Release: 0.6.37 [01 Feb, 2010]

New Features

• E-book viewer: Add support for viewing SVG images
• Add category of Recently added books when generating catalog in e-book format
• OS X: Allow adding of books to calibre via drag and drop on the calibre dock icon
• Add support for masthead images when downloading news for the Kindle
• MOBI metadata: Allow setting of metadata in old PRC files without EXTH headers as well

Bug Fixes

• Changing the date in Dutch

  Closes tickets: 4732

• Fix regression that broke sending files to unupdated PRS 500s
• MOBI Input: Ignore width and height percentage measures for <img> tags.

  Closes tickets: 4726

• EPUB Output: Remove <img> tags that point to the internet for their images as this causes the ever delicate ADE to crash.

  Closes tickets: 4692

• Comic Input: Handle UTF-8 BOM when converting a cbc file

  Closes tickets: 4683

• Allow rating to be cleared via the Bulk metadata edit dialog

  Closes tickets: 4693

• Add workaround for broken linux systems with multiply encoded file names

  Closes tickets: 4721

• Fix bug preventing the the use of indices when setting save to disk templates

  Closes tickets: 4710

• Linux device mounting. Use filetype of auto to allow non vfat filesystems to be mounted

  Closes tickets: 4707

• Catalog generation: Make sorting of numbers in title as text optional
• Fix error while sending book with non-ascii character in title/author to device on linux

  Closes tickets: 4690

• Fix reset cover in edit meta information dialog does not actually remove cover

  Closes tickets: 4731

New news sources

• Kamera Bild by Darko Miletic
• The Online Photographer by Darko Miletic
• The Luminous Landscape by Darko Miletic
• Slovo by Abelturd
• Various Danish newspapers by Darko Miletic
• Heraldo de Aragon by Lorenzo Vigentini
• Orange County Register by Lorenzi Vigentini
• Open Left by Xanthan Gum
• Michelle Malkin by Walt Anthony
• The Metro Montreal by Jerry Clapperton
• The Gazette by Jerry Clapperton
• Macleans Magazine by Nick Redding
• NY Time Sunday Book Review by Krittika Goyal
• Various Italian newspapers by Lorenzo Vigentini

Improved news sources

• The Irish Times
• Washington Post
• NIN
• The Discover Magazine
• Pagina 12

Release: 0.6.36 [25 Jan, 2010]

New Features

• Catalog generation in MOBI format
• Driver for Inves Book 600
• Show notifications on OS X even when systray icon is disabled.

Bug Fixes

• Fix memory leak in catalog generation
• Fix regression that broke PML output
• Fix bug in MOBI Input

  Closes tickets: 4643

• Replace commas with semi-colons in download tags

  Closes tickets: 4650

• Fix catalog output format dropdown empty in linux

  Closes tickets: 4656

• Fix display of non-English characters in OS X notifications

  Closes tickets: 4654

• Add .cbc to list of book formats

  Closes tickets: 4662

• Content server: Mobile page breaks if library contains empty books. Now fixed.
• Support old 212 byte header PDB files

  Closes tickets: 4646

• Fix regression that caused wrong error message to be displayed when device is out of space

New news sources

• Harvard Business Review Blogs by Brian_G
• Neowin by Darko Miletic
• Greensboro News and Record by Walt Anthony
• Hot Air by Walt Anthony
• ionline by Darko Miletic
• The National Review Online by Walt Anthony

Improved news sources

• Ars Technica
• Sports Illustrated
• Common Dreams
• Wired Magazine

Release: 0.6.35 [22 Jan, 2010]

New Features

• Catalog generation

  "You can now easily generate a catlog of all books in your calibre library by clicking the arrow next to the convert button. The catalog can be in one of several formats: XML, CSV, EPUB and MOBI, with scope for future formats via plugins. If you generate the catalog in an e-book format, it will be automatically sent to your e-book reader the next time you connect it, allowing you to easily browse your collection on the reader itself. This feature is in Beta (may have bugs) so feedback is appreciated."

• RTF Input: Support for unicode characters.

  Closes tickets: 4501

• Add Quick Start Guide by John Schember to calibre library on first run of calibre
• Improve handling of justification

  "Now calibre will explicitly change the justification of all left aligned paragraphs to justified or vice versa depending on the justification setting. This should make it possible to robustly convert all content to either justified or not. calibre will not touch centered or right aligned content."

• E-book viewer: Fit images to viewer window (can be turned off via Preferences)
• Add section on E-book viewer to User Manual
• Development environment: First look for resources in the location pointed to by CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM. If not found, use the normal resource location
• When reading metadata from filenames, with the Swap author names option checked, improve the logic used to detect author last name.

  Closes tickets: 4620

• News downloads: When getting an article URL from a RSS feed, look first for an original article link. This speeds up the download of news services that use a syndication service like feedburner or pheedo to publish their RSS feeds.

Bug Fixes

• Windows device detection: Don't do expensive polling while waiting for device disconnect. This should fix the problems people have with their floppy drive being activated while an e-book reader is connected
• PML Input: Fix creation of metadata Table of Contents

  Closes tickets: 5633

• Fix Tag browser not updating after using delete specific format actions

  Closes tickets: 4632

• MOBI Output: Don't die when converting EPUB files with SVG covers
• Nook driver: Remove the # character from filenames when sending to device

  Closes tickets: 4629

• Workaround for bug in QtWebKit on windows that could cause crashes when using the next page button in the e-book viewer for certain files

  Closes tickets: 4606

• MOBI Input: Rescale img width and height attributes that were specified in em units

  Closes tickets: 4608

• ebook-meta: Fix setting of series metadata
• RTF metadata: Fix reading metadata from very small files
• Conversion pipeline: Don't error out if the user sets an invalid chapter detection XPath
• Fix main mem and card being swapped in pocketbook detection on OS X
• Welcome wizard: Set the language to english if the user doesn't explicitly change the language. This ensures that the language will be english on windows by default
• Fix bug in OEBWriter that could cause writing out of resources in subdirectories with URL unsafe names to fail
• E-book viewer: Change highlight color to yellow on all platforms.

  Closes tickets: 4641

New news sources

• Frankfurter Rundschau by Justus Bisser
• The Columbia Hournalism Review by XanthanGum
• Various CanWest Canadian news sources by Nick Redding
• gigitaljournal.com by Darko Miletic
• Pajamas Media by Krittika Goyal
• Algemeen Dagbla by kwetal
• The Reader's Digest by BrianG
• The Yemen Times by kwetal
• The Kitsap Sun by Darko Miletic
• drivelry.com by Krittika Goyal
• New recipe for Google Reader that downloads unread articles instead of just starred ones by rollercoaster
• Le Devoir by Lorenzo Vigentini
• Joop by kwetal
• Various computer magazines by Lorenzo Vigentini
• The Wall Street journal (free parts) by Nick Redding
• Journal of Nephrology by Krittika Goyal
• stuff.co.nz by Krittika Goyal
• Editor and Publisher by XanthanGum
• The Week (free) by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• Physics Today
• Wall Street Journal
• American Spectator
• FTD
• The National Post
• Blic
• Ars Technica

Release: 0.6.34 [15 Jan, 2010]

New Features

• Prelimiary driver for The Google Nexus One smartphone.
• Implement copy/paste of covers in the edit meta information dialog via a right click menu

  Closes tickets: 4564

• Autofit covers in available space when viewing book details (can be turned off)

  Closes tickets: 4536

• Tips for recipe writers added to the wiki at http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/wiki/RecipeTips

Bug Fixes

• Switch to non WMI based method of detecting devices on windows
• Conversion pipeline: Automatically change case of upper cased CSS tag selectors to lower case, so that they match
• Fix regression taht broke using the Add bokos button to add books directly to a connected device
• EPUB Output: Remove <img> tags with empty src attributes as older versions of ADE choke on them
• When creating paths on the hard disk/device replace a trailing period in a path component as windows silently discards them, causing various bugs

  Closes tickets: 4570

• Linux systray notifications: Ignore DBUS errors when sending notifications
• PRS Drivers: Don't error out if user sets collection generating metadata to None
• LRF Input: Handle malformed CharButtons

  Closes tickets: 4552

• Cybook Driver: Remove aux files created for epubs.
• When using Save to disk/Send to device templates, ignore index and attribute errors if the user incorrectly uses advanced formatting
• Linux install: remove broken symlinks when installing launchers, instead of erroring out
• Fix detection of CyBook Gen 3 with firmware 2 on OS X

  Closes tickets: 4521

New news sources

• MSNBC by Darko Miletic
• Norte Castilla by Lorenzo Vigentini
• El Universal (Venezuela) by Darko Miletic
• Think Progress by Xanthan Gum
• News and Observer by Krittika Goyal
• The Force by Krittika Goyal
• l'Espresso, Quotidiano, La Gazzeta dello Sport and Panorama by Lorenzo Vigentini

Improved news sources

• WSJ
• Globe and Mail
• New England Journal of Medicine
• New York Times
• Christian Science Monitor

Release: 0.6.33 [10 Jan, 2010]

New Features

• The e-book viewer now has built-in dictionary lookup

  "You can now right click on a word to lookup its meaning in an online dictionary. calibre uses the public domain dictionaries available at dict.org"

• RTF Output: Add support for unicode characters
• Allow the metadata that is used to create collections when sending books to SONY readers to be customized

  "By default collections are created on the SONY reader corresponding to series and tags. Now you can add other metadata fields, like author, or remove ones you dislike, by going to Preferences->Plugins and customizing the device interface plugin corresponding to your device."

• TXT Input: Add option to disable insertion of Table of Contents into output text.

  Closes tickets: 4506

• Remember state of cover and tag browsing views on restart
• Support using Delte key to delete formats in edit meta information dialog

Bug Fixes

• EPUB Output: Add id attributes to anchors that have only name, as Adobe Digital Editions apparently can't handle only name attributes

  Closes tickets: 4474

• Conversion pipeline: Handle the list-style shortcut CSS property correctly

  Closes tickets: 4418

• EPUB Output: Fix generation of comics with PNG images for the Nook

  Closes tickets: 4492

• Fix bug that could prevent loading of some custom plugins

  Closes tickets: 4414

• News download: Handle URLs with both commas and non-ASCII characters correctly
• Ignore invalid metadata when adding books from command line instead of erroring out

  Closes tickets: 4496

• Fix remove header/footer assistant when converting HTML files

  Closes tickets: 4484

• Workaround for browsers like iPhone Safari that send extra arguments when downloading books from the content server
• Content server: Recognize the HTC HD2 as a mobile browser and add series information to the mobile version of the web page.

  Closes tickets: 4488

• FB2 Output: Properly escape metadata before inserting it into the file
• Don't accept rich text in the comments fields of the edit meta information dialog
• Fix device detection for Cybook gen 3 with firmware 2.0
• Send to device: Use default save template when driver specific one is empty or unspecified
• Fix framework for running post-process and preprocess file type plugins
• Linux develop/install commands: Use bindir instead of staging bindir in the launchers

  Closes tickets: 4437

• E-book viewer: Sanitize file names when unzipping EPUB files

  Closes tickets: 4426

New news sources

• The Escapist by Lorenzo Vigentini
• Washington Post cartoons by kwetal
• The Dallas Morning News by Krittika Goyal
• sg.hu by davotibarna
• The New Zealand Herald by Krittika Goyal
• Nature News by Krittika Goyal

Improved news sources

• El Pais
• The Economist
• The New York Times
• Entrepreneur Magazine
• CNN

Release: 0.6.32 [03 Jan, 2010]

New Features

• Allow users to customize where books are placed by the Send to Device action

  "Users can now specify the folder structure and file name of files placed on the device when using the Send to Device action. This is useful for those devices that allow browsing of the on device folder structure. Customization is available via Preferences->Add/Save->Sending to device and can also be overriden on a per device basis from Preferences->Plugins->Device Interface plugins"

• Browse by tags: Make clicking on a tag cause all other tags to be de-selected, unless CTRL or SHIFT is pressed.
• News downloads: Automagically handle PDF covers
• Sort tags in the main view alphabetically

  Closes tickets: 4234

• Add command line option to content server to specify the path to the library to be served
• Support for the Hanvon N516, Binatone Readme and the Longshine ShineBook

Bug Fixes

• Fix various issues that could prevent calibre from starting on OS X
• Speed up device detection on windows. Difference will be noticeable for all the EB600 clones in particular
• Fix regression preventing User style sheets from working in the e-book viewer for the past couple of releases.

  Closes tickets: 4331

• Don't update main books list when showing Cover Browser. Should speed it up on slow computers.

  Closes tickets: 4412

• Fix detection of iRiver Story on windows

  Closes tickets: 4357

• EPUB Output: Fix play order in generated NCX being uniformly zero when the input HTML file has a name with special characters.

  Closes tickets: 4397

• Fix bug that prevented the changing of case of authors/series and publishers.
• Fix editing series name in main screen would cause an extra space to be added at the end

  Closes tickets: 4400

• Fix support for Android devices on linux

  Closes tickets: 4404

• Allow GUI to start even if home directory does not support sockets on Linux/OS X
• TXT Input: Remove specific options for indent and flush paragraphs, use the look and feel remove paragraph spacing option instead.
• MOBI metadata: Don't leave around a styles.css file when trying to extract embedded metadata
• MOBI Input: Change default encoding for files that don't specify a codepage from cp1251 to cp1252
• Linux binary: Add system QT_PLUGIN_PATH to enable calibre to use the user specified Qt style

New news sources

• Foreign Affairs by kwetal
• New England Journal of Medicine by Krittika Goyal
• Asia One by Bruce
• Mother Jones by kwetal
• Entrepreneur Magazine by kwetal
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Krittika Goyal
• Pilot One by Krittika Goyal
• Cyprus Weekly by kwetal
• RTE by Robin Phillips
• Psychology Today by Krittika Goyal
• The Providence Journal by Krittika Goyal
• The Denver Post by Krittika Goyal
• Pro Publica by kwetal
• Big Government by kwetal
• El Universal Impressa by kwetal
• Journal of Accountancy by kwetal
• The New York Magazine by Kovid Goyal
• Chowk by kwetal
• Dawn by kwetal
• The News by kwetal

Improved news sources

• The National Post
• The Economist (free)
• The Independent

Release: 0.6.31 [27 Dec, 2009]

New Features

• Support for the SONY PRS 900 and the Airis dBook
• Device detection on OS X now directly queries the IOKit registry instead of parsing the output of the ioreg command.

  "The logic for device detection in OS X is very similar to that in linux. This means that if a windows driver for a device is written, it should work with no modification on both OS X and Linux."

Bug Fixes

• Fix a major regression in the 0.6.30 news download system that caused a lot of recipes to fail
• Make PRS 500 driver thread safe.

  Closes tickets: 4307

• Fix ebook viewer not working when launched as standalone program to view PDF files on windows
• PDB Output: Fix italics

New news sources

• The Hartford Courant by Being
• National Post by Nick Redding
• The Columbus Dispatch by kwetal

Release: 0.6.30 [26 Dec, 2009]

New Features

• Update graphical toolkit to Qt 4.6 for better integration with Windows 7 and OS X Snow Leopard.

  "The library calibre uses to draw its user interface, Qt, has been updated in all binary builds to version 4.6. This provides better support for Windows 7 and OS X Snow Leopard,a s well as various speed ups in the user interface and e-book viewer rendering. Note that calibre will still run with Qt 4.5"

• Device drivers: Support for device specific icons
• Add menu options to delete specific formats/covers from the library

  Closes tickets: 3509

• Metadata dialog: Auto-increment the series number when editing the series and validate the input ISBN based on the check digit

  Closes tickets: 4285

• Add option to swap author first and last names when reading metadata from a file name
• Replace underscores with spaces when reading metadata
• Nook driver: Upload covers when sending to device. Also add Output Profile for the Nook
• Clicking on row numbers in the book list will now open the book in the viewer

  Closes tickets: 4266

• Driver for the Boox reader

Bug Fixes

• MOBI Metadata reader: Correctly handle non ASCII characters when reading embedded metadata.

  Closes tickets: 4223

• LRF Output: Set category metadata in generated LRF file based on tags

  Closes tickets: 4286

• News download: Correctly handle URLs with non ASCII characters in them
• Fix windows only crash when vieweing MOBI files

  Closes tickets: 4259

• Remeber selection when sorting and switching between library and device views

  Closes tickets: 4279, 4274

• Add a retry loop when querying database to workaround intermittent database access problems in windows

  Closes tickets: 4264

• When adding books, do not add OPF as a separate format
• Fix initialize method of plugins not being called
• Handle interrupted system calls duriong device detection on OS X

  Closes tickets: 4278

• EPUB Output: Make splitting to size more accurate by moving it after the workarounds
• When adding books via the add books button to the device, restrict to formats supported by device

New news sources

• Cyprus News Live by kwetal
• Kleine Zeitung by kwetal
• Business Week Magazine by Darko Mieltic
• CNET News by Darko Miletic
• Dilbert by Darko Miletic
• Le Temps by Sujata Raman
• Inc magazine by kwetal
• SME by kwetal
• Pravda by kwetal
• Houston Chronicle by Kovid Goyal
• Strategy and Business by kwetal
• Watching America by kwetal
• Aftenposten by davotibarna

Improved news sources

• Sueddeutsche
• Irish Independent
• The Straits Times
• Harvard Business Review
• Wall Street Journal

Release: 0.6.29 [18 Dec, 2009]

New Features

• By default the calibre system tray icon is now disabled

  Now, by default, on new calibre installs, the system tray icon is disabled. This means that when you close calibre it will quit completely instead of minimizing to system tray. You can enable the system tray icon via Preferences->Interface

• Add support for the eClicto reader
• Keep a history of recently used XPath expressions

  Closes tickets: 4238

• Add button to debug device detection to Preferences->Advanced
• Linux: Preferentially use desktop specific notification daemons
• Driver for Nokia N810 (windows and linux)
• PML/PDB Output: Use \CX tags to generate chapter index
• EPUB Output: Manifest entries are now sorted alphabetically on href

  Closes tickets: 4214

Bug Fixes

• Fix a bug in the Save to disk function that could cause saving of multiple books to fail on multi-core machines
• Update eSlick supported formats for 2.0 firmware
• Conversion pipeline: Fix --linearize-tables option not removing all table related style information
• FB2 Input: Handle composite titles correctly when converting

  Closes tickets: 4215

• MOBI Input: Ignore \x02 bytes in data stream for cp1252 encoded files
• PML Output: Change \C1 to \C0
• E-book viewer: Fix typing position to go to a page would not allow more than one character to be typed

  Closes tickets: 4220

• Fix regression that broke device detection for Cybook devices in 0.6.28 on windows and os x
• E-book viewer: Fix regression that could cause the next page action to sometime have no effect at the end of a section
• MOBI Input: Fix conversion of some MOBI files with headers of length 0xE4

  Closes tickets: 4230

New news sources

• Alberto Montt en dosis by Darko Miletic
• boston.com by Darko Miletic
• Prague Daily Monitor by Darko Miletic
• The Clarion Ledger by cr4zyd

Improved news sources

• The Economist
• Google reader
• London Review of Books
• El Mundo
• Welt Online
• Financial Times
• Newsweek

Release: 0.6.28 [14 Dec, 2009]

New Features

• Download latest version of recipes from the calibre server automatically.

  Now calibre will automatically check for updated versions of the recipes used to download the built in news sources. As a result, there is no need to upgrade calibre just for recipe fixes. Note that you still have to upgrade to get access to new news sources.

• Add a setting to control whether calibre will limit the max number of simultaneous jobs to the CPU count or not

  Closes tickets: 4213

• Device drivers: Allow looking for books in multiple root directories on the device. Currently only the Android driver uses this.
• Support for the Nokia N770 and the Ganaxa Ger 2
• FB2 Output: Various improvements
• Linux device detection: Drop dependency on libusb in favor of using SYSFS directly

Bug Fixes

• Conversion pipeline: Decoding of XML files made more fault tolerant
• ebook-viewer: Ignore missing items in the spine, instead of erroring out
• Fixed Time magazine recipe to handle end-of-year special issue
• More fixes in the Android driver
• Failed recipe downloads should also update the last downloaded time to prevent excessive re-downloading
• MOBI Output: Handle invalid width and height settings in <img> tags
• MOBI Input: Add suport for files that use the 'record separator' ASCII character code

New news sources

• Golem by Kovid Goyal
• Netzpolitik by Kovid Goyal
• Nu.nl by Rob Hankel

Improved news sources

• HRT: Vesti
• Guardian
• Clarin
• Pagina 12
• Joel on Software

Release: 0.6.27 [11 Dec, 2009]

New Features

• Support for the Barnes & Noble Nook

  Closes tickets: 4145

  calibre can now connect to the Barnes & Noble Nook on Windows, OS X and Linux. It can also convert to/from EPUB and PDB, the two e-book formats supported by the Nook.

• Speed up download of news

  "Speed up download of news by allowing the download to happen in multiple threads (default 5). This may break some recipes, so please report any breakage you notice. If a news server doesn't like the parallel connection, set simultaneous_downloads to 1 in the recipe."

• FB2 Output: Support creation of TOC from <h1> tags
• E-book viewer: Make keyboard shortcuts customizable

  Closes tickets: 3793

• E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts for next section and previous section
• E-book viewer: Scroll past page-break to maintain reading flow

  Closes tickets: 3328

• Linux device detection: Switch to using libusb1 to enumerate devices on system.

  "If you are building for source, the libusb1 headers and library are now required at compile time."

Bug Fixes

• LRF Viewer: Handle LRF files with corrupted end-of-stream tags

  Closes tickets: 4151

• LRF Viewer: Don't concatenate books when opening multiple files in the same viewer instance

  Closes tickets: 4139

• SONY device drivers: Ensure that calibre ignores the launcher partition on windows
• Fix regression introduced in the Android device drivers in 0.6.26

  Closes tickets: 4152

• MOBI Output: Fix handling of links with URL unsafe characters

  Closes tickets: 4091

• MOBI Output: Handle large descriptions when generating indexed files
• Save to disk: Fix {pubdate} format string in template being ignored

  Closes tickets: 4140

• Replace rotating hourglass with a more efficient busy indicator.
• PML Input: Make footnotes and sidebars display better
• E-book viewer: Properly handle <iframe>s
• News download: Remove onload attributes when removing javascript
• Linux source install: Write path to bin dir into launcher scripts to make IPC more robust
• Fix PocketBook 360 driver on windows when no SD card is inserted

  Closes tickets: 4182

• Fix stopping of a recipe download would prevent it from being re-downloaded until a calibre restart

  Closes tickets: 4007, 4158

New news sources

• Rzeczpospolita OnLine by kwetal
• The Huffington Post by kwetal
• Glenn Beck by kwetal
• The Bangkok Post by kwetal
• RIA Novosti in English and Spanish by Darko Miletic
• Sabah by Deniz Oguz
• Zaman by Deniz Oguz

Improved news sources

• The Hindu
• Slate
• The Toronto Star
• Soldiers Magazine
• The Economist
• Arizona Daily Star
• ESPN

Release: 0.6.26 [04 Dec, 2009]

New Features

• Android devices: Allow user to customize the directory for sending books

  Closes tickets: 3392

  Now the user can choose what directory on the device calibre will send books to. This allows calibre to support different reading software on Android devices apart from just WordPlayer.

• LIT Input: Handle LIT files that are really TXT files

  Some poorly created LIT files are really just one big block of text. Now calibre will automatically convert that TXT into paragraphs based on blank lines. This will prevent errors when trying to convert the LIT files to EPUB.

• Device support for Motorola Droid (windows and linux)
• Various improvements to metadata reading for eReader and PML books
• Allow adding of multiple empty books at once
• Device drivers: Allow one driver to handle devices from multiple vendors. Also allow device interface plugins to override the USB device detection code
• calibre-debug: Remove --develop-from option as it is no longer needed

Bug Fixes

• Content server: Fix password protected access from Android devices

  Closes tickets: 3952

• calibredb with output format stanza once again escapes URLs

  Closes tickets: 4084

• Implement work around for a CSS bug in Adobe Digital Editions that causes it to crash

  If the CSS contains the declaration font-size: medium instead of font-size: normal Adobe Digital Editions will crash. calibre will now automatically replace medium with normal.

• PML Output: Only create \a and \U tags for supported characters.
• PML Input: Allow for images in top-level bookname_image and images directories
• Allow sending of MOBI files to the PocketBook 360

  Closes tickets: 4118

• JetBook driver: Don't incorrectly nest folders when uploading books by the same author

  Closes tickets: 4120

• Speed up download of the free Economist recipe
• FB2 Input: Workaround for unescaped ampersands

New news sources

• Money Control by kwetal
• Vrij Nederland by kwetal

Improved news sources

• Times Online
• Endgadget
• Business Week

Release: 0.6.25 [30 Nov, 2009]

New Features

• Add option to swap title and author in the Bulk metadata dialog

  Closes tickets: 3885

• Make the metadata download plugins customizable
• Various improvements to the conversion of PDB/PML books with an all new state machine based parser
• Driver for upgraded SONY PRS 500
• Full support for PocketBook 360 with SD card
• ODT Input: Reflow positioned images

  Closes tickets: 4060

• Allow custom new recipes to reverse article order in feeds

  Closes tickets: 4095

• Conversion pipeline: Add option to control the inserted paragraph indent when using the remove blank line between paragraphs option
• When reading metadata from PDF files, look for the ISBN in the file text.

  Closes tickets: 3013

• Periodically check for updates to calibre instead of just at startup

  Closes tickets: 4040

Bug Fixes

• Fix bug that prevented saving of books from a connected device to your computer on windows, for non SONY devices

  Closes tickets: 4080

• Reorganize Dutch language news sources into Belgium and Netherlands categories

  Closes tickets: 4098

• Fix bad markup in some New York Times articles causing download to fail

  Closes tickets: 4032

• Fix recipe for Glasgow Herald
• Fixed recipe for The Australian
• Add PDF to list of supported formats for the Kindle 2
• Add 0x0c01 to the list of product ids for HTC Hero (Android) driver

  Closes tickets: 4088

• LIT Input: Remove more invalid markup present in LIT files created by Microsoft Word plugins

  Closes tickets: 4087

• LRF Input: Workaround buggy LRF files with unbalanced closing tags

  Closes tickets: 4108

New news sources

• The Economist (no subscription required) by Kovid Goyal
• Sports Illustrated by kwetal
• Levante by kwetal
• ncrnext by kwetal
• Gulli by posativ

Improved news sources

• The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Harpers
• Our Daily Bread
• Sydney Morning Herald

Release: 0.6.24 [16 Nov, 2009]

New Features

• Add option to swap title and author in the Bulk metadata dialog

  Closes tickets: 3885

• Add option to download only social metadata

  Closes tickets: 4015

• Update bundled odfpy library to 0.9.2 for improved conversion of ODT files.
• Output resolved conversion options in conversion log, for easier debugging.
• Add option to Bulk conversion dialog to not use per-book settings from a previous conversion

Bug Fixes

• Device drivers: Ignore files on the device when there is a file system/file name encoding error

  Sometimes, the presence of files on the e-book device that have special characters in the file name would cause calibre to throw an error when scanning the device for books. Now, calibre will simply ignore the files whose names it cannot decode.

• Fix various bugs in the downloading of social metadata in bulk

  Closes tickets: 4028, 4022

• Do not URL encode paths to files in the XML output of calibredb list

  Stanza on the iPhone could not handle URL encoded paths

• Fix rendering of stars in rating column in the library view

  Closes tickets: 3944

• Fix PML parsing changes introduced in 0.6.22 as they break PDB eReader input badly.
• Conversion pipeline: Respect UTF-8/32 BOM mark when decoding files in addition to UTF-16 BOM.

  Closes tickets: 4025

• Restore all sections to Guardian newspaper download
• Social metadata download: If the user specifies that they don't want social metadata, don't get tags from the basic metadata sources either

New news sources

• The Havard Business Review by Kovid Goyal
• Fokke en Sukke by kwetal

Improved news sources

• The Philadelphia Inquirer

Release: 0.6.22 [13 Nov, 2009]

New Features

• Support downloading of social metadata (ratings/tags/reviews etc.)

  Closes tickets: 2860

  calibre is now able to download social metadata like tags/rating/reviews etc., in addition to normal metadata and covers. Currently it uses Amazon as the only source for social metadata, but the download system supports plugins for the addition of more sources in the future.

• Convert metadata download system to plugins, with builtin plugins for isbndb.com, Google Books and Amazon
• PML metadata reader
• PML Input: Fix handling of images and various other improvements

Bug Fixes

• Fix NYT Top stories, Barrons, New Scientist and Irish Times recipes

  Closes tickets: 4009, 3964, 3972, 3987

• FB2 Output: Handle large paragraphs

  Closes tickets: 3941

• Bulk metadata download: Don't fail on downloading all remaining covers if there is an error downloading a single cover in the list
• Populate site_customization for Input plugins

  Closes tickets: 3957

• Fix news download scheduler raising an error for scheduled custom recipe that is subsequently deleted

  Closes tickets: 4010

New news sources

• NPR by onyxrev
• Welt Online by Oliver Niesner
• An Druma Mor by David O'Callaghan

Improved news sources

• Critica Digital
• Infobae
• Spiegel International