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- version: 0.8.53
date: 2012-05-25
new features:
- title: "Kindle Touch/4 driver: Upload cover thumbnails when sending books to device by USB to workaround Amazon bug of not displaying covers for sync-enabled books"
- title: "Support for updating metadata in FB2 files"
- title: "Set a different background color when choosing formats to not delete as opposed to choosing format to delete."
tickets: [ 1001741 ]
- title: "E-book viewer: Add an option to prevent the up and down arrow keys from scrolling past page breaks"
- title: "Get Books: Remove ebookshoppe.com at the website's request"
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF Input: Support image rotation commands in PDF files. Fixes the long standing problem of some images being flipped when converting from PDF in calibre."
- title: "Fix a regression in 0.8.51 that caused conversion to HTMLZ to not have any CSS"
- title: "Get Books: Fix website change at kobo.com causing prices not to be found"
- title: "Edit the time in the 24 hour clock when calibre's interface language is set to German."
tickets: [ 1001809 ]
- title: "MOBI Output: When generating joint KF8/MOBI6 .mobi files set the text length field in the MOBI 6 header correctly. "
tickets: [ 1003489 ]
- title: "ODT Input: More workarounds for LibreOffice 3.5's habit of inserting pointless margin:100% directives everywhere."
tickets: [ 1002702 ]
- title: "Fix regression that broke smarten punctuation when quotes were next to html tags."
tickets: [ 998900 ]
- title: "Fix published date from ozon.ru wrong in some timezones"
tickets: [ 975338 ]
- title: "Catalogs: Handle the use of custom columns with non-ascii names correctly"
tickets: [1001437]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Remove the attempt to detect and autocorrect if text will go off the left edge of the page, as it was a rather crude heuristic. Also do not remove fake margins if the book uses negative text indents on the margined elements."
- title: "KF8 Output: Set offsets to tags in the skeleton the same way kindlegen does. Also linearize non linear ToCs to ensure section to section jumping works."
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Use correct default value of 'inherit' for font-family and font-size when normalizing the shorthand font property."
- title: "When running python scripts via calibre-debug ensure that user plugins are loaded"
improved recipes:
- Business Week Magazine
- Metro Nieuws NL
new recipes:
- title: Attac.es
author: Marc Busque
- title: Drytooling.com
author: Damian Granowski
- title: Shortlist.com
author: Dave ASbury
- title: National Geographic (es)
author: vakya
- version: 0.8.52
date: 2012-05-18
new features:
- title: "EPUB Input: When setting the cover for a book that identifies its cover image, but not the html wrapper around the cover, try to detect and remove that wrapper automatically."
tickets: [ 999959 ]
- title: "When deleting books of a specific format, show the number of books with each format available"
- title: "Linux install: No longer create MAN pages as all utilities have more comprehensive command line --help anyway"
- title: "Add a tweak Preferences->Tweaks to control the default choice of format for the Tweak Book feature"
- title: "Conversion: Allow setting negative page margins. A negative page margin means that calibre will not specify any page margin in the output document (for formats that support this)"
bug fixes:
- title: "Tweak book: Fix handling of covers when tweaking KF8 books"
- title: "KF8 Output: Handle input documents with out of sequence ToC entries. Note that currently section jumping in the KF8 output produced by calibre for such files does not work."
tickets: [1000493]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix the edit values button for custom tag-like columns showing a unneeded warning about changed values"
- title: "EPUB Output: Be a little more conservative when removing <form> tags. Only remove them if they have actual forms inside. "
tickets: [ 1000384 ]
- title: "EPUB Input: Correctly update the Cover entry in the ToC even when the entry has a fragment reference. "
tickets: [ 999973 ]
- title: "Update ImagMagick DLLs in all calibre binary builds to fix security vulnerabilities in ImageMagick"
tickets: [ 999496 ]
- title: "Advanced search dialog: Fix equals and regex matching not being applied for custom column searches."
tickets: [ 980221 ]
- title: "RTF Input: Handle old RTF files that have commands without braces."
tickets: [ 994133 ]
- title: "Get Books: Diesel, fix results not showing when only a single match is found"
- title: "Get Books: Fix DRM status indicators for Kobo and Diesel stores. Fix smashwords not returning results."
tickets: [ 993755 ]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.51 that broke viewing of LIT and some EPUB files"
tickets: [998248, 998216]
improved recipes:
- Clarin
- Spiegel
- Spiegel International
- Montreal Gazette
- Gosc Niedzelny
- Ars Technica
new recipes:
- title: "Army/Navy/Air force/Marine Times and News busters"
author: jde
- title: "Ads of the World, Heavy Meta (Italian) and Juve La Stampa"
author: faber1971
- title: "Revista Summa"
author: Vakya
- title: "Strategic culture"
author: Darko Miletic
- title: Stars and Stripes
author: adoucette
- title: Nackdenkseiten
author: jrda
- version: 0.8.51
date: 2012-05-11
new features:
- title: "When switching libraries preserve the position and selected books if you switch back to a previously opened library."
tickets: [994514]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Filter out the useless font-face rules inserted by Microsoft Word for every font on the system"
- title: "Driver for Motorola XT875 and Pandigital SuperNova"
tickets: [996890]
- title: "Add a colour swatch the the dialog for creating column coloring rules, to ease selection of colors"
tickets: [994811]
- title: "EPUB Output: Consolidate internal CSS generated by calibre into external stylesheets for ease of editing the EPUB"
- title: "List EPUB and MOBI at the top of the dropdown list fo formats to convert to, as they are the most common choices"
tickets: [994838]
bug fixes:
- title: "E-book viewer: Improve performance when switching between normal and fullscreen views."
tickets: [996102]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: When running download metadata do not insert duplicate tags into the list of tags"
- title: "KF8 Input: Do not error out if the file has a few invalidly encoded bytes."
tickets: [997034]
- title: "Fix download of news in AZW3 format not working"
tickets: [996439]
- title: "Pocketbook driver: Update for new PB 611 firmware."
tickets: [903079]
- title: "ebook-convert: Error out if the user prvides extra command line args instead of silently ignoring them"
tickets: [994939]
- title: "EPUB Output: Do not self close any container tags to prevent artifacts when EPUBs are viewed using buggy browser based viewers."
tickets: [994861]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.50 that broke the conversion of HTML files that contained non-ascii font-face declarations, typically produced by Microsoft Word"
improved recipes:
- Mainichi news
- derStandard
- Endgadget Japan
new recipes:
- title: Mainichi English
author: Hiroshi Miura
- title: The Grid TO
author: Yusuf W
- title: National Geographic (Italy)
author: faber1971
- title: Rebelion
author: Marc Busque
- version: 0.8.50
date: 2012-05-04
new features:
- title: "Tweak Book: Allow tweaking of KF8 MOBI files. Useful to fine-tune the result of a conversion. Right click on the book and select Tweak Book to use the feature. Note that tweaking a MOBI file that contains both KF8 and older MOBI6 will cause the MOBI6 version to be discarded."
- title: "AZW3 output plugin. This output plugin generates pure KF8 mobi files. These only work on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch with latest firmware."
- title: "Conversion: Allow easy re-ordering of the search and replace expressions in the conversion dialog. Also apply the expressions in the same order that they were entered when doing the conversion."
- title: "Automatically add the Tag 'Sample Book' when an Amazon sample is added to calibre"
- title: "FB2 Input: Better handling of inline images."
tickets: [989869]
bug fixes:
- title: "KF8 Output: Fix section to section jumps not working for documents with multi-level ToCs"
- title: "EPUB Input: Handle the case of the metadata ToC containing a reference to the cover HTML file."
tickets: [993812]
- title: "CHM Input: Handle files with deeply nested markup and non html files listed at the start of the manifest."
tickets: [993607]
- title: "KF8 Output: Workaround Kindle Touch bug that causes the book to be rendered as black pages when a height is specified for <body>"
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.49 that broke italics detection in heuristic processing on 32-bit systems."
tickets: [991380]
- title: "KF8 Output: Fix joint MOBI6/KF8 books not being recognized as MOBI files by older Kindles"
- title: "KF8 Output: Fix errors when processing documents with HTML comments and/or XML processing instructions"
- title: "Get Books: Amazon fix prices not being found. B&N fix details link. ebooks.com: fix cover image. Website changes to various EU stores"
- title: "FB2 Input: More robust base64 decoding to handle embedded images that are incorrectly encoded."
tickets: [990929]
- title: "Fix scrolling with the cover browser updating only the selection in the book list, not the current book."
tickets: [990881]
- title: "Save to Disk: Do not run out memory when saving very large files on systems with low RAM."
tickets: [990741]
- title: "FB2 Output: Use 2 letter language codes in preference to 3-letter ones to not break poorly implemented FB2 readers"
tickets: [990026]
- title: "EPUB Input: Auto set the media-type for OPF manifest entries with an empty media-type"
improved recipes:
- National Post
- Daily Mirror
- Sun
- Newsweek Polska
- Max-Planck
- derStandard
- tweakers.net
new recipes:
- title: George Monbiot
author: Darko Miletic
- title: El Mundo
author: atordo
- title: AraInfo and Diagonal
author: Ruben Pollan
- version: 0.8.49
date: 2012-04-27
new features:
- title: "Experimental support for generating Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files"
description: "calibre can now generate Amazon's new KF8 format MOBI files.
To turn on this feature, go to Preferences->Tweaks and click Plugin Tweaks. In the box add:
test_mobi_output_type = 'both'
calibre will now produce MOBI files that have both the old MOBI format and the new KF8 format in them.
To learn more about KF8, see: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000729511
Note that calibre support for KF8 is still experimental and there will likely be bugs."
- title: "Upgrade to using cssutils 0.9.9 for CSS parsing. Improved speed and robustness."
- title: "Show cover size in a tooltip in the conversion dialog"
tickets: [986958]
- title: "Driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light"
tickets: [989264]
bug fixes:
- title: "Heuristics: When italicizing words do not operate on words not in between HTML tags."
tickets: [986298]
- title: "Fix (I hope) the bulk metadata download process crashing for some people on OS X when clicking the Yes button to apply the updates."
tickets: [986658]
- title: "Fix tooltip not being updated in the book details panel when pasting in a new cover"
tickets: [986958]
- title: "Cover Browser: Wrap the title on space only, not in between words."
tickets: [986516]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: If a permission denied error occurs when clicking the next or prev buttons, stay on the current book."
tickets: [986903]
- title: "Fix heuristics not removing unnecessary hyphens from the end of lines."
tickets: [822744]
improved recipes:
- Metro Nieuws NL
- Der Tagesspiegel
new recipes:
- title: Berria
author: Alayn Gortazar
- title: Sol Haber
author: Onur Gungor
- title: Telam
author: Darko Miletic
- title: Richmond Times-Dispatch
author: jde
- version: 0.8.48
date: 2012-04-20
new features:
- title: "Conversion: The search and replace feature has been completely revamped."
description: "You can now use any number of search and replace
expression, not just three. You can also store and load frequently used
sets of search and replace expressions. Also, the wizard generates its
preview in a separate process to protect against crashes/memory leaks."
tickets: [983476,983484,983478]
- title: "Support for the new '.azw3' files that Amazon recently started generating. calibre will now detect them as ebooks. It can also view/convert them, if they are DRM free."
- title: "Drivers for Samsung Galaxy ACE GT-S5830L and HTC One X"
tickets: [981185]
bug fixes:
- title: "Get Books: Support the new website design of Barnes & Noble"
- title: "T1 driver: Fix books sent to SD card sometimes resulting problems when deleted."
tickets: [943586]
- title: "Do not allow author names to be set to blank via the Manage authors function. Blank authors are now automatically set to 'Unknown'"
- title: "MOBI Output: Handle background color specified on <td> and <tr> in addition to <table> tags."
tickets: [980813]
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix underline style applied to parent element not getting inherited by <a> children."
tickets: [985711]
improved recipes:
- xkcd
- Metro Nieuws
- Calgary Herald
- Orlando Sentinel
- countryfile
- Heise
new recipes:
- title: Various new Polish news sources
author: fenuks
- title: Various Italian news sources
author: faber1971
- title: Jakarta Globe
author: rty
- title: Acim Bilim Dergisi
author: thomass
- version: 0.8.47
date: 2012-04-13
new features:
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Add support for all the named entities in the HTML 5 spec."
tickets: [976056]
- title: "Support for viewing and converting the Haodoo PDB ebook format"
tickets: [976478]
- title: "Device driver for Laser EB720"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression in automatic adding in 0.8.46 that broke automatic adding if adding of duplicates is enabled and auto convert is also enabled"
tickets: [976336]
- title: 'Fix "Tags" field in advanced search does not obey regex setting'
tickets: [980221]
- title: "EPUB Input: Automatically extract cover image from simple HTML title page that consists of only a single <img> tag, instead of rendering the page"
- title: "Prevent errors when both author and author_sort are used in a template for reading metadata from filenames for files on a device"
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Handle books whose titles start with a bracket."
tickets: [976365]
- title: "Get Books: Fix downloading of purchased books from Baen"
tickets: [975929]
improved recipes:
- Forbes
- Caros Amigos
- Trouw
- Sun UK
- Metro
- Daily Mirror
new recipes:
- title: "Melbourne Herald Sun"
author: Ray Hartley
- title: "Editoriali and Zerocalcare"
author: faber1971
- version: 0.8.46
date: 2012-04-06
new features:
- title: "Auto adding: When automatically adding files from a folder, automatically convert the files to the current output format after adding. This can be turned off via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding."
tickets: [969053]
- title: "E-book viewer: When reading a MOBI file that is actually a KF8 book, show the format as being KF8"
- title: "Content server: Workaround for android stock browser not support HTTP AUTH."
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Change the remove unused series button to a clear series button (as the remove unused series function is now automatic)"
- title: "Driver for PocketBook 622."
tickets: [969875]
bug fixes:
- title: "Run metadata downloads in a separate process to workaround memory leaks in third party plugins. Also removes the need to break up bulk metadata downloads into 100 book batches."
- title: "Make tag browser filtering work when capital letters are entered."
- title: "EPUB metadata: Ignore urn:isbn: prefix from ISBN declaration when reading metadata"
- title: "Get books: Fix feedbooks store not showing all available formats"
- title: "KF8 Input: When the KF8 book has no metadata ToC, try to extract the ToC from the HTML instead."
tickets: [969238]
- title: "Fix regression that broke access to Preferences via the Preferences item in the calibre menu on OS X"
tickets: [969418]
- title: "Fix bug that ignored metadata specified on the command line when using calibredb add"
improved recipes:
- OReilly Premium
- Real Clear
- Soldier's Magazine
- Rue89
new recipes:
- title: The Southern Star
author: watou
- title: Buenos Aires Herald
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 0.8.45
date: 2012-03-30
new features:
- title: "E-book viewer: Allow the up and down keys to scroll past section boundaries"
- title: "calibredb: Allow specification of basic metadata on the command line when adding books."
tickets: [951063]
- title: "Driver for Samsung Galaxy Plus GT-I9001"
- title: "KF8 Input: Support KF8 format Amazon book samples."
tickets: [963418]
- title: "When a new plugin is added to calibre for the first time, have its icon (if any) show up even when a device is connected (this can be changed by the user at the time of plugin installation)"
- title: "Add keyboard shortcuts for Bold, Italic and Underline to the comments editor in the edit metadata dialog"
tickets: [963559]
bug fixes:
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix last read position (and bookmarks in general) being inaccurate for some books."
description: "The technique for marking locations in books used by the viewer has changed. The new technique should be much more accurate than the last one, especially when the font size at which the book is being viewed is changed. Note that this change means that bookmarks created with this release of calibre will not be read by previous calibre versions. On a technical note, the viewer now uses the CFI specification from the EPUB 3 standard for bookmarks."
type: major
- title: "Workarounds for a few regressions in the user interface in 0.8.44 caused by the update to Qt 4.8.0"
- title: "Books list: Preserve the horizontal scroll position when sorting by a column"
- title: "Fix saving to disk and then adding the book back not restoring tags-like custom columns"
- title: "Linux installer: Fix completion for ebook-convert not working."
tickets: [967834]
- title: "MOBI Output: Recognize type=text in addition to type=start guide elements"
- title: "Get Books: Updates to Nexto, Ebookpoint and Woblink stores"
- title: "Fix unable to clear username/password in Fetch news dialog"
- title: "PDF Output: Fix margin specifications not being applied"
- title: "Linux installer: Manually preserve the defaults.list mimetype association file to workaround buggy xdg-desktop-menu implementations in some distros."
tickets: [926559]
- title: "E-book viewer: Fix regression that caused the ebook viewer to stop functioning if it is launched from the main calibre program and then the main calibre program is closed."
tickets: [963960]
improved recipes:
- Our Daily Bread
new recipes:
- title: NRC Handelsblad (free)
author: veezh
- version: 0.8.44
date: 2012-03-23
new features:
- title: "E-book viewer: A whole new full screen mode."
description: "The new mode has no toolbars to distract from the text and the ability to set the width of the column of text via Preferences in the ebook viewer. Click the Fullscreen button on the toolbar in the viewer to enter fullscreen mode (or press the F11 or Ctrl+Shit+F keys)"
type: major
tickets: [959830]
- title: "Copy to Library: If books were auto merged by the copy to library process, popup a message telling the user about it, as otherwise some people forget they have turned on auto merge and accuse calibre of losing their books."
- title: "Unix driver for Ectaco JetBook color"
tickets: [958442]
- title: "Add a link to the 'Adding Books Preferences' in the drop down menu of the Add Books button for easier access and more prominence"
tickets: [958145]
- title: "Smarten punctuation: Add a few more cases for detecting opening and closing quotes"
bug fixes:
- title: "Get Books: Updates to various store plugins to deal with website changes: Amazon Europe, Waterstones, Foyles, B&N, Kobo, Woblink and Empik"
- title: "Catalog generation: Do not error out when generating csv/xml catalogs if the catalog title contains filename invalid characters."
tickets: [960154]
- title: "RTF Output: Ignore corrupted images in the input document, instead of erroring out."
tickets: [959600]
- title: "E-book viewer: Try to preserve page position when the window is resized"
- title: "Fix bug that caused wrong series to be shown when clicking on the first letter of a series group in the Tag Browser"
- title: "Fix calibre not supporting different http and https proxies."
tickets: [960173]
- title: "MOBI Input: Fix regression caused by KF8 support that broke reading of ancient non-Amazon PRC files"
- title: "Fix EPUB to EPUB conversion of an EPUB with obfuscated fonts resulting in the fonts not being readable in Adobe Digital Editions"
tickets: [957527]
- title: "RTF Output: Fix bug that broke conversion to RTF when the input document contains <img> tags with no src attribute."
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.43 that broke use of general mode templates that ended in a semi-colon."
tickets: [957295]
improved recipes:
- b92
- Various Polish news sources
- Le Monde
- FHM UK
new recipes:
- title: Ivana Milakovic and Klub knjige
author: Darko Miletic
- version: 0.8.43
date: 2012-03-16
new features:
- title: "Template language: Speedup evaluation of general program mode templates by pre-compiling them to python. If you experience errors with this optimization, you can turn it off via Preferences->Tweaks. Also other miscellaneous optimizations in evaluating templates with composite columns."
- title: "MOBI Output: Add an option to not convert all images to JPEG when creating MOBI files. For maximum compatibility of the produced MOBI files, do not use this option."
tickets: [954025]
- title: "Add iPad3 Output Profile"
bug fixes:
- title: "KF8 Input: Add support for KF8 files with obfuscated embedded fonts"
tickets: [953260]
- title: "Make the stars in the book list a little larger on windows >= vista"
- title: "Revised periodical Section layout, for touchscreen devices resolving iBooks problem with tables spanning multiple pages"
- title: "Read dc:contributor metadata from MOBI files"
- title: "MOBI Output: Fix a regression that caused the generated thumbnail embedded in calibre produced MOBI files to be a large, low quality image instead of a small, high quality image. You would have been affected by this bug only if you directly used the output from calibre, without exporting it via send to device or save to disk."
tickets: [954254]
- title: "KF8 Input: Recognize OpenType embedded fonts as well."
tickets: [954728]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.41 that caused file:/// URLs to stop working in the news download system on windows."
tickets: [955581]
- title: "When setting metadata in MOBI files fix cover not being updated if the mobi file has its first image record as the cover"
- title: "Fix column coloring rules based on the size column not working"
tickets: [953737]
improved recipes:
- Microwaves and RF
- idg.se
new recipes:
- title: SatMagazine
author: kiavash
- version: 0.8.42
date: 2012-03-12
new features:
- title: "Support for reading Amazon's new KF8 format"
type: major
description: "calibre can now both view and convert MOBI files that contain Amazon's new KF8 (Kindle Fire) format"
- title: "Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the font size used in the book details panel"
tickets: [948357]
- title: "Allow specifying a list of file types to exclude when automatically adding files from a folder"
tickets: [943025]
- title: "Show ratings in the book details panel as stars. Also allow the user to change the alignment of the ratings column in the main books list. No longer display the stars in blue, instead their color can be customized via the column coloring rules, like any other column"
- title: "When setting metadata in EPUB ensure that the <meta name=cover> tag has its name attribute first. Needed for the Nook."
- title: "Drivers for Novo 7, LG G2x and Zenithink T-280"
tickets: [941671, 940625, 940527]
- title: "Update linux binaries to Qt 4.8.0"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix some rar files causing crashes on OS X (updated libunrar.dylib in the OS X build)"
tickets: [951185]
- title: "MOBI Output: Ignore the Table of Contents pointed to by the guide, if it contains no links"
- title: "ODT Input: Ignore margin declaration in ODT styles if more specific margin-* declarations are present"
tickets: [941134]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix @import rules in CSS stylesheets that have comments on their first few lines being ignored."
- title: "EPUB Input: When extracting the contents of epub files on windows, do not error out if one or more of the components in the epub file have filepaths containing characters that are invalid for the windows filesystem, instead, just replace those characters, since those entries are likely to be errors in the zip container anyway."
tickets: [950081]
- title: "Textile output: Fix issue with blockquotes and sentences getting removed."
- title: "MOBI Output: When using the prefer author sort conversion option, handle multiple authors better."
tickets: [947146]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.41 that broke direct connection to iDevices in windows"
tickets: [944534]
- title: "Fix the download bulk metadata completed popup causing a crash if the Esc key is pressed."
tickets: [943056]
- title: "Fix rating values doubled in CSV/XML catalogs"
tickets: [942790]
- title: "EPUB Input: Remove non markup documents from the spine automatically, instead of erroring out"
- title: "When formatting ratings in templates, etc., do not have an unnecessary .0"
- title: "Calibre portable: Do not allow calibre portable to run if it is placed in a location whose path is too long. Also hide the library location setup in the welcome wizard when running the portable build."
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.41 that broke calibre if the TMP or TEMP environment variable is set to the root of a drive."
tickets: [952284]
- title: "Fix display of ratings type custom fields in the content server"
tickets: [940600]
improved recipes:
- La Jornada
- Chicago Tribune
- Mediapart
- rue89
new recipes:
- title: Racjonalista
author: Racjonlista
- title: JAPAA
author: adoucette
- version: 0.8.41
date: 2012-02-24
new features:
- title: "Driver for Sony Experia Play 4G"
tickets: [938831]
- title: "News download system: Allow use of __future__ in recipes, and do not change line numbers of code in the recipe when compiling it"
- title: "Use the My Documents folder as the default location for the Calibre Library folder on first start in windows"
tickets: [934840]
- title: "Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the order in which categories appear in the Tag Browser"
- title: "Tag Browser: Add an entry to the right click menu to quickly delete tags"
tickets: [934509]
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Try to scrape series information from the amazon details page. Note that currently very few books have series info available. Often the page for hardcover will have series, but the Kindle edition will not. In such cases calibre may or may not find the series, depending on which page it ends up using."
- title: "Content server: Add favicon to OPDS feeds."
tickets: [934731]
bug fixes:
- title: "RTF Input: Fix some WMF images embedded in RTF files being distorted on conversion."
tickets: [934167]
- title: "Fix long standing bug preventing calibre from working on east asian windows installs when the user name in windows has non-ascii characters"
tickets: [937389]
- title: "Get Books: Fix Baen Webscription and O'Reilly stores. Fix price detection for Google Books"
- title: "MOBI Output: When the same anchor is present more than once in the input document, use the first occurrence rather than the last one."
tickets: [934031]
- title: "Use the 'default cover font' tweak when generating default masthead images as well"
tickets: [939256]
- title: "Fix content server does not correctly display custom field of type 'rating'"
tickets: [938303]
- title: "Fix welcome wizard does not save send-from email info unless send-to field is filled"
tickets: [937087]
- title: "When reading metadata from odt files, use initial-creator in preference to creator for setting the author field"
tickets: [934564]
- title: "Fix conversion erroring out when the input document has very long and thin images"
tickets: [935234]
improved recipes:
- The Sun
- Various Polish news sources
- Mediapart
new recipes:
- title: La pausa caffe
author: faber1971
- title: Various Polish news sources
author: fenuks
- version: 0.8.40
date: 2012-02-17
new features:
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Support the new 'Book Description' section that Amazon publishes for some books. Also workaround the amazon US servers occasionally returning broken markup leading to calibre not finding any matches for books on Amazon."
- title: "Kindle driver: Add an option to allow using page counts stored in a custom column. Go to Preferences->Plugins and customize the Kindle driver, to tell it to use a custom column to get page count data. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1963075&postcount=215 for details."
- title: "Template language: Add a current_library_name() function that can be used to return the name of the currently opened library in calibre"
- title: "Driver for Xperia Neo and PocketBook A10"
tickets: [930788]
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not properly refresh format information in standalone calibre-server processes"
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.39 that broke getting covers from some epub files on OS X."
tickets: [932507]
- title: "Reading metadata from HTML files: Do not take a very long time for very large HTML files. Also fix reading metadata from meta tags with multiple spaces before the content attribute."
tickets: [932262]
- title: "EPUB Output: Fix splitting breaking internal links in the epub, if the links pointed to files with URL unsafe characters in their file names."
tickets: [929966]
- title: "Fix auto adding not leaving languages field blank when book has no defined laguage"
tickets: [930648]
improved recipes:
- Samanyolu Haber
- Kurier
- Le devoir
- Daily Mirror
- Common Dreams
- Pescanik
new recipes:
- title: Asian Review of Books
author: Darko Miletic
- title: Albert Mohler, Desiring God, Living Stones and Resurgence
author: Peter Grungi
- title: Novinite BG
author: M3 Web
- title: Catholic Daily Readings
author: adoucette
- title: Consortium News and Microwave and RF magazine
author: kiavash
- version: 0.8.39
date: 2012-02-10
new features:
- title: "Auto-adding: Add an option to check for duplicates when auto adding."
tickets: [926962]
- title: "Content server: Export a second record via mDNS that points to the full OPDS feed in addition to the one pointing to the Stanza feed. The new record is of type _calibre._tcp."
tickets: [929304]
- title: "Allow specifying a set of categories that are not partitioned even if they contain a large number of items in the Tag Browser. Preference is available under Look & Feel->Tag Browser"
- title: "Allow setting a URL prefix for the content server that run embedded in the calibre GUI as well."
tickets: [928905]
- title: "Allow output of identifiers data in CSV/XML/BiBTeX catalogs"
tickets: [927737]
- title: "Driver for Motorola Droid XT910, Nokia E71 and HTC EVO 3D."
tickets: [928202, 927818, 929400]
- title: "Cut down the time taken to launch worker processes by 40%"
- title: "You can now configure the calibre settings for the currently connected device by right clicking on the device icon in the toolbar, instead of having to go through Preferences->Plugins"
bug fixes:
- title: "Auto-adding: Do not add incomplete files when files are downloaded directly into the auto add folder."
tickets: [926578]
- title: "When running multiple delete from device jobs, fix the device view sometimes marking the wrong books as being deleted, after the first delete job completes."
tickets: [927972]
- title: "MOBI Input: Handle files that have spurious closing </body> and/or </html> tags in their markup."
tickets: [925833]
- title: "RTF Input: Strip out false color specifications, as they cause artifacts when converted to MOBI"
improved recipes:
- Updated Postmedia publications
- Foreign Affairs
- Read It Later
- Microwave Journal
- taggeschau.de
new recipes:
- title: Vancouver Province and Windsor Star
author: Nick Redding
- title: Onda Rock
author: faber1971
- title: Il Manifesto
author: Giacomo Lacava
- version: 0.8.38
date: 2012-02-03
new features:
- title: "Implement the ability to automatically add books to calibre from a specified folder."
type: major
description: "calibre can now watch a folder on your computer and instantly add any files you put there to the calibre library as new books. You can tell calibre which folder to watch via Preferences->Adding Books->Automatic Adding."
tickets: [920249]
- title: "Conversion: When automatically inserting page breaks, do not put a page break before a <h1> or <h2> tag if it is immediately preceded by another <h1> or <h2> tag."
- title: "Driver for EZReader T730 and Point-of-View PlayTab Pro"
tickets: [923283, 922969]
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix device entry not visible in menubar even when it has been added via Preferences->Toolbars."
tickets: [923175]
- title: "Fix metadata plugboards not applied when auto sending news by email"
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.34 that broke recipes that used skip_ad_pages() but not get_browser(). "
tickets: [923724]
- title: "Restore device support on FreeBSD, by using HAL"
tickets: [924503]
- title: "Get books: Show no more than 10 results from the Gandalf store"
- title: "Content server: Fix metadata not being updated when sending for some MOBI files."
tickets: [923130]
- title: "Heuristic processing: Fix the italicize common patterns algorithm breaking on some HTML markup."
tickets: [922317]
- title: "When trying to find an ebook inside a zip file, do not fail if the zip file itself contains other zip files."
tickets: [925670]
- title: "EPUB Input: Handle EPUBs with duplicate entries in the manifest."
tickets: [925831]
- title: "MOBI Input: Handle files that have extra </html> tags sprinkled through out their markup."
tickets: [925833]
improved recipes:
- Metro Nieuws NL
- FHM UK
new recipes:
- title: Strange Horizons
author: Jim DeVona
- title: Telegraph India and Live Mint
author: Krittika Goyal
- title: High Country News
author: Armin Geller
- title: Countryfile
author: Dave Asbury
- title: Liberation (subscription version)
author: Remi Vanicat
- title: Various Italian news sources
author: faber1971
- version: 0.8.37
date: 2012-01-27
new features:
- title: "Allow calibre to be run simultaneously in two different user accounts on windows."
tickets: [919856]
- title: "Driver for Motorola Photon and Point of View PlayTab"
tickets: [920582, 919080]
- title: "Add a checkbox to preferences->plugins to show only user installed plugins"
- title: "Add a restart calibre button to the warning dialog that pops up after changing some preference that requires a restart"
bug fixes:
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the remove format from book function to only delete the entry from the database and not delete the actual file from the disk"
tickets: [921721]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not properly refresh the format information in the GUI"
tickets: [919494]
- title: "E-book viewer: Preserve the current position more accurately when changing font size/other preferences."
tickets: [912406]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Fix items in the <guide> that refer to files with URL unsafe filenames being ignored."
tickets: [920804]
- title: "Fix calibre not running on linux systems that set LANG to an empty string"
- title: "On first run of calibre, ensure the columns are sized appropriately"
- title: "MOBI Output: Do not collapse whitespace when setting the comments metadata in newly created MOBI files"
- title: "HTML Input: Fix handling of files with ä characters in their filenames."
tickets: [919931]
- title: "Fix the sort on startup tweak ignoring more than three levels"
tickets: [919584]
- title: "Edit metadata dialog: Fix a bug that broke adding of a file to the book that calibre did not previously know about in the books directory while simultaneously changing the author or title of the book."
tickets: [922003]
improved recipes:
- People's Daily
- Plus Info
- grantland.com
- Eret es irodalom
- Sueddeutsche.de
new recipes:
- title: Mumbai Mirror
author: Krittika Goyal
- title: Real Clear
author: TMcN
- title: Gazeta Wyborcza
author: ravcio
- title: The Daily News Egypt and al masry al youm
author: Omm Mishmishah
- title: Klip.me
author: Ken Sun