Software Update: Caliber 4.15.0

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Version 4.15.0 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 In version 4.0 we find a completely renewed Content Server, there is a new e-book viewer and Qt WebKit has been replaced by Qt WebEngine.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

  • Viewer: Improve the interface for changing font sizes.
  • Viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+B) for adding a bookmark.

Bug fixes

  • Bulk metadata edit: Fix a regression causing scrollbars to not appear in Custom metadata tab. Closes tickets: 1875090.
  • Viewer: Fix a regression that broke searching in flow mode. Close tickets: 1874877.
  • BibTeX Catalog: Dont output comment describing the catalog as Zotero fails to process it. Close tickets: 1876302.
  • Linux: Fix uninstaller not working on Linux distros that have no python symlink.Closes tickets: 1876164.
  • Viewer: Fix zoom step size setting ignored. Close tickets: 1875840.
  • Viewer: Fix text that has font sizes specified using keywords not being scaleable by the viewer’s font size controls. Close tickets: 1875021.
  • Viewer: Fix LRF files not opening.
  • MOBI metadata: When reading author sort from MOBI files, construct the final value from all author fields.
  • macOS: hide accelerator key underlines since they dont work anyway as Apple does not believe in them.
  • macOS: Fix keyboard shortcuts for select all, copy and paste not working in file dialogs. Close tickets: 1874499.

Improved news sources

  • The Nation
  • Animal Politico

Version number 4.15.0
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Linux, macOS, Windows 8, Windows 10
Website caliber
Download https://calibre-ebook.com/download
License type GPL
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