Software update: Caliber 2.13

In the past two weeks there has been no new version of Caliber appeared due to some illnesses in the family of lead developer Kovid Goyal, who then had to travel again, but this Friday version 2.13 is ready for you. 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, switched to Qt5 for the user interface and there are improvements with Android devices that are linked to OS X. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this release:

New Features

• Driver for the new CYBOOK MUSE ebook reader. Close tickets: 1398672
• Edit metadata dialog: Allow editing identifiers in a dedicated window by right clicking on the identifiers edit box. Close tickets: 1400925
• Allow generating a cover from metadata by right clicking the cover are in the book details panel also. Close tickets: 1401972
• Content server: Server KEPUB files with the extension kepub.epu when connecting to the browser on Kobo devices.
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware version 3.12.
• Edit metadata dialog: Add a keyboard shortcut to swap title and author [Alt+Down]. Close tickets: 1377701

Bug Fixes

• Save to disk: Fix a regression that prevented saving of files into the root of a drive on Windows.
• FB2 Input: Add support for FB2 books that incorrectly use the FictionBook 2.1 XML schema. Close tickets: 1401915
• Fix command line arguments not being ignored on windows and linux when restarting caliber. Close tickets: 1401991
• E-book viewer: Fix sorting of bookmarks by position in book not working on windows and OS X. Closes tickets: 1402152
• Kobo driver: Fix bookmarks not being deleted from device when deleting books on the device. Close tickets: 1401502
• Edit book: Fix auto-complete of closing tag not working when typing the closing tag at just before a word (the word would become the closing tag name).
• calibredb: Fix list –for-machine ignoring custom columns. Close tickets: 1401085
• Edit book/Book polishing: Fix subsetting of fonts whose @font-face rules use the local() or format() CSS functions not working.
• Edit book: Fix regression that broke typing of XML entities for ampersand, less-than and greater-than.
• Edit Book: Do not change the current selected text when right clicking on a mis-spelled word.

Improved news sources

• The Australian
• The New Yorker
• The Guardian
• Ars Technica