Download Caliber 1.11

A new version of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. 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. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. In version 1.11 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Kobo driver: Support the new firmware version 3.0.0 for Kobo devices
• Content server: Show the name of the virtual library at the top when browsing books in a virtual library. Close tickets: 1251278
• Add a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+*) to convert the current search into a temporary virtual library. Close tickets: 1249773
• Template language: Add a transliterate function, useful to convert metadata in other languages ​​into its phonetic English representation, when exporting books from caliber. Close tickets: 1249562
• Remove the button to toggle search result highlighting from next to the search bar, as too many people click it accidentally and then do not realize what they have done, despite the confirmation message that pops up. The button can be restored via Preferences->Searching
• Wireless driver: Remove old non-streaming networking code. Apps that still use it must be updated. A message will popup notifying the user of the need to update if such an app is encountered.
• Linux: Add an option to cause caliber to detach from its controlling terminal (–detach)

Bug Fixes

• DOCX Input: Fix page-breaks created as a page break inside an otherwise empty paragraph not being rendered on conversion to PDF. Close tickets: 1249502
• Windows: When viewing books with an external viewer, check if windows will open the file with caliber itself, and if so, popup an error message telling the user to install some software capable of viewing the file. Close tickets: 1249698
• Wireless driver: Fix a bug that could cause the wrong path information to be sent to the device in some circumstances.
• Linux binary build: Return proper exit codes when raising SystemExit
• Transliterate the Arabic Alef into ‘a’. Close tickets: 1249469

New news sources

• ARG Noticias by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• Radical (tr)
• Mirror online
• El Mundo