Software Update: Caliber 1.1

Version 1.1 of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images and convert ebooks to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. A new version is released every Friday and the following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Rewrite the HTML metadata parser to make it faster and more robust. Close tickets: 1217751
• Book list: When sorting on a currently unsorted column, use the last applied sort for that column, instead of always sorting in ascending order. Close tickets: 1216714
• PocketBook driver: Scan for books files in the entire device not just in the ‘books’ folder

Bug Fixes

• Fix a regression in 1.0 that could cause the dates in custom date-type columns to change in some timezones when using the edit metadata dialog to make unrelated changes. Close tickets: 1217096
• When replacing formats in a book with a very long title+authors on windows, caliber could leave behind the old format file, because the filename shortening algorithm has changed. Handle that case.
• Fix content server giving an error if you return to the top level page after using the virtual libraries. Close tickets: 1216838
• Fix caliberb not updating the running caliber instance properly in 1.0. Close tickets: 1218177
• Fix a regression in 1.0 that broke splitting of multiple valued field like tags into many items during a rename. Close tickets: 1216699
• Fix a regression in 1.0 that caused an error when trying to set values ​​for tags with the same item repeated, with different case. Close tickets: 1216398
• Fix a regression that broke downloading news when output format is set to PDF
• Creating a catalog with an already existing catalog in the library would cause a temporary duplicate entry in the book list. Also fix the author sort for catalogs generated in the AZW3 format not being correct.
• EPUB metadata: When changing the title in an EPUB 2.0 file that has multiple titles, remove the extra titles. Close tickets: 1211949
• Fix a regression in 1.0 that caused Search and Replace in the bulk metadata edit dialog to be much slower than before
• Fix a regression in 1.0 that caused incorrect sorting and searching on some composite columns (columns built from other columns).
• Fix a regression in 1.0 that prevented the moving of libraries inside caliber. Close tickets: 1216401
• Virtual Library tabs: If the user activates a hidden tab via the Virtual Library button, change the name of the All Books tab to reflect the hidden virtual library. Close tickets: 1216174
• Ignore text records in the database that are damaged, instead of erroring out. Let the rest of the data be used. Close tickets: 1215981
• Fix regression that broke calibredb catalog when sorting on the id field. Close tickets: 1216090
• HTML Input: Handle malformed OPF files when converting. Close tickets: 1215924
• Ensure that the Formats custom column (if present) is updated when a new format is created as a result of a conversion. Close tickets: 1215885
• Fix a bug in 1.0 that broke the Check Library function on computers with non-English locales. Close tickets: 1215819
• Content server: Fix blank username causing error on startup. Close tickets: 1215893
• Fix sorting of book list by multi-valued fields like tags not correct in the new backend. Close tickets: 1215820

New news sources

• VFR Magazine by Krittika Goyal

Improved news sources

• Daily Mirror