Release: 1.46 [25 Jul, 2014]
New Features
Edit Book: Add support for third party plugins to extend the editors functionality.
The editor now supports plugins that can be used to extend its functionality. Documentation of the plugin API and an example plugin are at:
https://href.li/?http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/creating_plugins.html#edit-book-pluginscalibredb list: Add a --for-machine option that causes the output to be made in a form more easily parsed programmatically (it uses ASCII field and record separators)
Book details panel: Automatically convert ISSN identifiers into links to the periodicals page on worldcat.org
Edit Book: When re-arranging the toolbars inside an individual file editor, save the new toolbar layout so that it is re-used in the future. Also apply the changed layout to all open editors of the same type.
Closes tickets: 1346913
Edit Book: Make the undo/redo/cut/copy/paste buttons on the editor toolbar also configurable, so they can be removed via Preferences->Toolbars, if needed.
Closes tickets: 1346913
Edit Book: Allow editing xpgt (Adobe Page Template) files as XML.
Closes tickets: 1346543
Edit Book: Allow the action to launch the saved searches dialog to be added to the global toolbars
Book details panel: Add an option to make clicking on the author name search the calibre library for the author instead of opening the wikipedia page for the author. To use it got to Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details.
Closes tickets: 1344799
Bug Fixes
Fix published date not being merged when merging book records
Embed metadata tool: Fix error when trying to embed metadata in corrupted MOBI files or files of other types that are marked as MOBI in the library
Closes tickets: 1348054
Edit Book: Make the warning dialog that pops up when you try to quit while the editor is saving changes in the background a little more clear.
Closes tickets: 1347171
When generating covers, do not render soft-hyphens in the text as hyphens.
Closes tickets: 1344259
Conversion: Fix a bug processing the CSS font shorthand property when the line-height is specified in em or percentage units
Closes tickets: 1348173
calibre-customize: When building plugins from a directory, exclude known version control subdirectories
Improved news sources
Grandes corresponsales
Times of India
Economic Times of India