Calibre eBook Management Software Technology

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New Features​

• For details on the major changes in calibre between 4.0 and 5.0, see calibre - New in calibre 5.0
• E-book viewer: Add support for highlighting
• E-book viewer: Add support for right-to-left and vertical text
• Switch calibre to Python 3. This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins will not work. See List of PIs to be ported to Python 3 - MobileRead Forums
• Dark mode support for the Content server and E-book viewer user interfaces
• Content server's in-browser viewer now supports bookmarking. Bookmarks and highlights are auto-synced across devices.
• Regular expression engine used for searching the book list and reading metadata from filenames has been made more powerful.

Bug Fixes​

• Version 5.0.1 fixes a bug in 5.0.0 that broke connecting to devices on macOS

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New Features​

• Enhancement: allow using templates in search expressions
• Viewer lookup panel: Add a checkbox to disable automatic update of lookup when the selected text changes.
• Viewer: Allow skipping the confirmation when using the remove highlight button in the popup bar.

Bug Fixes​

• ToC Editor: Fix bulk rename of entries not working
• Linux: Fix right clicking on system tray icon not working
• Fix User category based searches unreliable dues to caching issues
• PDF Output: Dont fail if the input document has an html file identified as the cover
• Catalog generation: Fix a regression that broke generating catalogs if books with no comments are present.
• Windows: Fix error on first run of calibre after install/upgrade
• Viewer: Fix copy to clipboard button in toolbar not working
• Viewer: Fix copy to clipboard not copying text as HTML to clipboard in addition to plain text
• macOS: Fix some drop down menus such as in the ToC editor and cover generation in the Edit metadata dialog not working

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New Features​

• Browse annotations: Add a check box to restrict the displayed annotations to only the books currently selected in the calibre library.
• Allow storing and calling functions in the calibre template language (Preferences->Template functions)
• Add a shortcut (Shift+V) to open the last read book.

Bug Fixes​

• Fix import errors with some third party plugin on Windows
• Viewer: Fix toolbar show controls button not working when no book is open.
• Viewer: Fix incorrect positioning of context menu for viewer toolbar.
• MOBI Input: Fix regression that broke reading of some documents
• Bulk metadata search and replace: Fix some regular expression causing errors with the new regex engine
• Fix a regression that broke application of plugboards when sending by e-mail
• ODT Input: Fix a regression that broke conversion of ODT files with footnotes.
• Viewer: Fix mouse wheel not working while selection bar is visible
• Viewer: Fix selection popup bar not always close to mouse when ending select-to-drag
• Fix calibre-server not exiting on Ctrl+c on Windows
• Content server OPDS feeds: Fix error if the metadata for a book contains particular unicode characters.
• Edit book: Reports tool: Fix a regression that broke sorting.
• HTMLZ Output: Fix an error when converting a document that has SVG images

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New Features​

• Tag browser: When grouping items by first letter if adjacent letters have few entries combine them into a single group.
• Viewer: Allow displaying the current page / total pages in the header/footer. Useful in paged mode to see exactly how many pages are left.
• Viewer search panel: Show more result context in a tooltip when hovering over a search result.
• DOCX Input: Add support for Word controls used to rotate or flip images
• Viewer image pop-up: Allow maximizing/minimizing the window.
• Edit metadata dialog: Use only a single line for custom column date fields
• Add an item to search for categories to the category editor context menu.
• Category editor: Add a right click menu to change case of the selected entries.

Bug Fixes​

• Fix a regression in 5.0 that caused performance of dialogs that contain title/series/tags edit fields to be very poor with large libraries.
• Fix a regression in 5.0 that caused some pop-up menus to appear on the wrong monitor in multi-monitor setups
• macOS: Fix a long standing bug that prevented drag and drop of multiple items
• Windows: Fix a regression that broke scanning for default programs for the Open with action
• Windows: Fix a regression in 5.0 causing some MOBI files with non-BMP characters not being processed correctly.
• E-book viewer: Fix scrolling past the end of chapter boundaries not working in books that have negative margins
• Edit metadata dialog: fix incorrect rendering of custom column names that start with emoji.
• Quickview: Fix nothing shown after clearing the search.
• Dark mode: Fix radio buttons having no outline.
• Annotations browser: When showing a book in the calibre library that is not currently visible, display an error.

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New Features​

• Windows: Allow adding of books to calibre from directories whose path length is larger than 260 characters
• Tag browser: Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser to allow the tag browser to get keyboard focus
• Tag browser: Allow editing the set of permissible values and colors for a custom column with fixed values, by right clicking on it.
• Edit metadata dialog: Make most custom metadata controls use only a single line.
• Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Add an option to merge CSS rules that have identical properties
• Book details window: Double clicking on the cover now shows it in the default system image viewer.
• News download: Allow passing username/password in feed URLs.
• Open with: Allow renaming Open with applications.

Bug Fixes​

• Viewer: Fix jumping to search result not always working in flow mode.
• Get Books: Update Google and Gutenberg plugins for website changes
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts using ctrl+alt+letter key not working on windows.
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts to shrink/grow selection not working.
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle highlights panel not working when the highlights panel is itself focused.
• Viewer: handle editing of missing highlights more gracefully
• Drivers: Fix regression in calibre 5 that broke connecting to SONY devices
• Open with: On Linux when reading names from .desktop files, use the first matching language
• Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke conversion of some malformed CSS stylesheets.
• Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of some PDB files with images.
• Conversion: Fix regression in calibre 5 in the handling of @import() rules in stylesheets that import from directories above themselves.
• Content server: Fix various controls on the book details page not working when viewing a random book.
• Tag browser: Fix a crash when renaming a saved search to a value that already exists.
• Tag browser: Fix renaming of custom column with fixed set of values not working.
• Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke auto-sync of generated catalogs to devices.
• Fix setting rating via ebook-meta command line tool broken in calibre 5.
• : When boolean columns are set to bistate, checking "show checkmarks" results in all non-boolean values being shown as false
• Spell check: Fix using non UTF-8 dictionaries broken in calibre 5
• Fix a rare issue where restarting calibre from within the program would fail.

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New Features​

• Windows: Allow adding of books to calibre from directories whose path length is larger than 260 characters
• Tag browser: Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser to allow the tag browser to get keyboard focus
• Tag browser: Allow editing the set of permissible values and colors for a custom column with fixed values, by right clicking on it.
• Edit metadata dialog: Make most custom metadata controls use only a single line.
• Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Add an option to merge CSS rules that have identical properties
• Book details window: Double clicking on the cover now shows it in the default system image viewer.
• News download: Allow passing username/password in feed URLs.
• Open with: Allow renaming Open with applications.

Bug Fixes​

• Viewer: Fix jumping to search result not always working in flow mode.
• Get Books: Update Google and Gutenberg plugins for website changes
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts using ctrl+alt+letter key not working on windows.
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts to shrink/grow selection not working.
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle highlights panel not working when the highlights panel is itself focused.
• Viewer: handle editing of missing highlights more gracefully
• Drivers: Fix regression in calibre 5 that broke connecting to SONY devices
• Open with: On Linux when reading names from .desktop files, use the first matching language
• Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke conversion of some malformed CSS stylesheets.
• Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of some PDB files with images.
• Conversion: Fix regression in calibre 5 in the handling of @import() rules in stylesheets that import from directories above themselves.
• Content server: Fix various controls on the book details page not working when viewing a random book.
• Tag browser: Fix a crash when renaming a saved search to a value that already exists.
• Tag browser: Fix renaming of custom column with fixed set of values not working.
• Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke auto-sync of generated catalogs to devices.
• Fix setting rating via ebook-meta command line tool broken in calibre 5.
• : When boolean columns are set to bistate, checking "show checkmarks" results in all non-boolean values being shown as false
• Spell check: Fix using non UTF-8 dictionaries broken in calibre 5
• Fix a rare issue where restarting calibre from within the program would fail.

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New Features​

• Windows: Allow adding of books to calibre from directories whose path length is larger than 260 characters
• Tag browser: Add an option in Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser to allow the tag browser to get keyboard focus
• Tag browser: Allow editing the set of permissible values and colors for a custom column with fixed values, by right clicking on it.
• Edit metadata dialog: Make most custom metadata controls use only a single line.
• Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Add an option to merge CSS rules that have identical properties
• Book details window: Double clicking on the cover now shows it in the default system image viewer.
• News download: Allow passing username/password in feed URLs.
• Open with: Allow renaming Open with applications.

Bug Fixes​

• Viewer: Fix jumping to search result not always working in flow mode.
• Get Books: Update Google and Gutenberg plugins for website changes
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts using ctrl+alt+letter key not working on windows.
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts to shrink/grow selection not working.
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle highlights panel not working when the highlights panel is itself focused.
• Viewer: handle editing of missing highlights more gracefully
• Drivers: Fix regression in calibre 5 that broke connecting to SONY devices
• Open with: On Linux when reading names from .desktop files, use the first matching language
• Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke conversion of some malformed CSS stylesheets.
• Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of some PDB files with images.
• Conversion: Fix regression in calibre 5 in the handling of @import() rules in stylesheets that import from directories above themselves.
• Content server: Fix various controls on the book details page not working when viewing a random book.
• Tag browser: Fix a crash when renaming a saved search to a value that already exists.
• Tag browser: Fix renaming of custom column with fixed set of values not working.
• Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke auto-sync of generated catalogs to devices.
• Fix setting rating via ebook-meta command line tool broken in calibre 5.
• : When boolean columns are set to bistate, checking "show checkmarks" results in all non-boolean values being shown as false
• Spell check: Fix using non UTF-8 dictionaries broken in calibre 5
• Fix a rare issue where restarting calibre from within the program would fail.
• Version 5.4.2 fixes bugs in 5.4.0 that prevented calibre from starting on macOS and from choosing save file names on Windows.

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New Features​

• Support the calibre:// URL scheme
• Viewer: Show calibre:// URL for current book in the Goto->Location panel
• Edit book: Add an action to the right click menu for tabs to close tabs to the right of the current tab.
• Add ability to copy tag, publisher and author in Book details panel by right-clicking
• Annotations browser: Add a context menu for common actions.
• Annotations browser: Show a dot for highlights with notes.
• Edit book: Saved searches panel: Allow copying the current saved search to the regular search panel by clicking the Export button.
• Windows: Fix command line arguments not working for the portable.exe launchers
• Viewer: back and forward buttons on the mouse now trigger the back and forward actions
• Option to mark all books with annotations/bookmarks
• Various minor improvements to how keyboard focus is handled in the Tag browser

Bug Fixes​

• Edit book: Fix regression in calibre 5 that caused an error when managing user dictionaries.
• Viewer: Fix previous/next buttons iterating over removed bookmarks
• Welcome wizard: Fix changing the language causing a empty folder to be created.
• Viewer: Fix regression causing custom shortcuts with shift key pressed not working
• Viewer: In dark mode when showing images with transparency in the popup use a light background color as most images are designed with a light background color in mind.
• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of DJVU files
• Metadata edit: "Set to Undefined" button missing on integer columns.
• Entry remains underlined in Tag Browser after clearing filter
• XML Catalogs: Fix languages field missing
• Fix a regression that broke loading of third party plugins that are encoded in an encoding other than UTF-8
• macOS: Fix viewer not responding to cmd+c to copy text by default
• Windows: Fix sending email on computers with non-ASCII computer names

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New Features​

• Edit book: Show a non-modal popup for a few seconds to allow undoing file delete operations
• Device books view: Add an action to the context menu to easily jump to the matching book in the calibre library view
• Add ability to undo Generate cover in the Edit metadata screen, by long clicking the Generate cover button
• Edit book: Allow adding tags to the list of tags for the insert tag button
• calibredb add: New option --automerge to automatically merge duplicates
• Add an edit notes action to the context menu in the viewer highlights panel
• Content server viewer: Allow viewing images in a new window by right clicking them, matches the calibre builtin viewer behavior
• Book details window: Allow opening the edit metadata window using either the keyboard shortcut or the context menu
• Allow copying the current search as a calibre:// URL by right clicking the search box
• Book details panel: Add entries to copy calibre:// links for the current book to the context menu
• Edit book: Upgrade book: Ask whether to keep the NCX based Table of Contents

Bug Fixes​

• Windows: Fix calibre portable launcher not working correctly from root directory in calibre 5.5
• macOS: Fix rendering of space after punctuation incorrect in Big Sur
• DOCX Input: When converting images placed using the obsolete VML markup default them to being inline rather than block images
• Metadata edit dialog: Fix keyboard shortcuts for bold/italic/underline not working when more than one comments editor widget is present on a single tab
• When using calibre://show-book URLs and the book is not found, clear any Virtual library or search restriction and then show the book
• macOS: Fix calibre:// URLs not working from other documents
• Fix calibre:// URL search action not changing library if needed
• annotation_count() template function displaying value for deleted annotations
• Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting not recognizing ends-with selector

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New Features​

• E-book viewer: Add a "Read aloud" function that works via the operating system's Text-to-speech engine.
• A new busy spinner for waiting animations
• Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field.

Bug Fixes​

• PDF Output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke text rendering for some fonts due to a bug in Qt WebEngine.
• PDF Output: Fix conversion failing when adding header/footer and the input document defines margins/padding on the tag.
  
  • Windows: Fix the case of library names in copied calibre:// links sometimes incorrect.
  • AZW3 Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of files with inline flow replacements.
  • Fix hiding and showing book details panel changes its size by a pixel or two.
  • Get books: Fix amazon.fr not working because of website changes.
  • Bulk metadata search/replace: Fix text transform function not being applied to the test result in character mode
  • Book list: Improve rendering of column headers when they dont fit, by eliding them instead of just cutting off rendering.
  • Fix template function "first_non_empty" fails if no argument evaluates non-empty

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