New Calibre Released:: 0.7.33

New Calibre Released: "Release: 0.7.33 [10 Dec, 2010]"

Release: 0.7.33 [10 Dec, 2010]

New Features

• Language sensitive sorting
• Add an action to merge only formats and leave metadata alone (Shift+Alt+M)
  
• Add a tweak to control which custom columns are displayed in the Book details panel.
  
• Implement a more sophisticated 'functional programming' template language. See the User Manual for details.
  
• Speed up deleting of large numbers of books and show progress while doing so
  
• Adding books: Dont refresh the Tag Browser while adding multiple books. Should speed up the adding of large numbers of books.
  
• Edit metadata dialog: When trying to download metadata, if there are multiple matches indicate which matches have a cover and summary in the list. Also add an option to automatically download the cover of the selected match.
  
• Drivers for the HTC Legend and Samsung Epic
  
• FB2 Output: Convert SVG images in the input document to raster images
  
• News download: Localize the navigation bars in the downloaded news to the language the user has selected for their calibre interface

Bug Fixes

• Various fixes to the Title Case function
  
• Content server: Fix --url-prefix being ignored for links at the Top level
  
• News download: When generating periodicals for the SONY use the local timezone in the SONY specific metadata
  
• Fix bug in cover cache that could cause it to keep a large number of covers in memory. Showed up when adding large numbers of books to calibre.
  
• Adding books: Run in the main thread to prevent unfortunate interactions with the metadata backup. Also fix regression that broke the Abort button.
  
• Fix a crash on OS X if OK is clicked inthe edit metadata button while downloading a cover
  
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression that prevented booksmarks from working with some EPUB files
  
• Save to disk: Refactor to not open a database connection in the worker process. Also fix a bug that could lead to save failures not being reported.
  
• Fix regression in 0.7.32 that broke opening formats in the ebook viewer from the edit metadata dialog
  
• FB2 Output: Generate output 100% compliant with the FB2 spec
  
• Fix Saved search dropdown box looses selected search
  
• TXT Output: Fix an issue where the br to space conversion was not being handled properly.
  

New news sources

• ToyoKeizai News and Nikkei Social News by Hiroshi Miura
• St. Louis Post Dispatch by cisaak
• Heise Open and Technology Review by Anton Gillert

Improved news sources

• Le Monde
• Ming Pao
• New Yorker