CC V3.4.1 has been generally released

[chaley]

CC production release 3.4.1 has been published and will be available soon. This release contains the following new features and changes over CC V3.3.6:

• In book details: choose which fields to display and their order
• Two new sorts: Is Read, and Date added to CC.
• Define an "auto-sort" used to sort a group when that group is selected in the grouping drawer.
• Backup and restore CC settings
• Lock screen orientation in portrait or landscape.
• Add grouped-on custom columns to the sort menu.
• Add grouped-on custom columns as an auto-sort option.
• Choose which sorts are on shown on the menu
• Choose which group categories show in the grouping drawer.
• Make grouped custom columns clickable in book details. A custom column is made clickable only if it is displayed in the grouping drawer.
• Two user-defined three-level sorts, set up in Settings/Sorting.
• Add "display text" to grouped custom columns, as in "#genre/Genre". The text after the slash will be displayed wherever the group is used. Note that this value is ignored in book details because book details has the values set in calibre.
• Show the value being sorted by in the book list. Previously it showed a few dates.
• Don't show first letters in the grouping drawer if only one letter would be shown.
• Add a "splash" activity that is displayed whenever CC must do a database upgrade because of a version change. This avoids "Application Not Responding" errors on large libraries.
• Show/hide the "[autosort by ...]" information in the grouping drawer.
• Show/hide the counts on the item lines in the grouping drawer.
• Show/hide the first letter check box in the grouping drawer.
• Optionally show page up/down buttons on the books display. Helps on e-ink devices.
• Optionally set the maximum length of authors displayed in the book list.
• Set the size of downloaded covers. Note that changing this option will cause metadata for all books to be downloaded on the next wireless connection.
• New cover size for book details: extra-large.
• Optionally make read information syncing one way, only from calibre to CC.
• Use singular and plural forms of labels in book details
• Improve application logging in several situations
• Improvements in connection help
• [BUG FIX]Fix incorrect total book count when uploading metadata to calibre.
• [BUG FIX]Enable the "home" button on the action bar for the sub-preferences screens. This works only on Android Honeycomb and later.
• [BUG FIX]Make wireless disconnection more robust when CC and calibre get confused about which program is sending what.
• [BUG FIX]Add AM/PM indicator to dates displayed in the book list
• [BUG FIX]Handle custom series, integer, and float columns correctly when sorting and grouping.
• [BUG FIX]Fix upload to Google books
• [BUG FIX]Stop creation of spurious folders when books were deleted.
• [BUG FIX]Accept uppercase extensions (e.g., .PDF) when scanning for new books.

Note: installing this release may take some time because of database changes. Let the upgrade run.

[kaufman]

Also:

* Use singular and plural forms in book details

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Also:

* Use singular and plural forms in book details

Thanks. I edited the first post and also the change log.

[kaufman]

Perhaps you forgot it because you accidentally had it tagged as a bug fix.

[PatNY]

I don't see the new "Extra large" cover size option for the details page listed in the change log. You might want to add that in too.

--Pat

[chaley]

Originally Posted by PatNY

I don't see the new "Extra large" cover size option for the details page listed in the change log. You might want to add that in too.

--Pat

Thanks. Done in both the change log and this thread.

[kaufman]

I just noticed a small bug/inconsistency that I am astounded that I hadn't noticed already.

When you backup the settings it CC creates a filename called

CC_settings_backup_Year-Month-Date

But, it isn't actually month, its month-1. So my settings file from this morning is called

CC_settings_backup_2014-07-04

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

I just noticed a small bug/inconsistency that I am astounded that I hadn't noticed already.

When you backup the settings it CC creates a filename called

CC_settings_backup_Year-Month-Date

But, it isn't actually month, its month-1. So my settings file from this morning is called

CC_settings_backup_2014-07-04

To emulate Kovid a bit, from the change log for V3.4.2:

[BUG FIX]Fix incorrect month in auto-generated backup file name

I found the problem myself about 30 minutes after publishing V3.4.1. In the Java calendar API, year, day-of-month and day-of-week are one-based but month-of-year is zero-based. Sigh...

Here is the V3.4.2 change log as of now. Unless something else comes in that delays the process, I intend to release it to the prerelease group on Wed.

• Remove the newly-added goto FAQ menu item. Instead, add a FAQ button to the "failed to connect" dialogs
• Change text in settings to warn users about CC doing a slow DB upgrade when grouped on lookup names or read info lookup names are changed.
• [BUG FIX]Do not allow connection to calibre during a DB upgrade. Prevents possible corruption of metadata.
• [BUG FIX]Do not reset the book list to the top if read info changes
• [BUG FIX]Make restore settings do a DB upgrade if necessary
• [BUG FIX]Fix problems with syncing read information across multiple libraries
• [BUG FIX]Fix "Send book to app"
• [BUG FIX]Fix incorrect month in auto-generated backup file name
• [BUG FIX]Show a better error message when device runs out of space while writing book files

[kaufman]

You aren't going to include?

• [Bug Fix] Display current sort and direction in Grouping Menu

By the way, my CC has been taking a couple of seconds to switch groupings since the latest version. I'm now running a test to see if the problem is that I finally just have too many books, or maybe its a consequence of so many db updates. I have uninstalled the program completely and am now in the middle of copying all my books over again. I will post my results as soon as I am finished.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by kaufman

You aren't going to include?
By the way, my CC has been taking a couple of seconds to switch groupings since the latest version. I'm now running a test to see if the problem is that I finally just have too many books, or maybe its a consequence of so many db updates. I have uninstalled the program completely and am now in the middle of copying all my books over again. I will post my results as soon as I am finished.

OK, it just finished reloading my books. The delay is pretty much all gone now. When I press on a group, I get a very slight pause, but nothing like the 1-2 second delay I was getting before. Also, as an experiment, I turned off the autosort, and it doesn't impact the length of the pause.


I'm not 100% what you should do with this information, but at least you know that if someone contacts you and tells you that their installation is running slowly, at least you have something to tell them.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

OK, it just finished reloading my books. The delay is pretty much all gone now. When I press on a group, I get a very slight pause, but nothing like the 1-2 second delay I was getting before. Also, as an experiment, I turned off the autosort, and it doesn't impact the length of the pause.


I'm not 100% what you should do with this information, but at least you know that if someone contacts you and tells you that their installation is running slowly, at least you have something to tell them.

It is too bad that we didn't think of trying the "Clean Database" function first. I would love to know if that actually does something useful. It supposedly repacks the database and reorders the information into some better order, which is what your reload also did.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by chaley

It is too bad that we didn't think of trying the "Clean Database" function first.

Its too bad I didn't think of it. Since this is the first you are hearing about the issue, I'm not sure you should be castigating yourself too much about it.

I didn't try it, because I forgot it was there. If it ever happens again, I will not forget to try that first. Its a good test for you, and a lot less work for me.

[eschwartz]

You should've backed up the db first.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by chaley

CC production release 3.4.1 has been published and will be available soon. This release contains the following new features and changes over CC V3.3.6:

Will Amazon be getting this update? We're still on 3.3.5

[chaley]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Will Amazon be getting this update? We're still on 3.3.5

Yes, probably the end of this week or the beginning of the next. I am making a V3.4.2 release to the test community tomorrow, and it is that release that will go to Amazon.