Calibre Companion production release 3.3.1

[chaley]

CC production release 3.3.1 has been published and will available soon to people who are members of the CC prerelease program.

This production release contains the following bug fixes over CC prerelease 3.3.0f:

• [BUG FIX] Do not update CC's date changed when doing a database upgrade
• [BUG FIX] In book details, ensure that the white space after a clickable link is not clickable.

If you have already installed CC 3.3.0e then this release does not require a database upgrade.

Unless there is some disaster, this production release will be made available to all CC customers on Thursday 20/March.



The summary of changes since the last production release (V3.2.6) is:

• Add the ability to mark a book "Read" in CC. The value is changed in book details, and you can group on this value. The information can be synced with calibre (requires calibre 1.28 or higher).
  • Read/Not Read can be synced with a calibre Yes/No custom column. CC's Date Read can be synced with a calibre Date custom column. See the "Marked Read" options in CC's Settings for more information.
  • Add a "Read" mark on the right side of the book list that shows only if the option "Show Read information" is checked and if the Read info is not empty.
  • Refuse to sync Read info if calibre is not at V1.28 or higher.
  • Show popup messages during connection if the user sets up Read syncing and the calibre columns do not exist or are the wrong type.
• Attempt to handle read-only folders such as those on external SD cards on devices running Android 4.4 (kitkat). In the folder selector, tell the user if s/he has chosen a read-only folder.
• Change manual path specification when setting CC's folder to make the process more clear.
• Add some spacing to the "Groups" item in the grouping drawer.
• In the grouping drawer, add the count of items under a first letter, e.g., [5 authors, 15 books]
• Allow closing the grouping drawer with a right-to-left swipe in the grouping drawer itself.
• Add an option to tell CC to auto-close the grouping drawer when a leaf item is selected.
• Add options to move the Sort, Connect, and View commands from the action bar to the app's menu. This makes space available in the action bar for more "current grouping" text. This option is mostly useful on phones.
• Add sort by calibre's publication date.
• Add the identifiers field to book details.
• In book details, make Authors, Series, Tags, Publisher, and identifiers clickable. Clicking an item takes you back to the main display, changing the grouping to select the clicked item.
• Left and right swipe in book details now change the book being displayed.
• Support sending books to Google Books and to other apps such as cloud sync and email using menu items in book details. Google Books is removed from the list of readers.
• Reorganize some of the preferences, separating grouping preferences from more display-oriented preferences.
• Change the URLs in CC to point at the new Calibre Companion MobileRead forum.
• [BUG FIX] Fix the computation of series_sort when scanning for new books on connect.
• [BUG FIX] Always display Title over Author in the book list when sorting by dates
• [BUG FIX] Honor the calibre date display formats when showing pubdate or calibre's date field in the book list.
• [BUG FIX] Make long-press searching in the grouping pane ignore searching on group names
• [BUG FIX] Fix crash in book details when there are no authors
• [BUG FIX] Attempt to tell Android when books are deleted in hopes that it will update the info it shows to MTP clients
• [BUG FIX] Upgrade the Google support library in hopes of eliminating some rare crashes.
• [BUG FIX] Don't crash when an app advertises that it can handle a book format but in fact cannot.
• [BUG FIX] Change how debug logs are sent in hopes that sending from a kindle will attach the debug log to the message
• [BUG FIX] Fix a few cases where out-of-memory errors crashed the app.
• [BUG FIX] Fix problem where the "Use grouping drawer buttons" required an app restart to take effect.
• [BUG FIX] Do not update CC's date changed when doing a database upgrade

[kaufman]

Does this also fix the issue that arose with metadata when you quit calibre while it was connected to cc?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Does this also fix the issue that arose with metadata when you quit calibre while it was connected to cc?

That fix is in calibre and will be in the next calibre release. Also, the problem that Purple Lady was having with deleted books remaining in the cache is also fixed and will be in the next calibre release.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by chaley

That fix is in calibre and will be in the next calibre release. Also, the problem that Purple Lady was having with deleted books remaining in the cache is also fixed and will be in the next calibre release.

There are definite advantages to programming both sides of this fence.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by DoctorOhh

There are definite advantages to programming both sides of this fence.

Is Chaley part of the Calibre team? If I make a donation to Calibre, does he get part of it? Because I've donated once, but I would do it again if I new it was going to a good home.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Is Chaley part of the Calibre team? If I make a donation to Calibre, does he get part of it? Because I've donated once, but I would do it again if I new it was going to a good home.

He is one of the major code contributors (But not the only one. There are a cast of dozens who keep unique pieces running).

I don't know if Kovid has a donation share or not (it is not any of my business either). Buying CC is a good way to show support

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by theducks

I don't know if Kovid has a donation share or not (it is not any of my business either). Buying CC is a good way to show support

I did that, but $3 doesn't seem like enough support for the amount of awesome in this app.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Is Chaley part of the Calibre team? If I make a donation to Calibre, does he get part of it? Because I've donated once, but I would do it again if I new it was going to a good home.

I have worked on calibre since 2010, sometimes full time, lately less. Much of my work was aimed at things I wanted in calibre such as custom columns and advanced searching, at things that were interesting and fun to do such as hierarchical columns, or more recently the calibre-side code to support apps like CC.

As for donations to calibre, they go to Kovid, which is as it should be. Calibre is his brainchild. The donation stream supports him and his family; it is what they live on. If people find CC useful, remember that it would be nothing without calibre. Please support Kovid so he can continue to dedicate his time to it.

[chaley]

V3.3.1 has been generally released.

For various reasons the release changed slightly, so people who downloaded it during its 2 days of "prerelease" will need to download it again. You will be offered the update in the normal way.

[kaufman]

Congratulations on a great upgrade.

[LadyKoori]

It works perfectly! Thank you for including the one feature I had been wishing CC had since I started using it. I've updated my rating on Google Play.

[chaley]

to all the people in the prerelease program. Your feedback was incredibly useful. Without you CC would not be what it is.

I promise not to bother you again for a while. At least a week or two.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by chaley

I promise not to bother you again for a while.

Au contraire. We've all been talking, and we are ready for the next beta now.