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New features:

• Swipe support for reader
• Logging of failed opds accesses
• Automatic conversion to kepub on kobo sync
• Webp format to comic reader supported formats
• Title is no longer shortened on book page

Bug Fixes:

• Chinese character language texts are no longer shown for english locale
• logging on database error
• Filepicker option
• reverse proxy login working again
• Detection of invalid email addresses for registering

This release will be the last one supporting Python 2

New features:

• User Password change on cli
• Added correct mimetype for azw3 files
• Improved errorhandling for user database
• More informations are logged in debug mode
• Debug Information and logbooks are downloadable via web UI
• Gdrive callback is only parsed with activated metadata watch
• LDAP user import now capable to import from Windows-AD
• Kobo sync can handle large libraries
• Filechooser dialog for calibre-database and other external files (use -f option for unconfigured Calibre-Web instances)
• Advanced search has now Multiselects, making the UI easier for libraries with many series, tages, languages, file formats
• Read Status is searchable
• Shelfs can additionally sorted according to name, date, ...
• Read status is visible on Cover pictures
• Admin page layout optimized
• Txt Reader now detects correct encoding
• Kepub is prefered during kobo sync
• Forward Overdrive requests to Kobo Store
• Drag 'n drop for fileuploads
• Convert from and convert to are now matching calibre's capabilities
• Shrinked size of generic cover
• When serving a download URL via KoboSync, use a URL that is specific to Kobo
• Removed Gevent Tracebacks with SSL encryption
• Save view settings
• Delete user is now a separate button
• Paginated search, advanced search, and shelfs
• Downloaded books is no longer part of admin page (admins currently can't check which books are downloaded by other users)
• Added greek translation

Bug Fixes:

• Downloads are now allowed for opds links, with ldap login and a cookie in the download request
• Download rights of guest user are now respected again
• Browser caching problem on cover change solved
• Import rarfile v4.0 fails no longer on python3.5
• No password prompt for anonymous browsing with LDAP login
• Missing audio icon for other audio formats than mp3 added
• Invalid timestamps during kobo sync caused by malformed database no longer crash the application
• Conversion of multiple formats of one book in the queue with gdrive is fixed
• Failed email and conversions with gdrive are now working correctly

Changes behind the scenes:

• Pillow is removed as dependency
• Pydrive2 can be used additionally to Pydrive
• Updated epub.js library
• Updated minimum Sqlalchemy version

New features:

• Changed color of rating stars
• Reenabled m4a, m4b audio playback
• Added route to robots.txt
• Changed behavior delete books with subfolders (additional warning message, but book is deleted)
• Program info only visible in about section if user is admin
• Custom ratings of increment 0.5 are allowed
• Support multiple authors on kobo sync (not working for every Kobo Reader)
• Floating point numbers showing 2 decimals on details page
• Change settings database gdrive watch to JSON (minimum sqlite version is the 2015 released V3.9)
• Improved author names detection during for upload
• Parse Amazon_* identifiers
• Added hint for missing ghostcript on cover extraction

Bug Fixes:

• White background on transparent covers instead of black one during upload
• Fix for errors editing/uploading books with duplicate tags/authors/language names
• Fix for xx is not a valid language" on upload
• Fix get metadata, typo, if no result from google
• Fix for immediate logout with login?next="/logout"
• Stay logged in with enabled remember token, use remember token
• Guests can access public shelfs
• Hide listen button if user has no read/listen permissions
• Author name is shown again in change book order page for shelfs
• Shelf download menu is working for books with more than one format
• Text in Kobo Auth Screen is consistent now
• Reading progress for Kobo is stored correct
• Fix Kobo links for reverse proxies with subdomains
• Fix Kobo sync if one of the timestamps is outside year 1970 to 2038
• Add fix for read only GDdrive file
• First request to GDrive fails no longer
• Update error handling on callback and wording for GDrive
• Password generation for registering on python2 working again
• Calibre-web starting with installed and not activated gdrive denpendencies without internet connection again
• Catch some errors related to non writable settings db
• Handle improper migrated database with config_mature_content_tags NULL instead of ""
• Fixes for windows (moving files not allowed -> close pdf after metadata extracting)
• Reconnect is working again via web-route access
• Fix for error unrar binary not found
• Fix filenames (Escape "") for autodetect calibre excecutable on Windows
• Invalid LDAP Cert Path no longer crashes app

New features:

• Cover view in lists selection
• Updated comic api (using now also unrar instead of unrarlib) -> needs manual update via pip
• Updated comic api now also extracts metadata from cbt files
• .png and webp pictures are extracted as cover pictures from comic books
• Config option for limiting email size
• Config option for changing upload formats
• Added Epub to Kepub conversion using kepubify
• Automatic .kepub.epub ending if downloading books using kobo reader
• Fimally removed KindleGen
• Autodetect calibre converter, unrar binary and kepubify on first startup
• Add "asin" to recognized identifiers
• Added config option for automatic username during registration
• Changed supported audio files
• Improved error handling for cover upload from url
• Metadata.db is now automatically removed of database location string
• linked readstatus to calibre custom column is now excluded automatically from view
• Prevent empty series_index field
• Deactived Archived books in sidebar, deactivate all archived books functions

Bug Fixes:

• Upload books with python2 is possible again
• Spanish translation no longer crashs the app in config settings
• Fixed covers for archived books not shown
• Fixes for readonly metadata.db
• Improved debug output on send emails
• Fix for private shelfs are listed twice in "add to shelf" dropdown menu in search results
• Fix for importing ldap users with whitespaces in the name
• Fix for tags with "&" in the name can't be removed from visibility restrictions
• Fix for kobo sync errors out if read/unread books had been present in app.db during initial database migration
• Fix error 500 on reset password in debug mode
• Fix for Kobo sync not working if series is given, but no series_index
• Fix for saving settings with enabled gdrive metadata watch led to crash
• Added missing float custom column to search form
• Better detection of localhost for kobo sync
• Fix XML parsing error when using OPDS feeds
• Fix for >1000 read books lead to error 500 in read menu
• Fix for failed recovery of config_logfile and config access_log, in case folder of logfiles is not present anymore

New features:

• Additional Metadata Provider ComicVine
• Added LDAP login
• Additional features for kobo sync (support for reading status, archiving books, shelfs support)
• Additional feature restrict and allow custom columns and tags
• Additional categories in opds feed
• Added editing of Book identifiers
• Changed behavior for public and private shelfs
• Changing ordering logic when showing books from a category
• Improved input check on some endpoints
• Added turkish translation
• Updated translations

Bug Fixes:

• Updater is now able to recover after failed updates
• Fixed pdf reader
• Fixed compatibility for werkzeug and flask-dance
• Fixed loading multiple authors via Get Metadata
• Fixed OAuth login
• Fix for Python3.8 on Windows
• Fix for download after access to opds-fileformat tree
• Book change timestamp in now applied upon changing a book
• Fix upload of covers from hdd
• Fix for removing admin role from last admin
• Fix deletion of books with multiple custom column content
• Fix handling uploaded books on forein file systems

Security fix CVE 2020-12627 don't use an hardcoded session key anymore

New features:

• Added handling of different virtual environment names on selfupdate
• Added handling float-type custom columns
• Updated translations

Bug Fixes:

• Fix for using werkzeug 1.0.0
• Pinned dependencies to current version as maximum
• Fix viewing logfile
• Fix Autodetection of Locale for guest user
• Fix Shelfs are reordering again
• Fix Auth-digest Header no longer crashs calibre-web
• Fix Windows with tornado and python <3.8 working
• Fix Print button no longer visible in pdf reader if user has no download rights
• Fix display of covers for downloaded books in usersection
• Fix for missing referrer on send to kindle
• Fix invalid file extensions on Kindle Paperwhite download
• Fix shutown tornado-server
• Fix fix custom column display that contain colons in Caliblur theme

New features:

• Added oauth login via google and github
• Added filtering of lists on first character
• Added sorting of books according date, and first character
• Added public reconnect point
• Added upload of mp3 files and mp3 file listener
• Added sorting on and search for file extensions and publisher
• Added more information in the about section
• Added logfile viewer
• Added ability to log to streamoutput on linux
• Added deny domains for registering
• Added login via auth header
• Added resend password feature
• Added ability for admins to resend password to user
• Added czech and finnish translation

Bug Fixes:

• Fix for exposure of mature content
• Fix for login issue on MacOS
• Fix compatibility with python 3.8
• Fixed goodreads problem on Raspberry Pi
• Fix for cover extraction on pdf files
• Fix for metadata search on douban
• Fix for Goodreads in combination with no books of author found
• Fix for uploading of books with applied language restriction
• Fix display no. of unread books now correct

New features:

• Optional parsing of comic metadata

Bug Fixes:

• Custom columns now visible in Caliblur! theme
• Fix for restart of newer versions of tornado server
• Fix for updater on beta versions
• Improved parsing of metadata downloads
• Calibur! background images are available again
• Search for username and email address is now case insensitive
• Sorting in comics follows natural sorting rules
• Fix for displaying long running tasks
• Added error output for calibre during conversion
• Deleting the last admin user is now prevented
• User ids are unique (even for deleted users)
• Updated Comicreader
• Updated translations

New feature: Added direction settings for comic reader

Bug Fixes: Fix not loading loading-icon Fix magic link on python 3 Fix for reader with not supported formats Fix instance name not shown in opds feed fix for advanced search without "custom column 1" Fix for non loading pdf-files in reader Fix registration emails are shown to normal users

Easter Release

!Attention! Please backup all data before updating !Attention! Due to a bug in the auto updater, an update from a commit version before january 29th 2019 will lead to loss of all data

• Update search function for Unicode characters
• Upload of jpeg, png and webp file
• Extraction of png covers from pdf files during upload
• Updated epub reader lib
• Fix for sqlalchemy v1.3.x
• Removed Douban from metadata loading
• Fixes for OPDS feed
• Improved errorhandling
• Changed behavior of filename renaming on Google Drive to match renaming on normal filestorage