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# vim: ft=yaml
#
# Each release can have new features and bug fixes. Each of which
# can optionally have linked tickets and a description.
# In addition they can be marked as major by adding the word major
# to the ticket list.
# Also, each release can have new and improved recipes.
# {{{ 5.x.0 2021-xx-xx
#
# :: new features
#
# - title
#
# :: bug fixes
#
# - title
#
# :: improved recipes
# - title
#
# :: new recipes
# - title by author
# }}}
{{{ 5.33.2 2021-12-03
:: new features
- Allow changing the icon used for calibre libraries. Right click the library icon in calibre and choose "Change the icon for this library"
- Comments editor: Use a single line for all three toolbars if they fit
- Edit book: Allow merging HTML files by drag and drop of the files onto another HTML file
- Kobo driver: Add support for listing purchased audiobooks
- Edit metadata all-in-one mode: The cover and formats column now gives as much vertical space as possible to the cover image
- [1952562] Add books dialog: When a non-book file type is added the next time the dialog is used, preselect the "All files" filter
- [1952764] calibre-server --manage-users: Allow managing users while the server is running and also add actions to automate changing user account restrictions
- [1950762] EPUB 3 metadata: If the book contains a "subtitle" append it to the main title when reading metadata
:: bug fixes
- [1950673] E-book viewer: Fix an occasional hang on startup at "Loading section"
- [1952142] Get books: Update the Kobo plugin for website changes
- [1951673] Bulk edit metadata dialog: Fix changing the search mode resetting other fields
- [1951507] E-book viewer: Fix sorting of highlights incorrect in books that use HTML ids with a hyphen in them
- [1951467] PDF Output: Fix the option to break long words at the ends of lines causing boxes to be rendered at the end of the line on macOS with some fonts
- Google metadata plugin: When searching by ISBN if no results are found retry using an alternate query syntax
- 5.33.2 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the toolbar in the popup comments editor dialog and rendering of the download
metadata button in the edit metadata dialog on Windows, as well as reading files from MTP devices on Windows
:: improved recipes
- Smithsonian Magazine
:: new recipes
- The Epoch Times by Kovid Goyal
- Mens Day Out by Vishwas Vasuki
}}}
{{{ 5.32.0 2021-11-12
:: new features
- [major] Edit book: Add a tool to transform HTML tags based on rules (Tools->Transform HTML)
Allows for making transformations such as changing one html tag to another, deleting tags, wrapping
them in another tag, etc. Also available during conversions via the Look & feel->Transform HTML
section of the conversion dialog.
- [1949908] Driver for the new Tolino Vision 6
- Kobo driver: Add support for the latest firmware released last week
- [1948889] When picking a random book ensure recently chosen books are not re-selected
- Icon theme chooser dialog: Allow right clicking on a theme to visit its homepage
:: bug fixes
- Amazon metadata download: Add support for more markup variations in amazon's sites that could prevent the fetching of
ratings, comments and series metadata for some books
- Google search: Add support for new beta search results page markup that was preventing using cached Google pages
to search for Amazon metadata
- PDF Output: Fix the option to preserve cover aspect ratio being ignored when converting comics
- [1950412] DOCX Input: Sanitize image filenames more strictly to workaround broken EPUB software
- [1950206] Linux binary: Fix file dialogs not working on Fedora 35 under KDE
- [1949604] When sending email to the Kindle and PocketBook sync services use ASCII filenames as there have been some
reports of issues with non-ASCII filenames with these services.
- [1950033] Book Details: Fix missing copy options on composite columns
- Ask for confirmation when deleting covers from books
:: improved recipes
- New York Post
- Liberation
- Boston Globe
- The Globe and Mail
- LeMonde
:: new recipes
- India speaks reddit feed by Vishwas Vasuki
}}}
{{{ 5.31.1 2021-10-29
:: new features
- [1948883] Kindle driver: Support the new Kindle PaperWhite 2021
- Add an option under Preferences->Behavior to have calibre recognize numbers when sorting (this was previously under Preferences->Tweaks)
- E-book viewer: Add a button to directly open the viewer help section in the calibre user manual to the viewer controls
- E-book viewer: Prevent the display from sleeping when using auto-scroll or read aloud modes (Implemented only on Windows and macOS)
- Edit book: Set semantics tool: Add support for EPUB 3 landmarks
- [1948493] Add an entry to the Connect/share menu to open the content server in a local browser when it is running
:: bug fixes
- [1947879] Content server: Fix some OPDS feeds failing with non-ASCII content
- [1948560] Tag browser: Fix incorrect first letter partitioning when enabling numeric collation of items that start with a number
- [1949167] 5.31.1 fixes a bug in an HTML serialization library calibre uses that broke a few things, such as the comments editor
tool in the metadata dialog
}}}
{{{ 5.30.0 2021-10-22
:: new features
- Add support for the new Kobo Sage and Libra 2 e-book reader devices
- [1946439] E-book viewer: Read aloud: Allow right clicking to play/pause reading
- Sending books by e-mail: Preserve non-English characters in attached filenames
- [1946560] Tag browser: Allow searching for sub-categories by right clicking on them
:: bug fixes
- E-book viewer: Fix cover and full screen images not centered in paged mode when more than one page is displayed per screen
- ToC Editor: Ignore in succession clicks on the OK and Cancel buttons to avoid accidentally closing the window when finishing creating a new entry
- [1905479] Comments editor: Fix the formatting buttons not showing the current state correctly and fix some keyboard shortcuts not working when more than one comments editor is present in a single window
- [1946417] Tag browser: Fix renaming of User categories in Virtual libraries
- [1947948] Make removing large numbers of custom column icons easier
:: improved recipes
- Private Eye
- Foreign Policy
- Le Monde Diplomatique - cono sur
}}}
{{{ 5.29.0 2021-10-08
:: new features
- [1945890] Allow drag and drop of books onto formats in the Tag browser to convert them to that format
- [1945891] Allow creating sorts based on multiple columns (Add the Sort action to the toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars & menus)
- Edit book: When changing a paragraph to a heading if the cursor is adjacent to a paragraph tag but not inside any tags other than body, use the adjacent tag
:: bug fixes
- [1945889] Auto adding: Run relevant plugins before reading metadata from the book. Matches behavior of manual adding
- [1945882] Content server: Fix category collapse by partition not working
- Prevent Tab from causing focus to leave the Tag browser
- Edit book: See what changed: Fix non-BMP unicode characters causing highlighting of changed words to be slightly misplaced
- PDF Output: Fix a regression that broke conversion of comics that contain 1-bit images
- Edit book: Fix pressing Ctrl+Tab inserting a tab at the start of a line instead of switching tabs
- [1945098] Fix a regression in the previous release that caused identifiers set by some plugins to not be saved in the database
- [1946342] Template language: Fix nesting composite columns sometimes failing
:: improved recipes
- Entrepreneur Magazine
- Dawn
- New York Review of Books
:: new recipes
- Various Indian news sources by Vishvas Vasuki
}}}
{{{ 5.28.0 2021-09-24
:: new features
- Edit metadata dialog: Customize cover generation: Allow saving and loading cover generation settings as "themes"
- [1944614] E-book viewer: Allow pressing the 0-9 keys to apply a quick highlight style
- [1943521] Book details panel: While clicking tags/authors/etc. holding down the Ctrl+Shift modifier keys now add the tag to the current search with "AND" instead of "OR" when using only Ctrl
- [1944057] Add an option to the preferences drop down menu to restart calibre without third party plugins
:: bug fixes
- [1944562] Edit book: When renaming classes in style sheets only recognize class names preceded by a period
- E-book viewer: Fix lookup in Google partially hidden due to change in Google results page markup
- Conversion dialog: Search replace expression builder: Fix incorrect search result highlighting when non-BMP unicode characters are present in the text
- [1943270] E-book viewer: Fix popup footnote blank when the footnote link points to a <body> tag
- [1944433] E-book viewer: Fix jumping to highlights in text that occurs after a line break and newline character not working in paged mode
- [1943495] Kindle Output: Strip EXIF metadata from JPEG images as the Kindle renderer has issues with it
:: improved recipes
- Аргументы и Факты
- India Today
}}}
{{{ 5.27.0 2021-09-10
:: new features
- When adding markdown (.md) or textile (.textile) files that contain references to images, automatically add them as txtz with the images
:: bug fixes
- DOCX Output: Correctly convert soft hyphens in the input document to DOCX soft hyphens
- [1942805] DOCX Input: Fix a bookmark at the end of a paragraph causing the bookmark at the start of the paragraph to be skipped
- [1942773] Edit book: Spell check: Fix EPUB 3 nav document not being spell checked when not in the spine
- [1942012] PDF Output: Fix a rare failure when the input document has a ToC item pointing to the last page
- [1942129] Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused drag and drop from WinZip to not work
- [1941992] TXT Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused the max line length option to not work
- When auto converting added TXT files with image references to TXTZ use a full markdown parser to detect markdown images
:: improved recipes
- BBC News
- Foreign Affairs
:: new recipes
- The Week by Kovid Goyal
}}}
{{{ 5.26.0 2021-08-27
:: new features
- [1941013] Dark color scheme: Use a darker blue for highlighted items
:: bug fixes
- Content server book viewer: Show a message when a search finds no matches
- MOBI Output: Fix JPEG images without any JFIF metadata not being rendered on the Kindle
- [1939908] Comic input: Fix single color images having their colors changed by normalization
- [1940005] E-book viewer: Fix creating multiple highlights in a single paragraph that also contains some extra text formatting at the start causing the second and subsequent highlights to malfunction
- [1939912] Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the options in the Remove unused CSS dialog
:: improved recipes
- Boston Globe
:: new recipes
- NYTimes Cooking by gourav
}}}
{{{ 5.25.0 2021-08-13
:: new features
- [1939469] Edit/Polish book: Remove unused CSS now also removes unreferenced stylesheets
- E-book viewer: Add some CSS variables and classes that allow writing calibre specific CSS in ebooks. See https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html#designing-your-book-to-work-well-with-the-calibre-viewer
- A new framework plugins can use to be notified about changes to calibre libraries
- [1938752] Edit metadata dialog: When pasting into the identifiers field if the clipboard contains a URL paste it directly as a URL identifier
:: bug fixes
- [1938448] E-book viewer: When displaying popup footnotes use the same writing direction as the main text for the footnote popups size and header
- E-book viewer: Improve the text layout when looking up words in Google
- Content server viewer: Fix read aloud not working on mobile browsers
:: improved recipes
- The Guardian and The Observer
- Wall Street Journal
- The Atlantic
}}}
{{{ 5.24.0 2021-07-30
:: new features
- Conversion: Insert metadata as jacket: Allow adding timestamp and publisher fields. Also allow controlling the formatting of date/time fields
- [1937025] Cover browser: Add an option to view the central book by double clicking instead of single clicking (Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser)
- [1936891] Tag browser: Add actions to the configure menu to toggle the display of counts and average rating
- [1936472] Tag browser: Allow plugins to add entries to the context menu
:: bug fixes
- [1938189] fetch-ebook-metadata: Fix an error when using the --cover option and no cover is found
- [1936792] HTML Input: Fix the presence of BookDesigner markup causing conversion to fail
- [1936184] TXT Input: Do not fail if the txt file references a directory as a resource
:: improved recipes
- MSNBC
- Nature News
- Boston Globe
- Foreign Policy
- Le Monde
}}}
{{{ 5.23.0 2021-07-09
:: new features
- [1934204] Annotations browser: Show highlight color in the preview panel
- TXTZ format: Store type of text formatting in the metadata and use it automatically when converting from TXTZ
- [1934043] Edit metadata dialog: Allow holding Ctrl and clicking the item editor buttons to instead open the manage dialog
:: bug fixes
- [1929325] Annotations browser: Fix searching for words in languages such as Chinese that do not have word delimiters not working
- News download: Fix URLs with spaces in them not being downloaded since calibre 5.0
- [1933989] When searching for books by an author from the manage authors dialog, use exact matches
- [1933797] MOBI Output: Fix invalid color specification as plain numbers causing conversion to fail
- [1933684] MOBI Output: Fix invalid text indent specification causing conversion to fail
- Linux: Drop the unmaintained dbus-python in favor of jeepney for DBUS
- Edit book: Workaround for Qt bug that caused the panel sizes in the editor to not be remembered across sessions
:: improved recipes
- The Guardian and the Observer
- National Geographic
- Handelsblatt
- Huffington Post
}}}
{{{ 5.22.1 2021-06-25
:: new features
- [1931646] E-book viewer: Allow clicking links in popup footnotes
- Main book list: Scroll per pixel rather than per item by default. Can be returned to previous behavior via Preferences->Tweaks->Control behavior of book list
- Linux: Drop support for the global menu bar
:: bug fixes
- [1932152] E-book viewer: Fix font sizes specified in absolute units not being honored in locales where the decimal separator is not the period
- [1931566] E-book viewer: Fix searching for short strings in text with lots of similar entries displaying incorrect matches
- [1932392] MOBI Output: Fix using percentage units for margins resulting in too large margins when using the tablet output profile
- [1931599] E-book viewer: Fix back button not working after jumping to a bookmark
- [1932992] Content server: OPDS feed: Fix incorrect up URL in category group feeds
- [1933559] Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke editing of series metadata
- E-book viewer: Fix scrolling backwards by screen-fulls not working with very large page margins.
- MOBI Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of Haodoo format files
- Conversion: Fix the smarten punctuation option not applying to inserted jacket page
- 5.22.1 fixes a typo in the previous release that broke device detection on Linux
:: improved recipes
- TheAtlantic.com
- Hindu
- People Daily
}}}
{{{ 5.21.0 2021-06-11
:: new features
- Driver for the new Kobo Ellipsa
- [1930958] Content server: When editing metadata for fields that take multiple values, make it easier to remove individual values by simply tapping a button
- [1930900] Browser viewer: Make current color scheme setting propagate to all devices automatically when using user accounts
- E-book viewer: Image popup: Show the image resolution in the popup window's titlebar
:: bug fixes
- [1930922] HTML Input: Fix handling of @import rules in stylesheets nested more than one level deep
- [1930912] Fix viewer search context menu to clear searches not clearing search settings
- E-book viewer image popup: Fix full screen button in incorrect state when starting in full screen
:: improved recipes
- Associated Press
- The Hindu
}}}
{{{ 5.20.0 2021-06-04
:: new features
- E-book viewer: Highlights: Make URLs in the notes for highlights clickable
- [1930136] Book details: Ctrl-clicking on tags now adds them to the existing search instead of replacing it
- E-book viewer: Allow using the back button to return from jumping to a search result
:: bug fixes
- Get books: Fix the Kobo store plugin for changes to the website
- [1929827] Edit book: Fix non breaking spaces in snippets being converted to normal spaces
- [1930466] ToC Editor: Fix a regression that caused changes to not be saved on machines where running a worker process takes more than ten seconds
- Fix error when changing the "Search the net" URLs for the Content server
:: improved recipes
- Jerusalem Post
- Popular Science
- Ambito Financiero
- Ambito.com
- Infobae
}}}
{{{ 5.19.0 2021-05-28
:: new features
- E-book viewer: Add a preference under Scrolling behavior to reverse the tap zones used to turn pages. So tapping on the left goes forward and the right backward
:: bug fixes
- [1929862] E-book viewer: Fix regression in 5.15 that caused incorrect display of font sizes that contain a period and use absolute units
- [1929240] PDF Output: Fix font kerning issues with some TrueType fonts
- [1929267] Edit book: Fix a regression in 5.18 that broke editing/creating saved searches
- [1919025] Windows: Fix for standalone ToC Editor not working on systems where Qt WebEngine causes a crash at exit
- Windows MTP driver: When scanning an MTP device such as an Android phone ignore folders that Windows fails to enumerate instead of failing with an error
- ToC Editor: Fix a regression that broke choosing split points in some XHTML files
- [1929465] PDB Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing some plucker format PDB files
- Edit book: Fix sorting in spell check dialog on language broken for books that have unknown languages
- Annotations browser: Fix a typo that broke sorting for highlights
- [1909730] Annotations browser: When showing a highlight preserve paragraph boundaries for multi-paragraph highlights
- Viewer highlights panel: Fix the "Edit notes" link not saving the changes
- [1929164] E-book viewer: When using a right click/shift-click to adjust the selection, move the section boundary that is closer to the click point
}}}
{{{ 5.18.0 2021-05-21
:: new features
- Content server viewer: Improved search functionality
Searching can now be done for whole words and regular expressions. And all search results are
listed at once with some context for easy navigation.
- [1928596] E-book viewer: Allow making the image popup full screen
- E-book viewer: Allow expanding/collapsing all items in the Table of Contents at a particular level by right clicking on one item of that level and choosing the option to expand/collapse
- E-book viewer: Add shortcuts shift+home and shift+end to extend current selection to start/end of line
- [1927520] Book details: When creating rules to convert identifiers to URLs allow using {id_unquoted} to avoid quoting the identifier value
- [1927062] Review downloaded metadata: Allow double clicking on a cover to see it at a larger size
- [1927012] Annotations browser: Add a Refresh button
:: bug fixes
- Edit book: Fix ctrl-clicking on a class name jumping to the wrong CSS rule if the stylesheet contains top level comments
- [1928579] Fix search and replace on identifiers not working if the replaced value has colons
- [1922691] Annotations browser: Sort the entries in order of position in book
- ToC editor: Dark mode: Fix colors in location selection panel not dark
- [1926793] E-book viewer: Fix right or shift-clicking to extend selection not shrinking selection when the click is inside the selection
- [1927546] Avoid spurious errors on multiple simultaneous calibre launches
- [1925961] E-book viewer: Ignore mouse scroll events that would turn pages when editing notes
- E-book viewer: Fix sorting bookmarks by title not working
- Windows WPD driver: Fix an error reading the filesystem on some MTP based devices
:: improved recipes
- IEEE Spectrum
}}}
{{{ 5.17.0 2021-04-30
:: new features
- [1926484] E-book viewer: Image popup: Allow dragging with the mouse to pan the image
- [1923724] Sort button: Allow selecting which columns are in the popup sort menu
- [1851908] E-book viewer: When suggesting a default bookmark title, use the name of the current chapter
- [1925038] E-book viewer: When searching the Table of Contents allow holding the Shift key to search backwards
- [1925294] E-book viewer: Add a shortcut Ctrl+0 to restore default font size
:: bug fixes
- Windows MTP driver: Rewrite parts of the driver in the hope of fixing some rare and hard to reproduce crashes
- Windows MTP driver: Set modified and created times when putting files/folders on device. Also read modified time correctly.
- [1918591] Windows: E-book viewer: Fix switching away from viewer while in full screen and switching back causing some corruption until the page is scrolled
- [1925378] Fix a regression in the previous release that caused errors when editing empty date values
- Get books: Update Gutenberg plugin for website changes
- [1926518] E-book viewer: The quick highlight button should replace the style of an existing highlight, when one is selected
- [1925247] Elide long items in the middle when showing the completion popup for tags, to make it easier to use with hierarchical tags
- [1925988] E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix soft hyphens causing read aloud words to be broken up
- [1925390] E-book viewer: Right clicking when text is selected should extend the selection instead of doing nothing
- Fix settings in the ToC Editor tool being forgotten when calibre is closed
- [1926025] DOCX Output: Fix conversion failing if the input document has missing images
- [1925961] Content server viewer: Fix mouse wheel scrolling not working on the box used to edit notes for highlights
- E-book viewer: Fix read aloud word tracking in flow mode not very reliable
- E-book viewer: Fix navigation shortcuts not working in Read aloud mode
:: improved recipes
- Barrons
- Krebs On Security
}}}
{{{ 5.16.1 2021-04-17
:: new features
:: bug fixes
- [1924703] CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and don't specify a character encoding in their metadata
- [1924824] Fix a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin
- Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets
- [1924767] Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats
- [1924675] Fix using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that causes the viewer to ignore page-break CSS properties (in 5.16.1)
- Fix a regression that broke using stored templates (in 5.16.1)
- [1924875] Fix auto scroll books shortcut not working in standalone cover browser window (in 5.16.1)
- [1924890] E-book viewer: Fix jumping to previous section sometimes not working in flow mode (in 5.16.1)
- [1924853] E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke changing keyboard shortcuts in the viewer preferences (in 5.16.1)
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke using the delete key to delete highlights (in 5.16.1)
:: improved recipes
- Granta
- New Scientist
:: new recipes
- The Saturday paper by Alistair Francis
- Crikey by Alistair Francis
}}}
{{{ 5.15.0 2021-04-16
:: new features
- [1917634] 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
- [1921610] 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
- [1921689] 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
- [1922327] Allow downloading metadata from amazon.se
- [1922591] Preferences->Tweaks: Allow specifying that calibre should open the book details window when double clicking on a book
- [1922341] MOBI Output: Convert WebP images to PNG so they work with Amazon's software
- [1921793] 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
- [1924232] FB2 Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused paragraphs containing only non-breaking spaces to be removed
- [1924187] 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
- [1921604] Edit book: Upgrade book internals: Fix skipping the NCX removal dialog not remembering the chosen option
- [1922570] Conversion: When specifying a line-height do not apply it to the <html> 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%
- [1924598] E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Do not expand all sections when adding/deleting/modifying highlights
- [1922503] CHM Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke opening of some files that don't 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
- [1922309] Update Amazon metadata plugin for changes to amazon websites
- Edit book: Fix detection of class names containing hyphens/underscores
:: improved recipes
- New Scientist
- Irish Times
- 1843
- The Straits Times
:: new recipes
- Los Danieles – Columnas sin techo by CAVALENCIA
}}}
{{{ 5.14.0 2021-03-26
:: new features
- Edit book: When right clicking on a class in a HTML file, add an option to rename the class throughout the book
- [1919103] Adding from ISBN: Add an option to check if there are existing books with the specified ISBNs already in the library
- [1920576] Template tester: Instead of next/last, the template tester now shows the template values for selected books
- [1918047] Content server: Allow swiping left and right to show next/previous book on the book details page
- [1919072] E-book viewer: Make the commonly used Shift+Arrow key shortcuts for modifying selections using the keyboard work. Also add shortcuts for selecting by character, line and paragraph.
:: bug fixes
- [1920613] MOBI Output: Fix latest Kindle firmware not displaying select publisher font option for calibre produced AZW3 files
- [1919033] E-book viewer: Fix errors when viewing books with mathematics that are split over multiple internal files
- [1918436] Content server viewer: Fix highlights not sorted correctly in the highlights panel
- [1918737] Get books: Fix Smashwords plugin not working because of website changes
- [1920733] Improve the performance of QuickView especially when using composite columns
- [1918428] Improve performance of the virtual_libraries() template function
- [1920250] Browser viewer: Fix Go to Location not working for positions
- [1905257] E-book viewer: Fix searching in the Table of Contents not working
- [1918105] E-book viewer: In paged mode, fix scrolling not working correctly when margins are set to zero
- [1918437] E-book viewer: Fix incorrect ToC navigation in books that link the entries to inline tags that wrap block tags that span multiple pages
- [1920592] Category editor: Searching in library shouldn't automatically open Quickview
- [1919260] Conversion: Fix a hang caused by long sequences of non-word characters when heuristics are enabled, either explicitly or for some input formats such as TXT
- Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke --explode-book and --implode-book actions for calibre-debug.exe
- Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke setting metadata in RTF files
:: new recipes
- ZackZack.at by Dirk Gomez
}}}
{{{ 5.13.0 2021-03-10
:: new features
- [1917967] E-book Viewer: Allow editing the current book by pressing Ctrl+D or adding a button for it to the viewer tool bar
- Edit book: Add a command line flag to allow selecting the specified text when opening a book
- [1917363] Edit metadata dialog: When trimming covers, show the size of the current trim region
:: bug fixes
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke sending of emails with text longer than 900 characters
- E-book viewer: Fix using keyboard to extend selection not turning pages
- [1918030] Fix searching for items from the Manage dialog not working correctly
- [1917386] PDF input: Replace paragraph separator characters with spaces
:: improved recipes
- The Conversation
}}}
{{{ 5.12.0 2021-02-26
:: new features
- [1915773] E-book viewer: When searching start the search from the current position, jumping to the first match at or after the current page
- [1916411] E-book viewer: Have the Table of Contents view automatically scroll to keep the chapter being read currently visible
- Various improvements to the calibre template language, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337573
- Edit book: File browser: Show total size of items in category when hovering over category with mouse
- Kobo driver: Add support for latest firmware and also an option to choose the color used for cover letterboxing
:: bug fixes
- [1915685] E-book viewer: Fix selection popup bar sometimes going off screen when dragging up to the top line of text
- Get books: Update the Biblio and Chitanka stores for website changes
- [1915770] Edit book: Fix editing of JavaScript files not working
:: improved recipes
- Slate
- Harper's Magazine
}}}
{{{ 5.11.0 2021-02-12
:: new features
- [1912958] Edit book: Add a tool to split the tag at the current cursor position, creating a new tag with the same style and class attributes. To add the tool go to the Toolbars section in the editor preferences
- [1911107] E-book viewer: Show the URL when hovering over external links
- E-book viewer: Redesign the reference mode to also work on touch screens without a mouse. Now in reference mode paragraph numbers are displayed for all paragraphs
- Edit book: Allow Ctrl-clicking on class names to jump to the first style rule that matches the tag and class
- Content server: When browsing highlights for a book allow selecting multiple highlights to delete or export quickly
- [1912954] Allow creating keyboard shortcuts to copy show and view URLs for selected books to clipboard
- calibredb: Add a timeout option to control the timeout when connecting to the calibre server
:: bug fixes
- [1913854] Content server: Fix dragging selection handles not working in Safari
- [1915303] E-book viewer: Fix links with a href of "#" not working
- E-book viewer: Hide the controls when clicking the back or forward buttons
- [1914921] E-book viewer: When jumping to a highlight using the highlights panel, the back button should return to position before jump
- [1914157] E-book viewer: Fix incorrect tooltip when hovering over a section title in the search results list
- HTMLZ Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke creating HTMLZ documents when using the option to place CSS inline
:: improved recipes
- Endgadget
}}}
{{{ 5.10.1 2021-01-22
:: new features
- [1911888] Bulk metadata edit: Add a new control to compress the cover image files for all selected books
- [1912212] Add support for the CB7 comic file file format
- [1912070] E-book viewer: Allow adding a button to the selection bar that copies the
currently selected text along with a calibre:// URL to show the text in the book
- Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow showing identifiers such as ISBN in the jacket page template
- Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow hiding entries in the jacket template when they are not present in the metadata
- [1912337] calibre-server --manage-users: Add a scriptable interface: calibre-server --manage-users -- help
- [1912070] E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to copy the current location to the clipboard
- [1912003] E-book viewer: Highlight all currently visible Table of Contents entries, not just the first
- Add a new tweak under Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to optionally recognize
common surname prefixes such as von, van, de, etc. when generating sort names.
:: bug fixes
- [1911470] E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode
- [1911218] E-book viewer: Fix scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth
- [1911466] PDF Output: When converting fixed layout input documents fix anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes
- [1904350] Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Fix selectors that don't match from CSS rules containing multiple selectors not being removed
- Bulk metadata download: Fix series number not being changes if the series is the same as the existing series
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused non-HTML descriptions to not be displayed in the metadata page
- E-book viewer: Fix clock being displayed in 24 hr format on some systems even though system locale is set to use 12 hr format.
- Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression that inverted the meaning of the case sensitivity setting in the Search & replace tab
- calibredb list: Fix incorrect output when redirecting to file
- 5.10.1 fixes a regression in 5.10.0 that broke conversion when including metadata as a jacket page and using long text custom columns
:: improved recipes
- Jacobin
- Japan Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- Mediapart
}}}
{{{ 5.9.0 2021-01-08
:: new features
- Annotations: Allow exporting highlights and bookmarks in Markdown format, with a link to open the book at the highlight location
- [1909529] Content server viewer: Allow exporting all highlights
- [1909339] Icon rules editor: Add a button to open the icons folder
- [1909258] Quickview: Dropdown menu for all selectable columns
:: bug fixes
- [1909880 1906152] Fix a regression that caused the Content server to crash if a client closed a connection during a file transfer on macOS and Linux.
- [1909224] LRF Output: Fix conversion broken in calibre 5 when font size rescaling is active
- E-book viewer: Cancel any speech in progress when hiding the selection popup bar after triggering the speak aloud action on it
- [1909332] Color/icon rules editor: Fix duplicate rule button not working correctly
- [1909291] Fix dropping files onto Book details causing an error if the confirmation dialog is disabled
:: improved recipes
- General Knowledge Today
- El Pais
- USA Today
- WirtchaftsWoche Online
- The Guardian
- Arcamax
- Miami Herald
- The Seattle Times
:: new recipes
- Mallorca Zeitung by VoHegg
- T-Online by VoHegg
- El Diario by Dirk Gómez
}}}
{{{ 5.8.1 2020-12-24
:: new features
- Happy holidays to all calibre users!
- E-book viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard (triggered by Alt+F)
- [1908929] Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences).
- [1907410] Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre.
- Content server viewer: Don't enter full screen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in the viewer preferences under Page layout)
- E-book viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it)
- Template/formatter enhancements: Add a 'for' statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template.
- [1907919 1907918] Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode
:: bug fixes
- Content server viewer: Fix regression in 5.0 that broke scrolling on iOS
- [1908000] E-book viewer: Fix error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode
- [1898394] AZW3 Input: Fix rare AID based links not working.
- [1907907] E-book viewer: Fix clock in header/footer not using system time format
- Windows: Fix Read aloud not working with books that have a single large internal text file, such as MOBI or DOCX books
- PDF Output: Fix a regression causing conversion to fail when typesetting Chinese text
- Amazon metadata download: Fix no results being found when using the automatic or Google servers because of a change in the markup of the Google search results page.
- [1909217 1909197] Version 5.8.1 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the Save to disk function and changing Page layout settings in the viewer.
:: improved recipes