Calibre 7.4.0

New Features
• Amazon metadata download: Download the series information when available from amazon.com
• Amazon metadata download: Recognize common patterns of embedding the series name after the title and remove it automatically
• Edit Book: Add support for EPUB 3 to the Table of Contents tool. Now when editing EPUB 3 files using the tool will automatically generate both the EPUB 3 navigation document and the NCX table of contents for backwards compatibility.
• EPUB Input: Implement reading of Table of Contents from EPUB 3 files that do not specify a fallback NCX ToC
• EPUB metadata: When setting a cover image for an EPUB file that has no metadata cover image defined, add the new cover image as a pure metadata cover instead of aborting.

Bug Fixes
• Fix crash on exit if any plugins have loaded code that raises exceptions during shutdown.
• Copy to library: Speed up checking for duplicates when copying multiple books to a large library.
• Get Books: Update Smashwords plugin for website changes.
• Edit Book: Fix a bug in the new text search facility that could cause searches to fail when searching from the current cursor position instead of the top of the file.
• Bulk conversion dialog: Fix page margin settings being ignored when converting to DOCX
• Make the default shortcut for remove books Backspace on OS X since many mac keyboards have no delete key and the backspace key is labelled as delete
• Edit Book: Check Book: Do not warn if a cover image is not referenced in the text
• E-book viewer: Fix a bug that could cause incorrect rendering of chapter titles in some rare circumstances.
• Windows console output: Handle consoles with non black and white color scheme correctly
• Fix a regression in 2.57 that caused auto-removal of borders from covers to become much less proficient at detecting borders
• Fix a regression in 2.57 that broke grayscaling of images
Improved news sources
• Technology Review (DE)

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New Features
• Edit metadata: In the drop down list for languages, show the five most recently used languages first.
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for missing navigation documents in EPUB 3 books
• Kobo driver: Improved configuration dialog for the Kobo Touch device driver
• Copy to Library: Do not abort the copy process if only some books fail to copy, instead report which books failed and copy the rest.
• News download: Make all relative links (those starting with /) absolute. Useful when reading on a device that supports web browsing.
• EPUB metadata: Add an option to disable adding of cover images to EPUB files that declare no cover image in their metadata (Preferences->Plugins->Customize the Set EPUB metadata plugin)
Bug Fixes
• ToC Editor: Fix ToC detection in EPUB 3 files with only an NCX and no nav not working
• E-book viewer: In paged mode, when the window is toggled between full screen and window, repeatedly, preserve the position more accurately.
• E-book viewer: Fix incorrect page turning when multiple pages are displayed on screen for books that wrap all their content in a single 100% height tag.
• Fix a regression that broke scheduling a new news download in timezones west of GMT
• Edit Book: Fix undocked windows not resizable on OS X
• Fix a regression in 2.57 that broke rescaling of images to fit the output profile screen size during conversion.
• Fix for file dialogs not working on windows when non-ascii environment variables are present
• HTML Input: Fix error when converting HTML file with URL encoded filename.
Improved news sources
• Handelsblatt
• New York Times Book Review
• Antyweb

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Release: 2.61 [01 Jul, 2016]
New Features
• Driver for FNAC (re-branded Bq) with new firmware.
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add an auto fix action to remove all links to a missing resource (such as a deleted stylesheet) automatically.

Bug Fixes
• Edit Book: Check Book: Fix incorrect handling of font family names with spaces in them that are not quoted.
• E-book viewer: Fix Qt 5.7 breaking mouse wheel scrolling
• Kobo driver: Fix a regression in the last release that broke connecting to older devices
• Get Books: Fix detection of book formats broken for the Legimi plugin by a website change
• Update builtin metadata source ozon.ru to handle website changes
• Font subsetting: Fix incorrect handling of fonts whose names are included in font rules without quotes
• Fix ebook-viewer broken when running the binary calibre release on systems with very old versions of glibc

Improved news sources
• derStandard
• Kurier
• Kliene Zeitung

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Release: 2.63 [22 Jul, 2016]
New Features
• News download: Allow controlling which periodicals are automatically sent to a specific email in Preferences->Sharing by email
• Edit Book: Update regex engine to support Unicode 9.0
Bug Fixes
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix pasting ISBN from clipboard not stripping garbage characters after a valid ISBN.
• Edit Book: Also refresh the Preview and Live CSS panels after performing any action that changes files other than the currently displayed file.
• E-book viewer: Fix the show metadata button not reading EPUB 3 metadata
• MOBI Output: Fix

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not being rendered as full-width in old MOBI files
• CSV Catalog output: Fix incorrect formatting of is_multiple custom columns.
• CSV Catalog Output: Separate multiple authors with & instead of comma. Fixes problems when the author name contains commas.
• EPUB 3 metadata: Fix updating metadata in EPUB 3 files not overwriting existing authors.
• Fix duplicate detection when adding books not working when the book title has leading or trailing whitespace
• Book details panel: Pick the color used for links from the current system color theme
• Windows: Fix file selection dialogs blurry on HiDPI monitors
Improved news sources
• Gosc Niedzielny
• Nikkei Free
• Financial Times (UK)
• Foreign Affairs
• Berlin Policy Journal
• Gazet van Antwerpen
• Hurriyet

Release: 2.62 [08 Jul, 2016]
New Features
• EPUB metadata: Support for reading and writing EPUB 3 specific metadata. Now when processing EPUB 3 files, calibre will generate/use EPUB 3 specific metadata constructs when available, for example for series.
• Recognize the newest Kindle model, that started shipping today.
Bug Fixes
• Tag Mapper: Allow specifying a space as the split character when creating a split tags rule
• Tag mapper: Fix upper case characters not working in 'contains' rules
• Smarten punctuation: Fix double dashes and triple dots being smartened even inside attribute values.
• HTML Input: Sanitize semi-colons from HTML filenames as they can cause problems with other EPUB consuming software.
• EPUB Input: Speed up reading of the book spine from the OPF file for books with a very large number of entries in the spine
• Edit Book: Reports: Characters: Fix sorting by count and name not working.
• Fix KoboTouch configuration migration not working for older settings
New news sources
• Various Russian news sources by bugmen00t
Improved news sources
• The Skeptic

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New Features
• Custom columns: Add a new 'Short text' column type that behaves like the builtin title column
More generally, you can now customize Comments-like columns, controlling how their headings are displayed in the Book Details panel and also specifying what kind of data they contain (plain text, HTML or even Markdown)
• Edit book: Function mode: Allow appending text to the end of the marked text when running function mode search/replace on marked text
• PDF Output: Add a new variable _TOP_LEVEL_SECTION_ for use in header/footer templates that resolves to the current top-most section in the Table of Contents
• Linux/OSX: Shutdown gracefully on receiving the interrupt or terminate Unix signals
Bug Fixes
• PDF Output: Fix a regression that caused the last page of a chapter to sometimes be dropped from the output
• Do not show an error if the user tries to quit calibre while editing a cell in the book list. Instead, just silently abort the edit.
• E-book viewer: Fix 0px margins and percentage margins not being respected when the option to override book margins is turned off.
• Book Details: Do not show the 'Copy link' context menu item unless there is an actual link at the cursor location.
• Get Books: Update store plugin for nexto
New news sources
• Data News by oCkz7bJ_
Improved news sources
• Private Eye
• Prospect Magazine
• De Standaard
• Jot Down
• Weblogs SL
• Hola
• El Correo

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Release: 2.68 [16 Sep, 2016]
New Features
• Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the list of servers calibre considers public email servers
Bug Fixes
• Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the OPDS feeds for libraries with no custom columns
Closes tickets: 1621642
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix auto-generation/validation of author sort values not working when only changing case of the author name.
Closes tickets: 1623593
• A nicer error message when calibre fails to create the temporary directory.
Closes tickets: 1622131
• Fix dates being set to empty in bulk search/replace not becoming UNDEFINED
• Edit metadata dialog: Make pressing up on an undefined numeric field set the value to zero instead of -99999.
Closes tickets: 1622757
• Conversion: Handle corrupted JPEG files that have valid headers but invalid data.
Closes tickets: 1622416
• Conversion: Improve detection of input documents that use uppercase tag/attribute names.
Closes tickets: 1622261
• Fix regression in previous release that caused incorrect display of ratings in the side panel of the metadata download dialog
• Get Books: Update publio and virtualo store plugins for website changes
• Fix reading metadata from PDF files broken by poppler >= 0.47.0
• Change the application name set in Qt to calibre from libprs500.
Closes tickets: 1623397
Improved news sources
• Respekt Magazine
• Punto Informatico
• El universal

Release: 2.67 [08 Sep, 2016]
New Features
• Allow creating custom rating columns that support half-stars via Preferences->Add your own columns
• Tag Browser: Add an option in Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser to turn off the display of counts in the Tag Browser
• Tag browser: Show the book counts on the right edge of the Tag Browser
• Cover Browser: Allow any metadata field to be used as the sub-title, not just the rating
• Edit Book: A new tool to sort the rules in a CSS stylesheet. To use it add it to the toolbar for CSS editors
• Edit Book: The Remove Unused CSS tool now has an option to also merge CSS rules that have identical selectors
• Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to exclude some images types from being treated a covers when dropped onto the Book Details panel.
Closes tickets: 1620198
• Allow reading more image formats as covers (All images will be converted to JPEG when stored).
Closes tickets: 1619993
• Content server: OPDS feeds: Change the value of for entries in the acquisition feed to be the last modified date for the book. Also make the size and last modified timestamp available as attributes in the acquisition links. Useful for integration with third party applications.
• Kobo driver: Add support for firmware version 4 available on the new Kobo Aura One
Bug Fixes
• ODT Input: Add support for continued lists.
Closes tickets: 1620581
• Edit Book: Fix high-dpi rendering of emblems in the File Browser
• Fix regression in previous release that caused wide column icons to be scaled incorrectly
• Metadata download dialog: Fix https links in the download summary not working
• DOCX Output: Handle nested display:table tags with no rows.
Closes tickets: 1619662
• PDF Output: Fix OpenType fonts with CFF font data not embeddable on windows
Improved news sources
• Ars Technica

Release: 2.66 [02 Sep, 2016]
New Features
• A simplified calibre logo
• Edit Book: Allow restricting a search to the files currently open for editing
• Driver for the PocketBook Touch HD
Closes tickets: 1618962
• Kobo driver: Add support for firmware version 3.20
Bug Fixes
• DOCX Input: Fix right-to-left alignment not working for footnotes.
Closes tickets: 1617254
• Sending email: Allow setting up a mail relay that uses encryption without a username and password.
Closes tickets: 1618528
• Linux: Fix calibre not working when the username is non-ASCII.
Closes tickets: 1619056
• DOCX Output: Ignore invalid text-indent values in the input document instead of erroring out.
Closes tickets: 1618869
• Portable Installer: Auto-create the installation folder specified on the command line if it does not exist
• Kobo driver: Fix the ignore collections in option not working
• More user interface fixes for high DPI screens
• DOCX Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that could cause invalid values to be output for the text-align CSS property
New news sources
• Contropiano by michele

Release: 2.65.1 [26 Aug, 2016]
New Features
• Driver for Kobo Aura One and Aura Edition 2
• Kobo driver: Add an option to ignore some collections on the device. The specified collections will not be touched by the driver.
• Add an option in Preferences->Searching to make searching case-sensitive
• DOCX Input: Add support for right-to-left text/tables
Closes tickets: 1569771
Bug Fixes
• Fix some icons/images in the user interface looking blurred in environments with High DPI scaling enabled, such as OS X retina screens
• DOCX Input: Fix images that have the # character in their filenames not being converted correctly.
Closes tickets: 1616482
• ToC wizard: Fix generating toc from headings/xpath yielding unexpected results when tags are present out of sequence
• Edit Book: Fix drag and drop of text replacing non-breaking spaces with normal spaces
• E-book viewer: Fix duplicate names in hyphenation dictionary chooser.
Closes tickets: 1615040
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the completion popups for some custom column types in the book list to stop working.
Closes tickets: 1612640
• Version 2.65.1 contains a quick-fix for a typo in 2.65.0 that caused calibre to crash when a device is connected and the cover grid is enabled
Improved news sources
• Le Scienze
• New Yorker

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New Features
• Kobo driver: Support for firmware version 4.1 and Overdrive books on the device
• Edit Book: Highlight class names inside HTML tags
• Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow search & replace to work for ratings columns as well.
Bug Fixes
• Fix downloading of metadata from ozon.ru, which broke due to website changes
• Kobo driver: Fix delete of empty collections
• Kobo driver: Fix book previews being sometimes detected as actual books
• Cover Browser: Fix setting an empty template for the title causes an error
• Edit Book: On windows do not trigger shortcuts when using the right Alt (AltGr) key. This allows it to be used for entering special characters instead.
• Edit Book: Auto-add file extension when using the Save a Copy dialog if it is missing.
• Linux: Fix calibre not launching when used with some old VNC server implementations
• Windows: Run library restore in a separate process as on some windows machines, running it in the main process causes something in the system to lock the db file.
• Fix some news downloads in east asian languages not working because the truncation of article descriptions could cause invalid UTF-16 bytes in the string
• Fix incorrect timezone when editing custom date columns directly in the book list
New news sources
• Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen
Improved news sources
• New York Times
• Independent
• El tribuno de Salta

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Release: 2.79 [10 Feb, 2017]
New Features
• Windows: Make recently opened books show up in the jump lists for the standalone viewer and editor programs
• OS X/Linux: Show an informational popup message when an Android device is plugged in that needs the user to tap Allow for the connection to work.
• Conversion: Log options that are different from the defaults separately, for easy reference
Bug Fixes
• Conversion: Fix regression that broke conversion of some epub files when using the 'Remove first image' option.
• Get Books: Update Kobo plugin for website changes
• Windows MTP driver: Fix error when enumerating device storage not being reported during debug device detection
• Tag Browser: When dragging and dropping a book onto a series increment the series number.
• Fix crash when generating covers with Qt 5.8 on linux
• Fix Get Books result list and jobs list not being populated on Qt 5.8
• Fix importing rules in the coloring/icon rules dialog not enabling the apply button
Improved news sources
• Strange Horizons
• Wall Street Journal
• Bangkok Post
• The Atlantic
• NYTimes
• LA Times
• New Yorker
• The Straits Times

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version: 2.83.0
date: 2017-04-15
new features:
- title: "PDF Output: Default to generating PDFs with a page size of letter instead of taking the page size from the output profile."
description: 'This avoids user confusion/bug reports about PDF Output having "too large fonts". There is a new option "Use profile size" to have the conversion use the output profile page size instead.'
- title: "PDF/DOCX Output: Add separate, pdf/docx specific, page margin settings that override the common settings."
description: "Useful because page margin settings for page oriented formats, such as PDF and DOCX are usually different than those for reflowable formats such as EPUB"
- title: "Table of Contents tool: Add an undo button"
- title: "Metadata jacket: Show custom rating columns using stars"
- title: "Metadata jacket: Change formatting of series to match that used by the book details panel. Also allow access to the raw series name and number when customizing the jacket template."
- title: "calibredb check_library: Vacuum database when running the check"
- title: "Check Book: Add a check for empty identifier elements"
bug fixes:
- title: "Edit book/Book polishing: When adding a cover to an EPUB 3.0 file set the svg property if a SVG cover wrapper is used"
- title: "Refresh the book list when a User Category is added/edited."
tickets: [1675535]
- title: "EPUB metadata: Fix deleting ISBN from EPUB file could result in an EPUB file without a package identifier if the ISBN was used as the package identifier."
tickets: [1677383]
- title: "Amazon metadata download: Fix title and author names being bold in the downloaded comments when using bing to get amazon metadata."
tickets: [1674088]
- title: "PDF Output: Fix a regression that broke PDF Output for documents containing mathematics."
tickets: [1673983]
- title: 'E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the "Clear recently read books" action in the viewer'
improved recipes:
- Go Comics
- Die Zeit (subscription)
- Pagina12
- New York Magazine
new recipes:
- title: Jacobin magazine
author: Darko Miletic

New features
    ToC Editor: When generating ToCs using headings/XPath ignore duplicate entries at the same level that have the same text.
    Closes tickets: 1735799
    Windows: The default calibre library location is now not in My Documents but instead in the user home folder, to avoid issues with OneDrive auto-syncing calibre libraries
    Closes tickets: 1787488
    Kobo driver: Support for new firmware version
    Add a tweak (in Preferences->Tweaks) to allow skipping network check on news download
    Edit metadata dialog: Show a confirmation dialog on cancel if some changes have been made.
    Closes tickets: 1786544