Software update: Caliber 2.71

On exactly the tenth anniversary, version 2.71 of Caliber was 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

• Caliber’s Tenth Birthday Edition!
  Caliber was first released (as libprs500) ten years ago today. A big thank you to the entire caliber community — users, contributors and developers — for keeping it humming for so long.
• A new set of icons for caliber
  To celebrate caliber turning ten, caliber now has a brand new set of icons designed from scratch. Note that you can choose between many different icon sets for caliber, including the original icons, from Preferences->Look & Feel->Choose icon theme
• a short video commemorating the occasion.
• Book details panel: Add a copy all action to the right click menu.Closes tickets: 1633477

Bug Fixes

• Get Books: Update ebookpoint and woblink store plugins for website changes
• Edit Book: When un-marking text auto-change the ‘search where’ location to what it was before text was marked rather than ‘current file’.
• Automatic adding: Show an error if the user specifies a folder whose name starts with a dot or underscore. Close tickets: 1637021
• OS X: Fix a regression that caused incorrect display of the icon in pop-up message boxes when using a Retina display.Closes tickets: 1635999
• Kobo driver: Fix an error when migrating very old settings. Close tickets: 1635909
• Kobo driver: Fix a regression that broke handling of reading status for devices running old 1.9x versions of the Kobo firmware.
• Edit Book: When using the arrange into folders tool do not change the case of already existing folders in the book. Close tickets: 1633875

Improved news sources

• LWN Weekly
• Financial Times
• MIT Technology Review
• The Hindu