Download Caliber 2.69

Version 2.69 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Kobo driver: Support for firmware version 4.1 and Overdrive books on the device
• Edit Book: Highlight class names inside HTML tags
• Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow search & replace to work for ratings columns as well.

Bug Fixes

• Fix downloading of metadata from ozon.ru, which broke due to website changes
• Kobo driver: Fix delete or empty collections
• Kobo driver: Fix book previews being sometimes detected as actual books
• Cover Browser: Fix setting an empty template for the title causes an error
• Edit Book: On windows do not trigger shortcuts when using the right Alt (AltGr) key. This allows it to be used for entering special characters instead.Closes tickets: 1627487
• Edit Book: Auto-add file extension when using the Save a Copy dialog if it is missing. Close tickets: 1627482
• Linux: Fix caliber not launching when used with some old VNC server implementations
• Windows: Run library restore in a separate process as on some windows machines, running it in the main process causes something in the system to lock the db file.
• Fix some news downloads in east asian languages ​​not working because the truncation of article descriptions could cause invalid UTF-16 bytes in the string
• Fix incorrect timezone when editing custom date columns directly in the book list

New news sources

• Various Danish news sources by Allan Simonsen

Improved news sources

• New York Times
• Independent
• El Tribuno de Salta