Calibre eBook Management Software Technology

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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
• 5.22.1 fixes a typo in the previous release that broke device detection on Linux

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New Features​

• Annotations browser: Show highlight color in the preview panel
• TXTZ format: Store type of text formatting in the metadata and use it automatically when converting from TXTZ
• Edit metadata dialog: Allow holding Ctrl and clicking the item editor buttons to instead open the manage dialog

Bug Fixes​

• Annotations browser: Fix searching for words in languages such as Chinese that do not have word delimiters not working
• News download: Fix URLs with spaces in them not being downloaded since calibre 5.0
• When searching for books by an author from the manage authors dialog, use exact matches
• MOBI Output: Fix invalid color specification as plain numbers causing conversion to fail
• MOBI Output: Fix invalid text indent specification causing conversion to fail
• Linux: Drop the unmaintained dbus-python in favor of jeepney for DBUS
• Edit book: Workaround for Qt bug that caused the panel sizes in the editor to not be remembered across sessions

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New Features​

• Conversion: Insert metadata as jacket: Allow adding timestamp and publisher fields. Also allow controlling the formatting of date/time fields
• Cover browser: Add an option to view the central book by double clicking instead of single clicking (Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser)
• Tag browser: Add actions to the configure menu to toggle the display of counts and average rating
• Tag browser: Allow plugins to add entries to the context menu

Bug Fixes​

• fetch-ebook-metadata: Fix an error when using the --cover option and no cover is found
• HTML Input: Fix the presence of BookDesigner markup causing conversion to fail
• TXT Input: Dont fail if the txt file references a directory as a resosource

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New Features​

• Edit/Polish book: Remove unused CSS now also removes unreferenced stylesheets
• E-book viewer: Add some CSS variables and classes that allow writing calibre specific CSS in ebooks. See The E-book viewer — calibre 5.25.0 documentation
• A new framework plugins can use to be notified about changes to calibre libraries
• Edit metadata dialog: When pasting into the identifiers field if the clipboard contains a URL paste it directly as a URL identifier

Bug Fixes​

• E-book viewer: When displaying popup footnotes use the same writing direction as the main text for the footnote popups size and header
• E-book viewer: Improve the text layout when looking up words in Google
• Content server viewer: Fix read aloud not working on mobile browsers

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New Features​

• Dark color scheme: Use a darker blue for highlighted items

Bug Fixes​

• Content server book viewer: Show a message when a search finds no matches
• MOBI Output: Fix JPEG images without any JFIF metadata not being rendered on the Kindle
• Comic input: Fix single color images having their colors changed by normalization
• E-book viewer: Fix creating multiple highlights in a single paragraph that also contains some extra text formatting at the start causing the second and subsequent highlights to malfunction
• Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the options in the Remove unused CSS dialog

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New Features​

• When adding markdown (.md) or textile (.textile) files that contain references to images, automatically add them as txtz with the images

Bug Fixes​

• DOCX Output: Correctly convert soft hyphens in the input document to DOCX soft hyphens
• DOCX Input: Fix a bookmark at the end of a paragraph causing the bookmark at the start of the paragraph to be skipped
• Edit book: Spell check: Fix EPUB 3 nav document not being spell checked when not in the spine
• PDF Output: Fix a rare failure when the input document has a ToC item pointing to the last page
• Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused drag and drop from WinZip to not work
• TXT Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused the max line length option to not work
• When auto converting added TXT files with image references to TXTZ use a full markdown parser to detect markdown images

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New Features​

• Edit metadata dialog: Customize cover generation: Allow saving and loading cover generation settings as "themes"
• E-book viewer: Allow pressing the 0-9 keys to apply a quick highlight style
• Book details panel: While clicking tags/authors/etc. holding down the Ctrl+Shift modifier keys now add the tag to the current search with "AND" instead of "OR" when using only Ctrl
• Add an option to the preferences drop down menu to restart calibre without third party plugins

Bug Fixes​

• Edit book: When renaming classes in style sheets only recognize class names preceded by a period
• E-book viewer: Fix lookup in Google partially hidden due to change in Google results page markup
• Conversion dialog: Search replace expression builder: Fix incorrect search result highlighting when non-BMP unicode characters are present in the text
• E-book viewer: Fix popup footnote blank when the footnote link points to a tag
  
  • E-book viewer: Fix jumping to highlights in text that occurs after a line break and newline character not working in paged mode
  • Kindle Output: Strip EXIF metadata from JPEG images as the Kindle renderer has issues with it

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New Features​

• Allow drag and drop of books onto formats in the Tag browser to convert them to that format
• Allow creating sorts based on multiple columns (Add the Sort action to the toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars & menus)
• Edit book: When changing a paragraph to a heading if the cursor is adjacent to a paragraph tag but not inside any tags other than body, use the adjacent tag

Bug Fixes​

• Auto adding: Run relevant plugins before reading metadata from the book. Matches behavior of manual adding
• Content server: Fix category collapse by partition not working
• Prevent Tab from causing focus to leave the Tag browser
• Edit book: See what changed: Fix non-BMP unicode characters causing highlighting of changed words to be slightly misplaced
• PDF Output: Fix a regression that broke conversion of comics that contain 1-bit images
• Edit book: Fix pressing Ctrl+Tab inserting a tab at the start of a line instead of switching tabs
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused identifiers set by some plugins to not be saved in the database
• Template language: Fix nesting composite columns sometimes failing

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New Features​

• Add support for the new Kobo Sage and Libra 2 e-book reader devices
• E-book viewer: Read aloud: Allow right clicking to play/pause reading
• Sending books by e-mail: Preserve non-English characters in attached filenames
• Tab browser: Allow searching for sub-categories by right clicking on them

Bug Fixes​

• E-book viewer: Fix cover and full screen images not centered in paged mode when more than one page is displayed per screen
• ToC Editor: Ignore in succession clicks on the OK and Cancel buttons to avoid accidentally closing the window when finishing creating a new entry
• Comments editor: Fix the formatting buttons not showing the current state correctly and fix some keyboard shortcuts not working when more than one comments editor is present in a single window
• Tag browser: Fix renaming of User categories in Virtual libraries
• Make removing large numbers of custom column icons easier

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New Features​

• Kindle driver: Support the new Kindle PaperWhite 2021
• Add an option under Preferences->Behavior to have calibre recognize numbers when sorting (this was previously under Preferences->Tweaks)
• E-book viewer: Add a button to directly open the viewer help section in the calibre user manual to the viewer controls
• E-book viewer: Prevent the display from sleeping when using auto-scroll or read aloud modes (Implemented only on Windows and macOS)
• Edit book: Set semantics tool: Add support for EPUB 3 landmarks
• Add an entry to the Connect/share menu to open the content server in a local browser when it is running

Bug Fixes​

• Content server: Fix some OPDS feeds failing with non-ASCII content
• Tag browser: Fix incorrect first letter partitioning when enabling numeric collation of items that start with a number

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