Download Caliber 2.62

Version 2.62 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. 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 program is under active development and a new version is usually released every other week on Friday. Since version 2.60, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Release 2.62

New Features

• EPUB metadata: Support for reading and writing EPUB 3 specific metadata. Now when processing EPUB 3 files, caliber will generate/use EPUB 3 specific metadata constructs when available, for example for series.
• Recognize the newest Kindle model, that started shipping today. Close tickets: 1599970.

Bug Fixes

• Tag Mapper: Allow specifying a space as the split character when creating a split tags rule.
• Tag mapper: Fix upper case characters not working in ‘contains’ rules
• Smarten punctuation: Fix double dashes and triple dots being smartened even inside attribute values. Close tickets: 1598465.
• HTML Input: Sanitize semi-colons from HTML filenames as they can cause problems with other EPUB consuming software. Close tickets: 1598719.
• EPUB Input: Speed ​​up reading of the book spine from the OPF file for books with a very large number of entries in the spine.
• Edit Book: Reports: Characters: Fix sorting by count and name not working. Close tickets: 1598518.
• Fix KoboTouch configuration migration not working for older settings. Close tickets: 1598017.

New news sources

• Various Russian news sources by bugmen00t

Improved news sources

• The Skeptic

Release 2.61

New Features

• Driver for FNAC (re-branded Bq) with new firmware. Close tickets: 1596952, 1595924.
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add an auto fix action to remove all links to a missing resource (such as a deleted stylesheet) automatically. Close tickets: 1596048.

Bug Fixes

• Edit Book: Check Book: Fix incorrect handling of font family names with spaces in them that are not quoted. Close tickets: 1596053.
• Ebook viewer: Fix Qt 5.7 breaking mouse wheel scrolling.
• Kobo driver: Fix a regression in the last release that broke connecting to older devices. Close tickets: 1596801.
• Get Books: Fix detection of book formats broken for the Legimi plugin by a website change.
• Update builtin metadata source ozon.ru to handle website changes.
• Font subsetting: Fix incorrect handling of fonts whose names are included in font rules without quotes.
• Fix ebook viewer broken when running the binary caliber release on systems with very old versions of glibc.

Improved news sources

• derStandard
• courier
• Kliene Zeitung