Software update: Caliber 2.58

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Version 2.58 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. Books can also be purchased with Caliber at the well-known web stores. The program is under active development and a new version is usually released every other week on Friday. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

  • Edit Book: A text search tool to conveniently search for text even if it crosses multiple HTML tags (Search->Search ignoring HTML markup)
  • OSX: Allow drag and drop of file onto viewer dock icon to view file

Bug Fixes

  • Workaround for incompatibility between Qt 5.5+ and Ubuntu that caused the context menu for the book list to flicker. Close tickets: 1534936
  • Windows: Workaround for explorer shell extensions on windows that write to stdout
  • Edit Book: When jumping to next occurrence of a word, take language into account
  • Edit Book: Fix import of words into user dictionary not working
  • Fix use of non-ascii characters in identifiers causing an error when identifier rules are used. Close tickets: 1584470
  • Fix a regression that caused the paste from clipboard button to paste two times in the Add books from ISBN dialog
  • Fix for incompatibility with PyQt 5.6

Improved news sources

  • Denver Post
  • Financial Times
  • bild.de

Version number 2.58
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 10
Website Caliber Team
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File sizes

61.08MB – 80.09MB

License type GPL
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