Calibre 4.9

New Features
• When searching for author names with accented characters, allow the non accented version to match. For example, searching for Nino will now match Niño.
• Driver for Blackberry Playbook, Motorola Electrify and Samsung Galaxy GIO S5660
• Metadata search and replace, make the regular expressions unicode aware
Bug Fixes
• Fix regression in 0.8.28 that broke sending PDF files to iTunes
• Metadata download, do not strip # from titles.
• Conversion pipeline: Do not error out on books that set font size to zero.
• News download: Respect the delay setting when downloading RSS feeds as well.
• EPUB Output: Ensure that xml:lang is set if lang is set as ADE looks for xml:lang, not lang
• Content server: Reduce memory consumption when sending very large files
• Preserve capitalization of Scottish author names when downloading metadata
• Fix update title sort in bulk metadata edit not using language information
• Fix sorting by published column in the download metadata dialog broken
• Allow use of languages field when generating CSV/XML catalogs
• Get Books: Fix ebookpoint.pl
• When calculating title sort for a book based on its language, only use the specified language not a combination of the language and english
New news sources
• gs24.pl and Gazeta.pl Szczecin by Michal Szkutnik
• Vanity Fair by Barty
• Skylife by thomass
• Daily Writing Tips by NotTaken
• TechDirt by Krittika Goyal
• Cosmopolitan UK by Dave Asbury
Improved news sources
• Metro NL
• Ming Pao
• Rolling Stones Mag
• Buffalo News

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New Features
• Get Books: Add amazon.es and amazon.it
• Bulk convert dialog: Disable the Use saved conversion settings checkbox when none of the books being converted has saved conversion settings
• ebook-viewer: And a command line switch to specify the position at which the file should be opened.
• Distribute calibre source code compressed with xz instead of gzip for a 40% reduction in size
Bug Fixes
• Get Books: Fix ebooks.com and amazon.fr. Fix cover display in Diesel ebooks store.
• HTML Input: Fix regression that broke processing of a small fraction of HTML files encoded in a multi-byte character encoding.
• Greatly reduce the delay at the end of a bulk metadata edit operation that operates on a very large number (thousands) of books
• Template language: Fix the subitems formatter function to split only when the period is surrounded by non-white space and not another period
• Fix ampersands in titles not displaying in the Cover Browser
• MOBI Output: Do not ignore an empty anchor at the end of a block element.
• MOBI Output: Handle links to inline anchors placed inside large blocks of text correctly, i.e. the link should not point to the start of the block.
• E-book viewer: Fix searching for text that is represented as entities in the underlying HTML.
• Have the Esc shortcut perform exactly the same set of actions as clicking the clear button.
• Prevent the adding books dialog from becoming too wide
• Fix custom column editing not behaving correctly with the Previous button in the edit metadata dialog.
• T1 driver. More fixes to datetime handling to try to convince the T1's buggy firmware to not rescan metadata.
• Only allow searching via non accented author names if the user interface language in calibre is set to English.
New news sources
• Blues News by Oskar Kunicki
• TVXS by Hargikas
Improved news sources
• Die Zeit subscription
• Metro UK
• suedeutsche.de

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New Features
• Conversion engine: When parsing invalid XHTML use the HTML 5 algorithm, for greater robustness.
• Driver for PocketBook 611 and Lenovo IdeaPad
• Allow customization of the order in which custom column editing is performed in the edit metadata dialog. Setting is available via Preferences->Tweaks.
• MOBI news download: Allow recipes to set a thumbnail for entries in the periodical table of contents. Currently used by the NYTimes, WSJ, Independent, GUardian and Globe and Mail recipes
• E-book viewer: Add an option to the right click menu to search for the currently selected word
• Automatically hide the no internet connection available error message if the connection is restored before the user clicks OK
Bug Fixes
• Fix comments not hidden in Book details panel when they are turned off via Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details
• E-book viewer: Do not popup an error message if the user tries to use the mouse wheel to scroll before a document is loaded.
• Add docx to the list of ebook extensions.
• When downloading metadata from non-English Amazon websites, do not correct the case of book titles.
• Fix regression in 0.8.30 that broke bulk conversion of a single book.
• When minimized to system tray do not display the no internet connection error as a dialog box, instead use a system tray notification
• Catalog generation: Include the series_index field for custom series columns as well
• Comic Input: Do not rescale images when using the Tablet output profile (or any output profile with a screen size larger than 3000x3000)
• HTML Input: Ignore unparseable URLs instead of crashing on them.
New news sources
• CND Weekly by Derek Liang
• descopera.org by Marius Ignatescu
• Rynek Zdrowia by spi630
Improved news sources
• La Republica
• CND
• Berliner Zeitung
• Zaman Gazetesi

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New Features
• Linux: When deleting books, send them to the recycle bin, instead of permanently deleting. This is the same behavior as on Windows and OS X.
• Add a checkbox to allow users to disable the popup that asks if books should be auto-converted before sending to device
• Drivers for Droid Razr, Samsung GT-I9003 and Bookeen Odyssey
• Allow passing multiple filenames as command line arguments to calibre, to add multiple books.
Bug Fixes
• MOBI Output: Fix regression in 0.8.30 that caused the use of hidden heading elements for the TOC to generate links in the wrong place.
• EPUB Output: Ensure directories have the correct permissions bits set when unzipping an epub with unzip on Unix
• Fix bottom most shortcuts in keyboard shortcuts for viewer not editable
• EPUB Output: Fix handling of self closing

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New Features
• LIT Input: Switch to non-recursive algorithm, to allow conversion of files with deeply nested markup.
• Content server: Do not show the original_* formats in the mobile interface. Also upgrade to the latest CherryPy release.
• E-book viewer: Add option in viewer preferences to control how much the font size is changed when you click the make fonts bigger/smaller buttons.
• E-book viewer: Allow changing font size via Ctrl+Mouse wheel
• Kobo driver: Hide previews and recommendations from the book list. You can customize the Kobo plugin if you would like to see them via Preferences->Plugins
Bug Fixes
• Copy to library: Fix title sort not being copied
• PDF Output: Add custom size conversion option to the GUI (it was only present on the command line before)
• Add missing --keep-ligatures option to the ebook-convert command line
• Fix rendering of non ascii characters in generated masthead images when downloading news for the Kindle
• Linux binary: Disable qt-sp-api as it causes crashes/performance issues on various distros
• E-book viewer: Ensure that reference mode highlighting is removed from the book when reference mode is closed.
• Fix unable to load plugins from files on GNOME/XFCE desktops
• Fix regression that broke customizing toolbars on non English calibre installs
• Conversion pipeline: Disable HTML 5 parsing if it results in deeply nested trees.
• Do not loose position in book list on device connection/sync, if a search is active.
• Fix regression in 0.8.32 that broke deleting books if the path to the library contained non-ascii characters on linux
New news sources
• NYTimes Global by Krittika Goyal
• Grantland by Barty
Improved news sources
• Echo Online
• La Razon

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New Features
• Metadata plugboards: Allow creation of plugboards for email delivery.
• Tweak EPUB: Also allow tweaking of HTMLZ files (when both EPUB and HTMLZ are present, EPUB is preferred, this can be changed via Preferences->Tweaks).
• TXT Input: Support direct conversion of files with extensions .md, .markdown and .textile.
• E-book viewer: Speed up the optional hyphenation algorithm by upgrading the hyphenator library calibre uses
• Drivers for PocketBook 611, Motorola Razr Droid and Onyx Boox i62
Bug Fixes
• MOBI Output: When converting a paragraph that contains only a non-breaking space into a line break, ignore paragraphs with height less than 2pt.
• MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that specify anchor point exactly at pagebreaks. These are apparently produced by John Wiley and Sons.
• Fetch news dialog: The Download now button is no longer scrolled out of view on OS X for news sources that require credentials
• Fix commas being removed from author names when generating filenames in the calibre library
• ODT Input: Dont crash on empty links
• ebook-convert: Allow use of leading ./ when specifying output file names.
• Fix deleting of hierarchical searches broken in Tag Browser
• Metadata search and replace: Fix rendering error when choosing {template}
• Fix calibre not starting when stray .po files are present in the working directory
• Do not error out when getting metadata for authors if the author name has either ::: or :#: in it.
New news sources
• Lega Nerd and Pambianco by faber1971
• Various Turkish news sources by asalet_r
• Microwave Journal by Kiavash
• OReilly Premium by TechnoCat
• Hamilton Spectator and Tillsonburg/Norfolk County by Eric Coolman
• Opinion Bolivia by Piet van Oostrum
• ideal.es by Josemi Liebana
• Novilist Portal by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
• Pagina 12
• USA Today
• LWN Weekly
• Seattle Times
• San Jose Mercury
• Grantland.com

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New Features
• Decrease startup time for large libraries with at least one composite custom column by reading format info on demand
• When automatically deleting news older than x days, from the calibre library, only delete the book if it both has the tag News and the author calibre. This prevents accidental deletion of books tagged with News by the user.
• Driver for Infibeam Pi 2
• Add a Tag Editor for tags like custom columns to the edit metadata dialog
Bug Fixes
• E-book viewer: Fix regression in 0.8.35 that caused viewer to raise an error on books that did not define a language
• Content server: Fix grouping for categories based on custom columns.
• Edit metadata dialog: When setting the series from a format or via metadata download, ensure that the series index is not automatically changed, when closing the dialog.
• When reading metadata from Topaz (azw1) files, handle non ascii metadata correctly.
• CHM Input: Do not choke on CHM files with non ascii internal filenames on windows.
• Fix reading metadata from CHM files with non-ascii titles
• Fix HTML 5 parser choking on comments
• If calibre is started from a directory that does not exist, automatically use the home directory as the working directory, instead of crashing
• Fix iriver story HD Wi-Fi device and external SD card swapped
• Content server: Fix ugly URLs for specific format download in the book details and permalink panels
• When adding FB2 files do not set the date field from the metadata in the file New news sources
• Tweakers.net by Roedi06
• Village Voice by Barty
• Edge.org Conversations by levien
• Novi list - printed edition by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
• OReilly Premuim
• Variety
• Blic
• New Journal of Physics
• Der Tagesspiegel

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