Software update: Caliber 6.25

Version 6.25 of Caliber has been released. This open source e-book management tool is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It can, among other things, look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert e-books to make them suitable for various types of e-readers. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news articles into e-book format based on RSS feeds. Books can also be purchased with Caliber from well-known online stores.

In version 6.0 the switch to Qt 6 has been made, among other things. However, this does mean that the program only works on computers equipped with a 64bit processor and requires at least Windows 10 or macOS 11. Furthermore, you can now search all books in the library instead of just the current book, and there are also versions for Arm and Apple Silicon processors. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this update:

New features

• Book details panel: De-emphasize titles making the actual data stand out more. Closes tickets: 2029723
• Allow using the new manage data files dialog from within the edit metadata dialog.
• Trash dialog: Allow right clicking on an entry to save it to disk. Closes tickets: 2030342
• When merging books by drag-and-drop add an option to use the dragged cover instead of the cover in the target book. Closes tickets: 2027794
• Create catalog: Add buttons to easily select all/non/visible fields when creating CSV/XML catalogs. Closes tickets: 2031571
• Preferences->Add your own columns: Add buttons to show/hide all columns. Closes tickets: 2031570

Bug fixes

• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke parsing of some ISO-8601 timestamps. Closes tickets: 2031341
• E-book viewer: Mouse wheel horizontal events should jump sections not internal file boundaries. Closes tickets: 2030671
• Fix Preferences->Add your own columns changing check state on moving columns. Closes tickets: 2031569
• Get books: update various Polish e-book stores for website changes.
• E-book viewer: Fix CFI parsing of numbers with trailing zeros causing some bookmarks to not work. Closes tickets: 2029521
• E-book viewer: Show an error when creating a bookmark if the bookmark position is not found. Closes tickets: 2029521
• CBR Input: Fix comics with extremely long internal filenames not working on Windows. Closes tickets: 2031047
• Edit book: Saved searches: Fix incorrect import in generated source code for some builtin functions.
• Data file manager: Fix errors on systems with larger font sizes.

New news sources

• The Oldie by Sophist
• Various new Russian and Ukrainian news sources by Unknown

Improved news sources

• Bloomberg
• Focus
• Epoch Times
• Hindu
• BusinessToday
• NYTimes