Package Release Info

calibre-8.7.0-bp160.1.2

Update Info: Base Release
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platforms

AArch64
ppc64le
s390x
x86-64

subpackages

calibre

Change Logs

* Fri Jul 18 2025 ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org> - 8.7.0
- Update to 8.7.0
  * New Features
  - Kindle driver: Add support for generating page number files
    (APNX) on 2024 and newer MTP based Kindles
  - When finding similar books by author ignore "et al." suffix
    on author names
  * Bug Fixes
  - Fix a regression in the previous release that broke
    configuring Sending of books to device
  - Kobo driver: Fix a regression that caused ancient, pre-Touch
    kobo devices to no longer work with calibre
  - MTP driver: Workaround for LibMTP no longer returning device
    serial numbers on some systems
  - Edit book: Fix the next/previous buttons in the Text search
    tool not working
  - Fix series and publisher mapping rules not handling commas
    correctly when downloading metadata one book at a time
  - Edit metadata dialog: When there are only a few cusotm
    comments like fields stretch them vertically to take up
    unused psace
* Fri Jul 11 2025 ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org> - 8.6.0
- Update to 8.6.0
  * New Features
  - Content server: Add a checkbox in content server user
    preferences to prevent a user account from changing its own
    password via the web interface
  - Restoring database: Improve performance by an order of
    magnitude
  - Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to permit displaying
    the sort value for series in the Tag browser
  - Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for
    Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within
    the last decade plus support AZW3
  - Add 'Search "not in"' and 'Filter "not in'" buttons to
    Manage authors and Manage Items
  * Bug Fixes
  - Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused
    terminal windows to popup momentarily when adding PDF files
    or converting them
  - E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of
    the background image
  - Tag browser: Fix clicking on categories to search for books
    by first letter of series not working correctly for
    non-English language books
  - Edit metadata individually: Ensure Next/Previous buttons work
    even if something re-orders the books in the book list.
    They will now iterate over the books as they were at the time
    the dialog is created
  - Windows: Generate catalog: Workaround for systems where
    a broken antivirus or similar holds open files in the catalog
    library causing a permission denied error
* Sat Jul 05 2025 ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
- Add missing require libjpeg-turbo.
* Fri Jun 20 2025 ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
- Update to 8.5.0
  * New Features
  - The scrollbars used in calibre in light mode are now the same
    style as the ones in dark mode, this improves the contrast
    making the scrollbar more accessible
  - Kobo driver: add an option to change the how the Kobo
    displays series numbers using a template.
  - Manage data files dialog: Add a button to cancel remaining
    books when managing multiple books
  - Kobo driver: add support for new Tolino firmware
  * Bug Fixes
  - Prevent Windows 11 from starting a conhost.exe process for
    every calibre worker process
  - E-book viewer: Improve highlight grouping with recurring
    chapter names
  - When sending emails to amazon and pocketbook use random
    English text instead of UUIDs for subject/body.
* Fri May 09 2025 ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
- Update to 8.4.0
  * New Features
  - KEPUB Output: Add an option to generate KEPUB files that have
    better text justification at the cost of gaps in highlighting
    when used on the Kobo
  - E-book viewer: Allow the background image specified in the
    Style section of the viewer preferences to extend under the
    page margins as well
  * Bug Fixes
  - E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the "show book in
    main calibre program" link
  - News download: Fix Next/Previous links not working when the
    pointed to article failed to download
  - E-book viewer: Handle links to missing internal files with
    an error popup rather than becoming non-functional
  - E-book viewer: Fix some links not being processed correctly
    for very large EPUB files with many internal HTML files
  - Get books: Update ebooks.com plugin for website changes
  - Metadata review dialog: Fix merging of tags not working
    correctly
  - Wayland: Workaround Qt/Wayland bug that prevents the menu of
    the Layout button from showing
  - Prevent recursion when creating base temporary folder if
    something on system deletes the created temporary folder
* Fri Apr 18 2025 ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
- Uptate to 8.3.0
  * New Features
  - Cover grid: Allow configuring different backgrounds for light
    and dark mode in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover grid
  - E-book viewer: Further speedup first open of large EPUB files
    by another 30%
  - Metadata review dialog: Add merge comments action
  * Bug Fixes
  - Kobo driver: Fix viewing of KEPUB files from the device view
    in calibre not working
  - Fix a regression in 8.1 that broke displaying of the debug
    log when running in debug mode
  - E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.0 that caused the clock
    to display an extra p after the time
- Fix build error for Leap 16.0.
* Fri Apr 11 2025 Eric Schirra <ecsos@schirra.net>
- Update to 8.2.100
  No changelog from upstream. But see:
  https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/compare/v8.2.1...v8.2.100
* Fri Apr 04 2025 ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
- Update to 8.2.1
  - Version 8.2.1 fixes an error when clicking on format links in
    the book details panel
* Fri Apr 04 2025 ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
- Update to 8.2.0
  * New Features
  - Kobo driver: Add support for new Tolino firmware
  - Kindle driver: Allow using a value of * in
    Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output to have the driver
    mark all books sent to the device as personal documents
  * Bug Fixes
  - Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation and extra CSS added to KEPUB
    files being ignored by the renderer on the Kobo
  - macOS: Fix opening book folder or PDF files for books with
    square brackets in the title not working
  - Quickview: Fix a long standing bug with syncing of columns
    in the presence of hidden/re-ordered columns
  - E-book viewer: Show an error message when an invalid nearby
    search expression is used
  - KEPUB Output: Fix incorrect encoding detection for some HTML
    files without an encoding declaration
  - macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused
    failures in the E-book viewer when updating annotations for
    books with a large number of annotations
* Fri Mar 28 2025 ecsos <ecsos@opensuse.org>
- Update to 8.1.1
  - Version 8.1.1 fixes a regression causing an error that does not
    affect functionality on startup on macOS