Calibre eBook Management Software Technology

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New Features​

• E-book viewer: Allow scrolling of the ToC, highlights, bookmarks, etc. with touch gestures
• Edit metadata dialog: When using the change case operations if some text is selected, only operate on the selected text
• Use atomic writes for the config files ensures no partial data is written in case of crash/powerloss

Bug Fixes​

• 5.39.1 fixes a couple of regressions that broke case change in the Bulk metadata edit dialog and remembering column widths in the book list on some systems.
• Content server: Fix reading of books with thousands of internal files not working in the Chrome browser
• Catalog generation: Fix a rare crash when generating very large catalogs
• Edit/Polish book: Fix hardcoded Unicode ligatures not being preserved in AZW3 format books
• Fix automatic searches causing search box to lose focus when search as you type is enabled in Preferences->Searching
• Edit book: Check book: Auto fix package identifier being empty
• Amazon metadata download: Fix getting series info from amazon.jp
• Edit book: Insert hyperlinks: When sorting anchors on elements without any text content, use the anchor itself
• Edit book: Make the saved search panel freely resizable
• Edit book: When dragging to select a region or adjust the selection fix mouse moving outside the image causing the region to no longer be adjusted

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New Features​

• Content server viewer: Allow editing bookmarks
• Read covers from CBC comic files
• Allow filtering authors/tags when creating virtual library based on them
• Add a copy button to the image view popup
• Template language: Support for nested functions and a string concatenation operator

Bug Fixes​

• DOCX Output: Fix a comment immediately after a
• tag breaking the conversion
• Standalone ToC editor: Fix spurious error message if left open for more than two minutes
• Fix search-as-you-type triggers extra search after manual confirmation

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New Features​

• Allow creating multiple types of temporary marks (pins) by right clicking the mark books button (which can be added to the calibre toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars & menus)
• Kobo driver: Support updated firmware
• Show a popup message when a Kindle is connected mentioning the Amazon cover bug and how to workaround it
• Edit book: Table of Contents tool: Allow using the title attribute on headings tags to get the text for table of contents entries
• When creating a custom column to display real numbers allow specifying th enumber of decimal digits to display
• Amazon metadata download: Add support for amazon.in country website

Bug Fixes​

• Edit book: Fix AltGr+{ not working on some keyboard layouts
• TXT Input: Fix rare failure to convert some large TXT files with non-ascii text
• Get books: Update English language Amazon plugins for website changes

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New Features​

• E-book viewer: Ignore accents when doing a search
• Book list searching: Ignore punctuation when searching. So that, for example, Gravitys will match Gravity's
• Show the text used for marking books in the tooltip

Bug Fixes​

• Edit book: Reduce memory consumption by the checkpoint system when doing operations that involve parsing all book files
• Amazon metadata download: Fix titles starting with [ being ignored
• Edit metadata dialog: Undo not working correctly in identifiers field
• Fix viewing LRF files not working
• PDF Output: Fix an error on some invalid CSS in the input document
• Linux binary: Workaround for Qt WebEngine not working on systems with glibc > 2.33

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New Features​

• Kobo driver: Allow using templates to generate collections
• Book details popup: Double clicking on the cover now uses calibre's internal image viewer. Right click on the cover to open it with another program.

Bug Fixes​

• Fix Book details blank when switching from device view to library view
• TXT Input: Fix a regression in 5.39 that caused the option to remove indents also removing blank lines
• E-book viewer: Fix incorrect sorting of highlights from the first internal file of a book

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New Features​

• Amazon metadata download: Add an option to prefer the Kindle edition when multiple book types are returned by the search (Preferences->Metadata download->Configure the Amazon plugin)
• Kobo driver: Support for updated firmware
• Allow customizing how yes/no columns are displayed (Preferences->Add your own columns)
• Manage tags dialog: If tags are present in the add tags input when OK is clicked, add them automatically, without needing to click the plus button first

Bug Fixes​

• Edit book: Live CSS: Fix @namespace rules causing jumping to rule definition to go to the wrong definition
• Workaround for Apple bug in macOS 13 that prevents device detection
• Dont use commas in filenames when sending to pbsync and kindle email addresses
• Edit book: When quitting while a save is in progress and the save completes while the confirmation popup is visible, dont abort the quit.

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New Features​

• For details on the major changes in calibre between 6.0 and 5.0, see calibre - New in calibre 6.0
• Full text search: You can now search the entire text of all books in your calibre library
• Support for new CPU architectures: Apple Silicon and ARM64 on Linux. Support for 32bit CPUs has been dropped because Qt 6 does not support them
• Dark mode in calibre is now controlled via a setting in Preferences->Look & feel rather than an environment variable
• Allow choosing different icon themes for light and dark mode in Preferences->Look & feel
• Upgrade calibre to use Qt 6. This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins may not work, though most plugins have already been ported

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New Features​

• Full text search: Add a button to re-index a book, useful if the book's contents have been changed outside calibre
• Search queries now support quoting using "docstrings" for easier escaping
• Linux installer: Check for libEGL as the QtGui module in Qt 6 links against it and many Linux servers dont have it installed

Bug Fixes​

• macOS: Blacklist older versions of the DeDRM plugin as they caused crashes and failures to add books.
• Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused crashes in the Manage authors dialog
• Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke touch screen interaction
• Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused a few checkboxes to stop working
• Linux: Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke handling of mouse clicks on some Wayland systems with a touchpad
• ToC Editor: Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke styling/images in the preview panel
• Windows: Fix window titlebars not dark in dark mode
• Full text search: Show a warning when indexing/searching a library on an FAT drive
• News download: Do not add aborted/failed article titles to the comments metadata
• Full text search: Fix books edited with the Edit book tool not being automatically re-indexed
• HTML Input: Fix handling of deeply nested files on Windows
• Fix a regression preventing using a non-integer value for the tweak to change book details font size
• Fix moving library not moving the full text search index
• Fix some custom icons in the calibre config directory not overriding the theme/builtin icons
• Linux installer: Fix glibc version check also being done when installing older versions
• Windows installer: Refuse to install on Windows 8 as thanks to Qt 6 calibre 6 does not work on Windows 8
• Update the BigBookSearch metadata plugin for website changes

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New Features​

• Full text search: Ignore soft hyphens when extracting searchable text from books. Note that you will have to re-index your library to take advantage of this.
• Content server: Have the Read button open PDF files in the browsers builtin PDF viewer rather than the calibre viewer since the calibre viewer is not well suited to PDF
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
• Create icon theme dialog: Add a checkbox to install the newly created theme into calibre
• Allow re-indexing a book for FTS by right clicking the Book details panel

Bug Fixes​

• Content server: Workaround for chrome bug causing multiple sign in prompts when connecting to the server after restarting Chrome
• Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke rendering of first page of EPUB as cover when the EPUB has no actual cover
• Content server: Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused incorrect rendering of comments metadata in the book details panel in dark mode
• FB2 Input: Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke conversion of FB2 on macOS
• Metadata download from Google: Switch to making the queries via a Google web search as this finds some books that searching via the API does not
• Book details panel: Fix clicking on items from an enumerated column containing ampersands not searching correctly
• Image editor: Do not allow initial mouse drag to create selection rect outside the image bounds
• E-book viewer: Fix clicking on ToC entries moving keyboard focus to the ToC search box when the ToC window is floating
• Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused the default cover to be rendered small in some contexts
• Various bug fixes related to the new dark/light icon theme switching. Make the icons more consistent even when using the system theme. Use calibre specific file type icons when using the non native file dialogs. Allow creating dark/light override icons manually in the configuration folder.
• Disable the color theme setting when using system style
• When using a fixed color palette and the system colors are of different type enforce the color palette
• Ignore Qt generated application palette changes when using a fixed palette
• In the icon theme chooser dialog show themes show light and dark themes only in the light and dark tabs
• Welcome wizard: Fix device names not being translated correctly leading to the same name being repeated for some devices
• Read aloud: Fix spurious error message on Linux about voices not being installed
• Linux binaries: Bundle brotli and graphite2 as well as Qt links against them
• FTS dialog: When keyboard navigation changes the current item ensure it stays visible
• Binary builds: Fix Qt TLS backends not included
• Fix Qt WebEngine creating cache folders outside of the calibre cache directory

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• Full text search: Ignore soft hyphens when extracting searchable text from books. Note that you will have to re-index your library to take advantage of this.
• Content server: Have the Read button open PDF files in the browsers builtin PDF viewer rather than the calibre viewer since the calibre viewer is not well suited to PDF
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
• Create icon theme dialog: Add a checkbox to install the newly created theme into calibre
• Allow re-indexing a book for FTS by right clicking the Book details panel

Bug Fixes​

• Content server: Workaround for Chrome bug causing multiple sign in prompts when connecting to the server after restarting Chrome
• Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke rendering of first page of EPUB as cover when the EPUB has no actual cover
• Content server: Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused incorrect rendering of comments metadata in the book details panel in dark mode
• FB2 Input: Fix a regression in 6.0 that broke conversion of FB2 on macOS
• Metadata download from Google: Switch to making the queries via a Google web search as this finds some books that searching via the API does not
• Book details panel: Fix clicking on items from an enumerated column containing ampersands not searching correctly
• Image editor: Do not allow initial mouse drag to create selection rect outside the image bounds
• E-book viewer: Fix clicking on ToC entries moving keyboard focus to the ToC search box when the ToC window is floating
• Fix a regression in 6.0 that caused the default cover to be rendered small in some contexts
• Various bug fixes related to the new dark/light icon theme switching. Make the icons more consistent even when using the system theme. Use calibre specific file type icons when using the non native file dialogs. Allow creating dark/light override icons manually in the configuration folder.
• Disable the color theme setting when using system style
• When using a fixed color palette and the system colors are of different type enforce the color palette
• Ignore Qt generated application palette changes when using a fixed palette
• In the icon theme chooser dialog show light and dark themes only in the light and dark tabs
• Welcome wizard: Fix device names not being translated correctly leading to the same name being repeated for some devices
• Read aloud: Fix spurious error message on Linux about voices not being installed
• Linux binaries: Bundle brotli and graphite2 as well as Qt links against them
• FTS dialog: When keyboard navigation changes the current item ensure it stays visible
• Binary builds: Fix Qt TLS backends not included
• Fix Qt WebEngine creating cache folders outside of the calibre cache directory
• Version 6.2.1 fixes a regression in 6.2.0 that caused the Read button in the Content server to only work for PDF books

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