Software update: Caliber 3.47

A new version of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source ebook management program and is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. 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. Lately there are less frequent updates and this is because Kovid Goyal is currently spending a lot of time on the migration to Python 3. Since version 3.4.5, the following improvements have been made:

Release: 3.47

New features

• HTML metadata: Support reading identifiers from HTML files.
• Preferences->Ignored devices: Add a button to reset the list of devices that caliber is allowed to manage.

Bug fixes

• macOS: Fix a regression that could cause a crash on exit if any books were deleted while caliber was running. Close tickets: 1839044.
• Content server OPDS: Handle form encoded search queries. Close tickets: 1841464.
• Fix an error when adding files from clipboard and file is of unknown type.
• Speed ​​up restoring original format by doing a rename rather than a copy and re-add. Close tickets: 1839733.
• EPUB 3: Fix setting metadata in EPUB 3 files without a title not working.
• PML Input: Modernize the generated HTML a bit.Closes tickets: 1839689.
• HTMLZ Output: Fix svg content from HTML files that contain only SVG being removed. Close tickets: 1839522.
• Content server: Fix OPDS feed for category based browsing listing restricted books, even though these books cannot be actually downloaded. Close tickets: 1839173.
• Preserve tag order when reading metadata from MOBI files.
• Add missing ‘language’ field to ComicBookInfo metadata for .CBR files.
• LIT Output: Fix regression in 3.41 caused by py3 porting that broke conversion of some files to LIT. Close tickets: 1837561.

Improved news sources

• Esquire
• Foreign Affairs
• derStandard
• Globe and Mail
• CNET News
• National Geographic
• New Yorker
• Chicago Tribune

Release: 3.46

Bug fixes

• Manage tags dialog: When searching for a tag also search the “Was” column to see if the original tag name matches. Close tickets: 1836813.
• Windows: Fix caliber-server –manage-users not working correctly
• MOBI Input: Fix conversion of MOBI files with malformed markup and embedded tags not working. Close tickets: 1836548.
• Edit book: Allow the search expression history to remember very short terms and also preserve leading and trailing whitespace. Close tickets: 1836559.
• Fix a regression in 3.45 that broke conversion of SVG images when converting to formats such as MOBI that do not support SVG. Close tickets: 1836463.
• Fix a regression in 3.45 that broke parsing of old-style .py config files.