Upstream changelog:
"Release: 1.29 [21 Mar, 2014]
New Features
Edit Book: Add support for saved searches. Click Search->Saved Searches to
bring up a dialog where you can create and manage saved searches
Edit Book: New tool to specify semantics in EPUB books (semantics are items
in the guide such as preface, title-page, dedication, etc.). To use it, go to
Tools->Set Semantics
Closes tickets: 1287025
Edit Book: Preview panel: Add a copy selected text action to the context
menu
Edit Book: When inserting hyperlinks, allow specifying the text for the
hyperlink in the insert hyperlink dialog
Bug Fixes
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke downloading
metadata for authors with a double initial such as R. A. Salvatore.
Closes tickets: 1294529
Edit book: When generating inline Table of Contents, mark it as such in the
guide section of the OPF.
Closes tickets: 1287018
E-book viewer: Fix right margin for last page in a chapter sometimes
disappearing when changing font size.
Closes tickets: 1292822
Edit Book: Fix saving of empty files not working
Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke saving a
copy of the current book on linux and OS X
Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting in HTML files breaks if the closing of a
comment or processing instruction is at the start of a new line.
Edit book: Fix check book failing in the presence of empty <style/> tags.
Closes tickets: 1292841
Catalogs: Fix handling of tristate boolean custom columns when creating
EPUB/MOBI catalogs.
Closes tickets: 1294983
Linux build: Workaround for systems that have broken libc implementations
that change the behavior of truncate() on file descriptors with O_APPEND set.
Closes tickets: 1295366
New news sources
Applefobia by koliberek
Improved news sources
TIME
Wired Daily Edition
Release: 1.28 [14 Mar, 2014]
New Features
Edit Book: Add a tool to easily insert hyperlinks (click the insert
hyperlink button on the toolbar)
Edit book: Add a tool to easily open a file inside the book for editing by
just typing a few characters from the file name. To use it press Ctrl+T in the
editor or go to Edit->Quick open a file to edit'
Edit book: Allow disabling the completion popups for the search and replace
fields. Right click on the search/replace field to enable/disable the
completion popup
E-book viewer: Add an option to control the maximum text height in full
screen. Note that it only works if the viewer is in paged mode (which is the
default mode).
Show the search expression for the virtual library in a tooltip when
hovering over the tab for the virtual library.
Closes tickets: 1291691
Book details panel: Show author URL in a tooltip when hovering over author
names
Kobo driver: Update to handle updated Kobo firmware
Bug Fixes
Library backup: Avoid infinite retries if converting metadata to
backup OPF for a book fails. Simply fail to backup the metadata for that
book.
Closes tickets: 1291142
Edit book: Fix file permissions for the edited book being changed on Linux
and OS X
Fix text entry cursor becoming invisible when completion popup is opened
Possible fix for crash on OS X Mavericks when adding duplicates
E-book viewer: Fix pressing the Esc key to leave full screen mode not
changing the state of the full screen button
When reading metadata from filenames, do not apply the fallback regexp to
read metadata if the user specified regexp puts the entire filename into the
title. The fallback is only used if the user specified expression does not
match the filename at all.
Linux binary install script: Fix error on linux systems where the system
python has an encoding of None set on stdout. Assume encoding is utf-8 in this
case.
Content server: Fix (maybe) an error on some windows computers with a
non-standard default encoding
Improved news sources
Fleshbot
Release: 1.27 [07 Mar, 2014]
New Features
An option to add multiple books from inside a ZIP or RAR file. Right click
the Add Books button and choose 'Add multiple books from archive'.
Database backend: Make the database backend more robust when the calibre
library is placed on flaky filesystems. Now when an I/O error occurs while
writing to the database, the connection to the database is closed and re-opened
and the operation is retried.
Closes tickets: 1286522
DJVU Input: Speedup extraction of text from DJVU files by implementing the
BZZ decoder algorithm in C
Bug Fixes
MOBI Input: Fix empty <a> tags not being handled correctly in rare
cases when the markup is bad enough to be parsed only using the fallback
HTML parser.
Closes tickets: 1288430
Edit book: Fix column number of cursor shown in the bottom right being one
less than it should be.
Edit book: Fix names for non-BMP unicode character (Such as emoticons) not
being displayed in the lower right corner. Also allow these characters to be
searched for by name in the Insert special character tool.
Do not show system tray notification popups while analyzing books on
device, as they can be slow on systems that display multiple messages serially
instead of replacing the last message
Linux installer script: Do not use the filesystem to pass the downloaded
tarball to tar as it is possible for malicious code running on the users
computer to alter the download file between signature verification and calling
tar to extract the files.
DJVU Input: When extracting embedded txt from TXTz sections in DJVU files,
fix incorrect extraction of txt when the djvutxt external program is not
present.
Closes tickets: 1286771
Edit Book: Fix import HTML file as new book not working on OS X
Wireless device driver: Fix a regression that prevented it form working
with the Calibre Sync Android app.
Fix a regression in 1.26 that caused width and height attributes on <img>
tags to generate CSS width and height properties without a 'px' suffix
Linux binary installer: Fix an error when using proxies and python 3 with
the new installer script
Closes tickets: 1286274
Edit book: When exporting files, fill the choose filename popup with the
name of the file being exported as the default name
Make the new Linux installer script compatible with python 2.6.
Closes tickets: 1286011
Improved news sources
American Thinker
HNA
Heise
Arguments and Facts
Financial Times
Release: 1.26 [28 Feb, 2014]
New Features
Edit Book: Allow direct importing of HTML or DOCX files as new books
without doing a full conversion. Use File->Import HTML or DOCX to import a file
as a new EPUB book with minimal changes from the original.
Linux binary installer: Various improvements to the binary installer. It
now creates an un-installer (calibre-uninstall) that will remove all files
created by the installer. It also no longer asks for the installation
directory. If you wish to change that, you need to specify it in the
installation command itself. Also the installer is now downloaded securely via
HTTPS from github and verifies the signature of the installed files. Finally,
it can be used to create an isolated install, that only makes changes to files
in the installation directory and does not require root privileges.
Closes tickets: 1283154
Metadata download: Add an option to merge the downloaded comments into
existing comments, instead of overwriting (Preferences->Metadata download).
Closes tickets: 1285319
Edit book: Add an option to automatically beautify individual files
whenever they are opened for editing. Look under 'Editor Settings' in the Edit
Book Preferences.
Bulk metadata download: When reviewing downloaded metadata allow hiding the
controls on the comments box by right clicking in the comments area. Useful on
smaller screens.
Closes tickets: 1283251
E-book viewer: When displaying metadata for the book, also display custom
column metadata
Bug Fixes
Smarten punctuation: Correct handling for decade abbreviations like
'60s and measurements in feet and inches like 1' 2".
Closes tickets: 1285351
EPUB Output: If the output profile is set to one of the Nook profiles, do
not use shorthand CSS properties as the Nook cannot handle them.
Conversion: Fix incorrect CSS being generated when converting files that
have <img> tags with width or height attributes that contain fractional numbers.
Closes tickets: 1283108
Edit Book: When editing EPUB files, and a file is added in META-INF/ do not
automatically add it to the manifest. Also do not warn about unmanifested files
inside META-INF/ since a few vendors (Apple) require non standard files in that
location.
Closes tickets: 1283015
Fix Book details popup window not being updated when editing metadata in
the main window
Edit book: Fix editor not marking the book as modified when doing a Replace
All that does not affect any currently open files.
Windows: Use a separate worker process to move files to the recycle bin.
Fixes the problem of the recycle bin icon not being updated when deleting books
into an empty recycle bin. Also avoids the overhead of launching a new,
short-lived worker process for every delete.
calibredb: When deleting books/formats wait for deleted files to be moved
to recycle bin, before quitting
RTF Output: Fix invalid RTF being produced when the text contains a double
backslash.
Closes tickets: 1268118
Edit book: Fix option to disable showing the character before cursor not
working
Get Books: Update various store plugins to account for changes to the store
websites
Fix virtual library names with ampersands in them not being displayed
correctly in the virtual library menu and tab bar
New news sources
Various Russian news sources by bug_me_not
Improved news sources
AnandTech
Zeit Online
Spektrum
Le Temps"
I don't think it should be a big deal to update the package since it
doesn't break anything else and will provide the user with the up-to-
date software. It's kind of wired to have a new operating system being
shipped with outdated software.
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