from petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 11 Jul 06:44
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/40428971
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- Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within the last decade plus support AZW3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
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Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused terminal windows to popup momentarily when adding PDF files or converting them Closes tickets: 2115246
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E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image Closes tickets: 2115057
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Tag browser: Fix clicking on categories to search for books by first letter of series not working correctly for non-English language books Closes tickets: 2116006
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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 Closes tickets: 2115111
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Windows: Generate catalog: Workaround for systems where a broken antivirus or similar holds open files in the catalog library causing a permission denied error Closes tickets: 2115084
New news sources
- La Presse by quatorze
Improved news sources
- Economist
- 1843
- Financial Times
- PC World
- Muy Interesante Mexico
- Hindu Business Line
- Business Standard
- Hindustan Times
- The Week
- Times of India
- Hindustan
- Financial Times
- Reason
threaded - newest
Calibre is one of the great pieces of FOSS software, and demonstrates everything good about FOSS: it has regular updates; it’s been around for simply ages; it works really, really well; it gets updates and new features and yet has never in my memory had a breaking, non-backwards-compatible release… it’s stable; and it resists - in its way - the attempt by publishers to steal our rights and ownerships of our media.
I contribute to Calibre. I hope that Goyal has a successor lined up to take the helm who can continue such an outstanding contribution when he finally retires from the project.