calibre

New features:

1. Conversion: Add support for reading images in the JPEG XL format
2. Conversion: Add support for CSS Level 4 selectors
3. Edit book: Check book: Add a check for dangling ARIA references and update ARIA references when auto fixing invalid ids (Closes tickets: 2170895)
4. MOBI/AZW3/PDB Output: Speed up compression, making conversion to these formats faster
5. Content server/E-book viewer: Honor the prefers-reduced-motion setting of the operating system
6. Speed up adding books and starting calibre in large libraries with the Tag browser hidden
7. Catalogs: Use calibre as the creator of generated catalogs and record the generation date as the publication date (Closes tickets: 2022353)
8. Create your own Adventure: Improve the character selection screen

Bug fixes:

1. PDF Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of some PDF files (Closes tickets: 2170990)
2. EPUB 3 conversion: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused invalid navigation markup to be generated (Closes tickets: 2170400)
3. Fix a regression in the previous release that caused non-breaking spaces to be converted to regular spaces in comments and text columns (Closes tickets: 2170595)
4. PDF Output: Fix a blank page at the end of chapters in some multi column layouts (Closes tickets: 2170285)
5. Amazon and Google Images metadata sources: Get them working again using camoufox
6. Various robustness and edge case improvements int he database backed around data files, notes and formats
7. Fix various stale cached values for composite columns and searches after changing series, restoring formats from the trash and redefining saved searches
8. Fix setting a custom series with the same series index sometimes not being saved
9. Fix appending multiple values to custom columns
10. Full text search: Fix searching in libraries without book files
11. macOS: E-book viewer: Fix the viewer triggering the "access data from other apps" prompt for Google Chrome on macOS 27 (Closes tickets: 2170887)
12. EPUB/MOBI catalog: Sort a series before longer series names that start with it (Closes tickets: 1483666)
13. EPUB/MOBI catalog: Fix an error when generating catalogs from the GUI with prefix rules
14. ODT Input: Preserve restarted list numbering (Closes tickets: 2017568)
15. Kobo driver: Fix a regression in cover handling for older Tolino firmware and keep dots in filenames on Tolino devices
16. Edit book: Fix the choose file dialog when importing books not being kept above the editor window
17. calibredb list_categories: Fix output showing bytes representations
18. Fix templates using {isbn} or {languages} more than once returning the wrong value
19. Fix decoding of HTML entities that decode to more bytes than themselves
20. Fix an error when cancelling a metadata download
21. Content server: Fix full text search actions being applied to the default library instead of the library being viewed
22. Content server: Fix various issues with showing books from the wrong library when switching between libraries
23. Content server: Notify the calibre GUI of new formats created by conversions in the server
24. Content server/E-book viewer: Various fixes for dark mode and keyboard focus styling
25. Fix various hardcoded colors being unreadable in dark mode

New news sources:

Improved news sources:

1. The Economist
2. Associated Press
3. Washington Post
4. SCMP
5. Scientific American
6. The Monthly
7. NYT Magazine
8. Respekt