Calibre eBook Management Software Technology

[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Allow specifying web search links that are used when clicking on item names in the Book details panel for custom columns via Preferences->Add your own columns
• Content server: When clicking on author names in the book details page perform the same action as clicking it in the calibre program's Book details panel

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Fix a regression in 7.17 that caused various minor problems with editing metadata directly in the book list
• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion using Heuristics and TXT input documents
• E-book viewer: Fix header/footer text size too small when using multiple monitors and the primary monitors DPI is much less than secondary monitor DPI
• Fix series mapping rules in the metadata preferences not working
• Fix setting custom icon for category doesn't work
• Kobo driver: Fix a regression that broke working with very old Kobo devices

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Much improved Kobo support
• Connect to folder: Allow connecting a specific device
• When completing names for fields that contain hierarchical data in prefix mode match prefixes after every period
• ToC editor: Allow moving of multiple selected items in the Table of Contents
• macOS: The calibre application icons in the dock are now displayed in a white frame to follow Apple's current recommended icon style
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware on Tolino devices
• Book details: Add option in to suppress author search links

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Fix a regression that broke tabbing to edit cells in the book list when some columns have been hidden or re-ordered
• Catalog generation: Allow using templates that access the database for notes
• Fix a bug when renaming authors to a name with commas in it
• Full text search: Also index text in ZIP and RAR archives as these can be viewed by the calibre viewer
• E-book viewer: Fix Table of Contents current entry tracking not working for some books
• When reading metadata from HTML also recognize name="subject" meta tags as calibre tags
• E-book viewer: Fix viewer not closing on the interrupt signal
• Edit book: Download external resources: Fix incorrect filename if the server returns a generic Content-Type header
• Metadata download: Publisher/series transform rules: Fix values with commas in them not working

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Much improved Kobo support
• Connect to folder: Allow connecting a specific device
• When completing names for fields that contain hierarchical data in prefix mode match prefixes after every period
• ToC editor: Allow moving of multiple selected items in the Table of Contents
• macOS: The calibre application icons in the dock are now displayed in a white frame to follow Apple's current recommended icon style
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware on Tolino devices
• Book details: Add option in to suppress author search links

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Fix a regression that broke tabbing to edit cells in the book list when some columns have been hidden or re-ordered
• Catalog generation: Allow using templates that access the database for notes
• Fix a bug when renaming authors to a name with commas in it
• Full text search: Also index text in ZIP and RAR archives as these can be viewed by the calibre viewer
• E-book viewer: Fix Table of Contents current entry tracking not working for some books
• When reading metadata from HTML also recognize name="subject" meta tags as calibre tags
• E-book viewer: Fix viewer not closing on the interrupt signal
• Edit book: Download external resources: Fix incorrect filename if the server returns a generic Content-Type header
• Metadata download: Publisher/series transform rules: Fix values with commas in them not working
• Version 8.0.1 fixes a failure to start on systems where the user had previously installed the KoboTouchExtended plugin and disabled the builtin KoboTouch driver

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to edit it with an external program
• Virtual library tabs: When the tabs are locked prevent them from being re-ordered as well
• FreeBSD: Add support for connecting to devices, contributed by Guido Falsi

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• macOS: Fix regression in previous release that caused calibre:// URLs to no longer work
• macOS: Fix a regression in calibre 8 that prevented icons in menus from being rendered
• Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation settings not being applied correctly when generating KEPUB to put on the device
• KEPUB Output: Include leading whitespace in kobo sentence span tags. This prevents unsightly breaks when highlighting across formatted text on the Kobo
• Content server: Fix FB2 books not readable via the in-browser viewer
• Edit book: Add text narration: Fix preferred voice for language setting being ignored
• E-book viewer: Use IPC to update annotations when calibre is running. Avoids possible loss of annotations in the Annotations browser due to db being locked
• Ensure calibre temp files are deleted even on program crash
• Fix incorrect minimums on font size changing controls in viewer
• Fix regression in previous release causing incorrect rendering of layout menu on some macOS machines
• Fix archive formats such as ZIP not being indexed for full text search

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to edit it with an external program
• Virtual library tabs: When the tabs are locked prevent them from being re-ordered as well
• FreeBSD: Add support for connecting to devices, contributed by Guido Falsi

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• macOS: Fix regression in previous release that caused calibre:// URLs to no longer work
• macOS: Fix a regression in calibre 8 that prevented icons in menus from being rendered
• Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation settings not being applied correctly when generating KEPUB to put on the device
• KEPUB Output: Include leading whitespace in kobo sentence span tags. This prevents unsightly breaks when highlighting across formatted text on the Kobo
• Content server: Fix FB2 books not readable via the in-browser viewer
• Edit book: Add text narration: Fix preferred voice for language setting being ignored
• E-book viewer: Use IPC to update annotations when calibre is running. Avoids possible loss of annotations in the Annotations browser due to db being locked
• Ensure calibre temp files are deleted even on program crash
• Fix incorrect minimums on font size changing controls in viewer
• Fix regression in previous release causing incorrect rendering of layout menu on some macOS machines
• Fix archive formats such as ZIP not being indexed for full text search
• Version 8.1.1 fixes a regression causing an error that does not affect functionality on startup on macOS

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Kobo driver: Add support for new Tolino firmware
• Kindle driver: Allow using a value of * in Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output to have the driver mark all books sent to the device as personal documents

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation and extra CSS added to KEPUB files being ignored by the renderer on the Kobo
• macOS: Fix opening book folder or PDF files for books with square brackets in the title not working
• Quickview: Fix a long standing bug with syncing of columns in the presence of hidden/re-ordered columns
• E-book viewer: Show an error message when an invalid nearby search expression is used
• KEPUB Output: Fix incorrect encoding detection for some HTML files without an encoding declaration
• macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused failures in the E-book viewer when updating annotations for books with a large number of annotations

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[TechNikAl]

[H2]New Features[/H2]

• Kobo driver: Add support for new Tolino firmware
• Kindle driver: Allow using a value of * in Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output to have the driver mark all books sent to the device as personal documents

[H2]Bug Fixes[/H2]

• Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation and extra CSS added to KEPUB files being ignored by the renderer on the Kobo
• macOS: Fix opening book folder or PDF files for books with square brackets in the title not working
• Quickview: Fix a long standing bug with syncing of columns in the presence of hidden/re-ordered columns
• E-book viewer: Show an error message when an invalid nearby search expression is used
• KEPUB Output: Fix incorrect encoding detection for some HTML files without an encoding declaration
• macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused failures in the E-book viewer when updating annotations for books with a large number of annotations
• Version 8.2.1 fixes an error when clicking on format links in the book details panel

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• Cover grid: Allow configuring different backgrounds for light and dark mode in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover grid
• E-book viewer: Further speedup first open of large EPUB files by another 30%
• Metadata review dialog: Add merge comments action

Bug Fixes​

• Kobo driver: Fix viewing of KEPUB files from the device view in calibre not working
• Fix a regression in 8.1 that broke displaying of the debug log when running in debug mode
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.0 that caused the clock to display an extra p after the time

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• KEPUB Output: Add an option to generate KEPUB files that have better text justification at the cost of gaps in highlighting when used on the Kobo
• E-book viewer: Allow the background image specified in the Style section of the viewer preferences to extend under the page margins as well

Bug Fixes​

• E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the "show book in main calibre program" link
• News download: Fix Next/Previous links not working when the pointed to article failed to download
• E-book viewer: Handle links to missing internal files with an error popup rather than becoming non-functional
• E-book viewer: Fix some links not being processed correctly for very large EPUB files with many internal HTML files
• Get books: Update ebooks.com plugin for website changes
• Metadata review dialog: Fix merging of tags not working correctly
• Wayland: Workaround Qt/Wayland bug that prevents the menu of the Layout button from showing
• Prevent recursion when creating base temporary folder if something on system deletes the created temporary folder

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<h2>Get calibre</h2>
<p>Choose the type of computer on which you plan to use calibre, below:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="calibre - Download for Windows"><img src="https://calibre-ebook.com/resources/img/windows_logo.jpg" alt="Download calibre for Windows">Windows</a></li>
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<p>Learn how to work with calibre on a mobile phone/tablet</p>
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</ul>

<p>Signatures for all the calibre installer files are <a target="_blank" href="Index of /signatures/">here</a></p>

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