Software update: Caliber 2.68

Version 2.68 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

• Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to control the list of servers caliber considers public email servers

Bug Fixes

• Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the OPDS feeds for libraries with no custom columns. Close tickets: 1621642
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix auto-generation/validation of author sort values ​​not working when only changing case of the author name. Close tickets: 1623593
• A nicer error message when caliber fails to create the temporary directory. Close tickets: 1622131
• Fix dates being set to empty in bulk search/replace not becoming UNDEFINED.
• Edit metadata dialog: Make pressing up on an undefined numeric field set the value to zero instead of -99999. Close tickets: 1622757
• Conversion: Handle corrupted JPEG files that have valid headers but invalid data. Close tickets: 1622416
• Conversion: Improve detection of input documents that use uppercase tag/attribute names. Close tickets: 1622261
• Fix regression in previous release that caused incorrect display of ratings in the side panel of the metadata download dialog.
• Get Books: Update publio and virtualo store plugins for website changes.
• Fix reading metadata from PDF files broken by poppler >= 0.47.0
• Change the application name set in Qt to caliber from libprs500. Close tickets: 1623397

Improved news sources

• Respect Magazine
• Punto Informatico
• El universal