calibre Changelog

What's new in calibre 7.8.0

Apr 6, 2024

New features:
E-book viewer: Highlight panel: Allow filtering the shown highlights by type of highlight
Conversion: Add support for the CSS text-transform property when subsetting embedded fonts
E-book viewer: Allow displaying the view mode paged/flow in the header/footer
Book details popup window: Allow dropping of files to add formats/set the cover just as for the book details panel
Book details: Context menu: Add a menu action to remove the associated link
DOCX Input: Add role=doc-noteref for links to footnotes/endnotes so that they popup in more e-book readers
Add a "Mark all selected books" to the Mark action.
Add "Hide Empty Categories" to tag browser configuration menu
Supernote: Support for new device firmware
Sort by tool: Add an action to re-apply the current sort
Bug fixes:
Grid view cover cache: Fix covers not loading when cache entries are stale
Conversion: Do not change viewport relative font sizes used for SVG text elements
Conversion: Fix tags inside tags not being processed
Get books: Update Kobo store plugin for website changes
EPUB Input: Use a translated name for the cover page
New news sources:
Bergfreunde Blog by VoHe
Live Law and Politico.eu by unkn0wn
Improved news sources:
Caravan
Global Times
New York Review of Books
Himal Southasian
The Week
CBC Canada

New in calibre 7.7.0 (Mar 14, 2024)

New in calibre 7.6.0 (Mar 1, 2024)

New in calibre 7.5.1 (Feb 9, 2024)

New in calibre 7.5.0 (Feb 9, 2024)

New in calibre 7.4.0 (Jan 19, 2024)

New in calibre 7.3.0 (Jan 5, 2024)

New in calibre 7.2.0 (Dec 15, 2023)

New in calibre 7.1.0 (Nov 25, 2023)

New in calibre 7.0.0 (Nov 17, 2023)

New in calibre 6.29.0 (Oct 20, 2023)

New in calibre 6.28.1 (Oct 9, 2023)

New in calibre 6.28.0 (Oct 6, 2023)

New in calibre 6.27.0 (Sep 22, 2023)

New in calibre 6.26.0 (Sep 8, 2023)

New in calibre 6.25.0 (Aug 18, 2023)

New in calibre 6.24.0 (Aug 4, 2023)

New in calibre 6.23.0 (Jul 14, 2023)

New in calibre 6.22.0 (Jun 30, 2023)

New in calibre 6.21.0 (Jun 13, 2023)

New in calibre 6.20.0 (Jun 9, 2023)

New in calibre 6.19.1 (May 29, 2023)

New in calibre 6.19.0 (May 29, 2023)

New in calibre 6.18.1 (May 26, 2023)

New in calibre 6.18.0 (May 26, 2023)

New in calibre 6.17.0 (Apr 27, 2023)

New in calibre 6.16.0 (Apr 21, 2023)

New in calibre 6.15.1 (Apr 9, 2023)

New in calibre 6.15.0 (Apr 7, 2023)

New in calibre 6.14.1 (Mar 16, 2023)

New in calibre 6.14.0 (Mar 10, 2023)

New in calibre 6.13.0 (Feb 17, 2023)

New in calibre 6.12.0 (Feb 3, 2023)

New features:
E-book viewer: Read aloud: On Windows switch to using the new Microsoft speech subsystem with access to more voices
Note that this means that old voice, speed and audio devices setting will not be used so a reconfiguration might be needed.
calibre:// URL scheme: allow specifying a Virtual library for show_book URLs
Add by ISBN: Allow adding using identifiers other than ISBN as well
Update bundled Qt to 6.4 this means calibre on macOS is now only supported on Big Sur and newer
Spell check dialog: Allow up and down arrow keys to work regardless of focus
Allow multiple Template tester dialogs
Bug fixes:
Windows MTP device driver: Ignore failure to enumerate objects inside non-root folders
There are apparently a lot of devices out there that fail in this way. So rather than aborting the scan simply ignore the folder.
Book list: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke dragging to select multiple books
Content server viewer: Fix reload book not actually reloading until the browser is also refreshed
E-book viewer: Fix occasional false warning about highlight being overwritten
E-book viewer: Fix detection of selected highlights when all text is selected
Fix an error when embedding metadata into a large number of books
When updating metadata in EPUB 2 files and no language is specified, do not remove the tag as this causes epubcheck to complain. Instead set the language to "und"
Wireless device driver: Remove the timeout for initial connection
Use an icon rather than a color to report errors in fields and the search box
Conversion dialog: Regex builder: Workaround bug in Qt that prevented searching for non breaking spaces in the wizard used to test search expressions
Spell check dialog: move down after correcting word, not up
Get books: Fix Mobileread store plugin not working
New news sources:
Boston Globe Print Edition by unkn0wn
Observer Reach Foundation by unkn0wn
Improved news sources:
Jerusalem Post
LiveMint
The Seattle Times
India Today
Outlook Magazine
Live Mint
Irish Independent
Irish Times

New in calibre 6.11.0 (Jan 6, 2023)

New features:
Edit book: Check book: Allow automatic fixing of various simple CSS errors
E-book viewer: When Read aloud is speaking, make the control bar translucent so that words under the bar are visible
Edit book: Switch to a new library (stylelint) for find problems in CSS as the old library was no longer maintained.
Edit book: File browser: Allow using keyboard shortcuts to re-order the spine
calibredb list: Allow specifying multiple fields for --sort-by
Check library: Allow opening the book folder easily
Bug fixes:
Fix windows not being moved onto the current monitor when they were previously visible on a removed monitor that was to the left of the current monitor
Book list: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke drag and drop of multiple books
Fix detection of Tolino Vision 6 on macOS/Linux
Content server: Fix auto full screen not working when continuing to read books with user account enabled
Edit book: Set semantics: Fix error when setting the "Notes" semantic
HTMLZ output: Fix images referred to in CSS stylesheets not being converted
Book details panel: Fix HTML comment tags in the comments breaking display of book details
Content server home page: When showing recently read books from across devices hide the entries for which loading the cover fails
Windows Text-to-speech: Dont fail to configure if one of the voices has no defined language
Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke using a file for the --extra-css option of ebook-convert
Content server FTS: Fix page header bar not visible
Content server: Fix identifiers from third party metadata download plugins not becoming clickable links on the book details page
Edit book: Warn when saving will overwrite a read-only file
Fix restoring geometry of maximized/fullscreen dialogs forcing them visible
Fix a regression in the previous release that caused spurious error message when doing some out of band searches
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke choosing new programs for the Open with function
New news sources:
NHK News - by Richard A. Steps
Globes in English by barakplasma
Improved news sources:
PC World
HNA
Caravan Magazine
Harvard Business Review
Various Israeli news sources

New in calibre 6.10.0 (Dec 16, 2022)

New in calibre 6.9.0 (Nov 26, 2022)

New in calibre 6.8.0 (Nov 4, 2022)

New in calibre 6.7.1 (Oct 16, 2022)

New in calibre 6.7.0 (Oct 14, 2022)

New in calibre 6.6.1 (Sep 30, 2022)

New in calibre 6.6.0 (Sep 30, 2022)

New in calibre 6.5.0 (Sep 16, 2022)

New in calibre 6.4.0 (Sep 2, 2022)

New in calibre 6.3.0 (Aug 12, 2022)

New in calibre 6.2.1 (Jul 29, 2022)

New features:
Full text search: Ignore soft hyphens when extracting searchable text from books. Note that you will have to re-index your library to take advantage of this.
Content server: Have the Read button open PDF files in the browsers builtin PDF viewer rather than the calibre viewer since the calibre viewer is not well suited to PDF
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
Create icon theme dialog: Add a checkbox to install the newly created theme into calibre
Allow re-indexing a book for FTS by right clicking the Book details panel
Bug fixes:
Content server: Workaround for Chrome bug causing multiple sign in prompts when connecting to the server after restarting Chrome
Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke rendering of first page of EPUB as cover when the EPUB has no actual cover
Content server: Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused incorrect rendering of comments metadata in the book details panel in dark mode
FB2 Input: Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke conversion of FB2 on macOS
Metadata download from Google: Switch to making the queries via a Google web search as this finds some books that searching via the API does not
Book details panel: Fix clicking on items from an enumerated column containing ampersands not searching correctly
Image editor: Do not allow initial mouse drag to create selection rect outside the image bounds
E-book viewer: Fix clicking on ToC entries moving keyboard focus to the ToC search box when the ToC window is floating
Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused the default cover to be rendered small in some contexts
Various bug fixes related to the new dark/light icon theme switching. Make the icons more consistent even when using the system theme. Use calibre specific file type icons when using the non native file dialogs. Allow creating dark/light override icons manually in the configuration folder.
Disable the color theme setting when using system style
When using a fixed color palette and the system colors are of different type enforce the color palette
Ignore Qt generated application palette changes when using a fixed palette
In the icon theme chooser dialog show light and dark themes only in the light and dark tabs
Welcome wizard: Fix device names not being translated correctly leading to the same name being repeated for some devices
Read aloud: Fix spurious error message on Linux about voices not being installed
Linux binaries: Bundle brotli and graphite2 as well as Qt links against them
FTS dialog: When keyboard navigation changes the current item ensure it stays visible
Binary builds: Fix Qt TLS backends not included
Fix Qt WebEngine creating cache folders outside of the calibre cache directory
Version 6.2.1 fixes a regression in 6.2.0 that caused the Read button in the Content server to only work for PDF books
New news sources:
The Athletic by unkn0wn
Various Russian and Ukranian news sources by bugmen00t
Improved news sources:
Frontline
HBR
The Australian
India Today
Indian Express
India Today
Live Mint
The Atlantic

New in calibre 6.1.0 (Jul 17, 2022)

New in calibre 6.0.0 (Jul 11, 2022)

New in calibre 5.44.0 (Jun 17, 2022)

New in calibre 5.43.0 (May 27, 2022)

New in calibre 5.42.0 (May 3, 2022)

New in calibre 5.41.0 (Apr 23, 2022)

New in calibre 5.40.0 (Apr 1, 2022)

New in calibre 5.39.1 (Mar 21, 2022)

New in calibre 5.39.0 (Mar 18, 2022)

New in calibre 5.38.0 (Mar 4, 2022)

New in calibre 5.37.0 (Feb 18, 2022)

New in calibre 5.36.0 (Feb 4, 2022)

New in calibre 5.35.0 (Jan 21, 2022)

New in calibre 5.34.0 (Dec 17, 2021)

New in calibre 5.33.2 (Dec 5, 2021)

New in calibre 5.33.0 (Dec 3, 2021)

New in calibre 5.32.0 (Nov 12, 2021)

New in calibre 5.31.1 (Oct 29, 2021)

New in calibre 5.31.0 (Oct 29, 2021)

New in calibre 5.30.0 (Oct 22, 2021)

New in calibre 5.29.0 (Oct 10, 2021)

New in calibre 5.28.0 (Sep 24, 2021)

New in calibre 5.27.0 (Sep 10, 2021)

New in calibre 5.26.0 (Aug 27, 2021)

New in calibre 5.25.0 (Aug 13, 2021)

New in calibre 5.24.0 (Jul 30, 2021)

New in calibre 5.23.0 (Jul 9, 2021)

New in calibre 5.22.1 (Jun 27, 2021)

New in calibre 5.22.0 (Jun 25, 2021)

New in calibre 5.21.0 (Jun 11, 2021)

New in calibre 5.20.0 (Jun 4, 2021)

New in calibre 5.19.0 (May 28, 2021)

New in calibre 5.18.0 (May 21, 2021)

New in calibre 5.17.0 (Apr 30, 2021)

New in calibre 5.16.1 (Apr 19, 2021)

New in calibre 5.16.0 (Apr 18, 2021)

New in calibre 5.15.0 (Apr 16, 2021)

New features:
Allow auto scrolling through the list of books by pressing the X key or right clicking on the cover browser
Useful to have a "slideshow" of book covers. The speed of scrolling can be controlled in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser
E-book viewer: Speed up first time open for EPUB files with lots of styling
E-book viewer preferences: Allow searching for keyboard shortcuts
Edit book: Allow editing WEBP images
Various improvements to the template language, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337573
E-book viewer: Show the current progress percentage in the bottom bar of the viewer controls. This can be customized in the viewer preferences under Headers and footers
E-book viewer: Add an option under Preferences->Miscellaneous to not restore open panels such as Search, Table of Contents etc on restart
When exporting highlights as text or markdown also output top level chapter titles
Allow downloading metadata from amazon.se
Preferences->Tweaks: Allow specifying that calibre should open the book details window when double clicking on a book
MOBI Output: Convert WebP images to PNG so they work with Amazon's software
DOCX Input: When converting embedded fonts, replace spaces in the filename with underscores to keep the execrable epubcheck happy
E-book viewer: Selection bar: Add keyboard shortcuts for all buttons. Hover over a button in the bar to see the shortcut
Bug fixes:
FB2 Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused paragraphs containing only non-breaking spaces to be removed
Metadata comments editor: Fix setting block alignment destroying other block level properties
E-book viewer: Fix margins not being adjusted immediately when preferences are changed
Edit book: Upgrade book internals: Fix skipping the NCX removal dialog not remembering the chosen option
Conversion: When specifying a line-height do not apply it to the tag, as it is pointless and causes the execrable epubcheck to complain
E-book viewer: Improve scrolling behavior when extending the selection using keyboard shortcuts
E-book viewer: Fix read percent for HTML files that are rendered in a single screen being 0% rather than 100%
E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Do not expand all sections when adding/deleting/modifying highlights
CHM Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke opening of some files that dont specify a character encoding
EPUB2 metadata: Read ISBNs in identifier elements without schemes if they are valid ISBNs and no properly identified isbns are present
Update Amazon metadata plugin for changes to amazon websites
Edit book: Fix detection of class names containing hyphens/underscores
New news sources:
Los Danieles – Columnas sin techo by CAVALENCIA
Improved news sources:
New Scientist
Irish Times
1843
The Straits Times

New in calibre 5.14.0 (Mar 26, 2021)

New in calibre 5.13.0 (Mar 10, 2021)

New in calibre 5.12.0 (Feb 26, 2021)

New in calibre 5.11.0 (Feb 12, 2021)

New in calibre 5.10.1 (Jan 23, 2021)

New in calibre 5.10.0 (Jan 22, 2021)

New in calibre 5.9.0 (Jan 8, 2021)

New in calibre 5.8.1 (Dec 24, 2020)

New in calibre 5.8.0 (Dec 24, 2020)

New in calibre 5.7.2 (Dec 13, 2020)

New in calibre 5.7.1 (Dec 11, 2020)

New in calibre 5.7.0 (Dec 11, 2020)

New in calibre 5.6.0 (Nov 27, 2020)

New in calibre 5.5.0 (Nov 13, 2020)

New features:
Support the calibre:// URL scheme
Clicking on calibre:// URLs can be used to have calibre perform various actions.For details, see: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/url_scheme.html
Viewer: Show calibre:// URL for current book in the Goto->Location panel
Edit book: Add an action to the right click menu for tabs to close tabs to the right of the current tab.
Add ability to copy tag, publisher and author in Book details panel by right-clicking
Annotations browser: Add a context menu for common actions.
Annotations browser: Show a dot for highlights with notes.
Edit book: Saved searches panel: Allow copying the current saved search to the regular search panel by clicking the Export button.
Windows: Fix command line arguments not working for the portable.exe launchers
Viewer: back and forward buttons on the mouse now trigger the back and forward actions
Option to mark all books with annotations/bookmarks
Various minor improvements to how keyboard focus is handled in the Tag browser
Bug fixes:
Edit book: Fix regression in calibre 5 that caused an error when managing user dictionaries.
Viewer: Fix previous/next buttons iterating over removed bookmarks
Welcome wizard: Fix changing the language causing a empty folder to be created.
Viewer: Fix regression causing custom shortcuts with shift key pressed not working
Viewer: In dark mode when showing images with transparency in the popup use a light background color as most images are designed with a light background color in mind.
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of DJVU files
Metadata edit: "Set to Undefined" button missing on integer columns.
Entry remains underlined in Tag Browser after clearing filter
XML Catalogs: Fix languages field missing
Fix a regression that broke loading of third party plugins that are encoded in an encoding other than UTF-8
macOS: Fix viewer not responding to cmd+c to copy text by default
Windows: Fix sending email on computers with non-ASCII computer names
Improved news sources:
Spectator Magazine

New in calibre 5.4.2 (Nov 1, 2020)

New in calibre 5.4.1 (Oct 30, 2020)

New features:
Windows: Allow adding of books to calibre from directories whose path length is larger than 260 characters
Tag browser: Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser to allow the tag browser to get keyboard focus
Tag browser: Allow editing the set of permissible values and colors for a custom column with fixed values, by right clicking on it.
Edit metadata dialog: Make most custom metadata controls use only a single line.
Elide the names of custom columns that are longer than a fixed width, instead of using multiple lines.Configurable via Preferences->Tweaks->Edit metadata custom column label length
Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Add an option to merge CSS rules that have identical properties
Book details window: Double clicking on the cover now shows it in the default system image viewer.
News download: Allow passing username/password in feed URLs.
Open with: Allow renaming Open with applications.
Bug fixes:
Viewer: Fix jumping to search result not always working in flow mode.
Get Books: Update Google and Gutenberg plugins for website changes
Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts using ctrl+alt+letter key not working on windows.
Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts to shrink/grow selection not working.
Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle highlights panel not working when the highlights panel is itself focused.
Viewer: handle editing of missing highlights more gracefully
Drivers: Fix regression in calibre 5 that broke connecting to SONY devices
Open with: On Linux when reading names from .desktop files, use the first matching language
Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke conversion of some malformed CSS stylesheets.
Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of some PDB files with images.
Conversion: Fix regression in calibre 5 in the handling of @import() rules in stylesheets that import from directories above themselves.
Content server: Fix various controls on the book details page not working when viewing a random book.
Tag browser: Fix a crash when renaming a saved search to a value that already exists.
Tag browser: Fix renaming of custom column with fixed set of values not working.
Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke auto-sync of generated catalogs to devices.
Fix setting rating via ebook-meta command line tool broken in calibre 5.
When boolean columns are set to bistate, checking "show checkmarks" results in all non-boolean values being shown as false
Spell check: Fix using non UTF-8 dictionaries broken in calibre 5
Fix a rare issue where restarting calibre from within the program would fail.
Improved news sources:
Psychology Today
Washington Post
LifeHacker
The Atlantic
New York Review of Books

New in calibre 5.3.0 (Oct 16, 2020)

New features:
Tag browser: When grouping items by first letter if adjacent letters have few entries combine them into a single group.
Can be controlled via an option in Preferences->Look & fee->Tag browser to combine 'first letters' together if there are a small number of items under adjacent letters
Viewer: Allow displaying the current page / total pages in the header/footer. Useful in paged mode to see exactly how many pages are left.
Viewer search panel: Show more result context in a tooltip when hovering over a search result.
DOCX Input: Add support for Word controls used to rotate or flip images
Only works with output formats such as EPUB that support CSS transforms
Viewer image pop-up: Allow maximizing/minimizing the window.
Edit metadata dialog: Use only a single line for custom column date fields
Add an item to search for categories to the category editor context menu.
Category editor: Add a right click menu to change case of the selected entries.
Bug fixes:
Fix a regression in 5.0 that caused performance of dialogs that contain title/series/tags edit fields to be very poor with large libraries.
Fix a regression in 5.0 that caused some pop-up menus to appear on the wrong monitor in multi-monitor setups
macOS: Fix a long standing bug that prevented drag and drop of multiple items
Windows: Fix a regression that broke scanning for default programs for the Open with action
Windows: Fix a regression in 5.0 causing some MOBI files with non-BMP characters not being processed correctly.
E-book viewer: Fix scrolling past the end of chapter boundaries not working in books that have negative margins
Edit metadata dialog: fix incorrect rendering of custom column names that start with emoji.
Quickview: Fix nothing shown after clearing the search.
Dark mode: Fix radio buttons having no outline.
Annotations browser: When showing a book in the calibre library that is not currently visible, display an error.
New news sources:
Deutsche Welle by VoHe
Improved news sources:
Reuters

New in calibre 5.2.0 (Oct 7, 2020)

New in calibre 5.1.0 (Oct 2, 2020)

New in calibre 5.0.1 (Sep 25, 2020)

New in calibre 5.0 (Sep 25, 2020)

New in calibre 4.23.0 (Aug 21, 2020)

New in calibre 4.22.0 (Jul 31, 2020)

New in calibre 4.21.0 (Jul 19, 2020)

New in calibre 4.20.0 (Jul 3, 2020)

New in calibre 4.19.0 (Jun 19, 2020)

New in calibre 4.18.0 (Jun 5, 2020)

New in calibre 4.17.0 (May 24, 2020)

New in calibre 4.16.0 (May 15, 2020)

New in calibre 4.15.0 (May 3, 2020)

New in calibre 4.14.0 (Apr 24, 2020)

New in calibre 4.13.0 (Mar 27, 2020)

New in calibre 4.12.0 (Mar 6, 2020)

New in calibre 4.11.2 (Feb 23, 2020)

New in calibre 4.11.0 (Feb 21, 2020)

New in calibre 4.10.0 (Feb 7, 2020)

New in calibre 4.9.1 (Jan 24, 2020)

New in calibre 4.9.0 (Jan 23, 2020)

New in calibre 4.8.0 (Jan 3, 2020)

New in calibre 4.7.0 (Dec 27, 2019)

New in calibre 4.6.0 (Dec 13, 2019)

New in calibre 4.5.0 (Nov 29, 2019)

New in calibre 4.4.0 (Nov 22, 2019)

New in calibre 4.3.0 (Nov 8, 2019)

New features:
Viewer: Halve the time taken to prepare large EPUB files for first open
Viewer: Add an optional toolbar with common actions turn it on under Preferences->Miscellaneous
Viewer: Change the default color scheme to "System" which matches the colors used by the rest of calibre/the operating system. Also means the colors change automatically when the system color theme changes.
Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut ; to go to a book location or position
Viewer: Add a control to easily reset the interface to defaults
Viewer: Allow also using --open-at with book positions
Viewer: Add command line option to force reloading of books
Bug fixes:
Content server: Fix conversion of comics not working.
Book details: Allow right click to copy author links and identifiers
Book details: Fix removal of identifiers via right click not working
Book details: Fix clicking on tags etc not generating exact match searches
Viewer: When resizing and the resizing back to the old size ensure we return to the same page in paged mode.
Duplicates dialog: Sort sub-list of matching books already in calibre by author for easier inspection.
PDF Output: Fix links that go to destinations in the same file not working.
Viewer: Fix changes to keyboard shortcuts not being applied until viewer is restarted.
DOCX Input: Fix AlternateContent blocks rendering both choice and fallback sections.
macOS: Fix unable to re-arrange entries in the CSV catalog list.
Windows: fix UTF-16/truncated output when reporting unhandled exceptions
Viewer: Fix mouse wheel not working when mouse is over page margins.
Linux: Install bash completions as individual files for each calibre binary
Content server: Fix download button not working with non-ebook formats.
Fix a crash in popup completion lists if the mouse is over the list and list is scrolled with the keyboard
Viewer: Fix rare exception when navigating to a CFI.
Viewer: Ignore failures printing console message when the viewer is launched with broken stderr.
Amazon metadata: Fix failure to get published date from audible book pages.
Viewer: Fix shortcuts preferences not being translated
Tag browser: Fix incorrect text color when using dark theme for hovered item
Fix crash if canceling the icon theme download while covers are downloading
Viewer: Fix non-ASCII content in stylesheets not being interpreted correctly.
Viewer/Content server: Fix history for completion popups such as search bars not being stored correctly.
PDF Output: When a link with a fragment points to a non-existent anchor link to the top of the file instead of not linking at all
PDF Output: Fix standard svg fullscreen image markup not working
PDF Output: Fix some books with full screen images failing to convert.
Improved news sources:
Clarin
Various Polish news sources

New in calibre 4.2.0 (Oct 18, 2019)

New features:
macOS: Various improvements to dark mode support
Viewer: Dont generate covers for books that dont have a cover. Note that because of this all previously opened books will again be prepared for first time reading.
Viewer: Restore print to PDF functionality
Viewer: Allow also jumping to book positions in Goto->Location
Content server: When adding books and a duplicate is suspected provide more information about what books match the duplicate
FB2 Output: Speed up conversion of images and handle external links
Viewer: If the book has no ToC try to generate one from headings, if any.
Viewer: Improve rendering of comics. No blank pages after large images or after every image in multi-page mode.
Viewer: Make it easier to use the bookmarks panel with only keyboard.
Viewer: Set the classes calibre-viewer-paginated and calibre-viewer-scrolling on the tag in Paged and Flow modes. This allows the User styles to target these modes, if needed.
Viewer: Use the same loading spinner as is used by the rest of calibre
Bug fixes:
Edit book: Fix a crash when editing CSS files caused by a behavior change in Qt 5.13.
Fix a regression in 4.0 that broke rendering of PDF covers for PDF files that used JPEG2000 compression.
Viewer: Fix a regression in 4.1 that broke creating new color schemes
Viewer: Fix error while viewing books with a comment after a tag.
Viewer: Fix an error when processing a CFI with an invalid text offset.
Viewer: Fix scrolling backwards to previous chapter not always scrolling to the end of the chapter, if the chapter loads external resources.
Viewer: Fix hang on books with namespaced attributes on that do not belong to a known ebook namespace.
Viewer: Fix search history not persisting between viewer restarts.
Viewer: Fix scrollbar showing up on initial book open even if disabled in preferences.
Viewer: Fix rendering of books with mathematics failing
Viewer: When changing between individual sections/chapters in the book, only render the new chapter after loading is complete
Viewer: Fix scrolling by screenfuls not working correctly in flow mode
EPUB 2 metadata: Fix obfuscated fonts being broken when updating metadata if the file uses Adobe font obfuscation and the identifier with the key has an uppercase UUID scheme name.
Viewer: Fix right clicking on margins not showing controls
Viewer: Preselect text in search box when showing it.
Viewer: Fix SVG images that use xlink:href to refer to paths not being displayed.
Content server: Fix detection of iOS on iPAD with iOS 13 which defaults to desktop mode
Metadata jacket: Fix tags in the comments not being rendered correctly when inserting the comments into the jacket page.
Viewer: Show nicer error message for DRMed books
Viewer: Fix preferences under Scrolling behavior not being saved correctly
Viewer: Fix remembered position sometimes off by one page in paged mode.
Viewer: restrict max size of margin page turn indicators to 25px rather than 75px
Viewer: Dont flash the home page before loading a book if a book has been specified
Viewer: Fix ctrl+m shortcut not working on windows
Content server: Fix regression that caused series name in book details view not not be blue to indicate it is clickable
Improved news sources:
Various Polish news sources
Il Sole 24 Ore

New in calibre 4.1.0 (Oct 8, 2019)

New features:
Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences)
Viewer: Allow showing the 'position in book', as was displayed in the top left of the viewer in calibre 3, in the header or footer of the viewer.
Viewer: Add options to control scrolling using the mouse in paged mode.
Viewer: Allow copying images by right clicking on them.
Viewer: Add a preference under Miscellaneous to allow only a single instance of the viewer
Viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to toggle between paged mode and flow mode and to quit
Content server: Make the book size useable in custom book list templates.
Edit metadata: Use a border rather than background color to indicate correct title and author sort values. Works better with dark themes.
Kobo driver: Support for new firmware
Bug fixes:
Viewer: Fix a couple of bugs in flow mode. Scrolling to anchors was not working and remembering last read position was not working
Viewer: Fix text after comments not being rendered. Note that the book has to be reloaded if already viewed for the fix to apply.
Viewer: Fix loading progress screen sometimes getting stuck if changing pages rapidly.
Viewer: Fix failing to open books if path to cache contains symbolic links.
Viewer: When restoring from fullscreen go back to maximized state if window was maximized when entering full screen.
Viewer: Fix shortcut changes not being applied after pressing OK if shortcut list is closed by pressing Esc.
Fix a regression that broke reading metadata from ODT files that do not have keywords.
PDF Output: Fix a bug that prevented the first style property in the header or footer template from being applied
PDF Output: Fix error with a few embedded TTF fonts.
Edit book: Font manager: Fix removing embedded font failing if @font-face rule has no src.
Viewer: Hide the browser provided scrollbar that flashes momentarily on page load.
Viewer: Fix clicking on margins causing keyboard shortcuts to not work until the main text is clicked on again
Comments editor: Workaround for Qt converting ids into anchors
Possible workaround for some windows machines where the viewer is getting access denied errors while renaming a directory
Viewer: When there is empty text for an header footer section render it as blank instead of moving the remaining sections to the left
Improved news sources:
Fortune Magazine

New in calibre 4.0.0 (Oct 4, 2019)

New in calibre 3.48.0 (Sep 13, 2019)

New in calibre 3.47.1 (Sep 2, 2019)

New in calibre 3.47 (Aug 30, 2019)

New in calibre 3.46 (Jul 19, 2019)

New in calibre 3.45 (Jul 12, 2019)

New in calibre 3.44 (May 31, 2019)

New in calibre 3.43 (May 28, 2019)

New in calibre 3.42 (Apr 30, 2019)

New in calibre 3.41.3 (Apr 22, 2019)

New in calibre 3.41.2 (Apr 19, 2019)

New in calibre 3.41.1 (Apr 19, 2019)

New in calibre 3.41.0 (Apr 19, 2019)

New features:
Kobo driver: Support for new firmware
Content server: Add an option to control which book list mode is used by default for new users (Preferences->Sharing over the net->Choose book list mode)
Content server: Allow clicking on book cover in details page to read the book.
Amazon metadata plugin: Add a option to use the mobi-asin to find books.
E-book viewer: Allow specifying ToC hrefs via the --open-at command line parameter.
Tag Mapper: Allow Title-casing of tags.
Manage authors dialog: Add an entry to the right click menu to show books by the current author in the main book list.
Lots of internal changes to calibre's codebase to prepare it for python 3 support.
Bug fixes:
Content server: Fix links to external resources in book details and the viewer not working
Content server: Fix using a bookmark to load the book list not working if server is password protected.
Content server: Book details page: Fix close button not going back to book list after using Next/previous buttons.
Kobo driver: Fix update device metadata setting not being saved. Also fix book language not being set correctly on newer firmware.
PDF Output: Fix 'stroke-dasharray' lines in SVG images in the input document not being rendered correctly.
Fix searching for authors on amazon not working because of a change in the amazon URL structure.
Cover grid: Check for cover size change due to screen scale change on every paint event and invalidate cache if there is a change.
Edit book: Fix Option key + ; not working in the editor.
Edit book: Fix pasting images into a book with no Images folder not working correctly.
Confirm cancel on library restore dialog
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not being applied for some options.
Fix using --insert-metadata with ebook-convert not inserting the title and author metadata from the source document
Adding books: When adding with auto-merge and auto-convert enabled, also run conversions for books into which the added files are merged.
New news sources:
The New Criterion by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
Il Post
Le Monde Edition Abonnes Papier
Le Temps
NASA
1843
derStandard
LA Times

New in calibre 3.40.1 (Mar 8, 2019)

New features:
TXT Input: Use markdown 3.0 with support for new extensions such as code highlighting and smarten punctuation.
Book details panel: Allow editing the identifiers for the book by right clicking on the existing Ids.
Content server: Allow specifying custom URLs for the 'Search the internet' feature via Preferences->Sharing over the net->Search the internet.
Tag browser: Category editor: Add a checkbox to restrict the entries shown to only those present in the current Virtual library
Allow adding files to selected book records from the clipboard. To use copy a file from windows explorer, right click the Add books button and choose: Add files to selected books from clipboard
Tag browser: When right clicking on a saved search add a menu option to search using the raw search expression.
Tag browser: Have pressing the Enter key find the next match.
Bug fixes:
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Copy to library and delete after when copying a duplicated book.
Edit book: Fix pasting of image from clipboard using (Ctrl-V) not working
Content server: Fix {id} not working in the custom list template
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not saving title and format information.
macOS: Respect the system setting for text insertion cursor blink time
FB2 Output: Fix comments from the input document not present in the output.
calibredb: Fix adding books with an OPF file to a remote server not picking up the cover specified in the OPF file
TXT Input: Fix option to remove indents at the start of lines breaking conversion of markdown documents.
EPUB/MOBI Catalog generation: Allow matching empty fields in exclusion rules.
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix multiple books with the same title but different authors in a genre not being listed.
Update the Get Books and metadata Amazon.com plugins to handle changes to the markup on the Amazon results page
Version 3.40.1 fixes a bug in 3.40 that could prevent calibre starting when using a custom date column
New news sources:
Quanta Magazine by lui1
El Periodico Mediterraneo by benages
Improved news sources:
Scientific American
Taipei Times
Harpers Magazine
General Knowledge Today
Granma
South China Morning Post
New York Times (Web)
China Daily
1843
Pro Physik
Caravan Magazine
Spektrum der Wissenchaft

New in calibre 3.39.1 (Feb 4, 2019)

New in calibre 3.39.0 (Feb 1, 2019)

New in calibre 3.38.1 (Jan 20, 2019)

New in calibre 3.38.0 (Jan 18, 2019)

New in calibre 3.37.0 (Jan 4, 2019)

New in calibre 3.36.0 (Dec 21, 2018)

New in calibre 3.35.0 (Dec 7, 2018)

New in calibre 3.34.0 (Nov 8, 2018)

New in calibre 3.33.1 (Oct 19, 2018)

New in calibre 3.32.0 (Sep 28, 2018)

New in calibre 3.31.0 (Sep 7, 2018)

New in calibre 3.30.0 (Aug 24, 2018)

New in calibre 3.29.0 (Aug 10, 2018)

New in calibre 3.28.0 (Jul 20, 2018)

New in calibre 3.27.1 (Jul 6, 2018)

New in calibre 3.27.0 (Jul 6, 2018)

New in calibre 3.26.1 (Jun 15, 2018)

New in calibre 3.25.0 (Jun 1, 2018)

New in calibre 3.24.2 (May 27, 2018)

New in calibre 3.24.1 (May 26, 2018)

New in calibre 3.24.0 (May 25, 2018)

New features:
Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files.
PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines.
PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates
Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences->Look & feel
Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words.
Edit book: Fix HTML: Automatically resolve private entities
Improve formatting of help in Preferences->Tweaks
ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well.
Bug fixes:
PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text as their presence prevents searching from working
DOCX Output: Fix tags not being converted correctly.
DOCX Input: Fix incorrect conversion of a framed block that contains a list.
Conversion: Fix private entities that use the same name as an HTML entity not being handled correctly
Viewer: Fix HTML files with private entities displaying an artifact at the top
Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with private entities
EPUB3 Input: Fix titlepage being referred to in the nav causing two titlepage entries in the final book.
Fix throbber buttons not being perfectly aligned inside toolbars
Quickview: Fix sizes not being displayed.
Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as changed if no images could be further compressed.
Book list split-view: Fix horizontal scroll position of split view can change when changing the current column in one view.
Fix Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux.
Edit metadata dialog: Fix undo last trim not working for automatic trims.
Content server: Fix series field blank in Italian translation
BeautifulSoup: Port fix from upstream for outputting bare ampersands in strings.
calibredb add: Run the input plugins before reading metadata instead of after.
New news sources:
The Federalist by Kovid Goyal
Improved news sources:
The New York Times Book Review
New York Times
Le Devoir

New in calibre 3.23.0 (May 4, 2018)

New in calibre 3.22.1 (Apr 20, 2018)

New in calibre 3.21.0 (Apr 6, 2018)

New in calibre 3.19.0 (Mar 9, 2018)

New in calibre 3.18.0 (Feb 23, 2018)

New in calibre 3.17.0 (Feb 9, 2018)

New in calibre 3.16.0 (Jan 26, 2018)

New in calibre 3.15.0 (Jan 26, 2018)

New in calibre 3.14.0 (Dec 15, 2017)

New in calibre 3.13.0 (Dec 1, 2017)

New in calibre 3.12.0 (Nov 10, 2017)

New in calibre 3.11.1 (Nov 3, 2017)

New in calibre 3.11.0 (Nov 2, 2017)

New in calibre 3.10.0 (Oct 21, 2017)

New in calibre 3.9.0 (Oct 6, 2017)

New in calibre 3.8.0 (Sep 22, 2017)

New in calibre 3.7.0 (Aug 28, 2017)

New in calibre 3.6.0 (Aug 4, 2017)

New in calibre 3.5.0 (Jul 28, 2017)

New in calibre 3.4.0 (Jul 14, 2017)

New in calibre 3.3.0 (Jul 7, 2017)

New in calibre 3.2.1 (Jun 30, 2017)

New in calibre 3.2.0 (Jun 30, 2017)

New in calibre 3.1.1 (Jun 23, 2017)

New in calibre 3.1.0 (Jun 23, 2017)

New in calibre 3.0.0 (Jun 16, 2017)

New in calibre 2.85.1 (May 13, 2017)

New in calibre 2.85.0 (May 12, 2017)

New in calibre 2.84.0 (May 5, 2017)

New in calibre 2.83.0 (Apr 15, 2017)

New in calibre 2.82.0 (Mar 18, 2017)

New in calibre 2.81.0 (Mar 10, 2017)

New Features:
Amazon metadata download: Allow downloading amazon metadata from multiple sources. You can now configure the Amazon plugin via Preferences->Metadata download to use either the amazon servers, or various search engine caches to get the metadata. Should help with the recent CAPTCHA problems when downloading metadata from amazon
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Always add the original word as one of the spelling corrections, so that small edits to the word can be made easily.
Edit Book: Saved searched Dialog: Allow re-arranging the saved searches using drag and drop.
Implement auto update of builtin metadata download plugins, just as for recipes and Get Books plugins. Needed as the websites they get data from often change.
Edit Book: When inserting full screen images, use the actual image dimensions in the generated SVG code, when available
Linux installer: Check that the umask is suitable before running the installer. Should fix breakage on systems where users have changed the user umask but neglected to also alter it for sudo
Bulk metadata edit: Remove the control to delete specific formats as it is redundant. This functionality is already present by right clicking the Remove books button
Bug Fixes:
TXT Input: When detecting the encoding of txt files only use the first four kilobytes of text. Fixes excessively slow conversion of very large text files.
Get Books: Fix price not being displayed for books from Amazon dues to website changes
GetBooks: Update Google Books plugin for website changes
E-book viewer: Fix slow startup when recently opened files are on a slow/malfunctioning networked filesystem.
Google metadata download: Fix metadata not being found when the title of the book includes a sub-title
Improve downloading of covers from the google books metadata source
News download: Fix a bug that could cause a crash when downloading an SVG image.
Edit book: Fix a regression that caused pasting copied text from programs that generate both HTML and plain text when copying to paste the HTML in preference to the plain text
Improved news sources:
tyzden
The Economist
Kansas City Star
NYTimes
The Spectator

New in calibre 2.80.0 (Feb 24, 2017)

New in calibre 2.79.0 (Feb 10, 2017)

New in calibre 2.78.0 (Jan 27, 2017)

New in calibre 2.77.0 (Jan 13, 2017)

New in calibre 2.76.0 (Dec 30, 2016)

New in calibre 2.75.1 (Dec 27, 2016)

New in calibre 2.75.0 (Dec 23, 2016)

New in calibre 2.74.0 (Dec 9, 2016)

New in calibre 2.73.0 (Dec 9, 2016)

New in calibre 2.72.0 (Nov 18, 2016)

New in calibre 2.71.0 (Oct 31, 2016)

New in calibre 2.70.0 (Oct 14, 2016)

New in calibre 2.69.0 (Sep 30, 2016)

New in calibre 2.68.0 (Sep 16, 2016)

New in calibre 2.67.0 (Sep 8, 2016)

New in calibre 2.66.0 (Sep 2, 2016)

New in calibre 2.65.0 (Aug 26, 2016)

New in calibre 2.64.0 (Aug 12, 2016)

New in calibre 2.63.0 (Jul 22, 2016)

New in calibre 2.62.0 (Jul 8, 2016)

New in calibre 2.61.0 (Jul 1, 2016)

New in calibre 2.60.0 (Jun 24, 2016)

New in calibre 2.59.0 (Jun 17, 2016)

New in calibre 2.58.0 (Jun 3, 2016)

New in calibre 2.57.1 (May 20, 2016)

New in calibre 2.56.0 (Apr 29, 2016)

New in calibre 2.55.0 (Apr 15, 2016)

New in calibre 2.54.0 (Apr 1, 2016)

New in calibre 2.53.0 (Mar 11, 2016)

New in calibre 2.52.0 (Feb 26, 2016)

New in calibre 2.51.0 (Feb 12, 2016)

New in calibre 2.50.1 (Jan 29, 2016)

New in calibre 2.49 (Jan 15, 2016)

New in calibre 2.48 (Jan 2, 2016)

New in calibre 2.47 (Dec 21, 2015)

New in calibre 2.46 (Dec 11, 2015)

New in calibre 2.45 (Nov 27, 2015)

New in calibre 2.44.1 (Nov 16, 2015)

New in calibre 2.44.0 (Nov 13, 2015)

New in calibre 2.43.0 (Nov 6, 2015)

New in calibre 2.42.0 (Oct 30, 2015)

New in calibre 2.41.0 (Oct 16, 2015)

New in calibre 2.39.0 (Sep 25, 2015)

New in calibre 2.38.0 (Sep 11, 2015)

New in calibre 2.37.0 (Sep 4, 2015)

New in calibre 2.36.0 (Aug 28, 2015)

New in calibre 2.35.0 (Aug 14, 2015)

New in calibre 2.34.0 (Aug 7, 2015)

New in calibre 2.33.0 (Jul 24, 2015)

New in calibre 2.32.1 (Jul 18, 2015)

New in calibre 2.32.0 (Jul 17, 2015)

New Features:
E-book viewer: Automatically save the current reading position every ten seconds. Prevents loss of reading position on crash/forced shutdown.
Edit Book: Check Book: Add checks for missing OPF version and toc references and for text placed directly inside the tag
calibredb: Add a new search sub-command that can be used to generate a list of book ids from a search expression
Tag Editor: Place the keyboard focus on the last edited field.
Edit metadata dialog: When clicking Next and Previous preserve the current tab of the edit comments widget.
Edit Book: Allow drag and drop of files onto dock icon on OS X
Bug Fixes:
E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the maximum text width setting in full screen mode to be ignored when switching from normal to full screen.
Fix error in template dialog when using {id} in send to device preferences.
Edit Book/Book polishing: Fix EPUB books with opf files that use a non-default namespace for the OPF namespace being corrupted.
OS X: Workaround for Qt 5 regression that causes any errors during startup to be hidden behind the splash screen.
Conversion: Fix incorrect relative URLs being generated when an HTML or CSS file is placed higher in the folder hierarchy than the opf file.
FB2 Output: Fix error when using the sectionize with toc option and the input documents Table of Contents contains multiple items pointing to the same HTML file
Conversion: Fix error when input document contains a font size exactly one point away from the base size.
Device drivers: Handle devices with undecodeable filenames in their filesystem. Simply ignore those files.
Fix Cmd+Left/Right keyboard shortcut not working when editing items in the book list on OS X.
Fix corrupted text in the jobs list on some non-English windows installs
Edit Book: Workaround for a Qt regression that caused 'See what changed' after a search and replace on OS X causing the application to become unresponsive.
Edit Book: Fix smarten punctuation not working for books with non-ascii characters in internal file names on OS X
New news sources:
Slate Star Codex by Ned Letcher
Hurriyet by Adrian Tennessee
Improved news sources:
Harvard Business Review
Psychology Today
NRC Handelsblad
Entrepeneur Magazine
20 minutes
Economia
Accountancy Age
Jakarta Post
Foreign Affairs
Spectator Magazine
Daily Express
The Onion AV Club
Metro UK

New in calibre 2.31.0 (Jun 19, 2015)

New in calibre 2.30.0 (Jun 5, 2015)

New in calibre 2.29.0 (May 29, 2015)

New in calibre 2.28.0 (May 15, 2015)

New in calibre 2.27.0 (May 1, 2015)

New in calibre 2.26.0 (Apr 24, 2015)

New in calibre 2.25.0 (Apr 17, 2015)

New in calibre 2.24.0 (Apr 10, 2015)

New in calibre 2.23.0 (Apr 3, 2015)

New in calibre 2.22.0 (Mar 21, 2015)

New in calibre 2.21.0 (Mar 13, 2015)

NEW FEATURES:
Allow opening ebook files and covers in external applications by simply right clicking on them in the Book Details panel.
Now, you can right click on an ebook format or the cover in the Book Details panel, and open it with any application installed on your computer. calibre will automatically present you with a list of application capable of opening the file. Simply choose one, or if your particular application is not auto-detected, you can browse for it manually.
Tag Browser: Make rename and delete for items in the Tag Browser restrict themselves to the current Virtual Library (if any). There is also an additional menu entry you can use to rename and delete across all books while in a Virtual Library.
Conversion: Use a new (written from scratch) implementation of CSS Level 3 selectors that fixes various bugs in handling of the more advanced/uncommon CSS selectors such as nth-last-child()
Edit Book: Allow restoring of disabled confirmation prompts in preferences and add a confirmation when removing saved searches
Edit ToC button: Remember the last used ebook formats
BUG FIXES:
E-book viewer: Fix regression that prevented pasting of text with formatting from the viewer.
Closes tickets: 1428018
Table of Contents Editor: Fix selecting a location inside a file and then clicking on another file causes the previous location to be used in the new file.
Closes tickets: 1428212
DOCX Input: Fix incorrect bold font weight being used for heading styles even if the style definition does not specify bold.
Closes tickets: 1430831
AZW3 Input: Fix a bug that prevented conversion of AZW3 files that contained an empty CSS media block.
Closes tickets: 1426220
PDF Output: Fix incorrect rendering of text in elements that use font-variant:small-caps and also have children.
Closes tickets: 1425094
Get Books: Update Amazon Europe, Empik and CDP store plugins
PDF Output: Fix incorrect conversion of source document that specify dir='rtl' on the root element.
Closes tickets: 1429292
PDF Output: Ignore unparseable links instead of aborting the conversion on them.
Closes tickets: 1429282
Fix reading metadata from filenames tester not working for dates before 1900.
Closes tickets: 1424607
Linux binary install: Fix SSL CA certificates not being detected on Fedora based distributions
Books list: Fix column alignment incorrectly propagating when changing libraries
FB2 Input: Do not put a border around images
Fixes for various incompatibilities with (Py)Qt 5.4.1 which is used by some calibre distro packages on linux
Fix error when running calibredb backup_metadata on a library that contains book records with no path information
Edit Book: Fix extra search being hidden when removing a saved search
Fix a regression in 2.20 that prevented some changes to per-library preferences from being saved
Linux installer: Do not register application/octet-stream as one of the mimetypes calibre can handle
NEW NEWS SOURCES:
Pando Daily by Darko Miletic
IMPROVED NEWS SOURCES:
Spektrum der Wissenschaft
New Musical Express
The Daily Mirror

New in calibre 2.20.0 (Feb 20, 2015)

New in calibre 2.19.0 (Feb 6, 2015)

New in calibre 2.18.0 (Jan 30, 2015)

New in calibre 2.17.0 (Jan 23, 2015)

New in calibre 2.16.0 (Jan 10, 2015)

New in calibre 2.15.0 (Jan 3, 2015)

New in calibre 2.14.0 (Dec 27, 2014)

New in calibre 2.13.0 (Dec 19, 2014)

New in calibre 2.12.0 (Nov 28, 2014)

New in calibre 2.11.0 (Nov 21, 2014)

New in calibre 2.10.0 (Nov 14, 2014)

New in calibre 2.9.0 (Nov 7, 2014)

New in calibre 2.8.0 (Oct 31, 2014)

New in calibre 2.7.0 (Oct 24, 2014)

New in calibre 2.6.0 (Oct 17, 2014)

NEW FEATURES:
Catalogs: CSV Output: Allow changing the order of fields in the generated CSV catalog by using drag and drop to re-arrange the fields in the create catalog dialog. Closes tickets: 1379048
Edit metadata dialog: When editing metadata individually for multiple books, popup a confirmation if the user clicks OK before finishing the editing of all the books.
Closes tickets: 1378072
Allow configuring a keyboard shortcut to toggle highlighting of search results via Preferences->Keyboard (under Miscellaneous). Closes tickets: 1380528
Edit Book: Saved searches window: Remember the last used values for where to search and search direction
E-book viewer: Allow right clicking on the toolbar buttons to popup the optional menus, useful when using the viewer on a touch screen. Closes tickets: 1380359
E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut to toggle the Table of Contents [Ctrl+T]
Performance improvement when renaming/deleting large numbers of items via the Manage Tags/Series/Publishers/etc dialogs
Kobo driver: Update to support soon to be released firmware update from Kobo
BUG FIXES:
Amazon metadata download: Update the amazon metadata download plugin to handle changes to the amazon.com website. Closes tickets: 1379305
AZW3 Output: Ignore invalid attribute names in the input document rather than aborting the conversion on them.
Book details panel: Fix custom columns built from other columns with tag like values not clickable in the book details panel.Closes tickets: 1381323
Edit Book: Fix changing the editor undo/redo keyboard shortcuts not preventing the old shortcuts from working.
CSV Catalogs: Output all custom datetime columns in the local timezone to match the format for builtin columns
E-book viewer: When looking up words in the dictionary for a book that has no language set, use the current calibre interface language
Fix comments editor widget in the edit metadata dialog swallowing Tab key presses, preventing the use of the keyboard to move between widgets. You can use Ctrl+Tab to insert literal tabs
OS X: Workaround for regression in Qt 5 that causes pressing the Esc key to close the entire window instead of the current completion popup
Fix Advanced search dialog not being sized correctly if the user selects a larger than normal interface font. Closes tickets: 1378045
E-book viewer: Fix page turning by clicking in the margins in full screen mode (when displaying more than one page per screen) not working because of a Qt 5 behavior change.
IMPROVED NEW SOURCES:
nrcnext
Wall Street Journal
Smithsonian Magazine
Sueddeutsche Zeitung mobil

New in calibre 2.5.0 (Oct 3, 2014)

New in calibre 2.4.0 (Sep 26, 2014)

New Features:
An all new random cover generation algorithm, which generates covers using many different color schemes and cover styles - Now when you click the Generate cover button in the Edit Metadata dialog a cover based on the book metadata is generated using random colors and styles. You can customize the random cover generation by long clicking the Generate Cover button, which will popup a dialog where you can create new color schemes and customize other aspects of the generated cover as well.
Edit Book: Redesign the saved searches pop-up as a dockable window. Editing saved searches now happens inline and the global search/replace keyboard shortcuts work in the saved searches window
Edit book: Change the text of the 'Mark selected text' menu entry depending on whether it will mark or unmark the text
Edit metadata dialog: Allow undoing a metadata download by long-clicking the Download metadata button and choosing "Undo last metadata download"
Edit metadata dialog: Allow undoing the changes to individual fields by right clicking on the field and selecting Undo after a metadata download.
Download metadata dialog: Allow using Enter key to select cover and left/right keys to move between metadata results.
Fix the row numbers in the book list remaining wide when switching libraries if some books were marked before the switch.
Fix keyboard focus not going to cover grid after doing a search.
DOCX Input: Support for the keepNext paragraph property to keep successive paragraphs on the same page.
Template language: New template functions: raw_list() to return the items in a list such as tags without any sorting/formatting applied to them; author_sorts() to return the author sort strings from the authors table for the authors in the book.
Bug Fixes:
Fix a regression in 2.3 that broke creation of collections on the device when metadata management was set to manual.
E-book viewer: Fix displaying multiple pages per screen not working in calibre 2.x with some books, due to a change in Qt 5.
E-book viewer: Fix unintuitive behavior of back and forward buttons when going all the way back to the first item in the history.
Conversion: Do not allow default (user-agent) style rules to ever override style rules defined in the input document, regardless of CSS selector specificity.
Workaround for Qt 5 regression that broke selecting multiple icons in Preferences->Column icon rules
Fix tags with angle brackets not being displayed in the Book Details panel
New news sources:
Hurriyet Daily News and Al Monitor by spswerling
VICE News by Adrian Tennessee
Jagran Josh by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources:
Today's Zaman
Wall Street Journal
High Country News

New in calibre 2.3.0 (Sep 12, 2014)

New in calibre 2.2.0 (Sep 5, 2014)

New Features:
Kindle driver: Add option to not overwrite existing page number (apnx) files on the device when sending books to the device
Kindle driver: Add option to allow customization of the page number (apnx) generation algorithm based on values in a custom column
Metadata jacket: Allow customizing the jacket template to show the tags in alphabetical order
View specific format window: If a conversion finishes in the background making a new format available, update the window.
E-book viewer: Automatically hide the mouse cursor if the mouse has not been used for a few seconds. This prevents the mouse cursor from obscuring text underneath it. The cursor will reappear automatically when you move the mouse.
Driver for SurfPad 3.
Bug Fixes:
Conversion: Fix incorrect conversion of CSS when the input document uses the same CSS class name in both upper and lower case.
Workaround for Qt 5 behavior change on OS X which prevented error handling during startup on OS X to not work
DOCX Input: Fix non-breaking hyphens being ignored
Workaround for Qt 5 bug that causes text copied to the clipboard to be lost when quitting the viewer on windows.
When detecting the encoding of HTML documents, if the document contains multiple charset declarations, prefer the HTML 5 syntax to the HTML 4 syntax.
E-book viewer: Fix text not being reflowed when resizing the viewer window and only the height changes.
Fix merging of book records not working correctly for custom columns of type text with fixed set of permitted values. Null values were incorrectly overwriting non-null values.
Creation of custom news sources failing on a computer on which no custom news sources have been previously created.
Workaround for Qt 5 on windows bug that makes the selected indication for items in any list/table disappear when the widget loses focus
Fix regression in 2.1 that prevented the saved column layout from being applied.
Edit Book: Fix the Check Book tool leaking threads
Edit Book: Fix editor hanging when quitting during a background save operation and the save operation completes before the warning dialog is dismissed.
Fix a regression in calibre 2.0 that caused setting the value of a custom number column to zero via the book list to clear the field instead.
Check Book: Fix an error caused by empty style tags when auto-renaming mismatched font names.
When using the Embed Metadata or Polish Books tools to update metadata, fix custom columns values not being cleared in the book file even if they have been cleared in calibre
New news sources:
The Hollywood Reporter by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
Common Dreams
LA Times
Spektrum der Wissenschaft
cracked.com

New in calibre 2.1.0 (Aug 29, 2014)

New Features:
Prevent calibre from installing or running on Windows XP as there have been many reports of Qt 5 crashing on Windows XP and Windows XP is now no longer supported by Microsoft. If you are on Windows XP, please stay with calibre 1.48 until you are ready to upgrade your windows.
Kobo driver: Add support for new Kobo Aura H2O and firmware 3.8.0
Driver for HTC C.
Closes tickets: 1360678
Add a new tool to easily test templates. Go to Preferences->Toolbars to add the tool to one of the calibre toolbars.
Closes tickets: 1360550
EPUB and MOBI catalog generation: Allow using the full template language including all custom columns
Bug Fixes:
E-book viewer: Fix soft-hyphens causing rendering artifacts with some fonts due to a bug in Qt 5
OS X: Workaround for Qt 5 bug that causes the popup menu on the author to author sort button in the edit metadata dialog to not respond if the mouse button if not released once before clicking menu entries.
Closes tickets: 1362338
Book list: Fix Ctrl+Home/End not selecting the first/last book
PDF Output: Fix header and footer templates not working in calibre 2.0
Closes tickets: 1361483
OS X: Workaround for Qt 5 bug that caused many keyboard shortcuts to not work in OS X
Workaround for Qt 5 regression causing custom colors in color chooser dialogs to not be remembered between calibre sessions
Conversion: Fix error when converting EPUB/HTML files that contain invalid margin or padding declarations.
Closes tickets: 1360842
Fix for calibre 2.0 crashing on startup on some linux systems when used with --detach
E-book viewer: When right clicking on an image to view it in its own popup window, fix the rotate button not working correctly with the zoom buttons
Workaround for Qt 5 bug causing crash when running jobs (conversion to PDF or MOBI; reading metadata from an EPUB without a cover) that require Qt WebKit on Ubuntu.
Closes tickets: 1360693
OS X: Fix background jobs stealing input focus if they require the use of Qt WebKit
Preferences->Metadata plugboards: Show plugboards for disabled devices and formats whose metadata writer plugins have been disabled.
Closes tickets: 1360766
Fix calibre 2.0 not using system color scheme on windows and OS X
Fix regression in calibre 2.0 that caused crashes when using drag and drop to re-order virtual library tabs
Linux: Disable the optional system tray icon because of bugs in the system tray icon implementation in Qt 5 on linux.
Closes tickets: 1360652
E-book viewer: Fix navigating to a bookmark not updating the displayed page number.
Closes tickets: 1360621
Fix the 'unified title and toolbar on OS X' tweak causing calibre to fail to work because of a bug in PyQt5
E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 2.0 that changed the speed of scrolling with the mouse wheel in flow mode
Edit book: Workaround for regression in Qt 5 that causes typing the Cmd+some letter to generate text in the editor instead of being ignored.
Book polishing: Fix EPUB files with corrupted ZIP central directories not working and leaving behind detritus in the current working directory.
Closes tickets: 1360385
Edit Book: Workaround for Qt 5 regression that caused the 'See what changed' tool to freeze the editor when closing the window showing the changes.
Fix regression in 2.0 that broke viewing of LRF format ebooks.
Closes tickets: 1360332
Fix for a Qt 5 regression that caused the Copy to Library right click menu to be empty on OS X.
Closes tickets: 1360069

New in calibre 2.0.0 (Aug 22, 2014)

New Features:
For a summary of the major changes in calibre between 1.0 and 2.0, see http://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/eleven
Add support for MTP devices (Android phones/tablets) on OS X
Update the version of Qt used by calibre to Qt 5. This fixes various longstanding bugs in calibre that were caused by bugs in Qt 4.
Edit Book: Make the edit saved search/add saved search popup window non-modal.
Closes tickets: 1354785
Tag Browser: Show format specific icons for the format entries in the Tag Browser
Library check: Add buttons to conveniently mark all fixable/deletable items.
Closes tickets: 1353954
Bug Fixes:
E-book viewer: Reloading the book now re-opens it at the current position even if the option to remember position when quitting is turned off
E-book viewer: Remove extra spacing between document and scrollbars. This is particularly noticeable when using a dark theme for the viewer.
PDF Output: Fix balanced parentheses in the text of items in the Table of Contents not being rendered properly by some PDF viewers.
Closes tickets: 1358443
Edit book: Abort terminal save on save error instead of quitting editor
Get Books: Update the Project Gutenberg plugin for website changes
Plugin loading: When multiple plugin classes are present in the __init__.py namespace, use the one with the qualified name that has the least components
Edit Book: Prevent long saved searches from making the saved search dialog too wide
Comic Input: Sort pages placed in sub-folders correctly (as long as all pages have the same number of parent folders).
Conversion: Fix the word @page in a comment inside a stylesheet with no following {} causing the rest of the stylesheet to be ignored.
Fix comparing AZW3 to ORIGINAL_AZW3 from the book details panel not working
Closes tickets: 1354624
New news sources:
General Knowledge Today by Kanika G
BBC Arabic by logophile777
Improved news sources:
TIME Magazine
The Atlantic
Down to Earth
Heraldo de Aragon
Radikal (Turkey)
Wired Daily Edition
Orange County Register

New in calibre 1.48.0 (Aug 8, 2014)

New Features:
E-book viewer: Make the list of bookmarks a dockable window that can be kept open while reading the book
E-book viewer: Make the Table of Contents panel a dockable window so it can be moved around and even made into a separate floating window
E-book viewer: Allow reloading the current book by pressing F5 or Ctrl+R
Edit Book: Allow changing the case of selected text by right clicking and choosing the appropriate change case action.
Driver for Kiano Booky Light.
calibredb list: Have --for-machine dump the output in JSON instead of using ASCII separators, as most scripting languages have JSON parsers builtin
zsh completion: Complete filenames inside epub files for ebook-edit
ebook-edit: Allow specifying multiple internal files to open and get rid of the no longer needed --edit-file option
Bug Fixes:
Fix over-aggressive caching causing multiple cover grid emblem rules to not work.
Edit Book: Fix position syncing and Live CSS not working if the opening tag is split over multiple lines
EPUB metadata: When updating the language in an EPUB file, preserve the country code, if the new language is the same as the original language in the EPUB file.
Edit Book: Fix choosing default dictionary based on language tag in the OPF ignoring the country code
Edit Book: Fix a regression that caused clicking on links in the preview panel that lead to destinations in the same HTML file popping up a spurious error message.
Fix regression that caused tags to not be sorted when displayed in the book details panel.
Edit Book: More robust implementation of current tag detection for Live CSS. Now uses the same logic as matching tag highlighting.
Edit Book: When highlighting the tag the cursor is currently inside, if the cursor is inside the definition of an opening tag, highlight that tag rather than its parent.
Edit Book: Check Book: Do not run the rest of the checks if parsing errors are found, to prevent the checkers from raising unhandled errors
Improved news sources:
Maximum PC
El Correo

New in calibre 1.47.0 (Aug 1, 2014)

New Features:
Cover Grid: Allow user defined emblems (icons) to be displayed next to covers
Now you can have your own custom icons displayed next to covers in the cover grid, based on simple rules you create. For example, you can display a heart icon next to books with a rating of more than four stars or a tick mark next to books you read and so on. To create these rules go to Preferences->Cover Grid and click the Emblems tab on the left.
E-book Viewer: Use wiktionary.org and wordnik.com as dictionary providers instead of dict.org
Closes tickets: 1349548
When looking up words, the word definition is now opened in a separate browser window. The language of the dictionary to lookup is automatically selected based on the language of the current book. To lookup a word in the viewer simply select the word with your mouse and right click, then choose 'Lookup in dictionary'
Edit Book: Allow customizing the templates used when creating new, blank HTML/CSS files via Preferences->Editor settings.
Closes tickets: 1348986
Comic Input: When sorting the pages inside a comic, recognize numbers, so that page2 sorts before page10
Conversion: When inserting a metadata jacket, format the series number using roman numerals. This behavior can be disabled by using a custom jacket template, as described here: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/customize.html#overriding-icons-templates-et-cetera
Bug Fixes:
Edit Book: Fix incorrect results when running replace all on marked text and more than one replacement is made.
Closes tickets: 1348941
Edit Book: Live CSS: Improve detection of which tag the cursor is inside when there are multiple tags on the same line.
Closes tickets: 1350495
Edit Book: Clear the Check Book panel when opening a new book
Edit Book: Allow the import files into book action to be added to the toolbar
Edit Book: Fix subsetting of fonts not working if the text contains non-BMP unicode characters.
Closes tickets: 1349856
News download: Fix HTML parser used in the news download subsystem not preserving whitespace inside tags
Closes tickets: 1349536
Conversion: Do not strip underscores from classnames.
Closes tickets: 1349442
Edit Book: Fix cursor positioning not working when creating a new file from a template
Fix a rare error that could happen when using series columns inside a custom column template
Closes tickets: 1348937
E-book viewer: Handle quoted URLs inside @font-face rules
Improved news sources:
New Yorker

New in calibre 1.46.0 (Jul 25, 2014)

New Features:
Edit Book: Add support for third party plugins to extend the editors functionality.
The editor now supports plugins that can be used to extend its functionality. Documentation of the plugin API and an example plugin are at: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/creating_plugins.html#edit-book-plugins
calibredb list: Add a --for-machine option that causes the output to be made in a form more easily parsed programmatically (it uses ASCII field and record separators)
Book details panel: Automatically convert ISSN identifiers into links to the periodicals page on worldcat.org
Edit Book: When re-arranging the toolbars inside an individual file editor, save the new toolbar layout so that it is re-used in the future. Also apply the changed layout to all open editors of the same type.
Edit Book: Make the undo/redo/cut/copy/paste buttons on the editor toolbar also configurable, so they can be removed via Preferences->Toolbars, if needed.
Edit Book: Allow editing xpgt (Adobe Page Template) files as XML.
Edit Book: Allow the action to launch the saved searches dialog to be added to the global toolbars
Book details panel: Add an option to make clicking on the author name search the calibre library for the author instead of opening the wikipedia page for the author. To use it got to Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details.
Bug Fixes:
Fix published date not being merged when merging book records
Embed metadata tool: Fix error when trying to embed metadata in corrupted MOBI files or files of other types that are marked as MOBI in the library
Edit Book: Make the warning dialog that pops up when you try to quit while the editor is saving changes in the background a little more clear.
When generating covers, do not render soft-hyphens in the text as hyphens.
Conversion: Fix a bug processing the CSS font shorthand property when the line-height is specified in em or percentage units
calibre-customize: When building plugins from a directory, exclude known version control subdirectories
Improved news sources:
Grandes corresponsales
Times of India
Economic Times of India

New in calibre 1.45.0 (Jul 18, 2014)

New Features:
Edit Book: Add in-context help for HTML and CSS
Now, you can right click on any HTML/OPF/NCX tag name or CSS property and the editor will open some help for that item in your browser.
Book details panel: Make series and tags clickable. Clicking on them will search the calibre library for all books in the same series/ having the same tag
Edit metadata dialog: Improve performance by only writing changed fields to the database when clicking OK or Next
AZW3 Input: When converting from AZW3 files, use the high quality version of the image if the source AZW3 file contains both low and high quality images. These dual azw3 files are produced by kindlegen 2.9
Edit Book: When right clicking on a link in the editor add a menu entry to open the link
Edit Book: Search and replace panel: Add arrows to open the list of recently used search and replace expressions
Driver for Motorola Milestone X2.
Bug Fixes:
AZW3: Preserve the page-progression-direction property when converting/editing/polishing AZW3 files
AZW3 Input: Workaround broken AZW3 files produced by kindlegen that use uppercase attribute names.
PDF metadata: When updating the XMP metadata in PDF files, compress the XMP block written to the PDF. This is particularly useful when the PDF file has an existing XMP metadata block with very large amounts of data in it.
Fix searches on Yes/No columns using the terms ('blank', 'checked', 'unchecked') not working on non-English calibre installs
Edit metadata dialog: Do not auto change the title sort field when clicking OK if the title was changed. Instead the title sort field must be changed explicitly.
Linux binary installer: Fix regression that caused ZSH completion to not be installed
Edit Book: Spell check: When suggesting alternative for a hyphenated word, ensure the first suggestion is the word formed by removing the hyphen, if that is a valid word
Get Books: Update the Woblink plugin to handle changes to the woblink website
Edit Book: Fix replacement of hyphenated words in the spell checker not working
Edit Book: Fix live syntax highlighting of links not being updated correctly after renaming an open file
Edit Book: Fix regression that caused crash while syntax highlighting CSS stylesheets that contain url() tokens without enclosing quotes
Linux binary: Do not fail on system with invalid locale info. Instead default to using the UTF-8 encoding on these systems.
Improved news sources:
The Economic Times India
EPW
Carta
The Hindu
F-Secure
NOAA Online

New in calibre 1.44.0 (Jul 11, 2014)

New in calibre 1.43.0 (Jul 4, 2014)

New in calibre 1.42.0 (Jun 27, 2014)

New in calibre 1.41.0 (Jun 21, 2014)

New in calibre 1.40.0 (Jun 13, 2014)

New Features:
Edit Book: Add a new tool to manage fonts. Allows easily changing/removing/embedding fonts in the entire book. To use it go to Tools->Manage Fonts
Edit Book: Allow the color of the links in the Live CSS panel to be themed.
E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut to bookmark current location.
Bug Fixes:
Edit Book: Check book: When auto-changing font name to match actual name in font file, also change the font name in shorthand font declarations
Edit Book/Book polishing: Fix embedding all referenced fonts not catching fonts that are only specified via style attributes and not in any stylesheets.
Conversion: Fix normalization of CSS shorthand font property not working when multiple font families are specified in the same shorthand property
Edit Book: Live CSS: Fix clicking on link to go to style definition not working if the stylesheet contains CSS 3 @media queries or @font-face rules
Edit Book: When importing DOCX files, set the media type for html files correctly
Edit Book: Fix import of DOCX files that contain no Table of Contents not working.
Portable installer: Fix a crash if the user selects a destination for the portable install that does not have enough disk space.
Fix date column not showing date added when adding zip/rar files that contain an OPF with a calibre timestamp in its metadata
Sony driver: Fix SONY annotation app not working with files sent to the device by calibre
Linux build: Fix regression that caused opening PDF files (or any externally viewed files) preventing calibre from being restarted as long as the external viewer is not shutdown.
Edit book: Fix changing underline style to none when creating a custom color scheme causes error.
Check Book: Fix empty (zero byte) XML files causing check book to fail.
Check Book: Fix combination of mismatching font family names and a font-family declaration with an invalid value (such as a dimension) causing auto fixing of errors to fail.
Improved news sources:
Respekt
Newsweek
Jerusalem Post
Outlook India
PC Magazine
Instapaper

New in calibre 1.39.0 (May 29, 2014)

New in calibre 1.38.0 (May 23, 2014)

New in calibre 1.37.0 (May 16, 2014)

New in calibre 1.36.0 (May 9, 2014)

New in calibre 1.35.0 (May 2, 2014)

New in calibre 1.34.0 (Apr 25, 2014)

New Features:
E-book viewer: When in flow mode, handle swiping on the touchscreen differently. Swiping now scrolls line by line in flow mode instead of page by page. If you wish to scroll page by page in flow mode, tap instead of swiping.
Conversion: Preserve all guide entries that are of a type present in the EPUB 2.0 specification. These entries are used by newer Kindle readers to populate the Go To jump list
When adding MOBI files if the author name is in LN, FN format, auto change it to FN LN format, as the MOBI format has no author sort field. This behavior can be disabled by setting Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to copy.
Spellcheck: When checking French text list all words that have the same stem as a single word. So j'aime and aime are listed as a single word.
Spell check: Add a context (right click) menu that allows for quick operations on all selected words
Manage user dictionaries: Add a button to import a list of words in bulk into the user dictionary
Spell check dialog: Allow sorting words case sensitively
Bug Fixes:
EPUB Input: Fix incorrect handling of obfuscated fonts using the IDPF obfuscation algorithm when the epub unique identifier starts with urn:uuid
Edit book: Fix obfuscated fonts in EPUB files not being handled correctly when editing the book (obfuscated fonts would get corrupted when making changes).
Edit book: Fix a bug that caused spell checking to fail when using the builtin spanish dictionary
Spell check: Fix replacing a word and then replacing the new word again not working without doing a refresh in between
Spell check: Fix language declarations not being respected for nested tags.
Spell check: Fix 'Show next occurrence' sometimes showing the word in an incorrect location, for example in an attribute where spell check is not performed.
Allow import of dictionaries that deviate from the spec in minor ways
Edit Book: Fix the Show next occurrence button in the spell check dialog sometimes failing to show next occurrence
OS X: Detect the users default interface language correctly. Also fix parsing of ambiguous dates in mm/dd vs dd/mm formats, based on the users locale settings in OS X.
Improved news sources:
Hindustan Times

New in calibre 1.33.0 (Apr 18, 2014)

New in calibre 1.32.0 (Apr 11, 2014)

New in calibre 1.31.0 (Apr 4, 2014)

New in calibre 1.30.0 (Mar 28, 2014)

New in calibre 1.29.0 (Mar 21, 2014)

New in calibre 1.28.0 (Mar 14, 2014)

New in calibre 1.27.0 (Mar 7, 2014)

New Features:
An option to add multiple books from inside a ZIP or RAR file. Right click the Add Books button and choose 'Add multiple books from archive'.
Database backend: Make the database backend more robust when the calibre library is placed on flaky filesystems. Now when an I/O error occurs while writing to the database, the connection to the database is closed and re-opened and the operation is retried.
DJVU Input: Speedup extraction of text from DJVU files by implementing the BZZ decoder algorithm in C
Bug Fixes:
MOBI Input: Fix empty tags not being handled correctly in rare cases when the markup is bad enough to be parsed only using the fallback HTML parser.
Edit book: Fix column number of cursor shown in the bottom right being one less than it should be.
Edit book: Fix names for non-BMP unicode character (Such as emoticons) not being displayed in the lower right corner. Also allow these characters to be searched for by name in the Insert special character tool.
Do not show system tray notification popups while analyzing books on device, as they can be slow on systems that display multiple messages serially instead of replacing the last message
Linux installer script: Do not use the filesystem to pass the downloaded tarball to tar as it is possible for malicious code running on the users computer to alter the download file between signature verification and calling tar to extract the files.
DJVU Input: When extracting embedded txt from TXTz sections in DJVU files, fix incorrect extraction of txt when the djvutxt external program is not present.
Fix a regression in 1.26 that caused width and height attributes on tags to generate CSS width and height properties without a 'px' suffix
Linux binary installer: Fix an error when using proxies and python 3 with the new installer script
Edit book: When exporting files, fill the choose filename popup with the name of the file being exported as the default name
Make the new Linux installer script compatible with python 2.6.
Improved news sources:
American Thinker
HNA
Heise
Arguments and Facts
Financial Times

New in calibre 1.26.0 (Feb 28, 2014)

New Features:
Edit Book: Allow direct importing of HTML or DOCX files as new books without doing a full conversion. Use File->Import HTML or DOCX to import a file as a new EPUB book with minimal changes from the original.
Linux binary installer: Various improvements to the binary installer. It now creates an un-installer (calibre-uninstall) that will remove all files created by the installer. It also no longer asks for the installation directory. If you wish to change that, you need to specify it in the installation command itself. Also the installer is now downloaded securely via HTTPS from github and verifies the signature of the installed files. Finally, it can be used to create an isolated install, that only makes changes to files in the installation directory and does not require root privileges.
Metadata download: Add an option to merge the downloaded comments into existing comments, instead of overwriting (Preferences->Metadata download).
Edit book: Add an option to automatically beautify individual files whenever they are opened for editing. Look under 'Editor Settings' in the Edit Book Preferences.
Bulk metadata download: When reviewing downloaded metadata allow hiding the controls on the comments box by right clicking in the comments area. Useful on smaller screens.
E-book viewer: When displaying metadata for the book, also display custom column metadata
Bug Fixes:
Smarten punctuation: Correct handling for decade abbreviations like '60s and measurements in feet and inches like 1' 2".
EPUB Output: If the output profile is set to one of the Nook profiles, do not use shorthand CSS properties as the Nook cannot handle them.
Conversion: Fix incorrect CSS being generated when converting files that have tags with width or height attributes that contain fractional numbers.
Edit Book: When editing EPUB files, and a file is added in META-INF/ do not automatically add it to the manifest. Also do not warn about unmanifested files inside META-INF/ since a few vendors (Apple) require non standard files in that location.
Fix Book details popup window not being updated when editing metadata in the main window
Edit book: Fix editor not marking the book as modified when doing a Replace All that does not affect any currently open files.
Windows: Use a separate worker process to move files to the recycle bin. Fixes the problem of the recycle bin icon not being updated when deleting books into an empty recycle bin. Also avoids the overhead of launching a new, short-lived worker process for every delete.
calibredb: When deleting books/formats wait for deleted files to be moved to recycle bin, before quitting
RTF Output: Fix invalid RTF being produced when the text contains a double backslash.
Edit book: Fix option to disable showing the character before cursor not working
Get Books: Update various store plugins to account for changes to the store websites
Fix virtual library names with ampersands in them not being displayed correctly in the virtual library menu and tab bar
New news sources:
Various Russian news sources by bug_me_not
Improved news sources:
AnandTech
Zeit Online
Spektrum
Le Temps

New in calibre 1.25.0 (Feb 21, 2014)

New Features:
PDF: Add support for reading and writing extended (XMP) metadata: calibre can now read and write XMP metadata from PDF files. This means that all metadata that you can create in calibre, including custom columns, can be stored in the PDF files. It is also useful when importing PDF files created by some academic publishers, that sometimes have good XMP metadata, such as DOI identifiers, tags and so on.
Updated Quick Start guide.
Edit Book: Allow typing arbitrary unicode characters with the keyboard in the editor To use this feature, just type the unicode code number and press Alt+X. For example, to get the character ÿ type ff and press Alt+X
Edit book: Some performance improvements for the syntax highlighter that should make the editor noticeably more responsive while typing inside large HTML files.
Bug Fixes:
Edit book: Fix an error that occurs if more than 100 checkpoints are created.
Edit book: Fix splitting of HTML file occurring at the wrong location if the HTML contains invalid constructs like nested tags
Edit book: If the book being edited is deleted outside the editor, instead of showing an error message on save, ask the user to choose a new file location before saving.
Bulk metadata edit search and replace: Do not allow the user to perform the search and replace until she enters a search expression.
Conversion: When converting SVG images for formats that do not support SVG and the SVG has an invalid viewBox, ignore the viewBox instead of aborting conversion
Conversion: Fix parsing of HTML 5 documents that are also valid XML but use non-namespaced inline svg
Catalogs: Fix multiple exclusion rules causing entries to be duplicated.
HTML Input: Fix incorrect parsing of file names in href/src attributes that contain percent encoded non-ascii characters.
Edit book: Workaround for bug in Qt that caused extra null bytes to be appended to the end of the file when saving if the file contains non-BMP unicode characters.
Edit book: When autofixing file extensions mimetype mismatch, if the file in question is in the spine, change the file extension rather than the mimetype, as that is more likely to be the correct fix.
Fix the Similar Books menu items failing to find similar books if the target book has a quote in its metadata
Edit book: Fix regression that caused program to stop responding when quitting via File->Quit
Improved news sources:
Various Polish news sources

New in calibre 1.24.0 (Feb 14, 2014)

New Features:
E-book viewer: Add support for touchscreens when running on Windows tablets.
The built-in viewer in calibre now support touch screens on Windows tablets. You can tap or swipe to turn pages. Swipe up or down to jump between sections. Swipe and hold to flip through pages rapidly and pinch to zoom in and out.
Sending by email: Add an option to insert the comments from the book metadata as text into the email. Useful to allow the recipient to see a summary of the book before opening it. The option is in Preferences->Sharing by email
Edit book: new tool to automatically generate an inline (HTML) Table of Contents based on the current NCX Table of Contents. Accessed via Tools->Table of Contents->Insert inline Table of Contents.
Edit Book: Add a check for internal links in the book that do not point to HTML documents
Kobo driver: Add support for the soon to be released firmware version 3.2
Completion popups: Allow pressing Tab (in addition to Enter) to accept the current completion
Edit book: When auto-fixing named entities, fix in all files not just current file.
Bug Fixes:
EPUB Output: Do not override any declared text-decoration CSS for tags when auto-converting them to (auto-conversion is needed to comply with the epub spec).
PDF Output: Fix incorrect rendering of html files with only a single large image and very little text. In some rare circumstances, the full html file would not be rendered.
Add a copy to clipboard button for the duplicates message when copying to another library.
Catalogs: Fix an error when generating catalogs via calibredb from the command line on non-English installs
Catalogs: Fix an error creating catalogs in ebook format when one of the books contains HTML entities in its title
Preferences: When using the Restore to defaults button for the Tweaks, remove all plugin tweaks as well. This allows the user to recover the tweaks file if one of the plugins insert invalid code into the plugin tweaks
Edit book: Fix previously used locations for file open dialogs not being remembered when edit book is launched from within the main calibre program
Edit book: Fix a couple of temporary files occasionally not being cleaned up on program exit in windows
Improved news sources:
Associated Press
NRC Handelsblad
Cumhuriyet Yazarlar
ABC (es)

New in calibre 1.23.0 (Feb 7, 2014)

New Features:
Edit Book: Highlight the closest surrounding tag when editing HTML/XML
Edit Book: Add a tool to easily change the current paragraph (the paragraph containing the cursor) to a heading. Simply click the button with 'H1' on it and choose the heading level you want the current paragraph changed to.
Edit Book: When running Replace All add a button to the replaced message to show exactly what changes were done and allow them to be undone
Edit book: When checking book, detect case mismatches between links and the filenames of the files they point to and offer to auto-correct the links
Adding books: Implement a copy to clipboard button for when duplicates are found during the adding process. Useful if you wish to review the list of duplicates later.
Linux installer: Install appdata files for integration with software stores.
Edit book: Auto add a checkpoint when the book is first opened for editing
Bug Fixes:
Edit Book: Fix a bug in AZW3 support that could cause images/fonts to get mixed up when saving and re-opening the book multiple times.
Edit Book: Fix individual find and replace not working in regex mode if the search expression uses lookbehind/lookahead operators
Compare books: Fix unchanged lines at the start of a change block being sometimes marked with a blue background, even though they contain no changes
Compare books: Fix incorrect scrolling when viewing all text and a large amount of text is present after the final change.
PDF Output: Fix a zero division error when the transformation matrix has a zero diagonal
calibredb add_custom_column: Fix a spurious error message when adding custom columns caused by the new db backend
calibredb list: Fix error if one of the requested fields is empty for all requested books
calibredb set_metadata: Fix setting series_index with the -f argument not working
Markdown input: Fix handling of very large files.
Edit book: Do not create savepoints when no changes are performed by automated tools such as smarten punctuation, remove unused css etc.
Edit Book: Fix a bug that would cause an error when a global operation like find/replace or polishing fails.
Metadata download: Workaround edelweiss.com no longer being able to search by author name. Search only by titles and filter the results returned by edelweiss to only include matching authors.
HTML 5 parser: Preserve non-core namespace declarations on the tag
Workaround broken file chooser dialog on Ubuntu that does not auto-insert the specified extension.
Compare books: Fix error when previously different files become identical after beautifying
Edit Book: Fix subsetting embedded fonts not processing fonts included in a stylesheet that is itself referenced only by an @import rule
Edit Book: Fix the remove unused css tool changing the namespace prefix used for the XHTML namespace in the CSS sheet, if any
Conversion: Fix CSS selectors using the epub namespace being ignored
Compare books: Fix double clicking in the right panel not opening the correct file in the editor
New news sources:
Disinformatico by isspro
Les Echos by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources:
Kathimerini
Cosmopolitan UK
wired.it
Gosc Niedzielny
New York Times Book Review

New in calibre 1.22.0 (Jan 31, 2014)

New FeaturesL
A new tool to compare ebook files, showing the differences in their underlying text, styles and images side by side
The new compare tool is very useful in combination with the book editor. It allows you to see what changes have been made between checkpoints and what changes were made by automated tools. You can also compare different versions of the same ebook file. How to use each of these features is described below. Screenshots and help for using the new compare tool are at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/diff.html
Edit book: Add a tool to view the list of checkpoints and compare the current state of the book to the state at the specified checkpoint. To use it click View->Checkpoints
Edit book: Add a tool to compare the book being currently edited with another file. To use it go to File->Compare to other book
Allow comparing the ORIGINAL_EPUB version of a book to the EPUB version by right clicking on the ORIGINAL_EPUB format in the book details panel. And the same for ORIGINAL_AZW3 and AZW3 formats.
Edit Book: Add a button to show the changes after various automated tools are run such as: remove unused CSS, subset embedded fonts, smarten punctuation, etc.
Edit Book: Add check for spine items with incorrect media-type specified in the manifest
Edit Book: Enable editing of page map XML files
DOCX Input: Improve handling of text boxes. Text boxes are still not supported, but they no longer cause errors or duplicate content when embedded inside paragraphs.
Edit Book: Add check for links that point to directories in the book instead of files.
Edit Book: Show the filename of the currently edited file in the title bar.
Bug Fixes:
Edit Book: Fix unused CSS removal tool inserting namespace declaration at the top of the stylesheet
Edit book: Fix cover not being updated from the current cover in the calibre library when using Edit Book. Note that you can turn off metadata updating via Preferences->calibre Integration in the Edit Book Preferences.
Conversion: Add support for and tags outside the tag.
Edit book: Fix undo not working for subsetting fonts
CHM Input: Handle CHM files with broken markup where all the content is placed inside the tag.
DOCX Input: Fix padding-left of , being defaulted to 0 if no padding specified in the docx style, which breaks rendering for lists at the left margin of the document.
MOBI Output: Handle the value attribute on tags.
EPUB Output: Fix splitting of HTML files not updating links in the section of the NCX file
EPUB Input: Handle EPUB files with incorrect media types for the spine items when converting.
RTF Output: Fix failure to convert documents that contain comments with the -- string inside the comment.
Edit Book: Fix extra 1x1 unused GIF image being created when saving and re-opening AZW3 files.
Fix editing of narrow yes/no columns in the book list not very convenient
New news sources:
Various Russian News sources by bug_me_not by Unknown

New in calibre 1.21.0 (Jan 24, 2014)

New in calibre 1.20.0 (Jan 17, 2014)

New in calibre 1.19.0 (Jan 10, 2014)

New in calibre 1.18.0 (Jan 3, 2014)

New Features:
Add an option to control how completion works when editing authors/tags/series/etc.
By default, when completing items, calibre will show you all the candidates that start with the text you have already typed. You can instead have it show all candidates that contain the text you have already typed. To do this, go to Preferences->Tweaks->Completion mode. For example, if you type asi it will now match both Asimov and Quasimodo, whereas the default behavior would match only Asimov.
Edit book: Add a check for too large HTML files when running the check book tool.
Conversion: Sort the CSS rules in the output stylesheet using a 'natural' sort algorithm, so that calibre2 sorts before calibre10.
Cybook Orizon driver: Upload cover thumbnails in the correct format and add an option to control what directory books are sent to on the SD card
Portable installer: Do not ask the user for confirmation when upgrading an existing installation during an automated install
Linux/OS X driver for Trekstor Pyrus LED
Driver for Tagus Lux
Bug Fixes:
MOBI Output: When text indent is specified as a percentage in the input document, prevent the generated MOBI from having too large an indent if the user chooses a large output profile like tablet.
Edit book: Fix live replacement of entities not working on some non-US keyboard layouts.
Fix titlecasing of words not capitalizing the first letter, if the first letter is not an English character.
Edit book: Ensure that multiple edit book windows are grouped in a separate group from viewer windows in the Windows 7 taskbar. Also change the icon color to blue to more easily distinguish it from the viewer icon
Edit book: Fix a bug in the regex engine that calibre uses that could cause various incorrect results in some special circumstances.
Edit book: Replace buggy Qt supplied actions in the context menu for the editor widget with properly implemented ones
Book list: Fix sorting on fields that are not viewable as columns not being restored on calibre restart. Also fix sorting on the Title field via the right click menu not being restored.
Windows 64bit build: Fix corrupted images in MOBI files causing crash.
Edit book: Prettify html in newly created books.
AZW3 Input: Handle azw3 files that contain some empty individual HTML files
Comic Input: Fix a regression to comic input in 1.15 that could cause some comics to be rendered as black or white pages.
New news sources:
Nan Feng Chuang by Chen Wei
Improved news sources:
Chicago Tribune
Caijing
HBR
poche
Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung

New in calibre 1.17.0 (Dec 27, 2013)

New Features:
Merry Christmas everyone! Early release this week, as I will be travelling.
Edit book: Allow drag and drop of images onto the image editor
Edit book: Allow import of multiple files at once, via File->Import files into book
Edit book: Show the name of the current character to the left of the cursor in the status bar. Can be turned off via Preferences.
Edit book: Automatically replace HTML entities as they are typed. This can be turned off in the Preferences.
ToC Editor: Allow bulk renaming of items. Simply select the items you want to rename, right click and choose bulk rename. Useful if, for instance, you want to rename all the items to be Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and so on.
Edit book: Allow linking of stylesheets into HTML files automatically. Right click on the selected HTML files in the File browser and choose 'Link stylesheets' to have the tags for the sheets automatically inserted.
Edit book: When deleting files, automatically remove all entries that refer to them from the ToC
Bug Fixes:
ToC Editor: When auto-generating the table of contents from headings or XPath, if an element is at the top of the file, link only to the file instead of to the element.
Edit book: When splitting files, name the newly created file with a _split suffix.
Edit book: Fix position syncing incorrect when in HTML files that contain tags with charset encoding declarations over more than a single line
Edit book: Automatic correction of font family names not quoting family names with spaces in them if the original, incorrect family name did not have a space.
Title casing: Fix presence of some non-English characters or smart punctuation causing all-caps text to not be properly titlecased
Edit book: Fix a bug preventing marking an image as cover in a book that previously had no cover
Edit book: Fix a typo causing the preferences for which windows occupy which corners to not work
Edit book: Fix crash that happens sometimes when deleting multiple files.
Edit book: Handle EPUB files which contain opf files with no tags
Edit book: Fix deleting a file that is currently open in an editor, not auto-closing the editor
DOCX Input: Fix error when converting DOCX file that contains only image based links and no text based links.
New news sources:
Birmingham Evening Mail by Dave Asbury

New in calibre 1.16.0 (Dec 20, 2013)

New Features:
Edit book: Add a tool to browse all images in the book with their thumbnails. Useful for visually locating an image. To launch it, use View->Browse images in book.
Edit book: Allow creation of new, empty books via File->Create new book
Edit book: Add buttons to easily create formatting such as bold/italic/colors/etc. when editing HTML files
Edit book: Add button to easily insert tag while editing HTML
Edit book: Add options to change the default font families/sizes for the preview panel
Edit book: Allow customizing which dockable windows occupy the four dock corners via Edit->Preferences. You can now also choose to have more than one row of windows in a given dock area.
Bug Fixes:
Edit book: When editing AZW3 files with no images in them, do not incorrectly display a number of binary records from the AZW3 file as 'unknown' miscellaneous files
Edit book: Fix marking image as cover not working for AZW3 files if the file did not previously have a cover
AZW3 Output: Do not refuse to create the ToC if it has only a single entry
Edit book: Fix crashes when processing some books that contain malformed markup on OS X and windows 64bit machines
Edit book: Fix error when renaming the html file currently displayed in the preview panel and that file is not the file being currently edited
Edit book: Fix crash when editing books that have links to absolute paths.
Edit book: Fix book not being marked as modified after editing the ToC
Edit book: When syncing the position of the preview panel to the cursor in the editor and the cursor is at or before the tag set the position of the preview panel to the top of the file, so that the top margin of the body tag is seen easily.
Edit book: Fix trying to import an html file/css file via the add new file button always resulting in a blank file
Edit book: Fix replacing a file with another file with exactly the same filename causing an error.
Edit book: Have the ToC view refresh itself after any major operation on the book
Edit book: Fix pasting in the image editor not working
Improved news sources:
NZZ
Spiegel Online
Daily Mail
FAZ.net

New in calibre 1.15.0 (Dec 13, 2013)

New in calibre 1.13.0 (Nov 29, 2013)

New in calibre 1.12.0 (Nov 22, 2013)

New in calibre 1.11.0 (Nov 15, 2013)

New in calibre 1.10.0 (Nov 8, 2013)

New in calibre 1.9.0 (Nov 1, 2013)

New in calibre 1.8.0 (Oct 25, 2013)

New Features:
DOCX Input: Support linked (as opposed to embedded) images, if the linked image is found on the local computer.
FB2 Input: Add support for note and cite back references. Link pairs of type="note" and type="cite" now automatically generate the correct back reference.
When automerging books during during an add, include the author as well as the title in the report of merged books.
OS X Mavericks (10.9) breaks connecting to iTunes and iBooks on iOS devices. For more details see: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215624
Bug Fixes:
OS X: Fix system tray notifications causing crashes on some OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) systems (those that had Growl installed at some point).
OSX: Fix font size in completion popups too small on Mavericks (I hope)
PDF Output: Fix rendering of some semi-transparent images. All semi-transparent images are now rendered using soft masks.
MOBI Output: Fix text marked with white-space:pre-wrap causing the Kindle to break lines at arbitrary points inside words.
FB2 Input: Fix a regression that broke conversion of FB2 files with paragraphs having both a style and an id attribute.
TXT Input: Ensure that in the generated HTML has a meaningful value.
Book details panel: Fix HTML in author names and identifiers not being escaped
HTML 5 parsing: Fix handling of xml:lang attributes on all elements xml:lang is now mapped to a plain lang on all elements, not just
Update HTML 5 parser used in calibre (html5lib-python) to fix a few corner cases
When bulk deleting formats, use a single temporary directory for the deleted files. This makes restoring them from the recycle bin a little cleaner. Also might fix the reported issue with the windows recycle bin choking on creating a large number of folders.
DOCX Input: Add support for hyperlink fields that have only anchors and not URLs
DOCX Input: Fix handling of multiple block level bookmarks at the same location.
HTMLZ Output: Fix Htmlz does not apply inline css from .
Fix the restore database operation failing on windows installs with long usernames (this would cause the path to the temporary folder used to restore the database to become too long).
ODT Input: Various workarounds for broken ODT files generated my mk4ht
Fix a bug with non-ascii text in the create catalog dialog
Improved news sources:
A List Apart

New in calibre 1.7.0 (Oct 18, 2013)

New Features:
Cover grid: Allow using images as the background for the cover grid. To choose an image, go to Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover Grid.
An option to mark newly added books with a temporary mark. Option is in Preferences->Adding books.
Edit metadata dialog: Allow turning off the cover size displayed in the bottom right corner of the cover by right clicking the cover and choosing 'Hide cover size'. It can be restored the same way.
Bug Fixes:
Conversion: If both embed font family and the filter css option to remove fonts are set, do not remove the font specified by the embed font family option.
Fix a few remaining situations that could cause formats column to show an error message about SHLock
Make deleting books to recycle bin more robust. Ensure that the temporary directory created during the move to recycle bin process is not left behind in case of errors.
Windows: Check if the books' files are in use before deleting
Fix custom device driver swap main and card option not working. Also fix swapping not happening for a few devices on linux
Edit metadata dialog: The Edit metadata dialog currently limits its max size based on the geometry of the smallest attached screen. Change that to use the geometry of the screen on which it will be shown.
HTMLZ Output: Fix tag placed inside instead of .
HTMLZ Output: Fix inline styles not escaping quotes properly.
HTMLZ Output: Fix incorrect handling of some self closing tags like .
Content server: Fix single item categories not working with reverse proxy setup.
Fix a bug that could cause calibre to crash when switching from a large library to a smaller library with marked books.
Get Books: Fix downloading of some books in formats that do not have metadata yielding nonsense titles
Allow marked book button to be added to main toolbar when device is connected
Fix error if a marked book is deleted/merged.
Template language: Fix formatter function days_between to compute the right value when the answer is negative.
Windows: Fix spurious file in use by other process error if the book's folder contained multiple hard links pointing to the same file
Windows: Fix duplicate files being created in very special circumstances when changing title and/or author. (the title or author had to be between 31 and 35 characters long and the book entry had to have been created by a pre 1.x version of calibre). You can check if your library has any such duplicates and remove them, by using the Check Library tool (Right click the calibre button on the toolbar and select Library Maintenance->Check Library).
Improved news sources:
Wall Street Journal
Newsweek Polska
Wired Magazine
cracked.com
Television Without Pity
Carta
Diagonales

New in calibre 1.6.0 (Oct 11, 2013)

New features:
Temporary marking of books in the library: This allows you to select books from your calibre library manually and mark them. This 'mark' will remain until you restart calibre, or clear the marks. You can easily work with only the marked subset of books by right clicking the Mark Books button. To use this feature, go to Preferences->Toolbars and add the 'Mark Books' tool to the main toolbar
Get Books: Add Wolne Lektury and Amazon (Canada) ebook stores
DOCX Input: Handle hyperlinks in footnotes and endnotes
Driver for Sunstech reader
Allow using both uri: and url: identifiers to create two different arbitrary links instead of just one in the Book details panel
E-book viewer: Make all keyboard shortcuts configurable
Conversion: Add an option to not condense CSS rules for margin, padding, border, etc. Option is under the Look & Feel section of the conversion dialog
calibredb: Allow setting of title sort field
ebook-meta: Add an --identifier option to set identifiers
Bug fixes:
Fix a locking error when composite columns containing formats are used and formats are added/deleted."
EPUB Output: Do not strip tags with type application/svg+xml in addition to those that use image/svg+xml
Cover grid: Fix selecting all books with Ctrl+A causing subsequent deselects to not fully work
HTMLZ Output: Fix long titles causing error when converting on windows
Content server: Fix OPDS category links to composite columns
E-book viewer: Fix regression that broke import/export of bookmarks
E-book viewer: Use the default font size setting for the dictionary view as well
DOCX Input: Avoid using the value attribute for simple numbered lists, to silence the asinine epubcheck
HTML Input: Images linked by the poster attribute of the tag are now recognized and processed
DOCX Input: Fix erorr when converting docx files that have numbering defined with no associated character style
EPUB Metadata: Implementing updating identifiers other than isbn in the epub file from calibre when polishing or exporting the epub
Amazon metadata download: Fix parsing of some dates on amazon.de
Improved recipes:
National Geographic Magazine
New York Review of Books
Focus (PL)
Carta Capital
AM 730
Ming Pao (HK)
Neu Osnabrucker Zeitung
New recipes:
Various Uruguayan news sources

New in calibre 1.5.0 (Sep 26, 2013)

New in calibre 1.4.0 (Sep 20, 2013)

New Features:
Column icons: Allow the use of multiple icons with column icon rules.
You can now have column icon rules display multiple icons in a single column, side by side. There are two ways to do this, either specify multiple icons when creating the rule, or create multiple rules that match the same book and specify the icon type to be 'composed' for every rule. See Preferences->Look & Feel->Column icons for details.
Kobo driver: Add support for new cover handling in Kobo Aura with updated firmware
Driver for Icarus Essence
Show a warning when attempting to copy books between libraries that do not have the same set of custom columns.
EPUB/AZW3 Output: Use shorthand forms for margin, padding and border CSS properties, where possible
Allow colons in identifier values, needed for using URIs as identifiers
Comments editor: Allow treating arbitrary URLs as images
Show full path of library under mouse in status bar when switching/renaming/deleting libraries via the calibre library button.
DOCX Input: Add support for embedded EMF images that are just wrappers around an actual raster image.
Bug Fixes:
Conversion: Fix font subsetting not working for large fonts with more than 4000 glyphs, such as CJK fonts
HTML Input: Fix a regression that broke processing of HTML files that contain meta tags with dc: namespaced attribute values.
Fix switching to an empty virtual library not blanking the book details panel
Keep position when deleting tags in the tag editor
Book details panel: Render custom comments fields the same as the builtin comments field. In particular this fixes problems caused by wide text and images in custom comments fields.
Metadata jackets: Do not error out when using a custom template with some custom fields that are not present.
AZW3 Output: Dont choke on invalid (undecodable) links in the input document
Cover grid: Respect the double click on library view tweak
Fix covers set by drag and drop or pasting in the edit metadata dialog showing compression artifacts due to aggressive jpeg compression
Conversion: Fix a bug that could cause incorrect border values to be used when cascading, shorthand border CSS is present.
Fix regression in 1.3 that caused the book list to not track the current book when using Next/Previous in the edit metadata dialog.
New news sources:
Sage News by Brian Hahn
Il Cambiamento by ghib9
Improved news sources:
Liberation
Politika

New in calibre 1.3.0 (Sep 13, 2013)

New in calibre 1.2.0 (Sep 6, 2013)

New features:
Conversion: Add support for the CSS3 rem font size unit.
MTP devices, such as Android tablets/phones: Allow ignoring any folder on the device, not just top level folders. For newly connected devices, also scan /Android/data/com.amazon.kindle for books by default (newer versions of the Kindle app place downloaded files there).
Speed up sorting when the book list is showing a restricted set of books, such as when the results of a search are displayed or a virtual library is used.
Edit metadata dialog: Add an undo option for the Trim cover button.
Bug fixes:
Amazon metadata download: Update to handle website changes at amazon.com"
PDF Output: Workaround a bug in the library calibre uses to render HTML to PDF that caused text in some documents that used small-caps fonts to not render correctly.
Kobo driver: When a sideloaded kepub is added from a Kobo device to the calibre library, it is added as an epub, but the file copied is corrupt.
Fix changing the user interface language in the welcome wizard causing some parts of the interface to remain in the old language until calibre is restarted.
Fix regression in 1.0 that broke setting author names with the | character in them.
Content server: When running from inside the main calibre program, do not restrict the books shown based on the current virtual library in the main program. If you wish to restrict the books shown in the content server, use Preferences->Sharing over the net.
Output dates in the local timezone instead of UTC when generating CSV catalogs"
Library maintenance: When doing a check library instead of dumping the database to SQL and restoring it, run a VACUUM. This works around various bugs in the dump and restore capabilities of apsw.
Edit metadata dialog: Fix adding an image to an empty comments block not working"
Conversion: Fix font declarations with invalid font-family values causing conversion to abort when subsetting is enabled.
MOBI Output: Fix conversion of some super/sub scripts failling if they are the first or last element in a paragraph.
New database backend: Various improvements to make the backend more robust against databases with invalid/corrupt data in them.
Improved recipes:
Countryfile

New in calibre 1.1.0 (Aug 30, 2013)

New Features:
Rewrite the HTML metadata parser to make it faster and more robust.
Book list: When sorting on a currently unsorted column, use the last applied sort for that column, instead of always sorting in ascending order.
PocketBook driver: Scan for books files in the entire device not just in the 'books' folder
Bug Fixes:
Fix a regression in 1.0 that could cause the dates in custom date-type columns to change in some timezones when using the edit metadata dialog to make unrelated changes.
When replacing formats in a book with a very long title+authors on windows, calibre could leave behind the old format file, because the filename shortening algorithm has changed. Handle that case.
Fix content server giving an error if you return to the top level page after using the virtual libraries.
Fix calibredb not updating the running calibre instance properly in 1.0
Fix a regression in 1.0 that broke splitting of multiple valued field like tags into many items during a rename.
Fix a regression in 1.0 that caused an error when trying to set values for tags with the same item repeated, with different case.
Fix a regression that broke downloading news when output format is set to PDF
Creating a catalog with an already existing catalog in the library would cause a temporary duplicate entry in the book list. Also fix the author sort for catalogs generated in the AZW3 format not being correct.
EPUB metadata: When changing the title in an EPUB 2.0 file that has multiple titles, remove the extra titles.
Fix a regression in 1.0 that caused Search and Replace in the bulk metadata edit dialog to be much slower than before
Fix a regression in 1.0 that caused incorrect sorting and searching on some composite columns (columns built from other columns).
Fix a regression in 1.0 that prevented the moving of libraries inside calibre
Virtual Library tabs: If the user activates a hidden tab via the Virtual Library button, change the name of the All Books tab to reflect the hidden virtual library.
Ignore text records in the database that are damaged, instead of erroring out. Lets the rest of the data be used.
Fix regression that broke calibredb catalog when sorting on the id field.
HTML Input: Handle malformed OPF files when converting.
Ensure that the Formats custom column (if present) is updated when a new format is created as a result of a conversion.
Fix a bug in 1.0 that broke the Check Library function on computers with non-English locales.
Content server: Fix blank username causing error on startup.
Fix sorting of book list by multi-valued fields like tags not correct in the new backend.
New news sources:
VFR Magazine by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources:
Daily Mirror

New in calibre 1.0.0 (Aug 23, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.44 (Aug 16, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.43 (Aug 9, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.42 (Aug 2, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.41 (Jul 27, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.40 (Jul 19, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.39 (Jul 12, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.38 (Jul 5, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.37 (Jun 28, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.36 (Jun 21, 2013)

New Features:
DOCX Input: Support for Table of Contents created using the Word Table of Contents tool. calibre now first looks for such a Table of Contents and only if one is not found does it generate a ToC from headings.
DOCX Input: Add support for images used as bullets in lists
DOCX Input: If a large image that looks like a cover is present at the start of the document, remove it and use it as the cover of the output ebook. This can be turned off under the DOCX Input section of the conversion dialog.
When dropping files onto the Book Details panel, ask for confirmation before adding the files to the book. The confirmation can be disabled.
News download: Add the 'downloaded from' link at the bottom of every article when using a touchscreen output profile (like the Tablet profile).
E-book viewer: Change the bookmark button to always popup a menu when clicked, makes accessing existing bookmarks easier.
After a bulk metadata download, focus the review button on the popup notification, instead of the OK button.
Bug Fixes:
DOCX Input: Hide text that has been marked as not being visible in the web view in Word.
DOCX Input: When converting docx files with large numbers of unnamed images, do not crash on windows.
DOCX Input: Add support for the Word setting 'No space between paragraphs with the same style'.
MOBI Output: Fix rendering of SVG images that embed large raster images in 64bit calibre installs.
HTMLZ Output: Fix handling of images with URL unsafe filenames.
Fix unable to change the case of a previously used search because of the search history.
When searching allow use of uppercase location names, such as AUTHOR instead of author, automatically lowercasing them.
DOCX metadata: When reading covers from DOCX files use the first image as specified in the actual markup instead of just the first image in the container.
Kobo driver: Fix a regression when deleting empty shelves on Kobo devices with older firmware.
Do not show builtin plugins in the get new plugins dialog If a builtin plugin with the same name as a third party plugin exists, then the builtin plagin was displayed in the get new plugins dialog as installed (happened with the new DOCX Input plugin).
Apple driver: When in synchronous mode (direct to iBooks), disable PDF transfers, as we can't update metadata in iTunes. Not sure when this started, but as of iTunes 11.0.4 it's broken.
Get Books: Fix error when using internal browser on some systems
New news sources:
Various Polish news sources
Improved news sources:
The Walrus Mag
Various Polish news sources

New in calibre 0.9.35 (Jun 14, 2013)

New Features:
News download: Add a framework for scraping javascript heavy sites using a full WebKit browser. Used by the new recipe for time.com
DOCX Input: Add a markup analyzer that identifies and removes redundant markup generated by Word. This can result in much cleaner HTML and reductions in markup size of up to 50%
DOCX Input: Add support for theme fonts
calibredb list: Add an option to limit the number of results
Get Books: Allow stopping an in progress search. While doing a search, the Search button becomes a Stop button, and clicking on it stops the current search.
When viewing the list of jobs in calibre, display the time at which the job was started.
Conversion settings: When selecting the input/output profiles, show the profile screen size along with its description.
Bug Fixes:
Get Books: Fix searching using the title/author being case-sensitive and therefore sometimes not returning results if uppercase characters were used in the query.
EPUB/AZW3 Output: When splitting HTML on page breaks, preserve tag structure in the split files. This fixes splitting losing some styling information for HTML files that define page breaks on deeply nested tags.
DOCX Input: Fix some manual page breaks being ignored
DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs not being rendered
DOCX Input: Fix some text being underlined incorrectly. The 'none' underline style was being translated incorrectly.
E-book viewer: When viewing EPUB files, ignore any encoding declarations in the HTML and assume that the HTML is encoded in UTF-8, unless decoding with UTF-8 fails. This is what the EPUB specification specifies.
AZW3 Output: Fix a typo that could prevent conversion of some files
calibredb list: When outputting data in columns, handle multibyte and east asian characters correctly.
Get Books: Fix unable to change case of words in the title/author/keywords boxes because of completion.
Fix unable to clear custom date columns using the bulk metadata edit dialog
MOBI Output: Fix regression that breaks conversion of some documents
New news sources:
Neu Osnabrucker Zeitung by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources:
La Nacion
Frontline
New York Time Sports Beat
Time
Times of India
Las Vegas Review Journal
Folha de Sao Paolo

New in calibre 0.9.34 (Jun 7, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.33 (May 31, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.32 (May 24, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.31 (May 17, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.30 (May 10, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.29 (May 3, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.28 (Apr 26, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.27 (Apr 12, 2013)

New features:
Metadata download: Add two new sources for covers: Google Image Search and bigbooksearch.com:
To enable them go to Preferences->Metadata download and enable the 'Google Image' and 'Big Book Search' sources. Google Images is useful for finding larger covers as well as alternate versions of the cover. Big Book Search searches for alternate covers from amazon.com. It can occasionally find nicer covers than the direct Amazon source. Note that both these sources download multiple covers for a single book. Some of these covers can be wrong (i.e. they may be of a different book or not covers at all, so you should inspect the results and manually pick the best match). When bulk downloading, these sources are only used if the other sources find no covers.
Content server: Allow specifying a reestriction to use for the server when embedding it as a WSGI app.
Get Books: Add a plugin for the Koobe Polish book store
calibredb add_format: Add an option to not replace existing formats. Also pep8 compliance.
Allow restoring of the ORIGINAL_XXX format by right-clicking it in the book details panel
Bug fixes:
AZW3 Input: Do not fail to identify JPEG images with 8BIM headers created with Adobe Photoshop.
Amazon metadata download: Ignore Spanish edition entries when searching for a book on amazon.com
TXT Input: When converting a txt file with a Byte Order Mark, remove the Byte Order Mark before further processing as it can cause the first line of the text to be mis-interpreted.
Get Books: Fix searching for current book/title/author by right clicking the get books icon
Get Books: Update nexto, gutenberg, and virtualo store plugins for website changes
Amazon metadata download: When downloading from amazon.co.jp handle the 'Black curtain redirect' for adult titles.
When extracting zip files do not allow maliciously created zip files to overwrite other files on the system
RTF Input: Handle RTF files with invalid border style specifications
Improved recipes:
The Escapist
San Francisco Chronicle
The Onion
Fronda
Tom's Hardware
New Yorker
Financial Times UK
Business Week Magazine
Victoria Times
tvxs
The Independent
New recipes:
Economia
Universe Today
The Galaxy's Edge

New in calibre 0.9.26 (Apr 5, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.25 (Mar 29, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.24 (Mar 22, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.23 (Mar 15, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.22 (Mar 8, 2013)

New Features:
Linux driver for the Tolino ebook reader.
Kobo driver: Add support for the new 'Archived' collections in Kobo firmware 2.4.0 and improve handling recommendations and previews.
Metadata search and replace: Allow replacing the entire set of identifiers instead of only a specific identifier when doing a search and replace. To do this, choose a source field other than identifiers and set the destination identifier type to: *
Show a brief description of every action when customizing toolbars in Preferences->Toolbars
Allow drag and drop of books from the calibre book list onto the button for Convert book, Edit metadata, Remove Book, Tweak Book, Polish books, etc.
Bug Fixes:
CHM Input: Fix incorrect decoding for CHM files whose hhc file is also a content file.
Conversion: Add the double low quote to list of characters that are converted to ascii.
Amazon metadata download: Update plugin to handle changes to Amazon site that could cause some covers to not be downloaded. Also fix finding metadata for books with + in their titles.
Content server: Fix a bug that prevented the cover being updated when files are downloaded from the content server
Conversion: Handle the use of @import CSS rules inside tags in HTML files
Book polishing: Do not error out when polishing epub files that have XML comments in their OPF metadata section.
Book polishing: Do not error out when updating covers in EPUB files that have entries int heir manifest that point to missing files
Book polishing: Fix a bug that could cause updating covers to error out in some books
Fix updating the calibre application id in EPUBs that also use the application id as the package id.
Apple driver: Fix bug preventing sending books to iBooks if no books have been previously added to iBooks.
EPUB/AZW3 Output: Fix splitting on page breaks ignored if the page breaks are inside an element which itself has a page-break-after style applied.
EPUB/AZW3 Output: Fix incorrect splitting of html at page-break-after page breaks in certain circumstances (The split element being the first child of a parent that contains other split elements).
New news sources:
Various new Polish news sources by Unknown
Improved news sources:
Le Devoir
New York Times Book Review
Various Polish news sources

New in calibre 0.9.21 (Mar 1, 2013)

New features:
Content server: When browsing random books, add a button to the book page to get another random book.
Kobo driver: Update cover uploading for Kobo firmware 2.3.1 and later.
Add a tweak under Preferences->Tweaks to try to recoginze numbers inside text fields like title when sorting. This will cause Book 2 to sort before Book 100. However, it is slower and can have trouble when the text starts with a number. If you want numeric sorting you should use the series field for it.
Get Books: Update the Amazon and Foyles store plugins
Add a setting in Preferences->Tweaks that controls the sorting of the Copy to Library and Quick Switch menus. If the number of libraries is larger than the set value, the lists are sorted alphabetically instead of by frequency of use.
Driver for Iriver Story EB12.
Edit metadata dialog: When pasting in copied text into the comments area, you can now choose to discard all formatting. Right click on the comments area and select 'Paste and Match style' which will paste the copied text as plain text formatted in the current style.
Book polishing: Make updating cover a separate option, so you can now update metadata without updating the cover.
Bug fixes:
Conversion: Do not rescale fonts sizes/adjust line heights for text based drop caps defined using a separate tag (drop caps defined using :first-letter were already handled correctly)
E-book viewer: Fix clicking links going to slightly incorrect locations in some books.
E-book viewer: Fix rendering of pages for right-to-left text in paged mode is reversed.
E-book viewer: Fix bug in rendering prefixed svg tags in the cover pages of some EPUB files.
PDF Output: Do not error out when embedding a font that calibre cannot subset, instead embed the full font
Book polishing: Fix bug that caused the ORIGINAL_EPUB format to be replaced by the EPUB format when polishing a book with both ORIGINA_EPUB and EPUB
Polishing books: Ignore unsupported fonts instead of erroring out on them.
Make bulk edit of custom columns respect the "apply changes" checkbox even if the value to set has not changed
Improved recipes:
Science News
Die Zeit (subscription version)
New recipes:
Financial Times (US subscription version) and Nezavisne Novine
Geopolityka
Democracy Journal
HNOnline
Various Colombian news sources

New in calibre 0.9.20 (Feb 22, 2013)

New Features:
Book polishing: Add an option to smarten punctuation in the book when polishing
Book polishing: Add an option to delete all saved settings to the load saved settings button
Book polishing: Remember the last used settings
Book polishing: Add a checkbox to enable/disable the detailed polishing report
Add a separate tweak in Preferences-Tweaks for saving backups of files when polishing. That way you can have calibre save backups while converting EPUB->EPUB and not while polishing, if you so desire.
Content server: Allow clicking on the book cover to download it. Useful on small screen devices where clicking the Get button may be difficult
Driver for Energy Systems C4 Touch.
Bug Fixes:
E-book viewer: Fix a bug that could cause the back button in the viewer to skip a location
When tweaking/polishing an azw3 file that does not have an identified content ToC, do not auto-generate one.
Book polishing: Use the actual cover image dimensions when creating the svg wrapper for the cover image.
Book polishing: Do not error out on epub files containing an iTunesMetadata.plist file.
Book polishing: Fix trying to polish more than 5 books at a time not working
Content server: Add workaround for bug in latest release of Google Chrome that causes it to not work with book lists containing some utf-8 characters
E-book viewer: When viewing EPUB files, do not parse html as xhtml even if it has svg tags embedded. This allows malformed XHTML files to still be viewed.
Bulk metadata edit Search & recplace: Update the sample values when changing the type of identifier to search on
Fix recipes with the / character in their names not useable from the command line
News download: Fix regression that broke downloading of images in gif format
EPUB/AZW3 Output: When splitting the output html on page breaks, handle page-break-after rules correctly, the pre split point html should contain the full element
Fix stdout/stderr redirection temp files not being deleted when restarting calibre from within calibre on windows
E-book viewer: When viewing epub files that have their cover marked as non-linear, show the cover at the start of the book instead of the end.
EPUB Input: Fix handling of cover references with fragments in the urls
New news sources:
Pravda by Darko Miletic
PNN by n.kucklaender
Various Polish news sources by fenuks
Improved news sources:
Fronda
Various Polish news sources

New in calibre 0.9.19 (Feb 15, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.18 (Feb 8, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.17 (Feb 1, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.16 (Jan 25, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.15 (Jan 18, 2013)

New Features:
Content server: Allow picking a random book by clicking the 'Random book' link on the start page. You can also refresh the random book page to get a new random book
E-book viewer: Add an option to hide the toolbars in the viewer window (Preferences->Miscellaneous->Show controls in the viewer preferences). You can unhide them by right clicking in the viewer window.
Kobo driver: Speedup initial connect by avoiding unnecessary update of series metadata in some situations.
Get Books: Allow the store plugins to be dynamically loaded so that future website changes of a store don't require a calibre update to fix Get Books.
Wireless driver: Always replace file when resending a previously sent book to the device, even if the title/author have changed.
Add PocketBook Pro 912 driver.
When creating/exporting epub and mobi files, add the calibre book identifier as a special field in the book's metadata. This allows third party tools to identify the book record in calibre to which the file belongs.
Wireless driver: Add support for using the book uuid as the filename
Remove the experimental tag from the subset fonts feature, since there has been only one reported problem (now fixed) with it in the two months since it was released
Bug Fixes:
Get Books: Update the amazon, waterstones and libri.de plugins to account for website changes
MOBI Input: Do not choke on MOBI files with incorrectly encoded titles.
Font subsetting: Fix a bug in the parsing of the GSUB table that could cause some ligatures to not be included in the subset font
E-book-viewer: Fix TOC links without anchors not scrolling to the top of the current flow
LIT Input: Handle lit files that set an incorrect XML mimetype for their text.
Catalogs: Fix 'X' being droppen from isbns on export
Fix an error when editing date in the main book list and all visible dates are blank.
Fix calibre-smtp using incorrect escaping for non-ascii attachment filenames
Conversion: When subsetting fonts, handle multiple @font-face rules referring to the same physical font
Content server: Update metadata when serving azw3 files
CHM Input: Handle chm files that contain files with url unsafe filenames.
Content server: Fix custom icons for top level categories incorrect.
Kobo driver: When resending a file to the device, update the filesize in the Kobo db to prevent the device from deleting the file.
New news sources:
Asco de Vida
Schattenblick
Improved news sources:
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Smithsonian Magazine
Philosophy Now
The Economist
Business Week Magazine

New in calibre 0.9.14 (Jan 11, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.13 (Jan 4, 2013)

New in calibre 0.9.12 (Dec 28, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.11 (Dec 21, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.10 (Dec 14, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.9 (Dec 7, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.8 (Nov 30, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.7 (Nov 23, 2012)

New Features:
Edit metadata dialog: Show the size of the current book cover in the edit metadata dialog.
Get Books: Allow easy searching by title and author in addition to any keyword, to prevent large numbers of spurious matches.
An option to automatically convert any added book to the current output format, found under Preferences->Adding books
E-book viewer: Allow viewing tables in a separate popup window by right clicking on the table and selecting 'View table'. Useful for reference books that have lots of large tables.
Catalogs: Add the current library name as an available field when generating catalogs in csv/xml format.
Enable colored text in the output from the command line tools on windows
E-book viewer: Add an option to hide the help message when entering full screen mode
E-book viewer: Add an option to always start the viewer in full screen mode
E-book viewer: Add many more controls to the context menu, particularly useful in full screen mode
E-book viewer: Allow easy searching of the selected word or phrase in google via the context menu
Add a new type of FileType plugin, postimport, that runs after a book has been added to the database.
Get Books: Remove Gandalf store, add Publio store. Update the Legimi store plugin for website changes
Bug Fixes:
Conversion: Correctly handle values of left and right for the deprecated align attribute of images, mapping them to the CSS float property instead of to text-align.
MOBI Output: When generating joint MOBI6/KF8 files do not set incorrect display CSS values for tables in the KF8 part
Connect to iTunes: Ignore AAC audio files.
E-book viewer: Fix restoring from fullscreen not respecting maximized window state
Fix rows in the device books view sometimes being too high
Catalogs: Fixed a problem occurring when merging comments with a custom field whose type is a list.
Linux binary: Use exec in the wrapper shell scripts that are used to set env vars and launch calibre utilities.
E-book viewer: Fix blank pages after every page when viewing some comic files in paged mode
E-book viewer: When printing, respect the specified page range.
Font subsetting: Parse the GSUB table for glyph substitution rules and do not remove any glyphs that could act as substitutes. Keep zero length glyphs like the glyphs for non printable characters when subsetting TrueType outlines.
Smarten punctuation: Fix self closing script tags causing smarten punctuation to fail

New in calibre 0.9.6 (Nov 10, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.5 (Nov 2, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.4 (Oct 26, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.3 (Oct 19, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.2 (Oct 11, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.1 (Oct 5, 2012)

New in calibre 0.9.0 (Sep 28, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.70 (Sep 21, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.69 (Sep 14, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.68 (Sep 7, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.67 (Aug 31, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.66 (Aug 24, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.65 (Aug 17, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.64 (Aug 10, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.63 (Aug 3, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.62 (Jul 27, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.61 (Jul 20, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.60 (Jul 13, 2012)

New Features:
When searching, allow use of un-accented characters to match accented characters in all fields and all languages (not just authors and English as before)
The rules for matching un-accented characters are done in a language dependent way. So if your calibre interface language is set to English, n will match both n and ñ, but if it is set to Spanish, it will match only n, as in Spanish ñ is a separate alphabet in Spanish.
Content server: Show a best guess for the IP address the content server is currently listening at in the connect/share menu.
E-book viewer: Add an option to show a clock in full screen mode.
Drivers for Paquito Imaginarium and a few Android phones
HTMLZ Output: Add option to use the book title as the filename for the html file inside the archive
Make the list of displayed fields in the book details panel a per library setting
Have autocomplete on authors/series/tags/etc. ignore accented characters when finding matches (similar to the changes to search above)
Support for retina displays in OS X (I hope)
Remove the dependency on the zip command line tool when developing plugins
Bug Fixes:
Kobo driver: Do not perform write operations on the Kobo database if its version is newer than the latest version the driver supports, for safety
KF8 Input: Ignore encoding declarations inside the html markup, as they are sometimes incorrect.
Force refresh of cached composite column values when values in the cache are changed
Fix a regression that broke calibre --shutdown-running-calibre on windows.
Possible workaround for Qt 4.8.2 open file dialog failing on some linux distros.
Catalogs: Fix some epubcheck errors when generating catalogs in EPUB format
Linux installer: When calling the xdg utilities use system libraries rather than the libraries bundled with calibre
Fix numeric sort for composite custom columns that use custom separators
Tag browser: When grouping by first letter, handle languages that have 'letters' made of more than one character. This can be turned off via Preferences->Tweaks
New news sources:
Empire Magazine by Dave Asbury
NZZ Folio by Bernd Leinfelder
Warentest by asdfdsfksd
Improved news sources:
Hola magazine
Adventure Gamers
Cosmopolitan UK
Onda Rock

New in calibre 0.8.59 (Jul 6, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.58 (Jun 29, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.57 (Jun 22, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.56 (Jun 15, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.55 (Jun 8, 2012)

New Features:
Add a new 'Calibre style' interface look that is more modern than the default look. You can select it via Preferences->Look & Feel->User interface style.
New, subtler look for the Tag Browser
Driver for Trekstor Pyrus and Pantech Android Tablet Closes tickets: 1008946 , 1007929
Conversion pipeline: Handle guide elements with incorrectly cased hrefs. Also handle guide elements of type coverimagestandard and thumbimagestandard.
Allow user to customize trekstor plugin to send books into sub directories. Closes tickets: 1007646
EPUB Input: Add support for EPUB files that use the IDPF font obfuscation algorithm. Apparently, people have started producing these now. Closes tickets: 1008810
Save single format to disk: Only show the format available in the selected books. Closes tickets: 1007287
Bug Fixes:
MOBI Output: When using the insert metadata at start of book option, do not use a table to layout the metadata, as the Kindle Fire crashes when rendering the table. Closes tickets: 1002119
Device detection: Fix a bug that could cause device detection to fail completely if devices with certain vendor/product ids are connected. Closes tickets: 1009718
MOBI Output: When rasterizing svgs only compute style information when an actual svg image is present. Small speedup when converting large svg-free documents to MOBI.
SONY T1 driver: Fix support for collections of books placed on the SD card Closes tickets: 986044
Fix partitioning problems in tag browser with fields that have no name, such as identifiers and formats
Welcome wizard: Preferentially use the kindle email address set as default when more than one such address exists. Closes tickets: 1007932
Fix regression in 0.8.54 that broke the use of the shortcut Alt+A to select books by the same author
New news sources:
Various Philippine news sources by jde
Natemat.pl and wirtualnemedia.pl by fenuks
Rabble.ca by timtoo
Improved news sources:
Various Polish recipes
Vice Magazine
EL Mundo Today
Haaretz
Good Housekeeping
El Pais
Christian Science Monitor
Marketing Magazine
Instapaper

New in calibre 0.8.54 (May 31, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.53 (May 25, 2012)

New Features:
Kindle Touch/4 driver: Upload cover thumbnails when sending books to device by USB to workaround Amazon bug of not displaying covers for sync-enabled books
Support for updating metadata in FB2 files
Set a different background color when choosing formats to not delete as opposed to choosing format to delete. Closes tickets: 1001741
E-book viewer: Add an option to prevent the up and down arrow keys from scrolling past page breaks
Get Books: Remove ebookshoppe.com at the website's request
Bug Fixes:
PDF Input: Support image rotation commands in PDF files. Fixes the long standing problem of some images being flipped when converting from PDF in calibre.
Fix a regression in 0.8.51 that caused conversion to HTMLZ to not have any CSS
Get Books: Fix website change at kobo.com causing prices not to be found
Edit the time in the 24 hour clock when calibre's interface language is set to German. Closes tickets: 1001809
MOBI Output: When generating joint KF8/MOBI6 .mobi files set the text length field in the MOBI 6 header correctly. Closes tickets: 1003489
ODT Input: More workarounds for LibreOffice 3.5's habit of inserting pointless margin:100% directives everywhere. Closes tickets: 1002702
Fix regression that broke smarten punctuation when quotes were next to html tags. Closes tickets: 998900
Fix published date from ozon.ru wrong in some timezones Closes tickets: 975338
Catalogs: Handle the use of custom columns with non-ascii names correctly Closes tickets: 1001437
Conversion pipeline: Remove the attempt to detect and autocorrect if text will go off the left edge of the page, as it was a rather crude heuristic. Also do not remove fake margins if the book uses negative text indents on the margined elements.
KF8 Output: Set offsets to tags in the skeleton the same way kindlegen does. Also linearize non linear ToCs to ensure section to section jumping works.
Conversion pipeline: Use correct default value of 'inherit' for font-family and font-size when normalizing the shorthand font property.
When running python scripts via calibre-debug ensure that user plugins are loaded
New news sources:
Attac.es by Marc Busque
Drytooling.com by Damian Granowski
Shortlist.com by Dave ASbury
National Geographic (es) by vakya
Improved news sources:
Business Week Magazine
Metro Nieuws NL

New in calibre 0.8.52 (May 18, 2012)

New Features:
EPUB Input: When setting the cover for a book that identifies its cover image, but not the html wrapper around the cover, try to detect and remove that wrapper automatically.
When deleting books of a specific format, show the number of books with each format available
Linux install: No longer create MAN pages as all utilities have more comprehensive command line --help anyway
Add a tweak Preferences->Tweaks to control the default choice of format for the Tweak Book feature
Conversion: Allow setting negative page margins. A negative page margin means that calibre will not specify any page margin in the output document (for formats that support this)
Bug Fixes:
Tweak book: Fix handling of covers when tweaking KF8 books
KF8 Output: Handle input documents with out of sequence ToC entries. Note that currently section jumping in the KF8 output produced by calibre for such files does not work.
Edit metadata dialog: Fix the edit values button for custom tag-like columns showing a unneeded warning about changed values
EPUB Output: Be a little more conservative when removing tags. Only remove them if they have actual forms inside.
EPUB Input: Correctly update the Cover entry in the ToC even when the entry has a fragment reference.
Update ImagMagick DLLs in all calibre binary builds to fix security vulnerabilities in ImageMagick
Advanced search dialog: Fix equals and regex matching not being applied for custom column searches.
RTF Input: Handle old RTF files that have commands without braces.
Get Books: Diesel, fix results not showing when only a single match is found
Get Books: Fix DRM status indicators for Kobo and Diesel stores. Fix smashwords not returning results.
Fix regression in 0.8.51 that broke viewing of LIT and some EPUB files
New news sources:
Army/Navy/Air force/Marine Times and News busters by jde
Ads of the World, Heavy Meta (Italian) and Juve La Stampa by faber1971
Revista Summa by Vakya
Strategic culture by Darko Miletic
Stars and Stripes by adoucette
Nackdenkseiten by jrda
Improved news sources:
Clarin
Spiegel
Spiegel International
Montreal Gazette
Gosc Niedzelny
Ars Technica

New in calibre 0.8.51 (May 11, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.50 (May 4, 2012)

New Features:
Tweak Book: Allow tweaking of KF8 MOBI files. Useful to fine-tune the result of a conversion. Right click on the book and select Tweak Book to use the feature. Note that tweaking a MOBI file that contains both KF8 and older MOBI6 will cause the MOBI6 version to be discarded.
AZW3 output plugin. This output plugin generates pure KF8 mobi files. These only work on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch with latest firmware.
Conversion: Allow easy re-ordering of the search and replace expressions in the conversion dialog. Also apply the expressions in the same order that they were entered when doing the conversion.
Automatically add the Tag 'Sample Book' when an Amazon sample is added to calibre
FB2 Input: Better handling of inline images.
Bug Fixes:
KF8 Output: Fix section to section jumps not working for documents with multi-level ToCs
EPUB Input: Handle the case of the metadata ToC containing a reference to the cover HTML file.
CHM Input: Handle files with deeply nested markup and non html files listed at the start of the manifest.
KF8 Output: Workaround Kindle Touch bug that causes the book to be rendered as black pages when a height is specified for
Fix regression in 0.8.49 that broke italics detection in heuristic processing on 32-bit systems.
KF8 Output: Fix joint MOBI6/KF8 books not being recognized as MOBI files by older Kindles
KF8 Output: Fix errors when processing documents with HTML comments and/or XML processing instructions
Get Books: Amazon fix prices not being found. B&N fix details link. ebooks.com: fix cover image. Website changes to various EU stores
FB2 Input: More robust base64 decoding to handle embedded images that are incorrectly encoded.
Fix scrolling with the cover browser updating only the selection in the book list, not the current book.
Save to Disk: Do not run out memory when saving very large files on systems with low RAM.
FB2 Output: Use 2 letter language codes in preference to 3-letter ones to not break poorly implemented FB2 readers
EPUB Input: Auto set the media-type for OPF manifest entries with an empty media-type
New news sources:
George Monbiot by Darko Miletic
El Mundo by atordo
AraInfo and Diagonal by Ruben Pollan
Improved news sources:
National Post
Daily Mirror
Sun
Newsweek Polska
Max-Planck
derStandard
tweakers.net

New in calibre 0.8.49 (Apr 27, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.48 (Apr 20, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.47 (Apr 13, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.46 (Apr 6, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.45 (Mar 30, 2012)

New Features:
E-book viewer: Allow the up and down keys to scroll past section boundaries
calibredb: Allow specification of basic metadata on the command line when adding books.
Driver for Samsung Galaxy Plus GT-I9001
KF8 Input: Support KF8 format Amazon book samples.
When a new plugin is added to calibre for the first time, have its icon (if any) show up even when a device is connected (this can be changed by the user at the time of plugin installation)
Add keyboard shortcuts for Bold, Italic and Underline to the comments editor in the edit metadata dialog
Bug Fixes:
E-book viewer: Fix last read position (and bookmarks in general) being inaccurate for some books.
The technique for marking locations in books used by the viewer has changed. The new technique should be much more accurate than the last one, especially when the font size at which the book is being viewed is changed. Note that this change means that bookmarks created with this release of calibre will not be read by previous calibre versions. On a technical note, the viewer now uses the CFI specification from the EPUB 3 standard for bookmarks.
Workarounds for a few regressions in the user interface in 0.8.44 caused by the update to Qt 4.8.0
Books list: Preserve the horizontal scroll position when sorting by a column
Fix saving to disk and then adding the book back not restoring tags-like custom columns
Linux installer: Fix completion for ebook-convert not working.
MOBI Output: Recognize type=text in addition to type=start guide elements
Get Books: Updates to Nexto, Ebookpoint and Woblink stores
Fix unable to clear username/password in Fetch news dialog
PDF Output: Fix margin specifications not being applied
Linux installer: Manually preserve the defaults.list mimetype association file to workaround buggy xdg-desktop-menu implementations in some distros.
E-book viewer: Fix regression that caused the ebook viewer to stop functioning if it is launched from the main calibre program and then the main calibre program is closed.
New news sources:
NRC Handelsblad (free) by veezh
Improved news sources:
Our Daily Bread

New in calibre 0.8.44 (Mar 23, 2012)

New Features:
E-book viewer: A whole new full screen mode, with no toolbars to distract from the text and the ability to set the width of the column of text via Preferences in the ebook viewer. Closes tickets: 959830
Copy to Library: If books were auto merged by the copy to library process, popup a message telling the user about it, as otherwise some people forget they have turned on auto merge and accuse calibre of losing their books.
Unix driver for Ectaco JetBook color Closes tickets: 958442
Add a link to the 'Adding Books Preferences' in the drop down menu of the Add Books button for easier access and more prominence Closes tickets: 958145
Smarten punctuation: Add a few more cases for detecting opening and closing quotes
Bug Fixes:
Get Books: Updates to various store plugins to deal with website changes: Amazon Europe, Waterstones, Foyles, B&N, Kobo, Woblink and Empik
Catalog generation: Do not error out when generating csv/xml catalogs if the catalog title contains filename invalid characters. Closes tickets: 960154
RTF Output: Ignore corrupted images in the input document, instead of erroring out. Closes tickets: 959600
E-book viewer: Try to preserve page position when the window is resized
Fix bug that caused wrong series to be shown when clicking on the first letter of a series group in the Tag Browser
Fix calibre not supporting different http and https proxies. Closes tickets: 960173
MOBI Input: Fix regression caused by KF8 support that broke reading of ancient non-Amazon PRC files
Fix EPUB to EPUB conversion of an EPUB with obfuscated fonts resulting in the fonts not being readable in Adobe Digital Editions Closes tickets: 957527
RTF Output: Fix bug that broke conversion to RTF when the input document contains tags with no src attribute.
Fix regression in 0.8.43 that broke use of general mode templates that ended in a semi-colon. Closes tickets: 957295
New news sources:
Ivana Milakovic and Klub knjige by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
b92
Various Polish news sources
Le Monde
FHM UK

New in calibre 0.8.43 (Mar 16, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.42 (Mar 12, 2012)

New Features:
Support for reading Amazon's new KF8 format calibre can now both view and convert MOBI files that contain Amazon's new KF8 (Kindle Fire) format
Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the font size used in the book details panel Closes tickets: 948357
Allow specifying a list of file types to exclude when automatically adding files from a folder Closes tickets: 943025
Show ratings in the book details panel as stars. Also allow the user to change the alignment of the ratings column in the main books list. No longer display the stars in blue, instead their color can be customized via the column coloring rules, like any other column
When setting metadata in EPUB ensure that the tag has its name attribute first. Needed for the Nook.
Drivers for Novo 7, LG G2x and Zenithink T-280 Closes tickets: 941671 , 940625 , 940527
Update linux binaries to Qt 4.8.0
Bug Fixes:
Fix some rar files causing crashes on OS X (updated libunrar.dylib in the OS X build) Closes tickets: 951185
MOBI Output: Ignore the Table of Contents pointed to by the guide, if it contains no links
ODT Input: Ignore margin declaration in ODT styles if more specific margin-* declarations are present Closes tickets: 941134
Conversion pipeline: Fix @import rules in CSS stylesheets that have comments on their first few lines being ignored.
EPUB Input: When extracting the contents of epub files on windows, do not error out if one or more of the components in the epub file have filepaths containing characters that are invalid for the windows filesystem, instead, just replace those characters, since those entries are likely to be errors in the zip container anyway. Closes tickets: 950081
Textile output: Fix issue with blockquotes and sentences getting removed.
MOBI Output: When using the prefer author sort conversion option, handle multiple authors better. Closes tickets: 947146
Fix regression in 0.8.41 that broke direct connection to iDevices in windows Closes tickets: 944534
Fix the download bulk metadata completed popup causing a crash if the Esc key is pressed. Closes tickets: 943056
Fix rating values doubled in CSV/XML catalogs Closes tickets: 942790
EPUB Input: Remove non markup documents from the spine automatically, instead of erroring out
When formatting ratings in templates, etc., do not have an unnecessary .0
Calibre portable: Do not allow calibre portable to run if it is placed in a location whose path is too long. Also hide the library location setup in the welcome wizard when running the portable build.
Fix regression in 0.8.41 that broke calibre if the TMP or TEMP environment variable is set to the root of a drive. Closes tickets: 952284
Fix display of ratings type custom fields in the content server Closes tickets: 940600
New news sources:
Racjonalista by Racjonlista
JAPAA by adoucette
Improved news sources:
La Jornada
Chicago Tribune
Mediapart
rue89

New in calibre 0.8.41 (Feb 24, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.40 (Feb 17, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.39 (Feb 10, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.38 (Feb 3, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.37 (Jan 27, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.36 (Jan 20, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.35 (Jan 13, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.34 (Jan 6, 2012)

New in calibre 0.8.33 (Dec 30, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.32 (Dec 23, 2011)

New Features:
Linux: When deleting books, send them to the recycle bin, instead of permanently deleting. This is the same behavior as on Windows and OS X.
Add a checkbox to allow users to disable the popup that asks if books should be auto-converted before sending to device
Drivers for Droid Razr, Samsung GT-I9003 and Bookeen Odyssey Closes tickets: 906356 , 906056 , 905862
Allow passing multiple filenames as command line arguments to calibre, to add multiple books. Closes tickets: 907968
Bug Fixes:
MOBI Output: Fix regression in 0.8.30 that caused the use of hidden heading elements for the TOC to generate links in the wrong place. Closes tickets: 907156
EPUB Output: Ensure directories have the correct permissions bits set when unzipping an epub with unzip on Unix
Fix bottom most shortcuts in keyboard shortcuts for viewer not editable
EPUB Output: Fix handling of self closing tags. Closes tickets: 906521
MOBI Input: Map invalid tags to tags before parsing, to handle broken nesting. Closes tickets: 905715
Conversion pipeline: HTML5 parsing: Fix handling of XML namespaces. Fixes regression in 0.8.30 that caused some articles in some news downloads to appear blank when viewed in Adobe Digital Editions based readers
Get Books: Gandalf store, fix price and cover detection
EPUB Output: Fix the Flatten filenames option in EPUB Output causing duplicated manifest ids in rare cases. Closes tickets: 905692
When adding books via ISBN, show the user the list of invalid ISBNs that will be ignored, if any, before starting the add operation. Closes tickets: 905690
Fix unsmarten punctuation conversion option broken in 0.8.31. Closes tickets: 905596
Fix broken evaluation of composite columns in save-to-disk
New news sources:
Prospect Magazine UK by Barty and duoloz
Elet es Irodalom and NOL by Bigpapa
Salonica Press News by SteliosGero
Echo Online by Armin Geller
Various Polish news sources by fenuks
Various Italian news sources by faber1971
Improved news sources:
Cosmopolitan UK
Hindustan Times
HVG
moneynews.com
Ming Pao
Glasgow Herald
Times of India
Focus Magazine
Hacker News
Independent
Sueddeutsche

New in calibre 0.8.31 (Dec 16, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.30 (Dec 9, 2011)

New Features:
Get Books: Add amazon.es and amazon.it
Bulk convert dialog: Disable the Use saved conversion settings checkbox when none of the books being converted has saved conversion settings
ebook-viewer: And a command line switch to specify the position at which the file should be opened. Closes tickets: 899325
Distribute calibre source code compressed with xz instead of gzip for a 40% reduction in size
Bug Fixes:
Get Books: Fix ebooks.com and amazon.fr. Fix cover display in Diesel ebooks store.
HTML Input: Fix regression that broke processing of a small fraction of HTML files encoded in a multi-byte character encoding. Closes tickets: 899691
Greatly reduce the delay at the end of a bulk metadata edit operation that operates on a very large number (thousands) of books
Template language: Fix the subitems formatter function to split only when the period is surrounded by non-white space and not another period
Fix ampersands in titles not displaying in the Cover Browser
MOBI Output: Do not ignore an empty anchor at the end of a block element.
MOBI Output: Handle links to inline anchors placed inside large blocks of text correctly, i.e. the link should not point to the start of the block. Closes tickets: 899831
E-book viewer: Fix searching for text that is represented as entities in the underlying HTML. Closes tickets: 899573
Have the Esc shortcut perform exactly the same set of actions as clicking the clear button. Closes tickets: 900048
Prevent the adding books dialog from becoming too wide
Fix custom column editing not behaving correctly with the Previous button in the edit metadata dialog. Closes tickets: 899836
T1 driver. More fixes to datetime handling to try to convince the T1's buggy firmware to not rescan metadata. Closes tickets: 899514
Only allow searching via non accented author names if the user interface language in calibre is set to English. Closes tickets: 899227
New news sources:
Blues News by Oskar Kunicki
TVXS by Hargikas
Improved news sources:
Die Zeit subscription
Metro UK
suedeutsche.de

New in calibre 0.8.29 (Dec 2, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.28 (Nov 25, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.27 (Nov 18, 2011)

New Features:
Tweak to control sorting of date type columns. You can choose to have them sorted only by displayed fields
Driver for the Trekstor 3.0
Performance improvements when evaluating templates, and in particular general program mode templates
Bug Fixes:
ODT Input: When converting to EPUB improve handling of large images placed inside small frames, to prevent them from obscuring text.
Closes tickets: 860272 [External link] , 884759 [External link]
EPUB Input: Automatically strip entries of type application/text from the spine. Apparently there are EPUB production tools out there that create them.
Closes tickets: 884792 [External link]
Keep the startup splash screen visible until the GUI has fully completed initializing.
Closes tickets: 885827 [External link]
ODT Input: Fix handling of span tags containing only whitespace.
Closes tickets: 887311 [External link]
On windows when changing title or author via the main book list, handle the case of one of the books files being open in another program more gracefully.
Closes tickets: 880585 [External link]
When adding a format to an existing book record, ensure that no changes are made to the database until after the file operations have succeeded.
Fix bug that prevented configuring which fields to download metadata for when adding books by ISBN
Closes tickets: 856076 [External link]
Fix Japanese characters not being crrectly displayed on index pages in news downloads for the SONY T1
Closes tickets: 888029 [External link]
Get Books: Fix booleans in search expressions not working in non-English calibre versions
Closes tickets: 887554 [External link]
Fix a bug in the support for hours/minutes/seconds in datetime format strings
Closes tickets: 887412 [External link]
Treat an author_sort value of 'Unknown' the same way as unknown authors are treated in template processing
Detect SD card in Kobo Vox
Amazon metadata download: Workaround for change in Amazon website causing some books to have incorrect ratings downloaded
New news sources:
Techtarget by Julio Map
Improved news sources:
Metro NL
The Independent
Frankfurter Rundschau
L'Espresso
Il Giornale
Berlingske.dk
Suedeutsche Zeitung

New in calibre 0.8.26 (Nov 12, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.25 (Nov 7, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.24 (Oct 27, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.23 (Oct 21, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.22 (Oct 14, 2011)

New Features:
Input plugin for OCR-ed DJVU files (i.e. .djvu files that contain text. Only the text is converted)
Driver for the SONY PRS T1
Add a 'Back' button to the metadata download dialog while downloading covers, so that you can go back and select a different match if you dont lke the covers, instead of having to re-do the entire download.
Closes tickets: 855055 [External link]
Add an option in Preferences->Saving to disk to not show files in file browser after saving to disk
Get Books: Add the amazon.fr store. Remove leading 'by' from author names. Fix encoding issues with non English titles/names
Driver for Onyx BOOX A61S/X61S
Closes tickets: 872741 [External link]
Kobo: Add support for uploading new covers to the device without converting the ePub. You can just resend the book to have the cover updated
Make it a little harder to ignore the fact that there are multiple toolbars when customizing toolbars
Closes tickets: 864589 [External link]
Bug Fixes:
MOBI Input: Remove invalid tags of the form
Closes tickets: 872883 [External link]
calibredb add_format does not refresh running calibre instance
Closes tickets: 872961 [External link]
Conversion pipeline: Translate to CSS font-family
Closes tickets: 871388 [External link]
When sending email add a Date: header so that amavis does not consider the emails to be spam
Fix for the problem where setting the restriction to an empty current search clears the restriction box but does not clear the restriction.
Closes tickets: 871921 [External link]
Fix generation of column coloring rules for date/time columns
Fix plugboard problem where customizations to formats accepted by a device were ignored.
Enable adding of various actions to the toolbar when device is connected (they had been erroneously marked as being non-addable)
Fixable content in library check is not hidden after repair
Closes tickets: 864096 [External link]
Catalog generation: Handle a corrupted thumbnail cache.
Do not error out when user clicks stop selected job with no job selected.
Closes tickets: 863766 [External link]
New news sources:
WoW Insider by Krittika Goyal
Merco Press and Penguin news by Russell Phillips
Defense News by Darko Miletic
Revista Piaui by Eduardo Simoes
Dark Horizons by Jaded
Various polish news sources by fenuks
Improved news sources
automatiseringgids
CNET
Geek and Poke
Gosc Niedzielny
Dilbert
Economist
Ming Pao
Metro UK
Heise Online
FAZ.net
Houston Chronicle
Slate
Descopera

New in calibre 0.8.21 (Sep 30, 2011)

New Features:
A Tips and Tricks blog at http://blog.calibre-ebook.com to introduce less well known calibre features in a simple way
News download: Add list of articles in the downloaded issue to the comments metadata of the generated ebook. Makes it possible to search for a particular article in the calibre library.
Toolbar buttons: You can now also right click the buttons to bring the popup of extra actions, in addition to clicking the small arrow next to the button.
Amazon metadata download plugin: Add option to download metadata from amazon.es
Driver for Vizio and iRobot A9 Android tablets
Closes tickets: 854408 , 862175
When switching to/starting with a library with a corrupted database, offer the user the option of rebuilding the database instead of erroring out.
Template language: Add list_equals function
Add a special output profile for the PocketBook 900 as it does not resize images correctly by itself
Bug Fixes:
Fix regression that cause PDF Output to generate very large files
Fix Title Sort field not being displayed in Book details panel
Prevent renaming of languages in the Tag browser
Closes tickets: 860943
Get books: Fix getting price from Foyles
Content server: When a search matches no queries, do not show an error message
ODT Input: Add workaround for ADE to fix centering of block level images when converting to EPUB
Closes tickets: 859343
Content server: When WSGI embedding fix handling of empty URL
RTF Input: Fix spurious spaces inserted after some unicode characters
Closes tickets: 851215
Fix regression that broke clicking on the first letter of author names in the Tag Browser when grouped
Closes tickets: 860615
Fix reading metadata from filenames when the author regexp does not match anything
Fix incorrect display of the month September in Finnish calibre
Closes tickets: 858737
Do not delete the file when the user tries to add a format to a book from a file already in the books directory
Closes tickets: 856158
Fix regression that broke customization of Kobo device plugin
Allow user defined templates to be used in save to disk
New news sources:
Various Colombian news sources by BIGO-CAVA
Gosc Niedzielny by Piotr Kontek
Leipzer Volkszeitung by a.peter
Folha de Sao Paulo (full edition) by fluzao
Den of Geek by Jaded
Republica by Manish Bhattarai
Sign on San Diego by Jay Kindle
Improved news sources:
Read It Later
American Spectator
Sydney Morning Herald
Chicago Tribune
American Prospect
DNA India
Times of India
Kurier
xkcd
Cnet

New in calibre 0.8.20 (Sep 23, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.19 (Sep 17, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.18 (Sep 9, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.17 (Sep 3, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.16 (Aug 27, 2011)

New Features:
News download: Add algorithms to automatically clean up downloaded HTML
Use the algorithms from the Readability project to automatically cleanup downloaded HTML. You can turn this on in your own recipes by adding auto_cleanup=True to the recipe. It is turned on by default for basic recipes created via the GUI. This makes it a little easier to develop recipes for beginners.
Add an option to Preferences->Look and Feel->Cover Browser to show the cover browser full screen. When showing the cover browser in a separate window, you can make it fullscreen by pressing the F11 key.
Closes tickets: 829855 [External link]
Show the languages currently used at the top of the drop down list of languages
When automatically computing author sort from author's name, if the name contains certain words like Inc., Company, Team, etc. use the author name as the sort string directly. The list of such words can be controlled via Preferences->Tweaks.
Closes tickets: 797895 [External link]
Add a search for individual tweaks to Preferences->Tweaks
Drivers for a few new android phones
Bug Fixes:
Fix line unwrapping algorithms to account for some central European characters as well.
Closes tickets: 822744 [External link]
Switch to using more modern language names/translations from the iso-codes package
Allow cases insensitive entering of language names for convenience.
Closes tickets: 832761 [External link]
When adding a text indent to paragraphs as part of the remove spacing between paragraphs transformation, do not add an indent to paragraphs that are directly centered or right aligned.
Closes tickets: 830439 [External link]
Conversion pipeline: More robust handling of case insensitive tag and class css selectors
MOBI Output: Add support for the start attribute on tags
When adding books that have no language specified, do not automatically set the language to calibre's interface language.
Closes tickets: 830092 [External link]
Fix use of tag browser to search for languages when calibre is translated to a non English language
Closes tickets: 830078 [External link]
When downloading news, set the language field correctly
Fix languages field in the Edit metadata dialog too wide
Closes tickets: 829912 [External link]
Fix setting of languages that have commas in their names broken
FB2 Input: When convert FB2 files, read the cover from the FB2 file correctly.
Closes tickets: 829240 [External link]
New news sources:
CBN News and Fairbanks Daily by by Roger
Hacker News by Tom Scholl
Various Turkish news sources by thomass
Cvece Zla by Darko Miletic
Various Polish news sources by fenuks
Fluter by Armin Geller
Brasil de Fato by Alex Mitrani
Improved news sources:
Politifact
Reuters
Sueddeutsche
CNN
Financial Times UK
MSDN Magazine
Houston Chronicle
Harvard Business Review

New in calibre 0.8.15 (Aug 20, 2011)

New Features:
Add a 'languages' metadata field.
This is useful if you have a multi-lingual book collection. You can now set one or more languages per book via the Edit Metadata dialog. If you want the languages column to be visible, then go to Preferences->Add your own columns and unhide the languages columns. You can also bulk set the languages on multiple books via the bulk edit metadata dialog. You can also have the languages show up in the book details panel on the right by going to Preferences->Look and Feel->Book details
Get Books: Add XinXii store.
Metadata download plugin for ozon.ru, enabled only when user selects russian as their language in the welcome wizard.
Bambook driver: Allow direct transfer of PDF files to Bambook devices
Driver for Coby MID7015A and Asus EEE Note
Edit metadata dialog: The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+D can now be used to trigger a metadata download. Also show the row number of the book being edited in the titlebar
Add an option to not preserve the date when using the 'Copy to Library' function (found in Preferences->Adding books)
Bug Fixes:
Linux binary: Use readlink -f rather than readlink -e in the launcher scripts so that they work with recent releases of busybox
When bulk downloading metadata for more than 100 books at a time, automatically split up the download into batches of 100.
When deleting books from the Kindle also delete 'sidecar' .apnx and .ph1 files as the kindle does not clean them up automatically
Fix a subtle bug in the device drivers that caused calibre to lose track of some books on the device if you used author_sort in the send to device template and your books have author sort values that differ only in case.
Fix scene break character pattern not saved in conversion preferences
Keyboard shortcuts: Fix a bug triggered by some third party plugins that made the keyboard preferences unusable in OS X.
Search box: Fix completion no longer working after using Tag Browser to do a search. Also ensure that completer popup is always hidden when a search is performed.
Fix pressing Enter in the search box causes the same search to be executed twice in the plugins and keyboard shortcuts preferences panels
Catalog generation: Fix error creating epub/mobi catalogs on non UTF-8 windows systems when the metadata contained non ASCII characters
New news sources:
El Mostrador and The Clinic by Alex Mitrani
Patente de Corso by Oscar Megia Lopez
Improved news sources:
Financial Times UK
La Tercera
Folha de Sao Paolo
Metro niews NL
La Nacion
Juventud Rebelde
Rzeczpospolita Online
Newsweek Polska
CNET news

New in calibre 0.8.14 (Aug 13, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.13 (Aug 5, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.12 (Jul 30, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.11 (Jul 22, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.10 (Jul 15, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.9 (Jul 9, 2011)

New Features:
Kobo Touch: Display Preview Tag for book previews on the device
Improved display of grouped search terms in Tag Browser
When adding HTML files to calibre, add an option to process links in breadth first rather than depth first order. Access it via Preferences->Plugins and customize the HTML to ZIP plugin
Conversion pipeline: Add option to control if duplicate entries are allowed when generating the Table of Contents from links. Closes tickets: 806095
Metadata download: When merging results, if the query to the xisbn service hangs, wait no more than 10 seconds. Also try harder to preserve the month when downlaoding published date. Do not throw away isbnless results if there are some sources that return isbns and some that do not. Closes tickets: 798309
Get Books: Remove OpenLibrary since it has the same files as archive.org. Allow direct downloading from Project Gutenberg.
Add functions to the template language that allow getting the last modified time and size of the individual format files for a book. Also add a has_cover() function.
Bug Fixes:
Fix true/false searches dont work on device views Closes tickets: 807262
Fix renaming of collections in device views Closes tickets: 807256
Fix regression that broke the use of the device_db plugboard Closes tickets: 806483
Kobo driver: Hide Expired Book Status for deleted books. Also fix regression that broke connecting to Kobo devices running very old firmware. Closes tickets: 802083
Fix bug in 0.8.8 that could cause the metadata.db to be left in an unusable state if calibre is interrupted at just the wrong moment or if the db is stored in dropbox
Fix sorting of composite custom columns that display numbers.
New news sources:
Blog da Cidadania and Noticias UnB by Diniz Bortolotto
Galicia Confidential by Susana Sotelo Docio
South China Morning Post by llam
Szinti Derigisi by thomass
Improved news sources:
Computer Act!ve
Metro News NL
Spiegel Online International
cracked.com
Endgadget
Independent
Telegraph UK

New in calibre 0.8.8 (Jul 2, 2011)

New Features:
Make author names in the Book Details panel clickable. Clicking them takes you to the wikipedia page for the author by default. You may have to tell calibre to display author names in the Book details panel first via Preferences->Look & Feel->Book details. You can change the link for individual authors by right clicking on the author's name in the Tag Browser and selecting Manage Authors.
Get Books: Add 'Open Books' as an available book source
Get Books: When a free download is available for a search result, for example, for public domain books, allow direct download of the book into your calibre library.
Support for detecting and mounting reader devices on FreeBSD. Closes tickets: 802708
When creating a composite custom column, allow the use of HTML to create links and other markup that display in the Book details panel
Add the swap_around_comma function to the template language.
Drivers for HTC G2, Advent Vega, iRiver Story HD, Lark FreeMe and Moovyman mp7
Quick View: Survives changing libraries. Also allow sorting by series index as well as name.
Connect to iTunes: Add an option to control how the driver works depending on whether you have iTunes setup to copy files to its media directory or not. Set this option by customizing the Apple driver in Preferences->Plugins. Having iTunes copy media to its storage folder is no longer neccessary. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118559 for details
Remove the delete library functionality from calibre, instead you can now remove a library, so calibre will forget about it, but you have to delete the files manually
Bug Fixes
Fix a regression introduced in 0.8.7 in the Tag Browser that could cause calibre to crash after performing various actions
Fix an unhandled error when deleting all saved searches Closes tickets: 804383
Fix row numbers in a previous selection being incorrect after a sort operation.
Fix ISBN identifier type not recognized if it is in upper case Closes tickets: 802288
Fix a regression in 0.8.7 that broke reading metadata from MOBI files in the Edit metadata dialog. Closes tickets: 801981
Fix handling of filenames that have an even number of periods before the file extension. Closes tickets: 801939
Fix lack of thread saefty in template format system, that could lead to incorrect template evaluation in some cases. Closes tickets: 801944
Fix conversion to PDB when the input document has no text Closes tickets: 801888
Fix clicking on first letter of author names generating incorrect search.
Also fix updating bulk metadata in custom column causing unnneccessary Tag Browser refreshes.
Fix a regression in 0.8.7 that broke renaming items via the Tag Browser
Fix a regression in 0.8.7 that caused the regex builder wizard to fail with LIT files as the input
New news sources:
Today's Zaman by thomass by Unknown
Athens News by Darko Miletic by Unknown
Catholic News Agency by Jetkey
Arizona Republic by Jim Olo
Add Ming Pao Vancouver and Toronto by Eddie Lau
Improved news sources:
Zaman Gazetesi
Infobae
El Cronista
Critica de la Argentina
Buenos Aires Economico
El Universal (Venezuela)
wprost
Financial Times UK

New in calibre 0.8.7 (Jun 25, 2011)

New Features:
Connect to iTunes: You now need to tell iTunes to keep its own copy of every ebook. Do this in iTunes by going to Preferences->Advanced and setting the 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library' option. To learn about why this is necessary, see: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140260 [External link]
Add a couple of date related functions to the calibre template langauge to get 'todays' date and create text based on the value of a date type field
Improved reading of metadata from FB2 files, with support for reading isbns, tags, published date, etc.
Driver for the Imagine IMEB5
Closes tickets: 800642 [External link]
Show the currently used network proxies in Preferences->Miscellaneous
Kobo Touch driver: Show Favorites as a device collection. Various other minor fixes.
Content server now sends the Content-Disposition header when sending ebook files.
Allow search and replace on comments custom columns.
Add a new action 'Quick View' to show the books in your library by the author/tags/series/etc. of the currently selected book, in a separate window. You can add it to your toolbar or right click menu by going to Preferences->Toolbars.
Get Books: Add libri.de as a book source. Fix a bug that caused some books downloads to fail. Fixes to the Legimi and beam-ebooks.de stores
Closes tickets: 799367 [External link]
Bug Fixes:
Fix a memory leak that could result in the leaking of several MB of memory with large libraries
Closes tickets: 800952 [External link]
Fix the read metadata from format button in the edit metadata dialog using the wrong timezone when setting published date
Closes tickets: 799777 [External link]
Generating catalog: Fix occassional file in use errors when generating catalogs on windows
Fix clicking on News in Tag Browser not working in non English locales.
Closes tickets: 799471 [External link]
HTML Input: Fix a regression in 0.8.6 that caused CSS stylesheets to be ignored
Closes tickets: 799171 [External link]
Fix a regression that caused restore database to stop working on some windows sytems
EPUB Output: Convert tags with text in them into as ADE cannot handle them.
Closes tickets: 794427 [External link]
New news sources:
Daytona Beach Journal by BRGriff
El club del ebook and Frontline by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
Le Temps
Perfil
Financial Times UK

New in calibre 0.8.6 (Jun 17, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.5 (Jun 11, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.4 (Jun 3, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.3 (May 28, 2011)

New Features:
Allow the coloring of columns in the book list. You can either create a custom column with a fixed set of values and assign a color to each value, or you can use the calibre template language to color any column in arbitrarily powerful ways. For example, you can have the title appear in red if the book has a particular tag.
Support for the Nook Simple Reader
Get Books, new stores: Virtualo, lulu.net
A store chooser dialog for Get Books (click the little preferences icon at the bottom of the Get Books screen).
Add a merge_lists, and, or, not template functions to the calibre template language
EPUB Output: Change any white-space:pre declarations in the CSS to pre-wrap to accomodate readers that cannot scroll horizontally. Closes tickets: 786722 [External link]
Windows installer: Remember and use previous installation folder when upgrading. Note that this will work for future upgrades, after this one.
Bug Fixes:
MOBI Output: Fix hidden tags with id attributes also hiding their trailing text. Closes tickets: 788570 [External link]
Fix switching from one news source to another via a search not saving changes to the scheduling of the first source. Closes tickets: 774849 [External link]
Dont allow user to use non email usernames when setting up Hotmail or Gmail accounts
Amazon metadata download: Use separate identifiers for country specific downloads so that the links to Amazon in the Book details panel work when downloading metadata from country specific amazon websites. Closes tickets: 786146 [External link]
Nicer error message when user attempts to set title/author via Edit metadata dialog and one of the files is open in another program.
Fix {id} not working in send to device templates
Windows: If creating a bytestring temp dir fails, create a unicode one and hope the rest of calibre can handle it
Get Books: Fix some results from Amazon missing. Closes tickets: 785962 [External link]
New news sources:
Various German news sources by schuster
George R. R. Martin's Blog by Darko Miletic
Focus (DE) and National Geographic by Unknown
Improved news sources:
Kathermini
Faz.net
The Washington Post
El Mundo
Marca
The Nation

New in calibre 0.8.2 (May 21, 2011)

New Features:
Various new ebook sources added to Get Books: Google Books, O'Reilly, archive.org, some Polish ebooks stores, etc.
Amazon metadata download: Allow user to configure Amazon plugin to use any of the US, UK, German, French and Italian Amazon websites
When deleting large numbers of books, give the user the option to skip the Recycle Bin, since sending lots of files to the recycle bin can be very slow. Closes tickets: 784987
OS X: The unified title+toolbar was disabled as it had various bugs. If you really want it you can turn it on again via Preferences->Tweaks, but be aware that you will see problems like the calibre windowd being too wide, weird animations when a device is detected, etc.
Add a tweak that controls what words are treated as suffixes when generating an author sort string from an author name.
Get Books: Store alst few searches in history
Bug Fixes:
Fix a crash when a device is connected/disconnected while a modal dialog opened from the toolbar is visible Closes tickets: 780484
Fix incorrect results from ebooks.com when searching via Get Books
Metadata plugboards: Add prioritization scheme to allow for using different settings for different locations Closes tickets: 783229
Fix manage authors dialog too wide Closes tickets: 783065
Fix multiple bracket types in author names not handled correctly when generating author sort string Closes tickets: 782551
MOBI Input: Don't error out when detecting TOC structure if one of the elements has an invalid margin unit
More fixes for japanese language calibre on windows Closes tickets: 782408
Linux binaries: Always use either Cleanlook or Plastique styles for the GUI if no style can be loaded from the host computer
New news sources:
National Geographic by gagsays
Various German news sources by schuster
Dilema Veche by Silviu Cotoara
Glamour, Good to Know, Good Housekeeping and Men's Health by Anonymous
Financial Sense and iProfessional by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
Newsweek
Economist
Dvhn
United Daily
Dagens Nyheter
GoComics
faz.net
golem.de

New in calibre 0.8.1 (May 14, 2011)

New in calibre 0.8.0 (May 6, 2011)

Get Books:
calibre can now search over a dozen web stores like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, etc. for ebook editions of the book you want. The results are displayed sorted by price, so you can easily find the lowest priced edition to add to your collection. This feature, like the rest of calibre is plugin based, so look forward to new stores being added in the future.
Note that if you have customized your the toolbar in calibre in the past, you may not see the Get Books button in the toolbar. You can go to Preferences->Toolbar and add it to the toolbar manually.
Lots of new calibre plugins:
calibre has gained dozens of new, user-contributed, plugins to enhance its already extensive feature set. These range from things like finding duplicates in your calibre library to managing collections on your Kindle from within calibre.
Many of the plugins scratch an itch that affects only a subset of calibre users, for example, a plugin to set a cover from calibre as the screensaver on your SONY reader. If you have something that you always wanted to do in calibre, chances are, someone has written a plugin for it.
There is an easy to browse Index of plugins. Before adding plugins willy-nilly to calibre, you should read the Introduction to plugins.
Happy plugging!
New metadata download system:
calibre now has a new metadata download system. This is designed to improve download performance and give you greater control over exactly what calibre downloads from where. You can tell calibre that you do not want ratings and tags from amazon or comments from google, for example.
When downloading covers for a single book, calibre will now download covers from all the online sources and allow you to pick the one you like best, instead of choosing for you.
When downloading metadata for multiple books, the download now happens in the background, allowing you to continue working while the download is happening.
Interface improvements:
The main calibre user interface has had a makeover. It has multiple layouts, wide and narrow, selectable from Preferences->Look & Feel. The Edit metadata dialog (one of the most frequently used dialogs in calibre) was also redesigned with multiple selectable layouts, this time from Preferences->Behavior. In the same vein the Book details panel is now fully user customizable from Preferences->Look & Feel.
The old double toolbar in calibre were replaced by a new single "unified" toolbar, to save vertical space. You can now add a second toolbar or even a menubar and customize what icons appear in each.
Finally, the Preferences dialog, a normally neglected bit of real estate was redesigned making it easier to find just the setting you are looking for.
Content Server improvements:
The calibre Content Server was completely redesigned with a "modern" (AJAX based, dynamic) user interface that allows for the browsing of your library by Tags/Series/Authors/etc.
E-book viewer improvements:
A new "Inspect" feature which allows you to right click on anything in an ebook and see the HTML+CSS code that is responsible for rendering it. A great way for ebook creators/tweakers to understand what goes on behind the scenes in an ebook.
A new "page turn animation" when using the page scrolling mode in the viewer. For thos of you that dont like it, it can be turned off in the viewer preferences.
Conversion engine improvements:
calibre's conversion engine can now automatically convert straight quotes, hyphens, dots, etc. into their typographically snobbish equivalents. This option is called "Smarten punctuation" in the Look & Feel section of the conversion settings.
A useful new feature in the main calibre interface is "Tweak EPUB", accessed by right clicking on any book. This shows you the internals of the EPUB, allowing you to easily make small corrections, without needing to fire up a full fledged ebook editing program.
calibre learned how to convert a couple of new formats: SNB and Plucker.
Library management improvements:
0.8 brings lots of goodies to make manage your ever growing ebook collection easier:
Metadata search and replace: You can now perform search and replace operations on the book list in your calibre library via the Bulk metadata edit dialog.
Metadata plugboards: Have calibre automatically transform the metadata of files when sending to device. For example, you can ask calibre to append the series to the title, in case your device does not support series metadata. See Preferences->Metadata plugboards
A powerful new template language: You can use this to construct complex file names from book metadata when exporting books from the calibre library, or in the metadata plugboards above, or to create "virtual columns" that display combined or transformed metadata in the book list.
Virtual columns: These are custom columns you can add to calibre that display metadata from other fields. For example and ISBN column or a column to show the formats the book has.

New in calibre 0.7.59 (Apr 30, 2011)

New in calibre 0.7.58 (Apr 29, 2011)

New in calibre 0.7.57 (Apr 22, 2011)

New in calibre 0.7.56 (Apr 17, 2011)

New in calibre 0.7.55 (Apr 15, 2011)

New in calibre 0.7.54 (Apr 8, 2011)

New in calibre 0.7.53 (Apr 2, 2011)

New Features:
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. Closes tickets: 743535
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
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
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.
When reading metadata from filenames, allow publisher and published date to be read from the filename Closes tickets: 744020
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. Closes tickets: 742686
Add a tweak that can be used to have the calibre content server listen for IPv6 connections. Closes tickets: 743486
When clicking Next or Previous in the edit metadata dialog, then active book in the main book list is also changed Closes tickets: 743533
Remember the previously used setting for Match all/Match any under the Tag Browser when calibre restarts Closes tickets: 743645
FB2 Output: Option to set the FB2 genre explicitly. Closes tickets: 743178
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:
Fix text color in the search bar set to black instead of the system font color Closes tickets: 746846
Workaround for Word bug where Word uses gb2312 as the encoding when exporting CHinese docs to HTML istead of gbk Closes tickets: 745428
Make sorting on the device view faster and more robust. Closes tickets: 742626
E-book viewer: Fix viewer losing place in very long single file documents when window resized. Closes tickets: 745001
MOBI Output: Workaround for Amazon's MOBI renderer not rendering top margins on ul and ol tags. Closes tickets: 744365
EPUB Input: Workaround for invalid EPUBs produced by someone named 'ibooks, Inc.'. Closes tickets: 744122
RTF Input: Handle RTF files with too many levels of list nesting. Closes tickets: 743243
New news sources:
Financieele Dagblad by marvin_2
Prost Amerika, WV Hooligan and SB Nation by rylsfan
Cracked.com by Nudgenudge
Improved news sources:
Irish Times
LifeHacker
Estadao
Folha de Sao Paulo

New in calibre 0.7.52 (Mar 26, 2011)

New in calibre 0.7.51 (Mar 25, 2011)

New Features:
Conversion: Detect and remove fake page margins that are specified as a margin on (nearly) every paragraph.
This can be turned off via an option under Structure Detection, in case it removes margins that should have been kept.
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'
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.
Driver for HTC Thunderbolt, T-Mobile Optimus, Archos 43 and Blackberry OS6
A new 'authors type' custom column
When building calibre from source note that calibre now absolutely requires python >= 2.7
Add the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+R to restart calibre in debug mode
Bug Fixes:
Fix dragging and dropping lots of books from the book list to the Tag Browser was broken
Change the shebang in the calibre launcher script on linux to explicitly use python2 rather than python
When adding formats do not corrupt the added file if the user tries to add an existing format to itself
Fix drag and drop to add files that contain the # character in the filename
Tag editor shouldn't add empty tags
MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that have a too large 'number of records' field in their headers.
News download: Update RSS feedparser module to latest version
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
News download: Handle titles with ASCII control codes in them.
Make search hierarchies show simple names instead of compound ones.
Fix commas in author names being converted to pipe symbols in the book details window
Fix PocketBook can't always find epub cover image to create thumbnail
New news sources:
Planet KDE by Riccardo Iaconelli
HVG by Istvan Papp
Caijing Magazine by Unknown
Improved news sources:
168 ora
LWN weekly
Christian Science Monitor
Washington Post
West Hawaii Today

New in calibre 0.7.50 (Mar 19, 2011)

New Features:
Add 'Read a random book' to the view menu
Add option to show composite columns in the tag browser.
Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to control where news that is automatically uploaded to a reader is sent.
Closes tickets: 9427 [External link]
Do not also show text in composite columns when showing an icon
Add a menu item to clear the last viewed books history in the ebook viewer
Kobo driver: Add support for the 'Closed' collection
Add rename/delete saved search options to Tag browser context menu
Make searches in the tag browser a possible hierarchical field
Allow using empty username and password when setting up an SMTP relay
Closes tickets: 9195 [External link]
Bug Fixes:
Fix regression in 0.7.49 that broke deleting of news downloads older than x days.
Closes tickets: 9417 [External link]
Restore the ability to remove missing formats from metadata.db to the Check Library operation
Closes tickets: 9377 [External link]
EPUB metadata: Read ISBN from Penguin epubs that dont correctly specify it
Conversion pipeline: Handle the case where the ncx file is incorrectly given an HTML mimetype
Make numpad navigation keys work in viewer
Closes tickets: 9428 [External link]
Fix ratings not being downloaded from Amazon
Content server: Add workaround for Internet Explorer not supporting the ' entity.
Closes tickets: 9413 [External link]
Conversion pipeline: When detecting chapters/toc links from HTML normalize spaces and increase maximum TOC title length to 1000 characters from 100 characters.
Closes tickets: 9363 [External link]
Fix regression that broke Search and Replace on custom fields
Closes tickets: 9397 [External link]
Fix regression that caused currently selected row to be unfocussed int he device view when updataing metadata
Closes tickets: 9395 [External link]
Coversion S&R: Do not strip leading and trailing whitespace from the search and replace expressions in the GUI
New news sources:
Evangelizo.org and pro-linux.de by Bobus
Office Space and Modoros by Zsolt Botykai
Improved news sources:
Sports Illustrated
Draw and Cook

New in calibre 0.7.49 (Mar 12, 2011)

New Features:
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
Improved support for dragging and dropping cover images directly from web browsers into calibre. "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."
Add shortcuts of Alt+Left and Alt+Right for the next and previous buttons in the edit metadata dialog. Closes tickets: 9360
When adding a GUI plugin, prompt the user for where the plugin should be displayed
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.
Support for the Optimus V
FB2 Input: Support for tables Closes tickets: 9302
Display a checkmark/cross next to 'true' and 'false' items in custom columns. Controlled via Preferences->Add a custom column
Catalog generation: Reuse cover from existing catalog, allows the use of a custom cover for catalogs
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. Closes tickets: 9277
Bug Fixes:
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. Closes tickets: 7250
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.
Restore the ability to do search and replace on ISBN. Use the 'identifiers' field with type isbn to do this
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
Workaround for openlibrary blocking the user agent used by calibre, preventing cover downloads from that site
FB2 Output: Add sequence to metadata. Fix bugs with author names. Fix bug where elements were put inside tags.
Conversion pipeline: If the input HTML document uses uppercase tag and attribute names, convert them to lowercase
RTF Input: Fix space after unicode quote character being incorrectly removed Closes tickets: 9343
Fix regression that broke the ebook-device command line program in the previous release
Fix custom columns with numbers not allowing entry of positive numbers of 64-bit machines Closes tickets: 9283
Fix regression that caused focus to be lost when editing metadata in the device view Closes tickets: 9323
CHM Input: If an input encoding is specified, use it rather than trying to detect the encoding of the text in the CHM file. Closes tickets: 9173
Fix regression that caused the viewer to forget its window size and other attributes when launched from within calibre, after calibre is restarted. Closes tickets: 9326
News download: Fix regression that caused the delay parameter in recipes to not actually delay downloads. Closes tickets: 9332
Conversion pipeline: When converting the :first-letter pseudo CSS selector to a follow W3C rules for handling leading punctuation characters. Closes tickets: 9319
Fix regression that caused clicking saved searches in the Tag Browser to not work
Comic Input: Fix conversion failing when output profile is set to Tablet Output
Replace leading periods in all path components generated by calibre with underscores
Search and replace preferences: Prevent very long strings from causing the wizard button to get pushed off the screen
Content server: Fix regression that caused various metadata to be missing in the book details view.
Apple driver: Ignore invalid EPUBs when sending to iTunes
New news sources:
Various Romanian news sources by Silviu Cotoara
Salt Lake City Tribune by Charles Holbert
Bay Citizen and Oakland North by noah
Nikkei Business and JB Press by Ado Nishimura
El Pais Babelia by oneillpt
Komchadluek by ballsai
Improved news sources:
golem.de
gulli.de
La Nacion
Ming Pao
evz.ro
Kompiuterra
NRC Handelsblad (EPUB)
The Leduc - Wetaskiwin Pipestone Flyer

New in calibre 0.7.48 (Mar 5, 2011)

New Features:
Launch of a new website that catalogues DRM free ebooks. http://drmfree.calibre-ebook.com [External link]
A growing catalogue of DRM free ebooks. Ebooks that you actually own after paying, instead of just renting.
Changes to the internal database structure used by calibre
"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."
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.
Closes tickets: 9168 [External link]
You can now right click on the cover in the book details panel to copy/paste a new cover.
Closes tickets: 9255 [External link]
Add an entry to the add books drop down menu to easily add formats to an existing book record
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.
Closes tickets: 9166 [External link] , 9169 [External link]
Add a button to the Manage authors dialog to copy author sort values to author
Decrease startup times on large libraries by using a faster algorithm to parse stored dates
Add quick create links to easily create custom columns of commonly used types to the add custom column dialog
Allow drag drop of images to change cover in book details window.
Closes tickets: 9226 [External link]
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:
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
Try harder to ensure that the worker log temporary files are deleted in windows
CHM Input: Handle CHM files that dont specify a topics file.
Closes tickets: 9253 [External link]
Fix regression that caused memory leak in Tag Browser. This would show up as the memory usage of calibre increasing when switching libraries.
Closes tickets: 9246 [External link]
Fix bug that caused preferences->behavior to not show the output format set by the welcome wizard, and instead default to showing EPUB
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
MOBI Input: Ignore all ASCII control codes except CR, NL and Tab.
Closes tickets: 9219 [External link]
New news sources
Thai Post Today and Daily Post by Chotechai P.
RBC.ru by Chewi
Helsingin Sanomat by oneillpt
LWN Weekly by David Cavalca
New York Times Sports and Technology Blogs by rylsfan
Historia and Buctaras by Silviu Coatara
Buffalo News by ChappyOnIce
Dotpod by Federico Escalada
Improved news sources
Credit Slips
Seattle Times
MacWorld
Austin Statesman
EPL Talk
Gawker
Deadspin

New in calibre 0.7.47 (Feb 25, 2011)

New Features:
Tag Browser: Support the creation of nested User Categories
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
Drivers for the Wexler T7001, Archos 7, Wink and Xperia X10
Comic Input: Add option to not add links to individual pages to the Table of Contents when converting CBC files
EPUB Output: Try to ensure that the cover image always has an id='cover' to workaround Nook cover reading bug.
ODT input: Update odfpy library to latest version, adds support for bookmarks
EPUB Output: Remove unnecessary CSS page breaks as they confuse the latest release of iBooks
Bug Fixes:
Fix regression in 0.7.46 that broke creating date and composite custom columns
Linux binary build: Fix ImageMagick trying to load system modules instead of bundled modules
Kobo driver: Handle missing firmware version file
ODT Input: Do not force the background color to white.
MOBI Input: Do not speciy text-align for every paragraph. Fixes text-align inheritance issues for newer MOBIs with nested divs.
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.
Content server: Fix regression that broke browsing User Categories via OPDS
Update the book details panel after adding books incase automerge is turned on and the current book is affected
FB2 Output: Fix paragraph spacing sometime incorrect.
Tag Browser: Fix generation of search query for authors with quote characters in their names
Fix bug that could cause download of cover/social metadata from Amazon to sometimes fail
LRF Input: Workaround for broken LRF files from BookDesigner that have incomplete TextStyle elements
New news sources:
Flickr Blog by Ricardo Jurado
Various Romanian news sources by Silviu Coatara
Osnews.pl and SwiatKindle by Mori
Roger Ebert Journal by Shane Erstad
Improved news sources:
Le Monde
Gizmodo
Lifehacker
ESPN
Adevarul
gsp.ro
Ming Pao

New in calibre 0.7.46 (Feb 19, 2011)

New Features:
Replace LibraryThing cover download plugin with a new plugin to download covers from Amazon
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.
E-book viewer: Maintain a list of recently opened books (to see the list click the arrow next to the open button Closes tickets: 8921
Improve performance of device connection with huge libraries.
Add a button ot the search preferences to clear search history. Closes tickets: 8953
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
Metadata search and replace: Allow case changes and also fix search and replace when the destination field is a tags like field Closes tickets: 9027
FB2 Input: Add support for super and sub-scripts Closes tickets: 9018
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. Closes tickets: 7622
Content server: Make the authors/series/tags/publisher/etc. in the book details box clickable so that similar books can be found easily. Closes tickets: 8929
Dragging from book list: Only start drag if user clicks on an already selected item. Makes multi-selecting with the mouse easier
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
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
MOBI Output: Partially support CSS vertical-align length values, converting them to or tags. Also support vertical-align for images
TXT Input: New paragraph-type option (off) to disable modifying the paragraph structure.
Device driver for the Kendo/Yifang M7 and the Wolder Mibuk Life
Bug Fixes:
Fix main memory and storage card for Cybook Orizon being swapped with some firmwares Closes tickets: 8916
Fix regression that broke deleting items from the Manage X dialogs. Closes tickets: 8925
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
MOBI Output: Normalize unicode strings when writing metadata to MOBI files as the Kindle cannot handle non-normalized unicode. Closes tickets: 8229
Fix regression that broke completion of tags with special characters Closes tickets: 9028
Conversion pipeline: Discard invalid CSS generated by Microsoft products before parsing. Should improve performance when converting HTML from Word in particular.
Fix completion popups in the edit metadata dialog partially obscuring text in windows 7 Closes tickets: 9021
Allow the left panel of the tweaksdialog to be resized Closes tickets: 9012
Fix reported number of books in library sometimes incorrect when using restrictions Closes tickets: 9011
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.
Kobo driver: Handle Kobo databases that contain corrupted strings that cannot be decoded from UTF-8
Adding from ISBN: Show a progress dialog for record creation as well as metadata download. Closes tickets: 9005
PDB Input: Fix some TOCs not being detected Closes tickets: 9009
Heuristics: Fix italicize patterns sometime breaking HTML tags. Closes tickets: 8986
When trying to detect the encoding of html, do not use more than the first 50KB so that detection is not too slow
Fix regresion that caused calibre to loose track of whether the content server is running if the content server is started from the preferences
Smarten punctuation: Handle non breaking spaces used as indents when converting opening quotes
Catalog generation: Do not abort on author sort mismatches when generating an EPUB catalog
When editing emtadata by clicking on the book list, remove leading and trailing whitespace Closes tickets: 8993
Fix typo that removed the date format tweaks from the new style tweaks interface
TXTZ Input: Fix images being lost
TXT Input: Rename none formatting-type to plain to correspond to the output option.
Conversion pipeline: Correctly handle align attribute on img tags.
Fix regression that caused completion in authors/series/tags fields on OS X to return extra text. Closes tickets: 8963
Heuristics processing: Fix bug in italicize regeps that could cuase a scenebreak consisting of multiple underscores to be prefixed by the word None. Closes tickets: 8960
New news sources:
Big Hollywood by Darko Miletic
Detroit News by DTM
Media Indonesia by bakthariq
Credit Slips, EPL, Fan Graphs and The Oregonian by zotzo
Various Romanian news sources by Silviu Cotoara
Workers World by usrlnx
Apple Daily by MrLai
Improved news sources:
NRC Handelsblad
De Standaard
Sydney morning Herald
Lifehacker

New in calibre 0.7.45 (Feb 12, 2011)

New Features:
Add plugin to download series information from the Kent District Library
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)
When automatically sending news to device, send to main memory preferentially, if it has enough space. Closes tickets: 8877
Allow customization of which metadata fields are searched by default (click the preferences icon next to the search box)
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.
New option to control how automerge handles duplicate formats when adding books to your calibre library. See Preferences->Adding books
Driver for Nokia X6, Nexus S, WiBook, MyTouch 4G and Huawei Ideos S7
Nicer interface for editing tweaks
Add tweak to remove yellow lines from edges of book list
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
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.
TXT Input: Add option to remove indents and fix bug where spaces were not retained properly.
Bug Fixes:
Fix a regression in 0.7.44 that could cause setting authors to fail in windows when the author name is very long Closes tickets: 8797
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. Closes tickets: 8791
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. Closes tickets: 8905
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
News download: Remove all invalid ASCII control characters from article descriptions as they cause XML parsing to fail
MOBI Output: Fix bug that was discarding non breaking spaces at the start of a paragraph when they were followed immediately by a tag. Closes tickets: 4887
LIT Input: Fix a regression in handling LIT files that contain txt rather than html data Closes tickets: 8904
Fix bug in search box in the plugins dialog Closes tickets: 8882
Fix renaming of categories via the Tag Browser Closes tickets: 8807
Content server: Do not send mobile version to iPad Closes tickets: 8820
Fix undefined publication date appearing in book jacket as 101 Closes tickets: 8799
Heuristics: Fix issue with invalid markup from italicize patterns.
TXT Input: De-hyphenate textile and markdown inpu as well. Fix inline toc not showing all items.
RTF Input: More encoding token splitting fixes.
Fix regression that broke the convenience Email to xxx entry in the connect share menu. Closes tickets: 8775
Fix editing of series type custom columns in the book list. Closes tickets: 8765
New news sources:
ABC.es by Ricardo Jurado
Korespondent and Kopalnia Wiedzy by Attis
Radio Prague by Francois Pellicaan
Europa Press by Luis Hernandez
Interoperability Happens and njuz.net by Darko Miletic
Weblogs SL by desUBIKado
Kompas and Jakarta Post by Adrian Gunawan
Improved news sources:
El periodico de Aragon
B92
French Belgian news sources

New in calibre 0.7.44 (Feb 4, 2011)

New Features:
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.
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.
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.
Add a restore database option to the Library maintenance menu in the GUI
TXT Output: Allow output in the textile markup language
PML Output: Create multi-level Table of Contents
Driver for the Archos 7O
Search and Replace in the Bulk metadata dialog can now operate on the title_sort field as well
Allow changing the case of authors/tags/series etc. via the edit metadata dialog
Connect/share menu: Re-organize to make it a little less easy to select email and delete instead of just email by mistake
Heuristics: Improved Scene break detection and add option to control what scene breaks are replaced by.
SONY driver: Add option to not preserve aspect ratio of cover thumbnails.
BiBTeX catalog: Add on device column when available
Add search to the plugin preferences dialog
Bug Fixes:
Fix a bug that could cause fiels to be lost when changing metadata on east asian windows installs if the title and/or author is very long.
Tag browser: Fix searching with items in a user category not owrking if the main category is hidden
Make completion for author/series/tags/etc. fields less disruptive
Fix regression that broke the content server when user categories/custom columns are present
Catalog generation: Handle user supplied templates more robustly
Move the Tags to apply to newly added books option into Preferences->Adding books
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.
Fix regression that broke the use of the group searched terms tweak
Fix template program regression triggered by recursively calling the processor
Fix mimetype sent by content server for PDB files
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
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
Do not discard the result of a conversion if the user opens the edit metadata dialog while the conversion is running
CHM Input: When the chm file lacks a hhc, lookf for index.html instead
EPUB Input: Filter some invalid media types from the spine
RTF Input: More encoding handlig fixes.
Linux binary build: Restore functioning of CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM, which was accidentally removed a few versions ago
RTF Output: Retain html headings as rtf headings when converting to rtf. Also fix output of italics.
LIT Input: Fix regression that broke handling of LIT files that contain txt data instead of html
MOBI Input: Handle more non printing ASCII codes
Handle empty cover files more gracefully
Catalog geenration: Fix error when Pocketbook is connected and trying to geenrate catalog
Heuristics: Italicize common cases, reduce false positives.
Fix regression that caused reporting of device connection errors to break
New news sources:
Cinco Dias and BBC Mundo by Luis Hernandez
Explosm by Andromeda Rabbit
Cinco Dias by Luis Hernandez
Improved news sources:
MSN Japan
The Onion
La Tribuna de
Wall Street Journal
20 Minutos
LA Times
Endgadget Japan
Ledevoir
Vijesti

New in calibre 0.7.43 (Jan 29, 2011)

New Features
Ask for confirmation when stopping running jobsCloses tickets: 3101
Combine the database integrity check and library check into a single menu item. Also nicer implementation of the db integrity check.
BiBTeX Catalog: Add option to include file paths in the catalog.Closes tickets: 8589
Create 'generic' output profiles and generic devices in the welcome wizard
Bulk metadata edit: Custom column widgets all have an apply checkbox next to them.
Only use LibraryThing to download metadata if the user provides a library thing username and password. Since LT doesn't like web scraping
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
Folder device plugin: Add option to disable the use of sub folders
Allow saving/loading of search and replace expressions in the bulk metadata edit dialog.
Remeber previously used regular expression in the add books preferences dialog
Search and replace wizard: Cache the previously used input document.
Pressing Esc clears the current search in the main book list
Preselct right formats when using send specific format to deviceCloses tickets: 7834
Regex wizard gets find next and previous match buttonsCloses tickets: 4486
Bug Fixes:
Do not allow customization of user interface plugins until calibre is restartedCloses tickets: 8621
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
Fix completion on a word with a trailing space causing the first letter to be duplicated in the edit metadata dialog
PML Input: PML x and Xn tags don't indent properly in TOC. Also handle invalid T markup and retain soft scene breaksCloses tickets: 6194 , 8565
TXT Input: Retain whitespace at the beginning of lines. Don't preserve spaces in heuristic processing. Detect and retain soft scene breaks.
Fix Adding empty book - cover browser doesn't updateCloses tickets: 8557
When generating author sort string ignore trailing Inc.Closes tickets: 8539
When converting HTML/ZIP files do not leave temporary files that are only deleted on application shutdown.Closes tickets: 8597
Don't crash if the prefs stored in the db are corrupted
Catalog generation: Do not use inline-block CSS as apparently Adobe Digital Editions cannot handle it.Closes tickets: 8566
Fix extra spaces being inserted into TOC title when reading TOC from OPF guide element.Closes tickets: 8569
Remember window size for bulk metadata edit and catalog generation dialogsCloses tickets: 8525
Heuristics, italicize common cases: Enhance pattern matching to match punctuation after pattern.
Fix regression in converting HTML files that have ASCII-encoded non unicode characters inside their tags. Apparently Word generates these.Closes tickets: 8494
New news sources:
SPIN Magazine by Quistopher
Caps n Babes by skyhawker
Leduc by Brian Hahn
David Bravo's Blog, La Nueva Espana, 20 Minutos and La Tribuna de Talavera by Luis Hernandez
Sinfest by nadid
Various Czech news sources by FunThomas
tportal.h by Darko Miletic
Everett Herald by 77jag5
Roger Ebert by Shane Erstad
Improved news sources:
Calgary Herald
The Economist
New Yorker
Heise
HNA
ZDNet
NRC Handelsblad

New in calibre 0.7.42 (Jan 22, 2011)

New Features:
0.7.42 is a re-release of 0.7.41, because conversion to MOBI was broken in 0.7.41
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
Conversion: The preprocess html option has now become a new 'Heuristic Processing' option which allows you to control exactly which heuristics are used
Conversion: Various improvements to Heuristic Processing (used to be preprocess HTML)
When adding empty books to calibre, optionally set the author to the author of the currently selected book Closes tickets: 7702
Device drivers for the Archos 101, SmatQ T7 and Acer Lumiread
Catalog generation: Make By Authors optional
Allow bulk editing of Date and Published columns.
Add a little button to clear date and published values to the edit metadata dialogs
When adding books by ISBN, allow the specification of special tags that will be added to the new book entries Closes tickets: 8436
Completion on multiple authors Closes tickets: 8405
Add AZW to default list of internally viewed formats, a I am tired of getting tickets about it
Nicer error message when catalog generation fails
Add capitalize option to context menus in the edit metadata dialog
Bug Fixes:
RTF Input: Fix regression in 0.7.40 that broke conversion of some old style RTF files
Fix Tag editor forgets position Closes tickets: 8271
When converting books in the calibre GUI, override metadata from the input document, even when empty. Closes tickets: 8390  "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."
Fix memory leak when switching libraries
RTF Output: Fix incorrent spacing between letters. Closes tickets: 8422
Catalog generation: Add composite columns to Merge Comments eligible types
Add a confirmation when closing the add a custom news source dialog. Closes tickets: 8460
Another workaround for LibraryThing UA sniffing that was preventing series metadata download, sigh. Closes tickets: 8477
PD Novel driver: Put books on the SD card into the eBooks folder
When shortening filepaths to conform to windows path length limitations, remove text from the middle of each component instead of the ends. Closes tickets: 8451
Make completion in most places case insensitive Closes tickets: 8441
Fix regression that caused the N key to stop working when editing a Yes/no column Closes tickets: 8417
Email: Fix bug when connecting to SMTP relays that use MD5 auth
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
When auto converting books and the device is unplugged, do not raise an error. Closes tickets: 8426
Ebook-viewer: Display cover when viewing FB2 files
MOBI Input: Special case handling of emptu div tags with a defined height used as paragraph separators. Closes tickets: 8391
Fix sorting of author names into sub categories by first letter in the Tag Browser when the first letter has diacritics Closes tickets: 8378
Fix regression in 0.7.40 that caused commas in author names to become | when converting/saving to disk
Fix view specific format on a book with no formats gives an error Closes tickets: 8352
New news sources:
kath.net by Bobus
iHNed by Karel Bilek
Gulf News by Darko Miletic
South Africa Mail and Guardian by 77ja65
Improved news sources:
Blic
Las Vegas Review Journal
La Vanguardia
New York Times
El Pais
Seattle Times
Ars Technica
Dilbert
Nature News

New in calibre 0.7.40 (Jan 15, 2011)

New Features:
A new 'highlight matches' search mode
"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."
RTF Input: Improved support for conversion of images. The bug where some images were shrunk should no longer happen
Template language: Allow you to create your own formatting functions. Accessible via Preferences->Advanced->Template functions
News download: Convert various HTML 5 tags into to support readers that cannot handle HTML 5 tags
RTF metadata: Add support for publisher and tags.
Closes tickets: 6657
BibTeX catalog: Add support for custom columns
TXT Input: Support for textile markup
Various minor tweaks to improve usability of Preferences->Plugins
TXT Output: Convert to scene break marker.
Support for the Archos 70
SONY Driver: Add an option to automatically refresh the covers on every connect. Accessible via: Preferences->Plugins->Device interface plugins
Add access to the larger template editor from plugboards via context menu.
Speed improvement when connecting a large library to a device
Speedup when searching on multiple words in a large library
TXT Input: Add a heauristic formatting processor
Bug Fixes:
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
Refactor the downloading social metadata message box to allow canceling.
Closes tickets: 8234
Kobo drive does not deal with Null value in DateCreated column
Closes tickets: 8308
MOBI Input: Fix regression that caused images placed inside svg tags to be discarded
Fix selecting Tablet output profile would actually select the Samsung Galaxy S profile
Catalog generation: Fix a condition that could cause TOCs to not be properly generated in MOBI format catalogs
Closes tickets: 8295
Zip file reading: Be more tolerant when a zip file has a damaged file directory
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.
Closes tickets: 8171
ImageMagick: When identifying an image don't read the entire image
FB2 Output: Add cover to FB2 metadata.
Fix inability to customize builting recipe when more than one recipe has the same name
Closes tickets: 8281
RTF Input: Fix regression that broke the Preprocess HTML option
Fix XSS vulnerability in content server.
Closes tickets: 7980
TXT Output: Clean up and produce consistant output. Spacing around headings. Headings are not indented when using the remove paragraph spacing option.
Catalog generation: Handle invalid covers gracefully
Email settings: Before displaying the email test dialog warn the user that it will expose their email password
PDB Output: Fix regression that caused some PDB files to not work with other software
Closes tickets: 8231
New news sources:
Yakima Herald and Tri-City Herald by Laura Gjovaag
Wichita Eagle by Jason Cameron
Pressthink and Zero Hedge by Darko Miletic
tyzden by zemiak
El Correo by desUBIKado
Cicero by mad
El Publico by Gerardo Diez
Improved news sources:
Financial Times UK
Globe and Mail
Wired Daily
MIT Technology Review
MSNBC
expansion.com
New York Times
Heraldo de Aragon
Exiled online

New in calibre 0.7.39 (Jan 14, 2011)

New Features:
A new 'highlight matches' search mode
"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."
RTF Input: Improved support for conversion of images. The bug where some images were shrunk should no longer happen
Template language: Allow you to create your own formatting functions. Accessible via Preferences->Advanced->Template functions
News download: Convert various HTML 5 tags into to support readers that cannot handle HTML 5 tags
RTF metadata: Add support for publisher and tags.
BibTeX catalog: Add support for custom columns
TXT Input: Support for textile markup
Various minor tweaks to improve usability of Preferences->Plugins
TXT Output: Convert to scene break marker.
Support for the Archos 70
SONY Driver: Add an option to automatically refresh the covers on every connect. Accessible via: Preferences->Plugins->Device interface plugins
Add access to the larger template editor from plugboards via context menu.
Speed improvement when connecting a large library to a device
Speedup when searching on multiple words in a large library
TXT Input: Add a heauristic formatting processor
Bug Fixes:
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
Refactor the downloading social metadata message box to allow canceling.
Kobo drive does not deal with Null value in DateCreated column
MOBI Input: Fix regression that caused images placed inside svg tags to be discarded
Fix selecting Tablet output profile would actually select the Samsung Galaxy S profile
Catalog generation: Fix a condition that could cause TOCs to not be properly generated in MOBI format catalogs
Zip file reading: Be more tolerant when a zip file has a damaged file directory
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.
ImageMagick: When identifying an image don't read the entire image
FB2 Output: Add cover to FB2 metadata.
Fix inability to customize builting recipe when more than one recipe has the same name
RTF Input: Fix regression that broke the Preprocess HTML option
Fix XSS vulnerability in content server.
TXT Output: Clean up and produce consistant output. Spacing around headings. Headings are not indented when using the remove paragraph spacing option.
Catalog generation: Handle invalid covers gracefully
Email settings: Before displaying the email test dialog warn the user that it will expose their email password
PDB Output: Fix regression that caused some PDB files to not work with other software
New news sources:
Yakima Herald and Tri-City Herald by Laura Gjovaag
Wichita Eagle by Jason Cameron
Pressthink and Zero Hedge by Darko Miletic
tyzden by zemiak
El Correo by desUBIKado
Cicero by mad
El Publico by Gerardo Diez
Improved news sources:
Financial Times UK
Globe and Mail
Wired Daily
MIT Technology Review
MSNBC
expansion.com
New York Times
Heraldo de Aragon
Exiled online

New in calibre 0.7.38 (Jan 8, 2011)

New Features:
Reduce startup time when using a composite custom column
Template language: Add a list_item function for use with tags like columns. See User Manual for details
TXT Input: Attempt to detect the input encoding when not specified. Auto detect paragraph structure and formatting markup.
Search & replace: Add ability to manipulate number and boolean columns.
Add type ahead completion to the advanced search dialog.
Closes tickets: 8035
Double click on plugin in Preferences dialog to customize
Closes tickets: 8175
Allow customization of the SONY driver to send thumbnail to the device. Useful with newer SONY readers
Closes tickets: 8161
Smarten punctuation: Convert double dashes to em dashes. Preprocessing: Various tweaks
Bug Fixes:
Fix regression causing the template formatter to intepret a missing format letter as ERROR instead of 's'.
Fix regression that broke conversion of PNG images in PDF files on OS X.
Closes tickets: 8215
Content server: Fix improper XML escaping of category titles in the OPDS feeds
Closes tickets: 8225
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
E-book viewer: When scrolling to a bookmark and the content is wider than the window, do not scroll in the horizontal direction
E-book viewer: Fix next page skipping the bottom of chapters when the content is wider than the window.
Closes tickets: 8153
FB2 Output: Insert covers.
Closes tickets: 8172
Content server: When serving OPDS feeds handle html descriptions that have namespaced attributes.
Closes tickets: 7938
When downloading metadata from isbndb.com, download a maximum of 30 results rather than 1000
Fix sorting of tags column
Change search/replace to show commas instead of vertical bars as the separator for multiple authors
Template language: Make all column names case insensitive
Fix bug that prevent the Disabled option for Tag Browser partiotining from working in the Preferences dialog
Fix bug when using tags like custom column in the template language
Fix bug where composite custom columns using general_program_mode fields are not evaluated correctly when used in a template.
ImageMagick interface: Don't crash when asked to open empty image files
Kobo driver: Add TXT,CBZ,CBR to supported formats list
Closes tickets: 8124
Don't uneccessarily scroll the book list horizontally when re-selcting previously selected rows.
New news sources:
New London Day by Being
Walla by marbs
New Journal of Physics by Chema Cortes
The Baltimore Sun by Josh Hall
Arabian Business and Sunday Times (UK) by Darko Miletic
Deia by Gerardo Diez
Smarter Planet by Jack Mason
Improved news sources
The Atlantic:
Danas
Ledevoir

New in calibre 0.7.37 (Jan 3, 2011)

New in calibre 0.7.36 (Jan 2, 2011)

New Features:
Tag browser: Add subcategories and search
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
Device drivers for the Google Nexus S, Motorola Backflip, Samsung Galaxy Tablet, PocketBook 603/903, EEEReader DR900 and the NextBook
Tag editor dialog now remebers its last used size
OS X dmg: Add a symlink pointing to the Applications folder for easy installation
Catalog generation: CSV/XML catalogs now support custom fields. Also write UTF-8 BOM to CSV output file.
EPUB/MOBI catalogs: Various new features
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.
SONY driver: Allow the creation of an All by Something category via the tweaks.
Add a tweak to control the delay when sending mails using gmail or hotmail.
Add output encoding option for TXT/PDB/PMLX output plugins to the GUI
Add an environment variable to control the temporary directory calibre uses
Use the new HTML editor widget for comments custom columns as well
Content server: Fix regression that broke saved searches
E-book viewer: Fix regression that broke previous page button
Add a tweak to allow double clicking on the book list to open the edit metadata dialog
Add a tweak to use a template for formatting SONY collection names
Bulk edit metadata, search and replace: Show all values for multiple fields in the text region, separated by :::
Update user agent used by calibre when connecting to websites
Bug Fixes:
FB2 Output: Fix regression that broke images in generated FB2 files
When unzipping zip files that contain filenames with unknown character encoding, sanitize the filenames correctly
TCR Output: Fix TCR compression adding junk to the end of the text. Remove compression level option.
PDF Output: Fix regression that broke the margin options.
FB2 Input: Handle non UTF-8 encodings on OS X
SNB Input: Better error handling if some metadata is missing in the SNB file. Add Wi-Fi connection support for the Bambook
Allow hyperlinks to be clicked in comments metadata in the book details panel
New news sources:
Karlsruhe News by tfeld
El Periodico and Red Aragon by desUBIKado
Business Insider by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
Brand Eins
Volksrant
Smithsonian
Business World
El Universal
Salon
The Week
EL Pais
Wired Magazine
Heraldo de Aragon

New in calibre 0.7.35 (Dec 26, 2010)

New Features:
Add a simple to use Rich text editor for comments to the edit metadata dialog.
"You can now easily add formatting like bold/italic/lists/headings/colors/etc. to book comments via the edit metadata dialog"
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
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.
Add device drivers for Trekstore eBook Player 7, Sanda Bambook, ALuratek Color, Samsung Galaxy, LG Optimus, Motorola Droid 2 and Sunstech EB700
Add an entry to the menu of the calibre library button to select a random book from your calibre library
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.
Edit metadata dialog: When downloading metadata, make the table of matching books sortable
Add a success message after a database integrity check completes successfully
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]
Bulk metadata edit: Add option to automatically set cover from the cover present in the actual ebook files
E-book viewer: Show format of current book in the title bar.
Add a tweak to control how author names are displayed in the Tag Browser and Content Server
FB2 Output: Restore sectionizing functionality
Bug Fixes:
When in narrow layout, reserve 40% of available width in the book details panel for series/formats/etc and use the rest for comments
PDB Input: Fix failure to block-indent PML sections
Tag browser: When renaming items dont reset the library view and try not to scroll the Tag Browser itself
Conversion pipeline: Fix broken link rewriting for inline CSS embedded in HTML
Fix regression in 0.7.34 that broke recipes using extra_css to link to SONY device fonts
SONY driver: Don't upload thumbnails as they slow down post disconnect processing on older models
Content server: Fix a bug that allowed remote users to read arbitrary png/gif/js/css/html files
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
When using the remove specific format actions, only show available formats in the selected books
Linux binary build: If setting system default locale fails, try setting locale to en_US.UTF-8 instead
Have the title sort tweak respected everywhere
PocketBook 701 driver: Swap the main memory and card drives on windows
Fix regression in templating that caused series_index to be shown even when book had no series
Content server: Fix regressiont hat broke browsing by rating
Content server OPDS feeds: Fix parsing of author names as XML
New news sources:
NRC Handelsblad (EPUB version) by veezh
CND and wenxuecity - znjy by Derek Liang
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
Business Week Magazine
Gazet van Antwerpen
La Nacion
New England Journal of Medicine
Journal of Hospital Medicine

New in calibre 0.7.34 (Dec 18, 2010)

New Features:
Page turn animations in the e-book viewer"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 o disables the animation completely."
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.
Large speedup in startup times and post metadata edit wait for large libraries
Allow changing the font used in the calibre interface via Preferences->Look and feel
Allow editing of the title sort value for a book via the edit metadata dialog
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.
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 popupCloses tickets: 7359
When creating a new calibre library add an option to copy the custom column, saved searches, etc from the current library.Closes tickets: 7643
Add more tweaks to control how the next available series number is calculated.Closes tickets: 7892
Add a tweak to control layout of the custom metadata tab in the edit metadata dialog
Apple driver: Set series number as track number on windows when sending books to iTunes
Drivers for PocketBook 701 and Samsung E65
E-book viewer: Add option to have the mouse wheel flip pages
Add a load_resources method to the InterfaceAction and Plugin classes to facilitate loading of resources from plugin ZIP files
E-book viewer: Add option to not remember position in book when quitting.Closes tickets: 7699
When sorting the book list, keep the current book visible after the sort completes.Closes tickets: 7504
EPUB Output: Add an option to flatten the EPUB file structure, specially for FBReaderJ.Closes tickets: 7788
EPUB Output: Ensure all files inside the generated EPUB have unique filenames, to support broken EPUB readers like Stanza, Aldiko, FBReader and Sigil
FB2 Output: Add support for some 2.1 style tags.
Bulk metadata edit: Add options to delete cover/generate default cover.Closes tickets: 7885
Fix a regression in 0.7.33 that broke updating covers in ebook files when saving to disk.Closes tickets: 7886
Don't refresh the Tag browser if it is hidden. Speeds up metadata editing with large libraries, if you hide teh Tag Browser.
MOBI Output: Add option to ignore margins in input documentCloses tickets: 7877
Kobo driver: Add support for 1.8.x firmware
Bug Fixes:
Fix various memory leaks introduced in the last couple of releases
EPUB metadata: When rendering first page as the cover, handle embedded svg correctly.Closes tickets: 7909
Disable multiple library support when the CALIBRE_OVERRIDE_DATABASE_PATH env var is set
Content server: Fix bug that could cause saved search based restrictions to not exclude all booksCloses tickets: 7876
Topaz metadata: Read metadata correctly from Topaz files that have MOBI file extensions
MOBI Input: Handle the (rare) MOBI files that do not specify per paragraph text indents correctly.Closes tickets: 7869
MOBI metadata reader: Handle invalid PRC files with spurious image_offset headers
Fix drag/drop of new cover to book detail panel does not update cover browserCloses tickets: 7890
Do not open the book details dialog when double click on the scrollbars in the book details panelCloses tickets: 7826
Templates: Fix {tags} not working when no tags are presentCloses tickets: 7888
HTML metadata: Fix regression that broke parsing of some meta tagsCloses tickets: 7851
Preferences: Add tooltips to buddy labels as well.Closes tickets: 7873
Content server: Fix handling of root URL when using --url-prefix
Ensure that the default encoding used by python is never ASCII (needed when running a non frozen version of calibre on linux)
New news sources:
Various Japanes news sources, National Geographic and paper.li by Hiroshi Miura
Science based medicine by BuzzKill
Kompiutierra by Vadim Dyadkin
Improved news sources:
Astronomy Picture of the day
New Scientist
Radikal
Times of India
Economic Times
Zeit Online
Dilbert

New in calibre 0.7.33 (Dec 11, 2010)

New Features:
Language sensitive sorting "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."
Add an action to merge only formats and leave metadata alone (Shift+Alt+M) Closes tickets: 7709
Add a tweak to control which custom columns are displayed in the Book details panel.
Implement a more sophisticated 'functional programming' template language. See the User Manual for details.
Speed up deleting of large numbers of books and show progress while doing so
Adding books: Dont refresh the Tag Browser while adding multiple books. Should speed up the adding of large numbers of books.
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.
Drivers for the HTC Legend and Samsung Epic
FB2 Output: Convert SVG images in the input document to raster images
News download: Localize the navigation bars in the downloaded news to the language the user has selected for their calibre interface
Bug Fixes:
Various fixes to the Title Case function Closes tickets: 7846
Content server: Fix --url-prefix being ignored for links at the Top level
News download: When generating periodicals for the SONY use the local timezone in the SONY specific metadata
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. Closes tickets: 7813
Adding books: Run in the main thread to prevent unfortunate interactions with the metadata backup. Also fix regression that broke the Abort button.
Fix a crash on OS X if OK is clicked inthe edit metadata button while downloading a cover Closes tickets: 7716
E-book viewer: Fix a regression that prevented booksmarks from working with some EPUB files Closes tickets: 7812
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.
Fix regression in 0.7.32 that broke opening formats in the ebook viewer from the edit metadata dialog
FB2 Output: Generate output 100% compliant with the FB2 spec
Fix Saved search dropdown box looses selected search Closes tickets: 7787
TXT Output: Fix an issue where the br to space conversion was not being handled properly.
New news sources:
ToyoKeizai News and Nikkei Social News by Hiroshi Miura
St. Louis Post Dispatch by cisaak
Heise Open and Technology Review by Anton Gillert
Improved news sources:
Le Monde
Ming Pao
New Yorker

New in calibre 0.7.32 (Dec 3, 2010)

New Features:
All new linux binary build. With updated libraries and replacing cx_Freeze with my own C python launcher code.
Edit metadata dialog: Add Next and Previous buttons and show cover size in tooltip
Closes tickets: 7706 , 7711
A new custom column type: Enumeration. This column can take one of a user defined set of values.
PML Output: Add option to reduce image sizes/bit depth to allow PML Output to be used with DropBook
TXT Output: Add option to generate Markdown output. Turn tags into spaces.
Add a count function to the template language. Make author_sort searchable.
Various consistency and usability enhancements to the search box.
Closes tickets: 7726
"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."
Driver for samsung fascinate and PocketBook 902
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.
Closes tickets: 7738
Metadata jacket: Add publisher information to jacket.
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.
Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an Apply button to allow you to perform multiple operations in sequence
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.
Check Library can now check and repair the has_cover cache
Allow GUI plugins to be distributed in ZIP files. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php ?t=108774
Allow searching by the number of tags/authors/formats/etc. See User Manual for details.
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:
E-book viewer: Fix broken backwards searching
Fix custom ratings column values being displayed incorrectly in book details area
Closes tickets: 7740
Fix book details dialog not using internal viewer to view ebooks
Closes tickets: 7424
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.
Conversion pipeline: Fix bug that caused height/width specified in %/em of screen size to be incorrectly calculated by a factor of 72./DPI
Conversion pipeline: Respect max-width and max-height when calculating the effective size of an element
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
E-book viewer: Resize automatically to fit on smaller screens
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
Kobo driver: Allow html, txt and rtf documents to be deleted
Always overwrite title/author metadata when downloading metadata for books added by ISBN
Nook Color profile: Reduce screen height to 900px
Fix regression that broke RTF conversion on some linux systems
Fix bug that could break searching after copying and deleting a book from the current library
Closes tickets: 7459
New news sources:
Global Times by malfi
The Philosopher's Magazine by Darko Miletic
Poughkeepsie Journal by weebl
Business Spectator and ABC Australia by Dean Cording
La Rijoa and NacionRed by Arturo Martinez Nieves
Animal Politico by leamsi
Improved news sources:
NZZ
Frankfurter Rundschau
JiJi Press
Revista Muy Intersante

New in calibre 0.7.31 (Nov 28, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.30 (Nov 27, 2010)

New Features:
Support for Acer Lumiread and PocketBook Pro 602
When importing by ISBN also allow the specification of a file to be imported.Closes tickets: 7400
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.
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
E-mail sending: Allow unencrypted connections to SMTP relay
Improve startup times for large libraries by caching the has_cover check
Update windows binary build to use python 2.7
Metadata and cover download plugins from Nicebooks (disabled by default)
Bug Fixes:
MOBI Input: Fix bug in cleanup regex that broke parsing of escaped XML declarations.Closes tickets: 7585
Content server: Fix bug when user has custom categories/columns with non ascii namesCloses tickets: 7590
RTF Output: Handle non breaking spaces correctlyCloses tickets: 7668
Conversion pipeline: When rasterizing SVG images workaround incorrect handinlg of percentage height specifications in QSvgRenderer.Closes tickets: 7598
News download: Update version of feedparser used to parse RSS feeds.Closes tickets: 7674
Tag Browser: Allow user to restore hidden categories by a right click even is all categories have been hidden
TXT/RTF Output: Handle XML processing instructions embedded in content correctly.Closes tickets: 7644
MOBI Input: Workarounds for lack of nesting rules between block and inline tagsCloses tickets: 7618
E-book viewer: Load all hyphenation patterns to support multi-lingual books
E-book viewer: Fix incorrect lang names being used in hyphenation
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
E-book viewer: More sophisticated algorithm to resize images to fit viewer window. Should preserve aspect ratio in more cases
Remove unneccessary calls to set_path when creating book records. Speeds up record creation by about 30% on my system
Speedup for bibtex catalog generation.
Kobo driver: Fix missing table in deleting books process for Kobo WiFi and Kobo-O 1.8 Beta
RTF Input: Preserve scene breaks in the form of empty paragraphs. Preprocessing: Improvements to chapter detection
Fix custom recipe not sorted by titleCloses tickets: 7486
Kobo driver: Fix bug in managing the Im_Reading category on windows
New news sources:
Bangkok Biz News and Matichon by Anat Ruangrassamee
The Workingham Times and Deutsche Welle by Darko Miletic
Biz Portal by marbs
Various Japanese news sources by Hiroshi Miura
Arcamax by Starson17
Various Spanish news sources by Gustavo Azambuja
TSN by Nexus
Zeit Online Premium by Steffen Siebert
Improved news sources:
El Pais - Uruguay
Argentinian La Nacion
comics.com
Mingpao
Revista Muy Intersante
Telepolis
New York Times

New in calibre 0.7.29 (Nov 20, 2010)

New Features:
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
Content server: Allow direct navigation to a set of books in the book list. Closes tickets: 7453
OS X: When deleting books, put the files into the recycle bin instead of deleting them permanently
Add button to easy configure Hotmail as email relay. Also improve usability of easy config buttons
Kobo driver: Support Currently_Reading category
Catalog generation: Thumbnail caching, wishlist, improved description layout. Closes tickets: 7376
Support for the Cybook Orizon
Bug Fixes:
Fix restore to defaults in preferences incorrectly setting PDF unwrap factor to 0.0
PDF Input: Fix unwrapping of accented characters
Do not display dialogs asking for confirmation or showing conversion errors when calibre is minimized to system tray Closes tickets: 7549
calibre server: Fix regression that broke digest authentication when the calibre interface language was set to non English
EPUB Output: Do not raise an error for invalid embedded fonts in the input document. Closes tickets: 7567
RTF Input: Improved conversion of tables, with support for border styles on table cells
E-book viewer: Fix regression that broke hyphenation. Also add more language patterns for hyphenation
SONY driver: Fix cover thumbnails being uploaded to wrong directory on windows
Fix UnicodeDecodeError when displaying a failed metadata fetch message Closes tickets: 7560
Bulk metadata edit: Speed up remove all tags operation
MOBI Output: Specify image sizes in pixels instead of em to accomodate Amazon's @#$%#@! MOBI renderer
Fix bug preventing customizing of builtin recipes if they are not ascii encoded
SONY XML cache: Handle case where XML db contains reference to a file that does not exist gracefully
New news sources:
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung by Artemis
globes.co.il by marbs
THN and RDS by Nexus
pclab.pl by ravcio
Now Toronto by Starson17
Press releases of the German government and EU Commission by malfi
Dnevnik, Siol.net, MMC-RTV and Avto-magazon by BlonG
SC Print Magazine by Tony Maro
Diario Sport by Jefferson Frantz
Improved news sources:
Al Jazeera
The Moscow Times
GLobe and Mail
Washington Post

New in calibre 0.7.28 (Nov 13, 2010)

New Features:
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
Driver for Nook Color, Eken M001
Add a tweak to turn off double clicking to open viewer
Catalog generation: Add indication when a book has no formatsCloses tickets: 7376
Advanced search dialog: Add a tab to allow searching particular metadata fields easily
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:
Comic metadata reader: Sort filenames aplhabetically when choosing an image for the coverCloses tickets: 7488
Bulk convert dialog: Hide useless restore defaults button.Closes tickets: 7471
Conversion pipeline: Handle input documents that encode null bytes as HTML entities correctlyCloses tickets: 7355
Fix some SONY readers not being detected on windowsCloses tickets: 7413
MOBI Input: Fix images missing when converting MOBI news downloads created with Mobipocket readerCloses tickets: 7455
ODT Input: Handle hyperlinks to headings that have truncated destination specifiers correctlyCloses tickets: 7506
Sony driver: Ignore invalid strings when updating XML database
Content Server: Add day to displayed date in /mobile book listing
MOBI Input: Do not generate filenames with only extensions if the MOBI file has no internal nameCloses tickets: 7481
MOBI Input: Handle files that has the record sizes set incorrectly to a long integerCloses tickets: 7472
Fix not enough vertical space for text in the preferences dialog category listing
Remove 'sort' from Search and replace destination fields and add it to source fields. S&R is no longer marked experimental
Edit metadata dialog: Save dialog geometry on reject as well as on accept
E-book viewer: Fix clicking entries in TOC that point to the currently loaded flow not scrolling view to the top of the document
Fix bug in regex used to extract charset from tags
MOBI Output: Add support for the tag
New news sources:
Handelsblatt and European Voice by malfi
Polityka and Newsweek by Mateusz Kielar
MarcTV by Marc Toensings
Rolling Stone by Darko Miletic
Vedomosti by Nikolai Kotchetkov
Hola.com by bmsleight
Dnevnik, Siol.net, MMC-RTV and Avto-magazon by BlonG
SC Print Magazine by Tony Maro
Diario Sport by Jefferson Frantz
Improved news sources:
Zeit Online
Gamespot Review
Ploitika
Pagina12
Irish Times
elektrolese

New in calibre 0.7.27 (Nov 6, 2010)

New Features:
The book list behavior has changed: "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."
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
Support for iRiver Cover Story and Digma Q600
Add a search button (labelled Go!) to explicitly run a search with the text currently in the quick search box
Add author to the calibre geenrated book jacket. Closes tickets: 7402 [External link]
Add the title of the destination book to the merge dialog warning message
calibre-server: Make auto reload control separate from --devlop with a new command line option --auto-reload
Bug Fixes:
Fix book details panel not being updated after a delete-merge. Closes tickets: 7426 [External link]
Fix clicking in the search box launches a search if you have search as you type enabled. Closes tickets: 7425 [External link]
Use a browser widget to display book details for more robustness and better performance when vieweing large HTML comments
Fix cover browser not updated after copy to library and delete. Closes tickets: 7416 [External link]
Fix regression that broke sending non calibre EPUB files to the iPad. Also handle failure to set cover in iTunes gracefully. Closes tickets: 7356 [External link]
News download: Workaround lack of thread safety in python mechanize, causing corrupted network packets (degrading network performance) on Ubuntu Maverick 64bit kernels
Convert comments to HTML for book details panel in separate thread to make scrolling through the book list faster when large comments are present
calibre-server: Fix regression that broke --daemonize
EPUB Input: Handle ncx files that have elements with no content correctly. Closes tickets: 7396 [External link]
SNBOutput: Fixed a bug in handling pre tag
MOBI Output: Don't ignore hidden anchors. Closes tickets: 7384 [External link]
Fix switching libraries and generating a catalog could generate a catalog for the wrong library
MOBI Output: Fix regression that broke conversion of anchors inside superscripts/subscripts. Closes tickets: 7368 [External link]
Content server: Fix various minor bugs. Closes tickets: 7379 [External link] , 6768 [External link] , 7354 [External link]
Amazon metadata download plugin: Make it more robust and add option to auto convert HTML to text
Re-arrange send to device menu to make it harder to accidentally trigger the send and delete actions
New news sources:
Ynet and Calcalist by marbs
El Faro de Vigo by Jefferson Frantz
Clic_RBS by avoredo
Correio da Manha by jmst
Rue89 by Louis Gesbert
Improved news sources:
Danas
Fudzilla
Zeit Online
New York Times
Mediapart

New in calibre 0.7.26 (Oct 31, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.25 (Oct 30, 2010)

New Features:
Add support for the SONY periodical format.
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
Content server: Make the new browsing interface the default. The old interface can be accessed at /old
Content server: Allow running of content server as a WSGI application within another server. Add tutorial for this to the User Manual.
Support for the Pico Life reader, Kobo Wifi and HTC Aria
Content server: Add a new --url-prefix command line option to ease the use of the server with a reverse proxy
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
Add a tweak to specify the fonts used when geenrating the default cover
Add an output profile for generic Tablet devices
SONY driver: Allow sorting of collections by arbitrary field via a new tweak.
Content server: Make /mobile a little prettier
Add button to 'Library Check' to automatically delete spurious files and folders
Bug Fixes:
FB2 Input: Lots of love. Handle stylesheets and style attributes. Make parsinf malformed FB2 files more robust.
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.
MOBI Output: Conversion of super/sub scripts now handles nested tags.
Conversion pipeline: Fix parsing of XML encoding declarations.
Pandigital (Kobo): Upload thumbnails to correct location
Fix auto emailed news with non asci characters in title not being deliverd to Kindle
Read metadata only after on import plugins have run when adding books to GUI
Various fixes for bugs caused by non ascii temporary paths on windows with non UTF-8 filesystem encodings
Various fixes/enhancements to SNB Output
Allow Tag editor in edit metadata dialog to be used even if tags have been changed
Fix crash on some OS X machines when Preferences->Conversion->Output is clicked
MOBI indexing: Fix last entry missing sometimes
Fix regression causing books to be deselected after sending to device
Conversion pipeline: Fix rescaling of GIF images not working
Update PDF metadata/conversion libraries in windows build
Fix timezone bug when searching on date fields
Fix regression that caused the viewr to crash if the main application is closed
Fix bug causing a spurious metadata.opf file to be written at the root of the calibre library when adding books
Use the same title casing algorithm in all places
Fix bulk edit of dual state boolean custom columns
Increase image size for comics in Kindle DX profile for better conversion of comics to PDF
Fix restore db to not dies when conflicting custom columns are encountered and report conflicting columns errors. Fix exceptions when referencing invalid _index fields.
Fix auto merge books not respecting article sort tweak
Linux device drivers: Fix udisks based ejecting for devices with multiple nodes
Linux device mounting: Mount the drive with the lowest kernel name as main memory
Fix use of numeric fields in templates
EPUB Input: Handle EPUB files with multiple OPF files.
Setting EPUB metadata: Fix date format. Fix language being overwritten by und when unspecified. Fix empty ISBN identifier being created
Fix cannot delete a Series listing from List view also dismiss fetch metadata dialog when no metadata found automatically
Content server: Handle switch library in GUI gracefully
calibre-server: Use cherrypy implementation of --pidfile and --daemonize
New news sources:
Ming Pao by Eddie Lau
lenta.ru by Nikolai Kotchetkov
frazpc.pl by Tomasz Dlugosz
Perfil and The Economic Collapse Blog by Darko Miletic
STNN by Larry Chan
Improved news sources:
CubaDebate
El Pais
Fox News
New Scientist
The Economic Times of India

New in calibre 0.7.24 (Oct 18, 2010)

New Features:
Content server: New interface that allows browsing via categories, similar to the Tag Browser in the calibre interface.. "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 nrowser, so no Internet Explorer 6,7."
Support for the SNB format, used by the Bambook e-book reader
Driver for the Wifi Kobo
Edit metadata dialog: If metadata is downloaded successfully, set focus to download cover button
News download system: Allow recipes with optional subscriptions. Closes tickets: 7199 [External link]
Templates: Improve the smarten function
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
Implement Drag'n'drop to tags in user categories. Closes tickets: 7172 [External link]
Ebook viewer: Add command line option to start in full screen mode
Set completion mode on search boxes to popup completion
Update version of jQuery used in content server and viewer. Required a little hackery in the viewer, hopefully nothing broke
Bug Fixes:
Linux device drivers: Ignore read only partition exported by the device
E-book viewer: Fix scrolling down with mouse wheel not always reaching bottom in windows
Smarten punctuation: Fix bug in handling of comments and tags
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.. Closes tickets: 7196 [External link]
OS X commandline tools: Decode non-ascii command line arguments correctly. Closes tickets: 6964 [External link]
MOBI Output: Fix bug that broke conversion of elements in the input document when the element was followed by non-whitespace text.. Closes tickets: 7083 [External link]
CHM Input: Fix handling of relative file paths in tags.. Closes tickets: 7159 [External link]
EPUB Output: Fix incorrect format for xml:lang when specifying a sub language. Closes tickets: 7198 [External link]
EPUB Input: Make parsing of toc.ncx more robust.. Closes tickets: 7170 [External link]
Content server: Fix searching with non-ascii characters on windows. Closes tickets: 5249 [External link]
Fix average rating calculation for rating datatype in Tag Browser incorrect
Comic Input: Fix image borders becoming yellow on some windows installs
Email sending: Fix sending of email with non ascii chars. Closes tickets: 7137 [External link]
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
Content server: Apply the search restriction when generating category lists as well
RTF Input: Fix regression in conversion of WMF images on linux at least, maybe on other platforms as wel
Fix isbndb.com metadata downloading sometimes yield a title of Unknown. Closes tickets: 7114 [External link]
Fix edit metadata dialog causing the hour:minute:seconds of the date column being lost, even when date is not changed. Closes tickets: 7125 [External link]
New news sources:
Revista El Cultural by Jefferson Frantz
Novaya Gazeta by muwa
frazpc.pl by Tomasz Dlugosz
Orsai and Financial Times UK by Darko Miletic
Malayasian Mirror and Rolling Stones by Tony Stegall
Improved news sources:
Globe and Mail
Business Standard
Miami Herald
El Mercurio
volkskrant.nl
GoComics.com
The New Yorker

New in calibre 0.7.23 (Oct 9, 2010)

New Features:
Drag and drop to Tag Browser. You can use this to conveniently add tags, set series/publisher etc for a group of books
Allow switching of library even when a device is connected
Support for the PD Novel running Kobo
Move check library integrity from preferences to drop down menu accessed by clicking arrow next to calibre icon
Nicer, non-blocking update available notification
E-book viewer: If you choose to remeber last used window size, the state of the Table of Contents view is also remembered. Closes tickets: 7082 [External link]
Allow moving as well as copying of books to another library
Apple devices: Add support for plugboards
Allow DJVU to be sent to the DR1000
Bug Fixes:
Searching: Fix search expression parser to allow use of escaped double quotes in the search expression
When saving cover images don't re-encode the image data unless absolutely neccessary. This prevents information loss due to JPEG re-compression
Fix regression that broke setting of metadata for some MOBI/AZW/PRC files
Fix regression in last release that could cause download of metadata for multiple files to only download the metadata for a few of them. Closes tickets: 7071 [External link]
MOBI Output: More tweaking of the margin handling to yield results closer to the input document.
Device drivers: Fix regression that could cause geenration of invalid metadata.calibre cache files
Fix saving to disk with ISBN in filename. Closes tickets: 7090 [External link]
Fix another regression in the ISBNdb.com metadata download plugin
Fix dragging to not interfere with multi-selection. Also dont allow drag and drop from the library to itself
CHM input: handle another class of broken CHM files. Closes tickets: 7058 [External link]
New news sources:
Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery by jonmisurda
Anand Tech by Oliver Niesner
gsp.ro by bucsie
Il Fatto Quotidiano by egilh
Serbian Literature blog and Rusia Hoy by Darko Miletic
Medscape by Tony Stegall
Improved news sources:
The Age
Australian
Wiki news
Times Online
New Yorker
Guardian
Sueddeutsche
HNA
Revista Muy Interesante

New in calibre 0.7.22 (Oct 4, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.21 (Oct 1, 2010)

New Features:
Automatic backup of the calibre metadata database: "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."
Virtual columns: "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'"
calibre templates now much more powerful: "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."
Metadata plugboards: Allow you to perform sophisticated transformations on the metadata of a book when exporting it from the calibre library. "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"
User defined columns are now fully integrated into calibre: "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."
Driver for the jetBook Mini
Add tweaks to control which custom columns the content server displays.
Bulk downloading of metadata/covers now shows progress and can be canceled
New plugin to download covers from douban.com. It is disabled by default and must be enabled via Preferences->Advanced->Plugins->Cover download plugins
Add option to change titles to title case in the Bulk metadata edit dialog
Add option to bulk metadata edit dialog to force series renumbering to start with a specified value
Bug Fixes:
Fix various bugs that could lead to stale files being left in the calbre library when editing title/author metadata on windows
Fix various regression in the preprocess and de-hyphenation code that broke conversion of some files, especially PDF ones.
Alex driver: Fix books not being placed in sub directories. Send covers. And allow sending of FB2. Closes tickets: 6956 [External link]
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
MOBI Input: Interpret blockquotes as having a left margin of 2em not 1em to reflect recent Amazon practice
MOBI Output: Remove transparencies from images. Pathetic Kindle MOBI renderer strikes again
Revert removal of inline toc from news downloaded in MOBI format as this makes it unusable with the pathetic Kindle For PC application
Content server: Remove special characters from filenames in download links to accomodate broken browsers like the one in the Kindle
Conversion pipeline: When rescaling images, dont replace gif image data with jpeg data
EPUB Input: Ignore OPF files in the EPUB whose names start with a period
RTF Output: Handle a larger set of broken images in the input document. Closes tickets: 7003 [External link]
epub-fix: Handle dates before 1900. Closes tickets: 7002 [External link]
Welcome wizard: Prevent the user from choosing a non empty folder as her calibre library
Automatically enable the Douban metadata download plugins if the user choose chinese as the interface language in the welcome wizard
Linux DBUS notifier: Fix causing freezes on some DBUS implementations. Closes tickets: 6969 [External link]
Workaround for windows limitation when reading from network sockets. Should fix issues with large files in calibre libraries on network shares. Closes tickets: 3248 [External link]
New news sources:
BBC Sport by limawhiskey
Revista Muy Interesante by Jefferson Frantz
El Universo - Ecuador and Frederik Pohl's Blog by Darko Miletic
Science News by Starson17
Various Belgian news sources by Lionel Bergeret
Oriental Daily by Larry Chan
Rmf24 - Opinie by Tomasz Dlugosz
Jerusalem Post - French and Howto Geek by Tony Stegall
Improved news sources:
Peter Schiff
Telegraph UK
AJC
Boortz
Scientific American

New in calibre 0.7.20 (Sep 24, 2010)

New Features:
Tweak epub feature: "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."
Add button to Edit metadata dialog to trim borders from the cover
Kobo driver: Add support for setting the ReadStatus to Read and correctly deal with empty collections
Improved algorithm for removal of hyphens during pre-processing
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.
After bulk edit metadata, reselect previously selected books.
Bug Fixes:
Fix regression in 0.7.19 that broke the By Author and By Title category listing in Stanza/Aldiko feeds.
MOBI Output: Fix regression that broke sections list in downloaded periodicals on Kindle for non-english news sources
News download: Rationalize cover processing.
Cover cache: load images only in the GUI thread to prevent stale files being leftover by set_path due to Windows file locking
Database: Make renaming of folders on case change more robust.
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.
Plugin loading: Handle encoding declarations in .py files correctly
MOBI input: Another corner case.
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
Database: Fix regression that caused has_cover to create empty directories unneccessarily
Detection of Alex on unix.
News download: Don't add inline table of contents when downloading news for the Kindle
Add prologue and epilogue to default chapter detection regex
Kobo driver: Fix issue where books that are read were getting their status reset to Unread
Device drivers: Fix occassional false positive when matching books on device with books in the calibre library
Content server: Making serving of large files more efficient.
GUI device detection: Handle case when user yanks connected device before device connection handler is called.
Strip leading/trailing whitespace when setting metadata using the edit metadata dialog
KOBO: Editing the Im_Reading list with SD Card installed fixed
New news sources:
Neal's Nuze and Popular Science by Tony Stegall
Rmf24.pl by Tomasz Dlugosz
Gazeta Pomorska by Richard
Le Journal de Montreal and superesportes by Luciano Furtado
The Marker by Marbs
Tagesanzeiger by noxxx
Improved news sources:
Danas
Harvard Business Review

New in calibre 0.7.19 (Sep 18, 2010)

New Features
The ability to perform search and replace via regular expressions in the Bulk Edit metadata dialog
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 Closes tickets: 6808
Greatly improve sorting performance on large libraries.
Drivers for the SONY PRS-350/PRS-650 and the Sovos E-reader
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
Conversion pipeline: Add an option to control how hard line breaks are removed during preprocessing. See the Structure Detection section in the conversion options
In the Edit metadata dialog, indicate whether the author sort value matches the author value, using a background color
Add an option to split the toolbar into two toolbars in Preferences->Interface->Look and Feel
EPUB Output: Improved design of the 'jacket' page created by calibre when using the 'Insert metadata at start of book' option
PDF Input: Improve line unwrapping, handling of hyphens/dashes and quotes. Also handle more specially encoded non ASCII characters
Bug Fixes
Fix regression in filename shortening that caused loss of filename extension
Fix various regressions that could be triggered when using search restrictions and/or multi-sorts and connecting a device
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
Conversion pipeline: Don't die if rescaling of image raises an exception, just ignore and continue
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.
Workaround for bug that affects some windows installs causing white backgrounds on default covers to be rendered as yellow
Fix handling of non-ASCII chars when rendering series in default EPUB cover
Fix --start-in-tray switch displays hidden windows in metacity, xfwm4 and compiz Closes tickets: 6806
Conversion pipeline: When setting margins on explicitly set padding to 0 to override and existing padding in the input document
CHM Input: Ignore missing image files in the input document Closes tickets: 6773
News download: Fix bug that could break some downloads in non ASCII locales
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.
PDB Input: Fix bug in conversion of TOC in some PML files
New news sources
taz.de RSS by Alexander Schremmer
Brand Eins by Constantin Hofstetter
Winnipeg Free Press by buyo
Buckmasters in the kitchen, The Walrus Magazine and Kansas City Star by Tony Stegall
Europa Sur by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Harpers (free)
Danas
Novosti
ESPN
Taz Digiabo
Slate
AJC
Infobae
NSPM

New in calibre 0.7.18 (Sep 11, 2010)

New Features:
All new Preferences dialog, with nicer layout and the ability to restore settings to defaults
Add series info when available to generated cover. Also auto-resize the logo on the cover to ensure all text fits Closes tickets: 6724
On device column: Now indicates when multiple copies of the same book are present on the device
Driver for the Gemei GM2000
Extract fb2 files from zip container when adding to calibre. Can be disables by disabling the Archive Extract file type plugin. Closes tickets: 6739
Switch to using raster icons for a small speedup in startup time
Bug Fixes:
On device column: Fix matching bug when multiple books in the library have the same title and author
Content server: Use /mobile version for Kindle browser
E-book viewer: When adding a bookmark, a default name is generated Closes tickets: 6450
Hide visible menus before clearing toolbar. Closes tickets: 6706
Batch conversion: Don't overwrite the insert page break before setting Closes tickets: 6729
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.
Fix regression when checking database integrity with custom columns introduced in 0.7.17
Sending email: Ignore geenric records when trying to resolve domain Closes tickets: 6723
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
MOBI Output: Fix bug generating index when chapter names contained non ASCII characters Closes tickets: 6595
PDF Input: Fix handling of more non ascii characters
Content server: Triple AJAX timeout for main book list to 30 seconds
Use ImageMagick instead of Qt to generate thumbnails when sending covers to device. Should fix corrupted nook covers on some windows installs
FB2 Output: Improve creation of sections and fix a couple of bugs that could result in invalid output
New news sources:
Journal Gazette by cynvision
Milenio by bmsleight
Winnipeg Free Press by buyo
Buckmasters in the kitchen, The Walrus Magazine and Kansas City Star by Tony Stegall
Europa Sur by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
El Pais
La Jornada
nrcnext
WSJ (free)

New in calibre 0.7.17 (Sep 4, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.16 (Aug 27, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.15 (Aug 21, 2010)

New Features:
Multiple library support: Various improvements to make using multiple calibre libraries easier.
Content server: Allow setting a restriction so that the server shares only some of the books in the library.
Speed up metadata editing. Small speed up for single book editing and major speedup for bulk editing. Closes tickets: 6472
Drivers for the Kogan and Spectra e-book readers and the Samsung Captivate
Allow calibredb to manage saved searches stored in the library.
Add a tweak to automatically connect to a folder on startup. Accessible via Preferences->Advanced->Tweaks
You can specify a restriction based on a saved search to be applied on calibre startup
All actions in toolbar/context menus have been refactored to become plugins
Bug Fixes:
Content server: Fix Saved Search and User Category handling in the OPDS feeds. Closes tickets: 6549 , 6551
Fix regression that broke reading covers from CBR files
Fix regression in 0.7.13 that broke Comic Input when image output format was set to JPEG
Fix Comic Input default settings not being used when bulk converting comics
SONY driver: Fix series order being lost when metadata management is set to manual
Fix behavior of Tag Browser and search restictions when switching libraries Closes tickets: 6511
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. Closes tickets: 6524
Catalog generation: Changed default regex for genre tags to allow punctuation within genre tags.
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
Jobs window now remebers its size and can be launched by a keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+J) Closes tickets: 6505
Fixing regression that broke clicking on links in the Book Details window Closes tickets: 6509
Parallel job management: Do not allow new jobs to start when all cores are used.
Fix a bug that could cause the jobs window to show details for the wrong job Closes tickets: 6130
Workaround for PyQt4/util-linux conflict on gentoo
New news sources:
La Jornada by rogliedoh
Futurismic by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
GoComics

New in calibre 0.7.14 (Aug 14, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.13 (Aug 7, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.12 (Jul 31, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.10 (Jul 23, 2010)

New Features:
Allow user customization of static resources such as icons and templates
"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"
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.
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
See the last modofied date for each format in the edit metadata dialog via a tooltip
Closes tickets: 6252
PD Novel driver: Add support for uploading cover thumbnails to device
More sophisticated metadata extraction from HTML files
Closes tickets: 6223
Bug Fixes:
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.
Restore configurability of toolbar, which was temporarily removed in 0.7.9. You can once again set icon size via Preferences->Interface
Fix regression in iTunes driver in 0.7.9 when sending series info
Search: Fix parsing of search terms that contain a word that starts with 'and' or 'or' and is not the first word
When merging records also merge metadata in custom columns
Closes tickets: 6120
When scrolling to show a particular row, handle the case when the first column is a custom column
Closes tickets: 6176
Fix SD card detection for The Augen Book
Closes tickets: 6224
CHM Input: Fix a couple of bugs that could cause crashes
Closes tickets: 6240
Conversion pipeline: Handle zero width elements with non zero indents gracefully
Closes tickets: 6230
New news sources:
daum.net by trustin
MIT Technology Review, Alternet, Waco Tribune Herald and Orlando Sentinel by rty
Improved news sources:
The BBC
heise

New in calibre 0.7.9 (Jul 19, 2010)

New unified toolbar "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."
Device drivers: Add option to allow calibre to automatically manage metadata on the device in Preferences->Add/Save->Sending to device
BibTeX output for catalogs. The list of books in calibre can now also be output as a .bib file
A new toolbar button to choose/create different calibre libraries. Be careful using it if you also use custom columns.
Support for the MiBuk
Bug Fixes:
MOBI metadata: Replace HTML entities in the title read from the MOBI file
Conversion pipeline: Handle elements with percentage sizes that are children of zero size parents correctly. Closes tickets: 6155
Fix regression that made LRF conversion less robust Closes tickets: 6180
FB2 Input: Handle embedded images correctly, so that EPUB generated from FB2 works with Adobe Digital Editions. Closes tickets: 6183
Fix regression that prevented old news from being deleted in the calibre library if calibre is never kept running for more than an hour
RTF Input: Fix handling of text align and superscript/subscripts Closes tickets: 3644 , 5060
Fix long series or publisher names causing convert dialog to become too wide
SONY driver: Fix handling of invalid XML databases with null bytes Closes tickets: 6165
iTunes driver: Better series_index sorting
Improved editing of dates for custom columns
Linux USB scanner: Don't fail to start calibre if SYFS is not present. Instead simply fail to detect devices Closes tickets: 6156
Android driver: Show books on device if Aldiko is being used Closes tickets: 6100
Upgrade to Qt 4.6.3 in all binary builds to ensure proper rendering of the new toolbar icons
Fix handling of entities in epub files by the epub-fix command Closes tickets: 6136
New news sources:
EL Pain Impresso by Darko Miletic
MIT Technology Review, Alternet, Waco Tribune Herald and Orlando Sentinel by rty
Improved news sources:
Google Reader

New in calibre 0.7.8 (Jul 10, 2010)

New Features
New tool to help prepare EPUBs for publication "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."
New icons for the toolbar buttons by Kamil Tatara
Display rating (when available) in cover browser
Clicking on the central cover int the cover browser now opens that book in the viewer
Use the status bar instead of the area to the right of the location view to display status information
Driver for the Pandigital Novel e-book reader
Bug Fixes
News download: Don not specify a font family for article descriptions
News download: Fix regression introduced in 0.7.0 that broke download of some embedded content feeds
MOBI Output: Partial support for nested superscript and subscripts. Closes tickets: 6132
CHM Input: Fix handling of buggy CHM files with no .hhc Closes tickets: 6087
EPUB Input: Fix bug in unzipping EPUB files that have been zipped in depth first order. Closes tickets: 6127
TXT Input: Convert HTML entities to characters. Closes tickets: 6114
LRF Input: Handle LRF files with random null bytes in the text Closes tickets: 6097
Kobo driver: Fix detection of txt/html files on the device
Fix opening of books when calibre library is on an unmapped network share in windows
SONY driver: Only update the timestamp in the XML db for newly added books
Cover browser: Fix rendering of center cover when width of cover browser is less than the width of a single cover
Cover browser: Correct fix for setPixel out of bounds warning causing UI slowdown in calibre
New news sources
evz.ro by Darko Miletic
Anchorage Daily News, China Economic Net, BBC Chinese and Singtao Daily by rty
Big Oven by Starson17
Improved news sources
Haaretz
Editor and Publisher
Estadao

New in calibre 0.7.7 (Jul 6, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.6 (Jun 28, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.5 (Jun 26, 2010)

New Features:
New driver for the Kobo featuring closer integration with the device.
Support for the Dell Streak, Eken Android tablet and the Astak Mentor EB600
New series type custom column
Add option in Send to device menu to connect to iTunes without any iDevice (experimental)
iPad driver: Make setting iTunes Category from series optional. News download now optimizations for iPad output.
Add option to disable book cover animation Closes tickets: 5909
Edit meta information dialog: Remember last used size and splitter position. Closes tickets: 5908
Metadata download: If any results have a published date, ensure they all do
SONY driver: Add a preference setting in Preferences->Add/Save->Send to device to control how colelctions are managed on the device by calibre
Metadata download: Filter out non book results. Also sort results by availability of covers for the isbn Closes tickets: 5946
Bulk editing for device collections in the device view via the context menu
Bug Fixes:
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
PDF Output: Fix setting top/bottom margnis has no effect
Conversion pipeline: Fix typo causing remove footer regex to always fail
Handle device being yanked with queued device jobs gracefully
Conversion pipeline: Handle deeply nested XML structures Closes tickets: 5931
Conversion pipeline: Fix handling of lists with a specified left margin Closes tickets: 5877
Restore workaround for ADE buggy rendering of anchors as links. However, make it overridable by extra CSS
Fix LibraryThing metadata download plugin
Fix multiple ratings displayed in Tag Browser for some legacy databases
Fix invocation of postprocess file type plugins plugins
HTML Input: Handle @import directives in linked css files. Closes tickets: 5135
HTML Input: Handle absolute paths in resource links on windows correctly. Closes tickets: 3031
E-book viewer: Handle font-face rules specify multiple families to be substituted
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
Reset Tag browser if the text in the search box is edited
Fix detection of SD card in Samsung Galaxy windows driver
New news sources:
L'Osservatore Romano by Darko Miletic
China Press, London Free Press, People Daily by rty
Improved news sources:
Zaobao
New Scientist
National Post
London review of books

New in calibre 0.7.4 (Jun 21, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.3 (Jun 18, 2010)

New Features:
The Tag Browser now display an average rating for each item
" 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 "
Editable author sort for each author
"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"
When downloading metadata, also get series information from librarything.com
Closes tickets: 5148
Redesign of the Book Details pane
"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"
New User Interface layouts
"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."
You can now add books directly from the device to the calibre library by right clicking on the books in the device views
iPad driver: Create category from series preferentially, also handle series sorting
SONY driver: Add an option to use author_sort instead of author when sending to device
Hitting Enter in the search box now causes the search to be re-run
Closes tickets: 5856
Boox driver: Make destination directory for books customizable
Add plugin to download metadata from douban.com. Disabled by default.
OS X/linux driver for PocketBook 301
Support for the Samsung Galaxy and Sigmatek EBK52
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:
iPad driver: Various bug fixes
Kobo Output profile: Adjust the screen dimensions when converting comics
Fix using Preferences when a device is connected causes items in device menu to be disabled
CHM Input: Skip files whoose names are too long for windows
Brighten up calibre icon on dark backgrounds
Ignore 'Unknown' in title/autors when downloading metadata
Closes tickets: 5633
Fix regression that broke various entries in the menus - Preferences, Open containing folder and Edit metadata individually
EPUB metadata: Handle comma separated entries in tags correctly
Closes tickets: 5855
MOBI Output: Fix underlines not being rendered
Closes tickets: 5830
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
Fix a bug that could cause the show pane buttons to not show hidden panes
Fix Tag Editor does not reflect recently changed data in Tag Catagory Text Box
Closes tickets: 5809
Content server: Fix sorting of books by authors instead of author_sort in the main and mobile views
Cover cache: Resize covers larger than 600x800 in the cover cache to reduce memory consumption in the GUI
EPUB Output: Default cover is generated is now generated as a JPEG instead of PNG32, reducing size by an order of magnitude.
Closes tickets: 5810
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
Closes tickets: 5808
Book list: Do not let the default layout have any column wider than 350 pixels
New news sources:
Akter by Darko Miletic
Thai Rath and The Nation (Thailand) by Anat Ruangrassamee
Improved news sources:
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
Slashdot
Publico
Danas

New in calibre 0.7.2 (Jun 12, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.1 (Jun 7, 2010)

New in calibre 0.7.0 (Jun 5, 2010)

User Interface improvements The best way to see the user interface improvement is watch the video linked to above. For those of you that cannot, here's a short description. You can now add your own columns to the book list, via
Preferences->Interface (the plus button).
You can add your own ratings, yes/no, tags, date, etc. columns and have them appear in the booklist. The contents of these columns can be edited just like a builtin column, by either double clicking on individual entries or using the Edit meta information button. 
You can freely resize the Tag Browser and Book Details pane and easily show/hide columns by right clicking on their headers. You can also re-arrange columns by dragging their headers. You can show/hide categories in the Tag Browser by right clicking on them and add your own categories for quick access, by clicking the Manage user categories button.
You can also edit entries in the Tag Browser by right clicking on them. This will change their value for all book. For example, if you change the name of an author, this change will appear in the metadata of all the books by that author.  
You can Save you frequently used searches and bring them up with a single click in the Tag Browser.
You can also use the saved searches to restrict what is shown in calibre. This will restrict the book list as well as the Tag Browser. In effect, you have temporarily reduced you calibre collection to only the books matching the search . You can now merge book records and have calibre automatically merge the metadata and formats into a single entry for you. Accessed via the arrow next to the edit meta information button
. You can now use regular expression when searching and also relational operators like date:>yesterday. calibre can now optionally download tags/reviews/rating from amazon.com 
Device driver improvements calibre now shows a "On Device" column in the main Library view when you connect a supported device. This column can be used to see at a glance what books in your library are also on the device.
There is a complementary "In Library" column in the device views that shows what books on the device are in your library. Since you can sort and search on these columns, it becomes very easy to quickly see what books are on the device. For example, the search "not ondevice:main and not ondevice:card" will show you all the books in your library that are not on the device. This feature works best with books you send to the device from calibre 0.7 onwards.  calibre caches the metadata of all books on the device. This means that when you re-connect the device creating the list of books on the device will be very fast. Especially if you have a number of large ODF files on your device, this will make a huge difference in the time that calibre takes to connect to the device and display the list of books.  Users can now specify the folder structure and file name of files placed on the device when using the Send to Device action. This is useful for those devices that allow browsing of the on device folder structure. Customization is available via Preferences->Add/Save->Sending to device and can also be overridden on a per device basis from Preferences->Plugins->Device Interface plugins.  
Performance improvements If you have a large library with thousand of books or more, you will notice significant performance gains in starting up calibre and doing common editing tasks like changing metadata, compared to 0.6.0. In addition, thanks to the device caching described above, connecting to devices should become much faster if you have large collections on your device.  The download of news has been speeded up as well (as of 0.6.27) by making it truly multi-threaded. 
Improvements in the conversion and metadata engines The conversion engine now supports unicode characters in RTF Input documents and auto-converts ligatures for PDF input documents. calibre can now set metadata in DRMed Topaz and MOBI files. When generating EPUB files, calibre now creates SVG based covers, that automatically stretch to fill up the available screen real estate on the device used to read them. calibre can now convert CHM files. 
Creation of catalogs You can now easily generate a catalog of all books in your calibre library by clicking the arrow next to the convert button. The catalog can be in one of several formats: XML, CSV, EPUB and MOBI, with scope for future formats via plugins. If you generate the catalog in an e-book format, it will be automatically sent to your e-book reader the next time you connect it, allowing you to easily browse your collection on the reader itself. 
E-book viewer improvements The e-book viewer now has builtin dictionary lookup. Just select a aword and right click to look it up using the dictionary servers at dict.org The viewer now supports SVG embedded in XHTML when viewing EPUB files. 
USB syncing with the iPad calibre now has an experimental driver for the iPad. If you connect the iPad to your computer with calibre running, it should be detected and you can send books directly to iBooks on the iPad with calibre.
The driver works by using iTunes in the background, so you also need to have iTunes installed and your iPad setup in it. And ofcourse, you can browse you calibre collection wirelessly on the iPad with the calibre content server. For details see the FAQ.  
Incompatible changes 0.7 drops support for the un-upgraded SONY PRS 500. In addition all the SONY drivers have been combined into a single driver, so if you previously customized a SONY driver, you will have to redo the customization. Also note that, calibre turns tags into collections, so it will create new collections for existing books on your reader, if they have tags but don't already have collections on the device.
You can turn off this behavior by going to Preferences->Plugins->Device Interface plugins and customizing the SONY plugin. The database schema of the calibre library has changed to support custom columns. While effort has been spent to try to ensure backwards-compatibility, you may have problems going back to an 0.6.x release after upgrading to 0.7, so avoid this, if possible.

New in calibre 0.6.55 (May 29, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.54 (May 22, 2010)

New Features:
EPUB Output: Add option to toggle preserving the aspect ratio of the cover. "By default calibre creates an SVG based cover that scales with the screen size of the reader used to view it. Previosuly this scaling was limited to preserve the aspect ratio of the image. This would often result in white borders at the sides or top and bottom of the image. No, by default, calibre will setup the cover to not preserve aspect ratio, doing away with the white borders. The downside is that if the aspect ratio of the cover is very different from the reader, it will look distorted. The old behavior can be restored via Preferences->Conversion->EPUB Output."
Conversion pipeline: calibre will now automatically replace all ligatures in the input document. "Conversion pipeline: calibre will now automatically replace all ligatures in the input document with the normal character sequence they are meant to represent. This is because most readers lack the font support to display ligatures. This can be turned off via an option under Look & Feel, in the Conversion settings."
Support for the iPapyrus and Newsmy readers and the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10
PDF Output: Set the first page to the cover. Closes tickets: 5581
Bug Fixes:
Conversion pipeline: Handle input documents with no text. Allows conversion of MOBI files tha are only a sequence of images. Closes tickets: 5554
Fix text justification control not working with translated version of calibre Closes tickets: 5551
HTML Input: Encoding detection fixed for tags that have newlines in their content attributes Closes tickets: 5567
EPUB Input: Handle malformed UUID in EPUB with obfuscated fonts. Closes tickets: 5552
Don't resort when editing columns in the main GUI
Fix regression in Kobo driver that caused it to only detect books in the root directory of the device
New news sources:
La Stampa and Libero by Gabriele Marini
Der Tagesspiegel by ipaschke
EMG and Agro Gerilla by Darko Miletic
American Prospect, FactCheck and PolitiFact by Michael Heinz
Improved news sources:
Times Online
The Atlantic
Il Messagero
Leggo
Instapaper
New York Review of Books
NIN Online

New in calibre 0.6.53 (May 17, 2010)

New Features:
Clean up GUI initialization and add support for restoring corrupted databases automatically
Make proxy detection more robust on windows and OS X. calibre now queries OS X Network Settigns if no environment variables are set. Also handle proxies with a trailing slash correctly
Add EPUB advanced formatting demo to User Manual
Support for the Booq Avant, Azbooka and the Samsung GT-I5700
Backwards search in the E-book viewer
calibredb: Add ability to create empty books in the database. Closes tickets: 5504
Conversion pipeline: Support for the :first-letter pseudo selector
Interpret a Keyboard interrupt (Ctrl+C) as a request to quit the main GUI
CBC Input: Handle comics.txt encoded in UTF-16 with a BOM
Bug Fixes:
HTML Input: Fix silly bug in case sensitivity detection
Kobo driver: Show all sideloaded content on the device. Closes tickets: 5492
EPUB metadata: Fix bug with relative apths in encryption detection when reading cover Closes tickets: 5471
E-book viewer: Fix next page scrolling when current document is just a little more than a screenfull. Also use a more robust method to insert blank space at the end of the document when the last screenfull is partially empty.
EPUB metadata: Allow deletion of series/tags/isbn from EPUB files when Saving to Disk Closes tickets: 5518
Fix regression that caused temporary blank line at the bottom of the books list when adding duplicates Closes tickets: 5500
Add icon for RTF Closes tickets: 5503
Amazon metadata: If ISBN is not found, don't report an error message. Closes tickets: 5501
EPUB Input: Fix typo that caused incorrect processing of EPUB files with more than one identifier element and encrypted fonts
Fix bug that caused send to device to send multiple copies to the device if you had previously used Prefrences
Linux prs 500 udev rule: Use SUBSYSTEMS instead of the deprecated BUS
PML2PMLZ plugin: Actually compress the PML file stored in the PMLZ archive Closes tickets: 5511
SONY drivers: Fix regression that broke collection ordering by series when sending to device. And fix another rare error condition. Closes tickets: 5487
CHM Input: Regression that broke CHM conversion on OS X. Closes tickets: 5483
Fix PDB created in Dropbook not convertable by Calibre Closes tickets: 5441
New news sources:
APCOM, Leggo (it), Ansa and Punto Informatico by Gabriele Marini
Scinexx.de by JSuer
Various Russian news sources by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
Christian Science Monitor
The Nation
Physics World
Discover Magazine

New in calibre 0.6.52 (May 7, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.51 (May 3, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.49 (Apr 24, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.48 (Apr 19, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.47 (Apr 9, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.46 (Mar 31, 2010)

New Features
EPUB Output: Use SVG for covers, to ensure cover image is correctly resized to fit available screen space
Support for the Motorola Cliq and Milestone
Fetch My Clippings from the Kindle
Comic Input: Add option to disable conversion to grayscale (black and white)
MOBI Output: Mark single section news downloads as newspapers so that they are automatically archived by the Kindle
MOBI Output: Add option to control setting of document type to Personal Document
SONY driver: Tags within [] do not translate into a category when sending books to device
ebook-device: Add a test_file command
Location support for PDF when fetching annotations from a Kindle
Bug Fixes
CHM Input: Various fixes Closes tickets: 5132 , 5141
Linux installer: Add mimetypes to .desktop files Closes tickets: 5156
Fix function naming in bash completion script Closes tickets: 5146
Fix the author of the metadata download plugins goes wrong after downloaded metadata for a book Closes tickets: 5129
Popup an error message if a news download is aborted because of no active internet connection
Add test button to regex builder to improve performance
Fix loading of custom device interface plugins
Fix extra spaces in MOBI author field with multiple authors Closes tickets: 2279 , 4652 , 5162
Fix Kindle Topaz files with edited metadata won't index Closes tickets: 5154
PDB output: Fix problem with links continuing through story Closes tickets: 5149
Don't choke if the user provides an invalid remove header/footer regexp
New news sources
MiDDay by calibre Periodicals
Business Line by Dhiru
New York Post by Darko Miletic
Tulsa World by Darko Miletic
Oil Price by Darko Miletic
nrc.nl by Darko Miletic
Peter Schiff's Economic Commentary by Darko Miletic
IEEE Spectrum by Franco Venturi
Washington Post by Kos Semonski
The Sun by Chaz Ralph
Fronda by Tomasz Dugosz
Runa by Mori
Times of India by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources
Various Serian and Polish newspapers
New York Times Top Stories
USA Today
Daily Telegraph
New York Times
SFBG

New in calibre 0.6.45 (Mar 12, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.44 (Mar 6, 2010)

New Features
Experimental support for conversion of CHM files
"Conversion and reading of metadata from CHM files is now supported. This feature is still experimental, with more testing needed. Building from source on linux now requires chmlib."
Experimental support for fetching annotations from the Kindles
"calibre can now fetch annotations from your kindle and put them into the comments field. To fetch annotations, click the arrow next to the 'send to device' button and select 'Fetch Annotations', with your Kindle connected."
Support FreeBSD out of the box (except USB)
Closes tickets: 4715 [External link]
News download scheduler: Don't try to download news when no active internet connection is present (linux/windows only)
EPUB to WPUB conversion: Preserve font encryption
calibre-server: Add --pidfile and --daemonize (unix only) options
Plugins: When loading a plugin zip file extract to temp dir and add to sys.path, if the zip file contains binay code (pyd/dll/so/dylib), instead of just adding the zip file to the path, as python cannot load compiled code from a zip file
Bug Fixes
Ebook-viewer: Handle non-ascii CSS files when doing font substitutions
Conversion pipline: Ignore non-integral play orders when parsing NCX files
When decoding NCX toc files, if no encoding is declared and detection has less that 100% confidence, assume UTF-8.
Closes tickets: 5039 [External link]
PML chapter definitions missing from toc.ncx
Closes tickets: 4990 [External link]
Unicode string for cover causes calibredb --output-format stanza to fail
Search cover:False fails, cover:True succeeds
Closes tickets: 5034 [External link]
Plugins: correctly use context
MOBI Input: Don't lose cover if it is also referred to in main text
RTF Output: Don't choke on PNG images
New news sources
Journal of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine by Krittika Goyal
Astronomy Pick of the Day, Epicurious by Starson17
Diario Vasco, Various Chilean newspapers by Darko Miletic
Kukuburi by Mori
Improved news sources
Ars Technica
Fudzilla
The Atlantic
The Economist
Huffington Post

New in calibre 0.6.43 (Feb 27, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.42 (Feb 20, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.41 (Feb 19, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.40 (Feb 13, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.39 (Feb 10, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.38 (Feb 9, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.37 (Feb 1, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.36 (Jan 25, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.35 (Jan 23, 2010)

New Features:
Catalog generation - "You can now easily generate a catlog of all books in your calibre library by clicking the arrow next to the convert button. The catalog can be in one of several formats: XML, CSV, EPUB and MOBI, with scope for future formats via plugins. If you generate the catalog in an e-book format, it will be automatically sent to your e-book reader the next time you connect it, allowing you to easily browse your collection on the reader itself. This feature is in Beta (may have bugs) so feedback is appreciated."
RTF Input: Support for unicode characters.
Add Quick Start Guide by John Schember to calibre library on first run of calibre
Improve handling of justification - "Now calibre will explicitly change the justification of all left aligned paragraphs to justified or vice versa depending on the justification setting. This should make it possible to robustly convert all content to either justified or not. calibre will not touch centered or right aligned content."
E-book viewer: Fit images to viewer window (can be turned off via Preferences)
Add section on E-book viewer to User Manual
Development environment: First look for resources in the location pointed to by CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM. If not found, use the normal resource location
When reading metadata from filenames, with the Swap author names option checked, improve the logic used to detect author last name.
News downloads: When getting an article URL from a RSS feed, look first for an original article link. This speeds up the download of news services that use a syndication service like feedburner or pheedo to publish their RSS feeds.
Bug Fixes:
Windows device detection: Don't do expensive polling while waiting for device disconnect. This should fix the problems people have with their floppy drive being activated while an e-book reader is connected
PML Input: Fix creation of metadata Table of Contents
Fix Tag browser not updating after using delete specific format actions
MOBI Output: Don't die when converting EPUB files with SVG covers
Nook driver: Remove the # character from filenames when sending to device
Workaround for bug in QtWebKit on windows that could cause crashes when using the next page button in the e-book viewer for certain files
MOBI Input: Rescale img width and height attributes that were specified in em units
ebook-meta: Fix setting of series metadata
RTF metadata: Fix reading metadata from very small files
Conversion pipeline: Don't error out if the user sets an invalid chapter detection XPath
Fix main mem and card being swapped in pocketbook detection on OS X
Welcome wizard: Set the language to english if the user doesn't explicitly change the language. This ensures that the language will be english on windows by default
Fix bug in OEBWriter that could cause writing out of resources in subdirectories with URL unsafe names to fail
E-book viewer: Change highlight color to yellow on all platforms.
New news sources:
Frankfurter Rundschau by Justus Bisser
The Columbia Hournalism Review by XanthanGum
Various CanWest Canadian news sources by Nick Redding
gigitaljournal.com by Darko Miletic
Pajamas Media by Krittika Goyal
Algemeen Dagbla by kwetal
The Reader's Digest by BrianG
The Yemen Times by kwetal
The Kitsap Sun by Darko Miletic
drivelry.com by Krittika Goyal
New recipe for Google Reader that downloads unread articles instead of just starred ones by rollercoaster
Le Devoir by Lorenzo Vigentini
Joop by kwetal
Various computer magazines by Lorenzo Vigentini
The Wall Street journal (free parts) by Nick Redding
Journal of Nephrology by Krittika Goyal
stuff.co.nz by Krittika Goyal
Editor and Publisher by XanthanGum
The Week (free) by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources:
Physics Today
Wall Street Journal
American Spectator
FTD
The National Post
Blic
Ars Technica

New in calibre 0.6.34 (Jan 16, 2010)

New in calibre 0.6.33 (Jan 11, 2010)

The e-book viewer now has built-in dictionary lookup
"You can now right click on a word to lookup its meaning in an online dictionary. calibre uses the public domain dictionaries available at dict.org"
RTF Output: Add support for unicode characters
Allow the metadata that is used to create collections when sending books to SONY readers to be customized
"By default collections are created on the SONY reader corresponding to series and tags. Now you can add other metadata fields, like author, or remove ones you dislike, by going to Preferences->Plugins and customizing the device interface plugin corresponding to your device."
TXT Input: Add option to disable insertion of Table of Contents into output text.
Closes tickets: 4506
Remember state of cover and tag browsing views on restart
Bug Fixes
EPUB Output: Add id attributes to anchors that have only name, as Adobe Digital Editions apparently can't handle only name attributes
Closes tickets: 4474
Conversion pipeline: Handle the list-style shortcut CSS property correctly
Closes tickets: 4418
EPUB Output: Fix generation of comics with PNG images for the Nook
Closes tickets: 4492
Fix bug that could prevent loading of some custom plugins
Closes tickets: 4414
News download: Handle URLs with both commas and non-ASCII characters correctly
Ignore invalid metadata when adding books from command line instead of erroring out
Closes tickets: 4496
Fix remove header/footer assistant when converting HTML files
Closes tickets: 4484
Workaround for browsers like iPhone Safari that send extra arguments when downloading books from the content server
Content server: Recognize the HTC HD2 as a mobile browser and add series information to the mobile version of the web page.
Closes tickets: 4488
FB2 Output: Properly escape metadata before inserting it into the file
Don't accept rich text in the comments fields of the edit meta information dialog
Fix device detection for Cybook gen 3 with firmware 2.0
Send to device: Use default save template when driver specific one is empty or unspecified
Fix framework for running post-process and preprocess file type plugins
Linux develop/install commands: Use bindir instead of staging bindir in the launchers
Closes tickets: 4437
E-book viewer: Sanitize file names when unzipping EPUB files
Closes tickets: 4426
New news sources
The Escapist by Lorenzo Vigentini
Washington Post cartoons by kwetal
The Dallas Morning News by Krittika Goyal
sg.hu by davotibarna
The New Zealand Herald by Krittika Goyal
Nature News by Krittika Goyal
Improved news sources
El Pais
The Economist
The New York Times
Entrepreneur Magazine
CNN

New in calibre 0.6.32 (Jan 4, 2010)

Allow users to cutomize where books are placed by the Send to Device action
"Uses can now specify the folder structure and file name of files placed on the device when using the Send to Device action. This is useful for those devices that allow browsing of the on device folder structure. Customization is available via Preferences->Add/Save->Sending to device and can also be overriden on a per device basis from Preferences->Plugins->Device Interface plugins"
Browse by tags: Make clicking on a tag cause all other tags to be de-selected, unless CTRL or SHIFT is pressed.
News downloads: Automagically handle PDF covers
Sort tags in the main view alphabetically
Add command line option to content server to specify the path to the library to be served
Support for the Hanvon N516, Binatone Readme and the Longshine ShineBook
Bug Fixes:
Fix various issues that could prevent calibre from starting on OS X
Speed up device detection on windows. Difference will be noticeable for all the EB600 clones in particular
Fix regression preventing User style sheets from working in the e-book viewer for the past couple of releases.
Don't update main books list when showing Cover Browser. Should speed it up on slow computers.
Fix detection of iRiver Story on windows
EPUB Output: Fix play order in generated NCX being uniformly zero when the input HTML file has a name with special characters.
Fix bug that prevented the changing of case of authors/series and publishers.
Fix editing series name in main screen would cause an extra space to be added at the end
Fix support for Android devices on linux
Allow GUI to start even if home directory does not support sockets on Linux/OS X
TXT Input: Remove specific options for indent and flush paragraphs, use the look and feel remove paragraph spacing option instead.
MOBI metadata: Don't leave around a styles.css file when trying to extract embedded metadata
MOBI Input: Change default encoding for files that don't specify a codepage from cp1251 to cp1252
Linux binary: Add system QT_PLUGIN_PATH to enable calibre to use the user specified Qt style
New news sources:
Foreign Affairs by kwetal
New England Journal of Medicine by Krittika Goyal
Asia One by Bruce
Mother Jones by kwetal
Entrepreneur Magazine by kwetal
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Krittika Goyal
Pilot One by Krittika Goyal
Cyprus Weekly by kwetal
RTE by Robin Phillips
Psychology Today by Krittika Goyal
The Providence Journal by Krittika Goyal
The Denver Post by Krittika Goyal
Pro Publica by kwetal
Big Government by kwetal
El Universal Impressa by kwetal
Journal of Accountancy by kwetal
The New York Magazine by Kovid Goyal
Chowk by kwetal
Dawn by kwetal
The News by kwetal
Improved news sources:
The National Post
The Economist (free)
The Independent

New in calibre 0.6.31 (Dec 28, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.30 (Dec 27, 2009)

Update graphical toolkit to Qt 4.6 for better integration with Windows 7 and OS X Snow Leopard.
"The library calibre uses to draw its user interface, Qt, has been updated in all binary builds to version 4.6. This provides better support for Windows 7 and OS X Snow Leopard,a s well as various speed ups in the user interface and e-book viewer rendering. Note that calibre will still run with Qt 4.5"
Device drivers: Support for device specific icons
Add menu options to delete specific formats/covers from the library
Metadata dialog: Auto-increment the series number when editing the series and validate the input ISBN based on the check digit
Add option to swap author first and last names when reading metadata from a file name
Replace underscores with spaces when reading metadata
Nook driver: Upload covers when sending to device. Also add Output Profile for the Nook
Clicking on row numbers in the book list will now open the book in the viewer
Driver for the Boox reader
Bug Fixes:
MOBI Metadata reader: Correctly handle non ASCII characters when reading embedded metadata.
LRF Output: Set category metadata in generated LRF file based on tags
News download: Correctly handle URLs with non ASCII characters in them
Fix windows only crash when vieweing MOBI files
Remeber selection when sorting and switching between library and device views
Add a retry loop when querying database to workaround intermittent database access problems in windows
When adding books, do not add OPF as a separate format
Fix initialize method of plugins not being called
Handle interrupted system calls duriong device detection on OS X
EPUB Output: Make splitting to size more accurate by moving it after the workarounds
When adding books via the add books button to the device, restrict to formats supported by device
New news sources:
Cyprus News Live by kwetal
Kleine Zeitung by kwetal
Business Week Magazine by Darko Mieltic
CNET News by Darko Miletic
Dilbert by Darko Miletic
Le Temps by Sujata Raman
Inc magazine by kwetal
SME by kwetal
Pravda by kwetal
Houston Chronicle by Kovid Goyal
Strategy and Business by kwetal
Watching America by kwetal
Aftenposten by davotibarna
Improved news sources:
Sueddeutsche
Irish Independent
The Straits Times
Harvard Business Review
Wall Street Journal

New in calibre 0.6.29 (Dec 18, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.28 (Dec 15, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.27 (Dec 12, 2009)

New Features:
Support for the Barnes & Noble Nook - Closes tickets: 4145
calibre can now connect to the Barnes & Noble Nook on Windows, OS X and Linux. It can also convert to/from EPUB and PDB, the two e-book formats supported by the Nook.
Download latest version of recipes from the calibre server automatically.
Now calibre will automatically check for updated versions of the recipes used to download the built in news sources. As a result, there is no need to upgrade calibre just for recipe fixes. Note that you still have to upgrade to get access to new news sources.
Speed up download of news - "Speed up download of news by allowing the download to happen in multiple threads (default 5). This may break some recipes, so please report any breakage you notice. If a news server doesn't like the parallel connection, set simultaneous_downloads to 1 in the recipe."
FB2 Output: Support creation of TOC from tags
E-book viewer: Make keyboard shortcuts customizable - Closes tickets: 3793
E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts for next section and previous section
E-book viewer: Scroll past page-break to maintain reading flow - Closes tickets: 3328
Linux device detection: Switch to using libusb1 to enumerate devices on system. - "If you are building for source, the libusb1 headers and library are now required at compile time."
Bug Fixes:
LRF Viewer: Handle LRF files with corrupted end-of-stream tags - Closes tickets: 4151
LRF Viewer: Don't concatenate books when opening multiple files in the same viewer instance - Closes tickets: 4139
SONY device drivers: Ensure that calibre ignores the launcher partition on windows
Fix regression introduced in the Android device drivers in 0.6.26 - Closes tickets: 4152
MOBI Output: Fix handling of links with URL unsafe characters - Closes tickets: 4091
MOBI Output: Handle large descriptions when generating indexed files
Save to disk: Fix {pubdate} format string in template being ignored - Closes tickets: 4140
Replace rotating hourglass with a more efficient busy indicator.
PML Input: Make footnotes and sidebars display better
E-book viewer: Properly handle s
News download: Remove onload attributes when removing javascript
Linux source install: Write path to bin dir into launcher scripts to make IPC more robust
Fix PocketBook 360 driver on windows when no SD card is inserted - Closes tickets: 4182
Fix stopping of a recipe download would prevent it from being re-downloaded until a calibre restart - Closes tickets: 4007 , 4158
New news sources:
Rzeczpospolita OnLine by kwetal
The Huffington Post by kwetal
Glenn Beck by kwetal
The Bangkok Post by kwetal
RIA Novosti in English and Spanish by Darko Miletic
Sabah by Deniz Oguz
Zaman by Deniz Oguz
Improved news sources:
The Hindu
Slate
The Toronto Star
Soldiers Magazine
The Economist
Arizona Daily Star
ESPN

New in calibre 0.6.26 (Dec 5, 2009)

New Features:
Adroid devices: Allow user to customize the directory for sending books
Closes tickets: 3392 [External link]
Now the user can choose what directory on the device calibre will send books to. This allows calibre to support different reading software on Android devices apart from just WordPlayer.
LIT Input: Handle LIT files that are really TXT files
Some poorly created LIT files are really just one big block of text. Now calibre will automatically convert that TXT into paragraphs based on blank lines. This will prevent errors when trying to convert the LIT files to EPUB.
Device support for Motorola Droid (windows and linux)
Various improvements to metadata reading for eReader and PML books
Allow adding of multiple empty books at once
Device drivers: Allow one driver to handle devices from multiple vendors. Also allow device interface plugins to override the USB device detection code
calibre-debug: Remove --develop-from option as it is no longer needed
Bug Fixes:
Content server: Fix password protected access from Adroid devices
Closes tickets: 3952 [External link]
calibredb with output format stanza once again escapes URLs
Closes tickets: 4084 [External link]
Implement work around for a CSS bug in Adobe Digital Editions that causes it to crash
If the CSS contains the declaration font-size: medium instead of font-size: normal Adobe Digital Editions will crash. calibre will now automatically replace medium with normal.
PML Output: Only create a and U tags for supported characters.
PML Input: Allow for images in top-level bookname_image and images directories
Allow sending of MOBI files to the PocketBook 360
Closes tickets: 4118 [External link]
JetBook driver: Don't incorrectly nest folders when uploading books by the same author
Closes tickets: 4120 [External link]
Speed up download of the free Economist recipe
FB2 Input: Workaround for unescaped amerpsands
New news sources:
Money Control by kwetal
Vrij Nederland by kwetal
Improved news sources:
Times Online
Endgadget
Business Week

New in calibre 0.6.25 (Nov 30, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.24 (Nov 16, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.23 (Nov 14, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.21 (Nov 7, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.20 (Oct 31, 2009)

Fix #3861 (calibre locks zip file when plugin not found)
Content Server: Add a mobile friendly interface. Now if you access the content server using a mobile browser, a list of books that is easy to browse on small/e-ink screens is returned. Fixes #3870 (Add a mobile user interface for calibre)
Improved recipe for The Australian
Fix #3824 (Version in .desktop files is used wrongly)
Fix #3869 (Mobipocket mime-type is wrong.)
Fix usage of QApplication for Py Qt? 4.6, since in 4.6 the global application instance is garbage collected, we need to store it in a global variable
PML Input: Fix handling of w and s tags
HTML Input: Convert file names to ASCII as windows based software often can't handle non ASCII file names in zip files. Fixes #3693 (HTML->EPUB on Sony PRS-505 with non standard characters)
Improved recipe for O Globo
Fix #3841 (Python version for development is important)
Fix #3862 (USA Today - blank pages)
Improve header and footer regular expression matching
calibre-debug: -e switch now allows you to pass arbitrary command line options to your script
Fix #3872 (EBook Viewer Bug Prevents Any Actions)
Fix #3856 (Error message when Kindle 2 is attached)
Updated recipe for El Universal
Fix #3876 (Unicode Decode Error? while converting from HTML to EPUB)
Fix Next article UI on Kindle not working when an article is smaller than a single screenfull
Fix #2915 (Stanza does not show newly added books until calibre-server is restarted)
Fix #3828 (Error 13, 'Permission denied'))
FB2,PML,RB,TXT Output: Fix removing of extra spaces too aggresive
Preliminary (OS X only) driver for the Nuut2
Implement #3834 (Feature Request - Active Job Count in Tray Tooltip)
Make Preferences dialog freely resizable
Fix #3172 (Viewer crashes when opening LIT book)
PML Output: Add .png to image names. Fix removing excessive newlines from PML output. PMLZ Output: Name images correctly.
PML Output: Use specified cover or first image if no cover is specified
Add a wizard to make customizing the font rescaling algorithm easier
New recipe for Variety by Darko Miletic
Stanza integration: Use a UUID instead of the database rowid as a unique identifier for each book. This means that, only after this upgrade, Stanza will forget which books it has already downloaded. Fixes #3137 (Provide optional user-customizable "Stanza Unique Identifier"). Also use a UUID when converting to EPUB as the book identifier.
New recipe for Irish Independant by Neil Grogan
Add documentation of the conversion system to the User Manual

New in calibre 0.6.19 (Oct 21, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.18 (Oct 19, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.17 (Oct 10, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.16 (Oct 2, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.14 (Sep 29, 2009)

Add field to edit Date to the Edit Meta Information dialog
Conversion pipeline: Remove empty and tags. Fixes #3564 (PDF to EPUB formatting problems)
Fix #3417 (Receipt - FTD (Financial Time Deutschland) => empty Receipt)
Fix #3555 (Unicode Decode Error?: ... unexpected code byte in Russian fb2)
Fix #3556 (PDB input fail - OPF contains invalid tours section)
Fix #3606 (LRF Reader fails to open file which opens in PRS-500 and 505)
Remove trailing periods from path components when sending books to devices. Fixes #3475 (No books in Collection on Sony PRS-300)
Fix #3526 (Converting Mobipocket to MS Reader not working)
Add a section to the User Manual explaining how to setup a development environment for calibre on all the OSes
Fix #3523 (Please re-add ./setup.py install --root option) and clean up install/post-install code. Post install now no longer runs in a separate process.
Updated NYTimes Top Stories recipe
Linux: Create calibre-uninstall command also Fix #3542 (Fix/enhance non-root develop/install)
New recipe for Smashing Magazine by Darko Miletic and improved recipe for Die Ziet
Fix #3567 (Entire text of books imported into Title & Author fields)
Fix #3416 (Receipt Spiegel Online - German => no articles)
Fix #3561 (Can't find font filename for font family)
Fix #3552 (Conversion from LRF to LIT or RTF loses paragraph indentations)
Fix #3452 (epubcheck1.0.4 errors - attribute file-as not allowed at this point)
TXT Output: Fix line endings setting not being respected on windows
New recipe for Le Monde Diplomatique by Darko Miletic
New recipe for Business Standard by Darko Miletic
Add delete books action to right click menu. Implements #3604
New recipes for Java Lobyy?, Info World? and Server Side? by Rick Kellog. Fixes #3543 (New Recipes)
TXT Output: Table support
New recipe for The Toronto Star by Darko Miletic
Implement #3602 (Updated recipes)
Fix #3590 (calibre 0.6.13 source package is a tarbomb)
Rewrite the Tag browser to make it more efficient and remove one source of random crashes
Edit Meta information dialog now displays dates in the local timezone, like the main book view. Fixes #3288 (Published Date issue)
calibre now works with OS X 10.6 **Snow Leopard**. Fixes #3471 (Snow Leopard Compatibility)

New in calibre 0.6.13 (Sep 19, 2009)

Implement #3473 (Please add Dutch news Tweakers.net (techsite))
Fix #2821 (Non user-friendly error message when attempting to save metadata of open file)
New recipe for Salon.com by cix3
HTML Input: Ignore case when parsing the rel and type attributes of tags for CSS stylesheets
Comic Input: Change default colors to 256 and add option to generate comic pages in PNG or JPEG formats. Fixes #3529 (Comics display badly on Adobe Digital Editions and some prs-505 models due to colour depth)
Fix #3489 (recipe_DieZeit_doesn't work)
Fix #3327 (Converting EBUB to MOBI)
Fix #3501 (No longer opening PDF files)
RTF Input: Speed up processing and add support for small-caps and colors
Updated recipe for Le Monde
Fix #3487 (Recipe standard.at defect)
Implement #2575 (Optional config option to specify alternate location of metadata.db)
Jobs dialog:Allow stopping of waiting jobs and add Stop all jobs button
Fix #3425 (Messages often incorrectly display unicode text)
Conversion pipeline: Set the default left margin for tags to 40px
Fix #3497 (Error on converting zip containing htm files w/ index.htm)
Fix #3088 (Update metada from file)
Fix memory leak when queueing books for bulk convert
Fix #3486 (Edit metadata crash)
Implement #3528 (Please install udev rules into /lib/udev/rules.d/)
Fix #3506 (Cannot convert .LIT to .EPUB)
Fix 'undefined symbol: gzopen64' error when converting comics using the linux binary build
Conversion of LRF books. This is very new code and has only been tested with calibre generated LRF books.
Fix #3458 (error when first click on 'Preference')
New recipe for The Philadelphia Inquirer by Radikal Dissent?
ebook-convert: Make TAB completion (Linux only) faster
Fix #3500 (Cannot view some PRC files)
Fix #3257 (embedded graphics in .odt file look bad when converted to .epub format)
RTF Input: Add support for WMF images
Fix memory leak when using the Convert Single book dialog
Fix #3518 (calibre-server: "By Author", (optional) author_sort sorting)
Fix #3417 (Receipt - FTD (Financial Time Deutschland) => empty Receipt)
Fix #3472 (Error when converting to PDB from any format in Version 0.6.12)
Fix #3513 (conversion bug in Mobi 2 Epub)
Implement #3515 (Reset the conversion options)

New in calibre 0.6.12 (Sep 12, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.11 (Sep 5, 2009)

Fix #3367 ('QMouseEvent' object has no attribute 'key')
Fix #3363 (Edit metadata in bulk window doesn't resize horizontally properly)
Fixed recipes for The LA Times and Budget Fashionista
Recipe download no longer requires X server on linux
Updated recipe for Business Week
Fix #3373 (I have problems with characters in title and book author name)
Updated recipe for Telegraph UK
Fix Newsweek recipe
Linux device detection: Parse /proc/bus/usb/devices directly instead of using libusb
Fix problem where some news downloads were showing incomplete Table of Contents on Kindle
Fix #3380 (Conversion to LRF ignore input text code page)
Improved LA Times recipe
New recipe for Honvedelem.hu by Devilinside
Conversion pipeline: Fix bug that was causing @page rules in CSS embedded in tags to not be stripped. This fixes the problem of EPUB files converted from the HTML output of Microsoft Word having large margins.
Support for the new SONY readers (300/600)
Fix #3377 (--toc-filter only removes alternate entries)
Support for the SONY Reader Touch Edition
Fix bug in Check database integrity on some installs
Implement #3359 (Make markdown processing optional)
Fix missing first paragraph in USA Today download
Implement #3232 (Only do a conversion if target file does not exist option)
Fix #2913 (Cannot crop any PDF with pdfmanipulate the same error message is always reported)
Fix #3320 (Long Folder Names on Kindle)
Fix #3368 (Type Error?: not enough arguments for format string)
Fix #3393 (Browse by Tags - tree closes)
Fix #3375 (--max-toc-links option does not seem to work)
Fix recipe for De Standaard
New recipe for The Intelligencer by Darko Miletic
Use /proc/bus/usb/devices only if libusb fails to load. Fixes #3331 (/proc/bus/usb/devices not present in many distros)
Fix #3399 (Problem with recipe for The Economist?)
Improved recipe for CNN
Fix #3329 (Updated Tech Net? recipe)
New recipes for The Old Foodie and HLN Belgium by Darko Miletic
Fix #3338 (eReader not converting properly)
Implement #3396 (add sort by tag and series to Stanza catalog)
Fix #3345 (Please add more sections to "Die Zeit" recipe)
TXT Output: Options to not add a blank line between paragraphs and to add a TAB at the start of each paragraph

New in calibre 0.6.10 (Aug 28, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.8 (Aug 22, 2009)

Fix #3160 (Sony PRS-505 not recognised since 0.6.7 installation).
Saving to disk is now fully customizable. The user can control the file and directory structure of the saved files as well as various other aspects of the save process.
EPUB Output: Remove tags that are children of as Adobe Digital Editions can't handle them.
Implement #3235 (patch to add an author menu when sorting stanza catalogue by author).
Add header and footer removal options to ebook-convert.
New recipe for Cuba Debate by Darko Miletic. Also improve effectiveness of the linearize tables transform.
E-book viewer: Fix bug that was causing viewer to sometimes not scroll to the top of the page when clicking a link in the Table of Contents that points to the top of the page.
Create an EPUB version of the calibre User Manual (linked to in the online documentation).
Improved recipe for The Guardian.
Add an "Add/Save" category to Preferences to control the "Add books" and "Save to disk" options.
Update bundled version of cssutils. Fixes #3162 (Calibre does not support complete font-face standard).
Stanza support: Allow searching on the main screen. The main screen also now shows three sub catalogs to allow browsing by Newest, By Author and By Title.
Fix #3197 (Extracting metadata from multiple files in a directory fails).
Improved recipe for The Atlantic.
New recipe for Glas Javnosti by Darko Miletic.
Make moving the library location via the Preferences dialog faster.
Fix Instapaper recipe not working when password is blank.
Fix #3209 (Clibre has a prOblem with PDFs with lOng title).
Fix #3221 (Calibre 0.6.7 and pdf ebook import on ?SD card (Bookeen Opus)).
Add history and history based completion to search boxes.
New recipes for Republika and Monitor Online by Darko Miletic.
Recipe susbsytem: Add a remove_attributes property to make it easy to specify that some attributes should be removed from all tags.
Implement #2517 (Remove the #HREF syntax from the Chapter URL in the toc.ncx file for an ePUB).
New recipe for BETA by Darko Miletic.
Fix #3218 (Adding a book in an existing format causes a temporary duplication of formats).
Update all Serbian and Croatin recipes to work with calibre 0.6.
Fix #3159 (Error Converting mobipocket to sony reader v0.6.7).
Add button to read metadata from a particular format to the Edit meta informationn dialog.
Make calibre less likely to loose track of e-book files if the user renames them outside of calibre.

New in calibre 0.6.7 (Aug 15, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.5 (Aug 4, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.4 (Aug 1, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.3 (Jul 30, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.2 (Jul 28, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.1 (Jul 27, 2009)

New in calibre 0.6.0 (Jul 25, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.14 (May 29, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.13 (May 21, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.12 (May 16, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.11 (May 9, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.10 (May 3, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.9 (Apr 24, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.8 (Apr 20, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.7 (Apr 16, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.6 (Apr 9, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.5 (Apr 3, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.3 (Mar 26, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.2 (Mar 20, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.1 (Mar 15, 2009)

New in calibre 0.5.0 (Mar 10, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.143 (Mar 7, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.142 (Mar 4, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.141 (Feb 26, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.140 (Feb 24, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.139 (Feb 21, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.138 (Feb 19, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.137 (Feb 14, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.136 (Feb 11, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.135 (Feb 9, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.134 (Feb 7, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.133 (Feb 2, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.132 (Jan 31, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.131 (Jan 27, 2009)

New in calibre 0.4.130 (Jan 24, 2009)

News download:Convert all downloaded images to JPG and retry downloads on DNS errors. Also translate "Table of Contents" in gnenerated MOBI TOC.
Recipe for The American Spectator by Darko Miletic
Support for merging multiple comics into one in comic2pdf
Implement #1677 (Task tray status boss option)
EPUB viewer:Support quotes in the path to embedded font files
Fix #1658 (Not able to view some PDF files)
Fix #1641 (4.129 crashes when Reader device is attached)
Fix #1669 (xkcd recipe improvement: bubble help)
Fix #1649 (any2mobi fails to convert "Die Zeit" News ePub Files) and #1650
Read metadata from files on Cybook
Create mobi-meta command line tool and make cover extraction from MOBI files more efficient
EPUB Output:Improve handling of tags that are children of
EPUB output:Set --remove-paragraph-spacing to off by default
Fix #1645 (Picks up thumbnail not cover from some Mobipocket files)
Fix Cybook detection in windows
Fix #1639 (Calibre can not handle properly URL's with non-ascii characters)
Fix conversion error when book list is filtered before conversion completes
MOBI output:Improve conversion of tables and Fix #1654 (Tor ePub fails in any2mobi)
Windows installer now refuses to continue if calibre.exe is running
EPUB output:Map tags that are childern of to to get ADE to display them as line breaks.
Implement feeds2mobi
EPUB Output:Remove object and embed tags when using profile PRS505 as they cause the reader to crash
LIT Input:Workaround for LIT files created by Reader Works? that have quoted ampersands in their filenames. Fixes #1627 (Failed to convert LIT to EPUB)
Plugin to read metadata from RAR files
Add MOBI as an output format to the GUI. calibre now fully supports MOBI output, except for conversion of comics.
Recipe for La Prensa by Darko Miletic
Fix calibredb add not refreshing book list in GUI
Strip empty tags from EPUB. Fix #1660 (epub to LRF minor problems)
Remove comments, etc. from Newsweek download
Fix #1652 (Feed Books? ePub fail in any2mobi) and #1653
The GUI no longer tries to migrate the old library1.db automatically. Use calibre-debug --migrate for this.
Implement #1661 (Start minimized in tray)
Recipe for the Freakonomics Blog by Kovid Goyal
Fix #1626 (bad font size on "The New Yorker" recipe)
Recipe for The Age by Matthew Briggs
Improve metadata reading from LIT files