calibre 5: Beta testers needed

[jony08]

I have noticed that most translated strings that was in 4.99.16 (and earlier) are not in 4.99.17. Could this be an effect of the changes made in the new beta? The strings are still translated in Transifex.

[kovidgoyal]

@capink: Thanks, fixed.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by jony08

I have noticed that most translated strings that was in 4.99.16 (and earlier) are not in 4.99.17. Could this be an effect of the changes made in the new beta? The strings are still translated in Transifex.

You mean they are not translated in calibre?

[jony08]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You mean they are not translated in calibre?

Yes, e.g. when you open Preferences and go into any of the settings. The strings for the Preferences screen itself and most of the main calibre interface are translated so it doesn't effect all translations but when I open the Look & feel, Behavior, Add custom columns etc., most of the strings are not translate.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by jony08

Yes, e.g. when you open Preferences and go into any of the settings. The strings for the Preferences screen itself and most of the main calibre interface are translated so it doesn't effect all translations but when I open the Look & feel, Behavior, Add custom columns etc., most of the strings are not translate.

Ah, good catch. That is indeed a bug with the new feature of updating translations on every commit. Now fixed.

[phossler]

Is there a feature list for v5?

I see annotations and viewer improvements/changes mentioned in the replies in this thread, but is there anything new and exciting in the Editor or Library Management areas?

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

Its just viewer improvements and python3.

[un_pogaz]

Out of curiosity, did you have a possible date for the release of the V5 or is there still too much work for a reliable estimate?

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

Out of curiosity, did you have a possible date for the release of the V5 or is there still too much work for a reliable estimate?

Kovid has recently said "I am aiming to make the final release in a few days, provided this beta has no more serious bugs."

[un_pogaz]

Ah, iminent therefore.
Thanks.

*Day 1 of the public release : thousand critical bugs are discovered*

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

Ah, iminent therefore.
Thanks.

*Day 1 of the public release : thousand critical bugs are discovered*

And thousands of people running the DeDRM plugin inundate Kovid with support requests.

[DiapDealer]

This situation is exactly why I thought the monolithic direction the "Tools" Plugin went was a bad idea. It's much easier to get a ton of specialized help on a bunch of little simple things than it is to get a little bit of help on one giant convoluted and fragile thing. It takes much too much time and effort for even the willing and able to get up to speed on the big picture alone (before even attempting to contribute specifically). There's way too many things huddled under that one umbrella.

[ownedbycats]

Speaking of DeDRM, I found a temporary solution in installing it in Calibre Portable (I keep 3.48 around for the rare case where I need the old viewer) to add the book to the portable library. Then switch back to main Calibre and use add book to get the dedrm'd file (or copy it to the autoadd folder).

[Celebi]

For some reason when trying to open a book that I was able to open earlier in the day Calibre shows this error:

calibre, version 4.99.17
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>TypeError</b>:'<' not supported between instances of 'datetime.datetime' and 'str'

calibre 4.99.17 Portable embedded-python: True is64bit: False
Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19041')
Python 3.8.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19041', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (1, 34, 0) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (1, 34, 0) && Count Pages (1, 10, 0) && EpubCheck (0, 2, 3) && EpubMerge (2, 11, 0) && EpubSplit (2, 9, 0) && FanFicFare (3, 23, 0) && Goodreads Sync (1, 14, 3) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (1, 34, 0) && KFX Input (1, 34, 0) && Set KFX metadata (from KFX Output) (1, 44, 0) && KFX Output (1, 44, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\ui.py", line 511, in load_finished
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\ui.py", line 541, in load_book_data
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\ui.py", line 564, in load_book_annotations
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\annotations.py", line 92, in merge_annotations
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'datetime.datetime' and 'str'

[kovidgoyal]

@Celebi: Thanks will be fixed in next release.