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Calibre 8.6 released (calibre-ebook.com)
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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  • Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within the last decade plus support AZW3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 Closes tickets: 2115246

  • E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image Closes tickets: 2115057

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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[–] sxan@midwest.social 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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~~ donate 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.

Edit: clarification

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

I agree. I've been using it for years, since I moved away from Kindle. I only wish it would support socks5 proxy so I could use Tor for metadata downloads from Google or Amazon.