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Originally Posted by Queso
Can you comment on ease of upgrading your library from one version to another? If I sit on 2.5 for a year and decide, hey, the latest version has a compelling to feature, will my Calibre Library/ upgrade safely? Is that supported? Or should it be upgraded from a more recent version? Or is that directory/format very stable and there are rarely changes? Thanks!
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The official Calibre upgrade is always complete in itself. It doesn't depend upon any previous release. It has all the stuff it needs to run (specifically, the minimal needed Qt5 libraries and others), as if it were a complete new install. The Calibre library isn't touched but used if found, nor is the user configuration directory, also used if found, which is buried in a "hidden" directory underneath your home directory. New versions come out every Friday, not because Calibre is so buggy, but rather due to active development of new features. Many people scan the "what's new" web page (essentially, a change log) to see if anything changed that they might be interested in. If not, they will skip that week's update. If you find a bug, Kovid often fixes them within a day, sometimes within hours, and it will appear in the next Friday's update. I call this an extremely high level of support.