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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.
# {{{ 7.x.0 2024-xx-xx
#
# :: new features
#
# - title
#
# :: bug fixes
#
# - title
#
# :: improved recipes
# - title
#
# :: new recipes
# - title by author
# }}}
{{{ 7.7.0 2024-03-14
:: new features
- [2056116] Trim image: Allow specifying the size of the trim rectangle using numbers
- [2056664] Full text search: Allow pressing Ctrl+S to select the current book in the calibre book list
- Speed up scrolling through the book list book-by-book by only redrawing the book details panel when scrolling pauses
- Add a tweak under Preferences->Tweaks to set the first day of the week in popup calendars used to input dates
:: bug fixes
- [2056470] CHM Input: Handle CHM files with no HHC Table of Contents
- E-book viewer: Fix a few settings such as pages per screen and header/footers not being saved in profiles
- [2056614] Full text search: Ignore text inside <ruby> tags when indexing books
- DOCX Output: Preserve spaces around soft hyphens
- Book details popup: Copy the original cover image to the clipboard even when the image is rescaled to fit into view
- Fix changing disabled colors in the UI color palette overriding non-disabled colors
- Content server: Fix deletion of viewer profiles not working
:: improved recipes
- LiveMint
- Bloomberg
- National Geographic
- MIT Technology Review
- NY Review of Books
- Scientific American
}}}
{{{ 7.6.0 2024-03-01
:: new features
- [major 1979022] E-book viewer: Allow saving current settings in "profiles" that can be quickly and easily swapped between
To create a profile or switch to a previously saved profile access "Profiles" from the viewer controls or press the `Alt+P` shortcut.
- [2053144] Edit book: Add a shortcut `Ctrl+M` to merge selected files
- Get books: Add support for Amazon Mexico
- A new toolbar button to show all available actions in sub menus. Can be added via `Preferences->Toolbars & menus`
- Edit book: Allow selecting multiple books to edit at once, opening all selected books in separate editor instances
:: bug fixes
- [2054617] Cover grid: Fix dragging the mouse while holding shift to extend the selection not working well
- [2054934] E-book viewer: Fix doing a multi-page selections sometimes causing the start of the selection to move backwards
- Edit book: Live CSS: Fix regression causing incorrect colors in calibre 7
- Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 7 that caused images in long text columns to not be displayed in the tooltip for the column
- Fix disabled items in menus having blurry text
- Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error when doing a search/sort on some browsers
:: improved recipes
- New Yorker
- Moneycontrol
- Swarajya Mag
- nautil.us
- Pro Physik
:: new recipes
- The Week UK by unkn0wn
- Andhrajyothy by unkn0wn
}}}
{{{ 7.5.1 2024-02-09
:: new features
- Allow fine tuning the colors used in the calibre interface via Preference->Look & feel->Main interface->User interface colors
Note that calibre no longer follows system colors on Linux in light mode (the only place where it used to follow system colors). However,
there is a convenient button in the manage colors dialog to import the system colors.
- [2052462] Full text search window: Add actions to the context menu to open the book at the clicked on result. Also allow using the view book shortcut to open the currently selected search result
- [2052460] When showing the Full text search dialog, pre populate the search box with the contents of the main calibre search box if the main search box contains a simple search
:: bug fixes
- Windows: Fix a regression in 7.0 that caused images referring to files on the disk within comments columns to not display in some circumstances
- E-book viewer: Fix clock showing hour as zero instead of 12 between 12 and 1 am/pm
- [2050100] Edit book: When wrapping selected text in a tag, preserve the selection after wrapping
- [2050075] Content server: Fix a periodic spurious error message when reading books in offline mode
- Fix a regression in 7.0 caused by a regression in Qt that would result in calibre hanging rarely when using the cover browser view
- [2049992] Fix custom template functions not useable in save to disk templates
- Fix a regression in 7.2 that caused the popup used for editing fields in the book list to be mis-positioned on very wide monitors
- [2052766] Version 7.5.1 fixes a bug in 7.5.0 where calibre would not start up using dark colors when the system was in dark mode on some windows installs and another bug that could cause errors when using cover grid mode with covers stored in CMYK colorspace
:: improved recipes
- El Diplo
- Science News
- Barrons
- Financial Times
- Business Today
- Le Monde
- Scientific American
:: new recipes
- ugeskriftet by morusn
- Martin Fowler and Gitbug Blogs by Lucas Lois
}}}
{{{ 7.4.0 2024-01-19
:: new features
- Add support for the Supernote A6X2
- Narrow layout: Place the cover browser above the book list when the window has a narrow aspect ratio. Can be controlled via Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser
- [2046825] Category notes browser: Add a button to search for books in the currently selected category
- Keyboard shortcut to toggle main window layout (Alt+Shift+L)
- Add the possibility to assign keyboard shortcuts to the tag browser sort functions
:: bug fixes
- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the cover browser to not close when it is used as a separate window
- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused comments in the Book details panel to be rendered below rather than at the side of the other information
- Edit book: Fix highlighting of special character not changed immediately after it is edited, only after a subsequent action
- Move Preferences to the left in the default toolbar, making it less likely to be hidden behind an expander button on small screens
:: improved recipes
- LiveMint
- Foreign Policy
- New Scientist
}}}
{{{ 7.3.0 2024-01-05
:: new features
- Tag browser: Allow displaying buttons next to items that have notes or links for easy access. To enable these use Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser
- Font subsetting: Preserve all OpenType layout features. This makes the subset font files larger but ensures there is no visual degradation when using the subsetted font files in different contexts.
:: bug fixes
- macOS: Fix main calibre window not remembering its size on restart
- Edit book: Fix the "Show changes" window moving down by a few pixels every time it is opened
- [2047257] Amazon metadata download: Fixes for various changes to amazon website markup
- [2047181] E-book viewer: When looking up words via Google in Europe pre-approve the GDPR consent cookie
- [2046673] Windows: Content server: Fix regression in previous release that broke testing for local connections
- Windows: Fix a regression that caused selections in the Book details panel to be invisible
:: improved recipes
- Foreign Policy
- Business Standard
- Il Post
- Indian Express
- Washington Post
:: new recipes
- Hindustan Times Print Edition by unkn0wn
}}}
{{{ 7.2.0 2023-12-15
:: new features
- Content server: Also listen for all incoming IPv6 connections by default, not just IPv4
- Book details: Allow deleting notes from the right click menu easily
:: bug fixes
- [2045133] Windows: Edit book: Fix a crash when using the check book tool with a book that contains malformed markup, in calibre 7
- Windows: Improve flickering at startup due to a Qt regression in calibre 7
- Windows: Fix moving the main window causing popup/floating windows to be resized in calibre 7 due to yet another Qt regression
- [2044659] Fix detection of existing books on the Tolino Vision 6
- Linux: Fix external applications not being launched under Wayland in calibre 7 because of a bug in Qt
- Linux: Fix network requests failing under Fedora in calibre 7
:: improved recipes
- Reuters
- Scientific American
- New Yorker
- Times of India
- infzm
- singtaohk
}}}
{{{ 7.1.0 2023-11-23
:: new features
- Notes editor: When pasting HTML with images offer to download remote images in the pasted content
:: bug fixes
- Fix regression in 7.0 that broke restore of db from backups
- Content server: Fix newly added books on homepage not restricted to the books the logged in user is allowed to access
- [2044118] When starting in system tray do not flash the main window briefly
- Notes editor: Fix spurious error message when saving a note that contains pasted HTML that refers to an image
- [2043998] Fix a regression that caused the unknown/unset date to incorrectly be displayed/edited as a date in the year AD 101 in some timezones
- Comments editor: Fix data file links not working
- Linux installer: Check that the user has libxcb-cursor.so.0 installed. If not quit early with an error message asking them to install it
- [2044408] LRF Output: Fix a regression in 7.0 that broke conversion to LRF
:: improved recipes
- Substack
:: new recipes
- The World Ahead by unkn0wn
}}}
{{{ 7.0.0 2023-11-17
:: new features
- [major] For details on the major changes in calibre between 7.0 and 6.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/sixteen
- [major] The ability to add notes to any author, tag, series, etc. in calibre with links and images
- [2040487] E-book viewer: Add support for HTML image maps
- Content server home page: Show the three most recently added books in the default library
- Content server: Add button to return to book details page at top level of controls
- Content server: Book details: Open links in comments fields in the same window rather than a new window
- Add a "Show items in selected books" choice to Manage tags and Manage authors
- [2042804] Show the previously used language, if any, second in the language selection drop down
:: bug fixes
- [2043415] Metadata download: Fix downloads from Google not working in Europe because of the GDPR
- [2042815] Fix editing dates with days sometimes off by one day
- Edit book: Fix highlighting for special characters not visible when the cursor is on the line with the special character
- [2043248] Fix embedding metadata showing infinite error dialogs on windows if a file is locked by another program
- [2040074] PDF Output: Fix an error when trying to set header or footer with an input document that has invalid content after the main body
- [2042791] E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix clicking on empty spaces causing read aloud to restart from beginning of chapter
- Book details: Fix Manage authors via context menu not working
- [2041848] E-book viewer: Showing chrome should close an active footnote popup first and only show chrome if the user repeats the action
- [2041745] Fix very slow metadata updates on some PDF files
- [1262875] Catalogs: Do not erase any tags the user adds to a catalog book entry when the catalog is re-generated
- [2042748] Linux installer: Fix downloading of signatures for older versions
- [2041357] Fix editing non-active Virtual library changes sort of book list
:: improved recipes
- Financial Times
- National Geographic
- Hamilton Spectator
- Times of India
- MIT Tech Review
- Bloomberg
- Washington Post
- Project Syndicate
- Cumhuriyet
- Foreign Affairs
- Harvard Business Review
- Wall Street Journal
:: new recipes
- Bookforum, Kirkus Reviews and Poetry Magazine by ping
}}}
{{{ 6.29.0 2023-10-20
:: new features
- [2038760] E-book viewer: Add a command line flag --new-instance to force the viewer to open a new window even if the option to always use a single viewer window is set
- [2038862] E-book viewer: Image popup: Add a checkbox to remember the last used zoom level
:: bug fixes
- [2039336] Annotations browser: Fix exporting highlights in markdown not including all chapter titles for books with only a single highlight per chapter or a multi level ToC
- [2038747] E-book viewer: Fix a regression that could cause the viewer to enter an infinite loop when displaying the result of a search that has only one match that is not found
- [2038747] E-book viewer: Fix the occasional search result being marked as not found even though it is found
- [2039474] TXTZ Output plugin: Only keep images if the text format is one that can reference images
- [2038848] TXTZ Output: Fix cover not being properly identified in the generated TXTZ metadata
- [2038575] FB2 Input: Fix the "Annotations" section not showing up in the Table of Contents
- [2039395] Linux: Content server: Do not call listen on pre-activated sockets
- Fix sort order of similarly-named hierarchical categories
- [2038778] Fix a regression that broke reading of covers from HTMLZ and TXTZ files
:: improved recipes
- Wall Street Journal
- Scientific American
- 1843
- Financial Times
- Spectator Magazine
- El Diplo
- Wasshington Post
- national Geographic
:: new recipes
- Project Syndicate, Scroll.in and Newslaundry by unkn0wn
}}}
{{{ 6.28.1 2023-10-07
:: new features
- Edit book: Show full path to book being edited in the status bar
- Edit book: When adding dictionaries allow directly a LibreOffice adding the dictionary just by choosing the language
- Edit book: When saving a copy add some convenience actions to edit the copy immediately either in the current editor window or a new window
- E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Allow right clicking to export only selected highlights
:: bug fixes
- [2034900] Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused Text search to sometimes not select matches correctly
- [2037198] Edit book: When copying files do it in order so that the files are pasted in the same order when pasting into another editor instance
- Edit book: Fix smart tag insert not working correctly if the selected text starts with the closing angle bracket of a tag
- [2038238] Save to disk: Do not limit the total path length to 240 characters on non-Windows platforms
- [2037898] Fix incorrect cover for AZW3 version of calibre User Manual
- [2029723] Content server: Change formatting of book details to match new de-emphasized titles based formatting in the main calibre program
- PDF metadata: Fix a regression that broke updating metadata in PDF files without an /Info dictionary
- NOOK driver: For the Glowlight 2023 write the calibre metadata files into the NOOK sub-folder as the firmware does not allow writing files into the root folder
- NOOK driver: Fix Glowlight 2023 not being detected on Linux and macOS
- [2037454] E-book viewer: Make CFI calculation more robust especially on pages with very little content
- [2037543] E-book viewer: Workaround bug in Chromium where getBoundingClientRect() fails sometimes leading to incorrect calculation of anchor positions
- [2037237] Fix errors caused by .DS_Store files inserted into the .caltrash directory on macOS if the user happens to open .caltrash in Finder
- Version 6.28.1 fixes a regression in 6.28.0 that could cause errors when merging some book records in calibre
:: improved recipes
- National Geographic
- Bloomberg
- Endgadget
- Times of India
- Horizons
:: new recipes
- Business Standard Print Edition by unkn0wn
}}}
{{{ 6.27.0 2023-09-22
:: new features
- [2034954] Kobo driver: Support updated firmware
- Nook driver: Add support for Nook Glowlight Plus 2023
- Data files manager: Allow drag and drop of files onto the list of files to add new files
- [2036266] Support 7z archives in addition to ZIP and RAR for automatic ebook extraction when adding to calibre
- Linux/macOS: Fix detection of the Kindle Scribe with MTP firmware
- [2034760] E-book viewer: Allow clearing list of recently opened books from the open button's popup menu itself
- [2034905] E-book viewer: Add a link to show the currently viewed book in the calibre library (Go to->Metadata in the viewer controls to access it)
:: bug fixes
- [2034999] Book information dialog: Fix a regression that caused incorrect color for titles in dark mode
- [2034977] E-book viewer: Fix searching does not jump to first match if all matches are before current position in book
- [2035579] EPUB Output: Fix duplicated title page entry in spine for books that define a title page that ends up getting split
- Allow for-light/dark-theme icon overrides to work for plugin icons placed by the user in the override folder
- [2035338] PDF Output: Fix background image + text not rendering correctly if the same background image is used with different text multiple times
- [2034968] E-book viewer: Fix section titles in highlights panel being incorrectly expanded to full titles when the section has multiple highlights
- [2035039] Prevent Quickview window from opening in the background
- [2034900] Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error when doing text based searches
:: improved recipes
- Ambito
- Financial Times
- USA Today
:: new recipes
- Times of India Print Edition by unkn0wn
- Hindu Feeds based by unkn0wn
- Australian Financial Review by unkn0wn
}}}
{{{ 6.26.0 2023-09-08
:: new features
- MTP driver: Support the new Kindle Scribe firmware that causes it to act as an MTP device instead of USB disk. Add "Documents" to the list of default folders to send books to
- E-book viewer: Add a new option under scrolling behavior to control horizontal mouse wheel events jumping to next section
- Allow full customization of Book details styling via Preferences->Look & feel->Book details
:: bug fixes
- [2023046] Get books: Update ebooks.com plugin for website changes
- Edit book: Fix searching for non-BMP unicode characters highlighting only half the character
- [2034075] E-book viewer: Fix displaying more than one page per screen causing page layout to be slightly wrong for some books
- [2034404] E-book viewer: Fix clicking on links with empty destinations hanging the viewer
- [2033981] E-book viewer: Fix modifying, then jumping to and then modifying the highlight again from the highlights panel causing the highlight to be deleted
- [2033205] E-book viewer: Fix indication of current section in Table of Contents sometimes wrong after changing font size
- [2033530] E-book viewer/Content server: Disallow browser native context menu when right clicking in sandboxed iframes
- MTP driver: Ignore top level folders whose names start with a leading dot Also ignore AppleDouble files, top level system and fonts folders and sdr folders on Kindle devices
- [2033074] FB2 Input: use the <p> tag for paragraphs that dont contain other block content
- [2033118] E-book viewer: Fix clicking on the back/forward buttons not working in some situations
- [2032974] E-book viewer: Fix scrolling to Table of Contents items that are within a single internal file not activating the back button
- [2032694] E-book viewer: Fix changing the sans-serif font without also changing the monospaced font not working
:: improved recipes
- National Geographic
- Sportstar
- Bangkok Post
- MIT Technology Review
- Bloomberg
- Economic Times India
- Firstpost
:: new recipes
- Nikkei Asia (Magazine) and Espresso by unkn0w7n
}}}
{{{ 6.25.0 2023-08-18
:: new features
- [2029723] Book details panel: De-emphasize titles making the actual data stand out more
- Allow using the new manage data files dialog from within the edit metadata dialog
- [2030342] Trash dialog: Allow right clicking on an entry to save it to disk
- [2027794] When merging books by drag-and-drop add an option to use the dragged cover instead of the cover in the target book
- [2031571] Create catalog: Add buttons to easily select all/non/visible fields when creating CSV/XML catalogs
- [2031570] Preferences->Add your own columns: Add buttons to show/hide all columns
:: bug fixes
- [2031341] Fix a regression in the previous release that broke parsing of some ISO-8601 timestamps
- [2030671] E-book viewer: Mouse wheel horizontal events should jump sections not internal file boundaries
- [2031569] Fix Preferences->Add your own columns changing check state on moving columns
- Get books: update various Polish e-book stores for website changes
- [2029521] E-book viewer: Fix CFI parsing of numbers with trailing zeros causing some bookmarks to not work
- [2029521] E-book viewer: Show an error when creating a bookmark if the bookmark position is not found
- [2031047] CBR Input: Fix comics with extremely long internal filenames not working on Windows
- Edit book: Saved searches: Fix incorrect import in generated source code for some builtin functions
- Data file manager: Fix errors on systems with larger font sizes
:: improved recipes
- Bloomberg
- Focus
- Epoch Times
- Hindu
- Business Today
- NYTimes
:: new recipes
- The Oldie by Sophist
- Various new Russian and Ukrainian news sources
}}}
{{{ 6.24.0 2023-08-04
:: new features
- [2023509] Easily manage the extra data files associated with a book by right clicking the edit metadata button and choose "Manage data files"
- [2028216] Content server: Full text search: Allow searching a restricted subset of books
- [2029014] E-book viewer: Allow clicking on calibre:// URLs
- [2027727] Support fuzzier searching in the Tag browser find allowing unaccented characters to match accented ones
:: bug fixes
- [2028404] DOCX conversion: Preserve underline style and color
- Fix incorrect sorting of device view after some operations
- [2023737] Fix visit content server in browser not working when the content server is configured to listen on an IPv6 interface
- [2028019] Fix one hour offset in some timezones on Windows for dates before 1970
- [2027763] Windows: HTML Input: Fix error when trying to add HTML files with links to other files that are invalid pathnames
- Get books: Update various Polish language book stores for website changes
:: improved recipes
- Epoch Times
- Business Standard
- Tagesspiegel
- Bloomberg Business Week
- MIT Technology Review
- Live Mint
- Private Eye
:: new recipes
- The New Republic Magazine by ping
- Inc42 by unkn0w7n
}}}
{{{ 6.23.0 2023-07-14
:: new features
- [2025942] PDF Output: Add an option to discard the book cover instead of inserting it as the first page of the PDF
- [2025333] Content server: Allow opening the Book details page for a matched book from the Full text search results page
:: bug fixes
- Windows: Fix empty data folder getting created in the directory calibre is launched from when changing title/author for a book with an existing data folder
- [2026795] LIT Output: Fix error converting anything to LIT on Windows
- Ignore failures to expire old trash during startup
- [2025786] Amazon metadata download: Fix retrieval of publisher information from amazon.fr
:: improved recipes
- Guardian & Observer
- Washington Post
- Private Eye
- Associated Press
:: new recipes
- ThePressProject by Sotiris Papatheodorou
}}}
{{{ 6.22.0 2023-06-30
:: new features
- Kobo driver: Add support for newest firmware
- [2023604] Trash bin: Allow setting removed books to be permanently deleted on library close
- Windows: Nicer error message when file/folder is locked in another program
:: bug fixes
- PDF Output: Fix regression that caused large slowdowns when converting books with lots of internal HTML files to PDF
- [2024139] CHM Input: Fix ToC entries that use fragments not supported
- E-book viewer: Fix searching for text next to hidden text not scrolling to the match
- [2024375] E-book viewer: Fix selection popup not showing for some books on some platforms when the selection is in the top line
- [2024433] DOCX Output: Fix multiple SVG images in the input document causing all the SVG images in the output to be just one of the input images
- [2023943] MOBI Input: Ignore another form of corruption in trailing bytes
:: improved recipes
- Foreign Affairs
- Nature
- Bloomberg
- LiveMint
- Hindu and Hindu Business Line
- Deautsche Welle
- Horizons
- Indian Express
- Psych
- Harper's Magazine
:: new recipes
- Radio Canada by quatorze
- Deutschland Funk by Armin Geller
}}}
{{{ 6.21.0 2023-06-13
:: new features
- DOCX Output: Add support for SVG images
Now the generated DOCX will contain both the rasterized version of the SVG
image and the original SVG image as the preferred source, which is supported
by modern versions of Word.
- [2023367] E-book viewer: Allow configuring the actions triggered by touch gestures
- DOCX Input: Add support for SVG images
:: bug fixes
- Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that could cause files to be deleted if one of the files/folders was open in another program while changing title/author in calibre
- [2023395] macOS: Fix extra dock icons visible when doing a job using Qt WebEngine such as converting to PDF or searching in Get books
- [2023476] macOS and Linux: Fix an error when changing metadata or deleting books whose files are owned by another user
- [2023377] CHM Input: Yet another regression opening CHM files with missing internal files on windows
- [2023431] CHM Input: Resolve absolute links to resource files from the root of the CHM file
:: improved recipes
- Guardian & Observer
- Harper's Magazine Print recipe
- Live Mint
:: new recipes
- The India Forum by unkn0wn
}}}
{{{ 6.20.0 2023-06-09
:: bug fixes
- [2021413] CHM Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of CHM files
- Windows: Make moving files in the calibre library folder more robust, locking folders in addition to files, before the start of the move
- [2023046] Get books: Update Barnes and Noble store plugin for website changes
- [2023189] Kindle output: Only re-encode JPEG images with EXIF metadata if the metadata contains actual transpose operations
- [2023041] PDF Output: Fix error when input document contains multiple instances of a font some with vertical metrics and some without
- PDF Output: Fix using CSS Multicolumns for body causing conversion to fail when header/footer is specified
- [2022035] MOBI Input: Fix a crash when converting some corrupted palmdoc compressed MOBI files
- [2021554] E-book viewer: Ensure CSS stylesheets are interpreted as UTF-8
:: improved recipes
- Foreign Affairs
:: new recipes
- Prospect Magazine UK (Free) by ping
}}}
{{{ 6.19.1 2023-05-29
:: new features
- HTML Input: Restrict adding of resources like images to only files within the folder hierarchy starting at the parent folder of the root HTML file
Can be controlled by customizing the HTML to Zip plugin in Preferences->Plugins or the --allow-local-files-outside-root option to the
ebook-convert command
:: bug fixes
- PDF Output: Fix regression in previous release causing non-English entries to be incorrectly encoded into the PDF bookmarks
- PDF Output: Fix regression in previous release that caused blank pages when generating headers or footers
- [2021367] Book list: Fix editing-in-place not pre-selecting existing text for some column types
- Amazon.de metadata download: Update for site changes
- PDF Output: Set /Creator and /Producer in /Info
- [2020906] Fix row height incorrect in Manage category dialog when blank
- [2021452] 6.19.1 fixes a bug in 6.19.0 that broke the edit metadata dialog
}}}
{{{ 6.18.1 2023-05-26
:: new features
- [2020603] Cover download: Allowing saving alternate covers to disk or in the book's data folder by right clicking on the cover
- [2020237] Content server: Allow disabling full text search via the web interface
- [2020233] When sending books to the device confirm the overwrite if the book already exists on the device
- E-book viewer: Handle horizontal wheel events as section jumps in paged mode
- Comic Input: When grayscaling comic images use 16bit gray instead of 8bit for better fidelity
When using the PNG format for images this results in larger files but with better grayscaling fidelity.
- Add a new option in Preferences->Searching to disable keyboard searching in book list (i.e. you can turn off the behavior that pressing a key will jump to the first book whose title starts with that letter)
- [2018423] Manage categories dialog: Use alternating row colors and allow adjusting row height
- Allow assigning a keyboard shortcut in Preferences->Shortcuts to open the data folder of a book
- Various improvements to syntax highlighting for the Markdown long text editor
:: bug fixes
- [2018025] Fix a regression in 6.16 that broke restoring of the database
- Tag browser: Fix using F2 to edit items not allowing completion
- Book details: Fix formatting of text when copying all book details in narrow mode
- Book details: Fix copy all not respecting line breaks in fields
- [2018660] Fix a regression in previous release that broke scrolling when using the scroll_per_row tweak
- [2018548] Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the category manager dialog in some situations
- 6.18.1 fixes a regression that broke setting metadata and generating PDF files in the macOS and Linux binary builds
:: improved recipes
- NYTimes
- Economist
- Washington Post
- Irish Independent and Irish Times
- Live Mint
- Psych
- Hindu
:: new recipes
- Irish Times Free by unkn0wn
- elEconomista.es and El Confidencial by Hugo Meza
}}}
{{{ 6.17.0 2023-04-26
:: new features
- Font subsetting: Add support for WOFF format fonts and CID keyed fonts. Also further reduce file sizes when subsetting
- Book details: Show a link to open the data files folder when data files are present
- Template language: Add various functions to query the extra files associated with a book
- [2017195] Edit book: Compress images: Support compression of images in the WEBP format as well
- Comments editor: Add buttons to create links to data files and also to folders easily when inserting a link
- Allow displaying the id, formats and path builtin columns via Preferences->Add your own columns
- [2017232] Trash bin: Add a button to clear the bin
- Metadata editor: Use a dedicated editor with preview for custom columns that store Markdown formatted text
:: bug fixes
- Fix a regression in the previous release that could result in empty author folders remaining in the library when the author of a book is changed
- [2017373] Fix the data files associated with a book not being handled when using the Merge books and Copy to library functions
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke some operations in the Manage tags/authors/etc. dialogs
- [2017217] Ensure metadata.opf is always written when deleting book even if it is not sequenced for backup
:: improved recipes
- Scientific American
}}}
{{{ 6.16.0 2023-04-20
:: new features
- [major] Allow storing extra data files with a book
Right click the Add books button to add arbitrary files as "data files" to a book record.
These are managed by calibre along with the book files, but cannot be used for conversion/viewing.
Select a book and press the "O" key to view the data files in your file explorer.
- Allow undoing the deletion of books from the calibre library
Now deleted books are stored in a calibre "Trash bin" from which they can be restored with
a single click. To view the trash bin, right click the "Remove books" button.
- [2016070] Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Elipsa 2E
- Book details: if an item has an associated link then offer that link in the item's context menu
:: bug fixes
- [2015617] Content server viewer: Fix end of chapter content being occasionally skipped when scrolling by screen full with multiple pages
- [2017130] E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused notes from a different highlights to be shown in some situations
- [2015795] E-book viewer: Show an error if the user tries to search for only punctuation or spaces in the search modes that ignore these
- Fix custom columns not showing in Book details links from other libraries
:: improved recipes
- Frontline
- Outlook Magazine
:: new recipes
- Bar and Bench by unkn0wn
- The Washington Post Print Edition by unkn0wn
}}}
{{{ 6.15.1 2023-04-07
:: new features
- Allow adding external links to tags, series, publishers, etcetera in addition to authors
The links show up as click-able icons in the book details panel. They can be set by right clicking the
author/tag/etc. in the Tag browser and choosing "Manage"
- calibre:// URL scheme: Add support for a new type of URL that pops up the metadata of the specified book in a new window
Works even with books not in the current library. See https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/url_scheme.html#open-a-book-details-window-on-a-book-in-some-library for details
- EPUB Output: Do not shrink images to fit the screen size by default, as modern readers do this themselves well enough. Can be controlled via an option in the EPUB Output section of the conversion dialog
- Edit metadata dialog: Add buttons to pop up the category editing windows easily
- [2012304] Metadata download: Allow specifying rules to transform publisher names in addition to author and tag names
- [2007764] Edit metadata dialog: Use both a colored border and an icon to indicate errors in line edits
- A new tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to control what program is run when clicking on URLs in calibre
:: bug fixes
- [2009586] E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused incorrect highlight collision detection in some books
- E-book viewer: Fix images embedded inside SVG tags not available for viewing in a pop-up
- [2013972] DOCX Input: Do not ignore images that are present as fallbacks for a word drawing object
- Comic Input: When converting grayscaled PNG images to PNG ensure output images are stored as indexed PNG
- [2012797] Fix active tab not easy to distinguish in dark mode
- [2011755] Content server: Fix re-opening book from home page after making progress not opening to correct last read position when a user is logged in
- [2012760] Comments editor: When copying to clipboard, copy clean HTML rather than the junk Qt produces
- Version 6.15.1 fixes an issue with the new URL scheme popping up incorrect book details windows
:: improved recipes
- Saechsische Zeitung
- LA Times
- Mediapart
- Live Mint
- The Hindu
:: new recipes
- Tehelka by Areet Mahadevan
- The Wire by unkn0wn
}}}
{{{ 6.14.1 2023-03-16
:: new features
- [2007765] Edit metadata: When setting a cover from comic files allow choosing which page to use as the cover
- [2009304] Allow display of columns built from other columns as comments in Book details
- Comments editor: Add a shortcut for "Paste and match style" (Ctrl+Shift+V)
:: bug fixes
- [2004639] macOS: ToC Editor: Fix mouse becoming unusable when trying to create a new entry
- When computing title sorts strip leading and trailing quotes, not just leading quotes
- [2009268] Content server viewer: Fix searching only showing results from the current chapter onwards
- [2009735] Check book: Fix some incorrect line numbers reported in a few CSS error messages
- Fix regression in 6.14.0 that caused some generated resources to be excluded from the calibre source bundle
- [2011586] Fix regression in 6.14.0 that broke using paths with single quotes in them for the calibre library
- Fix ToC Editor on macOS in 6.14.0 not working inside the Edit book tool only
:: improved recipes
- Strange Horizons
- The Saturday Paper
- New Scientist
- The Mainichi
- DR Nyheder
- New York Magazine
- Bloomberg
- Deccan Herald
}}}