Calibre 0.6.39 and 0.6.40 released

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By Paul Biba

Here’s the latest changelog:

New Features

* Ability to perform exact match and regular expression based searches.
* Autodetect if a zip/rar file is actually a comic and if so, import it as CBZ/CBR
* Add plugin to automatically extract an ebook during import if it is in a zip/rar archive
* Linux source install: Install a calibre environment module to ease the integration of calibre into other python projects
* Add ability to control how author sort strings are automatically generated from author strings, via the config file tweaks.py
* Handle broken EPUB files from Project Gutenberg that have invalid OCF containers

Bug fixes

* Fix regression in 0.6.39 that broke the LRF viewer
* ZIP/EPUB files: Try to detect file name encoding instead of assuming the name is encoded in UTF-8. Also correctly encode the extracted file name in the local filesystem encoding.
* HTML Input: Handle HTML fragments more gracefully
* Zip files: Workaround invalid zip files that contain end-of-file comments but set comment size to zero
* Restore the recipe for the Wired daily feed.
* MOBI metadata: Preserve original EXTH records when not overwrriten by calibre metadata.
* Catalog generation: Improved series sorting. All books not in a series are now grouped together
* Fix occasional threading related crash when using the ChooseFormatDialog
* Catalog generation: Various fixes for handling invalid data
* Fix regression in 0.6.38 that broke setting bookmarks in the viewer
* HTML Input: Ignore filenames that are encoded incorrectly.

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