Software Update: Caliber 2.11

Version 2.11 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. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. In version 2.0 has, among other things, moved to Qt5 for the user interface and there are improvements with Android devices under OS X. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this release:

New Features

• Edit Book: Add a new ‘function mode’ for the Search and Replace tool
  The function mode allows you to create python functions that run on the results of Search and Replace. This allows you to do arbitrarily powerful text processing. For example, you can automatically fix the case of text, automatically add section number to headings, and so on. For examples and documentation, see:

Bug Fixes

• DOCX Input: Add support for multilingual documents. Close tickets: 1394428
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix date fields being displayed in the UTC timezone instead of the local timezone, causing the day to be off by one in some timezones. Close tickets: 1393166
• Conversion/Book polishing: Fix ampersands in title/series/publisher/author not being properly escaped. Close tickets: 1393230
• Update the bundled version of libimobiledevice on windows, so that the iOS Reader plugin can connect to iOS 8 devices again.
• Fix a regression in 2.10 that causes Adding books from sub-folders, one book per folder to incorrectly add OPF files present in the sub-folders as an extra format. Close tickets: 1392864
• Fix a regression in 2.10 that caused changes in Preferences->Adding books to not work for the next immediate add.
• Fix Ctrl-R while in debug mode not restarting in debug mode properly.
• Fix regression in evaluating composite columns that use other composite columns.

Improved news sources

• Nikkei News