Software update: Caliber 1.29

Version 1.29 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Edit Book: Add support for saved searches. Click Search->Saved Searches to bring up a dialog where you can create and manage saved searches
• Edit Book: New tool to specify semantics in EPUB books (semantics are items in the guide such as preface, title-page, dedication, etc.). To use it, go to Tools->Set Semantics. Close tickets: 1287025
• Edit Book: Preview panel: Add a copy selected text action to the context menu
• Edit Book: When inserting hyperlinks, allow specifying the text for the hyperlink in the insert hyperlink dialog

Bug Fixes

• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke downloading metadata for authors with a double initial such as RA Salvatore. Close tickets: 1294529
• Edit book: When generating inline Table of Contents, mark it as such in the guide section of the OPF. Close tickets: 1287018
• E-book viewer: Fix right margin for last page in a chapter sometimes disappearing when changing font size. Close tickets: 1292822
• Edit Book: Fix saving of empty files not working
• Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke saving a copy of the current book on linux and OS X
• Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting in HTML files breaks if the closing of a comment or processing instruction is at the start of a new line.
• Edit book: Fix check book failing in the presence of empty