New Features
- Conversion: Detect and remove fake page margins that are specified as a margin on (nearly) every paragraph.
- Windows build: All the python code and recipes are now put into zip files. This should decrease the amount of time the windows installer spends ‘calculating free space’
- OSX and Linux: Add a setting in Preferences->Behavior to control the priority with which calibre worker processes run. This setting was already available on windows.
- Driver for HTC Thunderbolt, T-Mobile Optimus, Archos 43 and Blackberry OS6
- A new ‘authors type’ custom column
- When building calibre from source note that calibre now absolutely requires python >= 2.7
- Add the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+R to restart calibre in debug mode
Bug Fixes
- Fix dragging and dropping lots of books from the book list to the Tag Browser was broken
- Change the shebang in the calibre launcher script on linux to explicitly use python2 rather than python
- When adding formats do not corrupt the added file if the user tries to add an existing format to itself
- Fix drag and drop to add files that contain the # character in the filename
- Tag editor shouldn’t add empty tags
- MOBI Input: Handle MOBI files that have a too large ‘number of records’ field in their headers.
- News download: Update RSS feedparser module to latest version
- Various fixes to the zipfile module in calibre to handle 64 bit zipfiles and bring it up to date with the zip file module in the python stdlib
- News download: Handle titles with ASCII control codes in them.
- Make search hierarchies show simple names instead of compound ones.
- Fix commas in author names being converted to pipe symbols in the book details window
- Fix PocketBook can’t always find epub cover image to create thumbnail
