14 DAY TRIAL // It's been nearly three weeks since the last Calibre update hit the streets, and it's now time to get your hands on a brand new version that adds several features and improves existing functionality.
Calibre 2.84 was launched today by developer Kovid Goyal, who managed to update the Kindle driver to allow users to also delete the thumbnails of the books that are deleted from the system directory, and improved conversion by making use of the same regexp (regular expression) engine that's being used by the Edit Book tool, which appears to offer better support for Unicode characters.
Talking about Edit Book, the tool received new keyboard shortcuts, namely Ctrl+{ and Ctrl+}, which let users jump directly to opening and closing tags. Moreover, the fetch-ebook-metadata component now has a new option to allow the use of only a single metadata plugin, a new API was added to more easily pre-process image data in recipes, and the First Things news source was added by John Hutson.
Bug fixes, improved news sources
Improved news sources in Calibre 2.84 include NYTimes Tech Beat, Private Eye, and Die Zeit, and it looks like this update fixes several bugs and regressions reported by users since the previous release, improving the functionality of various of the included components like DOCX Output, PDF Output, Edit Book tool, the E-book viewer, Get Books tool, and AZW3 Output and AZW3 file support.
A complete list of all these bug fixes is attached below for your reading pleasure or if you're just curious to know what exactly was changed. In the meantime, we recommend updating your Calibre installations as soon as possible by downloading the Calibre 2.84 binaries and source for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website.