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{{{ 5.26.0 2021-08-27

:: new features

- [1941013] Dark color scheme: Use a darker blue for highlighted items

:: bug fixes

- Content server book viewer: Show a message when a search finds no matches

- MOBI Output: Fix JPEG images without any JFIF metadata not being rendered on the Kindle

- [1939908] Comic input: Fix single color images having their colors changed by normalization

- [1940005] E-book viewer: Fix creating multiple highlights in a single paragraph that also contains some extra text formatting at the start causing the second and subsequent highlights to malfunction

- [1939912] Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the options in the Remove unused CSS dialog

:: improved recipes
- Boston Globe

:: new recipes
- NYTimes Cooking by gourav
}}}

{{{ 5.25.0 2021-08-13

:: new features

- [1939469] Edit/Polish book: Remove unused CSS now also removes unreferenced stylesheets

- E-book viewer: Add some CSS variables and classes that allow writing calibre specific CSS in ebooks. See https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html#designing-your-book-to-work-well-with-the-calibre-viewer

- A new framework plugins can use to be notified about changes to calibre libraries

- [1938752] Edit metadata dialog: When pasting into the identifiers field if the clipboard contains a URL paste it directly as a URL identifier

:: bug fixes

- [1938448] E-book viewer: When displaying popup footnotes use the same writing direction as the main text for the footnote popups size and header

- E-book viewer: Improve the text layout when looking up words in Google

- Content server viewer: Fix read aloud not working on mobile browsers


:: improved recipes
- The Guardian and The Observer
- Wall Street Journal
- The Atlantic

}}}

{{{ 5.24.0 2021-07-30

:: new features

- Conversion: Insert metadata as jacket: Allow adding timestamp and publisher fields. Also allow controlling the formatting of date/time fields

- [1937025] Cover browser: Add an option to view the central book by double clicking instead of single clicking (Preferences->Look & feel->Cover browser)

- [1936891] Tag browser: Add actions to the configure menu to toggle the display of counts and average rating

- [1936472] Tag browser: Allow plugins to add entries to the context menu


:: bug fixes

- [1938189] fetch-ebook-metadata: Fix an error when using the --cover option and no cover is found

- [1936792] HTML Input: Fix the presence of BookDesigner markup causing conversion to fail

- [1936184] TXT Input: Do not fail if the txt file references a directory as a resource

:: improved recipes
- MSNBC
- Nature News
- Boston Globe
- Foreign Policy
- Le Monde

}}}

{{{ 5.23.0 2021-07-09

:: new features

- [1934204] Annotations browser: Show highlight color in the preview panel

- TXTZ format: Store type of text formatting in the metadata and use it automatically when converting from TXTZ

- [1934043] Edit metadata dialog: Allow holding Ctrl and clicking the item editor buttons to instead open the manage dialog

:: bug fixes

- [1929325] Annotations browser: Fix searching for words in languages such as Chinese that do not have word delimiters not working

- News download: Fix URLs with spaces in them not being downloaded since calibre 5.0

- [1933989] When searching for books by an author from the manage authors dialog, use exact matches

- [1933797] MOBI Output: Fix invalid color specification as plain numbers causing conversion to fail

- [1933684] MOBI Output: Fix invalid text indent specification causing conversion to fail

- Linux: Drop the unmaintained dbus-python in favor of jeepney for DBUS

- Edit book: Workaround for Qt bug that caused the panel sizes in the editor to not be remembered across sessions

:: improved recipes
- The Guardian and the Observer
- National Geographic
- Handelsblatt
- Huffington Post

}}}

{{{ 5.22.1 2021-06-25

:: new features

- [1931646] E-book viewer: Allow clicking links in popup footnotes

- Main book list: Scroll per pixel rather than per item by default. Can be returned to previous behavior via Preferences->Tweaks->Control behavior of book list

- Linux: Drop support for the global menu bar

:: bug fixes

- [1932152] E-book viewer: Fix font sizes specified in absolute units not being honored in locales where the decimal separator is not the period

- [1931566] E-book viewer: Fix searching for short strings in text with lots of similar entries displaying incorrect matches

- [1932392] MOBI Output: Fix using percentage units for margins resulting in too large margins when using the tablet output profile

- [1931599] E-book viewer: Fix back button not working after jumping to a bookmark

- [1932992] Content server: OPDS feed: Fix incorrect up URL in category group feeds

- [1933559] Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke editing of series metadata

- E-book viewer: Fix scrolling backwards by screen-fulls not working with very large page margins.

- MOBI Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of Haodoo format files

- Conversion: Fix the smarten punctuation option not applying to inserted jacket page

- 5.22.1 fixes a typo in the previous release that broke device detection on Linux

:: improved recipes
- TheAtlantic.com
- Hindu
- People Daily

}}}

{{{ 5.21.0 2021-06-11

:: new features

- Driver for the new Kobo Ellipsa

- [1930958] Content server: When editing metadata for fields that take multiple values, make it easier to remove individual values by simply tapping a button

- [1930900] Browser viewer: Make current color scheme setting propagate to all devices automatically when using user accounts

- E-book viewer: Image popup: Show the image resolution in the popup window's titlebar

:: bug fixes

- [1930922] HTML Input: Fix handling of @import rules in stylesheets nested more than one level deep

- [1930912] Fix viewer search context menu to clear searches not clearing search settings

- E-book viewer image popup: Fix full screen button in incorrect state when starting in full screen

:: improved recipes
- Associated Press
- The Hindu

}}}

{{{ 5.20.0 2021-06-04

:: new features

- E-book viewer: Highlights: Make URLs in the notes for highlights clickable

- [1930136] Book details: Ctrl-clicking on tags now adds them to the existing search instead of replacing it

- E-book viewer: Allow using the back button to return from jumping to a search result

:: bug fixes

- Get books: Fix the Kobo store plugin for changes to the website

- [1929827] Edit book: Fix non breaking spaces in snippets being converted to normal spaces

- [1930466] ToC Editor: Fix a regression that caused changes to not be saved on machines where running a worker process takes more than ten seconds

- Fix error when changing the "Search the net" URLs for the Content server

:: improved recipes
- Jerusalem Post
- Popular Science
- Ambito Financiero
- Ambito.com
- Infobae

}}}

{{{ 5.19.0 2021-05-28

:: new features

- E-book viewer: Add a preference under Scrolling behavior to reverse the tap zones used to turn pages. So tapping on the left goes forward and the right backward


:: bug fixes

- [1929862] E-book viewer: Fix regression in 5.15 that caused incorrect display of font sizes that contain a period and use absolute units

- [1929240] PDF Output: Fix font kerning issues with some TrueType fonts

- [1929267] Edit book: Fix a regression in 5.18 that broke editing/creating saved searches

- [1919025] Windows: Fix for standalone ToC Editor not working on systems where Qt WebEngine causes a crash at exit

- Windows MTP driver: When scanning an MTP device such as an Android phone ignore folders that Windows fails to enumerate instead of failing with an error

- ToC Editor: Fix a regression that broke choosing split points in some XHTML files

- [1929465] PDB Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing some plucker format PDB files

- Edit book: Fix sorting in spell check dialog on language broken for books that have unknown languages

- Annotations browser: Fix a typo that broke sorting for highlights

- [1909730] Annotations browser: When showing a highlight preserve paragraph boundaries for multi-paragraph highlights

- Viewer highlights panel: Fix the "Edit notes" link not saving the changes

- [1929164] E-book viewer: When using a right click/shift-click to adjust the selection, move the section boundary that is closer to the click point

}}}

{{{ 5.18.0 2021-05-21

:: new features

- 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.

- [1928596] E-book viewer: Allow making the image popup full screen

- 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

- [1927520] Book details: When creating rules to convert identifiers to URLs allow using {id_unquoted} to avoid quoting the identifier value

- [1927062] Review downloaded metadata: Allow double clicking on a cover to see it at a larger size

- [1927012] Annotations browser: Add a Refresh button


:: bug fixes

- Edit book: Fix ctrl-clicking on a class name jumping to the wrong CSS rule if the stylesheet contains top level comments

- [1928579] Fix search and replace on identifiers not working if the replaced value has colons

- [1922691] Annotations browser: Sort the entries in order of position in book

- ToC editor: Dark mode: Fix colors in location selection panel not dark

- [1926793] E-book viewer: Fix right or shift-clicking to extend selection not shrinking selection when the click is inside the selection
- [1927546] Avoid spurious errors on multiple simultaneous calibre launches

- [1925961] 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 recipes
- IEEE Spectrum

}}}

{{{ 5.17.0 2021-04-30

:: new features

- [1926484] E-book viewer: Image popup: Allow dragging with the mouse to pan the image

- [1923724] Sort button: Allow selecting which columns are in the popup sort menu

- [1851908] E-book viewer: When suggesting a default bookmark title, use the name of the current chapter

- [1925038] E-book viewer: When searching the Table of Contents allow holding the Shift key to search backwards

- [1925294] E-book viewer: Add a shortcut Ctrl+0 to restore default font size

:: bug fixes

- 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.

- [1918591] Windows: E-book viewer: Fix switching away from viewer while in full screen and switching back causing some corruption until the page is scrolled

- [1925378] Fix a regression in the previous release that caused errors when editing empty date values

- Get books: Update Gutenberg plugin for website changes

- [1926518] E-book viewer: The quick highlight button should replace the style of an existing highlight, when one is selected

- [1925247] Elide long items in the middle when showing the completion popup for tags, to make it easier to use with hierarchical tags

- [1925988] E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix soft hyphens causing read aloud words to be broken up

- [1925390] 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

- [1926025] DOCX Output: Fix conversion failing if the input document has missing images

- [1925961] 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 recipes
- Barrons
- Krebs On Security

}}}

{{{ 5.16.1 2021-04-17

:: new features

:: bug fixes

- [1924703] CHM Input: Fix handling of some CHM files that use non-ASCII internal filenames and don't specify a character encoding in their metadata

- [1924824] 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

- [1924767] Fix a regression in the previous release that broke changing sections in the convert single book dialog after changing the input or output formats

- [1924675] 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)

- [1924875] Fix auto scroll books shortcut not working in standalone cover browser window (in 5.16.1)

- [1924890] E-book viewer: Fix jumping to previous section sometimes not working in flow mode (in 5.16.1)

- [1924853] 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)

:: improved recipes
- Granta
- New Scientist

:: new recipes
- The Saturday paper by Alistair Francis
- Crikey by Alistair Francis

}}}

{{{ 5.15.0 2021-04-16

:: new features

- [1917634] 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, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337573

- [1921610] 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

- [1921689] 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

- [1922327] Allow downloading metadata from amazon.se

- [1922591] Preferences->Tweaks: Allow specifying that calibre should open the book details window when double clicking on a book

- [1922341] MOBI Output: Convert WebP images to PNG so they work with Amazon's software

- [1921793] 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


:: bug fixes

- [1924232] FB2 Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that caused paragraphs containing only non-breaking spaces to be removed

- [1924187] 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

- [1921604] Edit book: Upgrade book internals: Fix skipping the NCX removal dialog not remembering the chosen option

- [1922570] Conversion: When specifying a line-height do not apply it to the <html> 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%

- [1924598] E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Do not expand all sections when adding/deleting/modifying highlights

- [1922503] CHM Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5.0 that broke opening of some files that don't 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

- [1922309] Update Amazon metadata plugin for changes to amazon websites

- Edit book: Fix detection of class names containing hyphens/underscores

:: improved recipes
- New Scientist
- Irish Times
- 1843
- The Straits Times

:: new recipes
- Los Danieles – Columnas sin techo by CAVALENCIA
}}}

{{{ 5.14.0 2021-03-26

:: new features

- Edit book: When right clicking on a class in a HTML file, add an option to rename the class throughout the book

- [1919103] Adding from ISBN: Add an option to check if there are existing books with the specified ISBNs already in the library

- [1920576] Template tester: Instead of next/last, the template tester now shows the template values for selected books

- [1918047] Content server: Allow swiping left and right to show next/previous book on the book details page

- [1919072] E-book viewer: Make the commonly used Shift+Arrow key shortcuts for modifying selections using the keyboard work. Also add shortcuts for selecting by character, line and paragraph.

:: bug fixes

- [1920613] MOBI Output: Fix latest Kindle firmware not displaying select publisher font option for calibre produced AZW3 files

- [1919033] E-book viewer: Fix errors when viewing books with mathematics that are split over multiple internal files

- [1918436] Content server viewer: Fix highlights not sorted correctly in the highlights panel

- [1918737] Get books: Fix Smashwords plugin not working because of website changes

- [1920733] Improve the performance of QuickView especially when using composite columns

- [1918428] Improve performance of the virtual_libraries() template function

- [1920250] Browser viewer: Fix Go to Location not working for positions

- [1905257] E-book viewer: Fix searching in the Table of Contents not working

- [1918105] E-book viewer: In paged mode, fix scrolling not working correctly when margins are set to zero

- [1918437] E-book viewer: Fix incorrect ToC navigation in books that link the entries to inline tags that wrap block tags that span multiple pages

- [1920592] Category editor: Searching in library shouldn't automatically open Quickview

- [1919260] 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 recipes
- ZackZack.at by Dirk Gomez
}}}

{{{ 5.13.0 2021-03-10

:: new features

- [1917967] 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

- [1917363] Edit metadata dialog: When trimming covers, show the size of the current trim region

:: bug fixes

- 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

- [1918030] Fix searching for items from the Manage dialog not working correctly

- [1917386] PDF input: Replace paragraph separator characters with spaces

:: improved recipes
- The Conversation

}}}

{{{ 5.12.0 2021-02-26

:: new features

- [1915773] E-book viewer: When searching start the search from the current position, jumping to the first match at or after the current page

- [1916411] 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, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337573

- 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

- [1915685] 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

- [1915770] Edit book: Fix editing of JavaScript files not working

:: improved recipes
- Slate
- Harper's Magazine

}}}

{{{ 5.11.0 2021-02-12

:: new features

- [1912958] 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

- [1911107] 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

- [1912954] 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

:: bug fixes

- [1913854] Content server: Fix dragging selection handles not working in Safari

- [1915303] E-book viewer: Fix links with a href of "#" not working

- E-book viewer: Hide the controls when clicking the back or forward buttons

- [1914921] E-book viewer: When jumping to a highlight using the highlights panel, the back button should return to position before jump

- [1914157] 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 recipes
- Endgadget

}}}

{{{ 5.10.1 2021-01-22

:: new features

- [1911888] Bulk metadata edit: Add a new control to compress the cover image files for all selected books

- [1912212] Add support for the CB7 comic file file format

- [1912070] 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

- [1912337] calibre-server --manage-users: Add a scriptable interface: calibre-server --manage-users -- help

- [1912070] E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to copy the current location to the clipboard

- [1912003] 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

- [1911470] E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode

- [1911218] E-book viewer: Fix scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth

- [1911466] PDF Output: When converting fixed layout input documents fix anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes

- [1904350] 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 recipes
- Jacobin
- Japan Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- Mediapart

}}}

{{{ 5.9.0 2021-01-08

:: new features

- Annotations: Allow exporting highlights and bookmarks in Markdown format, with a link to open the book at the highlight location

- [1909529] Content server viewer: Allow exporting all highlights

- [1909339] Icon rules editor: Add a button to open the icons folder

- [1909258] Quickview: Dropdown menu for all selectable columns

:: bug fixes

- [1909880 1906152] Fix a regression that caused the Content server to crash if a client closed a connection during a file transfer on macOS and Linux.

- [1909224] 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

- [1909332] Color/icon rules editor: Fix duplicate rule button not working correctly

- [1909291] Fix dropping files onto Book details causing an error if the confirmation dialog is disabled

:: improved recipes
- General Knowledge Today
- El Pais
- USA Today
- WirtchaftsWoche Online
- The Guardian
- Arcamax
- Miami Herald
- The Seattle Times

:: new recipes

- Mallorca Zeitung by VoHegg
- T-Online by VoHegg
- El Diario by Dirk Gómez

}}}

{{{ 5.8.1 2020-12-24

:: 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)

- [1908929] 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).

- [1907410] 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.

- [1907919 1907918] 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

- [1908000] E-book viewer: Fix error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode

- [1898394] AZW3 Input: Fix rare AID based links not working.

- [1907907] 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.

- [1909217 1909197] Version 5.8.1 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the Save to disk function and changing Page layout settings in the viewer.

:: improved recipes

- The Australian
- The Atlantic
- Zerohedge
- New York Times Book Review

:: new recipes

- SchwarzerPfeil by tastytea
- Substack by topynate
}}}

{{{ 5.7.2 2020-12-12

:: new features

- [major] 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

- [1907140] Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field.

:: bug fixes

- [1905967] 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).

- [1905736] PDF Output: Fix conversion failing when adding header/footer and the input document defines margins/padding on the <html> tag.

- [1907159] Windows: Fix the case of library names in copied calibre:// links sometimes incorrect.

- [1906459] AZW3 Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of files with inline flow replacements.

- [1906149] Fix hiding and showing Book details panel changes its size by a pixel or two.

- [1907067] 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

- [1906464] Book list: Improve rendering of column headers when they don't fit, by eliding them instead of just cutting off rendering.

- [1906063] Fix template function "first_non_empty" fails if no argument evaluates non-empty

- [1907773] 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 recipes
- The Guardian
- The Atlantic

}}}

{{{ 5.6.0 2020-11-27

:: new features

- Edit book: Show a non-modal popup for a few seconds to allow undoing file delete operations

- [1903418] Device books view: Add an action to the context menu to easily jump to the matching book in the calibre library view

- [1903270] 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

- [1905646] Add an edit notes action to the context menu in the viewer highlights panel

- [1903333] Content server viewer: Allow viewing images in a new window by right clicking them, matches the calibre builtin viewer behavior

- [1903403] 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

:: bug fixes

- [1904310] Windows: Fix calibre portable launcher not working correctly from root folder in calibre 5.5

- [1904505] macOS: Fix rendering of space after punctuation incorrect in Big Sur

- [1905319] DOCX Input: When converting images placed using the obsolete VML markup default them to being inline rather than block images

- [1905479] 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

- [1905113] 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

- [1904305] annotation_count() template function displaying value for deleted annotations

- [1905806] Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting not recognizing ends-with selector

:: improved recipes
- The BBC
- Folha de Sao Paolo
- Netzpolitik

}}}

{{{ 5.5.0 2020-11-13

:: new features

- [major] Support the calibre:// URL scheme

  Clicking on calibre:// URLs can be used to have calibre perform various actions.
  For details, see: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/url_scheme.html

- Viewer: Show calibre:// URL for current book in the Goto->Location panel

- [1902518] Edit book: Add an action to the right click menu for tabs to close tabs to the right of the current tab.

- [1902413] Add ability to copy tag, publisher and author in Book details panel by right-clicking

- [1902326] Annotations browser: Add a context menu for common actions.

- [1899839] Annotations browser: Show a dot for highlights with notes.

- [1902227] 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

- [1902313] Option to mark all books with annotations/bookmarks

- Various minor improvements to how keyboard focus is handled in the Tag browser

:: bug fixes

- [1903294] Edit book: Fix regression in calibre 5 that caused an error when managing user dictionaries.

- [1903831] Viewer: Fix previous/next buttons iterating over removed bookmarks

- [1903825] Welcome wizard: Fix changing the language causing a empty folder to be created.

- [1903699] Viewer: Fix regression causing custom shortcuts with Shift key pressed not working

- [1903423] 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.

- [1903428] Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of DJVU files

- [1903363] Metadata edit: "Set to Undefined" button missing on integer columns.

- [1903086] Entry remains underlined in Tag Browser after clearing filter

- [1902126] 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

- macOS: Fix viewer not responding to cmd+c to copy text by default

- Windows: Fix sending email on computers with non-ASCII computer names

:: improved recipes
- Spectator Magazine

}}}

{{{ 5.4.2 2020-10-30

:: new features

- [1900761] Windows: Allow adding of books to calibre from folders 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

- [1901379] Book details window: Double clicking on the cover now shows it in the default system image viewer.

- [1900874] News download: Allow passing username/password in feed URLs.

- [1900890] Open with: Allow renaming Open with applications.

:: bug fixes

- [1900868] Viewer: Fix jumping to search result not always working in flow mode.

- Get Books: Update Google and Gutenberg plugins for website changes

- [1900946] Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts using Ctrl+Alt+letter key not working on Windows.

- [1900942] Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts to shrink/grow selection not working.

- [1900938] Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle highlights panel not working when the highlights panel is itself focused.

- [1900358] Viewer: handle editing of missing highlights more gracefully


- [1901289] Drivers: Fix regression in calibre 5 that broke connecting to SONY devices

- [1901276] Open with: On Linux when reading names from .desktop files, use the first matching language

- [1901593] Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke conversion of some malformed CSS stylesheets.

- [1901957] Conversion: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of some PDB files with images.

- [1901278] Conversion: Fix regression in calibre 5 in the handling of @import() rules in stylesheets that import from folders above themselves.

- [1901232 1901230] Content server: Fix various controls on the book details page not working when viewing a random book.

- [1901273] Tag browser: Fix a crash when renaming a saved search to a value that already exists.

- [1900921] Tag browser: Fix renaming of custom column with fixed set of values not working.

- [1901630] Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke auto-sync of generated catalogs to devices.

- [1901113] Fix setting rating via ebook-meta command line tool broken in calibre 5.

- [1900099] 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 recipes

- Psychology Today
- Washington Post
- LifeHacker
- The Atlantic
- New York Review of Books

}}}

{{{ 5.3.0 2020-10-16
:: 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 & feel->Tag browser to combine 'first letters' together if there are a small number of items under adjacent letters

- [1899163] Viewer: Allow displaying the current page / total pages in the header/footer. Useful in paged mode to see exactly how many pages are left.

- [1899834] 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

- [1899762] Viewer image pop-up: Allow maximizing/minimizing the window.

- Edit metadata dialog: Use only a single line for custom column date fields

- [1899341] Add an item to search for categories to the category editor context menu.

- [1899316] Category editor: Add a right click menu to change case of the selected entries.


:: bug fixes

- [1898221] 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

- [1898894] 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

- [1899466] Edit metadata dialog: fix incorrect rendering of custom column names that start with emoji.

- [1899318] Quickview: Fix nothing shown after clearing the search.

- [1900022] Dark mode: Fix radio buttons having no outline.

- [1900066] Annotations browser: When showing a book in the calibre library that is not currently visible, display an error.


:: new recipes

- Deutsche Welle by VoHe

:: improved recipes

- Reuters


}}}

{{{ 5.2.0 2020-10-07
:: new features

- [1897354] 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)

- [1897336] Add a shortcut (Shift+V) to open the last read book.


:: bug fixes

- Fix import errors with some third party plugin on Windows

- [1898598] Viewer: Fix toolbar show controls button not working when no book is open.

- [1898577] 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

- [1898441] ODT Input: Fix a regression that broke conversion of ODT files with footnotes.

- [1898413] 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

- [1897410] Content server OPDS feeds: Fix error if the metadata for a book contains particular Unicode characters.

- [1898167] Edit book: Reports tool: Fix a regression that broke sorting.

- HTMLZ Output: Fix an error when converting a document that has SVG images



}}}

{{{ 5.1.0 2020-10-02
:: new features

- Enhancement: allow using templates in search expressions

- [1897435] Viewer lookup panel: Add a checkbox to disable automatic update of lookup when the selected text changes.

- [1897415] Viewer: Allow skipping the confirmation when using the remove highlight button in the popup bar.


:: bug fixes

- [1897618] ToC Editor: Fix bulk rename of entries not working

- [1897571] Linux: Fix right clicking on system tray icon not working

- [1897356] Fix User category based searches unreliable dues to caching issues

- PDF Output: Don't fail if the input document has an html file identified as the cover

- [1897467] Catalog generation: Fix a regression that broke generating catalogs if books with no comments are present.

- [1897314] Windows: Fix error on first run of calibre after install/upgrade

- Viewer: Fix copy to clipboard button in toolbar not working

- [1897297] Viewer: Fix copy to clipboard not copying text as HTML to clipboard in addition to plain text

- [1897409] macOS: Fix some drop down menus such as in the ToC editor and cover generation in the Edit metadata dialog not working



}}}

{{{ 5.0.1 2020-09-25
:: new features

- [major] For details on the major changes in calibre between 4.0 and 5.0, see https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fourteen

- [major] E-book viewer: Add support for highlighting

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/viewer.html#highlighting-text

- [major] E-book viewer: Add support for right-to-left and vertical text

- [major] Switch calibre to Python 3. This means that some no longer maintained third party plugins will not work. See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=326405

- 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



}}}

{{{ 4.23.0 2020-08-21
:: new features

- Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware. Also add recognition of 'Kobo Plus' subscription books

- [1889925] Edit book: Allow customizing the base background/foreground and link colors for the preview window.

- [1891765] Quickview panel: Add actions to the context menu to search for book in library, open in E-book 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

- [1849958] Content server: Fix Esc key not working in several views.

- [1889973] Fix unable to delete default value for custom columns of boolean type, once set

- EPUB Output: When splitting don't 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 recipes

- linuxnews.de and t3n.de by Volker Heggemann

:: improved recipes

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


}}}

