Software update: Caliber 0.7.57

Caliber is an e-book management program and can handle almost all types of e-books and e-readers. It makes it possible, among other things, to convert e-books between the various formats in order to make e-books available on all platforms. In addition, it can also convert news articles based on RSS to e-book format and in this way make news available on e-readers. Caliber is being developed intensively and a new version is released every week. Version 0.7.57 was released on Friday, because version 0.7.55 was succeeded by 0.7.56 last week due to some problems.

Release: 0.7.57

New Features

• Launch worker processes on demand instead of keeping a pool of them in memory. Reduces memory footprint.
• Use the visual formatting of the Table of Contents to try to automatically create a multi-level TOC when converting/viewing MOBI files.
• Add a new function booksize() to the template language to get the value of the size column in caliber.
• Add support for using metadata plugboards with the content server (only with the epub format)
• Change default algorithm for automatically computing author sort to be more intelligent and handle the case when the author name has a comma in it
• Show cover size in the tooltips of the book details panel and book details popup window

Bug Fixes

• Dragging and dropping a cover onto the book details panel did not change the cover size
• Fix non escaped ‘|’ when searching for commas in authors using REGEXP_MATCH
• Fix ratings in templates being multiplied by 2
• Fix adding a comma to custom series values ​​when using completion.
• CHM Input: Another workaround for a Microsoft mess.
• Fix job count in the spinner not always being updated when a job completes
• Changing case only of a title does not update title sort

New news sources

• BabyOnline.ro by Silviu Cotoara
• The Journal.ie by Phil Burns
• Der Spiegel by Nikolas Mangold

Improved news sources

• ecuisine.ro, egirl.ro and tabu.ro
• Daily Telegraph
• Handelsblatt
• Il Sole 24 Orec
• news week
• Arcamax

Release: 0.7.56

New Features

• This is primarily a bug fix release that fixes a bug in 0.7.55 that caused caliber to rescan the files on the device every time the device is connected. If you updated to 0.7.55 it is highly recommended you update to 0.7.56
• Device driver for Coby Kyros
• Remove the quick access to search options from next to the search bar, as we now have a separate search highlights toggle button
• MOBI Output: Ensure that MOBI files always have 8KB worth of null bytes at the end of record 0. This appears to be necessary for Amazon to be able to add DRM to caliber generated MOBI files sent to their publishing service.
• Add a tool to inspect MOBI files. To use: caliber-debug -m file.mobi

Bug Fixes

• Fixed regression taht caused caliber to rescan files on the device on every reconnect
• Fix donate button causing the toolbar to be too large on OS X
• MOBI Input: Fix detection of Table of Contents for MOBI files that have a page break between the location designated as the Table of Contents and the actual table of contents.
• Comic Input: Fix handling of some CBZ files that have wrongly encoded non ASCII filenames on windows.
• PML Input: Fix multi-line chapter title causing a spurious page break
• EPUB Input: Speed ​​up processing of files with very large manifest/spines
• Fix regression that broke cover:False searches in 0.7.55

Improved news sources

• Suedduetsche Zeitung
• Irish Times
• Big Oven
• NSPM

Caliber screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.