibre, a diagnostic log will popup"
tickets: [7359]
- title: "When creating a new calibre library add an option to copy the custom column, saved searches, etc from the current library."
tickets: [7643]
- title: "Add more tweaks to control how the next available series number is calculated."
tickets: [7892]
- title: "Add a tweak to control layout of the custom metadata tab in the edit metadata dialog"
- title: "Apple driver: Set series number as track number on windows when sending books to iTunes"
- title: "Drivers for PocketBook 701 and Samsung E65"
- title: "E-book viewer: Add option to have the mouse wheel flip pages"
- title: "Add a load_resources method to the InterfaceAction and Plugin classes to facilitate loading of resources from plugin ZIP files"
- title: "E-book viewer: Add option to not remember position in book when quitting."
tickets: [7699]
- title: "When sorting the book list, keep the current book visible after the sort completes."
tickets: [7504]
- title: "EPUB Output: Add an option to flatten the EPUB file structure, specially for FBReaderJ."
tickets: [7788]
- title: "EPUB Output: Ensure all files inside the generated EPUB have unique filenames, to support broken EPUB readers like Stanza, Aldiko, FBReader and Sigil"
- title: "FB2 Output: Add support for some 2.1 style tags."
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Add options to delete cover/generate default cover."
tickets: [7885]
- title: "Fix a regression in 0.7.33 that broke updating covers in ebook files when saving to disk."
tickets: [7886]
- title: "Don't refresh the Tag browser if it is hidden. Speeds up metadata editing with large libraries, if you hide teh Tag Browser."
- title: "MOBI Output: Add option to ignore margins in input document"
tickets: [7877]
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for 1.8.x firmware"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix various memory leaks introduced in the last couple of releases"
- title: "EPUB metadata: When rendering first page as the cover, handle embedded svg correctly."
tickets: [7909]
- title: "Disable multiple library support when the CALIBRE_OVERRIDE_DATABASE_PATH env var is set"
- title: "Content server: Fix bug that could cause saved search based restrictions to not exclude all books"
tickets: [7876]
- title: "Topaz metadata: Read metadata correctly from Topaz files that have MOBI file extensions"
- title: "MOBI Input: Handle the (rare) MOBI files that do not specify per paragraph text indents correctly."
tickets: [7869]
- title: "MOBI metadata reader: Handle invalid PRC files with spurious image_offset headers"
- title: "Fix drag/drop of new cover to book detail panel does not update cover browser"
tickets: [7890]
- title: "Do not open the book details dialog when double click on the scrollbars in the book details panel"
tickets: [7826]
- title: "Templates: Fix {tags} not working when no tags are present"
tickets: [7888]
- title: "HTML metadata: Fix regression that broke parsing of some meta tags"
tickets: [7851]
- title: "Preferences: Add tooltips to buddy labels as well."
tickets: [7873]
- title: "Content server: Fix handling of root URL when using --url-prefix"
- title: "Ensure that the default encoding used by python is never ASCII (needed when running a non frozen version of calibre on linux)"
improved recipes:
- Astronomy Picture of the day
- New Scientist
- Radikal
- Times of India
- Economic Times
- Zeit Online
- Dilbert
new recipes:
- title: "Various Japanes news sources, National Geographic and paper.li"
author: "Hiroshi Miura"
- title: "Science based medicine"
author: "BuzzKill"
- title: "Kompiutierra"
author: "Vadim Dyadkin"
- version: 0.7.33
date: 2010-12-10
new features:
- title: "Language sensitive sorting"
type: major
description: >
"calibre now sorts using language specific rules. The language used is the language of the calibre interface, which can be changed via Preferences->Look & Feel. There is also
a tweak that allows you to use a different language from the one used for the calibre interface. Powered by the ICU library."
- title: "Add an action to merge only formats and leave metadata alone (Shift+Alt+M)"
tickets: [7709]
- title: "Add a tweak to control which custom columns are displayed in the Book details panel."
- title: "Implement a more sophisticated 'functional programming' template language. See the User Manual for details."
- title: "Speed up deleting of large numbers of books and show progress while doing so"
- title: "Adding books: Dont refresh the Tag Browser while adding multiple books. Should speed up the adding of large numbers of books."
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: When trying to download metadata, if there are multiple matches indicate which matches have a cover and summary in the list. Also add an option to automatically download the cover of the selected match."
- title: "Drivers for the HTC Legend and Samsung Epic"
- title: "FB2 Output: Convert SVG images in the input document to raster images"
- title: "News download: Localize the navigation bars in the downloaded news to the language the user has selected for their calibre interface"
bug fixes:
- title: "Various fixes to the Title Case function"
tickets: [7846]
- title: "Content server: Fix --url-prefix being ignored for links at the Top level"
- title: "News download: When generating periodicals for the SONY use the local timezone in the SONY specific metadata"
- title: "Fix bug in cover cache that could cause it to keep a large number of covers in memory. Showed up when adding large numbers of books to calibre."
tickets: [7813]
- title: "Adding books: Run in the main thread to prevent unfortunate interactions with the metadata backup. Also fix regression that broke the Abort button."
- title: "Fix a crash on OS X if OK is clicked inthe edit metadata button while downloading a cover"
tickets: [7716]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix a regression that prevented booksmarks from working with some EPUB files"
tickets: [7812]
- title: "Save to disk: Refactor to not open a database connection in the worker process. Also fix a bug that could lead to save failures not being reported."
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.32 that broke opening formats in the ebook viewer from the edit metadata dialog"
- title: "FB2 Output: Generate output 100% compliant with the FB2 spec"
- title: "Fix Saved search dropdown box looses selected search"
tickets: [7787]
- title: "TXT Output: Fix an issue where the br to space conversion was not being handled properly."
improved recipes:
- Le Monde
- Ming Pao
- New Yorker
new recipes:
- title: "ToyoKeizai News and Nikkei Social News"
author: "Hiroshi Miura"
- title: "St. Louis Post Dispatch"
author: "cisaak"
- title: "Heise Open and Technology Review"
author: "Anton Gillert"
- version: 0.7.32
date: 2010-12-03
new features:
- title: "All new linux binary build. With updated libraries and replacing cx_Freeze with my own C python launcher code."
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Add Next and Previous buttons and show cover size in tooltip"
tickets: [7706, 7711]
- title: "A new custom column type: Enumeration. This column can take one of a user defined set of values."
- title: "PML Output: Add option to reduce image sizes/bit depth to allow PML Output to be used with DropBook"
- title: "TXT Output: Add option to generate Markdown output. Turn <br> tags into spaces."
- title: "Add a count function to the template language. Make author_sort searchable."
- title: "Various consistency and usability enhancements to the search box."
tickets: [7726]
description: >
"Always select first book in result set of a search. Similar books searches added to search history. Search history order is no longer randomized. When focussing the search box with a keyboard shortcut, select all text. If you press enter in the search box, the search is executed and the book list os automatically focussed."
- title: "Driver for samsung fascinate and PocketBook 902"
- title: "FB2 Output: Add option to create FB2 sections based on internal file structure of input file (useful for EPUB files that have been split on chapter boundaries). Also add options to mark h1/h2/h3 tags as section titles in the FB2 file."
tickets: [7738]
- title: "Metadata jacket: Add publisher information to jacket."
- title: "Catalog generation: Allow use of custom columns as well as tags to indicate read books. Note that your previously saved read books setting will be lost."
- title: "Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an Apply button to allow you to perform multiple operations in sequence"
- title: "Allow drag and drop of books onto user categories. If you drag a book from a particular column (say authors) and drop it onto a user category, the column value will be added to the user category. So for authors, the authros will be added to the user category."
- title: "Check Library can now check and repair the has_cover cache"
- title: "Allow GUI plugins to be distributed in ZIP files. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108774"
- title: "Allow searching by the number of tags/authors/formats/etc. See User Manual for details."
- title: "Tiny speed up when loading large libraries and make various metadata editing tasks a little faster by reducing the number of times the Tag Browser is refreshed"
bug fixes:
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix broken backwards searching"
- title: "Fix custom ratings column values being displayed incorrectly in book details area"
tickets: [7740]
- title: "Fix book details dialog not using internal viewer to view ebooks"
tickets: [7424]
- title: "MOBI Output: When the input document does not explicitly specify a size for images, set the size to be the natural size of the image. This works around Amazon's *truly wonderful* MOBI renderer's tendency to expand images that do not have a width and height specified."
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix bug that caused height/width specified in %/em of screen size to be incorrectly calculated by a factor of 72./DPI"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Respect max-width and max-height when calculating the effective size of an element"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Do not override CSS for images with the value of the img width/height attributes, unless no CSS is specified for the image"
- title: "E-book viewer: Resize automatically to fit on smaller screens"
- title: "Use the same MIME database on all platforms that calibre runs on, works around python 2.7's crazy insistence on reading MIME data from the registry"
- title: "Kobo driver: Allow html, txt and rtf documents to be deleted"
- title: "Always overwrite title/author metadata when downloading metadata for books added by ISBN"
- title: "Nook Color profile: Reduce screen height to 900px"
- title: "Fix regression that broke RTF conversion on some linux systems"
- title: "Fix bug that could break searching after copying and deleting a book from the current library"
tickets: [7459]
improved recipes:
- NZZ
- Frankfurter Rundschau
- JiJi Press
- Revista Muy Intersante
new recipes:
- title: "Global Times"
author: "malfi"
- title: "The Philosopher's Magazine"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "Poughkeepsie Journal"
author: "weebl"
- title: "Business Spectator and ABC Australia"
author: "Dean Cording"
- title: "La Rijoa and NacionRed"
author: "Arturo Martinez Nieves"
- title: "Animal Politico"
author: "leamsi"
- version: 0.7.31
date: 2010-11-27
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix various regressions in the calibre windows build caused by the switch to python 2.7. If you are on windows and upgraded to 0.7.30, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to 0.7.31. If you are not on windows, you can ignore 0.7.31"
tickets: [7685, 7694, 7691]
- version: 0.7.30
date: 2010-11-26
new features:
- title: "Support for Acer Lumiread and PocketBook Pro 602"
- title: "When importing by ISBN also allow the specification of a file to be imported."
tickets: [7400]
- title: "E-mail sending: Email sends are now regular jobs that can be accessed from the jobs list. Also when sending using gmail/hotmail send at most one email every five minutes to avoid trigerring their spam controls. Failed sends are now retried one more time, automatically."
- title: "Content server: When a category contains only one item, go directly to the book list instead of forcing the user to click on that one item"
- title: "E-mail sending: Allow unencrypted connections to SMTP relay"
- title: "Improve startup times for large libraries by caching the has_cover check"
- title: "Update windows binary build to use python 2.7"
- title: "Metadata and cover download plugins from Nicebooks (disabled by default)"
bug fixes:
- title: "MOBI Input: Fix bug in cleanup regex that broke parsing of escaped XML declarations."
tickets: [7585]
- title: "Content server: Fix bug when user has custom categories/columns with non ascii names"
tickets: [7590]
- title: "RTF Output: Handle non breaking spaces correctly"
tickets: [7668]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: When rasterizing SVG images workaround incorrect handinlg of percentage height specifications in QSvgRenderer."
tickets: [7598]
- title: "News download: Update version of feedparser used to parse RSS feeds."
tickets: [7674]
- title: "Tag Browser: Allow user to restore hidden categories by a right click even is all categories have been hidden"
- title: "TXT/RTF Output: Handle XML processing instructions embedded in content correctly."
tickets: [7644]
- title: "MOBI Input: Workarounds for lack of nesting rules between block and inline tags"
tickets: [7618]
- title: "E-book viewer: Load all hyphenation patterns to support multi-lingual books"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix incorrect lang names being used in hyphenation"
- title: "Check to see that the result file from a conversion is not empty before adding it, protects against the case where the conversion process crashes and the GUI adds a zero byte file to the book record"
- title: "E-book viewer: More sophisticated algorithm to resize images to fit viewer window. Should preserve aspect ratio in more cases"
- title: "Remove unneccessary calls to set_path when creating book records. Speeds up record creation by about 30% on my system"
- title: "Speedup for bibtex catalog generation."
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix missing table in deleting books process for Kobo WiFi and Kobo-O 1.8 Beta"
- title: "RTF Input: Preserve scene breaks in the form of empty paragraphs. Preprocessing: Improvements to chapter detection"
- title: "Fix custom recipe not sorted by title"
tickets: [7486]
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix bug in managing the Im_Reading category on windows"
improved recipes:
- "El Pais - Uruguay"
- Argentinian La Nacion
- comics.com
- Mingpao
- Revista Muy Intersante
- Telepolis
- New York Times
new recipes:
- title: "Bangkok Biz News and Matichon"
author: "Anat Ruangrassamee"
- title: "The Workingham Times and Deutsche Welle"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "Biz Portal"
author: "marbs"
- title: "Various Japanese news sources"
author: "Hiroshi Miura"
- title: "Arcamax"
author: "Starson17"
- title: "Various Spanish news sources"
author: "Gustavo Azambuja"
- title: "TSN"
author: Nexus
- title: "Zeit Online Premium"
author: Steffen Siebert
- version: 0.7.29
date: 2010-11-19
new features:
- title: "OSX binary build is now based on Qt 4.7. Also, the build is now Intel only and requires at least OS X 10.5.2. If you are on a PowerPC machine or an older OS X version, do not upgrade"
- title: "Content server: Allow direct navigation to a set of books in the book list."
tickets: [7453]
- title: "OS X: When deleting books, put the files into the recycle bin instead of deleting them permanently"
- title: "Add button to easy configure Hotmail as email relay. Also improve usability of easy config buttons"
- title: "Kobo driver: Support Currently_Reading category"
- title: "Catalog generation: Thumbnail caching, wishlist, improved description layout."
tickets: [7376]
- title: "Support for the Cybook Orizon"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix restore to defaults in preferences incorrectly setting PDF unwrap factor to 0.0"
- title: "PDF Input: Fix unwrapping of accented characters"
- title: "Do not display dialogs asking for confirmation or showing conversion errors when calibre is minimized to system tray"
tickets: [7549]
- title: "calibre server: Fix regression that broke digest authentication when the calibre interface language was set to non English"
- title: "EPUB Output: Do not raise an error for invalid embedded fonts in the input document."
tickets: [7567]
- title: "RTF Input: Improved conversion of tables, with support for border styles on table cells"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix regression that broke hyphenation. Also add more language patterns for hyphenation"
- title: "SONY driver: Fix cover thumbnails being uploaded to wrong directory on windows"
- title: "Fix UnicodeDecodeError when displaying a failed metadata fetch message"
tickets: [7560]
- title: "Bulk metadata edit: Speed up remove all tags operation"
- title: "MOBI Output: Specify image sizes in pixels instead of em to accomodate Amazon's @#$%#@! MOBI renderer"
- title: "Fix bug preventing customizing of builtin recipes if they are not ascii encoded"
- title: "SONY XML cache: Handle case where XML db contains reference to a file that does not exist gracefully"
improved recipes:
- Al Jazeera
- The Moscow Times
- GLobe and Mail
- Washington Post
new recipes:
- title: "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung"
author: "Artemis"
- title: "globes.co.il"
author: "marbs"
- title: "THN and RDS"
author: "Nexus"
- title: "pclab.pl"
author: "ravcio"
- title: "Now Toronto"
author: "Starson17"
- title: "Press releases of the German government and EU Commission"
author: "malfi"
- version: 0.7.28
date: 2010-11-12
new features:
- title: "Update the version of the grahical toolkit (Qt 4.7.1) used in the calibre binary builds on windows and linux. This should result in a significant speed up for the calibre ebook viewer"
- title: "Driver for Nook Color, Eken M001"
- title: "Add a tweak to turn off double clicking to open viewer"
- title: "Catalog generation: Add indication when a book has no formats"
tickets: [7376]
- title: "Advanced search dialog: Add a tab to allow searching particular metadata fields easily"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: When using the Level x Table of Contents expressions, if a tag is empty but has a non-empty title attribute, use that instead of ignoring the tag"
bug fixes:
- title: "Comic metadata reader: Sort filenames aplhabetically when choosing an image for the cover"
tickets: [7488]
- title: "Bulk convert dialog: Hide useless restore defaults button."
tickets: [7471]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle input documents that encode null bytes as HTML entities correctly"
tickets: [7355]
- title: "Fix some SONY readers not being detected on windows"
tickets: [7413]
- title: "MOBI Input: Fix images missing when converting MOBI news downloads created with Mobipocket reader"
tickets: [7455]
- title: "ODT Input: Handle hyperlinks to headings that have truncated destination specifiers correctly"
tickets: [7506]
- title: "Sony driver: Ignore invalid strings when updating XML database"
- title: "Content Server: Add day to displayed date in /mobile book listing"
- title: "MOBI Input: Do not generate filenames with only extensions if the MOBI file has no internal name"
tickets: [7481]
- title: "MOBI Input: Handle files that has the record sizes set incorrectly to a long integer"
tickets: [7472]
- title: "Fix not enough vertical space for text in the preferences dialog category listing"
- title: "Remove 'sort' from Search and replace destination fields and add it to source fields. S&R is no longer marked experimental"
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Save dialog geometry on reject as well as on accept"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix clicking entries in TOC that point to the currently loaded flow not scrolling view to the top of the document"
- title: "Fix bug in regex used to extract charset from <meta> tags"
- title: "MOBI Output: Add support for the <q> tag"
improved recipes:
- Zeit Online
- Gamespot Review
- Ploitika
- Pagina12
- Irish Times
- elektrolese
new recipes:
- title: "Handelsblatt and European Voice"
author: "malfi"
- title: "Polityka and Newsweek"
author: "Mateusz Kielar"
- title: "MarcTV"
author: "Marc Toensings"
- title: "Rolling Stone"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "Vedomosti"
author: "Nikolai Kotchetkov"
- title: "Hola.com"
author: "bmsleight"
- title: "Dnevnik, Siol.net, MMC-RTV and Avto-magazon"
author: "BlonG"
- title: "SC Print Magazine"
author: "Tony Maro"
- title: "Diario Sport"
author: "Jefferson Frantz"
- version: 0.7.27
date: 2010-11-05
new features:
- title: "The book list behavior has changed"
type: major
description: >
"Now double clicking on an entry in the book list will open it in the viewer. To edit metadata single click a previously selected entry instead. This is consistent with
the usage in most operating systems, so should be most intuitive for new users. Also typing any key no longer starts an edit, instead press F2 (Enter on OS X) to start editing
the current cell. Also you now have to double click instead of single clicking the book details panel to open the detailed info dialog for the book."
- title: "Added a new HTML output format plugin, which converts the input document to a ZIP file. The zip file contains HTML pages suitable for display in a website"
- title: "Support for iRiver Cover Story and Digma Q600"
- title: "Add a search button (labelled Go!) to explicitly run a search with the text currently in the quick search box"
- title: "Add author to the calibre geenrated book jacket"
tickets: [7402]
- title: "Add the title of the destination book to the merge dialog warning message"
- title: "calibre-server: Make auto reload control separate from --devlop with a new command line option --auto-reload"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix book details panel not being updated after a delete-merge"
tickets: [7426]
- title: "Fix clicking in the search box launches a search if you have search as you type enabled"
tickets: [7425]
- title: "Use a browser widget to display book details for more robustness and better performance when vieweing large HTML comments"
- title: "Fix cover browser not updated after copy to library and delete"
tickets: [7416]
- title: "Fix regression that broke sending non calibre EPUB files to the iPad. Also handle failure to set cover in iTunes gracefully"
tickets: [7356]
- title: "News download: Workaround lack of thread safety in python mechanize, causing corrupted network packets (degrading network performance) on Ubuntu Maverick 64bit kernels"
tickets: [7321]
- title: "Convert comments to HTML for book details panel in separate thread to make scrolling through the book list faster when large comments are present"
- title: "calibre-server: Fix regression that broke --daemonize"
- title: "EPUB Input: Handle ncx files that have <navpoint> elements with no content correctly."
tickets: [7396]
- title: "SNBOutput: Fixed a bug in handling pre tag"
- title: "MOBI Output: Don't ignore hidden anchors."
tickets: [7384]
- title: "Fix switching libraries and generating a catalog could generate a catalog for the wrong library"
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix regression that broke conversion of anchors inside superscripts/subscripts."
tickets: [7368]
- title: "Content server: Fix various minor bugs"
tickets: [7379, 6768, 7354]
- title: "Amazon metadata download plugin: Make it more robust and add option to auto convert HTML to text"
- title: "Re-arrange send to device menu to make it harder to accidentally trigger the send and delete actions"
improved recipes:
- Danas
- Fudzilla
- Zeit Online
- New York Times
- Mediapart
new recipes:
- title: "Ynet and Calcalist"
author: "marbs"
- title: "El Faro de Vigo"
author: "Jefferson Frantz"
- title: "Clic_RBS"
author: "avoredo"
- title: "Correio da Manha"
author: "jmst"
- title: "Rue89"
author: "Louis Gesbert"
- version: 0.7.26
date: 2010-10-30
new features:
- title: "Check library: Allow wildcards in ignore names field"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.25 that broke reading metadata from filenames."
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.25 that caused original files to be mistakenly removed when adding books recursively"
- title: "Fix long series/publisher causing edit metadata in bulk dialog to become very large"
tickets: [7332]
- title: "Only add SONY periodical code to downloaded news if output profile is set to one of the SONY reader profiles. This is needed because the ever delightful Stanza crashes and burns when an EPUB has the periodical code"
improved recipes:
- El Periodico
- New Zealand Herald
new recipes:
- title: "Taggeschau.de"
author: "Florian Andreas Pfaff"
- title: "Gamespot Reviews"
author: "Marc Tonsing"
- version: 0.7.25
date: 2010-10-29
new features:
- title: "Add support for the SONY periodical format."
description: "This means that news downloaded by calibre and sent to a newer SONY device (350/650/900) should appear in the Periodicals section and have the special periodicals navigation user interface"
type: major
- title: "Content server: Make the new browsing interface the default. The old interface can be accessed at /old"
- title: "Content server: Allow running of content server as a WSGI application within another server. Add tutorial for this to the User Manual."
- title: "Support for the Pico Life reader, Kobo Wifi and HTC Aria"
- title: "Content server: Add a new --url-prefix command line option to ease the use of the server with a reverse proxy"
- title: "New social metadata plugin for Amazon that does not rely on AWS. Since Amazon broke AWS, it is recommended you upgrade to this version if you use metadata from Amazon"
- title: "Add a tweak to specify the fonts used when geenrating the default cover"
- title: "Add an output profile for generic Tablet devices"
tickets: [7289]
- title: "SONY driver: Allow sorting of collections by arbitrary field via a new tweak."
- title: "Content server: Make /mobile a little prettier"
- title: "Add button to 'Library Check' to automatically delete spurious files and folders"
bug fixes:
- title: "FB2 Input: Lots of love. Handle stylesheets and style attributes. Make parsinf malformed FB2 files more robust."
tickets: [7219, 7230]
- title: "Fix auto send of news to device with multiple calibre libraries. The fix means that if you have any pending news to be sent, it will be ignored after the update. Future news downloads will once again be automatically sent to the device."
- title: "MOBI Output: Conversion of super/sub scripts now handles nested tags."
tickets: [7264]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix parsing of XML encoding declarations."
tickets: [7328]
- title: "Pandigital (Kobo): Upload thumbnails to correct location"
tickets: [7165]
- title: "Fix auto emailed news with non asci characters in title not being deliverd to Kindle"
tickets: [7322]
- title: "Read metadata only after on import plugins have run when adding books to GUI"
tickets: [7245]
- title: "Various fixes for bugs caused by non ascii temporary paths on windows with non UTF-8 filesystem encodings"
tickets: [7288]
- title: "Various fixes/enhancements to SNB Output"
- title: "Allow Tag editor in edit metadata dialog to be used even if tags have been changed"
tickets: [7298]
- title: "Fix crash on some OS X machines when Preferences->Conversion->Output is clicked"
- title: "MOBI indexing: Fix last entry missing sometimes"
tickets: [6595]
- title: "Fix regression causing books to be deselected after sending to device"
tickets: [7271]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix rescaling of GIF images not working"
tickets: [7306]
- title: "Update PDF metadata/conversion libraries in windows build"
- title: "Fix timezone bug when searching on date fields"
tickets: [7300]
- title: "Fix regression that caused the viewr to crash if the main application is closed"
tickets: [7276]
- title: "Fix bug causing a spurious metadata.opf file to be written at the root of the calibre library when adding books"
- title: "Use the same title casing algorithm in all places"
- title: "Fix bulk edit of dual state boolean custom columns"
- title: "Increase image size for comics in Kindle DX profile for better conversion of comics to PDF"
- title: "Fix restore db to not dies when conflicting custom columns are encountered and report conflicting columns errors. Fix exceptions when referencing invalid _index fields."
- title: "Fix auto merge books not respecting article sort tweak"
tickets: [7147]
- title: "Linux device drivers: Fix udisks based ejecting for devices with multiple nodes"
- title: "Linux device mounting: Mount the drive with the lowest kernel name as main memory"
- title: "Fix use of numeric fields in templates"
- title: "EPUB Input: Handle EPUB files with multiple OPF files."
tickets: [7229]
- title: "Setting EPUB metadata: Fix date format. Fix language being overwritten by und when unspecified. Fix empty ISBN identifier being created"
- title: "Fix cannot delete a Series listing from List view also dismiss fetch metadata dialog when no metadata found automatically"
tickets: [7221, 7220]
- title: "Content server: Handle switch library in GUI gracefully"
- title: "calibre-server: Use cherrypy implementation of --pidfile and --daemonize"
new recipes:
- title: "Ming Pao"
author: "Eddie Lau"
- title: "lenta.ru"
author: "Nikolai Kotchetkov"
- title: "frazpc.pl"
author: "Tomasz Dlugosz"
- title: "Perfil and The Economic Collapse Blog"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "STNN"
author: "Larry Chan"
improved recipes:
- CubaDebate
- El Pais
- Fox News
- New Scientist
- The Economic Times of India
- version: 0.7.24
date: 2010-10-17
new features:
- title: "Content server: New interface that allows browsing via categories, similar to the Tag Browser in the calibre interface."
description: >
"You can access the new interface by going to /browse. So if your calibre content server is available at http://192.168.1.2, use
http://192.168.1.2/browse. The new interface requires a fairly modern browser, so no Internet Explorer 6,7."
type: major
- title: "Support for the SNB e-book format, used by the Bambook e-book reader"
type: major
- title: "Driver for the Wifi Kobo"
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: If metadata is downloaded successfully, set focus to download cover button"
- title: "News download system: Allow recipes with optional subscriptions"
tickets: [7199]
- title: "Templates: Improve the smarten function"
- title: "Linux device mounting: Use udisks, if it is available, to mount devices, so that I no longer have to hear bug reports from users using distro packages that have crippled calibre-mount-helper. You can turn off udisks by setting the environment variable CALIBRE_DISABLE_UDISKS=1"
- title: "Implement Drag'n'drop to tags in user categories"
tickets: [7172]
- title: "Ebook viewer: Add command line option to start in full screen mode"
- title: "Set completion mode on search boxes to popup completion"
- title: "Update version of jQuery used in content server and viewer. Required a little hackery in the viewer, hopefully nothing broke"
bug fixes:
- title: "Linux device drivers: Ignore read only partition exported by the device"
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix scrolling down with mouse wheel not always reaching bottom in windows"
- title: "Smarten punctuation: Fix bug in handling of comments and <style> tags"
- title: "EPUB Input: Handle EPUB files with components encoded in an encoding other than UTF-8 correctly, though why anyone would do that is a mystery."
tickets: [7196]
- title: "OS X commandline tools: Decode non-ascii command line arguments correctly"
tickets: [6964]
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix bug that broke conversion of <svg> elements in the input document when the <svg> element was followed by non-whitespace text."
tickets: [7083]
- title: "CHM Input: Fix handling of relative file paths in <img> tags."
tickets: [7159]
- title: "EPUB Output: Fix incorrect format for xml:lang when specifying a sub language"
tickets: [7198]
- title: "EPUB Input: Make parsing of toc.ncx more robust."
tickets: [7170]
- title: "Content server: Fix searching with non-ascii characters on windows"
tickets: [5249]
- title: "Fix average rating calculation for rating datatype in Tag Browser incorrect"
- title: "Comic Input: Fix image borders becoming yellow on some windows installs"
- title: "Email sending: Fix sending of email with non ascii chars"
tickets: [7137]
- title: "SONY driver: Fix collections created from series not in order with manual metadata management, if all books in the series are not sent at once"
- title: "Content server: Apply the search restriction when generating category lists as well"
- title: "RTF Input: Fix regression in conversion of WMF images on linux at least, maybe on other platforms as wel"
- title: "Fix isbndb.com metadata downloading sometimes yield a title of Unknown"
tickets: [7114]
- title: "Fix edit metadata dialog causing the hour:minute:seconds of the date column being lost, even when date is not changed"
tickets: [7125]
new recipes:
- title: "Revista El Cultural"
author: "Jefferson Frantz"
- title: "Novaya Gazeta"
author: "muwa"
- title: "frazpc.pl"
author: "Tomasz Dlugosz"
- title: "Orsai and Financial Times UK"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "Malayasian Mirror and Rolling Stones"
author: "Tony Stegall"
improved recipes:
- Globe and Mail
- Business Standard
- Miami Herald
- El Mercurio
- volkskrant.nl
- GoComics.com
- The New Yorker
- version: 0.7.23
date: 2010-10-08
new features:
- title: "Drag and drop to Tag Browser. You can use this to conveniently add tags, set series/publisher etc for a group of books"
- title: "Allow switching of library even when a device is connected"
- title: "Support for the PD Novel running Kobo"
- title: "Move check library integrity from preferences to drop down menu accessed by clicking arrow next to calibre icon"
- title: "Nicer, non-blocking update available notification"
- title: "E-book viewer: If you choose to remeber last used window size, the state of the Table of Contents view is also remembered"
tickets: [7082]
- title: "Allow moving as well as copying of books to another library"
- title: "Apple devices: Add support for plugboards"
- title: "Allow DJVU to be sent to the DR1000"
bug fixes:
- title: "Searching: Fix search expression parser to allow use of escaped double quotes in the search expression"
- title: "When saving cover images don't re-encode the image data unless absolutely neccessary. This prevents information loss due to JPEG re-compression"
- title: "Fix regression that broke setting of metadata for some MOBI/AZW/PRC files"
- title: "Fix regression in last release that could cause download of metadata for multiple files to only download the metadata for a few of them"
tickets: [7071]
- title: "MOBI Output: More tweaking of the margin handling to yield results closer to the input document."
- title: "Device drivers: Fix regression that could cause geenration of invalid metadata.calibre cache files"
- title: "Fix saving to disk with ISBN in filename"
tickets: [7090]
- title: "Fix another regression in the ISBNdb.com metadata download plugin"
- title: "Fix dragging to not interfere with multi-selection. Also dont allow drag and drop from the library to itself"
- title: "CHM input: handle another class of broken CHM files"
tickets: [7058]
- title: "Make calibre worker processes use the same temp directory as the calibre GUI"
new recipes:
- title: "Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery"
author: jonmisurda
- title: "Anand Tech"
author: "Oliver Niesner"
- title: "gsp.ro"
author: "bucsie"
- title: "Il Fatto Quotidiano"
author: "egilh"
- title: "Serbian Literature blog and Rusia Hoy"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "Medscape"
author: "Tony Stegall"
improved recipes:
- The Age
- Australian
- Wiki news
- Times Online
- New Yorker
- Guardian
- Sueddeutsche
- HNA
- Revista Muy Interesante
- version: 0.7.22
date: 2010-10-03
new features:
- title: "Drag and drop books from your calibre library"
type: major
description: >
"You can now drag and drop books from your calibre library. You can drag them to the desktop or to a file explorer, to copy them to your computer. You can drag them to the
device icon in calibre to send them to the device. You can also drag and drop books from the device view in calibre to the calibre library icon or the operating
system to copy them from the device."
- title: "There were many minor bug fixes for various bugs caused by the major changes in 0.7.21. So if you have updated to 0.7.21, it is highly recommended you update to 0.7.22"
- title: "Driver for the VelocityMicro ebook reader device"
- title: "Add a tweak to control how articles in titles are processed during sorting"
- title: "Add a new format type 'device_db' to plugboards to control the metadata displayed in book lists on SONY devices."
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix ISBN not being read from filenames in 0.7.21"
tickets: [7054]
- title: "Fix instant Search for text not found causes unhandled exception when conversion jobs are running"
tickets: [7043]
- title: "Fix removing a publisher causes an error in 0.7.21"
tickets: [7046]
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix some images being distorted in 0.7.21"
tickets: [7049]
- title: "Fix regression that broke bulk conversion of books without covers in 0.7.21"
- title: "Fix regression that broke add and set_metadata commands in calibredb in 0.7.21"
- title: "Workaround for Qt bug in file open dialogs in linux that causes multiple file selection to ignore files with two or more spaces in the file name"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix regression in 0.7.21 that broke conversion of LIT/EPUB documents that specified no title in their OPF files"
- title: "Fix regression that broke iPad driver in 0.7.21"
improved recipes:
- Washington Post
- version: 0.7.21
date: 2010-10-01
new features:
- title: "Automatic backup of the calibre metadata database"
type: major
description: >
"calibre now automatically backups up the metadata for each book in the library into an individual OPF file in that books' folder. This means that if the calibre metadata database is corrupted, for example by a hard disk failure, you can reconstruct it from these OPF files, without losing any metadata. For the moment, only the backup is implemented, restore will be implemented in the future. The backup happens automatically in the background while calibre is running. The first time you start calibre, all the books will need to be backed up, so you may notice calibre running a little slower than usual."
- title: "Virtual columns"
type: major
description: >
"You can now add virtual columns to the calibre book list. These are built fro other columns using templates and can be used to, for example, create columns to show the books isbn and avaialbale formats. You can do this by right clicking on a column header and select 'Add your own columns'"
- title: "calibre templates now much more powerful"
type: major
description: >
"The templates used in calibre in send to device and save to disk have now beome much ore powerful. They can use conditinal text and functions to transforms the replacement text. Also they now have access t metadata in user defined columns. For details see the tutorials section of the User Manual."
- title: "Metadata plugboards: Allow you to perform sophisticated transformations on the metadata of a book when exporting it from the calibre library."
type: major
description: >
"For example, you can add the series informtion to the title when sendig books to a device. This functionality is accessed from Preferences->Import/Export->Metadata plugboards"
- title: "User defined columns are now fully integrated into calibre"
type: major
description: >
"User defined columns can nw be used everywhere. In the content server, Search and Replace, to create ondevice collections, and in the save to disk and send to device templates for creating filenames. In addition, user defined metadata is saved to an read back from EPUB/OPF files."
- title: "Driver for the jetBook Mini"
- title: "Add tweaks to control which custom columns the content server displays."
- title: "Bulk downloading of metadata/covers now shows progress and can be canceled"
- title: "New plugin to download covers from douban.com. It is disabled by default and must be enabled via Preferences->Advanced->Plugins->Cover download plugins"
- title: "Add option to change titles to title case in the Bulk metadata edit dialog"
- title: "Add option to bulk metadata edit dialog to force series renumbering to start with a specified value"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix various bugs that could lead to stale files being left in the calbre library when editing title/author metadata on windows"
- title: "Fix various regression in the preprocess and de-hyphenation code that broke conversion of some files, especially PDF ones."
- title: "Alex driver: Fix books not being placed in sub directories. Send covers. And allow sending of FB2"
tickets: [6956]
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix bug that could caused left margins in the MOBI file to have twice the size of the left margins in the input document, when viewed on the pathetic Kindle MOBI renderer"
- title: "MOBI Input: Interpret blockquotes as having a left margin of 2em not 1em to reflect recent Amazon practice"
- title: "MOBI Output: Remove transparencies from images. Pathetic Kindle MOBI renderer strikes again"
- title: "Revert removal of inline toc from news downloaded in MOBI format as this makes it unusable with the pathetic Kindle For PC application"
- title: "Content server: Remove special characters from filenames in download links to accomodate broken browsers like the one in the Kindle"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: When rescaling images, dont replace gif image data with jpeg data"
- title: "EPUB Input: Ignore OPF files in the EPUB whose names start with a period"
- title: "RTF Output: Handle a larger set of broken images in the input document"
tickets: [7003]
- title: "epub-fix: Handle dates before 1900"
tickets: [7002]
- title: "Welcome wizard: Prevent the user from choosing a non empty folder as her calibre library"
- title: "Automatically enable the Douban metadata download plugins if the user choose chinese as the interface language in the welcome wizard"
- title: "Linux DBUS notifier: Fix causing freezes on some DBUS implementations"
tickets: [6969]
- title: "Workaround for windows limitation when reading from network sockets. Should fix issues with large files in calibre libraries on network shares."
tickets: [3248]
new recipes:
- title: "BBC Sport"
author: "limawhiskey"
- title: "Revista Muy Interesante "
author: "Jefferson Frantz"
- title: "El Universo - Ecuador and Frederik Pohl's Blog"
author: "Darko Miletic"
- title: "Science News"
author: "Starson17"
- title: "Various Belgian news sources"
author: "Lionel Bergeret"
- title: "Oriental Daily"
author: "Larry Chan"
- title: "Rmf24 - Opinie"
author: "Tomasz Dlugosz"
- title: "Jerusalem Post - French and Howto Geek"
author: "Tony Stegall"
improved recipes:
- Peter Schiff
- Telegraph UK
- AJC
- Boortz
- Scientific American
- version: 0.7.20
date: 2010-09-24
new features:
- title: "Tweak epub feature."
type: major
description: >
"Now you can conveniently browse the contents of an epub, tweak them and rebuild the epub within your calibre library
by right clicking on the book and selecting Tweak ePub. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99875
for details."
- title: "Add button to Edit metadata dialog to trim borders from the cover"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add support for setting the ReadStatus to Read and correctly deal with empty collections"
- title: "Improved algorithm for removal of hyphens during pre-processing"
- title: "EPUB metadata: Don't read timestamp value from epubs as I am sick of closing bugs about adding books and having the Date not be today."
- title: "After bulk edit metadata, reselect previously selected books."
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression in 0.7.19 that broke the By Author and By Title category listing in Stanza/Aldiko feeds."
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix regression that broke sections list in downloaded periodicals on Kindle for non-english news sources"
- title: "News download: Rationalize cover processing."
tickets: [6852]
- title: "Cover cache: load images only in the GUI thread to prevent stale files being leftover by set_path due to Windows file locking"
- title: "Database: Make renaming of folders on case change more robust"
tickets: [6914]
- title: "When adding/replacing files to/in EPUB files, set the GPF bit for all files in the archive, to prevent unzip from complaining in linux"
tickets: [6363]
- title: "Plugin loading: Handle encoding declarations in .py files correctly"
- title: "MOBI input: Another corner case"
tickets: [6909]
- title: "IPC: Store results file in the calibre temp dir and also dont die if for some reason removing result file fails. Should make adding/saving more robust"
- title: "Database: Fix regression that caused has_cover to create empty directories unneccessarily"
- title: "Detection of Alex on unix"
tickets: [5900]
- title: "News download: Don't add inline table of contents when downloading news for the Kindle"
- title: "Add prologue and epilogue to default chapter detection regex"
- title: "Kobo driver: Fix issue where books that are read were getting their status reset to Unread"
- title: "Device drivers: Fix occassional false positive when matching books on device with books in the calibre library"
- title: "Content server: Making serving of large files more efficient."
- title: "GUI device detection: Handle case when user yanks connected device before device connection handler is called."
tickets: [6864]
- title: "Strip leading/trailing whitespace when setting metadata using the edit metadata dialog"
tickets: [6854]
- title: "KOBO: Editing the Im_Reading list with SD Card installed fixed"
tickets: [6850]
new recipes:
- title: "Neal's Nuze and Popular Science"
author: Tony Stegall
- title: "Rmf24.pl"
author: "Tomasz Dlugosz"
- title: "Gazeta Pomorska"
author: "Richard"
- title: "Le Journal de Montreal and superesportes"
author: "Luciano Furtado"
- title: "The Marker"
author: Marbs
- title: "Tagesanzeiger"
author: noxxx
improved recipes:
- Danas
- Harvard Business Review
- version: 0.7.19
date: 2010-09-17
new features:
- title: "The ability to perform search and replace via regular expressions in the Bulk Edit metadata dialog"
type: major
- title: "Add an option to have calibre automatically convert straight quotes to curly quotes. Also handles em/en-dashes and ellipses. Found under 'Look & Feel' in the conversion options"
type: major
tickets: [6808]
- title: "Greatly improve sorting performance on large libraries."
type: major
- title: "Drivers for the SONY PRS-350/PRS-650 and the Sovos E-reader"
- title: "Kobo driver: Add management of the I'm Reading list on Kobo via an Im_Reading tag in calibre. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98906 for details"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Add an option to control how hard line breaks are removed during preprocessing. See the Structure Detection section in the conversion options"
- title: "In the Edit metadata dialog, indicate whether the author sort value matches the author value, using a background color"
- title: "Add an option to split the toolbar into two toolbars in Preferences->Interface->Look and Feel"
- title: "EPUB Output: Improved design of the 'jacket' page created by calibre when using the 'Insert metadata at start of book' option"
- title: "PDF Input: Improve line unwrapping, handling of hyphens/dashes and quotes. Also handle more specially encoded non ASCII characters"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression in filename shortening that caused loss of filename extension"
- title: "Fix various regressions that could be triggered when using search restrictions and/or multi-sorts and connecting a device"
- title: "Database: Fix possible race condition in windows when changing title/author during move of book files, that could lead to old files not being deleted"
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Don't die if rescaling of image raises an exception, just ignore and continue"
- title: "Database: Update has_cover cache when setting/removing covers so that the search returns correct results. Also fix an exception that could occur when adding books with a db that has been upgraded from very old SQL."
- title: "Workaround for bug that affects some windows installs causing white backgrounds on default covers to be rendered as yellow"
- title: "Fix handling of non-ASCII chars when rendering series in default EPUB cover"
- title: "Fix --start-in-tray switch displays hidden windows in metacity, xfwm4 and compiz"
tickets: [6806]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: When setting margins on <body> explicitly set padding to 0 to override and existing padding in the input document"
- title: "CHM Input: Ignore missing image files in the input document"
tickets: [6773]
- title: "News download: Fix bug that could break some downloads in non ASCII locales"
- title: "TXT Output: When using preserve spaces, output tab characters as a sequence of four non-breaking spaces as some readers dont handle the 09 char code."
- title: "PDB Input: Fix bug in conversion of TOC in some PML files"
new recipes:
- title: "taz.de RSS"
author: Alexander Schremmer
- title: "Brand Eins"
author: Constantin Hofstetter
improved recipes:
- Harpers (free)
- Danas
- Novosti
- ESPN
- Taz Digiabo
- Slate
- AJC
- Infobae
- NSPM
- 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 <guide> but not in the <spine>, 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
description: >
"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
description: >
"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 <dc:subject> 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
