Libra 2 & Sage support

New Device Support

This release supports the Libra 2 and Sage devices.

Full Changelog: v0.5.2...v0.5.5

Memory? What Memory?

This release is primarily aimed at reducing memory usage, which hopefully allows for larger libraries to be used. YMMV on the library size howerver.

Note, books will now appear to take longer to send to the Kobo, as I've changed how the thumbnail images are created.

This release also fixes a bug that didn't disable thumbnail generation when asked.

This is a pre-release, due to limited testing.

Fixes and Formats

This release contains some fixes, and a new feature:

• Pull in a couple of fixes from UNCaGED to resolve a metadata parsing issue, and relax the timeout duration.
• Add new "Supported Formats" configuration. It is now possible to de-select specific ebook formats so that they are not presented to Calibre as supported formats. Useful for those who don't want Calibre to send specific formats to their Kobo
• Some style tweaks to support slightly larger font sizes in the UI

Hotfixes

This is a hotfix release to fix showstopper bugs found in v0.5.0 (see #35)

The big one

THIS RELEASE HAS ISSUES AND THE DOWNLOAD HAS BEEN PULLED. PLEASE WAIT FOR v0.5.1, WHICH WILL BE COMING SOON

This is a major new release of Kobo UNCaGED.

Compared 0.4.x, this release has the following changes and features:

• NickelMenu is now the preferred and only supported method of launching KU
• Better integration with Nickel for importing content, and displaying messages via NickelDBus
• New web based interactive UI, delivered by the Kobo web browser
• Graphical settings page. No more configuration via ku.toml
• Added option to directly connect to host instead of autodiscovery. Useful for unsual network environments, or overloaded WiFi environments
• Can choose multiple Calibre instances if they are found on the network
• Passwords are now entered (and saved per Calibre instance) via the UI, when required
• Ability to populate the Kobo subtitle field with the contents of a standard or custom field, with formatted text

Upgrading from 0.4.x or earlier

• Kobo UNCaGED now uses NickelMenu for launching. kfmon/fmon support has been deprecated. Please install NickelMenu first before installing KU. You should remove Kobo-UNCaGED.png and .adds/kfmon/config/kobo-uncaged.ini, or even completely uninstall kfmon if no longer required
• NickelDBus is automatically installed on first run if you do not already have it installed. Be aware that your Kobo will automatically reboot if this needs installing
• Your existing ku.toml file will be ignored. You can reset your settings via the UI, and they will be saved
• You may wish to complete delete the .adds/kobo-uncaged directory before installing the new version, although it is not strictly required

A huge thanks to @NiLuJe and @pgaskin for their assistance with this release! It wouldn't have been possible without them.

Eject hotfix

A quick hotfix resolving issues with ejecting from recent versions of Calibre.

WARNING: Untested on an actual Kobo. Use at your own risk.

Minor release

A minor release to fix some issues identified with the launch/run shell scripts.

Also, metadata handling has been improved again. It now only restarts if new books have been added. Metadata changes to existing books will not restart KU again.

v0.4.0 Release

After a long while. a new release!

Mostly internal changes in this one. Mainly updates to the upstream UNCaGED library, as well as integrating @geek1011 's https://github.com/geek1011/koboutils

There is one new feature however:

• Add metadata via DB trigger. This allows series metadata to be written to the Kobo database without restarting Kobo-UNCaGED. A second fake USB connection is still required however, so not a lot of time is saved. This option is not enabled by default. To enable it, set addMetadataByTrigger = true in the config file.

Release v0.3.1 - Initial Libra H2O support

• This release implements initial Libra H2O support. Thanks to @geek1011 for the Libra implementation, and to @NiLuJe for the updated FBInk (and go-fbink-v2).
• This release also has a fix for #23
• Improvements were made to the build script

v0.3.0 Release

Introducing the second public release of Kobo-UNCaGED. Lots of internal code refactoring and bug fixes in this one, but a couple of new features as well

• External SD card support. If you have an SD card inserted into your Kobo, you can tell Kobo-UNCaGED to prefer saving books to/from it. Note, you may only use one of internal storage or SD card at any given time, as the wireless driver does not allow for multiple simultaneous storage locations. Set preferSDCard = true in ku.toml to enable this.
• Improved image thumbnail generation. Massive thanks to @NiLuJe and @geek1011 for helping to implement image thumbnail improvements. The changes make the process both faster, and more correct. There are some options in ku.toml to customize this to some extent
• Shell script fixes and improvements
• Lots of internal code refactoring by myself and @geek1011

Note, if using an external SD card, it is highly recommended to upgrade kfmon to 1.3.0 to avoid issues.

An upgrade archive is now provided, which only upgrades the shell scripts, default config file, and binary. You may also upgrade using the full release if desired.

Again, huge thanks to @geek1011 and @NiLuJe for their help.