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What's new in this version:

Calibre 5.17.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- E-book viewer: Image popup: Allow dragging with the mouse to pan the image
- Sort button: Allow selecting which columns are in the popup sort menu
- E-book viewer: When suggesting a default bookmark title, use the name of the current chapter
- E-book viewer: When searching the Table of Contents allow holding the Shift key to search backwards
- E-book viewer: Add a shortcut Ctrl+0 to restore default font size

Fixed:
- Windows MTP driver: Rewrite parts of the driver in the hope of fixing some rare and hard to reproduce crashes
- Windows MTP driver: Set modified and created times when putting files/folders on device. Also read modified time correctly.
- Windows: E-book viewer: Fix switching away from viewer while in full screen and switching back causing some corruption until the page is scrolled
- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused errors when editing empty date values
- Get books: Update Gutenberg plugin for website changes
- E-book viewer: The quick highlight button should replace the style of an existing highlight, when one is selected
- Elide long items in the middle when showing the completion popup for tags, to make it easier to use with hierarchical tags
- E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix soft hyphens causing read aloud words to be broken up
- E-book viewer: Right clicking when text is selected should extend the selection instead of doing nothing
- Fix settings in the ToC Editor tool being forgotten when calibre is closed
- DOCX Output: Fix conversion failing if the input document has missing images
- Content server viewer: Fix mouse wheel scrolling not working on the box used to edit notes for highlights
- E-book viewer: Fix read aloud word tracking in flow mode not very reliable
- E-book viewer: Fix navigation shortcuts not working in Read aloud mode

Improved news sources:
- Barrons
- Krebs On Security


Calibre 5.16.1 (64-bit)
Fixed:
- CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and dont specify a character encoding in their metadata
- Fix a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin
- Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats
- Fix using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that causes the viewer to ignore page-break CSS properties (in 5.16.1)
- Fix a regression that broke using stored templates (in 5.16.1)
- Fix auto scroll books shortcut not working in standalone cover browser window (in 5.16.1)
- E-book viewer: Fix jumping to previous section sometimes not working in flow mode (in 5.16.1)
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke changing keyboard shortcuts in the viewer preferences (in 5.16.1)
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 5.15 that broke using the delete key to delete highlights (in 5.16.1)

New news sources:
- The Saturday paper by Alistair Francis
- Crikey by Alistair Francis

Improved news sources:
- Granta
- New Scientist


Calibre 5.16.0 (64-bit)
Fixed:
- CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and dont specify a character encoding in their metadata
- Fix a regression in the previous release that prevented calibre from starting if there was a failure in a third party plugin
- Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous that broke handling of URLs in stylesheets
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats
- Fix using 'is set' rules not working for column rules with rating values

New news sources:
- The Saturday paper


Calibre 5.15.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Allow auto scrolling through the list of books by pressing the X key or right clicking on the cover browser
- Useful to have a "slideshow" of book covers. The speed of scrolling can be controlled in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser
- E-book viewer: Speed up first time open for EPUB files with lots of styling
- E-book viewer preferences: Allow searching for keyboard shortcuts
- Edit book: Allow editing WEBP images
- Various improvements to the template language
- E-book viewer: Show the current progress percentage in the bottom bar of the viewer controls. This can be customized in the viewer preferences under Headers and footers
- E-book viewer: Add an option under Preferences->Miscellaneous to not restore open panels such as Search, Table of Contents etc on restart
- When exporting highlights as text or markdown also output top level chapter titles
- Allow downloading metadata from amazon.se
- Preferences->Tweaks: Allow specifying that calibre should open the book details window when double clicking on a book
- MOBI Output: Convert WebP images to PNG so they work with Amazon's software
- DOCX Input: When converting embedded fonts, replace spaces in the filename with underscores to keep the execrable epubcheck happy
- E-book viewer: Selection bar: Add keyboard shortcuts for all buttons. Hover over a button in the bar to see the shortcut

Fixed:
- FB2 Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused paragraphs containing only non-breaking spaces to be removed
- Metadata comments editor: Fix setting block alignment destroying other block level properties
- E-book viewer: Fix margins not being adjusted immediately when preferences are changed
- Edit book: Upgrade book internals: Fix skipping the NCX removal dialog not remembering the chosen option
- Conversion: When specifying a line-height do not apply it to the tag, as it is pointless and causes the execrable epubcheck to complain
- E-book viewer: Improve scrolling behavior when extending the selection using keyboard shortcuts
- E-book viewer: Fix read percent for HTML files that are rendered in a single screen being 0% rather than 100%
- E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Do not expand all sections when adding/deleting/modifying highlights
- CHM Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke opening of some files that dont specify a character encoding
- EPUB2 metadata: Read ISBNs in identifier elements without schemes if they are valid ISBNs and no properly identified isbns are present
- Update Amazon metadata plugin for changes to amazon websites
- Edit book: Fix detection of class names containing hyphens/underscores

New news sources:
- Los Danieles – Columnas sin techo by CAVALENCIA

Improved news sources:
- New Scientist
- Irish Times
- 1843
- The Straits Times


Calibre 5.14.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Edit book: When right clicking on a class in a HTML file, add an option to rename the class throughout the book
- Adding from ISBN: Add an option to check if there are existing books with the specified ISBNs already in the library
- Template tester: Instead of next/last, the template tester now shows the template values for selected books
- Content server: Allow swiping left and right to show next/previous book on the book details page
- E-book viewer: Make the commonly used shift+arrow key shortcuts for modifying selections using the keyboard work. Also add shorcuts for selecting by character, line and paragraph.

Fixed:
- MOBI Output: Fix latest kindle firmware not displaying select publisher font option for calibre produced azw3 files
- E-book viewer: Fix errors when viewing books with mathematics that are split over multiple internal files
- Content server viewer: Fix highlights not sorted correctly in the highlights panel
- Get books: Fix smashwords plugin not working because of website changes
- Improve the performance of QuickView especially when using composite columns
- Improve performance of the virtual_libraries() template function
- Browser viewer: Fix Go to Location not working for positions
- E-book viewer: Fix searching in the Table of Contents not working
- E-book viewer: In paged mode, fix scrolling not working correctly when margins are set to zero
- E-book viewer: Fix incorrect ToC navigation in books that link the entries to inline tags that wrap block tags that span multiple pages
- Category editor: Searching in library shouldn't automatically opens Quickview
- Conversion: Fix a hang caused by long sequences of non-word characters when heuristics are enabled, either explicitly or for some input formats such as TXT
- Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke --explode-book and --implode-book actions for calibre-debug.exe
- Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke setting metadata in RTF files

New news sources:
- ZackZack.at


Calibre 5.13.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- E-book Viewer: Allow editing the current book by pressing Ctrl+d or adding a button for it to the viewer tool bar
- Edit book: Add a command line flag to allow selecting the specified text when opening a book
- Edit metadata dialog: When trimming covers, show the size of the current trim region

Fixed:
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke sending of emails with text longer than 900 characters
- E-book viewer: Fix using keyboard to extend selection not turning pages
- Fix searching for items from the Manage dialog not working correctly
- PDF input: Replace paragraph separator characters with spaces

Improved news sources:
- The Conversation


Calibre 5.12.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- E-book viewer: When searching start the search from the current position, jumping to the first match at or after the current page
- E-book viewer: Have the Table of Contents view automatically scroll to keep the chapter being read currently visible
- Various improvements to the calibre template language
- Edit book: File browser: Show total size of items in category when hovering over category with mouse
- Kobo driver: Add support for latest firmware and also an option to choose the color used for cover letterboxing

Bug-fixes:
- E-book viewer: Fix selection popup bar sometimes going off screen when dragging up to the top line of text
- Get books: Update the Biblio and Chitanka stores for website changes
- Edit book: Fix editing of JavaScript files not working

Improved news sources:
- Slate
- Harper's Magazine


Calibre 5.11.0 (64-bit)
New:
- Edit book: Add a tool to split the tag at the current cursor position, creating a new tag with the same style and class attributes. To add the tool go to the Toolbars section in the editor preferences
- E-book viewer: Show the URL when hovering over external links
- E-book viewer: Redesign the reference mode to also work on touch screens without a mouse. Now in reference mode paragraph numbers are displayed for all paragraphs
- Edit book: Allow Ctrl-clicking on class names to jump to the first style rule that matches the tag and class
- Content server: When browsing highlights for a book allow selecting multiple highlights to delete or export quickly
- Allow creating keyboard shortcuts to copy show and view URLs for selected books to clipboard
- calibredb: Add a timeout option to control the timeout when connecting to the calibre server

Fixed:
- Content server: Fix dragging selection handles not working in Safari
- E-book viewer: Fix links with a href of "#" not working
- E-book viewer: Hide the controls when clicking the back or forward buttons
- E-book viewer: When jumping to a highlight using the highlights panel, the back button should return to position before jump
- E-book viewer: Fix incorrect tooltip when hovering over a section title in the search results list
- HTMLZ Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke creating HTMLZ documents when using the option to place CSS inline

Improved news sources:
- Endgadget


Calibre 5.10.1 (64-bit)
New features:
- Bulk metadata edit: Add a new control to compress the cover image files for all selected books
- Add support for the CB7 comic file file format
- E-book viewer: Allow adding a button to the selection bar that copies the currently selected text along with a calibre:// URL to show the text in the book
- Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow showing identifiers such as ISBN in the jacket page template
- Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow hiding entries in the jacket template when they are not present in the metadata
- calibre-server --manage-users: Add a scriptable interface: calibre-server --manage-users -- help
- E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to copy the current location to the clipboard
- E-book viewer: Highlight all currently visible Table of Contents entries, not just the first
- Add a new tweak under Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to optionally recognize common surname prefixes such as von, van, de, etc. when generating sort names.

Bug-fixes:
- E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode
- E-book viewer: Fix scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth
- PDF Output: When converting fixed layout input documents fix anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes
- Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Fix selectors that don't match from CSS rules containing multiple selectors not being removed
- Bulk metadata download: Fix series number not being changes if the series is the same as the existing series
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused non-HTML descriptions to not be displayed in the metadata page
- E-book viewer: Fix clock being displayed in 24 hr format on some systems even though system locale is set to use 12 hr format
- Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression that inverted the meaning of the case sensitivity setting in the Search & replace tab
- calibredb list: Fix incorrect output when redirecting to file
- 5.10.1 fixes a regression in 5.10.0 that broke conversion when including metadata as a jacket page and using long text custom columns

Improved news sources:
- Jacobin
- Japan Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- Mediapart


Calibre 5.10.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Bulk metadata edit: Add a new control to compress the cover image files for all selected books
- Add support for the CB7 comic file file format
- E-book viewer: Allow adding a button to the selection bar that copies thecurrently selected text along with a calibre:// URL to show the text in the book
- Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow showing identifiers such as ISBN in the jacket page template
- Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow hiding entries in the jacket template when they are not present in the metadata
- calibre-server --manage-users: Add a scriptable interface: calibre-server --manage-users -- help
- E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to copy the current location to the clipboard
- E-book viewer: Highlight all currently visible Table of Contents entries, not just the first
- Add a new tweak under Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to optionally recognizecommon surname prefixes such as von, van, de, etc. when generating sort names

Bug-fixes:
- E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode
- E-book viewer: Fix scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth
- PDF Output: When converting fixed layout input documents fix anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes
- Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Fix selectors that don't match from CSS rules containing multiple selectors not being removed
- Bulk metadata download: Fix series number not being changes if the series is the same as the existing series
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused non-HTML descriptions to not be displayed in the metadata page
- E-book viewer: Fix clock being displayed in 24 hr format on some systems even though system locale is set to use 12 hr format.
- Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression that inverted the meaning of the case sensitivity setting in the Search & replace tab
- calibredb list: Fix incorrect output when redirecting to file

Improved news sources:
- Jacobin
- Japan Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- Mediapart


Calibre 5.9.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Annotations: Allow exporting highlights and bookmarks in Markdown format, with a link to open the book at the highlight location
- Content server viewer: Allow exporting all highlights
- Icon rules editor: Add a button to open the icons folder
- Quickview: Dropdown menu for all selectable columns

Bug-fixes:
- Fix a regression that caused the Content server to crash if a client closed a connection during a file transfer on macOS and Linux.
- LRF Output: Fix conversion broken in calibre 5 when font size rescaling is active
- E-book viewer: Cancel any speech in progress when hiding the selection popup bar after triggering the speak aloud action on it
- Color/icon rules editor: Fix duplicate rule button not working correctly
- Fix dropping files onto book details causing an error if the confirmation dialog is disabled

New news sources:
- Mallorca Zeitung by VoHegg
- T-Online by VoHegg
- El Diario by Dirk Gómez

Improved news sources:
- General Knowledge Today
- El Pais
- USA Today
- WirtchaftsWoche Online
- The Guardian
- Arcamax
- Miami Herald
- The Seattle Times


Calibre 5.8.1 (64-bit)
New features:
- Happy holidays to all calibre users
- E-book Viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard (triggered by Alt+F)
- Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences)
- Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre
- Content server viewer: Don't enter full screen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in the viewer preferences under Page layout)
- E-book Viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it)
- Template/formatter enhancements: Add a 'for' statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template
- Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode

Bug-fixes:
Content server viewer: Fix regression in 5.0 that broke scrolling on iOS
E-book viewer: Fix error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode
AZW3 Input: Fix rare AID based links not working
E-book viewer: Fix clock in header/footer not using system time format
Windows: Fix Read aloud not working with books that have a single large internal text file, such as MOBI or DOCX books
PDF Output: Fix a regression causing conversion to fail when typesetting Chinese text
Amazon metadata download: Fix no results being found when using the automatic or Google servers because of a change in the markup of the Google search results page.
Version 5.8.1 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the Save to disk function and changing Page layout settings in the viewer.

New news sources:
- SchwarzerPfeil by tastytea
- Substack by topynate

Improved news sources:
- The Australian
- The Atlantic
- Zerohedge
- New York Times Book Review


Calibre 5.8.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Happy holidays to all calibre users!
- E-book Viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard (triggered by Alt+f)
- Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences).
- Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre.
- Content server viewer: Don't enter fullscreen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in in the viewer preferences under Page layout)
- E-book Viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it)
- Template/formatter enhancements: Add a 'for' statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template.
- Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode

Bug-fixes:
- Content server viewer: Fix regression in 5.0 that broke scrolling on iOS
- E-book viewer: Fix error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode
- AZW3 Input: Fix rare AID based links not working.
- E-book viewer: Fix clock in header/footer not using system time format
- Windows: Fix Read aloud not working with books that have a single large internal text file, such as MOBI or DOCX books
- PDF Output: Fix a regression causing conversion to fail when typesetting Chinese text
- Amazon metadata download: Fix no results being found when using the auto or google server because of a change in the markup of the Google search results page.

New news sources:
- SchwarzerPfeil by tastytea
- Substack by topynate

Improved news sources:
- The Australian
- The Atlantic
- Zerohedge
- New York Times Book Review


Calibre 5.7.2 (64-bit)
New features:
- E-book viewer: Add a "Read aloud" function that works via the operating system's Text-to-speech engine
- Click the "Read aloud" button in the viewer controls to start reading the book text aloud from the current page
- A new busy spinner for waiting animations
- Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field

Bug-fixes:
- PDF Output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke text rendering for some fonts due to a bug in Qt WebEngine (full fix is in 5.7.2)
- PDF Output: Fix conversion failing when adding header/footer and the input document defines margins/padding on the tag
- Windows: Fix the case of library names in copied calibre:// links sometimes incorrect
- AZW3 Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of files with inline flow replacements
- Fix hiding and showing book details panel changes its size by a pixel or two
- Get books: Fix amazon.fr not working because of website changes
- Bulk metadata search/replace: Fix text transform function not being applied to the test result in character mode
- Book list: Improve rendering of column headers when they dont fit, by eliding them instead of just cutting off rendering
- Fix template function "first_non_empty" fails if no argument evaluates non-empty
- Fix regression in 5.7.0 causing failure to start if one of the previously used libraries had a stored path ending in a slash

Improved news sources:
- The Guardian
- The Atlantic


Calibre 5.7.1 (64-bit)
New features:
- E-book viewer: Add a "Read aloud" function that works via the operating system's Text-to-speech engine
- Click the "Read aloud" button in the viewer controls to start reading the book text aloud from the current page
- A new busy spinner for waiting animations
- Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field

Bug-fixes
- PDF Output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke text rendering for some fonts due to a bug in Qt WebEngine (full fix is in 5.7.1)
- PDF Output: Fix conversion failing when adding header/footer and the input document defines margins/padding on the tag
- Windows: Fix the case of library names in copied calibre:// links sometimes incorrect
- AZW3 Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of files with inline flow replacements
- Fix hiding and showing book details panel changes its size by a pixel or two
- Get books: Fix amazon.fr not working because of website changes
- Bulk metadata search/replace: Fix text transform function not being applied to the test result in character mode
- Book list: Improve rendering of column headers when they dont fit, by eliding them instead of just cutting off rendering
- Fix template function "first_non_empty" fails if no argument evaluates non-empty
- Fix regression in 5.7.0 causing failure to start if one of the previously used libraries had a stored path ending in a slash

Improved news sources:
- The Guardian
- The Atlantic


Calibre 5.7.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- E-book viewer: Add a "Read aloud" function that works via the operating system's Text-to-speech engine
- Click the "Read aloud" button in the viewer controls to start reading the book text aloud from the current page
- A new busy spinner for waiting animations
- Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field

Bug-fixes:
- PDF Output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke text rendering for some fonts due to a bug in Qt WebEngine
- PDF Output: Fix conversion failing when adding header/footer and the input document defines margins/padding on the tag
- Windows: Fix the case of library names in copied calibre:// links sometimes incorrect
- AZW3 Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of files with inline flow replacements
- Fix hiding and showing book details panel changes its size by a pixel or two
- Get books: Fix amazon.fr not working because of website changes
- Bulk metadata search/replace: Fix text transform function not being applied to the test result in character mode
- Book list: Improve rendering of column headers when they dont fit, by eliding them instead of just cutting off rendering
- Fix template function "first_non_empty" fails if no argument evaluates non-empty

Improved news sources:
- The Guardian
- The Atlantic


Calibre 5.6.0 (64-bit)
New:
- Edit book: Show a non-modal popup for a few seconds to allow undoing file delete operations
- Device books view: Add an action to the context menu to easily jump to the matching book in the calibre library view
- Add ability to undo Generate cover in the Edit metadata screen, by long clicking the Generate cover button
- Edit book: Allow adding tags to the list of tags for the insert tag button
- calibredb add: New option --automerge to automatically merge duplicates
- Add an edit notes action to the context menu in the viewer highlights panel
- Content server viewer: Allow viewing images in a new window by right clicking them, matches the calibre builtin viewer behavior
- Book details window: Allow opening the edit metadata window using either the keyboard shortcut or the context menu
- Allow copying the current search as a calibre:// URL by right clicking the search box
- Book details panel: Add entries to copy calibre:// links for the current book to the context menu
- Edit book: Upgrade book: Ask whether to keep the NCX based Table of Contents

Fixed:
- Windows: Fix calibre portable launcher not working correctly from root directory in calibre 5.5
- macOS: Fix rendering of space after punctuation incorrect in Big Sur
- DOCX Input: When converting images placed using the obsolete VML markup default them to being inline rather than block images
- Metadata edit dialog: Fix keyboard shortcuts for bold/italic/underline not working when more than one comments editor widget is present on a single tab
- When using calibre://show-book URLs and the book is not found, clear any Virtual library or search restriction and then show the book
- macOS: Fix calibre:// URLs not working from other documents
- Fix calibre:// URL search action not changing library if needed
- annotation_count() template function displaying value for deleted annotations
- Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting not recognizing ends-with selector

Improved news sources:
- The BBC
- Folha de Sao Paolo
- Netzpolitik


Calibre 5.5.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Support the calibre:// URL scheme
- Clicking on calibre:// URLs can be used to have calibre perform various actions
- 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 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
- Windows: Fix sending email on computers with non-ASCII computer names

Improved news sources:
- Spectator Magazine


Calibre 5.4.2 (64-bit)
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 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: Elide the names of custom columns that are longer than a fixed width, instead of using multiple lines.Configurable via Preferences->Tweaks->Edit metadata custom column label length
- 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

Improved news sources:
- Psychology Today
- Washington Post
- LifeHacker
- The Atlantic
- New York Review of Books


Calibre 5.4.1 (64-bit)
New:
- 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 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
- Elide the names of custom columns that are longer than a fixed width, instead of using multiple lines.Configurable via Preferences->Tweaks->Edit metadata custom column label length
- 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

Improved news sources:
- Psychology Today
- Washington Post
- LifeHacker
- The Atlantic
- New York Review of Books


Calibre 5.4.0 (64-bit)
New:
- 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 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
- Elide the names of custom columns that are longer than a fixed width, instead of using multiple lines.Configurable via Preferences->Tweaks->Edit metadata custom column label length
- 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

New news sources:
- title by author

Improved news sources:
- Psychology Today
- Washington Post
- LifeHacker
- The Atlantic
- New York Review of Books


Calibre 5.3.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Tag browser: When grouping items by first letter if adjacent letters have few entries combine them into a single group
- Can be controlled via an option in Preferences->Look & fee->Tag browser to combine 'first letters' together if there are a small number of items under adjacent letters
- Viewer: Allow displaying the current page / total pages in the header/footer. Useful in paged mode to see exactly 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
- Only works with output formats such as EPUB that support CSS transforms
- 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

Fixed:
- 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

New news sources:
- Deutsche Welle by VoHe

Improved news sources:
- Reuters


Calibre 5.2.0 (64-bit)
New:
- 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 functions)
- Add a shortcut (Shift+V) to open the last read book

Fixed:
- 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


Calibre 5.1.0 (64-bit)
New:
- Enhancement: allow using templates in search expressions
- Viewer lookup panel: Add a checkbox to disable automatic update of lookup when the selected text changes
- Viewer: Allow skipping the confirmation when using the remove highlight button in the popup bar

Bug fixes:
- ToC Editor: Fix bulk rename of entries not working
- Linux: Fix right clicking on system tray icon not working
- Fix User category based searches unreliable dues to caching issues
- PDF Output: Dont fail if the input document has an html file identified as the cover
- Catalog generation: Fix a regression that broke generating catalogs if books with no comments are present
- Windows: Fix error on first run of calibre after install/upgrade
- Viewer: Fix copy to clipboard button in toolbar not working
- Viewer: Fix copy to clipboard not copying text as HTML to clipboard in addition to plain text


Calibre 5.0.1 (64-bit)
New features:
- E-book viewer: Add support for highlighting
- E-book viewer: Add support for right-to-left and vertical text
- Switch calibre to Python 3. This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins will not work
- Dark mode support for the Content server and E-book viewer user interfaces
- Content server's in-browser viewer now supports bookmarking. Bookmarks and highlights are auto-synced across devices
- Regular expression engine used for searching the book list and reading metadata from filenames has been made more powerful

Bug fixes:
- Version 5.0.1 fixes a bug in 5.0.0 that broke connecting to devices on macOS


Calibre 5.0.0 (64-bit)
New:
- E-book viewer: Add support for highlighting
- E-book viewer: Add support for right-to-left and vertical text
- Switch calibre to Python 3. This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins will not work
- Dark mode support for the Content server and E-book viewer user interfaces
- Content server's in-browser viewer now supports bookmarking. Bookmarks and highlights are auto-synced across devices
- Regular expression engine used for searching the book list and reading metadata from filenames has been made more powerful


Calibre 4.23.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware. Also add recognition of 'Kobo Plus' subscription books
- Edit book: Allow customizing the base background/foreground and link colors for the preview window
- Quickview panel: Add actions to the context menu to search for book in library, open in viewer, etc
- Allow forcing calibre to remember the column width for the On device column by right clicking the header of the column
- Template language: Add functions to perform math operations to convert fractional numbers to integers

Bug fixes:
- Content server: Fix Esc key not working in several views
- Fix unable to delete default value for custom columns of boolean type, once set
- EPUB Output: When splitting dont consider files with only a single character empty
- Comments editor: Fix syntax coloring for HTML view in dark mode
- Book list: When a series column is not wide enough, elide text in the middle so that the series number is visible

New news sources:
- linuxnews.de and t3n.de

Improved news sources:
- El Diplo
- calibre Blog
- ESPN
- LA Times
- Winnipeg Free Press
- Popular Science
- Science News Recent Issues


Calibre 4.22.0 (64-bit)
New:
- Edit book: In dark mode, make the preview panel also dark
- PDF Output: Headers/footers: Allow displaying the current page number and total number of pages in the top level section/chapter
- Edit book: Show EPUB version in window title
- Allow testing if a number column is set or not set in coloring/icon/emblem rules.
- Viewer: Add a setting to control how many pixels a scroll wheel should generate before triggering a page turn

Bug fixes:
- Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused poor performance when editing large files
- DOCX Input: Leave undefined text colors in the input document as undefined
- Viewer: Fix using a very small font step size not working
- Font scanner: Also scan the new win 10 local font paths
- Viewer: Fix typing values in font size adjust control not working

Improved news sources:
- Respekt
- The Atlantic


Calibre 4.21.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Nia
- Cover grid: Vertically center covers that are smaller than the available space
- Quickview panel: Add a checkbox to easily toggle if virtual libraries are respected
- When creating custom columns allow specifying a default value to be applied to new books for that column

Bug fixes:
- Edit book: Fix initial sync of preview panel to cursor position sometimes not working when a new HTML file is opened for editing
- Fix changed author sort name not being used when adding another book by the author to the library
- Cover browser: improve rendering of text with heavily hinted fonts
- Viewer: Fix CBC comic files not being viewed correctly. Note that you have to reload the book via the viewer controls to apply the fix
- Viewer: Fix Table of Contents not correct for comics
- Viewer: Ignore the zero width non-joiner character in searches
- Viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke reading of books with mathematics and also tags without href attributes
- Cover grid: When using a background image do not scroll it with the covers

Improved news sources:
- 1843 magazine
- Caravan Magazine


Calibre 4.20.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Edit book: Preview: Support displaying mathematics
- Kobo driver: Add support for the latest firmware version
- Allow copy/pasting dates from columns having different date display formats
- Book details panel: When right clicking on tags/authors/etc. allow finding them in the Tag browser easily
- Allow selecting individual items to delete in the Check library dialog
- Add an option to the wireless device driver to ignore device free space when sending books

Bug fixes:
- Viewer: Fix turning pages in paged mode with a high precision touchpad to generate scroll events too fast
- Edit book: Fix pasting files from another editor instance causing unsaved changes in open editors to be lost
- Tag browser: Do not show counts for searches as they are always zero
- Check library: Do not abort if there are folders in the library that calibre does not have permission to access
- Amazon metadata download: Fix download of ratings not working from amazon.co.jp

New news sources:
- The Print by Kovid Goyal

Improved news sources:
- Popular Science
- Caravan Magazine
- Sports Illustrated
- Gazetta Prawna


Calibre 4.19.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Manage authors dialog: Improve performance in very large libraries

Bug fixes:
- Book details panel: Fix a regression that caused right clicking on an author name to manage it not opening with that name selected
- calibredb set_metadata: When converting a string into a datetime if the string is a full ISO 8601 date with timezone do not adjust the date to make it timezone neutral
- Edit book: Fix Check book spuriously reporting incorrect mime type warnings for fonts after upgrading a book from EPUB 2 to EPUB 3
- Book details panel: Dont show sizes less than 0.01MB as zero
- Viewer: Fix jump to previous section not working when viewer is on last section

Improved news sources:
- Journal of Accountancy
- Bangkok Post
- 20 minutes


Calibre 4.18.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Viewer: Search panel: Add a button to return to the position the book was at before doing a search.
- Tag browser: Improve handling of hierarchical tags
- Renaming a tag now renames it and all its children. Drag and drop of hierarchical tags alters their hierarchy. Deleting a tag now deletes all its children
- Viewer: In flow mode, implement drag scrolling
- Tag browser: Allow Manage Tags to open to a selected letter when clicking on a letter
- Viewer: Show number of search results in title of search panel
- Content server: In the book list hovering over the library name now shows the total number of books in the library

Bug fixes:
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the copy and recalculate author sort buttons
- Book details: Fix extra margin to the right of the metadata fields
- Cover grid: Show text under books that have no cover as well
- When merging metadata, if a custom column has type multiple in the new data and some other type in the old data, ignore the old data instead of failing
- Windows: Fix an error when changing title/author for books in a library whose name contains characters not encodeable in the current code page
- Windows: Fix amazon metadata download failing when accented characters in search query
- Comments editor: Fix shortcuts for bold/italic not working when toolbars are hidden

Improved news sources:
- The Hindu
- Wired Daily Edition
- The Economist


Calibre 4.17.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Add a workaround for Amazon destroying cover thumbnails on e-ink Kindles
- For books sent with this release of calibre, reconnecting the Kindle to calibre after the cover has been destroyed will restore it automatically
- Viewer: Group search results by section
- Viewer: When the search results panel is expanded, show more context
- Tag browser: Add options in Preferences->Look & feel->Tag browser to hide empty categories and also to have the Find in the Tag browser show all matches instead of jumping from match to match
- Tag browser: The Find function for searching for items in the Tag browser can now do exact matching by using = as a prefix
- Manage tags/authors/etc dialogs: Allow searching and filtering the list of items
- Book details panel contenxt menu: Add an action to open the Book details window
- Viewer: Add Next and Previous buttons in the bookmarks panel
- Conversion: Change the default white-space CSS for tags to pre-wrap as this suits ebooks better

Bug fixes:
- Edit Book: Fix default CSS template not quoting the charset, causing Check book to complain about the CSS
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the losslessly compress images tool when the image filenames had upper case characters on Windows
- Fix a regression that broke drag and drop of images from browsers to the book details panel on some platforms
- FB2 metadata: Fix setting dates before 1900 failing
- Fix Bookeen Diva HD not being detected

New news sources:
- Independent Australia by Pat Stapelton

Improved news sources:
- How To Geek
- Tagespost by Pat Stapleton
- ABC News


Calibre 4.16.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Viewer/Edit book fuzzy search: Ignore soft hyphens and zero-width joiner characters when searching for text
- Tag browser: Allow adding/removing tags/authors/etc. to the currently selected book by right clicking on that tag and choosing "Apply to selected books"
- Kobo driver: Add support for updated firmware
- Manage categories dialog: When editing a value with multiple values selected, change them all
- Book list column header context menu: Add an entry to resize the column to fit its current contents
- Show completions when editing tags/authors/series etc in the Tag browser and Manage tags dialog
- Quickview: Double clicking an item now searches for it
- Comments editor: Add an action to the context menu to smarten punctuation
- FB2 metadata: Add support for setting publisher and publish year

Bug fixes:
- Edit book: Fix compress images losslessly failing for a few images on windows when there are a lot of images in the book
- Fix a regression in 4.13 that broke the user category editor for all custom columns
- Viewer: Fix font size changes not applying to monospaced fonts

Improved news sources:
- Ars Technica
- Washington Post


Calibre 4.15.0 (64-bit)
New:
- Viewer: Improve the interface for changing font sizes
- Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+b) for adding a bookmark

Bug fixes:
- Bulk metadata edit: Fix a regression causing scrollbars to not appear in Custom metadata tab
- Viewer: Fix a regression that broke searching in flow mode
- BibTeX Catalog: Dont output comment describing the catalog as Zotero fails to process it
- Linux: Fix uninstaller not working on Linux distros that have no python symlink
- Viewer: Fix zoom step size setting ignored
- Viewer: Fix text that has font sizes specified using keywords not being scaleable by the viewer's font size controls
- Viewer: Fix LRF files not opening
- MOBI metadata: When reading author sort from MOBI files, construct the final value from all author fields

Improved:
- The Nation
- Animal Politico


Calibre 4.14.0 (64-bit)
New features:
- Viewer: Add an option to have taps turn by screen fulls instead of pages, under Scrolling behavior
- Viewer: Allow double clicking or long tapping on images to view then in a new window.
- Edit Book: Add a new fuzzy search mode in which typographical quotes and various space types are matched by the plain equivalents
- Content server: Add a new setting to allow un-authenticated users from specific IP addresses to make changes to the calibre library
- Quick view: Double click in a column to show that column in the main book list

Bug fixes:
- Book details panel: Fix copy path to file not copying full path to file when right clicking on a format entry
- Windows: Fix error when applying hyphenation in bulk with Polish books.
- DOCX Output: Fix images that use URL unsafe characters in their filenames being dropped during conversion.
- DOCX Output: Fix internal links not working when converted files contain URL unsafe characters in their filenames
- Viewer: Fix view image popup not remembering its geometry
- Viewer: Allow leading and trailing whitespace in search