Calibre 4.0 released with new e-book viewer and new server capabilities October 4, 2019 https://www.neowin.net/news/calibre-40-released-with-new-e-book-viewer-and-new-server-capabilities Calibre v4.0 Released (October 4, 2019) Website What's New (See what's new in calibre 4.0) Download
I just tried the portable today and I'm impressed! It renders e-book pages much better than Sumatra viewer and allows copy/paste too.
Calibre v4.1 Released (October 7, 2019) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.1 4.1 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. Closes tickets: 1846700 Viewer: Add options to control scrolling using the mouse in paged mode. Closes tickets: 1846800 Viewer: Allow copying images by right clicking on them. Closes tickets: 1846903 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. Closes tickets: 1846839 Edit metadata: Use a border rather than background color to indicate correct title and author sort values. Works better with dark themes. Closes tickets: 1846967 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. Closes tickets: 1846875 Viewer: Fix loading progress screen sometimes getting stuck if changing pages rapidly. Closes tickets: 1846751 Viewer: Fix failing to open books if path to cache contains symbolic links. Closes tickets: 1846834 Viewer: When restoring from fullscreen go back to maximized state if window was maximized when entering full screen. Closes tickets: 1846753 Viewer: Fix shortcut changes not being applied after pressing OK if shortcut list is closed by pressing Esc. Closes tickets: 1846765 Fix a regression that broke reading metadata from ODT files that do not have keywords. Closes tickets: 1846828 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. Closes tickets: 1846982 Edit book: Font manager: Fix removing embedded font failing if @font-face rule has no src. Closes tickets: 1847052 Viewer: Hide the browser provided scrollbar that flashes momentarily on page load. Closes tickets: 1846922 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
Calibre v4.2 Released (October 18, 2019) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.2 4.2 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. Closes tickets: 1847277 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. Closes tickets: 1847423 Viewer: Set the classes calibre-viewer-paginated and calibre-viewer-scrolling on the <body> tag in Paged and Flow modes. This allows the User styles to target these modes, if needed. Closes tickets: 1847427 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. Closes tickets: 1846760 Fix a regression in 4.0 that broke rendering of PDF covers for PDF files that used JPEG2000 compression. Closes tickets: 1847567 Viewer: Fix a regression in 4.1 that broke creating new color schemes Closes tickets: 1847407 Viewer: Fix error while viewing books with a comment after a <meta> tag. Closes tickets: 1847977 Viewer: Fix an error when processing a CFI with an invalid text offset. Closes tickets: 1848320 Viewer: Fix scrolling backwards to previous chapter not always scrolling to the end of the chapter, if the chapter loads external resources. Closes tickets: 1847818 Viewer: Fix hang on books with namespaced attributes on <html> that do not belong to a known ebook namespace. Closes tickets: 1846886 Viewer: Fix search history not persisting between viewer restarts. Closes tickets: 1847976 Viewer: Fix scrollbar showing up on initial book open even if disabled in preferences. Closes tickets: 1847323 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. Closes tickets: 1847890 Viewer: Fix right clicking on margins not showing controls Viewer: Preselect text in search box when showing it. Closes tickets: 1847677 Viewer: Fix SVG images that use xlink:href to refer to paths not being displayed. Closes tickets: 1847181 Content server: Fix detection of iOS on iPAD with iOS 13 which defaults to desktop mode Metadata jacket: Fix <br> tags in the comments not being rendered correctly when inserting the comments into the jacket page. Closes tickets: 1848327 Viewer: Show nicer error message for DRMed books Closes tickets: 1847468 Viewer: Fix preferences under Scrolling behavior not being saved correctly Viewer: Fix remembered position sometimes off by one page in paged mode. Closes tickets: 1847322 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
Calibre v4.3 Released (November 8, 2019) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.3 4.3 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. Closes tickets: 1847017 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. Closes tickets: 1847507 Duplicates dialog: Sort sub-list of matching books already in calibre by author for easier inspection. Closes tickets: 1851386 PDF Output: Fix links that go to destinations in the same file not working. Closes tickets: 1849529 Viewer: Fix changes to keyboard shortcuts not being applied until viewer is restarted. Closes tickets: 1851045 DOCX Input: Fix AlternateContent blocks rendering both choice and fallback sections. Closes tickets: 1847365 macOS: Fix unable to re-arrange entries in the CSV catalog list. Closes tickets: 1850918 Windows: fix UTF-16/truncated output when reporting unhandled exceptions Viewer: Fix mouse wheel not working when mouse is over page margins. Closes tickets: 1850845 Linux: Install bash completions as individual files for each calibre binary Content server: Fix download button not working with non-ebook formats. Closes tickets: 1850078 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. Closes tickets: 1849775 Viewer: Ignore failures printing console message when the viewer is launched with broken stderr. Closes tickets: 1849612 Amazon metadata: Fix failure to get published date from audible book pages. Closes tickets: 1849400 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. Closes tickets: 1848858 Viewer/Content server: Fix history for completion popups such as search bars not being stored correctly. Closes tickets: 1847976 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. Closes tickets: 1848701 Improved news sources Clarin Various Polish news sources
Calibre v4.4 Released (November 21, 2019) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.4 4.4 New features Viewer: Allow customizing what actions appear on the toolbar (Preferences->Miscellaneous->Customize toolbar). Closes tickets: 1852017 Viewer: The --open-at command line argument now allows matching on ToC hrefs as well as titles Book details window: Show path to book in cover tooltip. Closes tickets: 1853184 Book details popup window: Add Open with actions to context menu when right clicking the cover image. Closes tickets: 1852626 Edit book: Check book: Mark empty id attributes in the OPF as errors. Closes tickets: 1852318 Viewer: Add a shortcut (Ctrl+F11) to toggle the toolbar Bulk metadata download review dialog: When clicking cancel ask for confirmation if some books have already been reviewed Bug fixes PDF Output: Fix an error when using fonts with vertical metrics. Closes tickets: 1852036 Viewer: Fix flickering when scrollbar is enabled and the header/footer is too wide for the screen. PDF Output: Improve handling of images that do not fit on a page. Closes tickets: 1852205 Viewer: In paged mode break long text without spaces at arbitrary points instead of overflowing to the next page. Closes tickets: 1852192 Viewer: Fix hang when using --open-at with single instance viewer and the specified location is already open. Closes tickets: 1656573 Viewer: Fix opening .txt files in the standalone viewer leaving behind a temporary index.html file in the directory of the txt file. Closes tickets: 1853232 Linux: Make some cache removal code robust against un-decodeable filenames in the cache directories Viewer: Fix scrolling of panels in preferences causing artifacts. Closes tickets: 1851933 Viewer: improve appearance of controls on small screens. Closes tickets: 1851921 Move close button in viewer preferences to left to match the rest of the content server UI. Closes tickets: 1851937 Viewer: Fix restoring user stylesheet to default not being applied until a viewer restart Viewer: Do not wait for loading of <link> tags that are not stylesheets. Closes tickets: 1851814 Viewer: When using the system color theme only override link colors in the book if the theme is dark. Closes tickets: 1852990 Improved news sources The Atlantic LifeHacker
Calibre v4.11.2 Released (February 21, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.11.2 4.11.2 New features Viewer: Allow right clicking on the scrollbar to easily access commonly used scrolling shortcuts Edit book: Preview panel: Allow right clicking on images to edit them Add a new Quick select action to quickly select a virtual library with a few keystrokes. Activated by Ctrl+t or the Virtual library menu Viewer: Calculate default column widths based on current font size Viewer: Add a control to quit the viewer useful on touchscreens. Closes tickets: 1862441 Viewer: Add shortcut for showing metadata (Ctrl+n) Closes tickets: 1862432 Bug fixes 4.11.2 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the New bookmark button in the viewer and scrolling in the content server library view. Also fixes calculation of default column widths in viewer not changing when font size is changed. Viewer: Fix a regression that broke detection of pop-up footnotes using EPUB 3 markup Viewer: Fix current reading position not preserved when changing preferences and auto scroll is active. Closes tickets: 1863438 Viewer: Fix stopping autoscroll at end of chapter not stopping next chapter jump. Closes tickets: 1863487 Fix for viewer window going off screen even when not restoring window geometry Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting for break-(before|after) Closes tickets: 1863020 Fix drag and drop of some image files onto edit metadata dialog not working Closes tickets: 1862440 Conversion pipeline: Fix styles applied via selectors to the <html> element being ignored Closes tickets: 1862401 Bulk metadata edit: Fix clear series not resetting series index Fix clicking on author name in book details panel to search in Goodreads not working if author has more than two parts in his name Improved news sources New York Times
Calibre v4.12 Released (March 6, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.12 4.12 New features Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware with the series list on the device Automatically extract the source DOCX file from Kindle Create KPF files when adding them to calibre. If you prefer to preserve the KPF file you can disable the KPF Extract plugin in Preferences->Plugins Content server: Add a button to delete all locally cached books. Closes tickets: 1864305 Edit Book: Allow selecting the contents of a tag with Ctrl+Alt+t Viewer: Save current position after 3 seconds of last position change. Useful if the viewer crashes on resume from sleep. Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+w) to toggle the scrollbar. Closes tickets: 1864356 Viewer: Keyboard shortcuts to change number of columns (Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+]) Bug fixes Fix the Douban metadata download plugin Closes tickets: 1853091 Viewer: Fix searching in Regex and Whole words mode not working well. Viewer: Fix searching for multiple words in fixed layout books not working. Closes tickets: 1863464 RTF Input: Fix handling of RTF files with invalid encoded text. Closes tickets: 1864719 PDF Output: Add a hangcheck for loading HTML if there is no progress for sixty seconds abort Closes tickets: 1865380 Viewer: When starting without a book allowing quitting the viewer by clicking the close button on the "Open book" page Closes tickets: 1864343 New news sources Spectator Australia by James Cridland Improved news sources Wired ABC News Australia
Calibre v4.13 Released (March 27, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.13 4.13 New features Edit book: When searching in normal mode, have spaces in the search expression match multiple spaces and line breaks in the text. Closes tickets: 1868847 When running calibre-portable.exe popup a more useful error message if it is placed in a location with a too long path. Closes tickets: 1866739 Edit book: Allow skipping confirmation dialog when marking non-first file as cover page Add a shortcut [Ctrl+Alt+p] to switch to the previously opened library. Closes tickets: 1866742 Bug fixes Viewer: Fix searching in flow mode not scrolling to display the search results. Closes tickets: 1866519 Viewer search: Fix jumping to next match sometimes selecting previous match if the searched for expression occurs with identical context in multiple places. Closes tickets: 1868633 Viewer: Ensure there is no bleed between pages when using single page per screen Fix shift click not working reliably in the book list Fix edit open with applications not working from files browser in editor MOBI Input: Upshift non-animated GIF to PNG as it is a more widely supported format MOBI Input: Dont auto-convert images in PNG/GIF formats to JPEG MOBI Output: Improve conversion of PNG images with transparency to GIF Check Book: Do not fail if non-UTF-8 stylesheets are present in the book. Closes tickets: 1866701 Viewer: Maximum font size for margin text should be the body font size not hardcoded to 12px PDF Output: Ignore glyph size mismatches when merging fonts for TTF. Closes tickets: 1866364 New news sources Istorias and Sardinia Post by tzium Improved news sources Forbes LA Times Glasgow Herald Spectator Magazine Newsweek
Calibre v4.14 Released (April 23, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.14 4.14 New features Viewer: Add an option to have taps turn by screen fulls instead of pages, under Scrolling behavior Viewer: Allow double clicking or long tapping on images to view then in a new window. Closes tickets: 1872759 Edit Book: Add a new fuzzy search mode in which typographical quotes and various space types are matched by the plain equivalents Content server: Add a new setting to allow un-authenticated users from specific IP addresses to make changes to the calibre library Quick view: Double click in a column to show that column in the main book list Bug fixes Book details panel: Fix copy path to file not copying full path to file when right clicking on a format entry Windows: Fix error when applying hyphenation in bulk with Polish books. Closes tickets: 1873949 macOS: Fix selecting applications that use binary plist files such as Kindle.app with Open With not working. Closes tickets: 1873972 DOCX Output: Fix images that use URL unsafe characters in their filenames being dropped during conversion. Closes tickets: 1873571 DOCX Output: Fix internal links not working when converted files contain URL unsafe characters in their filenames Viewer: Fix view image popup not remembering its geometry Viewer: Allow leading and trailing whitespace in search expressions HTMLZ Output: Fix SVG images that use xlink:href not working. Closes tickets: 1869856 Windows: Fix drag and drop from SMB shares to the edit metadata dialog formats list not working. Closes tickets: 1869471 Comments editor: Dont insert blank lines between list elements Allow using Quick view from the Book grid view. Closes tickets: 1869550 Fix tri-state booleans not working with color/icon rules and undefined values Closes tickets: 1873106 New news sources Heise ct and iX by Ralf Hein Saechsische Zeitung by by epubli Improved news sources London Review of Books Seattle Times MIT Technology Review Zeit Online Handelsblatt Spectator Magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft
Calibre v4.15 Released (May 2, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.15 4.15 New features Viewer: Improve the interface for changing font sizes Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+b) for adding a bookmark Bug fixes Bulk metadata edit: Fix a regression causing scrollbars to not appear in Custom metadata tab. Closes tickets: 1875090 Viewer: Fix a regression that broke searching in flow mode. Closes tickets: 1874877 BibTeX Catalog: Dont output comment describing the catalog as Zotero fails to process it. Closes tickets: 1876302 Linux: Fix uninstaller not working on Linux distros that have no python symlink. Closes tickets: 1876164 Viewer: Fix zoom step size setting ignored. Closes tickets: 1875840 Viewer: Fix text that has font sizes specified using keywords not being scaleable by the viewer's font size controls. Closes tickets: 1875021 Viewer: Fix LRF files not opening MOBI metadata: When reading author sort from MOBI files, construct the final value from all author fields macOS: hide accelerator key underlines since they dont work anyway as Apple does not believe in them macOS: Fix keyboard shortcuts for select all, copy and paste not working in file dialogs. Closes tickets: 1874499 Improved news sources The Nation Animal Politico
Calibre v4.16 Released (May 15, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.16 4.16 New features Viewer/Edit book fuzzy search: Ignore soft hyphens and zero-width joiner characters when searching for text. Closes tickets: 1878046 Tag browser: Allow adding/removing tags/authors/etc. to the currently selected book by right clicking on that tag and choosing "Apply to selected books". Closes tickets: 1878308 Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware Manage categories dialog: When editing a value with multiple values selected, change them all Book list column header context menu: Add an entry to resize the column to fit its current contents. Closes tickets: 1878450 Show completions when editing tags/authors/series etc in the Tag browser and Manage tags dialog. Closes tickets: 1878302 Quickview: Double clicking an item now searches for it Closes tickets: 1878393 Comments editor: Add an action to the context menu to smarten punctuation. Closes tickets: 1876381 FB2 metadata: Add support for setting publisher and publish year Bug fixes Edit book: Fix compress images losslessly failing for a few images on windows when there are a lot of images in the book. Closes tickets: 1877066 Fix a regression in 4.13 that broke the user category editor for all custom columns. Closes tickets: 1877101 Viewer: Fix font size changes not applying to monospaced fonts. Closes tickets: 1876580 Improved news sources Ars Technica Washington Post
Calibre v4.17 Released (May 23, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.17 4.17 New features Add a workaround for Amazon destroying cover thumbnails on e-ink Kindles. For books sent with this release of calibre, reconnecting the Kindle to calibre after the cover has been destroyed will restore it automatically Viewer: Group search results by section Viewer: When the search results panel is expanded, show more context Tag browser: Add options in Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser to hide empty categories and also to have the Find in the Tag browser show all matches instead of jumping from match to match. Tag browser: The Find function for searching for items in the Tag browser can now do exact matching by using = as a prefix. Manage tags/authors/etc dialogs: Allow searching and filtering the list of items. Closes tickets: 1879134 Book details panel contenxt menu: Add an action to open the Book details window. Closes tickets: 1878768 Viewer: Add Next and Previous buttons in the bookmarks panel. Closes tickets: 1878691 Conversion: Change the default white-space CSS for <pre> tags to pre-wrap as this suits ebooks better Bug fixes Edit Book: Fix default CSS template not quoting the charset, causing Check book to complain about the CSS. Closes tickets: 1879618 Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the losslessly compress images tool when the image filenames had upper case characters on Windows. Closes tickets: 1879313 Fix a regression that broke drag and drop of images from browsers to the book details panel on some platforms. Closes tickets: 1879120 FB2 metadata: Fix setting dates before 1900 failing Fix Bookeen Diva HD not being detected. Closes tickets: 1877965 New news sources Independent Australia by Pat Stapelton Improved news sources How To Geek Tagespost by Pat Stapleton ABC News
Calibre v4.18 Released (June 5, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.18 4.18 New features Viewer: Search panel: Add a button to return to the position the book was at before doing a search. Closes tickets: 1879889 Tag browser: Improve handling of hierarchical tags Closes tickets: 1880264 Renaming a tag now renames it and all its children. Drag and drop of hierarchical tags alters their hierarchy. Deleting a tag now deletes all its children. Viewer: In flow mode, implement drag scrolling. Closes tickets: 1880707 Tag browser: Allow Manage Tags to open to a selected letter when clicking on a letter. Closes tickets: 1880175 Viewer: Show number of search results in title of search panel. Closes tickets: 1881792 Content server: In the book list hovering over the library name now shows the total number of books in the library. Closes tickets: 1881384 Bug fixes Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the copy and recalculate author sort buttons. Closes tickets: 1880395 Book details: Fix extra margin to the right of the metadata fields. Closes tickets: 1881488 Cover grid: Show text under books that have no cover as well. Closes tickets: 1880558 When merging metadata, if a custom column has type multiple in the new data and some other type in the old data, ignore the old data instead of failing Closes tickets: 1881796 macOS: When using the single instance option of the viewer, crashes should not require a restart of the computer to use the viewer again. Closes tickets: 1881375 Windows: Fix an error when changing title/author for books in a library whose name contains characters not encodeable in the current code page Windows: Fix amazon metadata download failing when accented characters in search query Closes tickets: 1880300 Comments editor: Fix shortcuts for bold/italic not working when toolbars are hidden Improved news sources The Hindu Wired Daily Edition The Economist
Calibre v4.19 Released (June 19, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.19 4.19 New features Manage authors dialog: Improve performance in very large libraries Bug fixes Book details panel: Fix a regression that caused right clicking on an author name to manage it not opening with that name selected. Closes tickets: 1883768 calibredb set_metadata: When converting a string into a datetime if the string is a full ISO 8601 date with timezone do not adjust the date to make it timezone neutral. Closes tickets: 1883433 Edit book: Fix Check book spuriously reporting incorrect mime type warnings for fonts after upgrading a book from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3. Closes tickets: 1882436 Book details panel: Dont show sizes less than 0.01MB as zero. Closes tickets: 1882469 Viewer: Fix jump to previous section not working when viewer is on last section Improved news sources Journal of Accountancy Bangkok Post 20 minutes
Calibre v4.20 Released (July 3, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.20 4.20 New features Edit book: Preview: Support displaying mathematics Kobo driver: Add support for the latest firmware version Allow copy/pasting dates from columns having different date display formats. Closes tickets: 1885004 Book details panel: When right clicking on tags/authors/etc. allow finding them in the Tag browser easily. Closes tickets: 1884343 Allow selecting individual items to delete in the Check library dialog. Closes tickets: 1884402 Add an option to the wireless device driver to ignore device free space when sending books. Bug fixes Viewer: Fix turning pages in paged mode with a high precision touchpad to generate scroll events too fast Edit book: Fix pasting files from another editor instance causing unsaved changes in open editors to be lost. Closes tickets: 1885455 Tag browser: Do not show counts for searches as they are always zero Check library: Do not abort if there are folders in the library that calibre does not have permission to access. Closes tickets: 1884544 Amazon metadata download: Fix download of ratings not working from amazon.co.jp Closes tickets: 1884400 New news sources The Print by Kovid Goyal Improved news sources Popular Science Caravan Magazine Sports Illustrated Gazetta Prawna
Calibre v4.21 Released (July 16, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.21 4.21 New features Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Nia Cover grid: Vertically center covers that are smaller than the available space. Closes tickets: 1886731 Quickview panel: Add a checkbox to easily toggle if virtual libraries are respected. Closes tickets: 1886347 When creating custom columns allow specifying a default value to be applied to new books for that column Closes tickets: 1886079 Bug fixes Edit book: Fix initial sync of preview panel to cursor position sometimes not working when a new HTML file is opened for editing Fix changed author sort name not being used when adding another book by the author to the library. Closes tickets: 1886492 Cover browser: improve rendering of text with heavily hinted fonts. Closes tickets: 1886239 Viewer: Fix CBC comic files not being viewed correctly. Note that you have to reload the book via the viewer controls to apply the fix. Closes tickets: 1886307 Viewer: Fix Table of Contents not correct for comics. Viewer: Ignore the zero width non-joiner character in searches Viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke reading of books with mathematics and also <a> tags without href attributes. Closes tickets: 1886192 Cover grid: When using a background image do not scroll it with the covers. Closes tickets: 1886139 Improved news sources 1843 magazine Caravan Magazine
Calibre v4.22 Released (July 31, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.22 4.22 New features Edit book: In dark mode, make the preview panel also dark. Closes tickets: 1888071 PDF Output: Headers/footers: Allow displaying the current page number and total number of pages in the top level section/chapter. Closes tickets: 1889000 Edit book: Show EPUB version in window title Allow testing if a number column is set or not set in coloring/icon/emblem rules. Closes tickets: 1888456 Viewer: Add a setting to control how many pixels a scroll wheel should generate before triggering a page turn Bug fixes Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused poor performance when editing large files. Closes tickets: 1889047 DOCX Input: Leave undefined text colors in the input document as undefined Closes tickets: 1888897 Viewer: Fix using a very small font step size not working. Closes tickets: 1888609 Font scanner: Also scan the new win 10 local font paths Closes tickets: 1888798 Viewer: Fix typing values in font size adjust control not working Improved news sources Respekt The Atlantic
Calibre v4.23 Released (August 21, 2020) Website What's New Download Spoiler: Changelog v4.23 4.23 New features Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware. Also add recognition of 'Kobo Plus' subscription books Edit book: Allow customizing the base background/foreground and link colors for the preview window. Closes tickets: 1889925 Quickview panel: Add actions to the context menu to search for book in library, open in viewer, etc. Closes tickets: 1891765 Allow forcing calibre to remember the column width for the On device column by right clicking the header of the column Template language: Add functions to perform math operations to convert fractional numbers to integers Bug fixes Content server: Fix Esc key not working in several views. Closes tickets: 1849958 Fix unable to delete default value for custom columns of boolean type, once set Closes tickets: 1889973 EPUB Output: When splitting dont consider files with only a single character empty Comments editor: Fix syntax coloring for HTML view in dark mode Book list: When a series column is not wide enough, elide text in the middle so that the series number is visible New news sources linuxnews.de and t3n.de by Volker Heggemann Improved news sources El Diplo calibre Blog ESPN LA Times Winnipeg Free Press Popular Science Science News Recent Issues
Calibre v5.0 Released (September 24, 2020) Website (GitHub) What's New Download (GitHub) Spoiler: Changelog v5.0 5.0 New features For details on the major changes in calibre between 4.0 and 5.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fourteen E-book viewer: Add support for highlighting https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html#highlighting-text E-book viewer: Add support for right-to-left and vertical text Switch calibre to Python 3. This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins will not work. See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=326405 Dark mode support for the Content server and E-book viewer user interfaces Content server's in-browser viewer now supports bookmarking. Bookmarks and highlights are auto-synced across devices. Regular expression engine used for searching the book list and reading metadata from filenames has been made more powerful.
Calibre v5.1 Released (October 2, 2020) Website (GitHub) What's New Download (GitHub) Spoiler: Changelog v5.1 5.1 New features Enhancement: allow using templates in search expressions Viewer lookup panel: Add a checkbox to disable automatic update of lookup when the selected text changes. Closes tickets: 1897435 Viewer: Allow skipping the confirmation when using the remove highlight button in the popup bar. Closes tickets: 1897415 Bug fixes ToC Editor: Fix bulk rename of entries not working Closes tickets: 1897618 Linux: Fix right clicking on system tray icon not working Closes tickets: 1897571 Fix User category based searches unreliable dues to caching issues Closes tickets: 1897356 PDF Output: Dont fail if the input document has an html file identified as the cover Catalog generation: Fix a regression that broke generating catalogs if books with no comments are present. Closes tickets: 1897467 Windows: Fix error on first run of calibre after install/upgrade Closes tickets: 1897314 Viewer: Fix copy to clipboard button in toolbar not working Viewer: Fix copy to clipboard not copying text as HTML to clipboard in addition to plain text Closes tickets: 1897297 macOS: Fix some drop down menus such as in the ToC editor and cover generation in the Edit metadata dialog not working Closes tickets: 1897409
Calibre v5.2 Released (October 7, 2020) Website (GitHub) What's New Download (GitHub) Spoiler: Changelog v5.2 5.2 New features Browse annotations: Add a check box to restrict the displayed annotations to only the books currently selected in the calibre library. Closes tickets: 1897354 Allow storing and calling functions in the calibre template language (Preferences->Template functions) Add a shortcut (Shift+V) to open the last read book. Closes tickets: 1897336 Bug fixes Fix import errors with some third party plugin on Windows Viewer: Fix toolbar show controls button not working when no book is open. Closes tickets: 1898598 Viewer: Fix incorrect positioning of context menu for viewer toolbar. Closes tickets: 1898577 MOBI Input: Fix regression that broke reading of some documents Bulk metadata search and replace: Fix some regular expression causing errors with the new regex engine Fix a regression that broke application of plugboards when sending by e-mail ODT Input: Fix a regression that broke conversion of ODT files with footnotes. Closes tickets: 1898441 Viewer: Fix mouse wheel not working while selection bar is visible Closes tickets: 1898413 Viewer: Fix selection popup bar not always close to mouse when ending select-to-drag Fix calibre-server not exiting on Ctrl+c on Windows Content server OPDS feeds: Fix error if the metadata for a book contains particular unicode characters. Closes tickets: 1897410 Edit book: Reports tool: Fix a regression that broke sorting. Closes tickets: 1898167 HTMLZ Output: Fix an error when converting a document that has SVG images
Calibre v5.3 Released (October 16, 2020) Website (GitHub) What's New Download (GitHub) Spoiler: Changelog v5.3 5.3 New features Browse annotations: Add a check box to restrict the displayed annotations to only the books currently selected in the calibre library. Closes tickets: 1897354 Allow storing and calling functions in the calibre template language (Preferences->Template functions) Add a shortcut (Shift+V) to open the last read book. Closes tickets: 1897336 Bug fixes Fix import errors with some third party plugin on Windows Viewer: Fix toolbar show controls button not working when no book is open. Closes tickets: 1898598 Viewer: Fix incorrect positioning of context menu for viewer toolbar. Closes tickets: 1898577 MOBI Input: Fix regression that broke reading of some documents Bulk metadata search and replace: Fix some regular expression causing errors with the new regex engine Fix a regression that broke application of plugboards when sending by e-mail ODT Input: Fix a regression that broke conversion of ODT files with footnotes. Closes tickets: 1898441 Viewer: Fix mouse wheel not working while selection bar is visible Closes tickets: 1898413 Viewer: Fix selection popup bar not always close to mouse when ending select-to-drag Fix calibre-server not exiting on Ctrl+c on Windows Content server OPDS feeds: Fix error if the metadata for a book contains particular unicode characters. Closes tickets: 1897410 Edit book: Reports tool: Fix a regression that broke sorting. Closes tickets: 1898167 HTMLZ Output: Fix an error when converting a document that has SVG images
Calibre v5.4.2 Released (October 30, 2020) Website (GitHub) What's New Download (GitHub) Spoiler: Changelog v5.4.2 5.4.2 New features Windows: Allow adding of books to calibre from directories whose path length is larger than 260 characters Closes tickets: 1900761 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. Closes tickets: 1901379 News download: Allow passing username/password in feed URLs. Closes tickets: 1900874 Open with: Allow renaming Open with applications. Closes tickets: 1900890 Bug fixes Viewer: Fix jumping to search result not always working in flow mode. Closes tickets: 1900868 Get Books: Update Google and Gutenberg plugins for website changes Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts using ctrl+alt+letter key not working on windows. Closes tickets: 1900946 Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts to shrink/grow selection not working. Closes tickets: 1900942 Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle highlights panel not working when the highlights panel is itself focused. Closes tickets: 1900938 Viewer: handle editing of missing highlights more gracefully Closes tickets: 1900358 Drivers: Fix regression in calibre 5 that broke connecting to SONY devices Closes tickets: 1901289 Open with: On Linux when reading names from .desktop files, use the first matching language Closes tickets: 1901276 Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke conversion of some malformed CSS stylesheets. Closes tickets: 1901593 Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of some PDB files with images. Closes tickets: 1901957 Conversion: Fix regression in calibre 5 in the handling of @import() rules in stylesheets that import from directories above themselves. Closes tickets: 1901278 Content server: Fix various controls on the book details page not working when viewing a random book. Closes tickets: 1901232, 1901230 Tag browser: Fix a crash when renaming a saved search to a value that already exists. Closes tickets: 1901273 Tag browser: Fix renaming of custom column with fixed set of values not working. Closes tickets: 1900921 Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke auto-sync of generated catalogs to devices. Closes tickets: 1901630 Fix setting rating via ebook-meta command line tool broken in calibre 5. Closes tickets: 1901113 : When boolean columns are set to bistate, checking "show checkmarks" results in all non-boolean values being shown as false Closes tickets: 1900099 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. Version 5.4.2 fixes bugs in 5.4.0 that prevented calibre from starting on macOS and from choosing save file names on Windows. Improved news sources Psychology Today Washington Post LifeHacker The Atlantic New York Review of Books
