Calibre Releases

calibre Portable 6.7.0 (ebook manager, viewer, converter) Released (October 14, 2022) (PortableApps.com)

 

Calibre 6.7.1 Released (October 15, 2022)
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calibre Portable 6.7.1 (ebook manager, viewer, converter) Released (October 16, 2022) (PortableApps.com)

 

calibre Portable 6.8.0 (ebook manager, viewer, converter) Released (November 5, 2022) (PortableApps.com)

 

Calibre 6.9.0 Released (November 25, 2022)
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Spoiler: Changes 6.9.0

Release: 6.9 [25 Nov, 2022]
New features

• E-book viewer: When exporting highlights as plain text include titles from chapters at all levels not just the first level
• Edit book: Reports: Show the number of words per file in the Files section of the report
• Windows builds: sign DLLs in addition to EXEs to make Microsoft's new "Smart App Control" tool happy
• Sending by email: When adding comments also add series
• Nook driver: Put files in NOOK/Books instead of NOOK/My Files on recent nook devices so they are all listed in one place in the NOOK UI
  Closes tickets: 1990730
  
  
• calibredb list: Allow using a template as one of the returned fields
• Tag browser: Add context menu action to turn on/off sub-categorization for a category

Bug fixes

• Merging books: Fix title sort not being updated when the title is updated
  Closes tickets: 1996802
  
  
• Content server viewer: Fix incorrect sorting of highlights in the same paragraph
• Content server viewer: When exporting highlights as text include chapter titles
• Improve rendering of the separator handle dots introduced in the previous release
• Edit book: Fix regression in previous release causing applying any container update marking all open image editors as modified
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused copying book details to clipboard to use unix line endings on windows

Improved news sources

• Bloomberg
• The Globe and Mail
• Spectator Magazine
• The New York Times
• The Hindu
• MIT Technology Review

 

Calibre 6.11.0 Released (January 6, 2023)
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Spoiler: Changes 6.11.0

Release: 6.11 [06 Jan, 2023]
New features

• Edit book: Check book: Allow automatic fixing of various simple CSS errors
• E-book viewer: When Read aloud is speaking, make the control bar translucent so that words under the bar are visible
• Edit book: Switch to a new library (stylelint) for find problems in CSS as the old library was no longer maintained.
• Edit book: File browser: Allow using keyboard shortcuts to re-order the spine
• calibredb list: Allow specifying multiple fields for --sort-by
  Closes tickets: 1982532
  
  
• Check library: Allow opening the book folder easily
  Closes tickets: 2000037
  

Bug fixes

• Fix windows not being moved onto the current monitor when they were previously visible on a removed monitor that was to the left of the current monitor
• Book list: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke drag and drop of multiple books
  Closes tickets: 1999995
  
  
• Fix detection of Tolino Vision 6 on macOS/Linux
  Closes tickets: 2000877
  
  
• Content server: Fix auto full screen not working when continuing to read books with user account enabled
  Closes tickets: 2001880
  
  
• Edit book: Set semantics: Fix error when setting the "Notes" semantic
• HTMLZ output: Fix images referred to in CSS stylesheets not being converted
  Closes tickets: 1999956
  
  
• Book details panel: Fix HTML comment tags in the comments breaking display of book details
  Closes tickets: 2000881
  
  
• Content server home page: When showing recently read books from across devices hide the entries for which loading the cover fails
• Windows Text-to-speech: Dont fail to configure if one of the voices has no defined language
• Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke using a file for the --extra-css option of ebook-convert
• Content server FTS: Fix page header bar not visible
• Content server: Fix identifiers from third party metadata download plugins not becoming clickable links on the book details page
• Edit book: Warn when saving will overwrite a read-only file
• Fix restoring geometry of maximized/fullscreen dialogs forcing them visible
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused spurious error message when doing some out of band searches
  Closes tickets: 1999936
  
  
• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke choosing new programs for the Open with function

New news sources

• NHK News - by Richard A. Steps
• Globes in English by barakplasma

Improved news sources

• PC World
• HNA
• Caravan Magazine
• Harvard Business Review
• Various Israeli news sources

 

calibre Portable 6.11.0 (ebook manager, viewer, converter) Released (January 7, 2023) (PortableApps.com)

 

Calibre 6.12.0 Released (February 3, 2023)
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Spoiler: Changes 6.12.0

Release: 6.12 [03 Feb, 2023]
New features

• E-book viewer: Read aloud: On Windows switch to using the new Microsoft speech subsystem with access to more voices
  Note that this means that old voice, speed and audio devices setting will not be used so a reconfiguration might be needed.
  
  
• calibre:// URL scheme: allow specifying a Virtual library for show_book URLs
  Closes tickets: 2003712
  
  
• Add by ISBN: Allow adding using identifiers other than ISBN as well
  Closes tickets: 2003227
  
  
• Update bundled Qt to 6.4 this means calibre on macOS is now only supported on Big Sur and newer
• Spell check dialog: Allow up and down arrow keys to work regardless of focus
• Allow multiple Template tester dialogs
  Closes tickets: 2002257

Bug fixes

• Windows MTP device driver: Ignore failure to enumerate objects inside non-root folders
  There are apparently a lot of devices out there that fail in this way. So rather than aborting the scan simply ignore the folder.
  
  
• Book list: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke dragging to select multiple books
• Content server viewer: Fix reload book not actually reloading until the browser is also refreshed
  Closes tickets: 2004197
  
  
• E-book viewer: Fix occasional false warning about highlight being overwritten
  Closes tickets: 2003916
  
  
• E-book viewer: Fix detection of selected highlights when all text is selected
  Closes tickets: 2003908
  
  
• Fix an error when embedding metadata into a large number of books
  Closes tickets: 2003729
  
  
• When updating metadata in EPUB 2 files and no language is specified, do not remove the <dc:language> tag as this causes epubcheck to complain. Instead set the language to "und"
  Closes tickets: 2004522
  
  
• Wireless device driver: Remove the timeout for initial connection
  Closes tickets: 2004083
  
  
• Use an icon rather than a color to report errors in fields and the search box
  Closes tickets: 2003652
  
  
• Conversion dialog: Regex builder: Workaround bug in Qt that prevented searching for non breaking spaces in the wizard used to test search expressions
• Spell check dialog: move down after correcting word, not up
  Closes tickets: 2002864
  
  
• Get books: Fix Mobileread store plugin not working
  Closes tickets: 2002534

New news sources

• Boston Globe Print Edition by unkn0wn
• Observer Reach Foundation by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

• Jerusalem Post
• LiveMint
• The Seattle Times
• India Today
• Outlook Magazine
• Live Mint
• Irish Independent
• Irish Times

 

calibre Portable 6.12.0 (ebook manager, viewer, converter) Released (February 3, 2023) (PortableApps.com)