Software update: Caliber 4.12.0

Version 4.12 of Caliber has been released. This open source ebook manager 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. In version 4.0 we find a completely renewed Content Server, there is a new e-book viewer and Qt WebKit has been replaced by Qt WebEngine. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features

• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware with the series list on the device
• Automatically extract the source DOCX file from Kindle Create KPF files when adding them to caliber. If you prefer to preserve the KPF file you can disable the KPF Extract plugin in Preferences->Plugins
• Content server: Add a button to delete all locally cached books. Close tickets: 1864305.
• Edit Book: Allow selecting the contents of a tag with Ctrl+Alt+T
• Viewer: Save current position after 3 seconds of last position change. Useful if the viewer crashes on resume from sleep.
• Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+W) to toggle the scrollbar. Close tickets: 1864356.
• Viewer: Keyboard shortcuts to change number of columns (Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+])

Bug fixes

• Fix the Douban metadata download plugin. Close tickets: 1853091.
• Viewer: Fix searching in Regex and Whole words mode not working well.
• Viewer: Fix searching for multiple words in fixed layout books not working. Close tickets: 1863464.
• RTF Input: Fix handling of RTF files with invalid encoded text. Close tickets: 1864719.
• PDF Output: Add a hangcheck for loading HTML if there is no progress for sixty seconds abort. Close tickets: 1865380.
• Viewer: When starting without a book allowing quitting the viewer by clicking the close button on the “Open book” page. Close tickets: 1864343.

New news sources

• Spectator Australia by James Cridland

Improved news sources

• wired
• ABC News Australia