Calibre for Mac

What's new in this version:

Calibre 7.19.0
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

Fixed:
- 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 7.18.0
New features:
- E-book viewer: Read aloud: A new Text-to-Speech engine (Piper) that uses a neural network for realistic sounding voices
- To use it access the viewer controls and click the Read aloud button or press 'Ctrl+S'. The neural network is run locally, no cloud services are used. Using the OS Text-to-Speech engine is still possible by clicking the configure button on the Read aloud control bar. Note that the new engine highlights the currently read sentence rather than word.
- New experimental engine to convert PDF files with support for automatic header/footer removal
- Turn it on via the PDF input section of the conversion dialog
- Content server: Viewer: Read Aloud: Implement word-by-word tracking when reading aloud if the browser and voice used support it, for example, Chromium on Windows, Firefox on Android and Safari on macOS
- Image popup: Add a context menu with an option to reset the current zoom
- Edit metadata dialog: Show the number of data files on the data files button

Fixed:
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke using Tab key to move around the book list while editing cells
- E-book viewer: Fix scrollbar position not updating during continuous scroll
- E-book viewer: Fix a harmless error when the book contains page list references whose targets do not exist
- Linux binary build: Fix missing libdeflate dependency

New news sources:
- Muy Interesante México by unkn0wn
- Salzburger Nachrichten by İlker Melik Sıtkı
- Computer Weekly by İlker Melik Sıtkı

Improved news sources:
- Revista Muy Interesante
- Ars Technica
- South China Morning Post
- Times Literary Supplement
- Hackernews
- Star Gazetesi
- Hurriyet
- Gorafi
- Times Online


Calibre 7.17.0
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

Fixed:
- 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 Russian and Ukranian news sources
- Nautilus Magazine
- Süddeutsche Zeitung
- The India Forum
- WSJ
- National Geographic
- Washington Post
- Mediapart
- Bloomberg
- Nautilus


Calibre 7.16.0
New features:
- Add a driver for the new 2024 Tolino devices. They use a modified version of the Kobo firmware, so they are detected as Kobo devices.
- Various news recipes now have the ability to download past issues, accessible via the Advanced tab in the Schedule news dialog

Fixed:
- ONLY if you use the calibre Content server, you should update calibre as soon as possible
- If you do not know what the Content server is, you do not use it, and these do not apply to you. If you have set a password to access the Content server that you have not shared with anyone, these do not affect you. A remote code execution bug in the Content server introduced in calibre version 6.9.0 (released on 2022-11-25) means that anyone with access to the server also has access to the rest of the computer the server is running on. If you are using a password to protect access to the server only people that know the password can gain access via the bug. Thanks to STAR Labs (https://starlabs.sg) for finding these vulnerabilities.
- Content server: Fix path traversal vulnerability
- A bug in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.16.0 (released 2023-04-20) means anyone with access to the server can also read non calibre related files on the computer running the server.
- Content server: Fix SQL injection vulnerability
- A bug in a feature introduced in calibre version 6.10.0 (released 2022-12-16) means anyone with access to the server can also read non-calibre SQLITE database files on the computer running the server.
- Content server: Fix an XSS vulnerability in one endpoint
- Only relevant if you embed the calibre server within a larger server, it means attackers who can convince users to click on a specially crafted link, can run JavaScript code with the same origin as the larger server calibre is embedded in.
- Content server: Fix an error when opening the downloaded books page directly via a link and using a custom book list template
- macOS: Fix opening multiple books from Finder with the editor only opening one of the books
- Fix the legacy LRF format viewer not starting
- Fix mouse wheel not transitioning from undefined date to current date in date entry controls

Improved news sources:
- Harvard Business Review
- Live Mint
- Business Standard
- Pagina12
- Bloomberg


Calibre 7.15.0
New features:
- Fetch news: Allow individual news sources to specify source specific options such as downloading of past editions

Fixed:
- 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 7.14.0
New features:
- Book details: When dropping files add an option to add them to the book as data files
- Edit book: A new action to toggle line wrapping mode in all code editors. Can be assigned via Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts->Global actions or added to the toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars->Book wide actions
- Kobo driver: Add an option to force the SeriesID for all books in a series to have the same value

Fixed:
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke merging of books when the confirmation for the merge was disabled
- E-book viewer: Allow some header and footer items such as progress to overflow instead of being truncated
- HTMLZ output: Make renaming of image files happen in filename order
- MTP driver: Fix infinite loop when connecting to some devices with more 65K objects in their filesystem
- Fix shortcut editing widget when Qt is using a theme that inserts accelerators into push button labels automatically

New news sources:
- Ancient Egypt Magazine, Minerva Magazine, Military History Magazine and World Archaeology Magazine by unkn0wn

Improved news sources:
- Instapaper
- MIT Tech Review
- Guardian
- Liberation
- The Times and Sunday Times
- Bloomberg Businessweek
- Times Literary Supplement


Calibre 7.13.0
New features:
- When merging books add an option to store discarded or replaced covers as an alternate cover in the data folder of the target book
- Generate CSV catalog: Add a button to sort the fields by the order in which they appear in the book list

Fixed:
- MTP driver: Preserve cover aspect ratio for thumbnail generation
- Fix identifiers not always being merged correctly when merging books
- DOCX Input: Fix extra left padding when converting lists
- Amazon metadata download: Get title and comments for audiobook pages
- Amazon metadata: When filtering search engine results by title ignore words of the title that are purely punctuation
- When matching books on a device to book in the library assume a match if the title and any one author match, dont require all authors to match
- Update Google Images cover download plugin for website changes
- When adding new books if the timestamp is specified as undefined use the current timestamp
- Content server: Fix systemd pre-activated socket not working
- Content server: Fix no KFX download link in OPDS acquisition feeds

New news sources:
- Times Literary Supplement
- Wall Street Journal Magazine
- Various Valnet Publishing Group recipes
- VOX, The Good E-reder and The e-book Reader
- Gates Notes, Greatist, Halthline and United Nations

Improved news sources:
- Harpers
- Wall Street Journal
- Liberation
- How to Geek
- Make Use Of
- TechCrunch
- LifeHacker
- India Today
- 1843
- Reuters
- The Week India
- Slate


Calibre 7.12.0
New features:
- E-book polishing: Add option to download external resources (images/stylesheets/etc.)
- Conversion: Add an option under Structure detection to automatically fill in blank alt attributes for images that have alt text in the image file metadata
- Content server: Use the book title as the filename for downloaded highlights
- Review downloaded metadata dialog: Add a "Previous" button to go back to the last reviewed book

Fixed:
- Content server viewer: Fix the bottom of the text being cut off on mobile browsers when not in full screen mode. Unfortunately, this means the viewer now requires a browser no more than two years old.
- Kindle driver: Increase the size of the cover thumbnails sent to the Scribe
- Kindle output: Fix cover images that contain EXIF data without a rotation not displaying on the Kindle lockscreen
- E-book viewer: Fix ruby tags not excluded when searching for text
- Content server viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke searching

Improved news sources:
- Economist Espresso
- Slate


Calibre 7.11.0
New features:
- Kindle driver: Add support for sending cover thumbnails to the Kindle Scribe
- A new options under Preferences->Look & feel to draw covers with rounded corners
- Bulk metadata edit: Add a new tab where you can create rules to transform tags/authors/publishers for the selected books
- Tag browser context menu for Formats now has Open with menu items
- E-book viewer: When hovering over the top/bottom margin show a button indicating that a click will open the viewer controls. Can be configured via The Headers and footers section of the viewer Preferences.
- Spell check dialog: Also show count of currently displayed words

Fixed:
- E-book viewer: Fix searching not ignoring ruby text
- Edit book: Save the state of the current book when opening a new book via File->Open book
- Edit book: Fix importing a list of words into a user dictionary not working
- EPUB3 metadata: Do not fail to read metadata in the presence on invalid calibre user metadata in the OPF file with empty keys
- Get books: Fix rules to map tags on adding books not being applied to books downloaded via Get books
- Spellcheck dialog: Move the checkbox to hide correctly spelled words with the rest of the checkboxes that filter the word list

New news sources:
- Collider, Comic Book Archive, Make Use Of, MoviewWeb and ScreenRant by Spicy Poison
- Lex Fridman Podcast by unkn0wn

Improved news sources:
- Slate
- Wall Street Journal
- London Review of Books
- Economist
- Bloomberg
- Business Week
- The World Ahead
- National Geographic


Calibre 7.10.0
New features:
- Export of calibre data: Ensure individual part files in the exported data are no larger than one gigabyte even if the library contains individual files larger than that size
- Note that this means that exports created by calibre from this version on will not be importable by earlier versions. However, exports from earlier versions should still be importable.
- Edit book: Spell check: Add options to exclude words in ALL CAPS or with numbers or in camelCase/snake_case from the list of words
- Allow easily inverting the current search via the right click menu on the search box

Fixed:
- Kobo driver: Fix database unsupported error with newest firmware
- DOCX Input: Fix text elements containing only whitespace being incorrectly ignored
- Bulk metadata dialog: Do not fail when setting covers from ebook files and some of the files have invalid covers

Improved news sources:
- Economist
- The Week
- Caravan Magazine
- Financial Times


Calibre 7.9.0
New features:
- Kobo driver: Add support for the new color Kobo devices
- Edit book: Add a setting to control cursor width under Preferences->Editor settings
- Edit book: Regex-function mode: Show a confirmation popup when closing the function editor when there are unsaved changes

Fixed:
- Fix undocked Quickview dialog not being restored at startup
- Windows: Fix an issue where closing a maximized calibre window to the system tray and then reconnecting with remote desktop would cause a blank calibre window to be displayed

Improved news sources:
- El Correo
- Eenadu
- ORFonline
- NatGeo
- Harpers Magazine
- New Yorker
- Business Today
- The Week
- Asahi Shimbun
- Outlook Magazine


Calibre 7.8.0
New features:
- E-book viewer: Highlight panel: Allow filtering the shown highlights by type of highlight
- Conversion: Add support for the CSS text-transform property when subsetting embedded fonts
- E-book viewer: Allow displaying the view mode paged/flow in the header/footer
- Book details popup window: Allow dropping of files to add formats/set the cover just as for the book details panel
- Book details: Context menu: Add a menu action to remove the associated link
- DOCX Input: Add role=doc-noteref for links to footnotes/endnotes so that they popup in more e-book readers
- Add a "Mark all selected books" to the Mark action.
- Add "Hide Empty Categories" to tag browser configuration menu
- Supernote: Support for new device firmware
- Sort by tool: Add an action to re-apply the current sort

Fixed:
- Grid view cover cache: Fix covers not loading when cache entries are stale
- Conversion: Do not change viewport relative font sizes used for SVG text elements
- Conversion: Fix