SoftoRooM -> Calibre 2.50.1

Release: 2.50 [29 Jan, 2016]
New Features
• Change the way that devices are detected on Windows. This fixes device detection problems on some Windows 10 computers
• Edit Book: When inserting images, add an option to insert the image as a full page image
• DOCX Input: Add support for framed text created by setting the same border style on neighboring paragraphs.
• Update PocketBook 650 driver for latest firmware revision
Bug Fixes
• DOCX Input: Fix empty paragraphs with borders being rendered with an empty line inside the borders
• ODT Input: Fix fallback PNG images generated by LibreOffice 4.x for SVG images not being ignored
• Fix restore library failing on some windows systems with non-ascii library paths
• Edit Book: Fix error when merging an empty HTML document or one that contains only text and no tags.
• Fix failure to add FB2 files that contain published dates.
• Use a private certificate when downloading plugins via HTTPS. This fixes errors on some windows machines that have missing root certificates.
• Fix tag editor not working correctly for comma-separated custom columns
• Fix existing rating not being removed when using Polish Books or Embed Metadata tools on EPUB files.
Improved news sources
• New Scientist
• FAZ.net
• Scientific American
• Business World Magazine
• Houston Chronicle

Release: 2.49 [15 Jan, 2016]
New Features
• E-book viewer: Add an option to allow only a single book to be viewed at a time. Trying to view a second book will cause it to replace the currently viewed book.
• Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware 3.19.5761
• Linux build: Update bundled version of Qt to 5.5.1
Bug Fixes
• Fix splash screen getting stuck on OSX when restarting calibre in debug mode
• Get Books: Update plugins for various Polish language book stores to handle changes to the website
• Amazon metadata download: Handle a change in the amazon website that prevented review metadata from being downloaded
• Better algorithm for guessing the 'external' network interface that is displayed to the user
• Tag Mapper: Do not allow the user to create rules with invalid regular expressions
• E-book viewer: Disallow hyphenation in documents that use mathematical typesetting as the hyphenation breaks that typesetting
• E-book viewer: Fix some non-ASCII characters not display in embedded MathML.
• Download calibre plugins securely using HTTPS
• MOBI Output: Try to autofix corrupted PNG images in the input document.
• Nook Glowlight Plus: Send files by default to the NOOK/My Files folder.
• E-book viewer: Fix failure to view comic files that contain non-ASCII characters int heir internal filenames.
New news sources
• LaRed21 by Carlos Alves
Improved news sources
• Echo Online
• Various Uruguayan news sources
• Economic and Political Weekly
• Tagesanzeiger

Release: 2.48 [01 Jan, 2016]
New Features
• Driver for Energy Ereader Screenlight.
• DOCX Input: Add option to have superscripts/subscripts converted so that they do not affect the line height of the line containing them.
• New option to hide empty categories in Tag Browser (Preferences->Look & Feel->Tag Browser)
Bug Fixes
• Image compression: Fix spurious zero byte .bak files being created when compressing png images inside epub files
• Image compression: Fix bug that could cause zero byte images files/or file in use errors when compressing images
• Fix some icons not being themeable
• E-book viewer: When using heuristics to detect footnote links check for vertical-align set to top and bottom as well as sub and super
• Book details panel: Display data in right-to-left format when the calibre interface language is set to a right-to-left language such as Hebrew or Arabic
Improved news sources
• Rzeczpospolita
• New York Times Book Review
• der Standard
• More Intelligent Life
• Reader's Digest
• Financial Times
• New Scientist

Release: 2.47 [21 Dec, 2015]
New Features
• A new tool to easily export and import all calibre data -- books, settings and plugins
Right click the calibre icon in the main calibre toolbar and choose "Export/import all calibre data" to run this tool. It is useful if you want to move to a new computer or duplicate your calibre setup on a second computer, with minimal effort. This tool is very new, so if you run into problems, please report bugs. You can always use the old manual method of copying library folders as a fallback.
• Get Books: Add plugins for Amazon Australia and Amazon India. Also restore the Amazon EU plugins.
Bug Fixes
• PDF Input: Fix conversion of PDF documents that contain ASCII control codes in their outlines not working.
• Edit book: Fix image compression utilities opening a new console per invocation on windows
• Image compression: If the compression tools return a zero byte image ignore it and use the original image
• Fix a regression that caused book titles in the Book Details panel to become clickable
Improved news sources
• Fox News
• Le Devoir
• Le Monde diplomatique.fr

Release: 2.46 [11 Dec, 2015]
New Features
• PDF Input: Add support for PDF outlines (bookmarks), if present, they are used as the metadata Table of Contents.
• Book polishing: Add tool to losslessly compress images in the book in order to reduce its filesize, without affecting image quality
• Edit Book: Add a new tool to compress images in the book losslessly, accessed from the Tools menu
• Kobo driver: add support for new Kobo firmware
• Bulk metadata edit dialog: Allow entering fractional numbers into the series number start with control.
• Speed up moving libraries by using hardlinks instead of file copies when moving to a location on the same filesystem
• Get Books: Disable the Amazon EU stores, at Amazon's request
Bug Fixes
• Fix moving libraries via calibre leaving behind a copy of the metadata_db_prefs_backup.json file in the original library folder
• MOBI Input: Warn about corrupted trailing data entries, instead of aborting. Getting some, even partially corrupted text is better than no text.
• Book details: Fix single value custom text column not clickable.
• Saving to disk: Fix custom date column being rendered in GMT instead of the local time zone when used in a save to disk template.
Improved news sources
• New York Review of Books
• Caravan Magazine
• heise

Release: 2.45 [27 Nov, 2015]
New Features
• Cover browser: Allow customizing the text that appears under the covers with a template in Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover browser
• When sending books without a cover to the device, generate a cover with book metadata instead of using the blank book icon
• Preferenes->Add your own columns: Show more information about existing columns
Bug Fixes
• PDF Output: Handle input documents with fonts that do not have either postscript or full name information.
• DOCX Input: Handle numbering styles that use non-decimal number formats and custom templates.
• Allow restoring of corrupted library to work even if the metadata.db file is missing from the library folder
• Bulk metadata dialog: Fix renaming a custom series via search and replace causing the series index to be reset to 1.
• Bulk metadata dialog: Fix search and replace not working for text like custom columns if the column contains only a single value.
• Content server: Fix next and previous links not working in the mobile view when using a search query that includes url unsafe characters.
• Update Amazon metadata download plugin to handle amazon.com website change that was preventing any metadata from being downloaded
• Edit Book: Fix error when trying to add words to user dictionary for a book with a language that has no dictionary available.
• Tag browser: Fix various bugs in how grouped search terms are displayed. Also fix counts and average rating for items in user categories
• When using copy to library also create missing composite columns in the destination library.
Improved news sources
• The Guardian and The Observer