Calibre Web v0.6.9 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-09-27 // over 2 years ago-
New features:
- 🔄 Changed color of rating stars
- Reenabled m4a, m4b audio playback
- ➕ Added route to robots.txt
- 🔄 Changed behavior delete books with subfolders (additional warning message, but book is deleted)
- Program info only visible in about section if user is admin
- Custom ratings of increment 0.5 are allowed
- 👌 Support multiple authors on kobo sync (not working for every Kobo Reader)
- Floating point numbers showing 2 decimals on details page
- 🚀 Change settings database gdrive watch to JSON (minimum sqlite version is the 2015 released V3.9)
- 👌 Improved author names detection during for upload
- Parse Amazon_* identifiers
- ➕ Added hint for missing ghostcript on cover extraction
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- White background on transparent covers instead of black one during upload
- 🛠 Fix for errors editing/uploading books with duplicate tags/authors/language names
- 🛠 Fix for xx is not a valid language" on upload
- 🛠 Fix get metadata, typo, if no result from google
- 🛠 Fix for immediate logout with login?next="/logout"
- Stay logged in with enabled remember token, use remember token
- Guests can access public shelfs
- Hide listen button if user has no read/listen permissions
- Author name is shown again in change book order page for shelfs
- Shelf download menu is working for books with more than one format
- Text in Kobo Auth Screen is consistent now
- Reading progress for Kobo is stored correct
- 🛠 Fix Kobo links for reverse proxies with subdomains
- 🛠 Fix Kobo sync if one of the timestamps is outside year 1970 to 2038
- ➕ Add fix for read only GDdrive file
- First request to GDrive fails no longer
- ⚡️ Update error handling on callback and wording for GDrive
- Password generation for registering on python2 working again
- 🌐 Calibre-web starting with installed and not activated gdrive denpendencies without internet connection again
- Catch some errors related to non writable settings db
- Handle improper migrated database with config_mature_content_tags NULL instead of ""
- 🛠 Fixes for windows (moving files not allowed -> close pdf after metadata extracting)
- 🌐 Reconnect is working again via web-route access
- 🛠 Fix for error unrar binary not found
- 🛠 Fix filenames (Escape "") for autodetect calibre excecutable on Windows
- Invalid LDAP Cert Path no longer crashes app
Previous changes from v0.6.8
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New features:
- Cover view in lists selection
- ⚡️ Updated comic api (using now also unrar instead of unrarlib) -> needs manual update via pip
- 📇 Updated comic api now also extracts metadata from cbt files
- .png and webp pictures are extracted as cover pictures from comic books
- Config option for limiting email size
- Config option for changing upload formats
- ➕ Added Epub to Kepub conversion using kepubify
- Automatic .kepub.epub ending if downloading books using kobo reader
- 🚚 Fimally removed KindleGen
- Autodetect calibre converter, unrar binary and kepubify on first startup
- ➕ Add "asin" to recognized identifiers
- ➕ Added config option for automatic username during registration
- 🔄 Changed supported audio files
- 👌 Improved error handling for cover upload from url
- 📇 Metadata.db is now automatically removed of database location string
- 🔗 linked readstatus to calibre custom column is now excluded automatically from view
- Prevent empty series_index field
- Deactived Archived books in sidebar, deactivate all archived books functions
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Upload books with python2 is possible again
- 🌐 Spanish translation no longer crashs the app in config settings
- 🛠 Fixed covers for archived books not shown
- 🛠 Fixes for readonly metadata.db
- 👌 Improved debug output on send emails
- 🛠 Fix for private shelfs are listed twice in "add to shelf" dropdown menu in search results
- 🛠 Fix for importing ldap users with whitespaces in the name
- 🛠 Fix for tags with "&" in the name can't be removed from visibility restrictions
- 🛠 Fix for kobo sync errors out if read/unread books had been present in app.db during initial database migration
- 🛠 Fix error 500 on reset password in debug mode
- 🛠 Fix for Kobo sync not working if series is given, but no series_index
- 🛠 Fix for saving settings with enabled gdrive metadata watch led to crash
- ➕ Added missing float custom column to search form
- 👍 Better detection of localhost for kobo sync
- 🛠 Fix XML parsing error when using OPDS feeds
- 🛠 Fix for >1000 read books lead to error 500 in read menu
- 🌲 Fix for failed recovery of config_logfile and config access_log, in case folder of logfiles is not present anymore