Calibre (64-bit) 歷史版本列表
更新時間：2021-05-24
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
- Small improvements
- Updated the using of SpeechPro Text-To-Speech
- Resources for Chinese (Simplified) and Italian languages were updated
更新時間：2021-05-21
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.36
New:
- reverification is removing links only if it failed 5 times in a row
- improvecha detection
- improved proxy testing
- improved some engines
- started work on a web-interface
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.35
- Added blacklist check for verified links
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.34
- new: improved reverification
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.32
- Improved some engines
- Added support for recaptcha v3 in some more captcha seervice
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.31
- Duplicate a tier project was broken
- New: groups can be duplicated as well now
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.30
- new: improved some engines
- fix: minor issue with the custom link format script command
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.29
- new: option to skip submission to domains with same IP
- fix: issue with google translate
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.28
- Improved recaptcha detection
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.27
- New: less cpu usage, less memory usage
- New: better speed with URL handling/checking
- Fix: minor bug with engine filtering
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.26
- New: improved speed
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.25
- GSA SEO Indexer will no longer be used when unchecked in global options
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.24
- Improved some engines
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.23
- New: new contextual article engine WPForo added
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.22
- fix: tier display structure fixed
- new: the last verified urls will be filtered when
- you want to show logs of one project only
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.21
- New: improved some engines
- Fix: PHPInfo Exploit engine didn't work
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.20
- Improved some engines
- Less cpu and memory usage
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.19
- Problem with URL Shorteners not having correct anchor text
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.18
- Fix: the tier "indexable only" filter was not correctly working
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.17
- another possible issue on tree listings
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.16
- Fix: possible issue on tree listings
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.15
- fixed: SpinnerChief API was no longer working when using advanced parameters -> removed them now
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.14
- dateformat in stats
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.12
- Issue with captcha handling when being random
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.11
- Problem with redirect types
- Improved some engines
- Option to use captcha services in random order
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.10
- Api issue with some captcha services
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.09
New:
- improved cpu usage/speed
- improved meta redirect detection
- improved cpu usage/speed
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.08
- new: improved cpu usage/speed
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.07
New:
- improved disposible email parsing
- ability to export articles with title as first line
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.06
- fix: recaptcha v3 solving for CapMonster Cloud
- new: improved redirect detection
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.05
New:
- some engines improved
- URL-in-URL detection improved
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.04
New:
- gui color for redirect types changed
- pr check improved
- redirect detection improved (anchor text is used for exact type)
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.03
- minor re-verification bug
- fix: issue when checking email accounts
- new: added a new web20 engine
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.02
- Fix: minor issue with email verification and ending projects
- Fix: minimize to tray way always used even when unchecked
- New: backlink indexer api changed/improved
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.01
- Fix: proxy-reset on failer was partly broken
GSA Search Engine Ranker 15.00
- New: improvements on account related submissions
更新時間：2021-05-21
更新細節：
更新時間：2021-05-21
更新細節：
更新時間：2021-05-21
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
Calibre 5.18.0 (64-bit)
New:
- Content server viewer: Improved search functionality Searching can now be done for whole words and regular expressions. And all search results are listed at once with some context for easy navigation.
- E-book viewer: Allow fullscreening the image popup
- E-book viewer: Allow expanding/collapsing all items in the Table of Contents at a particular level by right clicking on one item of that level and choosing the option to expand/collapse
- E-book viewer: Add shortcuts shift+home and shift+end to extend current selection to start/end of line
- Book details: When creating rules to convert identifiers to URLs allow using {id_unquoted} to avoid quoting the identifier value
- Review downloaded metadata: Allow double clicking on a cover to see it at a larger size
- Annotations browser: Add a Refresh button
Fixed:
- Edit book: Fix ctrl-clicking on a class name jumping to the wrong CSS rule if the stylesheet contains top level comments
- Fix search and replace on identifiers not working if the replaced value has colons
- Annotations browser: Sort the entries in order of position in book
- ToC editor: Dark mode: Fix colors in location selection panel not dark
- E-book viewer: Fix right or shift-clicking to extend selection not shrinking selection when the click is inside the selection
- Avoid spurious errors on multiple simultaneous calibre launches
- E-book viewer: Ignore mouse scroll events that would turn pages when editing notes
- E-book viewer: Fix sorting bookmarks by title not working
- Windows WPD driver: Fix an error reading the filesystem on some MTP based devices
Improved news sources:
- IEEE Spectrum
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
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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
更新時間：2021-04-30
更新細節：
What's new in this version:
App Builder 2021.39
- The latest release introduce some enhancements in the Cordova's configuration file around the "WKWebView" option, but includes it in a wrong way! This release fix the bug and add the right stuff in the Cordova's configuration file
App Builder 2021.38
- Add a new "Use the modern WKWebView" checkbox in the app's options, under the Apache Cordova -> iOS options, which is checked by default. With this option checked (remember, it's checked by default for all the apps) we place in the Apache Cordova configuration file the right stuff in order to use the modern WKWebView for our iOS apps, instead the old WebView, which is no more accepted by the Apple Store. In some cases you may want to use the old WebView, then just uncheck this option.
App Builder 2021.37
- Place a small text hint when entering an empty (not yet used) event of the app, app views, app dialogs, native visual and non visual controls and app plugins visual and non visual controls. The text hints inform us about the specific event that we are seeing and also give us information about possible keys to be used.
- Remove an annoying flicker in the main toolbar Save All and Save buttons (basically the buttons alternates between the enabled / disabled states without apparently any reason). These buttons work as expected without any problem, however, the flicker referred to can certainly be a bit annoying distracting us about what we are doing.
- Assign the proper images (we lost this in a previous release) for the popup / contextual menus of the app views list, the app dialogs list and app frames list
App Builder 2021.36
- This is the second major release of DecSoft App Builder, means if you purchase the product before 04-04-2020, you must to purchase an upgrade license (with a 50% off discount), or download the outdated release to continue using your outdated license. If you purchase your license after the referred date, please, login into your DecSoft customer area to grab your new license serial number. You can purchase an upgrade license as well to download the outdated release from your DecSoft customer area in our website.
App Builder 2021.35
- Continue with the efforts to make the program GUI ready for high DPI (Dot Per Inches) screen configurations. This release try to fix the item height for the control properties inspector and the control styles inspectors, as well the item height for the editor Quick Code List.
App Builder 2021.34
- In this product release we make several internal changes and enhancements in order to prepare the GUI (Graphic User Interface) to be ready for 4K monitors, and, in general, for screens with a DPI (Dot Per Inches) configuration larger than the used when designing the product, that is, the Windows default DPI configuration. The menu and toolbars icons, the dialogs and all the GUI forms and controls have been reviewed and tested to achieve this objective. We are particularly proud of this product release, because the work we expend on it and because the results that we finally can obtain
- In a previous release of the product we lost the ability to list in the integrated contextual help the available app plugins, as well their help. This release of the product reincorporates the app plugins list in the integrated contextual help. Additionally, the app plugins help button from the app options works again as expected: we lost this ability also in the past due to some changes
- We experience certain very, very rare bugs due to the lack of initialization for certain variables related with some events of the Edge Runtime WebView. This product release fixes these rare bugs by properly initializing the appropriate variables before trying to use it
App Builder 2021.33
- Fix a wrong behaviour which occur when we launch the app using one of the possible available external browsers buttons in the program's main toolbar: the expected behaviour is that the app become launched in the external browser, but, also in the internal debugger browser. Before this change the app is launched in the external browser, but, not always in the internal browser, as is expected.
- Close the app's debugger panel when stop the debugger process by clicking the Stop button of the program's main toolbar. Previously to this change the internal debugger HTTP server is deactivated when clicking the Stop button, but, the debugger panel are not closed.
- Remove some hints from the app's debugger panel to avoid some problem (which do not occur everytime, but can cause that the program hang during a time) caused by that hints when the app is launched in the debugger browser (which is inside the debugger panel).
App Builder 2021.32
- The hint text (with some useful help) which appear when we select a method, property, etc., from the Editor Quick Code List, stop to work appropriately in certain past release of the product, due to certain change / update with the related used component. This release put the referred hint working again as expected. You can get more information about the Editor Quick Code List in the product's help.
App Builder 2021.31
- Update the app's template Javascript core and CSS style core, the program's welcome page, the program's help and the app's DecSoft plugins help with the latest versions of the Bootstrap CSS framework (5.0 beta 2), the jQuery Javascript library (3.6.0) and the FontAwesome icons Javascript library (5.15.2).
App Builder 2021.30
- Fix an error when create the shell files for iOS if our app contains custom plugins indicated by the app's Cordova custom plugins IDs. The compiler are not properly prefixed the plugins in the shell files by the appropriate "cordova plugin add" command, so the plugins are not properly installed nor compiled when we compile the app with Cordova on Mac OS.
App Builder 2021.29
- We discover that the program still uses some stuff related with the previous apps debugger based on the Microsoft Internet Explorer WebView (used before we move to the new Microsoft Edge Runtime WebView). This release removes the referred old stuff, which is in fact no more needed.
App Builder 2021.28
- The program Welcome Page has been redesigned in order to be more responsive for different sizes and now addtionaly show more lastest forum threads and latest forum posts as well the latest entries from the DecSoft blog. No other changes has been made for this release of the product.
App Builder 2021.27
- Add the new Time input control, similar to the Date, EMail and other inputs control, the Time input control allows to specific ask the user for a time value (hh:mm). The help and editor quick list has been updated also to reflect this new control.
- Prevent an access violation error (not a fatal error) when press twice too fast the main toolbar Debug app button. Made the same prevention for the Compile button, even when apparently the error do not appear for this specific button.
App Builder 2021.26
- Update the app's themes from Bootswatch.com (14 themes in total) to they last release, which has been made in order to support the Bootstrap CSS framework version 5
- Add a new combobox control into the app Debugger dock panel toolbar which allows to resize the debugger browser by choosing one of the available screen sizes: based in the devices combobox which the toolbar shown.
- Add a new combobox control into the app Debugger dock panel toolbar which allows to resize the debugger browser by choosing one of the available devices: right now all the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod devices, which can be taken as a good representation of different screen sizes.
- Add a new button into the app Debugger dock panel toolbar which allows to easily rotate the debugger browser, that is, changing from portrait to landscape and vice versa
App Builder 2021.25
- Update the Microsoft Edge Runtime installer to the latest version. This update includes all the supported flavors, that is, the full installer for both 32 and 64 bits. This installer are internally used by the DecSoft App Builder installer to properly prepare the IDE to use the Edge Runtime webview for the apps Debugger browser.parbpar
App Builder 2021.24
- Due to the use of the Bootstrap CSS framework version 5 the Database sample app don't work as expected, since rely in certain CSS classes no more available in the referred version of the Bootstrap CSS framework. This release fix this bug and now the Database sample app works as expected, basically allowing us to select and delete existing notes.
App Builder 2021.23
- The Table control allows now to use the style "dark" or "light" in the same way than we previosly can use for the Table's header. Now it's possible to combine these styles in both the header and the table's rows itself. Take a look at the Table sample app to it see in action.
- Replace the "text-white" CSS class used in the Toast controls for the close button when "kinds" are others than "light" and "link" and use the Bootstrap CSS framework version 5 introduced "btn-close-white" instead. Use also for the close button the new "ms-2" CSS class instead of the previosly (and removed for this version of Bootstrap CSS) "mt-2" CSS class. Take a look at the Toast sample app to see it in action.
- Replace the "badge-*kind*" CSS classes in Push button and Dropdown controls by the appropriate "bg-*kind*" CSS classes: this change is required to be ready with the Bootstrap CSS framework version 5, who has removed the "badge-*kind*" CSS classes in favor of the "bg-*kind*" CSS classes. Additionally we now automatically apply the "text-dark" CSS class when the badge kind (left or right) are set to one of the "light", "warning", "link" and "info" CSS classes. Take a look at the PushButtons sample app to see it in action.
App Builder 2021.22
- This is the first major release of DecSoft App Builder, means if you purchase the product before 01-01-2020, you must to purchase an upgrade license (with a 50% off discount), or download the outdated release to continue using your outdated license. If you purchase your license after the referred date, please, login into your DecSoft customer area to grab your new license serial number. You can purchase an upgrade license as well to download the outdated release from your DecSoft customer area in our website.
- Update the Bootstrap CSS framework to the latest version. This requires a lot of changes in almost all the components of DecSoft App Builder, due to the incompatibilities of the version 4 of Bootstrap CSS framework and the version 5 of the framework, that is, the latest version. You no need to worry, because all of these changes has been made internally in DecSoft App Builder and you no need to modify your apps at all. However, if you find some problem with this new release, please, report the problem to us using our support forum and we will try to help you as quickly as possible.
- Due to a mistake we are adding some CSS style for the designer Comment control. This control do not exists at runtime, only at designtime, so, the CSS style is no needed at all. So fix this bug to avoid any CSS style for the designer Comment control.
App Builder 2021.21
- Enhance the CordovaPushNotifications in order to show how to include an icon for the push notification in the payload for Android. This requires to include an app's image and certain configuration in the Cordova Extra XML option. The sample server's code has been also modified in order to use the right payload with the new icon for the push notification.parbpar
App Builder 2021.20
- Fix a bug in the CordovaPushNotifications and CordovaDialogs sample apps, which by a mistake using a wrong way to call the alert method of the Cordova dialogs plugin. Another bug not related with this has been also solved in the CordovaPushNotifications sample app. Thanks b Paolob0 for the report!par
- Avoid to draw a bevel in the designer for the Push button and the Dropdown controls and remove the gray line from the Navbar control. Certainly the bootstrap referred controls don't show any bevel at runtime, so, this change at designtime look a bit more fidelis to the controls at runtime. Thanks b Asleyb0 for the idea!par
App Builder 2021.19
- Add the Background related CSS rules to be available in the style inspector of the Push buttons, Dropdown buttons and Image push buttons controls. The idea is to allows to leave the "kind" property of these controls "emptied" and apply the Background related CSS rules to the controls instead.
App Builder 2021.18
- Add the Input event to the Range input control. Instead of the Change event, which is fired when the user ends to slide the Range input control, the Input event is fired while the user slide the Range input control
App Builder 2021.17
- Add the new WebExtension5 sample app, which is a modification of the WebExtension sample app that uses the ability to add styles to our WebExtensions apps and show a custom contextual menu when the user right click in the browser's active tab page.
- In the same way that we can use the app's Files manager to add scripts specifically to be used in WebExtensions apps, this release of the product add the ability to add also styles specifically to be used in WebExtensions apps.
- Add the LineHeight CSS rule to be available in the Style inspector of various controls like the PushButton and HTML content control. We can always use the app's style or stylesheet to add any CSS rule, but, a customer of us wants this CSS rule to be available to be set from the control style inspector.
App Builder 2021.16
- Move the component used for the code editor to another version, which solves certain bug which causes that the app freezes if we try to use certain (very rare, but, useful) CSS rules inside the code editor for the app's style and other CSS code editors.
App Builder 2021.15
- The App options -> WebExtension help topic has been updated to refer the way that we can follow in order to extend the browser's Developer Tools from our WebExtension apps. A new WebExtension4 sample app has been also added: this sample app is a modification of the WebExtension sample app, which now also adds a new panel into the browser's Developer Tools.
- DecSoft App Builder (in addition to modern HTML apps, WebApps, Progressive WebApps and Hybrid apps) produces also WebExtension apps for the modern browsers and this release of the product incorporate some changes and enhancements to provide a way to use a characteristic of the WebExtension apps: the ability to extend the browser's Developer Tools.
App Builder 2021.14
- Add three new buttons to the debugger toolbar in order to zoom in, zoom out and reset the zoom of the debugger's browser. There is also a new debugger option which store the currently selected zoom, to be applied the next time we open the debugger's browser. Thanks b Peterb0 for the idea!par
- Apply some special Bootstrap CSS override to ".custom-file" which fix certain weird behaviour detected with the File input control in some specific browsers like Chrome and Opera: {{field{*fldinst{HYPERLINK https:link }}{fldrslt{https:link}}}}f0fs22
- In a previous release of the product we add a new Sidebar direction property, available to be view and set from the designer object inspector. This release include this option also in the app's Sidebar options, among the other Sidebar related options.par
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App Builder 2021.13
- Add the new RowDblClick event in the Table control. This event is similar than the RowClick event, and allows to prepare some Javascript code to be executed when the user double click or double tap the Table's rows. See the product's help for more information
- Add the new Grid sample app, which shows how we can use the power of Bootstrap CSS (for example, the Grid system) in our apps, thanks to the HTML control, which allows to add virtually any HTML markup that we wanted
App Builder 2021.12
- Fix a bug which happens when we use app relative paths in the Files manager for specific content and background scripts for WebExtensions apps. The problem occur because the "app/files" relative paths must take in consideration the "www" folder, so the scripts paths must be "www/app/files" and not just "app/files". We can continue to use "app/files" paths in the Files manager: the DecSoft App Builder compiler prepend the "www" folder for this specific kind of paths in the WebExtension manifest file.
App Builder 2021.11
- Enhance the Sidebar sample app by adding a new button to toggle the direction of the app sidebar, as well to indicate the current direction of the app sidebar
- Previous to this release the app sidebar is automatically hidden when the user swipe left over the sidebar. With the addition of the new sidebar direction property, now we use the swipe left if the sidebar direction is left, and, the swipe right, if the sidebar direction is right
- Add the new "app.sidebarSetDirection()" method. This method can be used to change the app sidebar direction at runtime. Document this new method in the product's help
- Add the new "app.sidebar.direction" property for both designtime and runtime. This new property allows to establish the direction of the app sidebar, which can be "left" or "right". Document this new property in the product's help
App Builder 2021.10
- Update the VueJS Javascript library to the latest version 2.6.12. Update the VueJS Router Javascript library to the latest version 3.4.7. Update the VueJS Router Javascript library to the latest version 3.5.1. Update the Hammer Javascript library to the latest version 2.29.1
App Builder 2021.9
- Apparently the app VolumeUpButton and VolumeDownButton events, even if there has no code to be executed inside, can cause that the default volume controls GUI feedback don't appear as expected in some Android devices. This release fix that by avoid to attach the referred app events if there is no code to be executed inside.
App Builder 2021.8
- Update the Microsoft Edge Runtime installer to the latest version. This latest version of the installer has been published in different flavours for Windows 32 and 64 bits, so, DecSoft App Builder also include this two flavours and use the right one for the product installer programs for Windows 32 and 64 bits.
App Builder 2021.7
- Fix an introduced bug in Boostrap CSS 4.5.1 which causes that some kind of modal dialogs (like when use some flavour of the app.showAlert() method) are not properly hidden when click (or press the Escape key) in the modal dialog backdrop. The Bootstrap CSS team knows about this bug and will fix it in a next release of the framework.
App Builder 2021.6
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2021.5
- Fix a bug which causes that the apps created with an unregistered version of the product cannot be properly compiled with Apache Cordova on Mac OS for the iOS platform. Additionally, now the default deployment target for iOS is 11.0 (required by the latest version of Apache Cordova for iOS).
App Builder 2021.4
- We move our products from davidesperalta.com to decsoftutils.com and therefore some URLs has been changed into this release of DecSoft App Builder. No more other changes has been made for this release of the product
App Builder 2021.3
- The debugger developer console window are not automatically opened anymore when the app is launched. Now we must press a new button in the debugger panel toolbar or just press the F12 key, in order to open the developer console window.par
- Fix a bug in the Typeahead plugin's control, which doesn't maintain the expected height, comparing with other inputs controls. Thanks b Desmondb0 for the report!par
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App Builder 2021.2
- Fix a bug in the debugger browser / panel size in case we have previosly installed AB when install the previous release. Basically the program get confused and don't check the configuration values for the browser / panel size
App Builder 2021.1
- This DecSoft App Builder release is a great step into the future, since, like our current generation of DecSoft HTML Compiler (recently published), say goodbye to the venerable WebView based in Internet Explorer and say welcome to the Microsoft Edge WebView2.
- Due to the usage of the Microsoft Edge WebView2, the internal debugger is no more an external program, that is, the apps are launched now in a dock panel in the IDE, more easy and faster. We continue having the Developer Console at our service anyway.
- By the way, as an user of DecSoft App Builder, maybe you want to take a look at the new generation of our DecSoft HTML Compiler product, which now can perfectly compile and convert modern HTML apps (for example, created by DecSoft App Builder) into standalone executables for both Microsoft Windows 32 and 64 bits. Get more information and download the demo version of DecSoft HTML Compiler in our website!
App Builder 2020.100
- Fix a bug which causes that we can't place a Visual Plugin control inside a Container control. Also fix a problem when we try to paste a Visual Plugin control inside a Container using the Clipboard
- This release of the product have other minor internal changes, fixes and enhancements, for example, in the Debugger program
App Builder 2020.99
- Move up the default value of the Android Min SDK option from the API level 19 (Android 4.4) to the API level 22 (Android 5.1). This is a requirement in order to be ready to use the latest version of Apache Cordova (10.0.0). Other minor changes, fixes and enhancements has been made on this release too.
App Builder 2020.98
- Fix a bug in the Welcome Page which causes that the random help topic link which appears every certain interval of time, do not properly update the help topic's URL, causing that, when click in the random help topic link, we always ends in the same help topic location: always the first help topic which has been shown. Other minor changes, fixes and enhancements has been made on this release too.
App Builder 2020.97
- The app Text Search tool reduces a bit the searching feedback in order to increase very, very much, the search speed, which is now almost instantanlly. The app Text Search tool is faster than never before due to the reduction of certain small feedback (basically "where we are" in the search) that the Text Search tool shown in the past.
- The app functions manager show different popup (contextual) menus for the functions list and the function's arguments list. Additionally the arguments list popup menu, as well the functions manager toolbar, includes now two new elements that allows to move up and down the function's arguments.
- This release of DecSoft App Builder (the IDE, the Debugger and the Command Line Interpreter programs) has been builded using the latest version of Embarcadero Delphi, which is the IDE in which DecSoft App Builder is developed. The latest version of the Embarcadero Delphi's compiler introduces several fixes, changes and enhancements, so we get the benefits of these improvements.
App Builder 2020.96
- Add a couple of new options in the Cordova -> Android and the Cordova iOS options tabs in order to allows to specify the app's Cordova Android version as well the app's Cordova iOS version. By default these options are empty and this mean that the Batch and Shell files prepared by DecSoft App Builder uses the default Cordova Android / Cordova iOS version. We can specify here the versions to be used, so the generated Batch and Shell files clearly requires such specific versions of Cordova Android / Cordova iOS in order to be used.
- The Cordova iOS deploy target option is now set to iOS 11.0 by default. This means that we can be ready to use in our apps the WKWebView engine provided by Cordova iOS 6.x. Cordova iOS 6.x, however, requires a minimum deploy target of 11.0. Read more about how to use the WKWebView in the DecSoft support forum.
App Builder 2020.95
- Just attach the "BackButton" app's event causes a problem when try to use the Android device's back button to move around the app browser's history or just to exit the app (if no browser's history exists). This release fix this problem attaching the "BackButton" app's event only if we write some code to be executed in that event.
App Builder 2020.94
- Add the BackgroundAudio sample app (number 68) in order to show a way of use the app.PlaySound() method and the returned Audio JavaScript object in order to play a background audio in the app, which is not stopped even if we go to one app's view to another.
- Enhance the app.playSound() method in order to return the instance of the Audio JavaScritp object, so we can use the Audio JavaScript properties, methods and events if needed. Also fix the way in which we inquire to the platform about what kind of audio's format is supported.
App Builder 2020.93
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.92
- The app sidebar is hidden by default when the user press over the app sidebar overlay. In the same way, the app sidebar is now also hidden when the user swipe left over the app sidebar or the app sidebar overlay. Some other minor changes, fixes and enhancements has been made in this release of the product.
App Builder 2020.91
- Fix a bug / mistake which causes that the app's "BackButton" event are not fired like expected, since it's attached before the Apache Cordova "deviceready" event. Move the the "BackButton", "Pause", "Resume", "VolumeDownButton" and "VolumeUpButton" app's events to the "deviceready" event, so they can be fired as expected.
App Builder 2020.90
- Move up the app plugins section in the app plugins dock panel. Doing this we want to place the app plugins section in a more relevant position, since the importance of it, in order to activate or deactivate the app plugins.
- Fix a mistake related with the app's plugins and the ability to add entire folders: we must indicate the plugin's relative path using URL separators (/) instead of Windows path separators (). The documentation has been updated accordingly.
App Builder 2020.89
- Add the new FeedReader sample app (number 67). This app show how easy is to load and parse a RSS feed using the jQuery library, which, as you know, is ready for us in the apps out of the box. The app also shown other things like how to use the "selectEx" control, the HTML template syntax and the app's user functions.
- Make some internal changes to allows app's plugins to link scripts and styles using a plugin's relative paths. This can be useful, for example, in order to use scripts and style files placed inside certain folder which is also added by the plugin. This help a lot in order to use thirdparty libraries from app's plugins, since the library's files can remain in the expected position in the file system. This is something that we already can do it from our apps, that is, link to app's relative paths, and, exactly for the same purpose.
App Builder 2020.88
- Update the Animate.css library to the latest version (4.0.0). This version of the library, among other changes, fixes and enhancements, add to DecSoft App Builder this new "in" animations: fadeInTopLeft, fadeInTopRight, fadeInBottomLeft, fadeInBottomRight, lightSpeedInRight and lightSpeedInLeft... and this new "out" animations: fadeOutTopLeft, fadeOutTopRight, fadeOutBottomRight, fadeOutBottomLeft, lightSpeedOutRight, lightSpeedOutLeft, backOutDown, backOutLeft, backOutRight and backOutUp.
App Builder 2020.87
- Added the new CordovaMedia sample app (number 66), which shows how to use the recently integrated Apache Cordova Media plugin. This sample app show how to record and play an audio, and also how to upload a recorded audio to the app's server.
- Integrate the Apache Cordova Media plugin. This is an official Apache Cordova plugin which allows to record audio files from the user's devices without the usage of any external recording app, like the integrated Apache Cordova MediaCapture plugin.
- Add the new ResponseType property to the Http client control. This property is an empty string by default, but, can be set now to "blob", in order to deal with the server's response as a blob. This can be useful, for example, to download and store files in the user's device using the "app.cordova.file.writeFile" method. Take a look at the CordovaFile sample app to see this new property and the referred method in action.
- The Apache Cordova File plugin has been rewriten from the scratch, in order to have a more powerful way to deal with files and directories. Additionally the plugin add various new methods like "createDir", "dirExists", "removeDir" and others. The CordovaFile sample app has been also rewritten and show the usage of all of the plugin's methods. The help file has been also rewritten to describe all the plugin's methods accordingly.
App Builder 2020.86
- Add the new PushButtons sample app (number 65), in order to show the power of the Push button control, including the recently added Active and Outline properties, but also the usage of other useful properties like the kind, badges and icons related properties.
- Add the Outline property to the Push button controls. This property works together the Kind property, and allows to use the outline style in the Push buttons. This property can be a boolean "false" value (by default) to not use the outline style, or can be set to "true" in order to use the outline style.
- Add the Active property to the Push button controls. This property allows, for example, to use the Push buttons as toggle buttons, since we can show the buttons activated or deactivated. This property can be a boolean "false" value (by default) to not use the active style, or can be set to "true" in order to use the active style.
App Builder 2020.85
- Update the jQuery JavaScript library and the Moment JavaScript library to their latest versions, which include various changes, fixes and enhancements
- Improve the apps backups creation by overwriting possible existing files and by prefixing the backup folder names with a UNIX timestamp. The backup folders names have now a human readable local datetime, but, also a machine readable timestamp, for some possible further processing of these backup folders names from the IDE.
App Builder 2020.84
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.83
- The app's resources list inside the app's Languages manager includes now a search input which allow us to filter the app's resources list, in a similar way than almost all the list in the IDE, which also allow us to filter it
- Some minor enhancements in the IDE's welcome page, for example, the forum search form can deal now with the IDE theme, redirecting with the right theme to be used in the DecSoft forum website
- Update the Fontawesome JavaScript library to the latest version: this version includes lot of new icons ready to be used in our apps. Update also the Fontawesome desktop fonts, which are used in the Icons picker dialog, and, finally udpdate the available icons lists in the referred Icons picker dialog
App Builder 2020.82
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.81
- The app's designer's controls (inputs, selects, images, etc., etc.) take now in consideration the IDE theme which is used, so, if we use the dark theme, the controls appear in a dark color in the app's designer.
App Builder 2020.80
- After a lot of attempts, finally we can get working a very useful feature: until now you can customize the app's dock panels layout, moving around the IDE window to place it in the position that you wanted, however, when the IDE was restarted or a new app is created, the app's dock panels layout become to the original (installation) positions. Now the IDE save the app's dock panels layout when the app is closed, and, load the previously saved layout when you open or start new apps.
App Builder 2020.78
- The internal debugger browser can now be resized using the keyboard's arrow keys, so we can easily and accurately set the debugger browser size in pixels. The internal debugger browser show now also the browser size in pixels for your convenience.
- Add the Home, Go back and Go forward tool buttons in the internal debugger program window. We can use that button to re-load the main app's view and go back and go forward in the navigation history, respectively.
- The internal debugger program window is closed now if we press the ESCAPE key. Also the debugger incorporates now an address input so we can see the current URL and can change it to another one, for example, to show a specific app's view.
- Update the CEF4Delphi component of the product's debugger program, which is our bridge for the Chromium browser binaries, which has been also updated.
- Update the product's installer program (Inno Setup) to the latest stable version. This version fix some bugs and made some changes and enhancements.
App Builder 2020.77
- Update the Bootstrap CSS framework to the latest version (4.5.0). This release remove some Bootstrap themes provided by a thirdparty provider who do not update it to the latest version of Boostrap CSS. This release, on the other hand, updates the provided Boostrap CSS themes by Bootwatch. (Remember that it's possible to add your own Bootstrap CSS themes or modification in DecSoft App Builder, as easy as add the CSS file in your Documents / DecSoft / AppBuilder / Themes, so they become available for your apps.
App Builder 2020.76
- The dialogs Show event are fired now in the "show" modal event instead of the "shown" one: this allows to made some possible changes in some dialog's controls in order to be ready to appear (changed) when the dialog is shown to the user. Before this change we can see a small glitch until the controls' changes are effectively made.
- Made some minor modifications and enhancements in the recently added app.showAlert() app method. Now the alerts with the optional header kind different than "none", "link" and "light", shown the header text in white color, instead of dark color (for "none", "link" and "light" kinds). The optional alert's header text font size has been decreasing a bit too.
App Builder 2020.75
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.74
- The app's Files Manager picker JavaScript files dialog allows now to include and check JavaScript files in order to be included and used as "content" and "background" JavaScript files, to be available for the app when it's compiled as a Web Extension. This new feature is only for Web Extension apps.
App Builder 2020.73
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.72
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.71
- This product release incorporates some other internal changes, fixes and enhancements
- Introduce the App Search dock panel, which allows to search in the app, views, dialogs, frames, native controls and plugins controls events, and modify the code directly in the search results editor.
- Avoid to add new app user functions with a name of an already existing app user function
- Add the new WebExtension3 sample app (number 63), with an interesting sample of Web Extension app developed with DecSoft App Builder. Thanks to John Clarke for provide this sample app to be included in the product installation!
App Builder 2020.70
- Add the new VideoPlayer2 sample app, which shown the usage of the hls.js JavaScript library in order to reproduce a video using the HTTP Live Streaming protocol
App Builder 2020.69
- The "Input" property of the Label controls doesn't works as expected when we want to associate it with an "File input" control. As you can see now in the Label control's help, the "Input" property of the Label control, in order to be associated with a "file1" File input control, must be suffixed by "-input", for example, must be "file1-input".
App Builder 2020.68
- Fix a bug which causes that the TAB key don't work as expected in the code editor. Thanks Michael for your report
- Add the new Open Chars background and foreground options in the program options -> Editor -> General. Now the code editor of DecSoft App Builder highlight the open and close chars (parentheses, brackets, etc.) for our convenience.
App Builder 2020.67
- Fix a bug which causes that the Placeholder property of the FIle control are not loaded properly and therefore become to the default value every time
App Builder 2020.66
- By a mistake the previous release of DecSoft App Builder add the jQuery library and other stuff in the WebExtensions manifest. We can't do that, since the content script of the WebExtensions are loaded in every browser's page, and, that page can already contain the jQuery library, which can cause undesired and unexpected results. We fix such manifest mistake and also rewrite the WebExtension and WebExtension2 sample apps, in order to avoid the usage of the jQuery library, in this case.
App Builder 2020.65
- Add the new WebExtension2 sample app. This is a bit more complex than the WebExtension sample app, and, demonstrates how we can catch the submitted forms in all the browsers' tabs, so we can upload that information to our WebExtension server, for example. Please, note that this is sample app is just for learning purposes: you must carefully inform to your users if you wanted to recollect any kind of data from him.
- Change the WebExtension sample app in order to be ready with the latest changes related with the apps deployed as WebExtensions for the modern browsers
- Add a new WebExtBackground app event, which allows to place JavaScript code to be executed in the background, until our WebExtension app is loaded and enabled in the user browser. Please, take a look at this new app event at the product's documentation.
- The app WebExtContent event is no more "fired", but, allows to write code for the WebExtension's browser's tab Content script. It's quite easy to continue to receiving messages in the WebExtContent event just by attaching the right event handler (see the WebExtension and WebExtension2 samples apps for more details, as well the documentation of this app event), and, in addition, we can know more things (in addition to just receive messages) in the browser's tab content script.
- app.webExtensionSendMessage() is now app.webExtensionSendMessageToActiveTab(). A new app.webExtensionSendMessageToAllTabs() method has been added too. See the documentation for more information and details.
App Builder 2020.64
- Remove the scrollboxes used in the app options dock form and try to made it (all the options tabs) in order to be ready for use in some specific screen resolutions. Some customers report that he can reach some parts of the app options dialog: this release try to solve this. The same changes has been made in the program options dock form.
App Builder 2020.63
- Fix a bug in the app Files Manager when we move up or down the position of an script or style sheet previously added: due to this bug we get the styles are filled with the scripts, which is wrong, and, of course, causes problems when the app run. This release fix the bug and therefore we can now move up or down as expected both scripts and styles.
App Builder 2020.62
- Made some additions in the documentation around the "app.setVar()" method. Basically we clearly establish that this method is used to set global reactive variables to be used in all app views, app dialogs and app frames. We extend the method documentation to add information about the global reactive variables, and, clearly establish that may such global reactive variables are not needed, and we can use just global variables instead, avoiding the cost in resources to maintain the referred global reactive variables.
- Fix a bug in the app.js template which causes that the app KeyUp event are not properly fired. It's a typo in the event handler name which has been fixed
- Fix a bug which causes that the filter editbox of the app resources listbox become unuseful, since once we write any filter, the resource's editor take the focus, and therefore we can't continue writting in the filter editbox. This release fix that problem.
App Builder 2020.61
- Added the Hide event for the app views and app dialogs. This event is fired when some app view is hidden in order to show another app view, or when an app dialog is closed / hidden to the user. This can be a good event to stop some possible running Timer control in both app views and app dialogs
- Despiste the documentation, the "self" variable is not available in the app dialogs dblclickHandler, mouseupHandler, mousedownHandler, mousemoveHandler, mouseenterHandler, mouseleaveHandler and contextmenuHandler event handlers. This release fix this bug and set the "self" variable in such event handlers
App Builder 2020.60
- Set the appropriate (and expected) TAB order for the app user functions new argument dialog, which helps to add and edit the app user functions arguments
- The items of the app resources listbox and also the items of the app user functions listbox appear now alphabetically sorted, probably better than just the creation order
- Fix a bug wihch causes that the hints of the app user functions (based in the functions arguments) appear wrong (always appear all of them!) and therefore become unuseful
App Builder 2020.59
- Fix an error wihch causes that the the code in the app's ContextMenu event and the device's battery related events are not properly saved and therefore loaded nor fired as expected. This release contains also other minor fixes, changes and enhancements.
App Builder 2020.58
- Now, when the internal debugger browser window is resized, what the app panel changes his dimensions, and not the developer console panel. This described behaviour is what we can expected, and not the contrary.
- Avoid the usage of the cache in the internal debugger browser. The cache can cause unexpected results, since if we change certain used image, we want to show it, and not a possible previous one cached by the browser.
App Builder 2020.57
- Fix a bug related with the app functions cache which can cause some unexpected results: you can experience one of them when modify an app function but can't see that latest changes working when run the app. This release fix this cache related bug.
- If we don't place any code in the app VueJS Error or the app JavaScript error events, DecSoft App Builder places an "alert" which show the possible errors. Now that "alert" has been replaced with a "window.console.error", useful but not annoying.
App Builder 2020.55
- Avoid to open the internal debugger browser window if we launch the app from one of the external browsers toolbar icons. Before the previous release the internal debugger browser was placed docked or inside the IDE, but now the internal debugger browser window is an external program (for very good reasons) and we can and even must avoid to open it if what we wanted is to launch the app in an external browser
App Builder 2020.54
- The internal debugger browser has been enhanced and it's now based in Chromium (derived from Google Chrome) instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11. This allows to use ECMAScript 6 and even ECMAScript 7 JavaScript code in our apps without "syntax errors". Additionally, the internal debugger browser shows now a developer console, similar than in Google Chrome and others browsers.
App Builder 2020.53
- Change log not availabble for this version
App Builder 2020.51
- Add the window.setTimeout(), window.setInterval() and window.clearInterval() methods into the Quick Code list as well in the help documentation. This methods are useful to prepare some code to be executed after certain amount of time, or in certain interval of time. We add also into the documentation the reference for the window.alert(), window.console.info(), window.console.debug() and window.console.error() methods.
- Add the new ImageFit property to the Video Player control. This property act exactly in the same way than the ImageFit of the Image control, for example, and, allow to control the video apparence, no matter the level of app scale.
App Builder 2020.50
- Add the new AppQuery sample app (number 59), which show how to use the recently added "app.query" property, in order to pass variables to the app views
- Add the new "app.query" property, which stores the possible URL arguments passed to the app views or just a "false" value if no URL has been passed
- Enhance the Table sample app with a designer comment wich describes a bit for what the Table control is intended to use, and what to look in the Table sample app
App Builder 2020.49
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.48
- Update the VueJS, VueJS Ex, VueJS Router and the jQuery JavaScript libraries to their latest stable releases. Made other minor changes, fixes and enhancements
- Due to a bug the debug certificate password for the Electron platform are not properly load and saved, and, therefore, not well writen in the build.json file for that platform. This release fix that bug and now the referred JSON file is prepared as expected
- The app.resource() method don't fail now if the specified app language do not exists. Instead of fail with a JavaScript error, the method returns the specified app resource in the default app language.
- Fix a bug in the NavBar control which causes that we can't set the "background" property to "dark" at designtime. The "background" can be perfectly changed at runtime, but not at designtime. This fix solve the bug.
App Builder 2020.47
- Add the Inputs sample app (number 57) which show how we can place controls beyond the app view height, which can be useful, for example, to place lot of inputs controls in a sole app view, and not divided in various of them. Additionally, this sample app also show the usage of the "app.setViewReadyForDeviceKeyboard()" and the recently added "app.setDialogReadyForDeviceKeyboard()", to be ready with the devices' keyboards in platforms like Android and iOS
- Add the new "app.setDialogReadyForDeviceKeyboard()" method, which can be used for the same thing than the "app.setViewReadyForDeviceKeyboard()" , but specifically designed to be used with app dialogs, instead of app views
- Change the internal implementation of the "app.setViewReadyForDeviceKeyboard()" method, in order to run properly from even when the first app view (before the app DeviceReady event). Now the method attach a "deviceready" event so works as expected even if we place it in the first app view
- We find a unaceptable behaviour in the Android (and probably the iOS platform, even when we don't test it) when we place controls beyond the app view height, due to the attachment of the app SwipeUp and app SwipeDown events, as well the app view SwipeUp and SwipeDown events. For the moment, we remove these events from the app, so the behaviour in the Android platform become as expected. Since the Hummer JavaScript library (used by these events) are available in AB "out of the box", you can continue use the referred events if you wanted, by attaching yourself to the view or the app window
App Builder 2020.45
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.44
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.43
- Add the new IFrame2 sample app (number 53) which show how we can send messages from the app to some used IFrame and also how to receive messages in the app sent by the used IFrame
- Add the new app event Message, which is useful to receives messages from a call to window.postMessage() in another browsing context, like an IFrame, that we can use in our app. So we can establish a communication with the IFrame and viceversa
- The app Resize event are not properly set due to a bug, which is fixed in this release (the mistake is that we are assigning the Online event code to the Resize event)
- Place the missing "defaultText" argument of the method "prompt" of the Cordova Dialogs plugin, in order to be available into the Quick Code List and method's help "hints"
App Builder 2020.42
- Add the new GetJson sample app (number 52). This sample app shown how easy is to get a JSON response from a server's script and then just access the JSON object properties like any other JavaScript variable, just by using the HTTP control's "response" property
App Builder 2020.41
- The icons and the splash screens images which DecSoft App Builder prepares for the different Apache Cordova platforms, are not taking in consideration the program's behaviour configuration that determines these images compression level. This causes that sometimes we can get an Apache Cordova error while get a release APK for Android of our apps. Now this problem is fixed, by applying a default compression level for the referred images, and, respecting the configuration values for such compression level
App Builder 2020.40
- Add the new Clipboard sample app (number 51), in order to show how to use the recently added DecSoft Clipboard app plugin
- Add the new BlockUI sample app (number 50), in order to show how to use the new DecSoft BlockUI app plugin
- Add the new DecSoft BlockUI app plugin, which allows to block the user interface until some background task are made, for example. The app plugin's documentation is available, like other app plugins, in the program's help index of contents
App Builder 2020.39
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.38
- The Cordova Dialogs plugin, included "out of the box" in DecSoft App Builder, has now the proper fallback for all their methods ("alert", "confirm", "prompt" and "beep"), so the plugin fallback properly when the app run in non Apache Cordova platforms
- Fix the CordovaDialogs sample app, which are not propertly follow the Cordova Dialogs methods arguments order, and therefore don't work as expected
App Builder 2020.37
- Made some minor bug fixes in a couple of samples apps
- Add the new CordovaBarcode sample app, wich show how to use the phonegap-plugin-barcodescanner plugin for Apache Cordova to read barcodes (various formats are supported) from our apps, using the device cameras
App Builder 2020.36
- Update the Boostrap CSS framework to the latest version. Also update the themes from Bootswatch and the themes from Theme Machine
App Builder 2020.35
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.33
- Add the new Typeahead and SelectEx sample apps, which show how to use the Typeahead and SelectEx controls, added by the DecSoft Controls app plugin
- Add the new Typeahead control. This new control is added by the DecSoft Controls app plugin, which is also included in the installation of the product
- Add the TabIndex property to the SelectEx control. This control is included in the DecSoft Controls app plugin, which is also included in the installation of the product
App Builder 2020.32
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.31
- Add the new DecSoft Clipboard app plugin, which provide us a way to check if the clipboard is ready to use in the current browser / platform, and, also a method to copy certain specified text into the clipboard
- Made some changes around the recent files and favorite files. Now, when open a recent file, that file become the first in the recent list, which is probably what we expected. Before this change the recent file don't move the position in the recent list
App Builder 2020.30
- Add the new "CordovaPushNotifications" sample app, which show how we can use the phonegap-plugin-push Apache Cordova plugin, in order to receive push notifications in our apps, which are deployed in platforms like Android and iOS
- Add the new DecSoft Analytics app plugin, which can integrate Google Analytics into your app. This plugin, as Google Analytics, works in all platforms and can give us a very good idea about how our app is used by the users
- Add a button in the app options / app plugins tab, which allows to open the app plugins help directly from that place. The IDE already link to the available plugins help in the index of contents of the product help, however, the referred button can be also a good thing
App Builder 2020.29
- Fix a mistake in the Label control, which causes that the Classes cannot be properly set, since AB try to set a "classes" argument for the HTML element, but the right name is "class", not "classes"
App Builder 2020.28
- We are very proud to introduce the first DecSoft App Builder release which has support for thirdparty app plugins. In this new generation of DecSoft App Builder, we want to go ahead, and, the app plugins can be perfectly integrated in the IDE, can offer global stuff (useful methods for the app, for example), and also components / controls, which play in the same league than the "out of the box" controls: can be edited using the controls properties and style inspector, and, of course can have events, ready to be edited in the IDE Javascript code editor, just like any other "out of the box" controls. Support thirdparty plugins become a hard work, but, we are happy with the final result, and, in fact DecSoft App Builder already incorporates the first plugin, provided by DecSoft, a "SelectEx" control, similar to the "Select" control which is already available, but, including certain useful feature, as you can see in the app plugin's help, which is also integrated in the IDE, as you can see in the new sections of the help Index of contents.
- Other minor changes, fixes and enhancements has been made also in this release, while we work in the app plugins integration
App Builder 2020.27
- Fix a bug in the assigment of the app views events: by a mistake not all the app views events works as expected and this release fix this issue
- Prepare the currently available Apache Cordova plugins stuff (basically the information that the plugins add into the code editor Quick list) to be translated in the future into another languages
App Builder 2020.26
- Some minor changes, fixes and enhancements. Perform the default fade / slide animation for the apps dialogs, which appear too much better than leave it without these feature. Allow to edit the app languages from the App languages manager. We can now change both language codes and names. Also in the App languages manager, indicates the language of the original piece of code to be translated, and, the language that is expected in the translation, according to the currently editing app language
App Builder 2020.25
- Add the App resources into the editor Quick list, which means that we can now easily see the available App resources and also insert the right "app.resource()" method in the code editor in order to get the desired App resource value
- Fix various bug and mistakes in the App files manager, which get confused when deal with Javascript and stylesheet files, causing a malfunction of the App files manager in various aspects. Now the App files manager works as expected now
- Add the new sample app "Pannellum", which show how to use the Pannellum library (the tour mode, in particular) in our apps. Pannellum is a lightweight, free, and open source panorama viewer for the web. Built using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and WebGL, it is plug-in free
App Builder 2020.24
- Introducing the Key Store files tool (IDE Main Menu -> Tools -> New Key Store file), which allows to create the Key Store files to be used to sign and additionally publish our Android apps in stores like Google Play. Document the tool in the program help file too
App Builder 2020.23
- Add into the editor Quick list the information of the recently added app languages related methods. We forget to do this in the previous release. Made some minor changes in the app help also, to get a more usable list of the available app methods
App Builder 2020.22
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2020.21
- Fix an error that occur if we check one or more Apache Cordova plugin in the app options, and, after that, try to use the code editor. The problem occur because some expected files cannot be found, since the installation assistant are not including it. This problem has been solved in this release and the appropriate files are shipped
App Builder 2020.19
- Add the new App options (local storage) app methods category, which include the new app.setOption(), app.getOption(), app.removeOption() and app.clearOptions() methods to deal with the app local storage: save, read, remove and clear, respectively.
App Builder 2020.17
- Change log not available for this version
App Builder 2019.48
- Made certain change in the configuration file for Apache Cordova in order to allow us to use the "edit-config" configuration tag inside the app Cordova -> Extra XML option. It's possible to use the "edit-config" before, but, not specifically to made changes in the AndroidManifest.xml file, or, at least some changes, like adding attributes to the "application" tag. Now it's completely possible to perform this kind of changes.
App Builder 2019.47
- Fix an introduced error in the previous release that can cause problems if your app use the jQuery library. We encourage you to upgrade to this new release to fix this possible error
App Builder 2019.46
- Made certain changes in order to allow the app to continue working as a Web Extension in browsers different than Google Chrome. Look at the WebExtension app sample, which has been updated in order to properly work, including the usage of the jQuery library inside the Web Extension content.js script
- Avoid to create the android_sign.json if no signed information has been provided in the app options. There is no problem with that file at all, except for some notice than appear when compile the app with Apache Cordova. That notice can be completely ignored, but, can result a bit annoying to someone who already knows that the signed information has not been provided, maybe because we are only testing some app
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