Calibre v. 6.14.1 - Crossplattform-Ebook-Management und -Reader

[Jean]

v. 5.34 - Happy holidays to everyone!
Driver for the new Nook Glowlight 4
Edit book: Spell check tool: Add an exclude files button to exclude some files from being checked
EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Increase the maximum thumbnail size to 3 inches from 2 inches
Allow creating a shortcut in Preferences->Shortcuts->Edit metadata to paste metadata ignoring the value of the exclude_fields tweak
E-book viewer: Displays links marked up as glossary and bibliography links as popups
Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to provide the sort value for undefined numbers

[Gordon]

Release: 5.35 [21 Jan, 2022]
New features
Coloring/icon rules: Allow creating a rule for date columns that matches *today*

Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware
Content server: Show total number of results when searching for books

Bug fixes

https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

[Gordon]

Release: 5.36 [04 Feb, 2022]
New features
Edit metadata dialog: Allow controlling which custom columns are present in this dialog via Preferences->Look & feel->Edit metadata
Edit metadata dialog: Allow manually sizing the various sections of the dialog in "All on 1 tab" mode
Edit book: Spell checking: Update the bundled English and Spanish dictionaries
BibTeX catalogs: Support tags like custom columns
Closes tickets: 1958773

Bug fixes

[Alexs]

5.37 [18 Feb, 2022]

New features

• Book details: Add actions to trim the cover to the right-click menu
• Allow removing multiple email addresses at once in Preferences → Sharing by email
• Book details: Use a better mono-spaced font on Windows by default
• Add a tweak in Preferences → Tweaks to change the behavior of the Tab key when completing entries
• Edit metadata: In "All in one" mode add an adjustable splitter between the cover and formats boxes

Bug fixes
Improved news sources

• Live Mint
• The Hindu
• Reuters
• MMC RTV Slovenija
• Down To Earth
• Publico.PT

https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

[Gordon]

Release: 5.38 [04 Mar, 2022]
New features
E-book viewer: When displaying estimated time to completion for reading a book, remember the reading rate the next time the book is opened

Dark theme: Highlight the current cell in the book list with a darker background and different foreground to make it more obvious

An option to disable editing composite columns in the main book list when Tabbing through them (Preferences->Look & feel->Edit metadata)

Bug fixes

[Gordon]

Release: 5.39 [18 Mar, 2022]
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

[Jean]

und noch die v. 5.39.1 - weniger Fehler

[Gordon]

Release: 5.40 [01 Apr, 2022]

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 <li> 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

New news sources
Reason Magazine by Howard Cornett
Seminar Magazine by unkn0wn
Frontline by unkn0wn

https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

[Gordon]

Release: 5.41 [22 Apr, 2022]
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)
Closes tickets: 1968810

Kobo driver: Support updated firmware
Show a popup message when a Kindle is connected mentioning the Amazon cover bug and how to workaround it
Closes tickets: 1967149

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

[Jean]

v. 5.42 - weniger Fehler, neue Quellen
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

[Gordon]

nicht ganz unerwartet folgt 5.4.3, kleinere Neuigkeiten, neue Quellen und Bugfixes:
https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

[Gordon]

Release: 5.44 [17 Jun, 2022]
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)
Closes tickets: 1976105

Kobo driver: Support for updated firmware
Allow customizing how yes/no columns are displayed (Preferences->Add your own columns)
Closes tickets: 1977681

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

[Gordon]

großes Update auf 6.0

Release: 6.0 [11 Jul, 2022]
New features
For details on the major changes in calibre between 6.0 and 5.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fifteen
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

https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

[Gordon]

Release: 6.1 [16 Jul, 2022]
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

[Gordon]

Release: 6.2.1 [29 Jul, 2022]
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

[Jean]

v. 6.3.0 - heiler
New features:
E-book viewer: Allow searching for nearby words using a new "Nearby words" search mode
calibredb: New fts_search and fts_index commands to perform full text searching from the command line
Image viewing popup: Allow zooming using the standard shortcuts of Ctrl+plus/minus
Various Russian and Ukranian news sources by bugmen00t
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[jasonliul]

v6.4 [02 Sep, 2022]
New features
Conversion pipeline: Add support for !important when flattening CSS rules
Content server: Use the chapter title as the base bookmark name when creating new bookmarks
Allow changing the search order when clicking on items in the Tag browser (Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser->Hierarchy and searching)
Check library: Make vacuuming the full text database optional as it is very slow and memory intensive
Tag browser: Move the preferences for controlling the order and display of categories in the Tag browser from Preferences->Tweaks to Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser
User category editor: Hide items not visible in the Tag browser
Allow adding a button to show the Manage categories window to the toolbars via Preferences->Toolbars & menus
Google metadata download: When excluding results from a web search because they don't match the specified title/author ignore diacritics, accents, etc.

[Gordon]

Release: 6.5 [16 Sep, 2022]
New features
Kobo driver: support the new Kobo Clara 2e
When running calibre with the --with-library command line flag and calibre is already running, switch to the specified library in calibre
Closes tickets: 1989631

E-book viewer: Ask for confirmation when deleting a custom highlight style
Closes tickets: 1988443

Do not show the virtual libraries tab bar when no virtual libraries are present
Closes tickets: 1988609

Tag mapper: When specifying the replacement tag allow completion from the tags in the currently open library
Template language: New functions strcasecmp() and to_hex()
Bug fixes

https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

[Jean]

v. 6.6.0 und 6.6.1 gleich hinterher
Book details: allow displaying multi-valued categories such as tags on separate lines via Preferences->Look & feel->Book details
Tag browser: When searching the Tag browser allow also filtering the book list to show only books that match one of the categories currently shown in the Tag browser.
Edit book: When right clicking on HTML files in EPUB 3 books, allow marking them as the Table of Contents (NAV document)
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[Gordon]

Release: 6.7 [14 Oct, 2022]
New features
Template language: A new "Python template mode" which allows using arbitrary Python code in templates
Tag browser: Allow removing format from selected books by right clicking on the format in the Tag browser
Closes tickets: 1992273

E-book viewer: Ask for confirmation when creating a highlight that will overwrite existing highlights
Closes tickets: 1991597

Book list: Allow changing column widths via a dedicated dialog by right clicking on column headers

Bug fixes