Calibre x64 Version 8.4.0
Release: 8.4 [09 May; 2025]$$$New features$$$KEPUB Output: Add an option to generate KEPUB files that have better text justification at the cost of gaps in highlighting when used on the Kobo$$$Closes tickets: 2107778$$$$$$E-book viewer: Allow the background image specified in the Style section of the viewer preferences to extend under the page margins as well$$$Bug fixes$$$E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the show book in main calibre program link$$$Closes tickets: 2110117$$$$$$News download: Fix Next/Previous links not working when the pointed to article failed to download$$$E-book viewer: Handle links to missing internal files with an error popup rather than becoming non-functional$$$E-book viewer: Fix some links not being processed correctly for very large EPUB files with many internal HTML files$$$Get books: Update ebooks.com plugin for website changes$$$Metadata review dialog: Fix merging of tags not working correctly$$$Wayland: Workaround Qt/Wayland bug that prevents the menu of the Layout button from showing$$$Closes tickets: 2109755$$$$$$Prevent recursion when creating base temporary folder if something on system deletes the created temporary folder$$$Closes tickets: 2109612$$$$$$New news sources$$$Frieze Magazine by Kabonix$$$Improved news sources$$$NYTimes Book Review$$$Washington Post$$$tagesschau$$$Hindu$$$Economist$$$Economist Espresso
Calibre x64 Version 8.3.0
Release: 8.3 [17 Apr; 2025]$$$New features$$$Cover grid: Allow configuring different backgrounds for light and dark mode in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover grid$$$E-book viewer: Further speedup first open of large EPUB files by another 30%$$$Metadata review dialog: Add merge comments action$$$Bug fixes$$$Kobo driver: Fix viewing of KEPUB files from the device view in calibre not working$$$Fix a regression in 8.1 that broke displaying of the debug log when running in debug mode$$$E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.0 that caused the clock to display an extra p after the time$$$Closes tickets: 2106280$$$$$$Improved news sources$$$GoComics$$$Internazionale$$$New York Times$$$SCMP$$$The Hindu$$$Barrons
Calibre x64 Version 8.2.1
Release: 8.2.1 [04 Apr; 2025]$$$New features$$$Kobo driver: Add support for new Tolino firmware$$$Kindle driver: Allow using a value of * in Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output to have the driver mark all books sent to the device as personal documents$$$Bug fixes$$$Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation and extra CSS added to KEPUB files being ignored by the renderer on the Kobo$$$macOS: Fix opening book folder or PDF files for books with square brackets in the title not working$$$Closes tickets: 2105884$$$$$$Quickview: Fix a long standing bug with syncing of columns in the presence of hidden/re-ordered columns$$$E-book viewer: Show an error message when an invalid nearby search expression is used$$$Closes tickets: 2104850$$$$$$KEPUB Output: Fix incorrect encoding detection for some HTML files without an encoding declaration$$$Closes tickets: 2105424$$$$$$macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused failures in the E-book viewer when updating annotations for books with a large number of annotations$$$Version 8.2.1 fixes an error when clicking on format links in the book details panel$$$Closes tickets: 2106205$$$$$$Improved news sources$$$The Economist$$$Reuters$$$Private eye
Calibre x64 Version 8.1.1
Release: 8.1.1 [28 Mar; 2025]$$$New features$$$Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to edit it with an external program$$$Closes tickets: 2103833$$$$$$Virtual library tabs: When the tabs are locked prevent them from being re-ordered as well$$$Closes tickets: 2104325$$$$$$FreeBSD: Add support for connecting to devices; contributed by Guido Falsi$$$Bug fixes$$$macOS: Fix regression in previous release that caused calibre:// URLs to no longer work$$$Closes tickets: 2103949$$$$$$macOS: Fix a regression in calibre 8 that prevented icons in menus from being rendered$$$Closes tickets: 2103777$$$$$$Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation settings not being applied correctly when generating KEPUB to put on the device$$$KEPUB Output: Include leading whitespace in kobo sentence span tags. This prevents unsightly breaks when highlighting across formatted text on the Kobo$$$Closes tickets: 2103926$$$$$$Content server: Fix FB2 books not readable via the in-browser viewer$$$Closes tickets: 2103846$$$$$$Edit book: Add text narration: Fix preferred voice for language setting being ignored$$$E-book viewer: Use IPC to update annotations when calibre is running. Avoids possible loss of annotations in the Annotations browser due to db being locked$$$Closes tickets: 2103990$$$$$$Ensure calibre temp files are deleted even on program crash$$$Fix incorrect minimums on font size changing controls in viewer$$$Closes tickets: 2103870$$$$$$Fix regression in previous release causing incorrect rendering of layout menu on some macOS machines$$$Fix archive formats such as ZIP not being indexed for full text search$$$Closes tickets: 2100891$$$$$$Version 8.1.1 fixes a regression causing an error that does not affect functionality on startup on macOS$$$Improved news sources$$$Horizons$$$Economist$$$Granta
Calibre x64 Version 7.26.0
Release: 7.26 [14 Feb; 2025]$$$New features$$$Allow specifying web search links that are used when clicking on item names in the Book details panel for custom columns via Preferences->Add your own columns$$$Content server: When clicking on author names in the book details page perform the same action as clicking it in the calibre programs Book details panel$$$Bug fixes$$$Fix a regression in 7.17 that caused various minor problems with editing metadata directly in the book list$$$Closes tickets: 2097677$$$$$$Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion using Heuristics and TXT input documents$$$E-book viewer: Fix header/footer text size too small when using multiple monitors and the primary monitors DPI is much less than secondary monitor DPI$$$Closes tickets: 2097563$$$$$$Fix series mapping rules in the metadata preferences not working$$$Closes tickets: 2097947$$$$$$Fix setting custom icon for category doesnt work$$$Closes tickets: 2098133$$$$$$Kobo driver: Fix a regression that broke working with very old Kobo devices$$$Closes tickets: 2092732$$$$$$Improved news sources$$$Science Journals$$$Barrons
Calibre x64 Version 7.25.0
Release: 7.25 [07 Feb; 2025]$$$New features$$$Allow setting custom icons for items in the Tab browser by right clicking on them and choosing Manage icon for this value$$$Kindle driver: Allow import of KFX files from 2024 Kindles that use the MTP protocol$$$A new tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to control the East Asian language used when transliterating to English$$$Add an option to adjust the size of the link and note icons in Book details under Preferences->Look & feel->Book details$$$Bug fixes$$$Nook driver: Fix the Glowlight 4 not working on Windows$$$Closes tickets: 2068527$$$$$$MTP driver: Fix Internal storage and SD card being swapped on some devices that have buggy firmware that assigns the SD card a lower id than the internal storage$$$Template dialog: Respect the tweak for title/series when editing save to disk and send to device templates$$$Closes tickets: 2096841$$$$$$Content server: Fix icons for individual formats not being shown in the Tag browser$$$New news sources$$$Alternatives Economiques by Kabonix$$$Zerodeux by Kabonix$$$Afrique XXI by Kabonix$$$Orient XXI by Kabonix$$$Contretemps by Kabonix$$$Faz.net by Anonymous$$$Moview Web and Football League World by SpicyPoison$$$Improved news sources$$$spektrum.de$$$Economist$$$Arret sur images$$$Le Canard Enchaine$$$Foreign Affairs
Calibre x64 Version 7.24.0
New features$$$Allow creating rules to transform series names in the Bulk metadata editor and Preferences->Metadata download$$$Closes tickets: 2091268$$$$$$Conversion: Automatically set the page progression direction for books that do not have it set and have their primary language either Arabic or Hebrew$$$Content server: Book details view: Make calibre://show-book and calibre://view-book URLs in the comments work$$$Edit book: Spell check: Add a button to export the currently displayed list of words as a CSV file$$$Closes tickets: 2092496$$$$$$Add from ISBN: Add a checkbox to automatically convert obsolete ISBN 10 to ISBN 13$$$Closes tickets: 2092483$$$$$$Save single format to disk: Allow choosing the book cover as the format to save$$$Closes tickets: 2092395$$$$$$Option to show a button to access all available actions from the status bar in Preferences->Look & feel->Main interface$$$Bug fixes$$$Read aloud: Fix no audio produced when text contains <3 and using the Windows legacy speech engine$$$Closes tickets: 2092948$$$$$$Fix Tabbing while editing cells in the book list not always working$$$Closes tickets: 2092643$$$$$$Windows build: Also sign the portable launcher exes$$$Fix viewing books via the Cover browser not working when in device view$$$Closes tickets: 2092630$$$$$$Improved news sources$$$LWN Weekly$$$Outlook India$$$Livemint
Calibre x64 Version 7.23.0
Release: 7.23 [20 Dec; 2024]$$$New features$$$?? Happy holidays to everyone!$$$Content server: Allow managing the data files associated with a book by clicking the three dots in the top right corner of the books page and choosing Manage data files$$$Closes tickets: 2091646$$$$$$Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to view it in a popup window at larger size$$$Closes tickets: 2091216$$$$$$Add an option to expand the Tag browser tree to show the item that was current when the library was closed$$$Add import and export stored template to Preferences / template functions$$$Various Quality-of-Life improvements to the dialog used to edit columns with fixed sets of values$$$Resolve doi.org links when pasting identifiers$$$Closes tickets: 2091152$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Viewer: Fix some HTMLZ files not opening on some systems$$$Closes tickets: 2091451$$$$$$Amazon metadata plugin: Update for changed markup for some books on amazon search results page$$$Closes tickets: 2091542
Calibre x64 Version 7.22.0
Release: 7.22 [29 Nov; 2024]$$$New features$$$E-book viewer: Read Aloud: Add an option to control the position of the popup control bar. It can now be placed along the top or bottom edges so as to overlap less with text.$$$System tray menu: Add action to restart calibre$$$Closes tickets: 2087754$$$$$$Tolino driver: Support new firmware$$$Bug fixes$$$Windows: Enable popup OS notifications even when system tray icon is disabled to match behavior on other platforms. Notifications can be disabled via Preferences->Look & feel->Disable notifications on job completion$$$Fix a regression that caused incorrect English transliteration of Japanese text even when the UI language is set to Japanese$$$Closes tickets: 2087850$$$$$$macOS: Dark mode: Fix a regression that caused the scrollbar to no longer be transient$$$Closes tickets: 2088153$$$$$$DOCX Input: When some text has multiple footnotes insert a space between the consecutive foot note numbers so that they are distinct$$$Closes tickets: 2089433$$$$$$DOCX Input: Fix ToC nesting not working if the styles for the ToC levels dont use integer margins$$$E-book viewer: Fix spurious chapter transition after configuring Read aloud$$$PDF Input: Fix reflow of lines in files with little text not working$$$Closes tickets: 2089436$$$$$$New news sources$$$Economist News by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Economist$$$Indian Express$$$Economist World Ahead$$$Frontline$$$Infobae
Calibre x64 Version 7.21.0
Release: 7.21 [08 Nov; 2024]$$$New features$$$Edit book: A new tool to create an audio overlay in EPUB files for all text using the Read aloud facility$$$This allows readers of the book to listen to it with sentence tracking; even if they do not have a functioning text-to-speech system in the reading software. You can even assign different voices to different parts of the text for a more immersive experience. The tool is available from the Tools menu in the book editor.$$$$$$Dark mode: make scrollbar more visible with higher contrast and rounded corners$$$E-book viewer: In flow mode when scrolling across internal file boundaries using the mouse wheel/touchpad have a short half second pause to ease the transition. Can be controlled via the Scrolling section of the Viewer preferences.$$$ebook-meta: Add an option to disallow rendered cover of first page for EPUB$$$Book details: Add an action to download the cover to the context menu when right clicking the cover$$$Closes tickets: 2082075$$$$$$Read aloud: Add a restore defaults button to the configuration dialog$$$Closes tickets: 2086609$$$$$$Auto adding: Allow excluding arbitrary file types not just known book file types$$$Closes tickets: 2086478$$$$$$Edit metadata dialog: Add an action to open the books folder to the context menu of the formats list$$$Closes tickets: 2083583$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Read aloud: Fix only first 32000 characters per chapter being read$$$Closes tickets: 2086571$$$$$$Content server: Read aloud: Fix clicking on a word to skip reading aloud to that word causing word highlighting to stop working$$$Closes tickets: 2086661$$$$$$Linux: Handle speech dispatcher with dummy output module and no voices more gracefully$$$When renaming authors fix empty author folder not being removed if it contained file explorer metadata but was otherwise empty$$$Edit metadata dialog: Fix keyboard shortcuts to edit prev/next raising an error when trying to go beyond the first/last book$$$Closes tickets: 2086193$$$$$$Linux: ToC Editor: Fix a regression in 7.17 that broke using the Create new entry button$$$Closes tickets: 2085576$$$$$$Content server: Fix changing the language of a book not working for non-English user interface language and for books that have no existing language$$$Closes tickets: 2085005$$$$$$Linux: Read aloud with Piper: Fix audio not playing on some Linux systems$$$Notes browser: When searching books search over all currently selected categories not just the last selected one
Calibre x64 Version 7.20.0
Release: 7.20 [18 Oct; 2024]$$$New features$$$PDF Input: Automatic header/footer detection and removal$$$A new; dedicated PDF Input engine for calibre that implements automatic detection of headers and footers based on document analysis. The new engine is the default to go back to using the old engine; select it in the PDF Input section of the Conversion dialog.$$$$$$Read Aloud: Allow configuring an extra pause at the end of every sentence when using the Piper TTS engine$$$Closes tickets: 2083058$$$$$$PDF Output: Add _WIDTH_PIXELS_ and _HEIGHT_PIXELS_ variables to know the width and height of the header/footer area in templates$$$Windows: Use calibres bundled SSL certificates instead of the system certificate store by default$$$Can be turned off via CALIBRE_USE_SYSTEM_CERTIFICATES=1 env var$$$$$$Trim image tool: Add a control to adjust aspect ratio$$$Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware used by the Tolino Shine 5$$$Bug fixes$$$Fix a regression in previous release that broke copying of book to another library if the books author does not exist in the destination database$$$Read aloud: Piper backend: Fix not working with voices whose names have non-ASCII characters on Windows.$$$Content server: Fix book with non-ASCII filenames not downloading in the Kindle browser when using the /mobile view$$$Content server: Fix embedding the server HTML inside a third party iframe causing an error$$$New news sources$$$NYT Magazine by unkn0wn$$$RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland by epubli$$$Improved news sources$$$The Wire$$$Nikkei Asia Magazine$$$Swarajya$$$Mainichi$$$Nautilus$$$National Geographic$$$Science Journal$$$Times Literary Supplement$$$Saechsische Zeitung$$$India Today$$$Scientific American
Calibre x64 Version 7.19.0
Release: 7.19 [27 Sep; 2024]$$$New features$$$E-book viewer: Halve the time taken to open large EPUB format books for the first time$$$A four hundred thousand word EPUB book now opens in under a second on typical hardware.$$$$$$PDF new engine: Improve header/footer detection$$$For column icons and grid view emblems; support icons for both light and dark themes$$$News downloads: Mark links to locally available articles with a middle-dot$$$When saving a layout also save the main window geometry$$$Closes tickets: 2079784$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Windows: Read Aloud: Fix an occasional crash when stopping read aloud when using the legacy windows TTS engine$$$Closes tickets: 2080705$$$$$$Windows: Read Aloud: Fix clicking in text to change what is being read causing tracking of currently read word to fail when using the legacy Windows TTS engine$$$Closes tickets: 2080705$$$$$$Read aloud: Fix reading large numeric words causing text synchronization to fail when using some legacy TTS engines$$$Closes tickets: 2080708$$$$$$EPUB3 metadata: Fix setting series number to zero not working$$$Closes tickets: 2080701$$$$$$Comic Input: Handle comics whose internal files have control codes in their filenames$$$Closes tickets: 2081982$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke searching in Japanese books that use <ruby> text$$$Closes tickets: 2071348$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Read aloud for selected text$$$Closes tickets: 2080655$$$$$$Amazon metadata plugin: Workaround for downloads failing because Google discontinued its webcache$$$Cover grid: Suppress the 2px border Qt draws for the list view$$$New news sources$$$NYT News based on feeds by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$NY Times$$$NYT Book Review$$$Courrier International$$$Le Monde$$$TLS Magazine$$$Scientific American$$$Engadget
Calibre x64 Version 7.18.0
Release: 7.18 [13 Sep; 2024]$$$New features$$$E-book viewer: Read aloud: A new Text-to-Speech engine (Piper) that uses a neural network for realistic sounding voices$$$To use it access the viewer controls and click the Read aloud button or press Ctrl+S. The neural network is run locally; no cloud services are used. Using the OS Text-to-Speech engine is still possible by clicking the configure button on the Read aloud control bar. Note that the new engine highlights the currently read sentence rather than word.$$$$$$New experimental engine to convert PDF files with support for automatic header/footer removal$$$Closes tickets: 2076346$$$$$$Turn it on via the PDF input section of the conversion dialog.$$$$$$Content server: Viewer: Read Aloud: Implement word-by-word tracking when reading aloud if the browser and voice used support it; for example; Chromium on Windows; Firefox on Android and Safari on macOS$$$Image popup: Add a context menu with an option to reset the current zoom$$$Closes tickets: 2080315$$$$$$Edit metadata dialog: Show the number of data files on the data files button$$$Bug fixes$$$Fix a regression in the previous release that broke using Tab key to move around the book list while editing cells$$$E-book viewer: Fix scrollbar position not updating during continuous scroll$$$Closes tickets: 2077801$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix a harmless error when the book contains page list references whose targets do not exist$$$Closes tickets: 2077871$$$$$$Linux binary build: Fix missing libdeflate dependency$$$Closes tickets: 2077794$$$$$$New news sources$$$Muy Interesante México by unkn0wn$$$Salzburger Nachrichten by Ilker Melik Sitki$$$Computer Weekly by Ilker Melik Sitki$$$Improved news sources$$$Revista Muy Interesante$$$Ars Technica$$$South China Morning Post$$$Times Literary Supplement$$$Hackernews$$$Star Gazetesi$$$Hurriyet$$$Gorafi$$$Times Online
Calibre x64 Version 7.17.0
New features$$$E-book viewer: Support for jumping to and displaying paper edition page numbers$$$If an e-book contains embedded information about the pages from the paper edition of the book; the calibre E-book viewer can now jump to a page number via the Go to button in the viewer controls. You can also optionally have the current paper edition page number displayed in the header/footer by adding Pages from paper edition to either the header or footer in the viewer settings.$$$$$$Edit book: When text is selected allow changing the indentation of all lines in the selection by pressing Tab to increase one level or Shift+Tab to decrease one level$$$Closes tickets: 2076251$$$$$$Allow a plugboard to change the series_index as well as the series name.$$$News download: News recipes can now optionally use browser engines based on either Qt or Chromium network stacks instead of mechanize$$$Email delivery: When sending emails to Kindles do not convert filenames to English letters as Amazon appears to have finally fixed their email servers to handle non-English filenames$$$Quickview: Add a tooltip displaying the full cell contents$$$Closes tickets: 2075565$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Update the version of the Qt toolkit bundled with calibre to the latest available; fixing some crashes on macOS related to accessibility tools$$$Edit book: Fix searching marking incorrect text in the presence of non-BMP unicode characters$$$Closes tickets: 2075970$$$$$$Conversion: Do not embed a second copy of a font when using the option to embed font family if the font is already embedded in the book$$$Closes tickets: 2074002$$$$$$calibredb list: Fix a regression in the previous release that required setting --template-header to empty to use the list command$$$Closes tickets: 2076515$$$$$$Tolino driver: Fix books from the Tolino cloud not being listed$$$Windows: Book details panel: Fix selection not visible when using the system default theme$$$Hide the Virtual library tab bar in device view as it is non-functional$$$Closes tickets: 2073441$$$$$$New news sources$$$GaGadget by bugmen00t$$$Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin by unkn0wn$$$Science Journal by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Jot Down$$$Various Russian and Ukranian news sources$$$Nautilus Magazine$$$Süddeutsche Zeitung$$$The India Forum$$$WSJ$$$National Geographic$$$Washington Post$$$Mediapart$$$Bloomberg$$$Nautilus$$$Re
Calibre x64 Version 7.16.0
Release: 7.16 [31 Jul; 2024]$$$New features$$$Add a driver for the new 2024 Tolino devices. They use a modified version of the Kobo firmware; so they are detected as Kobo devices.$$$Various news recipes now have the ability to download past issues; accessible via the Advanced tab in the Schedule news dialog$$$Bug fixes$$$ONLY if you use the calibre Content server; you should update calibre as soon as possible$$$Closes tickets: 2075128$$$$$$If you do not know what the Content server is; you do not use it; and these do not apply to you. If you have set a password to access the Content server that you have not shared with anyone; these do not affect you. A remote code execution bug in the Content server introduced in calibre version 6.9.0 (released on 2022-11-25) means that anyone with access to the server also has access to the rest of the computer the server is running on. If you are using a password to protect access to the server only people that know the password can gain access via the bug. Thanks to STAR Labs (https://starlabs.sg) for finding these vulnerabilities.$$$$$$Content server: Fix path traversal vulnerability$$$Closes tickets: 2075125$$$$$$A bug in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.16.0 (released 2023-04-20) means anyone with access to the server can also read non calibre related files on the computer running the server.$$$$$$Content server: Fix SQL injection vulnerability$$$Closes tickets: 2075131$$$$$$A bug in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.10.0 (released 2022-12-16) means anyone with access to the server can also read non-calibre SQLITE database files on the computer running the server.$$$$$$Content server: Fix an XSS vulnerability in one endpoint$$$Closes tickets: 2075130$$$$$$Only relevant if you embed the calibre server within a larger server; it means attackers who can convince users to click on a specially crafted link; can run JavaScript code with the same origin as the larger server calibre is embedded in.$$$$$$Content server: Fix an error when opening the downloaded books page directly via a link and using a custom book list template$$$Closes tickets: 2073972$$$$$$macOS: Fix opening multiple books from Finder with the editor only opening one of the books$$$Fix the legacy LRF format viewer not starting$$$Fix mouse wheel not transitioning from undefined date to current date in date entry controls$$$Closes tickets: 2074147$$$$$$Improved news sources$$$Harvard Business Review$$$Live Mint$$$Business Standard$$$Pagina12$$$Bloomberg
Calibre x64 Version 7.15.0
Release: 7.15 [19 Jul; 2024]$$$New features$$$Fetch news: Allow individual news sources to specify source specific options such as downloading of past editions$$$Bug fixes$$$Windows: MTP driver: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error with some devices$$$Closes tickets: 2073323$$$$$$Icon theme creation dialog: Fix various issues when creating an icon theme with many icons that have light/dark variants$$$New news sources$$$WSJ News by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Bloomberg$$$Eenadu$$$Mediapart
Calibre x64 Version 7.13.0
Release: 7.13 [28 Jun; 2024]$$$New features$$$When merging books add an option to store discarded or replaced covers as an alternate cover in the data folder of the target book$$$Closes tickets: 2071033$$$$$$Generate CSV catalog: Add a button to sort the fields by the order in which they appear in the book list$$$Closes tickets: 2068070$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$MTP driver: Preserve cover aspect ratio for thumbnail generation$$$Closes tickets: 2067755$$$$$$Fix identifiers not always being merged correctly when merging books$$$Closes tickets: 2071044$$$$$$DOCX Input: Fix extra left padding when converting lists$$$Closes tickets: 2069541$$$$$$Amazon metadata download: Get title and comments for audiobook pages$$$Amazon metadata: When filtering search engine results by title ignore words of the title that are purely punctuation$$$When matching books on a device to book in the library assume a match if the title and any one author match; dont require all authors to match$$$Update Google Images cover download plugin for website changes$$$Closes tickets: 2069553$$$$$$When adding new books if the timestamp is specified as undefined use the current timestamp$$$Closes tickets: 2069494$$$$$$Content server: Fix systemd pre-activated socket not working$$$Content server: Fix no KFX download link in OPDS acquisition feeds$$$Closes tickets: 2071390$$$$$$New news sources$$$Times Literary Supplement by unkn0wn$$$Wall Street Journal Magazine by unkn0wn$$$Various Valnet Publishing Group recipes by Spicy Poison$$$VOX; The Good E-reder and The e-book Reader by SpicyPoison$$$Gates Notes; Greatist; Halthline and United Nations by SpicyPoison$$$Improved news sources$$$Harpers$$$Wall Street Journal$$$Liberation$$$How to Geek$$$Make Use Of$$$TechCrunch$$$LifeHacker$$$India Today$$$1843$$$Reuters$$$The Week India$$$Slate
Calibre x64 Version 7.12.0
Release: 7.12 [30 May; 2024]$$$New features$$$E-book polishing: Add option to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.)$$$Closes tickets: 2067167$$$$$$Conversion: Add an option under Structure detection to automatically fill in blank alt attributes for images that have alt text in the image file metadata$$$Content server: Use the book title as the filename for downloaded highlights$$$Closes tickets: 2067437$$$$$$Review downloaded metadata dialog: Add a Previous button to go back to the last reviewed book$$$Bug fixes$$$Content server viewer: Fix the bottom of the text being cut off on mobile browsers when not in full screen mode. Unfortunately; this means the viewer now requires a browser no more than two years old.$$$Kindle driver: Increase the size of the cover thumbnails sent to the Scribe$$$Closes tickets: 2067168$$$$$$Kindle output: Fix cover images that contain EXIF data without a rotation not displaying on the Kindle lockscreen$$$Closes tickets: 1943495$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix ruby tags not excluded when searching for text$$$Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke searching$$$Closes tickets: 2067128$$$$$$Improved news sources$$$Economist Espresso$$$Slate
Calibre x64 Version 7.11.0
Release: 7.11 [24 May; 2024]$$$New features$$$Kindle driver: Add support for sending cover thumbnails to the Kindle Scribe$$$A new options under Preferences->Look & feel to draw covers with rounded corners$$$Bulk metadata edit: Add a new tab where you can create rules to transform tags/authors/publishers for the selected books$$$Closes tickets: 2064674$$$$$$Tag browser context menu for Formats now has Open with menu items$$$Closes tickets: 2065544$$$$$$E-book viewer: When hovering over the top/bottom margin show a button indicating that a click will open the viewer controls. Can be configured via The Headers and footers section of the viewer Preferences.$$$Closes tickets: 2064665$$$$$$Spell check dialog: Also show count of currently displayed words$$$Bug fixes$$$E-book viewer: Fix searching not ignoring ruby text$$$Closes tickets: 2065249$$$$$$Edit book: Save the state of the current book when opening a new book via File->Open book$$$Edit book: Fix importing a list of words into a user dictionary not working$$$Closes tickets: 2064887$$$$$$EPUB3 metadata: Do not fail to read metadata in the presence on invalid calibre user metadata in the OPF file with empty keys$$$Get books: Fix rules to map tags on adding books not being applied to books downloaded via Get books$$$Spellcheck dialog: Move the checkbox to hide correctly spelled words with the rest of the checkboxes that filter the word list$$$Closes tickets: 2064792$$$$$$New news sources$$$Collider; Comic Book Archive; Make Use Of; MoviewWeb and ScreenRant by Spicy Poison$$$Lex Fridman Podcast by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Slate$$$Wall Street Journal$$$London Review of Books$$$Economist$$$Bloomberg$$$Business Week$$$The World Ahead$$$National Geographic
Calibre x64 Version 7.9.0
Release: 7.9 [19 Apr; 2024]$$$New features$$$Kobo driver: Add support for the new color Kobo devices$$$Closes tickets: 2060886$$$$$$Edit book: Add a setting to control cursor width under Preferences->Editor settings$$$Edit book: Regex-function mode: Show a confirmation popup when closing the function editor when there are unsaved changes$$$Bug fixes$$$Fix undocked Quickview dialog not being restored at startup$$$Closes tickets: 2060314$$$$$$Windows: Fix an issue where closing a maximized calibre window to the system tray and then reconnecting with remote desktop would cause a blank calibre window to be displayed$$$Closes tickets: 2044118$$$$$$Improved news sources$$$El Correo$$$Eenadu$$$ORFonline$$$NatGeo$$$Harpers Magazine$$$New Yorker$$$Business Today$$$The Week$$$Asahi Shimbun$$$Outlook Magazine
Calibre x64 Version 7.8.0
Release: 7.8 [05 Apr; 2024]$$$New features$$$E-book viewer: Highlight panel: Allow filtering the shown highlights by type of highlight$$$Closes tickets: 2057929$$$$$$Conversion: Add support for the CSS text-transform property when subsetting embedded fonts$$$E-book viewer: Allow displaying the view mode paged/flow in the header/footer$$$Closes tickets: 2060079$$$$$$Book details popup window: Allow dropping of files to add formats/set the cover just as for the book details panel$$$Closes tickets: 2059162$$$$$$Book details: Context menu: Add a menu action to remove the associated link$$$Closes tickets: 2058814$$$$$$DOCX Input: Add role=doc-noteref for links to footnotes/endnotes so that they popup in more e-book readers$$$Add a Mark all selected books to the Mark action.$$$Add Hide Empty Categories to tag browser configuration menu$$$Closes tickets: 2059169$$$$$$Supernote: Support for new device firmware$$$Sort by tool: Add an action to re-apply the current sort$$$Bug fixes$$$Grid view cover cache: Fix covers not loading when cache entries are stale$$$Conversion: Do not change viewport relative font sizes used for SVG text elements$$$Closes tickets: 2058798$$$$$$Conversion: Fix <style> tags inside <svg> tags not being processed$$$Closes tickets: 2058798$$$$$$Get books: Update Kobo store plugin for website changes$$$EPUB Input: Use a translated name for the cover page$$$New news sources$$$Bergfreunde Blog by VoHe$$$Live Law and Politico.eu by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Caravan$$$Global Times$$$New York Review of Books$$$Himal Southasian$$$The Week$$$CBC Canada
Calibre x64 Version 7.7.0
Release: 7.7 [14 Mar; 2024]$$$$$$New features$$$$$$Trim image: Allow specifying the size of the trim rectangle using numbers$$$Closes tickets: 2056116$$$$$$Full text search: Allow pressing Ctrl+S to select the current book in the calibre book list$$$Closes tickets: 2056664$$$$$$Speed up scrolling through the book list book-by-book by only redrawing the book details panel when scrolling pauses$$$Add a tweak under Preferences->Tweaks to set the first day of the week in popup calendars used to input dates$$$Bug fixes$$$CHM Input: Handle CHM files with no HHC Table of Contents$$$Closes tickets: 2056470$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix a few settings such as pages per screen and header/footers not being saved in profiles$$$Full text search: Ignore text inside <ruby> tags when indexing books$$$Closes tickets: 2056614$$$$$$DOCX Output: Preserve spaces around soft hyphens$$$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$$$Improved news sources$$$LiveMint$$$Bloomberg$$$Natural Geographic$$$MIT Technology Review$$$NY Review of Books$$$Scientific American
Calibre x64 Version 7.6.0
Release: 7.6 [01 Mar; 2024]$$$New features$$$E-book viewer: Allow saving current settings in profiles that can be quickly and easily swapped between$$$Closes tickets: 1979022$$$$$$To create a profile or switch to a previously saved profile access Profiles from the viewer controls or press the `Alt+P` shortcut.$$$$$$Edit book: Add a shortcut `Ctrl+M` to merge selected files$$$Closes tickets: 2053144$$$$$$Get books: Add support for Amazon Mexico$$$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$$$Cover grid: Fix dragging the mouse while holding shift to extend the selection not working well$$$Closes tickets: 2054617$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix doing a multi-page selections sometimes causing the start of the selection to move backwards$$$Closes tickets: 2054934$$$$$$Edit book: Live CSS: Fix regression causing incorrect colors in calibre 7$$$Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 7 that caused images in long text columns to not be displayed in the tooltip for the tooltip$$$Fix disabled items in menus having blurry text$$$Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error when doing a search/sort on some browsers$$$New news sources$$$The Week UK by unkn0wn$$$Andhrajyothy by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$New Yorker$$$Moneycontrol$$$Swarajya Mag$$$nautil.us$$$Pro Physik
Calibre x64 Version 7.4.0
Release: 7.4 [19 Jan; 2024]$$$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$$$Category notes browser: Add a button to search for books in the currently selected category$$$Closes tickets: 2046825$$$$$$Keyboard shortcut to toggle main window layout (Alt+Shift+L)$$$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 news sources$$$LiveMint$$$Foreign Policy$$$New Scientist
Calibre x64 Version 7.3.0
Release: 7.3 [05 Jan; 2024]$$$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$$$Edit book: Fix the Show changes window moving down by a few pixels every time it is opened$$$Amazon metadata download: Fixes for various changes to amazon website markup$$$Closes tickets: 2047257$$$$$$E-book viewer: When looking up words via Google in Europe pre-approve the GDPR consent cookie$$$Closes tickets: 2047181$$$$$$Windows: Content server: Fix regression in previous release that broke testing for local connections$$$Closes tickets: 2046673$$$$$$Windows: Fix a regression that caused selections in the Book details panel to be invisible$$$New news sources$$$Hindustan Times Print Edition by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Foreign Policy$$$Business Standard$$$Il Post$$$Indian Express$$$Washington Post
Calibre x64 Version 7.2.0
Release: 7.2 [15 Dec; 2023]$$$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$$$Bug fixes$$$Windows: Edit book: Fix a crash when using the check book tool with a book that contains malformed markup; in calibre 7$$$Closes tickets: 2045133$$$$$$Windows: Improve flickering at startup due to a Qt regression in calibre 7$$$Windows: Fix moving the main window causing popup/floating windows to be resized in calibre 7 due to yet another Qt regression$$$Fix detection of existing books on the Tolino Vision 6$$$Closes tickets: 2044659$$$$$$Linux: Fix external applications not being launched under Wayland in calibre 7 because of a bug in Qt$$$Linux: Fix network requests failing under Fedora in calibre 7$$$Improved news sources$$$Reuters$$$Scientific American$$$New Yorker$$$Times of India$$$infzm$$$singtaohk
Calibre x64 Version 7.0.0
Release: 7.0 [17 Nov; 2023]$$$New features$$$For details on the major changes in calibre between 7.0 and 6.0; see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/sixteen$$$The ability to add notes to any author; tag; series; etc. in calibre with links and images$$$E-book viewer: Add support for HTML image maps$$$Closes tickets: 2040487$$$$$$Content server home page: Show the three most recently added books in the default library$$$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$$$Show the previously used language; if any; second in the language selection drop down$$$Closes tickets: 2042804$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Metadata download: Fix downloads from Google not working in Europe because of the GDPR$$$Closes tickets: 2043415$$$$$$Fix editing dates with days sometimes off by one day$$$Closes tickets: 2042815$$$$$$Edit book: Fix highlighting for special characters not visible when the cursor is on the line with the special character$$$Fix embedding metadata showing infinite error dialogs on windows if a file is locked by another program$$$Closes tickets: 2043248$$$$$$PDF Output: Fix an error when trying to set header or footer with an input document that has invalid content after the main body$$$Closes tickets: 2040074$$$$$$E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix clicking on empty spaces causing read aloud to restart from beginning of chapter$$$Closes tickets: 2042791$$$$$$Book details: Fix Manage authors via context menu not working$$$E-book viewer: Showing chrome should close an active footnote popup first and only show chrome if the user repeats the action$$$Closes tickets: 2041848$$$$$$Fix very slow metadata updates on some PDF files$$$Closes tickets: 2041745$$$$$$Catalogs: Do not erase any tags the user adds to a catalog book entry when the catalog is re-generated$$$Closes tickets: 1262875$$$$$$Linux installer: Fix downloading of signatures for older versions$$$Closes tickets: 2042748$$$$$$Fix editing non-active Virtual library changes sort of book list$$$Closes tickets: 2041357$$$$$$New news sources$$$Bookforum; Kirkus Reviews and Poetry Magazine by ping$$$Improved news sources$$$Financial Times$$$National Geographic$$$Hamilton Spectator$$$Times of India$$$MIT Tech Review$$$Bloomberg$$$Washington Post$$$Project Syndicate$$$Cumhuriyet$$$Foreign Affairs$$$Harvard Business Review$$$Wall Street Journal
Calibre x64 Version 6.26.0
Release: 6.26 [08 Sep; 2023]$$$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$$$Get books: Update ebooks.com plugin for website changes$$$Closes tickets: 2023046$$$$$$Edit book: Fix searching for non-BMP unicode characters highlighting only half the character$$$E-book viewer: Fix displaying more than one page per screen causing page layout to be slightly wrong for some books$$$Closes tickets: 2034075$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix clicking on links with empty destinations hanging the viewer$$$Closes tickets: 2034404$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix modifying; then jumping to and then modifying the highlight again from the highlights panel causing the highlight to be deleted$$$Closes tickets: 2033981$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix indication of current section in Table of Contents sometimes wrong after changing font size$$$Closes tickets: 2033205$$$$$$E-book viewer/Content server: Disallow browser native context menu when right clicking in sandboxed iframes$$$Closes tickets: 2033530$$$$$$MTP driver: Ignore top level folders whose names start with a leading dot Also ignore AppleDouble files; top level system and fonts folders and sdr folders on Kindle devices$$$FB2 Input: use the <p> tag for paragraphs that dont contain other block content$$$Closes tickets: 2033074$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix clicking on the back/forward buttons not working in some situations$$$Closes tickets: 2033118$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix scrolling to Table of Contents items that are within a single internal file not activating the back button$$$Closes tickets: 2032974$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix changing the sans-serif font without also changing the monospaced font not working$$$Closes tickets: 2032694$$$$$$New news sources$$$Nikkei Asia (Magazine) and Espresso by unkn0w7n$$$Improved news sources$$$National Geographic$$$Sportstar$$$Bangkok Post$$$MIT Technology Review$$$Bloomberg$$$Economic Times India$$$Firstpost
Calibre x64 Version 6.25.0
New features$$$Book details panel: De-emphasize titles making the actual data stand out more$$$Closes tickets: 2029723$$$$$$Allow using the new manage data files dialog from within the edit metadata dialog$$$Trash dialog: Allow right clicking on an entry to save it to disk$$$Closes tickets: 2030342$$$$$$When merging books by drag-and-drop add an option to use the dragged cover instead of the cover in the target book$$$Closes tickets: 2027794$$$$$$Create catalog: Add buttons to easily select all/non/visible fields when creating CSV/XML catalogs$$$Closes tickets: 2031571$$$$$$Preferences->Add your own columns: Add buttons to show/hide all columns$$$Closes tickets: 2031570$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Fix a regression in the previous release that broke parsing of some ISO-8601 timestamps$$$Closes tickets: 2031341$$$$$$E-book viewer: Mouse wheel horizontal events should jump sections not internal file boundaries$$$Closes tickets: 2030671$$$$$$Fix Preferences->Add your own columns changing check state on moving columns$$$Closes tickets: 2031569$$$$$$Get books: update various Polish e-book stores for website changes$$$E-book viewer: Fix CFI parsing of numbers with trailing zeros causing some bookmarks to not work$$$Closes tickets: 2029521$$$$$$E-book viewer: Show an error when creating a bookmark if the bookmark position is not found$$$Closes tickets: 2029521$$$$$$CBR Input: Fix comics with extremely long internal filenames not working on Windows$$$Closes tickets: 2031047$$$$$$Edit book: Saved searches: Fix incorrect import in generated source code for some builtin functions$$$Data file manager: Fix errors on systems with larger font sizes$$$New news sources$$$The Oldie by Sophist$$$Various new Russian and Ukrainian news sources by Unknown$$$Improved news sources$$$Bloomberg$$$Focus$$$Epoch Times$$$Hindu$$$Business Today$$$NYTimes
Calibre x64 Version 6.24.0
Release: 6.24 [04 Aug; 2023]$$$New features$$$Easily manage the extra data files associated with a book by right clicking the edit metadata button and choose Manage data files$$$Closes tickets: 2023509$$$$$$Content server: Full text search: Allow searching a restricted subset of books$$$Closes tickets: 2028216$$$$$$E-book viewer: Allow clicking on calibre:// URLs$$$Closes tickets: 2029014$$$$$$Support fuzzier searching in the Tag browser find allowing unaccented characters to match accented ones$$$Closes tickets: 2027727$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$DOCX conversion: Preserve underline style and color$$$Closes tickets: 2028404$$$$$$Fix incorrect sorting of device view after some operations$$$Fix visit content server in browser not working when the content server is configured to listen on an IPv6 interface$$$Closes tickets: 2023737$$$$$$Fix one hour offset in some timezones on Windows for dates before 1970$$$Closes tickets: 2028019$$$$$$Windows: HTML Input: Fix error when trying to add HTML files with links to other files that are invalid pathnames$$$Closes tickets: 2027763$$$$$$Get books: Update various Polish language book stores for website changes$$$New news sources$$$The New Republic Magazine by ping$$$Inc42 by unkn0w7n$$$Improved news sources$$$Epoch Times$$$Business Standard$$$Tagesspiegel$$$Bloomberg Business Week$$$MIT Technology Review$$$Live Mint$$$Private Eye
Calibre x64 Version 6.21.0
Release: 6.21 [13 Jun; 2023]$$$New features$$$DOCX Output: Add support for SVG images$$$Now the generated DOCX will contain both the rasterized version of the SVG image and the original SVG image as the preferred source; which is supported by modern versions of Word.$$$$$$E-book viewer: Allow configuring the actions triggered by touch gestures$$$Closes tickets: 2023367$$$$$$DOCX Input: Add support for SVG images$$$Bug fixes$$$Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that could cause files to be deleted if one of the files/folders was open in another program while changing title/author in calibre$$$macOS: Fix extra dock icons visible when doing a job using Qt WebEngine such as converting to PDF or searching in Get books$$$Closes tickets: 2023395$$$$$$macOS and Linux: Fix an error when changing metadata or deleting books whose files are owned by another user$$$Closes tickets: 2023476$$$$$$CHM Input: Yet another regression opening CHM files with missing internal files on windows$$$Closes tickets: 2023377$$$$$$CHM Input: Resolve absolute links to resource files from the root of the CHM file$$$Closes tickets: 2023431$$$$$$New news sources$$$The India Forum by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Guardian & Observer$$$Harpers Magazine Print recipe$$$Live Mint
Calibre x64 Version 6.17.0
Release: 6.17 [26 Apr; 2023]$$$New features$$$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$$$Edit book: Compress images: Support compression of images in the WEBP format as well$$$Closes tickets: 2017195$$$$$$Comments editor: Add buttons to create links to data files and also to folders easily when inserting a link$$$Allow displaying the id; formats and path builtin columns via Preferences->Add your own columns$$$Trash bin: Add a button to clear the bin$$$Closes tickets: 2017232$$$$$$Metadata editor: Use a dedicated editor with preview for custom columns that store Markdown formatted text$$$Bug fixes$$$Fix a regression in the previous release that could result in empty author folders remaining in the library when the author of a book is changed$$$Fix the data files associated with a book not being handled when using the Merge books and Copy to library functions$$$Closes tickets: 2017373$$$$$$Fix a regression in the previous release that broke some operations in the Manage tags/authors/etc. dialogs$$$Ensure metadata.opf is always written when deleting book even if it is not sequenced for backup$$$Closes tickets: 2017217$$$$$$Improved news sources$$$Scientific American
Calibre x64 Version 6.15.1
Release: 6.15.1 [07 Apr; 2023]$$$New features$$$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$$$Metadata download: Allow specifying rules to transform publisher names in addition to author and tag names$$$Closes tickets: 2012304$$$$$$Edit metadata dialog: Use both a colored border and an icon to indicate errors in line edits$$$Closes tickets: 2007764$$$$$$A new tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to control what program is run when clicking on URLs in calibre$$$Bug fixes$$$E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused incorrect highlight collision detection in some books$$$Closes tickets: 2009586$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix images embedded inside SVG tags not available for viewing in a pop-up$$$DOCX Input: Do not ignore images that are present as fallbacks for a word drawing object$$$Closes tickets: 2013972$$$$$$Comic Input: When converting grayscaled PNG images to PNG ensure output images are stored as indexed PNG$$$Fix active tab not easy to distinguish in dark mode$$$Closes tickets: 2012797$$$$$$Content server: Fix re-opening book from home page after making progress not opening to correct last read position when a user is logged in$$$Closes tickets: 2011755$$$$$$Comments editor: When copying to clipboard; copy clean HTML rather than the junk Qt produces$$$Closes tickets: 2012760$$$$$$Version 6.15.1 fixes an issue with the new URL scheme popping up incorrect book details windows$$$New news sources$$$Tehelka by Areet Mahadevan$$$The Wire by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Saechsische Zeitung$$$LA Times$$$Mediapart$$$Live Mint$$$The Hindu$$$
Calibre x64 Version 6.14.1
Release: 6.14.1 [16 Mar; 2023]$$$New features$$$Edit metadata: When setting a cover from comic files allow choosing which page to use as the cover$$$Closes tickets: 2007765$$$$$$Allow display of columns built from other columns as comments in Book details$$$Closes tickets: 2009304$$$$$$Comments editor: Add a shortcut for Paste and match style (Ctrl+Shift+v)$$$Bug fixes$$$macOS: ToC Editor: Fix mouse becoming unusable when trying to create a new entry$$$Closes tickets: 2004639$$$$$$When computing title sorts strip leading and trailing quotes; not just leading quotes$$$Content server viewer: Fix searching only showing results from the current chapter onwards$$$Closes tickets: 2009268$$$$$$Check book: Fix some incorrect line numbers reported in a few CSS error messages$$$Closes tickets: 2009735$$$$$$Fix regression in 6.14.0 that caused some generated resources to be excluded from the calibre source bundle$$$Fix regression in 6.14.0 that broke using paths with single quotes in them for the calibre library$$$Closes tickets: 2011586$$$$$$Fix ToC Editor on macOS in 6.14.0 not working inside the Edit book tool only$$$Improved news sources$$$Strange Horizons$$$The Saturday Paper$$$New Scientist$$$The Mainichi$$$DR Nyheder$$$New York Magazine$$$Bloomberg$$$Deccan Herald
Calibre x64 Version 6.14.0
New features$$$Content server: E-book viewer: Long tapping on an image now causes it to be displayed in an internal popup rather than a new window as some browsers block the creation of new windows$$$Bug fixes$$$E-book viewer: Fix some adjacent highlights with nothing in between them not being displayed.$$$Content server: Workaround for Safari regression causing bookmarks to disappear on reload$$$Closes tickets: 2006726$$$$$$E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the Read aloud controls to not reappear when Read aloud is canceled and restarted$$$Closes tickets: 2007039$$$$$$E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error when using Read aloud on a chapter with no text; such as the cover page$$$Closes tickets: 2006062$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused a spurious error on Windows when reading out selected text$$$Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke sorting the device view by title if one of the books has an empty title$$$Closes tickets: 2007165$$$$$$Edit book: Spell Check dialog: Fix second word not getting selected when after first word is fixed$$$Improve hover highlight color in tree views$$$Closes tickets: 2004621$$$$$$New news sources$$$The Economist Espresso by unkn0wn$$$Science X by unkn0wn$$$Horizons by unkn0wn$$$Deccan Herald by unkn0wn$$$The Monthly by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$CNN$$$Bloomberg
Calibre x64 Version 6.13.0
New features$$$Content server: E-book viewer: Long tapping on an image now causes it to be displayed in an internal popup rather than a new window as some browsers block the creation of new windows$$$Bug fixes$$$E-book viewer: Fix some adjacent highlights with nothing in between them not being displayed.$$$Content server: Workaround for Safari regression causing bookmarks to disappear on reload$$$Closes tickets: 2006726$$$$$$E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the Read aloud controls to not reappear when Read aloud is canceled and restarted$$$Closes tickets: 2007039$$$$$$E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error when using Read aloud on a chapter with no text; such as the cover page$$$Closes tickets: 2006062$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused a spurious error on Windows when reading out selected text$$$Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke sorting the device view by title if one of the books has an empty title$$$Closes tickets: 2007165$$$$$$Edit book: Spell Check dialog: Fix second word not getting selected when after first word is fixed$$$Improve hover highlight color in tree views$$$Closes tickets: 2004621$$$$$$New news sources$$$The Economist Espresso by unkn0wn$$$Science X by unkn0wn$$$Horizons by unkn0wn$$$Deccan Herald by unkn0wn$$$The Monthly by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$CNN$$$Bloomberg
Calibre x64 Version 6.12.0
New features$$$E-book viewer: Read aloud: On Windows switch to using the new Microsoft speech subsystem with access to more voices$$$Note that this means that old voice; speed and audio devices setting will not be used so a reconfiguration might be needed.$$$$$$calibre:// URL scheme: allow specifying a Virtual library for show_book URLs$$$Closes tickets: 2003712$$$$$$Add by ISBN: Allow adding using identifiers other than ISBN as well$$$Closes tickets: 2003227$$$$$$Update bundled Qt to 6.4 this means calibre on macOS is now only supported on Big Sur and newer$$$Spell check dialog: Allow up and down arrow keys to work regardless of focus$$$Allow multiple Template tester dialogs$$$Closes tickets: 2002257$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Windows MTP device driver: Ignore failure to enumerate objects inside non-root folders$$$There are apparently a lot of devices out there that fail in this way. So rather than aborting the scan simply ignore the folder.$$$$$$Book list: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke dragging to select multiple books$$$Content server viewer: Fix reload book not actually reloading until the browser is also refreshed$$$Closes tickets: 2004197$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix occasional false warning about highlight being overwritten$$$Closes tickets: 2003916$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix detection of selected highlights when all text is selected$$$Closes tickets: 2003908$$$$$$Fix an error when embedding metadata into a large number of books$$$Closes tickets: 2003729$$$$$$When updating metadata in EPUB 2 files and no language is specified; do not remove the <dc:language> tag as this causes epubcheck to complain. Instead set the language to und$$$Closes tickets: 2004522$$$$$$Wireless device driver: Remove the timeout for initial connection$$$Closes tickets: 2004083$$$$$$Use an icon rather than a color to report errors in fields and the search box$$$Closes tickets: 2003652$$$$$$Conversion dialog: Regex builder: Workaround bug in Qt that prevented searching for non breaking spaces in the wizard used to test search expressions$$$Spell check dialog: move down after correcting word; not up$$$Closes tickets: 2002864$$$$$$Get books: Fix Mobileread store plugin not working$$$Closes tickets: 2002534$$$$$$New news sources$$$Boston Globe Print Edition by unkn0wn$$$Observer Reach Foundation by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Jerusalem Post$$$LiveMint$$$The Seattle Times$$$India Today$$$Outlook Magazine$$$Live Mint$$$Irish Independent$$$Irish Times
Calibre x64 Version 6.11.0
New features$$$Edit book: Check book: Allow automatic fixing of various simple CSS errors$$$E-book viewer: When Read aloud is speaking; make the control bar translucent so that words under the bar are visible$$$Edit book: Switch to a new library (stylelint) for find problems in CSS as the old library was no longer maintained.$$$Edit book: File browser: Allow using keyboard shortcuts to re-order the spine$$$calibredb list: Allow specifying multiple fields for --sort-by$$$Closes tickets: 1982532$$$$$$Check library: Allow opening the book folder easily$$$Closes tickets: 2000037
Calibre x64 Version 6.10.0
New features$$$Content server: Add support for searching the full text of books. Simply click the FTS link on the search page to start a full text search.$$$Content server: When using user accounts; the homepage now shows recently read books from any device not just the current device$$$Closes tickets: 1998557$$$$$$Kobo driver: Bump the max supported firmware version$$$Closes tickets: 1999685$$$$$$Conversion: New Output profile for the Kindle Scribe$$$Closes tickets: 1998780$$$$$$Check library: Allow ignoring folder names as well as files names$$$Closes tickets: 1998705$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Edit book: Fix various formatting operations not inserting the tags in the correct place in the presence of non-BMP characters$$$Closes tickets: 1999349$$$$$$Edit book: Use <s> instead of <strike> for strikethrough$$$Edit book: Fix export saved search to search panel not preserving the wrap checkbox state$$$Closes tickets: 1998899$$$$$$Content server: Redirect the index page to always have trailing slash when using URL prefixes$$$Closes tickets: 1998767$$$$$$Book list: Workaround for change in Qt 6 behavior where clicking on an already selected row does not deselect other rows$$$Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 6 causing Open With to not extract icons from EXE files$$$Closes tickets: 1998165
Calibre x64 Version 6.9.0
Release: 6.9 [25 Nov; 2022]$$$New features$$$E-book viewer: When exporting highlights as plain text include titles from chapters at all levels not just the first level$$$Edit book: Reports: Show the number of words per file in the Files section of the report$$$Windows builds: sign DLLs in addition to EXEs to make Microsofts new Smart App Control tool happy$$$Sending by email: When adding comments also add series$$$Nook driver: Put files in NOOK/Books instead of NOOK/My Files on recent nook devices so they are all listed in one place in the NOOK UI$$$Closes tickets: 1990730$$$$$$calibredb list: Allow using a template as one of the returned fields$$$Tag browser: Add context menu action to turn on/off sub-categorization for a category$$$Bug fixes$$$Merging books: Fix title sort not being updated when the title is updated$$$Closes tickets: 1996802$$$$$$Content server viewer: Fix incorrect sorting of highlights in the same paragraph$$$Content server viewer: When exporting highlights as text include chapter titles$$$Improve rendering of the separator handle dots introduced in the previous release$$$Edit book: Fix regression in previous release causing applying any container update marking all open image editors as modified$$$Fix a regression in the previous release that caused copying book details to clipboard to use unix line endings on windows$$$Improved news sources$$$Bloomberg$$$The Globe and Mail$$$Spectator Magazine$$$The New York Times$$$The Hindu$$$MIT Technology Review
Calibre x64 Version 6.8.0
New features$$$Allow customizing the buttons available to the right of the search bar in the main calibre window via Preferences->Toolbars & menus->The buttons on the searchbar$$$Book details panel: Allow adjusting the space used by the cover with a splitter$$$Closes tickets: 1994065$$$$$$Make splitter handles more visible in the calibre UI style$$$When sending by email to kindle dont include the author in the filename as amazon is currently reading the author from the file metadata but not the title$$$Closes tickets: 1994136$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Book list: Fix incorrect rendering of yes/no icons when they are configured to have only two values$$$Closes tickets: 1993051$$$$$$Nook driver: Send books to the NOOK folder for the 2021 Nook model as well$$$Closes tickets: 1990730$$$$$$Improve performance in very large libraries of various UI operations such as right clicking; marking books; etc.$$$Fix edit metadata dialog not remembering its position and improve how calibre restores window position and size on multi-monitor systems$$$Conversion: Fix CSS styles applied to SVG elements being discarded$$$EPUB Input: Fix empty adobe page number template file causing conversion to fail$$$Closes tickets: 1995551$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix rendering of comments in metadata display when using a dark color scheme$$$Closes tickets: 1995214$$$$$$AZW3 Input: Fix svg images that use a prefix for the SVG namespace not being recognized$$$Closes tickets: 1994988$$$$$$Edit book: Fix double clicking in the see what changed dialog not opening the file in the editor since calibre 6.0$$$Edit book: Fix modified indicator on images not working correctly when replacing the image$$$Amazon metadata download: Adapt the plugin for website changes$$$New news sources$$$Fifty Two by unkn0wn$$$Bloomberg and Bloomberg Business Week by unkn0wn$$$Improved news sources$$$Army and Navy Times$$$eenadu_ap$$$Handelsblatt
Calibre x64 Version 6.7.1
New features$$$Template language: A new Python template mode which allows using arbitrary Python code in templates$$$Tag browser: Allow removing format from selected books by right clicking on the format in the Tag browser$$$Closes tickets: 1992273$$$$$$E-book viewer: Ask for confirmation when creating a highlight that will overwrite existing highlights$$$Closes tickets: 1991597$$$$$$Book list: Allow changing column widths via a dedicated dialog by right clicking on column headers$$$Bug fixes$$$E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke adding of new lookup sources$$$Closes tickets: 1992278$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix copy to clipboard not ignoring text from elements that are marked as non user selectable$$$Closes tickets: 1991504$$$$$$Content server: When adding books; run all file type plugins before reading metadata$$$Closes tickets: 1992244$$$$$$Edit book: Preview panel: In dark mode when all of the background/foreground/link colors are set to No change do not render the book using dark colors$$$Version 6.7.1 fixes a regression in the previous release that broke the delete specific format from book function$$$Improved news sources$$$The Athletic$$$der Standard$$$The Economic Times India Print Edition$$$Indian Express$$$India Today Magazine$$$Caravan Magazine
Calibre x64 Version 6.6.1
New features$$$Book details: allow displaying multi-valued categories such as tags on separate lines via Preferences->Look & feel->Book details$$$Tag browser: When searching the Tag browser allow also filtering the book list to show only books that match one of the categories currently shown in the Tag browser.$$$Closes tickets: 1989813$$$$$$To use enable the two Preferences: Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser->Hide empty categories and Find shows all items that match. Then; when searching the Tag browser; press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F to restrict the displayed books.$$$$$$Edit book: When right clicking on HTML files in EPUB 3 books; allow marking them as the Table of Contents (NAV document)$$$Closes tickets: 1990507$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$EPUB Output: Fix converting a document with obfuscated fonts to EPUB 3 not working$$$Closes tickets: 1990185$$$$$$Edit book: Fix an error when processing books that contain comments inside unknown CSS @ rules$$$Closes tickets: 1990660$$$$$$Content server: Fix jumping to locations such as bookmarks not working on iPhone/iPad running iOS >= 15$$$Closes tickets: 1989722$$$$$$Font subsetting: Fix :first-line and :first-letter pseudo classes not being handled correctly$$$Closes tickets: 1990766$$$$$$Workaround for Amazons email delivery service not reading metadata from inside ebook files$$$Edit book: File list: Fix pressing Tab key while renaming a file not starting the rename of the next file$$$Version 6.6.1 fixes a regression that caused the Edit metadata window to not remember its last used size. Note that you will have to resize it once after updating to 6.6.1; after which the size will be remembered.$$$Improved news sources$$$SCMP$$$Spectator Magazine$$$Spiegel Online International$$$Engadget
Calibre x64 Version 6.3.0
New features$$$E-book viewer: Allow searching for nearby words using a new Nearby words search mode$$$calibredb: New fts_search and fts_index commands to perform full text searching from the command line$$$Image viewing popup: Allow zooming using the standard shortcuts of Ctrl+plus/minus$$$Closes tickets: 1985021$$$$$$Bug fixes$$$Fix a regression in calibre 6.0 that broke remembering the previous sort order for a column$$$Fix a regression in calibre 6.0 that broke processing of very high resolution images$$$Closes tickets: 1983484$$$$$$Full text search: Fix error when using restrict searched books and more than 900 books are present in the searched list$$$Closes tickets: 1983230$$$$$$E-book viewer: Fix parsing of CSS styles with @supports rules not working$$$E-book viewer: Speed up initial render of books with lots of CSS in <style> tags by not prettying the CSS$$$Google books metadata download: Fix paragraphs not being recognized$$$Closes tickets: 1983126$$$$$$Content server: Fix light background for comments editor in dark mode$$$Content server: Fix margin and body background color mismatch when reading books with a non-white/black color scheme$$$Closes tickets: 1985058$$$$$$Content server: Fix long tapping in the notes edit area incorrectly changing the highlight extent$$$Closes tickets: 1983271$$$$$$Google search engine: Fix for different URL encoding used by Google servers in Portugal$$$Check library: Fix vacuum not running on FTS db$$$New news sources$$$Various Russian and Ukranian news sources by bugmen00t$$$Improved news sources$$$Wirtschaft Woche$$$Scientific American$$$Popular Science$$$Mediapart$$$MIT Technology Review$$$Indian Express$$$Eenadu
