Calibre eBook Management Software (free, open-source, cross platform)

calibre 6.17

New Features​

  • Font subsetting: Add support for WOFF format fonts and CID keyed fonts. Also further reduce file sizes when subsetting
  • Book details: Show a link to open the data files folder when data files are present
  • Template language: Add various functions to query the extra files associated with a book
  • Edit book: Compress images: Support compression of images in the WEBP format as well
  • Comments editor: Add buttons to create links to data files and also to folders easily when inserting a link
  • Allow displaying the id, formats and path builtin columns via Preferences->Add your own columns
  • Add a tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to allow for changing the titles of builtin columns
  • Trash bin: Add a button to clear the bin
  • Metadata editor: Use a dedicated editor with preview for custom columns that store markdown formatted text

Bug Fixes​

  • Fix a regression in the previous release that could result in empty author folders remaining in the library when the author of a book is changed
  • Fix the data files associated with a book not being handled when using the Merge books and Copy to library functions
  • Fix a regression in the previous release that broke some operations in the Manage tags/authors/etc. dialogs
  • Ensure metadata.opf is always written when deleting book even if it is not sequenced for backup

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calibre 6.18

New Features​

  • Cover download: Allowing saving alternate covers to disk or in the book's data folder by right clicking on the cover
  • Content server: Allow disabling full text search via the web interface
  • When sending books to the device confirm the overwrite if the book already exists on the device
  • E-book viewer: Handle horizontal wheel events as section jumps in paged mode
  • Comic Input: When grayscaling comic images use 16bit gray instead of 8bit for better fidelity
  • Add a new option in Preferences->Searching to disable keyboard searching in book list (i.e. you can turn off the behavior that pressing a key will jump to the first book whose title starts with that letter)
  • Manage categories dialog: Use alternating row colors and allow adjusting row height
  • Allow assigning a keyboard shortcut in Preferences->Shortcuts to open the data folder of a book
  • Various improvements to syntax highlighting for the Markdown long text editor

Bug Fixes​

  • Fix a regression in 6.16 that broke restoring of the database
  • Tag browser: Fix using F2 to edit items not allowing completion
  • Book details: Fix formatting of text when copying all book details in narrow mode
  • Book details: Fix copy all not respecting line breaks in fields
  • Fix a regression in previous release that broke scrolling when using the scroll_per_row tweak
  • Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the category manager dialog in some situations

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calibre 6.18.1

New Features​

  • Cover download: Allowing saving alternate covers to disk or in the book's data folder by right clicking on the cover
  • Content server: Allow disabling full text search via the web interface
  • When sending books to the device confirm the overwrite if the book already exists on the device
  • E-book viewer: Handle horizontal wheel events as section jumps in paged mode
  • Comic Input: When grayscaling comic images use 16bit gray instead of 8bit for better fidelity
  • Add a new option in Preferences->Searching to disable keyboard searching in book list (i.e. you can turn off the behavior that pressing a key will jump to the first book whose title starts with that letter)
  • Manage categories dialog: Use alternating row colors and allow adjusting row height
  • Allow assigning a keyboard shortcut in Preferences->Shortcuts to open the data folder of a book
  • Various improvements to syntax highlighting for the Markdown long text editor

Bug Fixes​

  • Fix a regression in 6.16 that broke restoring of the database
  • Tag browser: Fix using F2 to edit items not allowing completion
  • Book details: Fix formatting of text when copying all book details in narrow mode
  • Book details: Fix copy all not respecting line breaks in fields
  • Fix a regression in previous release that broke scrolling when using the scroll_per_row tweak
  • Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the category manager dialog in some situations
  • 6.18.1 fixes a regression that broke setting metadata and generating PDF files in the macOS and Linux binary builds

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calibre 6.19.1

New Features​

  • HTML Input: Restrict adding of resources like images to only files within the folder hierarchy starting at the parent folder of the root HTML file Can be controlled by customizing the HTML to Zip plugin in Preferences->Plugins or the --allow-local-files-outside-root option to the ebook-convert command

Bug Fixes​

  • PDF Output: Fix regression in previous release causing non-English entries to be incorrectly encoded into the PDF bookmarks
  • PDF Output: Fix regression in previous release that caused blank pages when generating headers or footers
  • Book list: Fix editing-in-place not pre-selecting existing text for some column types
  • Amazon.de metadata download: Update for site changes
  • PDF Output: Set /Creator and /Producer in /Info
  • Fix row height incorrect in Manage category dialog when blank
  • 6.19.1 fixes a bug in 6.19.0 that broke the edit metadata dialog

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calibre 6.20

Bug Fixes​

  • CHM Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of CHM files
  • Windows: Make moving files in the calibre library folder more robust, locking folders in addition to files, before the start of the move
  • Get books: Update Barnes and Noble store plugin for website changes
  • Kindle output: Only re-encode JPEG images with EXIF metadata if the metadata contains actual transpose operations
  • PDF Output: Fix error when input document contains multiple instances of a font some with vertical metrics and some without
  • PDF Output: Fix using CSS Multicolumns for body causing conversion to fail when header/footer is specified
  • MOBI Input: Fix a crash when converting some corrupted palmdoc compressed MOBI files
  • E-book viewer: Ensure CSS stylesheets are interpreted as UTF-8

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