| Version | Change log |
| Calibre Portable 8.7.0 Jul 18, 2025 |
New features: Kindle driver: Add support for generating page number files (APNX) on 2024 and newer MTP based Kindles When finding similar books by author ignore "et al." suffix on author names Bug fixes: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke configuring Sending of books to device Kobo driver: Fix a regression that caused ancient, pre-Touch kobo devices to no longer work with calibre MTP driver: Workaround for LibMTP no longer returning device serial numbers on some systems Edit book: Fix the next/previous buttons in the Text search tool not working Fix series and publisher mapping rules not handling commas correctly when downloading metadata one book at a time Edit metadata dialog: When there are only a few cusotm comments like fields stretch them vertically to take up unused psace Improved news sources: New York Magazine World Archaeology Minerva Magazine Military History Ancient Egypt |
| Calibre Portable 8.6.0 Jul 11, 2025 |
New features: The scrollbars used in calibre in light mode are now the same style as the ones in dark mode, this improves the contrast making the scrollbar more accessible Kobo driver: add an option to change the how the Kobo displays series numbers using a template. Manage data files dialog: Add a button to cancel remaining books when managing multiple books Kobo driver: add support for new Tolino firmware Bug fixes: Prevent Windows 11 from starting a conhost.exe process for every calibre worker process E-book viewer: Improve highlight grouping with recurring chapter names When sending emails to amazon and pocketbook use random English text instead of UUIDs for subject/body. Improved news sources: NYTimes WSJ Financial Times Eenadu Fokus.se Business standard Go comics NZ Herald TLS Magazine |
| Calibre Portable 8.5.0 Jun 20, 2025 |
New features: The scrollbars used in calibre in light mode are now the same style as the ones in dark mode, this improves the contrast making the scrollbar more accessible Kobo driver: add an option to change the how the Kobo displays series numbers using a template. Manage data files dialog: Add a button to cancel remaining books when managing multiple books Kobo driver: add support for new Tolino firmware Bug fixes: Prevent Windows 11 from starting a conhost.exe process for every calibre worker process E-book viewer: Improve highlight grouping with recurring chapter names When sending emails to amazon and pocketbook use random English text instead of UUIDs for subject/body. Improved news sources: NYTimes WSJ Financial Times Eenadu Fokus.se Business standard Go comics NZ Herald TLS Magazine |
| Calibre Portable 8.4.0 May 9, 2025 |
New features; KEPUB Output: Add an option to generate KEPUB files that have better text justification at the cost of gaps in highlighting when used on the Kobo E-book viewer: Allow the background image specified in the Style section of the viewer preferences to extend under the page margins as well Bug fixes: E-book viewer: Fix a regression that broke the "show book in main calibre program" link News download: Fix Next/Previous links not working when the pointed to article failed to download E-book viewer: Handle links to missing internal files with an error popup rather than becoming non-functional E-book viewer: Fix some links not being processed correctly for very large EPUB files with many internal HTML files Get books: Update ebooks.com plugin for website changes Metadata review dialog: Fix merging of tags not working correctly Wayland: Workaround Qt/Wayland bug that prevents the menu of the Layout button from showing Prevent recursion when creating base temporary folder if something on system deletes the created temporary folder New news sources: Frieze Magazine by Kabonix Improved news sources: NYTimes Book Review Washington Post tagesschau Hindu Economist Economist Espresso |
| Calibre Portable 8.2.1 Apr 4, 2025 |
New features: Kobo driver: Add support for new Tolino firmware Kindle driver: Allow using a value of * in Preferences->Output options->MOBI Output to have the driver mark all books sent to the device as personal documents Bug fixes Kobo driver: Fix hyphenation and extra CSS added to KEPUB files being ignored by the renderer on the Kobo Quickview: Fix a long standing bug with syncing of columns in the presence of hidden/re-ordered columns E-book viewer: Show an error message when an invalid nearby search expression is used KEPUB Output: Fix incorrect encoding detection for some HTML files without an encoding declaration Version 8.2.1 fixes an error when clicking on format links in the book details panel Improved news sources: The Economist Reuters Private eye |
| Calibre Portable 7.25.0 Feb 7, 2025 |
New features: Allow setting custom icons for items in the Tab browser by right clicking on them and choosing "Manage icon for this value" Kindle driver: Allow import of KFX files from 2024 Kindles that use the MTP protocol A new tweak in Preferences->Tweaks to control the East Asian language used when transliterating to English Add an option to adjust the size of the link and note icons in Book details under Preferences->Look & feel->Book details Bug fixes: Nook driver: Fix the Glowlight 4 not working on Windows MTP driver: Fix Internal storage and SD card being swapped on some devices that have buggy firmware that assigns the SD card a lower id than the internal storage Template dialog: Respect the tweak for title/series when editing save to disk and send to device templates Content server: Fix icons for individual formats not being shown in the Tag browser New news sources: Alternatives Economiques by Kabonix Zerodeux by Kabonix Afrique XXI by Kabonix Orient XXI by Kabonix Contretemps by Kabonix Faz.net by Anonymous Moview Web and Football League World by SpicyPoison Improved news sources: spektrum.de Economist Arret sur images Le Canard Enchaine Foreign Affairs |
| Calibre Portable 7.23.0 Dec 20, 2024 |
Content server: Allow managing the data files associated with a book by clicking the three dots in the top right corner of the book's page and choosing "Manage data files" Edit metadata dialog: Allow right clicking on the cover to view it in a popup window at larger size Add an option to expand the Tag browser tree to show the item that was current when the library was closed Add import and export stored template to Preferences / template functions Various Quality-of-Life improvements to the dialog used to edit columns with fixed sets of values Resolve doi.org links when pasting identifiers Bug fixes: Viewer: Fix some HTMLZ files not opening on some systems Amazon metadata plugin: Update for changed markup for some books on amazon search results page New news sources: Le Canard Enchaine by Kabonix Improved news sources: Economist Irish Times Popular Science ACM Queue |
| Calibre Portable 7.22.0 Nov 29, 2024 |
New features: E-book viewer: Read Aloud: Add an option to control the position of the popup control bar. It can now be placed along the top or bottom edges so as to overlap less with text. System tray menu: Add action to restart calibre Tolino driver: Support new firmware Bug fixes: Windows: Enable popup OS notifications even when system tray icon is disabled to match behavior on other platforms. Notifications can be disabled via Preferences->Look & feel->Disable notifications on job completion Fix a regression that caused incorrect English transliteration of Japanese text even when the UI language is set to Japanese macOS: Dark mode: Fix a regression that caused the scrollbar to no longer be transient DOCX Input: When some text has multiple footnotes insert a space between the consecutive foot note numbers so that they are distinct DOCX Input: Fix ToC nesting not working if the styles for the ToC levels dont use integer margins E-book viewer: Fix spurious chapter transition after configuring Read aloud PDF Input: Fix reflow of lines in files with little text not working New news sources: Economist News by unkn0wn Improved news sources: Economist Indian Express Economist World Ahead Frontline Infobae |
| Calibre Portable 7.21.0 Nov 8, 2024 |
New features: Edit book: A new tool to create an audio overlay in EPUB files for all text using the Read aloud facility This allows readers of the book to listen to it with sentence tracking, even if they do not have a functioning text-to-speech system in the reading software. You can even assign different voices to different parts of the text for a more immersive experience. The tool is available from the Tools menu in the book editor. Dark mode: make scrollbar more visible with higher contrast and rounded corners E-book viewer: In flow mode when scrolling across internal file boundaries using the mouse wheel/touchpad have a short half second pause to ease the transition. Can be controlled via the Scrolling section of the Viewer preferences. ebook-meta.exe: Add an option to disallow rendered cover of first page for EPUB Book details: Add an action to download the cover to the context menu when right clicking the cover Read aloud: Add a restore defaults button to the configuration dialog Auto adding: Allow excluding arbitrary file types not just known book file types Edit metadata dialog: Add an action to open the book's folder to the context menu of the formats list Bug fixes: Read aloud: Fix only first 32000 characters per chapter being read Content server: Read aloud: Fix clicking on a word to skip reading aloud to that word causing word highlighting to stop working Linux: Handle speech dispatcher with dummy output module and no voices more gracefully When renaming authors fix empty author folder not being removed if it contained file explorer metadata but was otherwise empty Edit metadata dialog: Fix keyboard shortcuts to edit prev/next raising an error when trying to go beyond the first/last book Linux: ToC Editor: Fix a regression in 7.17 that broke using the Create new entry button Content server: Fix changing the language of a book not working for non-English user interface language and for books that have no existing language Linux: Read aloud with Piper: F |
| Calibre Portable 7.20.0 Oct 18, 2024 |
New features: PDF Input: Automatic header/footer detection and removal A new, dedicated PDF Input engine for calibre that implements automatic detection of headers and footers based on document analysis. The new engine is the default to go back to using the old engine, select it in the PDF Input section of the Conversion dialog. Read Aloud: Allow configuring an extra pause at the end of every sentence when using the Piper TTS engine PDF Output: Add _WIDTH_PIXELS_ and _HEIGHT_PIXELS_ variables to know the width and height of the header/footer area in templates Windows: Use calibre's bundled SSL certificates instead of the system certificate store by default Can be turned off via CALIBRE_USE_SYSTEM_CERTIFICATES=1 env var Trim image tool: Add a control to adjust aspect ratio Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware used by the Tolino Shine 5 Bug fixes: Fix a regression in previous release that broke copying of book to another library if the books author does not exist in the destination database Read aloud: Piper backend: Fix not working with voices whose names have non-ASCII characters on Windows. Content server: Fix book with non-ASCII filenames not downloading in the Kindle browser when using the /mobile view Content server: Fix embedding the server HTML inside a third party iframe causing an error New news sources: NYT Magazine by unkn0wn RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland by epubli Improved news sources: The Wire Nikkei Asia Magazine Swarajya Mainichi Nautilus National Geographic Science Journal Times Literary Supplement Saechsische Zeitung India Today Scientific American |
