14 DAY TRIAL // Calibre developer Kovid Goyal announced a new maintenance update of his open-source, free, cross-platform and powerful ebook library management software, versioned 2.82.
Calibre 2.82 comes just one week after the previous point release, namely Calibre 2.81, which means that it's mostly a bugfix update that addresses various of the issues reported by users lately, and updates the supported news sources.
The biggest change implemented in this release is a new keyboard shortcut (Alt+Up/Down Arrow) in the "Saved Searches" functionality of the Edit Book component to allow users to more easily move selected searches.
Among the improvements, we can mention that Calibre 2.82 detects free samples as independent books by the Get Books component when the user searches for stores based on OPDS, such as Feedbooks.
The Morning Paper news source is now supported
A typo that caused last week's Calibre release to no longer dynamically update the metadata source plugins was fixed, and Microsoft UA (User Agents) won't be used anymore to download news sources because more websites serve JPEG XR images.
Tags that contain commas in their names are now being ignored by the "Catalog Generation" feature when attempting to generate genres, and the "Amazon metadata download" functionality should now offer correct search results for books.
Other than that, Calibre 2.82 fixes the template formatter functions to reload when a check library operation finishes, as well as an error that occurred during a shutdown, and preserves the selection of saved searches when using the arrow keys to move multiple items.
The Morning Paper news source is now officially supported, and the Telegraph UK and The Economist ones received improvements. Download Calibre 2.82 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website.