Calibre 5.4.2 [Update]

calibre

Calibre is an open source e-book library management application that enables you to manage your e-book collection, convert e-books between different formats, synchronize with popular e-book reader devices, and read your e-books with the included viewer.

It acts as an e-library and also allows for format conversion, news feeds to e-book conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Calibre's features include: library management; format conversion (all major ebook formats); syncing to e-book reader devices; fetching news from the Web and converting it into ebook form; viewing many different e-book formats, giving you access to your book collection over the internet using just a browser.

Calibre 5.4 new features:

Windows: Allow adding of books to calibre from directories whose path length is larger than 260 characters. Closes 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. Closes tickets: 1901379
News download: Allow passing username/password in feed URLs. Closes tickets: 1900874
Open with: Allow renaming Open with applications. Closes tickets: 1900890

Bug fixes:

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