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[Hendrik Knackstedt <1296567@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Upstream changelog:

"Release: 1.29 [21 Mar, 2014]
New Features

    Edit Book: Add support for saved searches. Click Search->Saved Searches to bring up a dialog where you can create and manage saved searches
    Edit Book: New tool to specify semantics in EPUB books (semantics are items in the guide such as preface, title-page, dedication, etc.). To use it, go to Tools->Set Semantics

    Closes tickets: 1287025
    Edit Book: Preview panel: Add a copy selected text action to the context menu
    Edit Book: When inserting hyperlinks, allow specifying the text for the hyperlink in the insert hyperlink dialog

Bug Fixes

    Fix a regression in the previous release that broke downloading
metadata for authors with a double initial such as R. A. Salvatore.

    Closes tickets: 1294529
    Edit book: When generating inline Table of Contents, mark it as such in the guide section of the OPF.

    Closes tickets: 1287018
    E-book viewer: Fix right margin for last page in a chapter sometimes disappearing when changing font size.

    Closes tickets: 1292822
    Edit Book: Fix saving of empty files not working
    Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke saving a copy of the current book on linux and OS X
    Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting in HTML files breaks if the closing of a comment or processing instruction is at the start of a new line.
    Edit book: Fix check book failing in the presence of empty <style/> tags.

    Closes tickets: 1292841
    Catalogs: Fix handling of tristate boolean custom columns when creating EPUB/MOBI catalogs.

    Closes tickets: 1294983
    Linux build: Workaround for systems that have broken libc implementations that change the behavior of truncate() on file descriptors with O_APPEND set.

    Closes tickets: 1295366

New news sources

    Applefobia by koliberek

Improved news sources

    TIME
    Wired Daily Edition

Release: 1.28 [14 Mar, 2014]
New Features

    Edit Book: Add a tool to easily insert hyperlinks (click the insert hyperlink button on the toolbar)
    Edit book: Add a tool to easily open a file inside the book for editing by just typing a few characters from the file name. To use it press Ctrl+T in the editor or go to Edit->Quick open a file to edit'
    Edit book: Allow disabling the completion popups for the search and replace fields. Right click on the search/replace field to enable/disable the completion popup
    E-book viewer: Add an option to control the maximum text height in full screen. Note that it only works if the viewer is in paged mode (which is the default mode).
    Show the search expression for the virtual library in a tooltip when hovering over the tab for the virtual library.

    Closes tickets: 1291691
    Book details panel: Show author URL in a tooltip when hovering over author names
    Kobo driver: Update to handle updated Kobo firmware

Bug Fixes

    Library backup: Avoid infinite retries if converting metadata to
backup OPF for a book fails. Simply fail to backup the metadata for that
book.

    Closes tickets: 1291142
    Edit book: Fix file permissions for the edited book being changed on Linux and OS X
    Fix text entry cursor becoming invisible when completion popup is opened
    Possible fix for crash on OS X Mavericks when adding duplicates
    E-book viewer: Fix pressing the Esc key to leave full screen mode not changing the state of the full screen button
    When reading metadata from filenames, do not apply the fallback regexp to read metadata if the user specified regexp puts the entire filename into the title. The fallback is only used if the user specified expression does not match the filename at all.
    Linux binary install script: Fix error on linux systems where the system python has an encoding of None set on stdout. Assume encoding is utf-8 in this case.
    Content server: Fix (maybe) an error on some windows computers with a non-standard default encoding

Improved news sources

    Fleshbot

Release: 1.27 [07 Mar, 2014]
New Features

    An option to add multiple books from inside a ZIP or RAR file. Right click the Add Books button and choose 'Add multiple books from archive'.
    Database backend: Make the database backend more robust when the calibre library is placed on flaky filesystems. Now when an I/O error occurs while writing to the database, the connection to the database is closed and re-opened and the operation is retried.

    Closes tickets: 1286522
    DJVU Input: Speedup extraction of text from DJVU files by implementing the BZZ decoder algorithm in C

Bug Fixes

    MOBI Input: Fix empty <a> tags not being handled correctly in rare
cases when the markup is bad enough to be parsed only using the fallback
HTML parser.

    Closes tickets: 1288430
    Edit book: Fix column number of cursor shown in the bottom right being one less than it should be.
    Edit book: Fix names for non-BMP unicode character (Such as emoticons) not being displayed in the lower right corner. Also allow these characters to be searched for by name in the Insert special character tool.
    Do not show system tray notification popups while analyzing books on device, as they can be slow on systems that display multiple messages serially instead of replacing the last message
    Linux installer script: Do not use the filesystem to pass the downloaded tarball to tar as it is possible for malicious code running on the users computer to alter the download file between signature verification and calling tar to extract the files.
    DJVU Input: When extracting embedded txt from TXTz sections in DJVU files, fix incorrect extraction of txt when the djvutxt external program is not present.

    Closes tickets: 1286771
    Edit Book: Fix import HTML file as new book not working on OS X
    Wireless device driver: Fix a regression that prevented it form working with the Calibre Sync Android app.
    Fix a regression in 1.26 that caused width and height attributes on <img> tags to generate CSS width and height properties without a 'px' suffix
    Linux binary installer: Fix an error when using proxies and python 3 with the new installer script

    Closes tickets: 1286274
    Edit book: When exporting files, fill the choose filename popup with the name of the file being exported as the default name
    Make the new Linux installer script compatible with python 2.6.

    Closes tickets: 1286011

Improved news sources

    American Thinker
    HNA
    Heise
    Arguments and Facts
    Financial Times

Release: 1.26 [28 Feb, 2014]
New Features

    Edit Book: Allow direct importing of HTML or DOCX files as new books without doing a full conversion. Use File->Import HTML or DOCX to import a file as a new EPUB book with minimal changes from the original.
    Linux binary installer: Various improvements to the binary installer. It now creates an un-installer (calibre-uninstall) that will remove all files created by the installer. It also no longer asks for the installation directory. If you wish to change that, you need to specify it in the installation command itself. Also the installer is now downloaded securely via HTTPS from github and verifies the signature of the installed files. Finally, it can be used to create an isolated install, that only makes changes to files in the installation directory and does not require root privileges.

    Closes tickets: 1283154
    Metadata download: Add an option to merge the downloaded comments into existing comments, instead of overwriting (Preferences->Metadata download).

    Closes tickets: 1285319
    Edit book: Add an option to automatically beautify individual files whenever they are opened for editing. Look under 'Editor Settings' in the Edit Book Preferences.
    Bulk metadata download: When reviewing downloaded metadata allow hiding the controls on the comments box by right clicking in the comments area. Useful on smaller screens.

    Closes tickets: 1283251
    E-book viewer: When displaying metadata for the book, also display custom column metadata

Bug Fixes

    Smarten punctuation: Correct handling for decade abbreviations like
'60s and measurements in feet and inches like 1' 2".

    Closes tickets: 1285351
    EPUB Output: If the output profile is set to one of the Nook profiles, do not use shorthand CSS properties as the Nook cannot handle them.
    Conversion: Fix incorrect CSS being generated when converting files that have <img> tags with width or height attributes that contain fractional numbers.

    Closes tickets: 1283108
    Edit Book: When editing EPUB files, and a file is added in META-INF/ do not automatically add it to the manifest. Also do not warn about unmanifested files inside META-INF/ since a few vendors (Apple) require non standard files in that location.

    Closes tickets: 1283015
    Fix Book details popup window not being updated when editing metadata in the main window
    Edit book: Fix editor not marking the book as modified when doing a Replace All that does not affect any currently open files.
    Windows: Use a separate worker process to move files to the recycle bin. Fixes the problem of the recycle bin icon not being updated when deleting books into an empty recycle bin. Also avoids the overhead of launching a new, short-lived worker process for every delete.
    calibredb: When deleting books/formats wait for deleted files to be moved to recycle bin, before quitting
    RTF Output: Fix invalid RTF being produced when the text contains a double backslash.

    Closes tickets: 1268118
    Edit book: Fix option to disable showing the character before cursor not working
    Get Books: Update various store plugins to account for changes to the store websites
    Fix virtual library names with ampersands in them not being displayed correctly in the virtual library menu and tab bar

New news sources

    Various Russian news sources by bug_me_not

Improved news sources

    AnandTech
    Zeit Online
    Spektrum
    Le Temps"

I don't think it should be a big deal to update the package since it
doesn't break anything else and will provide the user with the up-to-
date software. It's kind of wired to have a new operating system being
shipped with outdated software.

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