Software Update: Caliber 5.9

Version 5.9 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. Version 5.0 has included a switch to Python 3, various improvements have been made to the e-book viewer and there is now also a dark mode for the e-book viewer and content server. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this release:

New features

• Annotations: Allow exporting highlights and bookmarks in Markdown format, with a link to open the book at the highlight location.
• Content server viewer: Allow exporting all highlights. Close tickets: 1909529.
• Icon rules editor: Add a button to open the icons folder. Close tickets: 1909339.
• Quickview: Dropdown menu for all selectable columns. Close tickets: 1909258.

Bug fixes

• Fix a regression that caused the Content server to crash if a client closed a connection during a file transfer on macOS and Linux.
• LRF Output: Fix conversion broken in caliber 5 when font size rescaling is active. Close tickets: 1909224.
• E-book viewer: Cancel any speech in progress when hiding the selection popup bar after triggering the speak aloud action on it.
• Color/icon rules editor: Fix duplicate rule button not working correctly. Close tickets: 1909332.
• Fix dropping files onto book details causing an error if the confirmation dialog is disabled.Closes tickets: 1909291.

New news sources

• Mallorca Zeitung by VoHegg
• T-Online by VoHegg
• El Diario by Dirk Gomez

Improved news sources

• General Knowledge Today
• El Pais
• USA Today
• WirtchaftsWoche Online
• The Guardian
• Arcamax
• Miami Herald
• The Seattle Times