Calibre eBook Management Software Technology

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New Features​

• Edit book: When right clicking on a class in a HTML file, add an option to rename the class throughout the book
• Adding from ISBN: Add an option to check if there are existing books with the specified ISBNs already in the library
• Template tester: Instead of next/last, the template tester now shows the template values for selected books
• Content server: Allow swiping left and right to show next/previous book on the book details page
• E-book viewer: Make the commonly used shift+arrow key shortcuts for modifying selections using the keyboard work. Also add shorcuts for selecting by character, line and paragraph.

Bug Fixes​

• MOBI Output: Fix latest kindle firmware not displaying select publisher font option for calibre produced azw3 files
• E-book viewer: Fix errors when viewing books with mathematics that are split over multiple internal files
• Content server viewer: Fix highlights not sorted correctly in the highlights panel
• Get books: Fix smashwords plugin not working because of website changes
• Improve the performance of QuickView especially when using composite columns
• Improve performance of the virtual_libraries() template function
• Browser viewer: Fix Go to Location not working for positions
• E-book viewer: Fix searching in the Table of Contents not working
• E-book viewer: In paged mode, fix scrolling not working correctly when margins are set to zero
• E-book viewer: Fix incorrect ToC navigation in books that link the entries to inline tags that wrap block tags that span multiple pages
• Category editor: Searching in library shouldn't automatically opens Quickview
• Conversion: Fix a hang caused by long sequences of non-word characters when heuristics are enabled, either explicitly or for some input formats such as TXT
• Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke --explode-book and --implode-book actions for calibre-debug.exe
• Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke setting metadata in RTF files

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New Features​

• Allow auto scrolling through the list of books by pressing the X key or right clicking on the cover browser
• E-book viewer: Speed up first time open for EPUB files with lots of styling
• E-book viewer preferences: Allow searching for keyboard shortcuts
• Edit book: Allow editing WEBP images
• Various improvements to the template language, see Template language changes - MobileRead Forums
• E-book viewer: Show the current progress percentage in the bottom bar of the viewer controls. This can be customized in the viewer preferences under Headers and footers
• E-book viewer: Add an option under Preferences->Miscellaneous to not restore open panels such as Search, Table of Contents etc on restart
• When exporting highlights as text or markdown also output top level chapter titles
• Allow downloading metadata from amazon.se
• Preferences->Tweaks: Allow specifying that calibre should open the book details window when double clicking on a book
• MOBI Output: Convert WebP images to PNG so they work with Amazon's software
• DOCX Input: When converting embedded fonts, replace spaces in the filename with underscores to keep the execrable epubcheck happy
• E-book viewer: Selection bar: Add keyboard shortcuts for all buttons. Hover over a button in the bar to see the shortcut

Bug Fixes​

• FB2 Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused paragraphs containing only non-breaking spaces to be removed
• Metadata comments editor: Fix setting block alignment destroying other block level properties
• E-book viewer: Fix margins not being adjusted immediately when preferences are changed
• Edit book: Upgrade book internals: Fix skipping the NCX removal dialog not remembering the chosen option
• Conversion: When specifying a line-height do not apply it to the tag, as it is pointless and causes the execrable epubcheck to complain
  
  • E-book viewer: Improve scrolling behavior when extending the selection using keyboard shortcuts
  • E-book viewer: Fix read percent for HTML files that are rendered in a single screen being 0% rather than 100%
  • E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Do not expand all sections when adding/deleting/modifying highlights
  • CHM Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke opening of some files that dont specify a character encoding
  • EPUB2 metadata: Read ISBNs in identifier elements without schemes if they are valid ISBNs and no properly identified isbns are present
  • Update Amazon metadata plugin for changes to amazon websites
  • Edit book: Fix detection of class names containing hyphens/underscores

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Bug Fixes​

• CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and dont specify a character encoding in their metadata
• Fix a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin
• Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets
• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats
• Fix using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values

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Bug Fixes​

• CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and dont specify a character encoding in their metadata
• Fix a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin
• Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets
• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats
• Fix using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that causes the viewer to ignore page-break CSS properties (in 5.16.1)
• Fix a regression that broke using stored templates (in 5.16.1)
• Fix auto scroll books shortcut not working in standalone cover browser window (in 5.16.1)
• E-book viewer: Fix jumping to previous section sometimes not working in flow mode (in 5.16.1)
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke changing keyboard shortcuts in the viewer preferences (in 5.16.1)
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke using the delete key to delete highlights (in 5.16.1)

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New Features​

• E-book viewer: Image popup: Allow dragging with the mouse to pan the image
• Sort button: Allow selecting which columns are in the popup sort menu
• E-book viewer: When suggesting a default bookmark title, use the name of the current chapter
• E-book viewer: When searching the Table of Contents allow holding the Shift key to search backwards
• E-book viewer: Add a shortcut Ctrl+0 to restore default font size

Bug Fixes​

• Windows MTP driver: Rewrite parts of the driver in the hope of fixing some rare and hard to reproduce crashes
• Windows MTP driver: Set modified and created times when putting files/folders on device. Also read modified time correctly.
• Windows: E-book viewer: Fix switching away from viewer while in full screen and switching back causing some corruption until the page is scrolled
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused errors when editing empty date values
• Get books: Update Gutenberg plugin for website changes
• E-book viewer: The quick highlight button should replace the style of an existing highlight, when one is selected
• Elide long items in the middle when showing the completion popup for tags, to make it easier to use with hierarchical tags
• E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix soft hyphens causing read aloud words to be broken up
• E-book viewer: Right clicking when text is selected should extend the selection instead of doing nothing
• Fix settings in the ToC Editor tool being forgotten when calibre is closed
• DOCX Output: Fix conversion failing if the input document has missing images
• Content server viewer: Fix mouse wheel scrolling not working on the box used to edit notes for highlights
• E-book viewer: Fix read aloud word tracking in flow mode not very reliable
• E-book viewer: Fix navigation shortcuts not working in Read aloud mode

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New Features​

• Content server viewer: Improved search functionality Searching can now be done for whole words and regular expressions. And all search results are listed at once with some context for easy navigation.
• E-book viewer: Allow fullscreening the image popup
• E-book viewer: Allow expanding/collapsing all items in the Table of Contents at a particular level by right clicking on one item of that level and choosing the option to expand/collapse
• E-book viewer: Add shortcuts shift+home and shift+end to extend current selection to start/end of line
• Book details: When creating rules to convert identifiers to URLs allow using {id_unquoted} to avoid quoting the identifier value
• Review downloaded metadata: Allow double clicking on a cover to see it at a larger size
• Annotations browser: Add a Refresh button

Bug Fixes​

• Edit book: Fix ctrl-clicking on a class name jumping to the wrong CSS rule if the stylesheet contains top level comments
• Fix search and replace on identifiers not working if the replaced value has colons
• Annotations browser: Sort the entries in order of position in book
• ToC editor: Dark mode: Fix colors in location selection panel not dark
• E-book viewer: Fix right or shift-clicking to extend selection not shrinking selection when the click is inside the selection
• Avoid spurious errors on multiple simultaneous calibre launches
• E-book viewer: Ignore mouse scroll events that would turn pages when editing notes
• E-book viewer: Fix sorting bookmarks by title not working
• Windows WPD driver: Fix an error reading the filesystem on some MTP based devices

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New Features​

• E-book viewer: Add a preference under Scrolling behavior to reverse the tap zones used to turn pages. So tapping on the left goes forward and the right backward

Bug Fixes​

• E-book viewer: Fix regression in 5.15 that caused incorrect display of font sizes that contain a period and use absolute units
• PDF Output: Fix font kerning issues with some TrueType fonts
• Edit book: Fix a regression in 5.18 that broke editing/creating saved searches
• Windows: Fix for standalone ToC Editor not working on systems where Qt WebEngine causes a crash at exit
• Windows MTP driver: When scanning an MTP device such as an Android phone ignore folders that Windows fails to enumerate instead of failing with an error
• ToC Editor: Fix a regression that broke choosing split points in some XHTML files
• PDB Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing some plucker format PDB files
• Edit book: Fix sorting in spell check dialog on language broken for books that have unknown languages
• Annotations browser: Fix a typo that broke sorting for highlights
• Annotations browser: When showing a highlight preserve paragraph boundaries for multi-paragraph highlights
• Viewer highlights panel: Fix the "Edit notes" link not saving the changes
• E-book viewer: When using a right click/shift-click to adjust the selection, move the section boundary that is closer to the click point

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New Features​

• E-book viewer: Highlights: Make URLs in the notes for highlights clickable
• Book details: Ctrl-clicking on tags now adds them to the existing search instead of replacing it
• E-book viewer: Allow using the back button to return from jumping to a search result

Bug Fixes​

• Get books: Fix the Kobo store plugin for changes to the website
• Edit book: Fix non breaking spaces in snippets being converted to normal spaces
• ToC Editor: Fix a regression that caused changes to not be saved on machines where running a worker process takes more than ten seconds
• Fix error when changing the "Search the net" URLs for the Content server

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New Features​

• Driver for the new Kobo Ellipsa
• Content server: When editing metadata for fields that take multiple values, make it easier to remove individual values by simply tapping a button
• Browser viewer: Make current color scheme setting propagate to all devices automatically when using user accounts
• E-book viewer: Image popup: Show the image resolution in the popup window's titlebar

Bug Fixes​

• HTML Input: Fix handling of @import rules in stylesheets nested more than one level deep
• Fix viewer search context menu to clear searches not clearing search settings
• E-book viewer image popup: Fix full screen button in incorrect state when starting in full screen

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New Features​

• E-book viewer: Allow clicking links in popup footnotes
• Main book list: Scroll per pixel rather than per item by default. Can be returned to previous behavior via Preferences->Tweaks->Control behavior of book list
• Linux: Drop support for the global menu bar

Bug Fixes​

• E-book viewer: Fix font sizes specified in absolute units not being honored in locales where the decimal separator is not the period
• E-book viewer: Fix searching for short strings in text with lots of similar entries displaying incorrect matches
• MOBI Output: Fix using percentage units for margins resulting in too large margins when using the tablet output profile
• E-book viewer: Fix back button not working after jumping to a bookmark
• Content server: OPDS feed: Fix incorrect up URL in category group feeds
• Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke editing of series metadata
• E-book viewer: Fix scrolling backwards by screen-fulls not working with very large page margins.
• MOBI Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of Haodoo format files
• Conversion: Fix the smarten punctuation option not applying to inserted jacket page

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