Read-in-Progress Wednesday

Mar. 5th, 2026 08:01 am
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This is your weekly read-in-progress post~

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Mar. 1st, 2026 03:43 am
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Whaaat?! It's March already?!

What have you been working on and how are things going? Found any cool resources to share? Or just want to say hi?

calibre 9.4

Feb. 27th, 2026 08:00 am
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New Features


  • E-book viewer: Add "reading stats" to show reading progress

  • Edit book: Nicer UI for changing the entries in the insert tag menu

  • Cover grid: Option to draw emblems on top of cover in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover grid->Emblems

  • Cover grid: Add option to draw text flush with bottom of rendered cover


Bug Fixes


  • DOCX Input: Fix paragraph/list margins in documents created by LibreOffice that do not have Word 2007 compatibility

  • ODT Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of images

  • Content server: When banning IPs for repeated login is enabled, only use the IP address not any HTTP headers as the ban key (CVE-2026-27824)

  • Content server: Sanitize content disposition received as query parameter (CVE-2026-27810)

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

Feb. 26th, 2026 11:34 am
geraineon: (Default)
[personal profile] geraineon posting in [community profile] cnovels
This is your weekly read-in-progress post~

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*

calibre 9.3.1

Feb. 20th, 2026 08:00 am
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New Features


  • Windows installer: Detect running calibre processes and ask user to shutdown calibre before proceeding with installation to avoid reboots post installation

  • Improve Preferences->Tweaks getting rid of the need for double apply

  • KEPUB Output: When converting to KEPUB preserve cover aspect ratio regardless of the setting for it in the EPUB Output to match the behavior of KEPUB files from Kobo


Bug Fixes


  • Make the new pages column value available in save to disk/send to device templates

  • Hanvon N10 device driver: Fix calibre unable to put its metadata files onto the device

  • Amazon metadata download plugin: Fix incorrect series index from amazon.com

  • Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that broke output to PDB/TCR/zTXT files

  • Windows: Fix calibre not exiting on quit when the wireless device driver is used in calibre 9

  • Fix error in page counting when using the calibredb command to add a book

  • Completion: When sorting completion matches in contains mode ensure matches are sorted first by distance from beginning and then sub-sorted alphabetically

  • Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 9 that caused tooltips to not follow the color scheme

  • PDF Input: Fix PDF Outline not being converted to Table of Contents in output document when using the calibre engine

  • ODT Input: Ensure images are extracted within container (CVE-2026-26064)

  • PDB Input: Ensure extracted images are within the container (CVE-2026-26065)

  • Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that caused a spurious large books merge warning when merging books in the cover grid view

  • Windows: Fix harmless error popup if user tries to launch calibre multiple times in quick succession

  • Version 9.3.1 fixes a regression in the previous release that caused a spurious error message to show when merging books and a regression in calibre 9.0 that broke using textures as the Cover grid background when using the system theme on Windows

calibre 9.3

Feb. 20th, 2026 08:00 am
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New Features


  • Windows installer: Detect running calibre processes and ask user to shutdown calibre before proceeding with installation to avoid reboots post installation

  • Improve Preferences->Tweaks getting rid of the need for double apply

  • KEPUB Output: When converting to KEPUB preserve cover aspect ratio regardless of the setting for it in the EPUB Output to match the behavior of KEPUB files from Kobo


Bug Fixes


  • Make the new pages column value available in save to disk/send to device templates

  • Hanvon N10 device driver: Fix calibre unable to put its metadata files onto the device

  • Amazon metadata download plugin: Fix incorrect series index from amazon.com

  • Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that broke output to PDB/TCR/zTXT files

  • Windows: Fix calibre not exiting on quit when the wireless device driver is used in calibre 9

  • Fix error in page counting when using the calibredb command to add a book

  • Completion: When sorting completion matches in contains mode ensure matches are sorted first by distance from beginning and then sub-sorted alphabetically

  • Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 9 that caused tooltips to not follow the color scheme

  • PDF Input: Fix PDF Outline not being converted to Table of Contents in output document when using the calibre engine

  • ODT Input: Ensure images are extracted within container (CVE-2026-26064)

  • PDB Input: Ensure extracted images are within the container (CVE-2026-26065)

  • Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that caused a spurious large books merge warning when merging books in the cover grid view

  • Windows: Fix harmless error popup if user tries to launch calibre multiple times in quick succession