Software update: Caliber 3.3

A new update for version 3.0 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. In version 3.0 little has changed in the appearance of the program. There is, however, a completely new content server and there is support for screens with a high resolution. Since version 3.1.1, the following improvements have also been made:

Release: 3.3

New features

• Quickview panel: Allow opening and closing the panel via the Layout button in the bottom right corner. Close tickets: 1701833
• Book details panel: Allow right clicking on author names to search for books by the author on Amazon. Close tickets: 1702446
• Edit book: When doing a Replace/Count all with multiple searches add a ‘Show details’ button on the result dialog that shows the individual counts for each search.
• Comments editor: Add a button to easily insert separators (ie
  

  ---

  tags) when editing comments

Bug fixes

• Browser viewer: Fix back/forward buttons not working correctly when clicking on links that lead to different internal files in the book. Close tickets: 1700004
• Server: Fix using ‘Show more books’ button and then changing list mode setting causing resulting book list to be incomplete
• Server: Fix changing sort/search in the /mobile view only working with the default library. Close tickets: 1701704
• DOCX Input: Fix alt and title attributes for some images not being preserved
• Amazon metadata download: Change the default source from Bing to Google as the Bing cache seems to be having trouble at the moment
• ISBNDB metadata download: Ignore SSL errors when contacting isbndb.com as they seem to have no intention of fixing their broken SSL certificate
• Conversion: Fix heuristics processing incorrectly removing some
  tags. Close tickets: 1205637
• Handle non-ASCII binary strings in the author_name_prefix/suffix tweaks. Close tickets: 1701138

Improved news sources

• Politico
• The Times
• The Sunday Times Magazine

Release: 3.2.1

New features

• Server: Allow logged in users to change their passwords by clicking the user icon in the top right corner of the home screen. Close tickets: 1700631
• macOS: Add headless support: caliber command-line utilities can now run on macOS machines without a screen

Bug fixes

• 3.2.1 has a fix for an issue that broke mouse wheel scrolling in the cover grid view
• Viewer: Fix incorrect display of pages in paged mode for books that override the box-sizing CSS property on the element. Close tickets: 1700109
• Server: Fix timeout errors when using SSL (particularly common when running the server on windows)
• Linux: Fix slow mouse wheel scrolling in Cover grid because of Qt bug
• Blacklist the iOS Reader applications and Marvin XD plugins as they were preventing caliber from starting up and they have not worked in a long time anyway, since Apple restricted USB access to their iOS devices
• Fix for in-program restart not working on some Windows 10 Home machines
• EPUB3 metadata: Fix handling of elements with multiple roles. Close tickets: 1699918
• Server: Disallow client initiated SSL renegotiation
• Windows: Try to prevent windows from showing the annoying ‘no disk in drive’ error messages at caliber startup if one of the caliber libraries is on a removable disk that is missing from the system. Close tickets: 1701399

New news sources

• Kitekinto by pofa

Improved news sources

• The Australian
• Wired Daily