Calibre eBook Management Software Technology

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[H2]New Features[/H2]

• 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

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• ONLY if you use the calibre Content server, you should update calibre as soon as possible
• Content server: Fix path traversal vulnerability
• Content server: Fix SQL injection vulnerability
• Content server: Fix an XSS vulnerability in one endpoint
• Content server: Fix an error when opening the downloaded books page directly via a link and using a custom book list template
• 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

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• E-book viewer: Support for jumping to and displaying paper edition page numbers
• 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
• 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

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• 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
• 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
• calibredb list: Fix a regression in the previous release that required setting --template-header to empty to use the list command
• 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

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• E-book viewer: Read aloud: A new Text-to-Speech engine (Piper) that uses a neural network for realistic sounding voices
• New experimental engine to convert PDF files with support for automatic header/footer removal
• 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
• Edit metadata dialog: Show the number of data files on the data files button

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• 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
• E-book viewer: Fix a harmless error when the book contains page list references whose targets do not exist
• Linux binary build: Fix missing libdeflate dependency

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• E-book viewer: Halve the time taken to open large EPUB format books for the first time
• 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

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Windows: Read Aloud: Fix an occasional crash when stopping read aloud when using the legacy windows TTS engine
• 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
• Read aloud: Fix reading large numeric words causing text synchronization to fail when using some legacy TTS engines
• EPUB3 metadata: Fix setting series number to zero not working
• Comic Input: Handle comics whose internal files have control codes in their filenames
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke searching in Japanese books that use <ruby> text
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Read aloud for selected text
• Amazon metadata plugin: Workaround for downloads failing because Google discontinued its webcache
• Cover grid: Suppress the 2px border Qt draws for the list view

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• PDF Input: Automatic header/footer detection and removal
• Read Aloud: Allow configuring an extra pause at the end of every sentence when using the Piper TTS engine
• PDF Output: Add _WIDTH_PIXELS_ and _HEIGHT_PIXELS_ variables to know the width and height of the header/footer area in templates
• Windows: Use calibre's bundled SSL certificates instead of the system certificate store by default
• Trim image tool: Add a control to adjust aspect ratio
• Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware used by the Tolino Shine 5

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• 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

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Edit book: A new tool to create an audio overlay in EPUB files for all text using the Read aloud facility
• 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.exe: 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
• Read aloud: Add a restore defaults button to the configuration dialog
• Auto adding: Allow excluding arbitrary file types not just known book file types
• Edit metadata dialog: Add an action to open the book's folder to the context menu of the formats list

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Read aloud: Fix only first 32000 characters per chapter being read
• Content server: Read aloud: Fix clicking on a word to skip reading aloud to that word causing word highlighting to stop working
• 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
• Linux: ToC Editor: Fix a regression in 7.17 that broke using the Create new entry button
• 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
• 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

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[TechNikAl]

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
• 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
• macOS: Dark mode: Fix a regression that caused the scrollbar to no longer be transient
• DOCX Input: When some text has multiple footnotes insert a space between the consecutive foot note numbers so that they are distinct
• 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

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• 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 book's page and choosing "Manage data files"
• Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to view it in a popup window at larger size
• 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

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Viewer: Fix some HTMLZ files not opening on some systems
• Amazon metadata plugin: Update for changed markup for some books on amazon search results page

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Allow creating rules to transform series names in the Bulk metadata editor and Preferences->Metadata download
• 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
• Add from ISBN: Add a checkbox to automatically convert obsolete ISBN 10 to ISBN 13
• Save single format to disk: Allow choosing the book cover as the format to save
• Option to show a button to access all available actions from the status bar in Preferences->Look & feel->Main interface

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Read aloud: Fix no audio produced when text contains <3 and using the Windows legacy speech engine
• Fix Tabbing while editing cells in the book list not always working
• Windows build: Also sign the portable launcher exes
• Fix viewing books via the Cover browser not working when in device view

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• 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

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Nook driver: Fix the Glowlight 4 not working on Windows
• 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
• Content server: Fix icons for individual formats not being shown in the Tag browser

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