calibre

Release: 7.20 [18 Oct, 2024]
New features
PDF Input: Automatic header/footer detection and removal
Read Aloud: Allow configuring an extra pause at the end of every sentence when using the Piper TTS engine
Closes tickets: 2083058
PDF Output: Add _WIDTH_PIXELS_ and _HEIGHT_PIXELS_ variables to know the width and height of the header/footer area in templates
Windows: Use calibre's bundled SSL certificates instead of the system certificate store by default
Can be turned off via CALIBRE_USE_SYSTEM_CERTIFICATES=1 env var
Trim image tool: Add a control to adjust aspect ratio
Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware used by the Tolino Shine 5
Bug fixes
Fix a regression in previous release that broke copying of book to another library if the books author does not exist in the destination database
Read aloud: Piper backend: Fix not working with voices whose names have non-ASCII characters on Windows.
Content server: Fix book with non-ASCII filenames not downloading in the Kindle browser when using the /mobile view
Content server: Fix embedding the server HTML inside a third party iframe causing an error
New news sources
NYT Magazine by unkn0wn
RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland by epubli
Improved news sources
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Release: 7.19 [27 Sep, 2024]
New features
E-book viewer: Halve the time taken to open large EPUB format books for the first time
A four hundred thousand word EPUB book now opens in under a second on typical hardware.
PDF new engine: Improve header/footer detection
For column icons and grid view emblems, support icons for both light and dark themes
News downloads: Mark links to locally available articles with a middle-dot
When saving a layout also save the main window geometry
Closes tickets: 2079784
Bug fixes
Windows: Read Aloud: Fix an occasional crash when stopping read aloud when using the legacy windows TTS engine
Closes tickets: 2080705
Windows: Read Aloud: Fix clicking in text to change what is being read causing tracking of currently read word to fail when using the legacy Windows TTS engine
Closes tickets: 2080705
Read aloud: Fix reading large numeric words causing text synchronization to fail when using some legacy TTS engines
Closes tickets: 2080708
EPUB3 metadata: Fix setting series number to zero not working
Closes tickets: 2080701
Comic Input: Handle comics whose internal files have control codes in their filenames
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Release: 7.18 [13 Sep, 2024]
New features
E-book viewer: Read aloud: A new Text-to-Speech engine (Piper) that uses a neural network for realistic sounding voices
New experimental engine to convert PDF files with support for automatic header/footer removal
Closes tickets: 2076346
Turn it on via the PDF input section of the conversion dialog.
Content server: Viewer: Read Aloud: Implement word-by-word tracking when reading aloud if the browser and voice used support it, for example, Chromium on Windows, Firefox on Android and Safari on macOS
Image popup: Add a context menu with an option to reset the current zoom
Closes tickets: 2080315
Edit metadata dialog: Show the number of data files on the data files button
Bug fixes
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke using Tab key to move around the book list while editing cells
E-book viewer: Fix scrollbar position not updating during continuous scroll
Closes tickets: 2077801
E-book viewer: Fix a harmless error when the book contains page list references whose targets do not exist
Closes tickets: 2077871
Linux binary build: Fix missing libdeflate dependency
Closes tickets: 2077794
New news sources
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Release: 7.17 [23 Aug, 2024]
New features
E-book viewer: Support for jumping to and displaying paper edition page numbers
Edit book: When text is selected allow changing the indentation of all lines in the selection by pressing Tab to increase one level or Shift+Tab to decrease one level
Closes tickets: 2076251
Allow a plugboard to change the series_index as well as the series name.
News download: News recipes can now optionally use browser engines based on either Qt or Chromium network stacks instead of mechanize
Email delivery: When sending emails to Kindles do not convert filenames to English letters as Amazon appears to have finally fixed their email servers to handle non-English filenames
Quickview: Add a tooltip displaying the full cell contents
Closes tickets: 2075565
Bug fixes
Update the version of the Qt toolkit bundled with calibre to the latest available, fixing some crashes on macOS related to accessibility tools
Edit book: Fix searching marking incorrect text in the presence of non-BMP unicode characters
Closes tickets: 2075970
Conversion: Do not embed a second copy of a font when using the option to embed font family if the font is already embedded in the book
Closes tickets: 2074002
calibredb list: Fix a regression in the previous release that required setting --template-header to empty to use the list command
Closes tickets: 2076515
Tolino driver: Fix books from the Tolino cloud not being listed
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Release: 7.16 [31 Jul, 2024]
New features
Add a driver for the new 2024 Tolino devices. They use a modified version of the Kobo firmware, so they are detected as Kobo devices.
Various news recipes now have the ability to download past issues, accessible via the Advanced tab in the Schedule news dialog
Bug fixes
ONLY if you use the calibre Content server, you should update calibre as soon as possible
Closes tickets: 2075128
Content server: Fix path traversal vulnerability
Closes tickets: 2075125
A bug in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.16.0 (released 2023-04-20) means anyone with access to the server can also read non calibre related files on the computer running the server.
Content server: Fix SQL injection vulnerability
Closes tickets: 2075131
A bug in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.10.0 (released 2022-12-16) means anyone with access to the server can also read non-calibre SQLITE database files on the computer running the server.
Content server: Fix an XSS vulnerability in one endpoint
Closes tickets: 2075130
Only relevant if you embed the calibre server within a larger server, it means attackers who can convince users to click on a specially crafted link, can run JavaScript code with the same origin as the larger server calibre is embedded in.
Content server: Fix an error when opening the downloaded books page directly via a link and using a custom book list template
Closes tickets: 2073972
macOS: Fix opening multiple books from Finder with the editor only opening one of the books
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Release: 7.15 [19 Jul, 2024]
New features
Fetch news: Allow individual news sources to specify source specific options such as downloading of past editions
Bug fixes
Windows: MTP driver: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error with some devices
Closes tickets: 2073323
Icon theme creation dialog: Fix various issues when creating an icon theme with many icons that have light/dark variants
New news sources
WSJ News by unkn0wn
Improved news sources
Bloomberg
Eenadu
Mediapart

Release: 7.14 [12 Jul, 2024]
New features
Book details: When dropping files add an option to add them to the book as data files
Closes tickets: 2072442
Edit book: A new action to toggle line wrapping mode in all code editors. Can be assigned via Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts->Global actions or added to the toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars->Book wide actions
Kobo driver: Add an option to force the SeriesID for all books in a series to have the same value
Bug fixes
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke merging of books when the confirmation for the merge was disabled
Closes tickets: 2071458
E-book viewer: Allow some header and footer items such as progress to overflow instead of being truncated
Closes tickets: 2072412
HTMLZ output: Make renaming of image files happen in filename order
Closes tickets: 2072405
MTP driver: Fix infinite loop when connecting to some devices with more 65K objects in their filesystem
Closes tickets: 2072384
Fix shortcut editing widget when Qt is using a theme that inserts accelerators into push button labels automatically
New news sources
Ancient Egypt Magazine, Minerva Magazine, Military History Magazine and World Archaeology Magazine by unkn0wn
Improved news sources
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Release: 7.13 [28 Jun, 2024]
New features
When merging books add an option to store discarded or replaced covers as an alternate cover in the data folder of the target book
Closes tickets: 2071033
Generate CSV catalog: Add a button to sort the fields by the order in which they appear in the book list
Closes tickets: 2068070
Bug fixes
MTP driver: Preserve cover aspect ratio for thumbnail generation
Closes tickets: 2067755
Fix identifiers not always being merged correctly when merging books
Closes tickets: 2071044
DOCX Input: Fix extra left padding when converting lists
Closes tickets: 2069541
Amazon metadata download: Get title and comments for audiobook pages
Amazon metadata: When filtering search engine results by title ignore words of the title that are purely punctuation
When matching books on a device to book in the library assume a match if the title and any one author match, dont require all authors to match
Update Google Images cover download plugin for website changes
Closes tickets: 2069553
When adding new books if the timestamp is specified as undefined use the current timestamp
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Release: 7.12 [30 May, 2024]
New features
E-book polishing: Add option to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.)
Closes tickets: 2067167
Conversion: Add an option under Structure detection to automatically fill in blank alt attributes for images that have alt text in the image file metadata
Content server: Use the book title as the filename for downloaded highlights
Closes tickets: 2067437
Review downloaded metadata dialog: Add a "Previous" button to go back to the last reviewed book
Bug fixes
Content server viewer: Fix the bottom of the text being cut off on mobile browsers when not in full screen mode. Unfortunately, this means the viewer now requires a browser no more than two years old.
Kindle driver: Increase the size of the cover thumbnails sent to the Scribe
Closes tickets: 2067168
Kindle output: Fix cover images that contain EXIF data without a rotation not displaying on the Kindle lockscreen
Closes tickets: 1943495
E-book viewer: Fix ruby tags not excluded when searching for text
Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke searching
Closes tickets: 2067128
Improved news sources
Economist Espresso
Slate

Release: 7.11 [24 May, 2024]
New features
Kindle driver: Add support for sending cover thumbnails to the Kindle Scribe
A new options under Preferences->Look & feel to draw covers with rounded corners
Bulk metadata edit: Add a new tab where you can create rules to transform tags/authors/publishers for the selected books
Closes tickets: 2064674
Tag browser context menu for Formats now has Open with menu items
Closes tickets: 2065544
E-book viewer: When hovering over the top/bottom margin show a button indicating that a click will open the viewer controls. Can be configured via The Headers and footers section of the viewer Preferences.
Closes tickets: 2064665
Spell check dialog: Also show count of currently displayed words
Bug fixes
E-book viewer: Fix searching not ignoring ruby text
Closes tickets: 2065249
Edit book: Save the state of the current book when opening a new book via File->Open book
Edit book: Fix importing a list of words into a user dictionary not working
Closes tickets: 2064887
EPUB3 metadata: Do not fail to read metadata in the presence on invalid calibre user metadata in the OPF file with empty keys
Get books: Fix rules to map tags on adding books not being applied to books downloaded via Get books
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Release: 7.10 [03 May, 2024]
New features
Export of calibre data: Ensure individual part files in the exported data are no larger than one gigabyte even if the library contains individual files larger than that size.
Note that this means that exports created by calibre from this version on will not be importable by earlier versions. However, exports from earlier versions should still be importable.
Edit book: Spell check: Add options to exclude words in ALL CAPS or with numbers or in camelCase/snake_case from the list of words
Allow easily inverting the current search via the right click menu on the search box
Bug fixes
Kobo driver: Fix database unsupported error with newest firmware
Closes tickets: 2064546
DOCX Input: Fix text elements containing only whitespace being incorrectly ignored
Closes tickets: 2063301
Bulk metadata dialog: Do not fail when setting covers from ebook files and some of the files have invalid covers
Improved news sources
Economist
The Week
Caravan Magazine
Financial Times