New Features
- E-book viewer: Allow the up and down keys to scroll past section boundaries
- calibredb: Allow specification of basic metadata on the command line when adding books.
- Driver for Samsung Galaxy Plus GT-I9001
- KF8 Input: Support KF8 format Amazon book samples.
- When a new plugin is added to calibre for the first time, have its icon (if any) show up even when a device is connected (this can be changed by the user at the time of plugin installation)
- Add keyboard shortcuts for Bold, Italic and Underline to the comments editor in the edit metadata dialog
Bug Fixes
- E-book viewer: Fix last read position (and bookmarks in general) being inaccurate for some books.
- Workarounds for a few regressions in the user interface in 0.8.44 caused by the update to Qt 4.8.0
- Books list: Preserve the horizontal scroll position when sorting by a column
- Fix saving to disk and then adding the book back not restoring tags-like custom columns
- Linux installer: Fix completion for ebook-convert not working.
- MOBI Output: Recognize type=text in addition to type=start guide elements
- Get Books: Updates to Nexto, Ebookpoint and Woblink stores
- Fix unable to clear username/password in Fetch news dialog
- PDF Output: Fix margin specifications not being applied
- Linux installer: Manually preserve the defaults.list mimetype association file to workaround buggy xdg-desktop-menu implementations in some distros.
- E-book viewer: Fix regression that caused the ebook viewer to stop functioning if it is launched from the main calibre program and then the main calibre program is closed.
(Via calibre Changelog.)