This repository has been archived by the owner on May 15, 2019. It is now read-only.
/
Changelog.yaml
3720 lines (2471 loc) · 140 KB
/
Changelog.yaml
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
396
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
404
405
406
407
408
409
410
411
412
413
414
415
416
417
418
419
420
421
422
423
424
425
426
427
428
429
430
431
432
433
434
435
436
437
438
439
440
441
442
443
444
445
446
447
448
449
450
451
452
453
454
455
456
457
458
459
460
461
462
463
464
465
466
467
468
469
470
471
472
473
474
475
476
477
478
479
480
481
482
483
484
485
486
487
488
489
490
491
492
493
494
495
496
497
498
499
500
501
502
503
504
505
506
507
508
509
510
511
512
513
514
515
516
517
518
519
520
521
522
523
524
525
526
527
528
529
530
531
532
533
534
535
536
537
538
539
540
541
542
543
544
545
546
547
548
549
550
551
552
553
554
555
556
557
558
559
560
561
562
563
564
565
566
567
568
569
570
571
572
573
574
575
576
577
578
579
580
581
582
583
584
585
586
587
588
589
590
591
592
593
594
595
596
597
598
599
600
601
602
603
604
605
606
607
608
609
610
611
612
613
614
615
616
617
618
619
620
621
622
623
624
625
626
627
628
629
630
631
632
633
634
635
636
637
638
639
640
641
642
643
644
645
646
647
648
649
650
651
652
653
654
655
656
657
658
659
660
661
662
663
664
665
666
667
668
669
670
671
672
673
674
675
676
677
678
679
680
681
682
683
684
685
686
687
688
689
690
691
692
693
694
695
696
697
698
699
700
701
702
703
704
705
706
707
708
709
710
711
712
713
714
715
716
717
718
719
720
721
722
723
724
725
726
727
728
729
730
731
732
733
734
735
736
737
738
739
740
741
742
743
744
745
746
747
748
749
750
751
752
753
754
755
756
757
758
759
760
761
762
763
764
765
766
767
768
769
770
771
772
773
774
775
776
777
778
779
780
781
782
783
784
785
786
787
788
789
790
791
792
793
794
795
796
797
798
799
800
801
802
803
804
805
806
807
808
809
810
811
812
813
814
815
816
817
818
819
820
821
822
823
824
825
826
827
828
829
830
831
832
833
834
835
836
837
838
839
840
841
842
843
844
845
846
847
848
849
850
851
852
853
854
855
856
857
858
859
860
861
862
863
864
865
866
867
868
869
870
871
872
873
874
875
876
877
878
879
880
881
882
883
884
885
886
887
888
889
890
891
892
893
894
895
896
897
898
899
900
901
902
903
904
905
906
907
908
909
910
911
912
913
914
915
916
917
918
919
920
921
922
923
924
925
926
927
928
929
930
931
932
933
934
935
936
937
938
939
940
941
942
943
944
945
946
947
948
949
950
951
952
953
954
955
956
957
958
959
960
961
962
963
964
965
966
967
968
969
970
971
972
973
974
975
976
977
978
979
980
981
982
983
984
985
986
987
988
989
990
991
992
993
994
995
996
997
998
999
1000
# Each release can have new features and bug fixes. Each of which
# must have a title and can optionally have linked tickets and a description.
# In addition they can have a type field which defaults to minor, but should be major
# for important features/bug fixes.
# Also, each release can have new and improved recipes.
# - version: ?.?.?
# date: 2012-??-??
#
# new features:
# - title:
#
# bug fixes:
# - title:
#
# improved recipes:
# -
#
# new recipes:
# - title:
- version: 0.8.60
date: 2012-07-13
new features:
- title: "When searching, allow use of un-accented characters to match accented characters in all fields and all languages (not just authors and English as before)"
description: "The rules for matching un-accented characters are done in a language dependent way. So if your calibre interface language is set to English, n will match both n and ñ, but if it is set to Spanish, it will match only n, as in Spanish ñ is a separate alphabet in Spanish."
type: major
- title: "Content server: Show a best guess for the IP address the content server is currently listening at in the connect/share menu."
tickets: [1024128]
- title: "E-book viewer: Add an option to show a clock in full screen mode."
tickets: [1022086]
- title: "Drivers for Paquito Imaginarium and a few Android phones"
tickets: [1024021,1023613,1023461,1022401]
- title: "HTMLZ Output: Add option to use the book title as the filename for the html file inside the archive"
- title: "Make the list of displayed fields in the book details panel a per library setting"
- title: "Have autocomplete on authors/series/tags/etc. ignore accented characters when finding matches (similar to the changes to search above)"
- title: "Support for retina displays in OS X (I hope)"
tickets: [1022191]
- title: "Remove the dependency on the zip command line tool when developing plugins"
bug fixes:
- title: "Kobo driver: Do not perform write operations on the Kobo database if its version is newer than the latest version the driver supports, for safety"
- title: "KF8 Input: Ignore encoding declarations inside the html markup, as they are sometimes incorrect."
tickets: [1022933]
- title: "Force refresh of cached composite column values when values in the cache are changed"
- title: "Fix a regression that broke calibre --shutdown-running-calibre on windows."
tickets: [1022504]
- title: "Possible workaround for Qt 4.8.2 open file dialog failing on some linux distros."
tickets: [1022019]
- title: "Catalogs: Fix some epubcheck errors when generating catalogs in EPUB format"
- title: "Linux installer: When calling the xdg utilities use system libraries rather than the libraries bundled with calibre"
- title: "Fix numeric sort for composite custom columns that use custom separators"
tickets: [1021814]
- title: "Tag browser: When grouping by first letter, handle languages that have 'letters' made of more than one character. This can be turned off via Preferences->Tweaks"
improved recipes:
- Hola magazine
- Adventure Gamers
- Cosmopolitan UK
- Onda Rock
new recipes:
- title: Empire Magazine
author: Dave Asbury
- title: NZZ Folio
author: Bernd Leinfelder
- title: Warentest
author: asdfdsfksd
- version: 0.8.59
date: 2012-07-06
new features:
- title: "Drivers for Samsung SGH-T989 and Sony Ericsson Sola"
tickets: [1021365]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: When removing the first image, also remove the html file the image is found in, if that file has no other content. Allows this option to be used to remove covers from EPUB files without leaving behind a blank page."
- title: "Content server: Add a navigation panel at the bottom of each page."
tickets: [1020225]
- title: "calibredb: Add a backup_metadata command to manually run the backup to opf from the command line"
- title: "User defined driver: Add option to swap main memory and card a."
tickets: [1020056]
- title: "Add new option to the series_index_auto_increment tweak, no_change, that causes calibre not to change the series_index when the series is changed"
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF Output: Resize large images so that they do not get off at the right edge of the page."
- title: "On linux ensure that WM_CLASS for the main calibre GUI is set to 'calibre-gui' to match the name of the calibre-gui.desktop file. This is apparently required by the GNOME 3 shell."
tickets: [1020297]
- title: "Update ICU in all builds to version 49.1"
- title: "Tag browser: Fix regression that broke drag and drop between user categories in the tag browser"
- title: "When copying to library and deleting after copy, do not place deleted files in recycle bin, as this is redundant and slow (they have already been copied into another library)"
- title: "Fix yes/no fields with value of No not showing up in the book details panel"
- title: "Catalogs: Better sorting for non English languages"
tickets: [930882]
- title: "Get Books: Fix Foyles UK, Weightless books, ebooks.com and ozon.ru"
- title: "CHM Input: Fix handling of chm files that split their html into multiple sub-directories."
tickets: [1018792]
improved recipes:
- FHM UK
- The Age
- weblogs_ssl
- Heraldo.es
new recipes:
- title: CATO Institute and Heritage Foundation
author: _reader
- version: 0.8.58
date: 2012-06-29
new features:
- title: "Add some texture to calibre generated covers"
- title: "Drivers for Sogo SS-4370, HTC G2 and Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet"
tickets: [1019050, 1017010]
- title: "Add search to the Manage tags/series/etc. dialogs"
- title: "News download: Add support for images embedded in the HTML"
- title: "calibre -s now waits for calibre to shutdown"
bug fixes:
- title: "Workaround for iTunes breaking scripting with version 10.6.3 on OS X."
tickets: [1012243]
- title: "EPUB Input: When there are multiple elements of the same type in the OPF guide, use the first rather than the last element."
- title: "Windows: Disable the new UI style if the color depth of the desktop is less than 32 bits per pixel"
- title: "ISBNDB metadata plugin: Return results even though they have no comments"
- title: "More robust handling of EINTR during IPC"
- title: "Metadata download: Support for amazon's new results page markup"
- title: "EPUB Output: Fix a bug that could cause corrupted output when doing an EPUB/OEB to EPUB conversion if the input EPUB had multiple files with the same name"
- title: "KF8 Output: Fix a couple of bugs that could lead to generation of invalid KF8 files."
tickets: [1016672]
improved recipes:
- ABC Digital
- O Globo
new recipes:
- title: Sign of the Times and New Statesman
author: TerminalVeracity
- title: CT24
author: zoidozoido
- title: SmileZilla
author: Will
- title: Marketing Sensoriale
author: NotTaken
- version: 0.8.57
date: 2012-06-22
new features:
- title: "PDF Output: Full pagination support. No more cutoff bottom line."
type: major
description: "Fixes a long standing bug in calibre's PDF Output that caused the bottom line of some pages to be partially cut off and prevented top and bottom margins from working."
- title: "calibredb add now prints out the ids of added books"
tickets: [1014303]
- title: "Kobo Vox driver: Add support for new Google Play firmware"
tickets: [1014129]
- title: "Driver for Prestigio PMP5097PRO"
tickets: [1013864]
- title: "Add option to disable tooltips in the book list under Preferences->Look & Feel"
- title: "When customizing builtin recipes download the latest version of the recipe to customize instead of using the possibly out of date bundled version"
bug fixes:
- title: "PDF Output: Use the cover from the input document when no cover is specified during a conversion"
- title: "E-book Viewer: Printing now has proper pagination with top and bottom margins no lines partially cut-off at the bottom and full style retention"
- title: "KF8 Input: Handle files with incorrectly encoded guide type entries."
tickets: [1015020]
- title: "E-book viewer: Disable hyphenation on windows xp as Qt WebKit barfs on soft hyphens on windows XP"
- title: "Handle OS X systems with invalid palette colors."
tickets: [1014900]
- title: "Tag Browser: Fix regression that broke partitioning of hierarchical categories."
tickets: [1014065]
- title: "LRF Output: Handle negative page margins"
tickets: [1014103]
- title: "Template language: Fix arithmetic functions to tolerate the value 'None' as returned by raw_field()"
- title: "Fix custom title sort set in the edit metadata dialog getting reset by the conversion dialog"
improved recipes:
- The Economist
- Akter
- 24 Sata sr
- Novi List
- Metro Montreal
- Mode Durable
- CanardPC
- The Economic Collapse
- Our Daily Bread
new recipes:
- title: Akter Daily
author: Darko MIletic
- title: BBC Brasil
author: Claviola
- title: Homopedia.pl
author: rainbowwarrior
- title: National Geographic Magazine
author: Terminal Veracity
- title: Something Awful
author: atordo
- title: Huffington Post UK
author: Krittika Goyal
- version: 0.8.56
date: 2012-06-15
new features:
- title: "Make the new calibre style default on Windows and OS X."
type: major
description: "This change gives a more 'modern' feel to the calibre user interface with focus highlighting, gradients, rounded corners, etc. In case you prefer the old look, you can restore under Preferences->Look & Feel->User interface style"
- title: "Get Books: Add the new SONY Reader store"
- title: "Read metadata from .docx (Microsoft Word) files"
- title: "Allow customizing the behavior of the searching for similar books by right clicking the book. You can now tell calibre to search different columns than the traditional author/series/publisher/tags/etc. in Preferences->Searching"
- title: "Add option to restore alternating row colors to the Tag Browser under Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser"
- title: "Update to Qt 4.8.2 on windows compiled with link time code generation for a small performance boost"
bug fixes:
- title: "Get Books: Update plugins to handle website changes at ebooks.com, project gutenberg, and virtualo"
- title: "AZW3 Output: Fix TOC at start option not working"
- title: "AZW3 Output: Close self closing script/style/title/head tags explicitly as they cause problems in webkit based renderers like the Kindle Fire and calibre's viewers."
- title: "Fix the current_library_name() template function not updating after a library switch"
- title: "AZW3 Output: Handle the case of a link pointing to the last line of text in the document."
tickets: [1011330]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.55 that broke highlighting of items matching a search in the Tag Browser"
tickets: [1011030]
- title: "News download: Handle query only relative URLs"
improved recipes:
- Christian Science Monitor
- Neue Zurcher Zeitung
- Birmignham Post
- Metro UK
- New Musical Express
- The Independent
- The Daily Mirror
- Vreme
- Smithsonian Magazine
new recipes:
- title: NZZ Webpaper
author: Bernd Leinfelder
- version: 0.8.55
date: 2012-06-08
new features:
- title: "Add a new 'Calibre style' interface look that is more modern than the default look. You can select it via Preferences->Look & Feel->User interface style."
- title: "New, subtler look for the Tag Browser"
- title: "Driver for Trekstor Pyrus and Pantech Android Tablet"
tickets: [1008946, 1007929]
- title: "Conversion pipeline: Handle guide elements with incorrectly cased hrefs. Also handle guide elements of type coverimagestandard and thumbimagestandard."
- title: "Allow user to customize trekstor plugin to send books into sub directories."
tickets: [1007646]
- title: "EPUB Input: Add support for EPUB files that use the IDPF font obfuscation algorithm. Apparently, people have started producing these now."
tickets: [1008810]
- title: "Save single format to disk: Only show the format available in the selected books."
tickets: [1007287]
bug fixes:
- title: "MOBI Output: When using the insert metadata at start of book option, do not use a table to layout the metadata, as the Kindle Fire crashes when rendering the table."
tickets: [1002119]
- title: "Device detection: Fix a bug that could cause device detection to fail completely if devices with certain vendor/product ids are connected."
tickets: [1009718]
- title: "MOBI Output: When rasterizing svgs only compute style information when an actual svg image is present. Small speedup when converting large svg-free documents to MOBI."
- title: "SONY T1 driver: Fix support for collections of books placed on the SD card"
tickets: [986044]
- title: "Fix partitioning problems in tag browser with fields that have no name, such as identifiers and formats"
- title: "Welcome wizard: Preferentially use the kindle email address set as default when more than one such address exists."
tickets: [1007932 ]
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.54 that broke the use of the shortcut Alt+A to select books by the same author"
improved recipes:
- Various Polish recipes
- Vice Magazine
- EL Mundo Today
- Haaretz
- Good Housekeeping
- El Pais
- Christian Science Monitor
- Marketing Magazine
- Instapaper
new recipes:
- title: Various Philippine news sources
author: jde
- title: Natemat.pl and wirtualnemedia.pl
author: fenuks
- title: Rabble.ca
author: timtoo
- version: 0.8.54
date: 2012-05-31
new features:
- title: "E-book viewer: The Table of contents panel now tracks the current position in the book. As you scroll through the book, the entry you are currently on is highlighted."
type: major
description: "To see this feature in action, open the Table of Contents panel in the viewer by clicking the button with three blue lines on it. As you page through the book, the chapter you are reading currently is highlighted in the Table of Contents Panel. Obviously, this will only work if the book you are reading has a Table of Contents. You can also use the Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn keys to quickly skip between chapters."
- title: "calibredb: Allow setting metadata for individual fields with the set_metadata command"
- title: "Make it a little harder to accidentally change the sorting of items in the Tag Browser. Also frees up more vertical space for the Tag Browser itself."
- title: "The calibre user manual is now available in AZW3 format as well as EPUB"
bug fixes:
- title: "Automatic titlecasing: No longer try to capitalize scottish names, as there are too many special cases."
tickets: [775825]
- title: "Never crash when reading metadata from PDF files (reading now always happens in a worker process)"
tickets: [1006452]
- title: "EPUB Input: Do no skip the valid children of an NCX node that has no text/href"
- title: "Archos driver: Detect SD card"
tickets: [1005650]
- title: "When bulk downloading metadata and the user deletes one of the books for which metadata is being downloaded, just ignore it, instead of erroring out"
- title: "When deleting books from the bottom of the booklist, ensure that the bottom book after deleting is selected"
- title: "Fix regression in 0.8.53 that broke sending APNX files to older Kindle devices"
- title: "Use correct text color for selected rows in the list of matches when downloading metadata and showing results in get books."
tickets: [1004568]
improved recipes:
- The Independent
- Welt der Physik
- China Daily
- The Grid
- Prospect Magazine
new recipes:
- title: La gazetta del Mezzogiorno
author: faber1971
- 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