FunkyBuddha Posted November 21, 2023 #1 Posted November 21, 2023 calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts. Save time on managing your e-book collection Use it everywhere and with anything Comprehensive e-book viewer Download news/magazines from the web Share and backup your library easily Edit the books in your collection Satisfy every e-book need and get support Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1 2
FunkyBuddha Posted December 2, 2023 Author #2 Posted December 2, 2023 Release: 7.1 [23 Nov, 2023] New features Notes editor: When pasting HTML with images offer to download remote images in the pasted content Bug fixes Fix regression in 7.0 that broke restore of db from backups Content server: Fix newly added books on homepage not restricted to the books the logged in user is allowed to access When starting in system tray do not flash the main window briefly Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Notes editor: Fix spurious error message when saving a note that contains pasted HTML that refers to an image Fix a regression that caused the unknown/unset date to incorrectly be displayed/edited as a date in the year AD 101 in some timezones Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Comments editor: Fix data file links not working Linux installer: Check that the user has libxcb-cursor.so.0 installed. If not quit early with an error message asking them to install it LRF Output: Fix a regression in 7.0 that broke conversion to LRF Closes tickets: Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. New news sources The World Ahead by unkn0wn Improved news sources Substack Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted December 17, 2023 Author #3 Posted December 17, 2023 Release: 7.2 [15 Dec, 2023] New features Content server: Also listen for all incoming IPv6 connections by default, not just IPv4 Book details: Allow deleting notes from the right click menu easily Bug fixes Windows: Edit book: Fix a crash when using the check book tool with a book that contains malformed markup, in calibre 7 Closes tickets: 2045133 Windows: Improve flickering at startup due to a Qt regression in calibre 7 Windows: Fix moving the main window causing popup/floating windows to be resized in calibre 7 due to yet another Qt regression Fix detection of existing books on the Tolino Vision 6 Closes tickets: 2044659 Linux: Fix external applications not being launched under Wayland in calibre 7 because of a bug in Qt Linux: Fix network requests failing under Fedora in calibre 7 Improved news sources Reuters Scientific American New Yorker Times of India infzm singtaohk Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted January 6, 2024 Author #4 Posted January 6, 2024 New features Tag browser: Allow displaying buttons next to items that have notes or links for easy access. To enable these use Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser Font subsetting: Preserve all OpenType layout features. This makes the subset font files larger but ensures there is no visual degradation when using the subsetted font files in different contexts. Bug fixes macOS: Fix main calibre window not remembering its size on restart Edit book: Fix the "Show changes" window moving down by a few pixels every time it is opened Amazon metadata download: Fixes for various changes to amazon website markup Closes tickets: 2047257 E-book viewer: When looking up words via Google in Europe pre-approve the GDPR consent cookie Closes tickets: 2047181 Windows: Content server: Fix regression in previous release that broke testing for local connections Closes tickets: 2046673 Windows: Fix a regression that caused selections in the Book details panel to be invisible New news sources Hindustan Times Print Edition by unkn0wn Improved news sources Foreign Policy Business Standard Il Post Indian Express Washington Post Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted January 19, 2024 Author #5 Posted January 19, 2024 Release: 7.4 [19 Jan, 2024] New features Add support for the Supernote A6X2 Narrow layout: Place the cover browser above the book list when the window has a narrow aspect ratio. Can be controlled via Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser Category notes browser: Add a button to search for books in the currently selected category Closes tickets: 2046825 Keyboard shortcut to toggle main window layout (Alt+Shift+L) Add the possibility to assign keyboard shortcuts to the tag browser sort functions Bug fixes Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the cover browser to not close when it is used as a separate window Fix a regression in the previous release that caused comments in the Book details panel to be rendered below rather than at the side of the other information Edit book: Fix highlighting of special character not changed immediately after it is edited, only after a subsequent action Move Preferences to the left in the default toolbar, making it less likely to be hidden behind an expander button on small screens Improved news sources LiveMint Foreign Policy New Scientist Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted February 9, 2024 Author #6 Posted February 9, 2024 Release: 7.5.1 [09 Feb, 2024] New features Allow fine tuning the colors used in the calibre interface via Preference->Look & feel->Main interface->User interface colors Note that calibre no longer follows system colors on Linux in light mode (the only place where it used to follow system colors). However, there is a convenient button in the manage colors dialog to import the system colors. Full text search window: Add actions to the context menu to open the book at the clicked on result. Also allow using the view book shortcut to open the currently selected search result Closes tickets: 2052462 When showing the Full text search dialog, pre populate the search box with the contents of the main calibre search box if the main search box contains a simple search Closes tickets: 2052460 Bug fixes Windows: Fix a regression in 7.0 that caused images referring to files on the disk within comments columns to not display in some circumstances E-book viewer: Fix clock showing hour as zero instead of 12 between 12 and 1 am/pm Edit book: When wrapping selected text in a tag, preserve the selection after wrapping Closes tickets: 2050100 Content server: Fix a periodic spurious error message when reading books in offline mode Closes tickets: 2050075 Fix a regression in 7.0 caused by a regression in Qt that would result in calibre hanging rarely when using the cover browser view Fix custom template functions not useable in save to disk templates Closes tickets: 2049992 Fix a regression in 7.2 that caused the popup used for editing fields in the book list to be mis-positioned on very wide monitors Version 7.5.1 fixes a bug in 7.5.0 where calibre would not start up using dark colors when the system was in dark mode on some windows installs and another bug that could cause errors when using cover grid mode with covers stored in CMYK colorspace Closes tickets: 2052766 New news sources ugeskriftet by morusn Martin Fowler and Gitbug Blogs by Lucas Lois Improved news sources El Diplo Science News Barrons Financial Times Business Today Le Monde Scientific American Info: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted May 18, 2024 Author #7 Posted May 18, 2024 Release: 7.10 [03 May, 2024] New features Export of calibre data: Ensure individual part files in the exported data are no larger than one gigabyte even if the library contains individual files larger than that size. Note that this means that exports created by calibre from this version on will not be importable by earlier versions. However, exports from earlier versions should still be importable. Edit book: Spell check: Add options to exclude words in ALL CAPS or with numbers or in camelCase/snake_case from the list of words Allow easily inverting the current search via the right click menu on the search box Bug fixes Kobo driver: Fix database unsupported error with newest firmware Closes tickets: 2064546 DOCX Input: Fix text elements containing only whitespace being incorrectly ignored Closes tickets: 2063301 Bulk metadata dialog: Do not fail when setting covers from ebook files and some of the files have invalid covers Improved news sources Economist The Week Caravan Magazine Financial Times Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted May 24, 2024 Author #8 Posted May 24, 2024 Release: 7.11 [24 May, 2024] New features Kindle driver: Add support for sending cover thumbnails to the Kindle Scribe A new options under Preferences->Look & feel to draw covers with rounded corners Bulk metadata edit: Add a new tab where you can create rules to transform tags/authors/publishers for the selected books Closes tickets: 2064674 Tag browser context menu for Formats now has Open with menu items Closes tickets: 2065544 E-book viewer: When hovering over the top/bottom margin show a button indicating that a click will open the viewer controls. Can be configured via The Headers and footers section of the viewer Preferences. Closes tickets: 2064665 Spell check dialog: Also show count of currently displayed words Bug fixes E-book viewer: Fix searching not ignoring ruby text Closes tickets: 2065249 Edit book: Save the state of the current book when opening a new book via File->Open book Edit book: Fix importing a list of words into a user dictionary not working Closes tickets: 2064887 EPUB3 metadata: Do not fail to read metadata in the presence on invalid calibre user metadata in the OPF file with empty keys Get books: Fix rules to map tags on adding books not being applied to books downloaded via Get books Spellcheck dialog: Move the checkbox to hide correctly spelled words with the rest of the checkboxes that filter the word list Closes tickets: 2064792 New news sources Collider, Comic Book Archive, Make Use Of, MoviewWeb and ScreenRant by Spicy Poison Lex Fridman Podcast by unkn0wn Improved news sources Slate Wall Street Journal London Review of Books Economist Bloomberg Business Week The World Ahead National Geographic Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted June 16, 2024 Author #9 Posted June 16, 2024 Release: 7.12 [30 May, 2024] New features E-book polishing: Add option to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.) Closes tickets: 2067167 Conversion: Add an option under Structure detection to automatically fill in blank alt attributes for images that have alt text in the image file metadata Content server: Use the book title as the filename for downloaded highlights Closes tickets: 2067437 Review downloaded metadata dialog: Add a "Previous" button to go back to the last reviewed book Bug fixes Content server viewer: Fix the bottom of the text being cut off on mobile browsers when not in full screen mode. Unfortunately, this means the viewer now requires a browser no more than two years old. Kindle driver: Increase the size of the cover thumbnails sent to the Scribe Closes tickets: 2067168 Kindle output: Fix cover images that contain EXIF data without a rotation not displaying on the Kindle lockscreen Closes tickets: 1943495 E-book viewer: Fix ruby tags not excluded when searching for text Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke searching Closes tickets: 2067128 Improved news sources Economist Espresso Slate Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted June 28, 2024 Author #10 Posted June 28, 2024 Release: 7.13 [28 Jun, 2024] New features When merging books add an option to store discarded or replaced covers as an alternate cover in the data folder of the target book Closes tickets: 2071033 Generate CSV catalog: Add a button to sort the fields by the order in which they appear in the book list Closes tickets: 2068070 Bug fixes MTP driver: Preserve cover aspect ratio for thumbnail generation Closes tickets: 2067755 Fix identifiers not always being merged correctly when merging books Closes tickets: 2071044 DOCX Input: Fix extra left padding when converting lists Closes tickets: 2069541 Amazon metadata download: Get title and comments for audiobook pages Amazon metadata: When filtering search engine results by title ignore words of the title that are purely punctuation When matching books on a device to book in the library assume a match if the title and any one author match, dont require all authors to match Update Google Images cover download plugin for website changes Closes tickets: 2069553 When adding new books if the timestamp is specified as undefined use the current timestamp Closes tickets: 2069494 Content server: Fix systemd pre-activated socket not working Content server: Fix no KFX download link in OPDS acquisition feeds Closes tickets: 2071390 New news sources Times Literary Supplement by unkn0wn Wall Street Journal Magazine by unkn0wn Various Valnet Publishing Group recipes by Spicy Poison VOX, The Good E-reder and The e-book Reader by SpicyPoison Gates Notes, Greatist, Halthline and United Nations by SpicyPoison Improved news sources Harpers Wall Street Journal Liberation How to Geek Make Use Of TechCrunch LifeHacker India Today 1843 Reuters The Week India Slate Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted July 13, 2024 Author #11 Posted July 13, 2024 Release: 7.14 [12 Jul, 2024] New features Book details: When dropping files add an option to add them to the book as data files Closes tickets: 2072442 Edit book: A new action to toggle line wrapping mode in all code editors. Can be assigned via Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts->Global actions or added to the toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars->Book wide actions Kobo driver: Add an option to force the SeriesID for all books in a series to have the same value Bug fixes Fix a regression in the previous release that broke merging of books when the confirmation for the merge was disabled Closes tickets: 2071458 E-book viewer: Allow some header and footer items such as progress to overflow instead of being truncated Closes tickets: 2072412 HTMLZ output: Make renaming of image files happen in filename order Closes tickets: 2072405 MTP driver: Fix infinite loop when connecting to some devices with more 65K objects in their filesystem Closes tickets: 2072384 Fix shortcut editing widget when Qt is using a theme that inserts accelerators into push button labels automatically New news sources Ancient Egypt Magazine, Minerva Magazine, Military History Magazine and World Archaeology Magazine by unkn0wn Improved news sources Instapaper MIT Tech Review Guardian Liberation The Times and Sunday Times Bloomberg Businessweek Times Literary Supplement Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1
FunkyBuddha Posted July 19, 2024 Author #12 Posted July 19, 2024 Release: 7.15 [19 Jul, 2024] New features Fetch news: Allow individual news sources to specify source specific options such as downloading of past editions Bug fixes Windows: MTP driver: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error with some devices Closes tickets: 2073323 Icon theme creation dialog: Fix various issues when creating an icon theme with many icons that have light/dark variants New news sources WSJ News by unkn0wn Improved news sources Bloomberg Eenadu Mediapart Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1 1
FunkyBuddha Posted August 14, 2024 Author #13 Posted August 14, 2024 Release: 7.16 [31 Jul, 2024] New features Add a driver for the new 2024 Tolino devices. They use a modified version of the Kobo firmware, so they are detected as Kobo devices. Various news recipes now have the ability to download past issues, accessible via the Advanced tab in the Schedule news dialog Bug fixes ONLY if you use the calibre Content server, you should update calibre as soon as possible Closes tickets: 2075128 If you do not know what the Content server is, you do not use it, and these do not apply to you. If you have set a password to access the Content server that you have not shared with anyone, these do not affect you. A remote code execution bug in the Content server introduced in calibre version 6.9.0 (released on 2022-11-25) means that anyone with access to the server also has access to the rest of the computer the server is running on. If you are using a password to protect access to the server only people that know the password can gain access via the bug. Thanks to STAR Labs (https://starlabs.sg) for finding these vulnerabilities. Content server: Fix path traversal vulnerability Closes tickets: 2075125 A bug in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.16.0 (released 2023-04-20) means anyone with access to the server can also read non calibre related files on the computer running the server. Content server: Fix SQL injection vulnerability Closes tickets: 2075131 A bug in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.10.0 (released 2022-12-16) means anyone with access to the server can also read non-calibre SQLITE database files on the computer running the server. Content server: Fix an XSS vulnerability in one endpoint Closes tickets: 2075130 Only relevant if you embed the calibre server within a larger server, it means attackers who can convince users to click on a specially crafted link, can run JavaScript code with the same origin as the larger server calibre is embedded in. Content server: Fix an error when opening the downloaded books page directly via a link and using a custom book list template Closes tickets: 2073972 macOS: Fix opening multiple books from Finder with the editor only opening one of the books Fix the legacy LRF format viewer not starting Fix mouse wheel not transitioning from undefined date to current date in date entry controls Closes tickets: 2074147 Improved news sources Harvard Business Review Live Mint Business Standard Pagina12 Bloomberg Link: Quote Hidden Content Give reaction to this post to see the hidden content. 1 1
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