Calibre 5.17

New Features
• Conversion: Detect and remove fake page margins that are specified as a margin on (nearly) every paragraph.
This can be turned off via an option under Structure Detection, in case it removes margins that should have been kept.
• Windows build: All the python code and recipes are now put into zip files. This should decrease the amount of time the windows installer spends 'calculating free space'
• OSX and Linux: Add a setting in Preferences->Behavior to control the priority with which calibre worker processes run. This setting was already available on windows.
• Driver for HTC Thunderbolt, T-Mobile Optimus, Archos 43 and Blackberry OS6
• A new 'authors type' custom column
• When building calibre from source note that calibre now absolutely requires python >= 2.7
• Add the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+R to restart calibre in debug mode
Bug Fixes
• Fix dragging and dropping lots of books from the book list to the Tag Browser was broken
• Change the shebang in the calibre launcher script on linux to explicitly use python2 rather than python
• When adding formats do not corrupt the added file if the user tries to add an existing format to itself
• Fix drag and drop to add files that contain the # character in the filename
• Tag editor shouldn't add empty tags
• MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that have a too large 'number of records' field in their headers.
• News download: Update RSS feedparser module to latest version
• Various fixes to the zipfile module in calibre to handle 64 bit zipfiles and bring it up to date with the zip file module in the python stdlib
• News download: Handle titles with ASCII control codes in them.
• Make search hierarchies show simple names instead of compound ones.
• Fix commas in author names being converted to pipe symbols in the book details window
• Fix PocketBook can't always find epub cover image to create thumbnail
New news sources
• Planet KDE by Riccardo Iaconelli
• HVG by Istvan Papp
• Caijing Magazine by Unknown
Improved news sources
• 168 ora
• LWN weekly
• Christian Science Monitor
• Washington Post
• West Hawaii Today

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New Features
•Add a menu bar. Useful if you use a lot of plugins and are running out of space in your toolbars. By default the menu bar is hidden (except on OS X). You can add actions to it via Preferences->Toolbars. As soon as you add actions, it will become visible.
•OS X: Make the main calibre window look a little more 'native' on OS X
•Show recently viewed books in the View button's drop down menu
•Add a button next to the search bar to toggle easily between highlight and restrict search modes
•Allow the use of arbitrary searches as search restrictions, rather than just saved searches. Do this by using the special entry '*Current Search' in the Search Restriction dropdown.
•The Connect/share icon now changes color to indicate that the content server is running
•Device drivers for Viewpad 7, Motorola Xoom and Asus Eee Note
•Add tags like composite custom column.
•Add a new date format code 'iso'. Permits formatting dates to see the complete time (via Preferences->Tweaks)
•Allow the use of data from the size column in the template language
•Support reading/writing covers to txtz/htmlz files
•Speedup for large library sorting when using composite custom columns
•Move the boolean columns are tristate tweak to Preferences->Behavior
Bug Fixes
•Fix a regression in 0.7.54 that broke reading covers/metadata from cbz files.
•Fix tweak names and help not translatable
•When the size of a book is less that 0.1MB but not zero, display the size as <0.1 instead of 0.0.
•HTMLZ input: Fix handling of HTML files encoded in an encoding other than UTF-8
•EPUB Input: Fix EPUB files with empty Adobe PAGE templates causing conversion to abort.
•Fix CHM input plugin not closing opened input file
•MOBI Output: Make super/subscripts use a slightly smaller font when rendered on a Kindle. Also allow the use of vertical-align:top/bottom in the CSS to specify a super/subscript.
•LRF Input: Detect and workaround LRF files that have deeply nested spans, instead of crashing.
•MOBI Output: Fix bug that would cause conversion to unneccessarily abort when malformed hyperlinks are present in the input document.
•Make true and false searches work correctly for numeric fields.
•MOBI Output: The Ignore margins setting no longer ignores blockquotes, only margins set via CSS on other elements.
•Fix regression that caused clicking auto send to also change the email address in Preferences->Email
New news sources
•Hallo Assen and Dvhn by Reijendert
Improved news sources
•Wall Street Journal
•Weblogs SL
•Tabu.ro
•Vecernje Novosti

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New Features
•This is primarily a bug fix release that fixes a bug in 0.7.55 that caused calibre to rescan the files on the device every time the device is connected. If you updated to 0.7.55 it is highly recommended you update to 0.7.56
•Device driver for Coby Kyros
•Remove the quick access to search options from next to the search bar, as we now have a separate search highlights toggle button
•MOBI Output: Ensure that MOBI files always have 8KB worth of null bytes at the end of record 0. This appears to be necessary for Amazon to be able to add DRM to calibre generated MOBI files sent to their publishing service.
•Add a tool to inspect MOBI files. To use: calibre-debug -m file.mobi
Bug Fixes
•Fixed regression taht caused calibre to rescan files on the device on every reconnect
•Fix donate button causing the toolbar to be too large on OS X
•MOBI Input: Fix detection of Table of Contents for MOBI files that have a page break between the location designated as the Table of Contents and the actual table of contents.
•Comic Input: Fix handling of some CBZ files that have wrongly encoded non ASCII filenames on windows.
•PML Input: Fix multi-line chapter title causing a spurious page break
•EPUB Input: Speed up processing of files with very large manifest/spines
•Fix regression that broke cover:False searches in 0.7.55
Improved news sources
•Suedduetsche Zeitung
•Irish Times
•Big Oven
•NSPM

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New Features
• Launch worker processes on demand instead of keeping a pool of them in memory. Reduces memory footprint.
• Use the visual formatting of the Table of Contents to try to automatically create a multi-level TOC when converting/viewing MOBI files.
• Add a new function booksize() to the template language to get the value of the size column in calibre.
• Add support for using metadata plugboards with the content server (only with the epub format)
• Change default algorithm for automatically computing author sort to be more intelligent and handle the case when the author name has a comma in it
• Show cover size in the tooltips of the book details panel and book details popup window
Bug Fixes
• Dragging and dropping a cover onto the book details panel did not change the cover size
• Fix non-escaped '|' when searching for commas in authors using REGEXP_MATCH
• Fix ratings in templates being multiplied by 2
• Fix adding a comma to custom series values when using completion.
• CHM Input: Another workaround for a Microsoft mess.
• Fix job count in the spinner not always being updated when a job completes
• Changing case only of a title does not update title sort
New news sources
• BabyOnline.ro by Silviu Cotoara
• The Journal.ie by Phil Burns
• Der Spiegel by Nikolas Mangold
Improved news sources
• ecuisine.ro, egirl.ro and tabu.ro
• Daily Telegraph
• Handelsblatt
• Il Sole 24 Ore
• Newsweek
• Arcamax

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New Features
• Support for converting and reading metadata from Plucker format PDB files
• The metadata that is displayed in the book details panel on the right is now completely configurable via Preferences->Look & Feel
•Add a column that shows the date when the metadata of a book record was last modified in calibre. To see the column, right click on the column headers in calibre and select Show column->Modified. Note that the dates may be incorrect for books added with older versions of calibre.
• Add command line option to shutdown running calibre
• CHM Input: Store extracted files in the input/ sub dir for easy debugging when --debug-pipeline is specified
• Add a popup menu to the 'Create saved search button' to allow easy deleting of saved searches
Bug Fixes
• Fix regression that broke converting to LIT in 0.7.57
• Conversion pipeline: Remove encoding declarations from input HTML documents to guarantee that there is only a single encoding declaration in the output HTML.
• Correctly parenthesize searches that are used to make search restrictions
• Fix ratings in save to disk templates not being divided by 2
• TXT to EPUB: Underlined words (following quotes?) fail to become italics
• Fix template function source code unavailable when not running calibre from source
• Fix adding html books from the top of a deep folder hierarchy very slow
• Only set language in MOBI metadata if it is not null
• Fix 'count-of' searches (e.g., tags:#>3).
• Fix regression that broke connection to iTunes in some cases
• Fix buggy regex that made converting PDFs with the string ******** very slow
• Fix Ctrl+L shortcut to lookup word not working in ebook viewer
• Fix regression that broke searching on boolean columns
New news sources
• Novi Standard by Darko Miletic
• Autobild.ro and Social Diva by Silviu Cotoara
• Novinky by Tomas Latal
• De Volksrant (subscriber version) by Selcal
Improved news sources
• HBR Blogs
• The Marker
• Financial Times
• Clarin
• Honolulu Star Advertiser

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Bug Fixes
• Fixes a bug in 0.7.58 that caused too small fonts when converting to MOBI for the Kindle. Apologies.
• Apple driver: Handle invalid EPUBs that do not contain an OPF file
New news sources
• The Big Picture and Auto industry news by welovelucy
• Gazeta Prawna by Vroo
• Various Czech news sources by Tomas Latal
• Diario de Ibiza by Joan Tur

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New Features
• Add Amazon DE, Beam EBooks, Beam DE, Weightless Books, Wizards Tower Books to the list of ebook stores searched by Get Books
• TXT output: All new Textile output with much greater preservation of formatting from the input document
• Migrate metadata plugin for Douban Books to the 0.8 API
• Driver for Dell Streak on windows
• Add menu items to Get Books action to search by title and author of current book
• Add title_sort as available field to CSV/XML catalogs
• Add a context menu to the manage authors dialog
• Add a button to paste isbn into the identifiers field in the edit metadata dialog automatically
Bug Fixes
• Amazon metadata download plugin: Fix links being stripped from comments. Also fix ratings/isbn not being parsed from kindle edition pages.
• Fix one source of segfaults on shutdown in the linux binary builds.
• Allow the use of condensed/expanded fonts as interface fonts
• EPUB Input: Ignore missing cover file when converting, instead of erroring out.
• Fix custom identifier being erased by metadata download
• Fix regression that broke various things when using Japanese language calibre on windows
• RTF Input: Handle null color codes correctly
• ODT Input: Handle inline special styles defined on tags.
• Fix error when pressing next previous button with an empty search in the Plugins preferences
• Ignore 'Unknown' author when downloading metadata.
• Fix timezone bug when setting dates in the edit metadata dialog
• Fix ebook-convert not recognizing output paths starting with ..
New news sources
• Various Taiwanese news sources by Eddie Lau
• Replica Vedetelor, Ziua Veche by Silviu Cotoara
• Welt der Physik by schuster
• Korea Herald by Seongkyoun Yoo
Improved news sources
• Strategy+Business
• Readers Digest
• Ming Pao
• Telepolis
• Fronda
• Rzeczpospolita

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New Features
•Various new ebook sources added to Get Books: Google Books, O'Reilly, archive.org, some Polish ebooks stores, etc.
•Amazon metadata download: Allow user to configure Amazon plugin to use any of the US, UK, German, French and Italian Amazon websites
•When deleting large numbers of books, give the user the option to skip the Recycle Bin, since sending lots of files to the recycle bin can be very slow.
•OS X: The unified title+toolbar was disabled as it had various bugs. If you really want it you can turn it on again via Preferences->Tweaks, but be aware that you will see problems like the calibre windowd being too wide, weird animations when a device is detected, etc.
•Add a tweak that controls what words are treated as suffixes when generating an author sort string from an author name.
•Get Books: Store alst few searches in history
Bug Fixes
•Fix a crash when a device is connected/disconnected while a modal dialog opened from the toolbar is visible
•Fix incorrect results from ebooks.com when searching via Get Books
•Metadata plugboards: Add prioritization scheme to allow for using different settings for different locations
•Fix manage authors dialog too wide
•Fix multiple bracket types in author names not handled correctly when generating author sort string
•MOBI Input: Don't error out when detecting TOC structure if one of the elements has an invalid margin unit
•More fixes for japanese language calibre on windows
•Linux binaries: Always use either Cleanlook or Plastique styles for the GUI if no style can be loaded from the host computer
New news sources
•National Geographic by gagsays
•Various German news sources by schuster
•Dilema Veche by Silviu Cotoara
•Glamour, Good to Know, Good Housekeeping and Men's Health by Anonymous
•Financial Sense and iProfessional by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
•Newsweek
•Economist
•Dvhn
•United Daily
•Dagens Nyheter
•GoComics
•faz.net
•golem.de

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New Features
•New and much simpler interface for specifying column coloring via Preferences->Look & Feel->Column Coloring
•Driver for Trekstor eBook Player 5M, Samsung Galaxy SII I9100, Motorola Defy and miBuk GAMMA 6.2
•Get Books: Add EpubBud, WH Smits and E-book Shoppe stores
•When deleting 'all formats except ...', do not delete if it leaves a book with no formats
•Change default toolbar to make it a little more new user friendly. The icons have been re-arranged and now the text is always visiblke by default. You can change that in Preferences->Look & Feeel and Preferences->Toolbar
•Windows installer: Remember and use previous settings for installing desktop icons, adding to path, etc. This makes the installer a little slower, complaints should go to Microsoft.
•Template language: Add str_in_list and on_device formatter functions. Make debugging templates a little easier
•Allow the user to specify formatting for number type custom columns
Bug Fixes
•Fix typo in NOOK TSR driver that prevented it from working on windows
•Fix quotes in identifiers causing Tag Browser to be blank.
•Speedup auto complete when there are lots of items (>2500) the downside being that non ASCII characters are not sorted correctly. The threshold can be controlled via Preferences->Tweaks
•RTF Output: Fix handling of curly brackets
•Fix searching in Get Books not working with non ASCII characters
•Fix excessive memory consumption when moving very large files during a metadata change
•Fix series index being overwritten even when series is turned off in bulk metadata download
•Fix regression in templates where id and other non standard fields no longer worked.
•EPUB Output: Fix crash caused by ids with non-ascii characters in them
•Try to preserve the timestamps of files in a ZIP container
•After adding books always select the most recently added book.
New news sources
•Metro UK by Dave Asbury
•Alt om Herning and Version2.dk by Rasmus Lauritsen
•Observatorul cultural by song2
Improved news sources
•bild.de
•CNN
•BBC News (fast)
•Dilema Veche

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