Software update: Caliber 4.18.0

Version 4.18.0 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 In version 4.0 we find a completely renewed Content Server, there is a new e-book viewer and Qt WebKit has been replaced by Qt WebEngine.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: Search panel: Add a button to return to the position the book was at before doing a search. Close tickets: 1879889.
• Tag browser: Improve handling of hierarchical tags. Close tickets: 1880264.
  Renaming a tag now renames it and all its children. Drag and drop of hierarchical tags alters their hierarchy. Deleting a tag now deletes all its children.
• Viewer: In flow mode, implement drag scrolling. Close tickets: 1880707.
• Tag browser: Allow Manage Tags to open to a selected letter when clicking on a letter. Close tickets: 1880175.
• Viewer: Show number of search results in title of search panel. Close tickets: 1881792.
• Content server: In the book list hovering over the library name now shows the total number of books in the library. Close tickets: 1881384.

Bug fixes

• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the copy and recalculate author sort buttons. Close tickets: 1880395.
• Book details: Fix extra margin to the right of the metadata fields. Close tickets: 1881488.
• Cover grid: Show text under books that have no cover as well. Close tickets: 1880558.
• When merging metadata, if a custom column has type multiple in the new data and some other type in the old data, ignore the old data instead of failing. Close tickets: 1881796.
• macOS: When using the single instance option of the viewer, crashes should not require a restart of the computer to use the viewer again. Close tickets: 1881375.
• Windows: Fix an error when changing title/author for books in a library whose name contains characters not encodeable in the current code page.
• Windows: Fix amazon metadata download failing when accented characters in search query. Close tickets: 1880300.
• Comments editor: Fix shortcuts for bold/italic not working when toolbars are hidden.

Improved news sources

• The Hindu
• Wired Daily Edition
• The Economist