Download Caliber 1.23

Version 1.23 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 e-books 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Edit Book: Highlight the closest surrounding tag when editing HTML/XML
• Edit Book: Add a tool to easily change the current paragraph (the paragraph containing the cursor) to a heading. Simply click the button with ‘H1’ on it and choose the heading level you want the current paragraph changed to.
• Edit Book: When running Replace All add a button to the replaced message to show exactly what changes were done and allow them to be undone
• Edit book: When checking book, detect case mismatches between links and the filenames of the files they point to and offer to auto-correct the links
• Adding books: Implement a copy to clipboard button for when duplicates are found during the adding process. Useful if you wish to review the list of duplicates later. Close tickets: 1276918
• Linux installer: Install appdata files for integration with software stores. Close tickets: 1271974
• Edit book: Auto add a checkpoint when the book is first opened for editing

Bug Fixes

• Edit Book: Fix a bug in AZW3 support that could cause images/fonts to get mixed up when saving and re-opening the book multiple times. Close tickets: 1276726
• Edit Book: Fix individual find and replace not working in regex mode if the search expression uses lookbehind/lookahead operators
• Compare books: Fix unchanged lines at the start of a change block being sometimes marked with a blue background, even though they contain no changes
• Compare books: Fix incorrect scrolling when viewing all text and a large amount of text is present after the final change.
• PDF Output: Fix a zero division error when the transformation matrix has a zero diagonal. Close tickets: 1277102
• calibredb add_custom_column: Fix a spurious error message when adding custom columns caused by the new db backend
• calibredb list: Fix error if one of the requested fields is empty for all requested books
• calibredb set_metadata: Fix setting series_index with the -f argument not working
• Markdown input: Fix handling of very large files. Close tickets: 1212330
• Edit book: Do not create savepoints when no changes are performed by automated tools such as smarten punctuation, remove unused css etc.
• Edit Book: Fix a bug that would cause an error when a global operation like find/replace or polishing fails. Close tickets: 1275366
• Metadata download: Workaround edelweiss.com no longer being able to search by author name. Search only by titles and filter the results returned by edelweiss to only include matching authors.
• HTML 5 parser: Preserve non-core namespace declarations on the tag
• Workaround broken file chooser dialog on Ubuntu that does not auto-insert the specified extension. Close tickets: 1275125
• Compare books: Fix error when previously different files become identical after beautifying
• Edit Book: Fix subsetting embedded fonts not processing fonts included in a stylesheet that is itself referenced only by an @import rule
• Edit Book: Fix the remove unused css tool changing the namespace prefix used for the XHTML namespace in the CSS sheet, if any
• Conversion: Fix CSS selectors using the epub namespace being ignored
• Compare books: Fix double clicking in the right panel not opening the correct file in the editor

New news sources

• Disinformatico by isspro
• Les Echos by Krittika Goyal

Improved news sources

• Kathimerini
• Cosmopolitan UK
• wired.it
• Gosc Niedzielny
• New York Times Book Review