* 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Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within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