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Alexander Turcic · 08-23-2013, 03:16 AM

Lo and behold, today marks the day when calibre has finally reached the all-important 1.0 status. We've to go far back in time - somewhere in late October 2006 to be precise - when MobileReader and calibre brainchild kovidgoyal introduced the libprs500 tool. libprs500 was the predecessor of calibre, and it served as an unofficial solution for accessing the Sony PRS-500 (Sony's first e-reader, long before Amazon introduced the Kindle) from non-Windows hosts. It was then sometime around mid-2008 when libprs500 was renamed to calibre in participation of supporting non-Sony readers as well.

Congrats to everyone who's been involved in the development of calibre, and of course, first and foremost congrats to Kovid!

Now that we've reached 1.0 - when can we expect version 2.0?

So what's new in 1.0?

New Features

A new 'cover grid' view of the books in your calibre library
A new, faster database backend
RTF Input: Add option to ignore WMF images iinstead of replacing them with a placeholder
Content server: Make virtual libraries available as searches from the start page. They work just like saved searches, clicking on a virtual library will show you all the books in that virtual library

Bug Fixes

Remove extra, useless 'language' entry in metadata download configuration dialog
Kobo driver: Display device collections even if the driver is configured to not manage shelves on the device
Fix typo in calibre.desktop file on linux
Edit metadata dialog: Disable OK button while results are being downloaded
In OS X 10.8 Apple stopped redirecting stdout/stderr to Console.app for applications launched by launch services. Re-enable the redirection, useful for debugging
Fix virtual library tabs not being updated when using VL button

New and improved news sources

News24 and Nuus24 by Nicki de Wet
Consumerist
jeuxvideo
Metro UK
El Tribuno
High Country News
Daily Express
Providence Journal
mediapart

The above list only lists changes from the last 0.9 version. For a complete list of changes between 0.9 and 1.0, see this page.

Want to know more about calibre? Head over to the Calibre forums.

08-23-2013, 03:16 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	calibre reaches version 1.0, after seven years in the making Lo and behold, today marks the day when calibre has finally reached the all-important 1.0 status. We've to go far back in time - somewhere in late October 2006 to be precise - when MobileReader and calibre brainchild kovidgoyal introduced the libprs500 tool. libprs500 was the predecessor of calibre, and it served as an unofficial solution for accessing the Sony PRS-500 (Sony's first e-reader, long before Amazon introduced the Kindle) from non-Windows hosts. It was then sometime around mid-2008 when libprs500 was renamed to calibre in participation of supporting non-Sony readers as well. Congrats to everyone who's been involved in the development of calibre, and of course, first and foremost congrats to Kovid! Now that we've reached 1.0 - when can we expect version 2.0? So what's new in 1.0? New Features A new 'cover grid' view of the books in your calibre library A new, faster database backend RTF Input: Add option to ignore WMF images iinstead of replacing them with a placeholder Content server: Make virtual libraries available as searches from the start page. They work just like saved searches, clicking on a virtual library will show you all the books in that virtual library Bug Fixes Remove extra, useless 'language' entry in metadata download configuration dialog Kobo driver: Display device collections even if the driver is configured to not manage shelves on the device Fix typo in calibre.desktop file on linux Edit metadata dialog: Disable OK button while results are being downloaded In OS X 10.8 Apple stopped redirecting stdout/stderr to Console.app for applications launched by launch services. Re-enable the redirection, useful for debugging Fix virtual library tabs not being updated when using VL button New and improved news sources News24 and Nuus24 by Nicki de Wet Consumerist jeuxvideo Metro UK El Tribuno High Country News Daily Express Providence Journal mediapart The above list only lists changes from the last 0.9 version. For a complete list of changes between 0.9 and 1.0, see this page. Want to know more about calibre? Head over to the Calibre forums. Last edited by Alexander Turcic; 08-23-2013 at 03:20 AM.