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    Calibre 5.30 Released (October 22, 2021)
    Website (GitHub)
    What's New
    Download (GitHub)
    New features
    • Add support for the new Kobo Sage and Libra 2 e-book reader devices
    • E-book viewer: Read aloud: Allow right clicking to play/pause reading
      Closes tickets: 1946439

    • Sending books by e-mail: Preserve non-English characters in attached filenames
    • Tab browser: Allow searching for sub-categories by right clicking on them
      Closes tickets: 1946560
    Bug fixes
    • E-book viewer: Fix cover and full screen images not centered in paged mode when more than one page is displayed per screen
    • ToC Editor: Ignore in succession clicks on the OK and Cancel buttons to avoid accidentally closing the window when finishing creating a new entry
    • Comments editor: Fix the formatting buttons not showing the current state correctly and fix some keyboard shortcuts not working when more than one comments editor is present in a single window
      Closes tickets: 1905479

    • Tag browser: Fix renaming of User categories in Virtual libraries
      Closes tickets: 1946417

    • Make removing large numbers of custom column icons easier
      Closes tickets: 1947948
    Improved news sources
    • Private Eye
    • Foreign Policy
    • Le Monde Diplomatique - cono sur
     
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    Calibre 5.31 Ebook Manager Adds Support the New Kindle Paperwhite 2021
    October 29, 2021
    https://9to5linux.com/calibre-5-31-ebook-manager-adds-support-the-new-kindle-paperwhite-2021
    Calibre 5.31.1 Released (October 29, 2021)
    Website (GitHub)
    What's New
    Download (GitHub)
    New features
    • Kindle driver: Support the new Kindle PaperWhite 2021
      Closes tickets: 1948883

    • Add an option under Preferences->Behavior to have calibre recognize numbers when sorting (this was previously under Preferences->Tweaks)
    • E-book viewer: Add a button to directly open the viewer help section in the calibre user manual to the viewer controls
    • E-book viewer: Prevent the display from sleeping when using auto-scroll or read aloud modes (Implemented only on Windows and macOS)
    • Edit book: Set semantics tool: Add support for EPUB 3 landmarks
    • Add an entry to the Connect/share menu to open the content server in a local browser when it is running
      Closes tickets: 1948493
    Bug fixes
    • Content server: Fix some OPDS feeds failing with non-ASCII content
      Closes tickets: 1947879

    • Tag browser: Fix incorrect first letter partitioning when enabling numeric collation of items that start with a number
      Closes tickets: 1948560

    • 5.31.1 fixes a bug in an HTML serialization library calibre uses that broke a few things, such as the comments editor tool in the metadata dialog
      Closes tickets: 1949167
     
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    Calibre 5.32 Released (November 12, 2021)
    Website (GitHub)
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    Release: 5.32 [12 Nov, 2021]
    New features
    • Edit book: Add a tool to transform HTML tags based on rules (Tools->Transform HTML)
      Allows for making transformations such as changing one html tag to another, deleting tags, wrapping them in another tag, etc. Also available during conversions via the Look & feel->Transform HTML section of the conversion dialog.

    • Driver for the new Tolino Vision 6
      Closes tickets: 1949908

    • Kobo driver: Add support for the latest firmware released last week
    • When picking a random book ensure recently chosen books are not re-selected
      Closes tickets: 1948889

    • Icon theme chooser dialog: Allow right clicking on a theme to visit its homepage
    Bug fixes
    • Amazon metadata download: Add support for more markup variations in amazon's sites that could prevent the fetching of ratings, comments and series metadata for some books
    • Google search: Add support for new beta search results page markup that was preventing using cached Google pages to search for Amazon metadata
    • PDF Output: Fix the option to preserve cover aspect ratio being ignored when converting comics
    • DOCX Input: Sanitize image filenames more strictly to workaround broken EPUB software
      Closes tickets: 1950412

    • Linux binary: Fix file dialogs not working on Fedora 35 under KDE
      Closes tickets: 1950206

    • When sending email to the Kindle and PocketBook sync services use ASCII filenames as there have been some reports of issues with non-ASCII filenames with these services.
      Closes tickets: 1949604

    • Book Details: Fix missing copy options on composite columns
      Closes tickets: 1950033

    • Ask for confirmation when deleting covers from books
    New news sources
    • India speaks reddit feed by Vishwas Vasuki
    Improved news sources
    • New York Post
    • Liberation
    • Boston Globe
    • The Globe and Mail
    • LeMonde
     
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    Calibre 5.33.2 Released (December 3, 2021)
    Website (GitHub)
    What's New
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    New features
    • Allow changing the icon used for calibre libraries. Right click the library icon in calibre and choose "Change the icon for this library"
    • Comments editor: Use a single line for all three toolbars if they fit
    • Edit book: Allow merging HTML files by drag and drop of the files onto another HTML file
    • Kobo driver: Add support for listing purchased audiobooks
    • Edit metadata all-in-one mode: The cover and formats column now gives as much vertical space as possible to the cover image
    • Add books dialog: When a non-book file type is added the next time the dialog is used, preselect the "All files" filter
      Closes tickets: 1952562

    • calibre-server --manage-users: Allow managing users while the server is running and also add actions to automate changing user account restrictions
      Closes tickets: 1952764

    • EPUB 3 metadata: If the book contains a "subtitle" append it to the main title when reading metadata
      Closes tickets: 1950762
    Bug fixes
    • E-book viewer: Fix an occasional hang on startup at "Loading section"
      Closes tickets: 1950673

    • Get books: Update the Kobo plugin for website changes
      Closes tickets: 1952142

    • Bulk edit metadata dialog: Fix changing the search mode resetting other fields
      Closes tickets: 1951673

    • E-book viewer: Fix sorting of highlights incorrect in books that use HTML ids with a hyphen in them
      Closes tickets: 1951507

    • PDF Output: Fix the option to break long words at the ends of lines causing boxes to be rendered at the end of the line on macOS with some fonts
      Closes tickets: 1951467

    • Google metadata plugin: When searching by ISBN if no results are found retry using an alternate query syntax
    • 5.33.2 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the toolbar in the popup comments editor dialog and rendering of the download metadata button in the edit metadata dialog on Windows, as well as reading files from MTP devices on Windows
    New news sources
    • The Epoch Times by Kovid Goyal
    • Mens Day Out by Vishwas Vasuki
    Improved news sources
    • Smithsonian Magazine
     
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    Calibre 5.36 Released (February 4, 2022)
    Website (GitHub)
    What's New
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    Release: 5.36 [04 Feb, 2022]
    New features
    • Edit metadata dialog: Allow controlling which custom columns are present in this dialog via Preferences->Look & feel->Edit metadata
    • Edit metadata dialog: Allow manually sizing the various sections of the dialog in "All on 1 tab" mode
    • Edit book: Spell checking: Update the bundled English and Spanish dictionaries
    • BibTeX catalogs: Support tags like custom columns
      Closes tickets: 1958773
    Bug fixes
    • Amazon metadata download: Fix paragraphs in the comments being merged
      Closes tickets: 1959659

    • Amazon.de metadata download: Fix published date and series information not being fetched for some books
      Closes tickets: 1958979

    • Email delivery: Fix sending email via Hotmail not working since this week because Microsoft changed the SMTP server name
    • Do not remove articles for titles in the Polish language
      Closes tickets: 1959220

    • E-book viewer: When using Read aloud do not automatically lookup the highlighted word until read aloud is paused or stopped
      Closes tickets: 1959207

    • E-book viewer: Fix Ctrl+p shortcut for printing not working
    • Show an error when viewing a specific format and the file is missing
      Closes tickets: 1958882

    • Edit book: Fix renaming of classes that start/end with non word characters not working
    • Edit book: Preview panel: Fix hyphenation at end of line being rendered as boxes on macOS
      Closes tickets: 1958730

    • Fix incorrect selection size displayed in Trim image dialog when image is scaled down to fit
      Closes tickets: 1959893

    • Edit book: Fix pasting files from another editor instance failing if a file with the same name already exists
      Closes tickets: 1959782

    • When reviewing metadata if the newly downloaded metadata has no language but there is an existing language, ensure it is preserved
      Closes tickets: 1959981
    New news sources
    • title by author
    Improved news sources
    • India Today
    • Financial Express
    • Indian Express
    • Live Mint
    • Al Jazeera in English
    • The Financial Express
    • The Straits Times
     
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    Calibre 5.37 Released (February 18, 2022)
    Website (GitHub)
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    Release: 5.37 [18 Feb, 2022]
    New features
    • Book details: Add actions to trim the cover to the right-click menu
      Closes tickets: 1961129

    • Allow removing multiple email addresses at once in Preferences->Sharing by email
      Closes tickets: 1960586

    • Book details: Use a better mono-spaced font on Windows by default
    • Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to change the behavior of the Tab key when completing entries
    • Edit metadata: In "All in one" mode add an adjustable splitter between the cover and formats boxes
      Closes tickets: 1959928
    Bug fixes
    • Textile output: Dont fail if input document has invalid padding or margin specifications
      Closes tickets: 1960686

    • E-book viewer: Fix image display window not remembering its size and settings when run from within calibre
      Closes tickets: 1960446

    • E-book viewer: Fix setting to use roman numerals for series not being respected
    • Edit book: When saving a copy do not fail if the original file has no write permissions
    • Embed fonts tool: Create <head> when missing
      Closes tickets: 1960180

    • Tag editor: Improve performance when very large number of tags present
    Improved news sources
    • Live Mint
    • The Hindu
    • Reuters
    • MMC RTV Slovenija
    • Down To Earth
    • Publico.PT
     
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    Calibre 5.38 Released (March 4, 2022)
    Website (GitHub)
    What's New
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    Release: 5.38 [04 Mar, 2022]
    New features
    • E-book viewer: When displaying estimated time to completion for reading a book, remember the reading rate the next time the book is opened
      Closes tickets: 1852929

    • Dark theme: Highlight the current cell in the book list with a darker background and different foreground to make it more obvious
      Closes tickets: 1961500

    • An option to disable editing composite columns in the main book list when Tabbing through them (Preferences->Look & feel->Edit metadata)
      Closes tickets: 1961639
    Bug fixes
    • Tag editor: Fix regression in previous release that caused double clicking on tags to not work on non Linux platforms
    • Copy to library: Fix annotations not being copied
      Closes tickets: 1962365

    • Edit book: Spell check: Fix words after a comment not being checked
      Closes tickets: 1962213

    • PDF Output: Fix conversion failing if there are ToC entries pointing to removed content
      Closes tickets: 1960554

    • E-book viewer: Fix an error when opening books with MathML for the second time if the last read position was at a MathML element
      Closes tickets: 1961775

    • Edit book: Fix double clicking to select a word also selecting smart quotes surrounding the word
    • EPUB 3 metadata: Fix non-integer series index being sometimes represented using exponential notation
    New news sources
    • Hindustan Times by unkn0wn
    • India Legal Magazine by unkn0wn
    • RT на русском by Vuizur
    Improved news sources
    • Lenta.ru and aif.ru
    • Indian Express
    • Live Mint
    • Mainichi
    • Japan Times
     
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    Calibre 5.39 Released (March 18, 2022)
    Website (GitHub)
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    Release: 5.39 [18 Mar, 2022]
    New features
    • E-book viewer: Allow scrolling of the ToC, highlights, bookmarks, etc. with touch gestures
      Closes tickets: 1963875

    • Edit metadata dialog: When using the change case operations if some text is selected, only operate on the selected text
      Closes tickets: 1963822

    • Use atomic writes for the config files ensures no partial data is written in case of crash/powerloss
      Closes tickets: 1964123
    Bug fixes
    • Content server: Fix reading of books with thousands of internal files not working in the Chrome browser
      Closes tickets: 1964742

    • Catalog generation: Fix a rare crash when generating very large catalogs
      Closes tickets: 1965182

    • Edit/Polish book: Fix hardcoded Unicode ligatures not being preserved in AZW3 format books
    • Fix automatic searches causing search box to lose focus when search as you type is enabled in Preferences->Searching
      Closes tickets: 1963868

    • Edit book: Check book: Auto fix package identifier being empty
      Closes tickets: 1963748

    • Amazon metadata download: Fix getting series info from amazon.jp
      Closes tickets: 1963856

    • Edit book: Insert hyperlinks: When sorting anchors on elements without any text content, use the anchor itself
    • Edit book: Make the saved search panel freely resizable
    • Edit book: When dragging to select a region or adjust the selection fix mouse moving outside the image causing the region to no longer be adjusted
    New news sources
    • Swarajya Magazine by unkn0wn
    • Open Magazine by unkn0wn
    Improved news sources
    • India Legal Magazine
    • The Smithsonian
    • The Federalist
     
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    Calibre 5.39.1 Released (March 18, 2022)
    Website (GitHub)
    What's New
    Download (GitHub)
     
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