14 DAY TRIAL // Today, September 30, 2016, Calibre developer Kovid Goyal announced the release and immediate availability for download of yet another maintenance update to the popular, free, and open source ebook library management software.
Calibre 2.69 is now the latest and most advanced version of the application, and it comes two weeks after the release of Calibre 2.68, bringing support for firmware version 4.1 to the driver for Kobo e-book readers, along with support for Overdrive books on the device.
We've spotted two other interesting new features in Calibre 2.69, namely the ability to highlight class names inside HTML tags, which has been implemented in the Edit Book component of the applications, and the ability to search and replace rating columns in the Bulk Metadata Edit dialog.
Updated and new news sources, bug fixes
As usual with any new Calibre update, various news sources are improved and new ones added. In Calibre 2.69 we can notice that the Various Danish news source created by Allan Simonsen has been implemented, and the New York Times, Independent, and El tribuno de Salta news sources received improvements.
Of course, many of the issues reported by users since Calibre 2.68 and previous releases have been addressed in Calibre 2.69. Among the most important ones, we can mention that the metadata from ozon.ru is now supported again, it's possible to delete empty collections, and book previews are no longer detected as books on Kobo readers.
Setting an empty template for a book title in the Cover Browser component no longer outputs errors, file extensions are now being automatically added when using the Save a Copy dialog in Edit Book, and Calibre should not launch when used with old VNC (Virtual Network Computing) server implementations.
Download Calibre 2.69 for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.