Calibre eBook Management Software Technology

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New Features​

• Edit book: Show full path to book being edited in the status bar
• Edit book: When adding dictionaries allow directly a LibreOffice adding the dictionary just by choosing the language
• Edit book: When saving a copy add some convenience actions to edit the copy immediately either in the current editor window or a new window
• E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Allow right clicking to export only selected highlights

Bug Fixes​

• Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused Text search to sometimes not select matches correctly
• Edit book: When copying files do it in order so that the files are pasted in the same order when pasting into another editor instance
• Edit book: Fix smart tag insert not working correctly if the selected text starts with the closing angle bracket of a tag
• Save to disk: Do not limit the total path length to 240 characters on non-Windows platforms
• Fix incorrect cover for AZW3 version of calibre User Manual
• Content server: Change formatting of book details to match new de-emphasized titles based formatting in the main calibre program
• PDF metadata: Fix a regression that broke updating metadata in PDF files without an /Info dictionary
• NOOK driver: For the Glowlight 2023 write the calibre metadata files into the NOOK sub-folder as the firmware does not allow writing files into the root folder
• NOOK driver: Fix Glowlight 2023 not being detected on Linux and macOS
• E-book viewer: Make CFI calculation more robust especially on pages with very little content
• E-book viewer: Workaround bug in Chromium where getBoundingClientRect() fails sometimes leading to incorrect calculation of anchor positions
• Fix errors caused by .DS_Store files inserted into the .caltrash directory on macOS if the user happens to open .caltrash in Finder

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• Edit book: Show full path to book being edited in the status bar
• Edit book: When adding dictionaries allow directly a LibreOffice adding the dictionary just by choosing the language
• Edit book: When saving a copy add some convenience actions to edit the copy immediately either in the current editor window or a new window
• E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Allow right clicking to export only selected highlights

Bug Fixes​

• Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused Text search to sometimes not select matches correctly
• Edit book: When copying files do it in order so that the files are pasted in the same order when pasting into another editor instance
• Edit book: Fix smart tag insert not working correctly if the selected text starts with the closing angle bracket of a tag
• Save to disk: Do not limit the total path length to 240 characters on non-Windows platforms
• Fix incorrect cover for AZW3 version of calibre User Manual
• Content server: Change formatting of book details to match new de-emphasized titles based formatting in the main calibre program
• PDF metadata: Fix a regression that broke updating metadata in PDF files without an /Info dictionary
• NOOK driver: For the Glowlight 2023 write the calibre metadata files into the NOOK sub-folder as the firmware does not allow writing files into the root folder
• NOOK driver: Fix Glowlight 2023 not being detected on Linux and macOS
• E-book viewer: Make CFI calculation more robust especially on pages with very little content
• E-book viewer: Workaround bug in Chromium where getBoundingClientRect() fails sometimes leading to incorrect calculation of anchor positions
• Fix errors caused by .DS_Store files inserted into the .caltrash directory on macOS if the user happens to open .caltrash in Finder
• Version 6.28.1 fixes a regression in 6.28.0 that could cause errors when merging some book records in calibre

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New Features​

• E-book viewer: Add a command line flag --new-instance to force the viewer to open a new window even if the option to always use a single viewer window is set
• E-book viewer: Image popup: Add a checkbox to remember the last used zoom level

Bug Fixes​

• Annotations browser: Fix exporting highlights in markdown not including all chapter titles for books with only a single highlight per chapter or a multi level ToC
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression that could cause the viewer to enter an infinite loop when displaying the result of a search that has only one match that is not found
• E-book viewer: Fix the occasional search result being marked as not found even though it is found
• TXTZ Output plugin: Only keep images if the text format is one that can reference images
• TXTZ Output: Fix cover not being properly identified in the generated TXTZ metadata
• FB2 Input: Fix the "Annotations" section not showing up in the Table of Contents
• Linux: Content server: Do not call listen on pre-activated sockets
• Fix sort order of similarly-named hierarchical categories
• Fix a regression that broke reading of covers from HTMLZ and TXTZ files

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New Features​

• For details on the major changes in calibre between 7.0 and 6.0, see calibre - New in calibre 7.0
• 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
• 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

Bug Fixes​

• Metadata download: Fix downloads from Google not working in Europe because of the GDPR
• Fix editing dates with days sometimes off by one day
• 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
• PDF Output: Fix an error when trying to set header or footer with an input document that has invalid content after the main body
• E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix clicking on empty spaces causing read aloud to restart from beginning of chapter
• 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
• Fix very slow metadata updates on some PDF files
• Catalogs: Do not erase any tags the user adds to a catalog book entry when the catalog is re-generated
• Linux installer: Fix downloading of signatures for older versions
• Fix editing non-active Virtual library changes sort of book list

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New Features​

• Notes editor: When pasting HTML with images offer to download remote images in the pasted content

Bug Fixes​

• Fix regression in 7.0 that broke restore of db from backups
• Content server: Fix newly added books on homepage not restricted to the books the logged in user is allowed to access
• When starting in system tray do not flash the main window briefly
• Notes editor: Fix spurious error message when saving a note that contains pasted HTML that refers to an image
• Fix a regression that caused the unknown/unset date to incorrectly be displayed/edited as a date in the year AD 101 in some timezones
• Comments editor: Fix data file links not working
• Linux installer: Check that the user has libxcb-cursor.so.0 installed. If not quit early with an error message asking them to install it
• LRF Output: Fix a regression in 7.0 that broke conversion to LRF

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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
• 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
• 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

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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
• E-book viewer: When looking up words via Google in Europe pre-approve the GDPR consent cookie
• Windows: Content server: Fix regression in previous release that broke testing for local connections
• Windows: Fix a regression that caused selections in the Book details panel to be invisible

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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
• 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

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[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Allow fine tuning the colors used in the calibre interface via Preference->Look & feel->Main interface->User interface colors
• Full text search window: Add actions to the context menu to open the book at the clicked on result. Also allow using the view book shortcut to open the currently selected search result
• When showing the Full text search dialog, pre populate the search box with the contents of the main calibre search box if the main search box contains a simple search

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Windows: Fix a regression in 7.0 that caused images referring to files on the disk within comments columns to not display in some circumstances
• E-book viewer: Fix clock showing hour as zero instead of 12 between 12 and 1 am/pm
• Edit book: When wrapping selected text in a tag, preserve the selection after wrapping
• Content server: Fix a periodic spurious error message when reading books in offline mode
• Fix a regression in 7.0 caused by a regression in Qt that would result in calibre hanging rarely when using the cover browser view
• Fix custom template functions not useable in save to disk templates
• Fix a regression in 7.2 that caused the popup used for editing fields in the book list to be mis-positioned on very wide monitors

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Allow fine tuning the colors used in the calibre interface via Preference->Look & feel->Main interface->User interface colors
• Full text search window: Add actions to the context menu to open the book at the clicked on result. Also allow using the view book shortcut to open the currently selected search result
• When showing the Full text search dialog, pre populate the search box with the contents of the main calibre search box if the main search box contains a simple search

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Windows: Fix a regression in 7.0 that caused images referring to files on the disk within comments columns to not display in some circumstances
• E-book viewer: Fix clock showing hour as zero instead of 12 between 12 and 1 am/pm
• Edit book: When wrapping selected text in a tag, preserve the selection after wrapping
• Content server: Fix a periodic spurious error message when reading books in offline mode
• Fix a regression in 7.0 caused by a regression in Qt that would result in calibre hanging rarely when using the cover browser view
• Fix custom template functions not useable in save to disk templates
• Fix a regression in 7.2 that caused the popup used for editing fields in the book list to be mis-positioned on very wide monitors
• Version 7.5.1 fixes a bug in 7.5.0 where calibre would not start up using dark colors when the system was in dark mode on some windows installs and another bug that could cause errors when using cover grid mode with covers stored in CMYK colorspace

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