| Version | Change log |
| Calibre Portable 7.21.0 Nov 8, 2024 |
New features: Edit book: A new tool to create an audio overlay in EPUB files for all text using the Read aloud facility This allows readers of the book to listen to it with sentence tracking, even if they do not have a functioning text-to-speech system in the reading software. You can even assign different voices to different parts of the text for a more immersive experience. The tool is available from the Tools menu in the book editor. Dark mode: make scrollbar more visible with higher contrast and rounded corners E-book viewer: In flow mode when scrolling across internal file boundaries using the mouse wheel/touchpad have a short half second pause to ease the transition. Can be controlled via the Scrolling section of the Viewer preferences. ebook-meta.exe: Add an option to disallow rendered cover of first page for EPUB Book details: Add an action to download the cover to the context menu when right clicking the cover Read aloud: Add a restore defaults button to the configuration dialog Auto adding: Allow excluding arbitrary file types not just known book file types Edit metadata dialog: Add an action to open the book's folder to the context menu of the formats list Bug fixes: Read aloud: Fix only first 32000 characters per chapter being read Content server: Read aloud: Fix clicking on a word to skip reading aloud to that word causing word highlighting to stop working Linux: Handle speech dispatcher with dummy output module and no voices more gracefully When renaming authors fix empty author folder not being removed if it contained file explorer metadata but was otherwise empty Edit metadata dialog: Fix keyboard shortcuts to edit prev/next raising an error when trying to go beyond the first/last book Linux: ToC Editor: Fix a regression in 7.17 that broke using the Create new entry button Content server: Fix changing the language of a book not working for non-English user interface language and for books that have no existing language Linux: Read aloud with Piper: F |
| Calibre Portable 7.20.0 Oct 18, 2024 |
New features: PDF Input: Automatic header/footer detection and removal A new, dedicated PDF Input engine for calibre that implements automatic detection of headers and footers based on document analysis. The new engine is the default to go back to using the old engine, select it in the PDF Input section of the Conversion dialog. Read Aloud: Allow configuring an extra pause at the end of every sentence when using the Piper TTS engine PDF Output: Add _WIDTH_PIXELS_ and _HEIGHT_PIXELS_ variables to know the width and height of the header/footer area in templates Windows: Use calibre's bundled SSL certificates instead of the system certificate store by default Can be turned off via CALIBRE_USE_SYSTEM_CERTIFICATES=1 env var Trim image tool: Add a control to adjust aspect ratio Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware used by the Tolino Shine 5 Bug fixes: Fix a regression in previous release that broke copying of book to another library if the books author does not exist in the destination database Read aloud: Piper backend: Fix not working with voices whose names have non-ASCII characters on Windows. Content server: Fix book with non-ASCII filenames not downloading in the Kindle browser when using the /mobile view Content server: Fix embedding the server HTML inside a third party iframe causing an error New news sources: NYT Magazine by unkn0wn RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland by epubli Improved news sources: The Wire Nikkei Asia Magazine Swarajya Mainichi Nautilus National Geographic Science Journal Times Literary Supplement Saechsische Zeitung India Today Scientific American |
| Calibre Portable 7.19.0 Sep 27, 2024 |
New features: E-book viewer: Halve the time taken to open large EPUB format books for the first time A four hundred thousand word EPUB book now opens in under a second on typical hardware. PDF new engine: Improve header/footer detection For column icons and grid view emblems, support icons for both light and dark themes News downloads: Mark links to locally available articles with a middle-dot When saving a layout also save the main window geometry Bug fixes: Windows: Read Aloud: Fix an occasional crash when stopping read aloud when using the legacy windows TTS engine Windows: Read Aloud: Fix clicking in text to change what is being read causing tracking of currently read word to fail when using the legacy Windows TTS engine Read aloud: Fix reading large numeric words causing text synchronization to fail when using some legacy TTS engines EPUB3 metadata: Fix setting series number to zero not working Comic Input: Handle comics whose internal files have control codes in their filenames E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke searching in Japanese books that use <ruby> text E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Read aloud for selected text Amazon metadata plugin: Workaround for downloads failing because Google discontinued its webcache Cover grid: Suppress the 2px border Qt draws for the list view New news sources: NYT News based on feeds by unkn0wn Improved news sources: NY Times NYT Book Review Courrier International Le Monde TLS Magazine Scientific American Engadget |
| Calibre Portable 7.17.0 Aug 23, 2024 |
New features: E-book viewer: Support for jumping to and displaying paper edition page numbers If an e-book contains embedded information about the pages from the paper edition of the book, the calibre E-book viewer can now jump to a page number via the Go to button in the viewer controls. You can also optionally have the current paper edition page number displayed in the header/footer by adding "Pages from paper edition" to either the header or footer in the viewer settings. Edit book: When text is selected allow changing the indentation of all lines in the selection by pressing Tab to increase one level or Shift+Tab to decrease one level Allow a plugboard to change the series_index as well as the series name. News download: News recipes can now optionally use browser engines based on either Qt or Chromium network stacks instead of mechanize Email delivery: When sending emails to Kindles do not convert filenames to English letters as Amazon appears to have finally fixed their email servers to handle non-English filenames Quickview: Add a tooltip displaying the full cell contents Bug fixes: Update the version of the Qt toolkit bundled with calibre to the latest available, fixing some crashes on macOS related to accessibility tools Edit book: Fix searching marking incorrect text in the presence of non-BMP unicode characters Conversion: Do not embed a second copy of a font when using the option to embed font family if the font is already embedded in the book calibredb list: Fix a regression in the previous release that required setting --template-header to empty to use the list command Tolino driver: Fix books from the Tolino cloud not being listed Windows: Book details panel: Fix selection not visible when using the system default theme Hide the Virtual library tab bar in device view as it is non-functional New news sources: GaGadget by bugmen00t Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin by unkn0wn Science Journal by unkn0wn Improved news sources: Jot Down Various Russia |
| Calibre Portable 7.15.0 Jul 19, 2024 |
New features: Fetch news: Allow individual news sources to specify source specific options such as downloading of past editions Bug fixes: Windows: MTP driver: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused an error with some devices Icon theme creation dialog: Fix various issues when creating an icon theme with many icons that have light/dark variants New news sources: WSJ News by unkn0wn Improved news sources: Bloomberg Eenadu Mediapart |
| Calibre Portable 7.12.0 May 31, 2024 | |
| Calibre Portable 7.11.0 May 25, 2024 | |
| Calibre Portable 7.10.0 May 3, 2024 | |
| Calibre Portable 7.9.0 Apr 19, 2024 | |
| Calibre Portable 7.8.0 Apr 5, 2024 |
