Since current Portage release: "Release: 0.8.18 [09 Sep, 2011] New Features Kindle news download: On Kindle 3 and newer have the View Articles and Sections menu remember the current article. Closes tickets: 748741 [External link] Conversion: Add option to unsmarten puctuation under Look & Feel Driver of Motorola Ex124G and Pandigital Nova Tablet Allow downloading metadata from amazon.co.jp. To use it, configure the amazon metadata source to use the Japanese amazon site. Closes tickets: 842447 [External link] When automatically generating author sort for author name, ignore common prefixes like Mr. Dr. etc. Controllable via tweak. Also add a tweak to allow control of how a string is split up into multiple authors. Closes tickets: 795984 [External link] TXT Output: Preserve as much formatting as possible when generating Markdown output including various CSS styles Bug Fixes Fix pubdate incorrect when used in save to disk template in timezones ahead of GMT. Closes tickets: 844445 [External link] When attempting to stop multiple device jobs at once, only show a single error message Closes tickets: 841588 [External link] Fix conversion of large EPUB files to PDF erroring out on systems with a limited number of available file handles Closes tickets: 816616 [External link] EPUB catalog generation: Fix some entries going off the left edge of the page for unread/wishlist items When setting language in an EPUB file always use the 2 letter language code in preference to the three letter code, when possible. Closes tickets: 841201 [External link] Content server: Fix --url-prefix not used for links in the book details view. MOBI Input: When links in a MOBI file point to just before block elements, and there is a page break on the block element, the links can end up pointing to the wrong place on conversion. Adjust the location in such cases to point to the block element directly. New news sources Various Polish news sources by fenuks Improved news sources Kopalnia Wiedzy FilmWeb.pl Philadelphia Inquirer Honolulu Star Advertiser Counterpunch Philadelphia Inquirer Release: 0.8.17 [02 Sep, 2011] New Features Basic support for Amazon AZW4 format (PDF wrapped inside a MOBI) When showing the cover browser in a separate window, allow the use of the V, D shortcut keys to view the current book and send it to device respectively. Closes tickets: 836402 [External link] Add an option in Preferences->Miscellaneous to abort conversion jobs that take too long. Closes tickets: 835233 [External link] Driver for HTC Evo and HP TouchPad (with kindle app) Preferences->Adding books, detect when the user specifies a test expression with no file extension and popup a warning Bug Fixes E-book viewer: Ensure toolbars are always visible Content server: Fix grouping of Tags/authors not working for some non english languages with Internet Explorer Closes tickets: 835238 [External link] When downloading metadata from amazon, fix italics inside brackets getting lost. Closes tickets: 836857 [External link] Get Books: Add EscapeMagazine.pl and RW2010.pl stores Conversion pipeline: Fix conversion of cm/mm to pts. Fixes use of cm as a length unit when converting to MOBI. When showing the cover browser in a separate window, focus the cover browser so that keyboard shortcuts work immediately. Closes tickets: 835933 [External link] HTMLZ Output: Fix special chars like ampersands, etc. not being converted to entities Keyboard shortcuts config: Fix clicking done in the shortcut editor with shortcuts set to default caused the displayed shortcut to be always set to None Fix bottom most entries in keyboard shortcuts not editable New news sources Haber 7 and Hira by Unknown NTV and NTVSpor by A Erdogan by A Erdogan Improved news sources Hacker News Nikkei News" Thanks!
Looks like Zac already bumped it. *calibre-0.8.18 (10 Sep 2011) 10 Sep 2011; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> +calibre-0.8.18.ebuild: 0.8.18 version bump.
