Allow setting custom icons for items in the Tab browser by right clicking on them and choosing "Manage icon for this value"
Kindle driver: Allow import of KFX files from 2024 Kindles that use the MTP protocol
A new tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to control the East Asian language used when transliterating to English
Add an option to adjust the size of the link and note icons in Book details under Preferences->Look & feel->Book details
Bug Fixes
Nook driver: Fix the Glowlight 4 not working on Windows
MTP driver: Fix Internal storage and SD card being swapped on some devices that have buggy firmware that assigns the SD card a lower id than the internal storage
Template dialog: Respect the tweak for title/series when editing save to disk and send to device templates
Content server: Fix icons for individual formats not being shown in the Tag browser
Allow specifying web search links that are used when clicking on item names in the Book details panel for custom columns via Preferences->Add your own columns
Content server: When clicking on author names in the book details page perform the same action as clicking it in the calibre program's Book details panel
Bug Fixes
Fix a regression in 7.17 that caused various minor problems with editing metadata directly in the book list
Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion using Heuristics and TXT input documents
E-book viewer: Fix header/footer text size too small when using multiple monitors and the primary monitors DPI is much less than secondary monitor DPI
Fix series mapping rules in the metadata preferences not working
Fix setting custom icon for category doesn't work
Kobo driver: Fix a regression that broke working with very old Kobo devices
Connect to folder: Allow connecting a specific device
When completing names for fields that contain hierarchical data in prefix mode match prefixes after every period
ToC editor: Allow moving of multiple selected items in the Table of Contents
macOS: The calibre application icons in the dock are now displayed in a white frame to follow Apple's current recommended icon style
Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware on Tolino devices
Book details: Add option in to suppress author search links
Bug Fixes
Fix a regression that broke tabbing to edit cells in the book list when some columns have been hidden or re-ordered
Catalog generation: Allow using templates that access the database for notes
Fix a bug when renaming authors to a name with commas in it
Full text search: Also index text in ZIP and RAR archives as these can be viewed by the calibre viewer
E-book viewer: Fix Table of Contents current entry tracking not working for some books
When reading metadata from HTML also recognize name="subject" meta tags as calibre tags
E-book viewer: Fix viewer not closing on the interrupt signal
Edit book: Download external resources: Fix incorrect filename if the server returns a generic Content-Type header
Metadata download: Publisher/series transform rules: Fix values with commas in them not working
Version 8.0.1 fixes a failure to start on systems where the user had previously installed the KoboTouchExtended plugin and disabled the builtin KoboTouch driver
Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to edit it with an external program
Virtual library tabs: When the tabs are locked prevent them from being re-ordered as well
FreeBSD: Add support for connecting to devices, contributed by Guido Falsi
Bug Fixes
macOS: Fix regression in previous release that caused calibre:// URLs to no longer work
macOS: Fix a regression in calibre 8 that prevented icons in menus from being rendered
Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation settings not being applied correctly when generating KEPUB to put on the device
KEPUB Output: Include leading whitespace in kobo sentence span tags. This prevents unsightly breaks when highlighting across formatted text on the Kobo
Content server: Fix FB2 books not readable via the in-browser viewer
Edit book: Add text narration: Fix preferred voice for language setting being ignored
E-book viewer: Use IPC to update annotations when calibre is running. Avoids possible loss of annotations in the Annotations browser due to db being locked
Ensure calibre temp files are deleted even on program crash
Fix incorrect minimums on font size changing controls in viewer
Fix regression in previous release causing incorrect rendering of layout menu on some macOS machines
Fix archive formats such as ZIP not being indexed for full text search
Version 8.1.1 fixes a regression causing an error that does not affect functionality on startup on macOS
Kindle driver: Allow using a value of * in Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output to have the driver mark all books sent to the device as personal documents
Bug Fixes
Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation and extra CSS added to KEPUB files being ignored by the renderer on the Kobo
macOS: Fix opening book folder or PDF files for books with square brackets in the title not working
Quickview: Fix a long standing bug with syncing of columns in the presence of hidden/re-ordered columns
E-book viewer: Show an error message when an invalid nearby search expression is used
KEPUB Output: Fix incorrect encoding detection for some HTML files without an encoding declaration
macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused failures in the E-book viewer when updating annotations for books with a large number of annotations
Kindle driver: Allow using a value of * in Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output to have the driver mark all books sent to the device as personal documents
Bug Fixes
Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation and extra CSS added to KEPUB files being ignored by the renderer on the Kobo
macOS: Fix opening book folder or PDF files for books with square brackets in the title not working
Quickview: Fix a long standing bug with syncing of columns in the presence of hidden/re-ordered columns
E-book viewer: Show an error message when an invalid nearby search expression is used
KEPUB Output: Fix incorrect encoding detection for some HTML files without an encoding declaration
macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused failures in the E-book viewer when updating annotations for books with a large number of annotations
Version 8.2.1 fixes an error when clicking on format links in the book details panel
