Software update: Caliber 5.39

Version 5.39 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

• E-book viewer: Allow scrolling of the ToC, highlights, bookmarks, etc. with touch gestures. Close tickets: 1963875†
• Edit metadata dialog: When using the change case operations if some text is selected, only operate on the selected text. Close tickets: 1963822†
• Use atomic writes for the config files ensures no partial data is written in case of crash/powerloss. Close tickets: 1964123†

bug fixes

• Content server: Fix reading of books with thousands of internal files not working in the Chrome browser. Close tickets: 1964742†
• Catalog generation: Fix a rare crash when generating very large catalogs. Close tickets: 1965182†
• Edit/Polish book: Fix hardcoded Unicode ligatures not being preserved in AZW3 format books.
• Fix automatic searches causing search box to lose focus when search as you type is enabled in Preferences->Searching. Close tickets: 1963868†
• Edit book: Check book: Auto fix package identifier being empty. Close tickets: 1963748†
• Amazon metadata download: Fix getting series info from amazon.jp. Close tickets: 1963856†
• Edit book: Insert hyperlinks: When sorting anchors on elements without any text content, use the anchor itself.
• Edit book: Make the saved search panel freely resizable.
• Edit book: When dragging to select a region or adjust the selection fix mouse moving outside the image causing the region to no longer be adjusted.

New news sources

• Swarajya Magazine by unkn0wn
• Open Magazine by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

• India Legal Magazine
• The Smithsonian
• The Federalist