calibre

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 ... [More] 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 [Less]

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 ... [More] 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 [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

New Features Windows: Allow adding of books to calibre from folders 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 ... [More] 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 folders 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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 [Less]

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 ... [More] 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 [Less]