Software update: Caliber 1.2

Version 1.2 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

• Conversion: Add support for the CSS3 rem font size unit
• MTP devices, such as Android tablets/phones: Allow ignoring any folder on the device, not just top level folders. For newly connected devices, also scan /Android/data/com.amazon.kindle for books by default (newer versions of the Kindle app place downloaded files there).
• Speed ​​up sorting when the book list is showing a restricted set of books, such as when the results of a search are displayed or a virtual library is used. Close tickets: 1217622
• Edit metadata dialog: Add an undo option for the Trim cover button. Close tickets: 1219227

Bug Fixes

• Amazon metadata download: Update to handle website changes at amazon.com
• PDF Output: Workaround a bug in the library caliber uses to render HTML to PDF that caused text in some documents that used small-caps fonts to not render correctly. Close tickets: 1216354
• Kobo driver: When a sideloaded kepub is added from a Kobo device to the caliber library, it is added as an epub, but the file copied is corrupt. Close tickets: 1221035
• Fix changing the user interface language in the welcome wizard causing some parts of the interface to remain in the old language until caliber is restarted. Close tickets: 1220767
• Fix regression in 1.0 that broke setting author names with the | character in them. Close tickets: 1220348
• Content server: When running from inside the main caliber program, do not restrict the books shown based on the current virtual library in the main program. If you wish to restrict the books shown in the content server, use Preferences->Sharing over the net.
• Output dates in the local timezone instead of UTC when generating CSV catalogs
• Library maintenance: When doing a check library instead of dumping the database to SQL and restoring it, run a VACUUM. This works around various bugs in the dump and restore capabilities of apsw. Close tickets: 1217988
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix adding an image to an empty comments block not working
• Conversion: Fix font declarations with invalid font-family values ​​causing conversion to abort when subsetting is enabled.
• MOBI Output: Fix conversion of some super/sub scripts failing if they are the first or last element in a paragraph. Close tickets: 1218858
• New database backend: Various improvements to make the backend more robust against databases with invalid/corrupt data in them.Closes tickets: 1218465, 1218783

Improved news sources

• country file