Software update: Caliber 5.35

Version 5.35 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 ebooks 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 following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features

• Coloring/icon rules: Allow creating a rule for date columns that matches *today*. Close tickets: 1956006†
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware.
• Content server: Show total number of results when searching for books. Close tickets: 1954890†

bug fixes

• E-book viewer: Fix searching for text near the end of a chapter sometimes not working. Close tickets: 1958028†
• E-book viewer: Fix auto hyphenation on macOS not rendering the hyphens correctly. Close tickets: 1954714†
• Edit book: Reports: Fix thumbnails of SVG images not rendered.
• ODT metadata: Support reading tags from multiple elements.
• LRF Input: Fix a regression in caliber 5 that broke parsing of some LRF files. Close tickets: 1958115†
• MOBI output: Dont fail if input document contains invalid % based lengths. Close tickets: 1956097†
• AZW3 Input: Handle AZW3 files with incorrect TAGX Offset INDX header fields. Close tickets: 1955308†
• Comic conversion: Fix conversion of comic images that are stored as grayscale images in JPEG format not working when converting to PDF with image processing turned off. Close tickets: 1956932†
• calibredb catalog: Fix –ids and –search options not working for CSV/XML catalogs. Close tickets: 1955967†
• Tag browser: Fix the find box not using all available width. Close tickets: 1958490†
• E-book viewer: Remove books that do not exist from the recently opened book list. Close tickets: 1956192†
• Completion popups: Fix display of items containing line breaks.
• Fix line breaks in custom column descriptions not being rendered in their tooltips. Close tickets: 1956129†
• Fix Preferences->Searching->Clear search histories not taking effect till a restart for some search boxes. Close tickets: 1956088†
• Hierarchical entries in user category may not merge correctly in tag browser. Close tickets: 1955732†

New news sources

• Dw.de by xav
• Equestria Daily by Timothee Andres

Improved news sources

• Foreign Affairs
• MIT Technology Review
• Reuters
• Clarin
• General Knowledge Today
• Popular Science