Download Caliber 5.4.2

Version 5.4 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. In version 5.4, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

New features

• Windows: Allow adding of books to caliber from directories whose path length is larger than 260 characters. Close tickets: 1900761.
• Tag browser: Add an option in Preferences > Look & feel > Tag browser to allow the tag browser to get keyboard focus.
• Tag browser: Allow editing the set of permissible values ​​and colors for a custom column with fixed values, by right clicking on it.
• Edit metadata dialog: Make most custom metadata controls use only a single line.
  Elide the names of custom columns that are longer than a fixed width, instead of using multiple lines. Configurable via Preferences > Tweaks > Edit metadata custom column label length.
• Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Add an option to merge CSS rules that have identical properties.
• Book details window: Double clicking on the cover now shows it in the default system image viewer. Close tickets: 1901379.
• News download: Allow passing username/password in feed URLs. Close tickets: 1900874.
• Open with: Allow renaming Open with applications. Close tickets: 1900890.

Bug fixes

• Viewer: Fix jumping to search result not always working in flow mode. Close tickets: 1900868.
• Get Books: Update Google and Gutenberg plugins for website changes.
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts using ctrl+alt+letter key not working on windows. Close tickets: 1900946.
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcuts to shrink/grow selection not working. Close tickets: 1900942.
• Viewer: Fix keyboard shortcut to toggle highlights panel not working when the highlights panel is itself focused. Close tickets: 1900938.
• Viewer: handle editing of missing highlights more gracefully. Close tickets: 1900358.
• Drivers: Fix regression in caliber 5 that broke connecting to Sony devices. Close tickets: 1901289.
• Open with: On Linux when reading names from .desktop files, use the first matching language. Close tickets: 1901276.
• Conversion: Fix a regression in caliber 5 that broke conversion of some malformed CSS stylesheets. Close tickets: 1901593.
• Conversion: Fix a regression in caliber 5 that broke processing of some PDB files with images. Close tickets: 1901957.
• Conversion: Fix regression in caliber 5 in the handling of @import() rules in stylesheets that import from directories above themselves. Close tickets: 1901278.
• Content server: Fix various controls on the book details page not working when viewing a random book. Close tickets: 1901232, 1901230.
• Tag browser: Fix a crash when renaming a saved search to a value that already exists. Close tickets: 1901273.
• Tag browser: Fix renaming of custom column with fixed set of values ​​not working. Close tickets: 1900921.
• Fix a regression in caliber 5 that broke auto-sync of generated catalogs to devices. Close tickets: 1901630.
• Fix setting rating via ebook-meta command line tool broken in caliber 5. Closes tickets: 1901113.
• When boolean columns are set to bistate, checking “show checkmarks” results in all non-boolean values ​​being shown as false. Close tickets: 1900099.
• Spell check: Fix using non UTF-8 dictionaries broken in caliber 5.
• Fix a rare issue where restarting caliber from within the program would fail.
• Version 5.4.2 fixes bugs in 5.4.0 that prevented caliber from starting on macOS and from choosing save file names on Windows.

New news sources

• title by author

Improved news sources

• Psychology Today
• Washington Post
• Life Hacker
• The Atlantic
• New York Review of Books