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