Changelog.old.yaml
Code:
- version: 0.8.50
date: 2012-05-04
new features:
- title: "Tweak Book: Allow tweaking of KF8 MOBI files. Useful to fine-tune the result of a conversion. Right click on the book and select Tweak Book to use the feature. Note that tweaking a MOBI file that contains both KF8 and older MOBI6 will cause the MOBI6 version to be discarded."
- title: "AZW3 output plugin. This output plugin generates pure KF8 mobi files. These only work on the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch with latest firmware."
[...]
- version: 0.8.48
date: 2012-04-20
new features:
- title: "Conversion: The search and replace feature has been completely revamped."
description: "You can now use any number of search and replace
expression, not just three. You can also store and load frequently used
sets of search and replace expressions. Also, the wizard generates its
preview in a separate process to protect against crashes/memory leaks."
tickets: [983476,983484,983478]
- title: "Support for the new '.azw3' files that Amazon recently started generating. calibre will now detect them as ebooks. It can also view/convert them, if they are DRM free."
[...]
So that would be version 0.8.48 released on April 20, 2012 -- which first implemented AZW3.
And two weeks (releases) later, calibre could
create AZW3.
Just about exactly 6 months after the beginning of the KF8 announcement thread here.
Gosh, that quickly? If I had blinked, I would've missed it.
