Thema: Diverse E-Books und entsprechemde Tools

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New Features

    Drivers for Nextbook Premium 8 se, HTC Desire X and Emerson EM 543

    Closes tickets: 1088149, 1088112, 1087978

Bug Fixes

    Fix rich text delegate not working with Qt compiled in debug mode.

    Closes tickets: 1089011
    When deleting all books in the library, blank the book details panel
    Conversion: Fix malformed values in the bgcolor attribute causing conversion to abort
    Conversion: Fix heuristics applying incorrect style in some circumstances

    Closes tickets: 1066507
    Possible fix for 64bit calibre not starting up on some Windows systems

    Closes tickets: 1087816

New news sources

    Titanic by Krittika Goyal

Improved news sources

    Sivil Dusunce
    Anchorage Daily News
    Le Monde
    Harpers

http://calibre-ebook.com

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New Features

    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all ☺
    When connecting to MTP devices such as the Kindle Fire HD or the Nook HD, speed up the process by ignoring some folders.

    calibre will now ignore folders for music, video, pictures, etc. when scanning the device. This can substantially speed up the connection process if you have thousands of non-ebook files on the device. The list of folders to be ignored can be customized by right clicking on the device icon in calibre and selecting 'Configure this device'.
    Allow changing the icons for categories in the Tag Browser. Right click on a category and choose 'Change category icon'.

    Closes tickets: 1092098
    Allow setting the color of all columns with a single rule in Preferences->Look & Feel->Column Coloring
    MOBI: When reading metadata from mobi files, put the contents of the ASIN field into an identifier named mobi-asin. Note that this value is not used when downloading metadata as it is not possible to know which (country specific) amazon website the ASIN comes from.

Bug Fixes

    Windows build: Fix a regression in 0.9.9 that caused calibre to not start on some windows system that were missing the VC.90 dlls (some older XP systems)
    Kobo driver: Workaround for invalid shelves created by bugs in the Kobo server

    Closes tickets: 1091932
    Metadata download: Fix cover downloading from non-US amazon sites broken by a website change.

    Closes tickets: 1090765

New news sources

    MobileBulgaria by Martin Tsanchev
    Various Polish news sources by fenuks

Improved news sources

    Le Devoir
    Nin online
    countryfile
    Birmingham Post
    The Independent
    Various Polish news sources

http://calibre-ebook.com

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Sigil is an ePub ebook editor with support for both WYSIWYG word processor style and direct code editing.

Features

Online Sigil User's Guide, and Wiki documentation
Full UTF-16 support
Full EPUB 2 spec support
Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
WYSIWYG editing in Book View
Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
User interface translated into many languages
Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated FlightCrew EPUB validator
Embedded HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned

Whats new: >>

This is a small maintenance release to fix issues found in the 0.6.1 release. There is still a known issue with the cursor jumping in CV when saving but it isn't jumping randomly anymore.

https://code.google.com/p/sigil/

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Von heute bis zum 6. Januar gibt es wieder Kindle Ebooks kostenlos bei Amazon. Reinschauen lohnt sich!  

http://www.amazon.de/b/ref=sr_tc_sc_2_0?node=530484031&pf_rd_r=F5CC34C3E37E4AC58EBB&pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_t=301&pf_rd_i=kindle&pf_rd_p=325518927&pf_rd_s=structured-results-2&qid=1356455013&sr=8-2-tc

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New Features

    Drivers for Kibano e-reader and Slick ER-700-2

    Closes tickets: 1093570, 1093732
    Add support for downloading metadata from Amazon Brazil.

    Closes tickets: 1092594
    Copy to library: Allow specifying the destination library by path.

    Closes tickets: 1093231
    When adding empty books, allow setting of the series for the new books. Also select the newly added book records after adding.
    PDF Output: Add a checkbox to override the page size defined by the output profile. This allows you to specify a custom page size even if the output profile is not set to default.
    Add usb ids for newer kindle fire to the linux mtp driver

Bug Fixes

    Linux: Temporarily redirect stdout to get rid of the annoying and pointless message about mtpz during libmtp initialization
    Fix multiple 'All column' coloring rules not being applied

    Closes tickets: 1093574
    Use custom icons in the content server as well.

    Closes tickets: 1092098

New news sources

    Various Ukranian news sources by rpalyvoda

Improved news sources

    La Voce
    Harpers Magazine (printed edition)
    Pajamas Media
    NSFW corp
    The Hindu
    Nikkei News

http://calibre-ebook.com

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New Features

    Complete rewrite of the PDF Output engine, to support links and fix various bugs

    calibre now has a new PDF output engine that supports links in the text. It also fixes various bugs, detailed below. In order to implement support for links and fix these bugs, the engine had to be completely rewritten, so there may be some regressions.
    Show disabled device plugins in Preferences->Ignored Devices
    Get Books: Fix Smashwords, Google books and B&N stores. Add Nook UK store
    Allow series numbers lower than -100 for custom series columns.

    Closes tickets: 1094475
    Add mass storage driver for rockhip based android smart phones

    Closes tickets: 1087809
    Add a clear ratings button to the edit metadata dialog

Bug Fixes

    PDF Output: Fix custom page sizes not working on OS X
    PDF Output: Fix embedding of many fonts not supported (note that embedding of OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines is still not supported on windows, though it is supported on other operating systems)
    PDF Output: Fix crashes converting some books to PDF on OS X

    Closes tickets: 1087688
    HTML Input: Handle entities inside href attributes when following the links in an HTML file.

    Closes tickets: 1094203
    Content server: Fix custom icons not used for sub categories

    Closes tickets: 1095016
    Force use of non-unicode constants in compiled templates. Fixes a problem with regular expression character classes and probably other things.
    Kobo driver: Do not error out if there are invalid dates in the device database

    Closes tickets: 1094597
    Content server: Fix for non-unicode hostnames when using mDNS

    Closes tickets: 1094063

Improved news sources

    Today's Zaman
    The Economist
    Foreign Affairs
    New York Times
    Alternet
    Harper's Magazine
    La Stampa

http://calibre-ebook.com

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Heute mal ein kurzer Tipp für alle Linux und Open Source Fans. Seit etlichen Jahren schreiben verschiedene Autoren in ihrer Freizeit Artikel für freiesMagazin. Da ich selbst schon den einen oder anderen Artikel beigesteuert habe und weiß das die Artikel meist sehr hochwertig sind will ich euch dies mal als Sonntagslektüre empfehlen.

Schaut einfach mal im Archiv bei Ihnen vorbei, dort sind etliche interessanten Themen aus den vergangenen Jahren dabei, die sich auch mal um Themen außerhalb von Linux bewegen. Derzeit suchen sie u.a. auch neue Autoren, vielleicht habt ihr ja ein interessantes Thema, was ihr einmal vorstellen wollt.

Inhalt der Ausgabe 01/2013

    Ubuntu und Kubuntu 12.10
    Der Dezember im Kernelrückblick
    Desktop Publishing unter Linux – Dann klappt’s auch mit der Druckerei!
    blockdiag – Diagramme einfach erstellen
    Kontinuierliche Integration mit Jenkins
    Leserbriefe und Veranstaltungen

Viel Spass beim lesen

Quelle: Caschys Blog

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New Features

    When adding multiple books and duplicates are found, allow the user to select which of the duplicate books will be added anyway.

    Closes tickets: 1095256
    Device drivers for Kobo Arc on linux, Polaroid Abdroid tablet

    Closes tickets: 1098049
    When sorting by series, use the language of the book to decide what leading articles to remove, just as is done for sorting by title

Bug Fixes

    PDF Output: Do not error out when the input document contains links with anchors not present in the document.

    Closes tickets: 1096428
    Add support for upgraded db on newest Kobo firmware

    Closes tickets: 1095617
    PDF Output: Fix typo that broke use of custom paper sizes.

    Closes tickets: 1097563
    PDF Output: Handle empty anchors present at the end of a page
    PDF Output: Fix side margins of last page in a flow being incorrect when large side margins are used.

    Closes tickets: 1096290
    Edit metadata dialog: Allow setting the series number for custom series type columns to zero
    When bulk editing custom series-type columns and not provding a series number use 1 as the default, instead of None
    Catalogs: Fix issue with catalog generation using Hungarian UI and author_sort beginning with multiple letter groups.

    Closes tickets: 1091581
    PDF Output: Dont error out on files that have invalid font-family declarations.

    Closes tickets: 1096279
    Do not load QRawFont at global level, to allow calibre installation on systems with missing dependencies

    Closes tickets: 1096170
    PDF Output: Fix cover not present in generated PDF files

    Closes tickets: 1096098

New news sources

    Spectator Magazine, Oxford Mail and Outside Magazine by Krittika Goyal
    Libartes by Darko Miletic
    El Diplo by Tomas De Domenico

Improved news sources

    Sueddeutsche Zeitung mobil
    Boerse Online
    TidBits
    New York Review of Books
    Fleshbot
    Il Messaggero
    Libero

http://calibre-ebook.com

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New Features

    Linux MTP driver: Detect devices that have MTP interfaces even if their USB ids are not known
    Content server: Allow picking a random book by clicking the 'Random book' link on the start page. You can also refresh the random book page to get a new random book
    E-book viewer: Add an option to hide the toolbars in the viewer window (Preferences->Miscellaneous->Show controls in the viewr preferences). You can unhide them by right clicking in the viewer window.
    Kobo driver: Speedup initial connect by avoiding unnecessary update of series metadata in some situations.

    Closes tickets: 1099190
    Get Books: Allow the store plugins to be dynamically loaded so that future website changes of a store dont require a calibre update to fix Get Books.
    Wireless driver: Always replace file when resending a previously sent book to the device, even if the title/author have changed.
    Add PocketBook Pro 912 driver.

    Closes tickets: 1099571
    When creating/exporting epub and mobi files, add the calibre book identifier as a special field in the book's metadata. This allows third party tools to identify the book record in calibre to which the file belongs.
    Wireless driver: Add support for using the book uuid as the filename
    Remove the experimental tag from the subset fonts feature, since there has been only one reported problem (now fixed) with it in the two months since it was released

Bug Fixes

    Get Books: Update the amazon, waterstones and libri.de plugins to account for website changes
    MOBI Input: Do not choke on MOBI files with incorrectly encoded titles.

    Closes tickets: 1100601
    Font subsetting: Fix a bug in the parsing of the GSUB table that could cause some ligatures to not be included in the subset font
    E-book-viewer: Fix TOC links without anchors not scrolling to the top of the current flow
    LIT Input: Handle lit files that set an incorrect XML mimetype for their text.

    Closes tickets: 1099621
    Catalogs: Fix 'X' being droppen from isbns on export

    Closes tickets: 1098325
    Fix an error when editing date in the main book list and all visible dates are blank.

    Closes tickets: 1098675
    Fix calibre-smtp using incorrect escaping for non-ascii attachment filenames

    Closes tickets: 1098478
    Conversion: When subsetting fonts, handle multiple @font-face rules referring to the same physical font
    Content server: Update metadata when serving azw3 files
    CHM Input: Handle chm files that contain files with url unsafe filenames.

    Closes tickets: 1100610
    Content server: Fix custom icons for top level categories incorrect.

    Closes tickets: 1095016
    Kobo driver: When resending a file to the device, update the filesize in the Kobo db to prevent the device from deleting the file.

    Closes tickets: 1100607

New news sources

    Asco de Vida by Krittika Goyal
    Schattenblick by ThB

Improved news sources

    The Chronicle of Higher Education
    Smithsonian Magazine
    Philosophy Now
    The Economist
    Business Week Magazine

http://calibre-ebook.com

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New Features

    News download: Add support for logging in to sites that require javascript for their logins.

    Closes tickets: 1101809
    News download: Do not convert all downloaded images to JPG format. This fixes the problem of PNG images with transparent backgrounds being rendered with black backgrounds
    CHM Input: Support hierarchical table of contents. Do not generate an inline table of contents when a metadata table of contents is present. Also correctly decode the text in the table of contents
    Get Books: Add the beam-ebooks.de store
    Make custom yes/no columns using icons put text values under the icons.
    Driver for LG E400 and SayCoolA710

    Closes tickets: 1103741, 1104528
    Speed up device connection when there are lots of books on the device by not generating cover thumbnails unless they are actually needed.
    Have the metadata download dialog remember its last used size.

    Closes tickets: 1101150

Bug Fixes

    Fix deleting a custom column that was used in a column coloring rule makes the column coloring preferences panel unusable

    Closes tickets: 1103504
    Store caches outside the config directory for non-portable calibre installs
    PDF Output: Dont crash if the user has a font on his system that is missing the OS/2 table

    Closes tickets: 1102403
    Conversion: Do not error out because of an error in user supplied search replace rules.

    Closes tickets: 1102647
    Conversion: Replace all non-ascii characters in CSS class names, as they cause problems with some broken EPUB renderers.

    Closes tickets: 1102587
    Do not choke when reading metadata from MOBI files with incorrectly encoded metadata fields
    Conversion: Preserve ToC entries that point nowhere instead of causing them to point to a non-existent file
    E-book viewer: Allow entries in the Table of Contents that do not point anywhere, instead of just ignoring them.
    Content server: Fix the 'Previous' link in the mobile version of the content server webpage skipping an entry

    Closes tickets: 1101124

New news sources

    Contemporary Argentine Writers by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    TSN
    St. Louis Post Dispatch
    Metro UK
    Michelle Malkin
    Barrons

http://calibre-ebook.com

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New Features

    Allow adding user specified icons to the main book list for books whose metadata matches specific criteria. Go to Preferences->Look & Feel->Column icons to setup these icons. They work in the same way as the column coloring rules.
    Allow choosing which page of a PDF to use as the cover.

    Closes tickets: 1110019

    To access this functionality add the PDF to calibre then click the edit metadata button. In the top right area of the edit metadata dialog there is a button to get the cover from the ebook file, this will now allow you to choose which page (from the first ten pages) of the pdf to use as the cover.
    Add option to turn off reflections in the cover browser (Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover Browser)
    PDF Output: Add an option to add page numbers to the bottom of every page in the generated PDF file (look in the PDF Output section of the conversion dialog)
    Add the full item name to the tool tip of a leaf item displayed in the tag browser.

    Closes tickets: 1106231

Bug Fixes

    Fix out-of-bounds data causing errors in the Tag Browser

    Closes tickets: 1108017
    Conversion: Handle input documents that use multiple prefixes referring to the XHTML namespace correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1107220
    PDF Output: Fix regression that caused some svg images to be rendered as black rectangles.

    Closes tickets: 1105294
    Metadata download: Only normalize title case if the result has no language set or its language is English

New news sources

    Dob NeviNosti by Darko Miletic
    La Nacion (CR) by Douglas Delgado

Improved news sources

    Baltimore Sun
    Harvard Business Review
    Victoria Times
    South China Morning Post
    Volksrant
    Seattle Times

http://calibre-ebook.com

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New Features

    New metadata source: Edelweiss, a catalog of books that is updated directly by publishers. To enable it, go to Preferences->Metadata download and enable the Edelweiss plugin.

    Closes tickets: 1091073
    Add an option to add extra spacing between rows in the book list. (Preferences->Look & Feel)

    Closes tickets: 1117907
    Column coloring/icons: Add a 'days ago' condition, useable with columns that store dates to set colors/icons based on the number of days before today
    E-book viewer: Add shortcuts Ctrl+= and Ctrl+- to increase/decrease text size.

    Closes tickets: 1117524
    When showing possible duplicates after adding books, also show the file formats.
    Driver for Trekstor Ventos Tablet

Bug Fixes

    Conversion: When transliterating unicode characters, handle « and » correctly.

    Closes tickets: 1117270
    Fix adding books from multiple directories with multiple books per directory treating opf files as an ebook
    Fix download metadata window not resizable on smaller screens

    Closes tickets: 1116849
    Tweak Book: When rebuilding azw3 files handle <a> tags that have name but not id attribute, these are apparently produced by kindlegen.

    Closes tickets: 1112934
    Fix regression in advanced column color rules.

    Closes tickets: 1118678

New news sources

    VICE Magazine Deutschland by Alex
    Libertad Digital by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    El Mundo today
    fluter.de
    Birmingham Post
    Japan Times
    The Toronto Star
    Le Monde (subscription version)
    Globe and Mail

http://calibre-ebook.com

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Liefert Informationen zum Arbeiten mit dem Bildbearbeitungsprogramm Gimp; neben einer allgemeinen Einführung und Kurzbeschreibung gibt es eine ausführliche Anleitung; Themen sind unter anderem Auswahl, Transparenz, Pfade und Farbverläufe.

http://docs.gimp.org/index.html

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New Features

    New tool: "Polish books" that allows you to perform various automated cleanup actions on EPUB and AZW3 files without doing a full conversion.

    Polishing books is all about putting the shine of perfection on your ebook files. You can use it to subset embedded fonts, update the metadata in the book files from the metadata in the calibre library, manipulate the book jacket, etc. More features will be added in the future. To use this tool, go to Preferences->Toolbar and add the Polish books tool to the main toolbar. Then simply select the books you want to be polished and click the Polish books button. Polishing, unlike conversion, does not change the internal structure/markup of your book, it performs only the minimal set of actions needed to achieve its goals. Note that polish books is a completely new codebase, so there may well be bugs, polishing a book backs up the original as ORIGINAL_EPUB or ORIGINAL_AZW3, unless you have turned off this feature in Preferences->Tweaks, in which case you should backup your files manually. You can also use this tool from the command line with ebook-polish.exe.
    Driver for the Trekstor Pyrus Mini.

    Closes tickets: 1124120
    E-book viewer: Add an option to change the minimum font size.

    Closes tickets: 1122333
    PDF Output: Add support for converting documents with math typesetting, as described here: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/typesetting_math.html
    Column coloring/icons: Add more conditions when using date based columns with reference to 'today'.

Bug Fixes

    Transforming to titlecase - handle typographic hyphens in all caps phrases
    Dont ignore file open events that occur before the GUI is initialized on OS X

    Closes tickets: 1122713
    News download: Handle feeds that have entries with empty ids
    Fix a regression that broke using the template editor
    Do not block startup while scanning the computer for available network interfaces. Speeds up startup time on some windows computers with lots of spurious network interfaces.

New news sources

    Navegalo by Douglas Delgado
    El Guardian and More Intelligent Life by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

    New Yorker
    Kommersant
    Le Monde (Subscription version)
    NZ Herald

http://calibre-ebook.com

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Sigil is an ePub ebook editor with support for both WYSIWYG word processor style and direct code editing.

Features

Online Sigil User's Guide, and Wiki documentation
Full UTF-16 support
Full EPUB 2 spec support
Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
WYSIWYG editing in Book View
Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
User interface translated into many languages
Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated FlightCrew EPUB validator
Embedded HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned

Whats new: >>

Code: [Auswählen]

Sigil 0.7.0 2013.02.17
    - Implement issue 1983: Set the tooltips of files in Book Browser to the filename.
    - Implement issue 1965: Allow opening files that are missing container.xml.
    - Implement issue 1975: HTML TOC and Index should use CSS files instead of inline stylesheet.
    - Implement issue 1968: Bookmark location in editing window.
    - Implement issue 1963: Table Of Contents window should default to expanded when opened or refreshed.
    - Implement issue 1953: Allow entering a list of new words into dictionary preferences.
    - Implement issue 1952: Add shortcut for Copy HTML file.
    - Implement issue 1951: Doubleclick on Image Report file should find next use of image.
    - Implement issue 1949: Add support for multiple active user dictionaries.
    - Implement issue 1947: Spellcheck dialog to manage all misspelled words at once.
    - Implement issue 62: Add document's css styles to menu.
    - Implement issue 1945: Allow editing of CSS while displaying page.
    - Implement issue 1661: Report list of all different characters in the book.
    - Implement issue 1746: Add Report for Links and Footnotes.
    - Implement issue 1941: Add Find & Replace option to wrap or not wrap searches.
    - Implement issue 1940: Update Insert Image to Insert File to support insert of audio/video.
    - Implement issue 1938: Update Delete Image files to Delete Media files to include audio/video.
    - Implement issue 1937: Add Report for All Files.
    - Implement issue 1936: Add Clip Bar toolbar with buttons for Clips and shortcuts for Clips.
    - Implement issue 1931: Change to QRegularExpression for most regexes.
    - Implement issue 1185: Edit Table of Contents without needing Generate TOC.
    - Implement issue 1929: Add support for playing audio and video files.
    - Implement issue 917: Sigil should support audio and video tags.
    - Implement issue 1928: Add well-formed check to HTML File Report.
    - Implement issue 1864: Allow Metadata Editor dialog to stay open while editing.
    - Implement issue 1871: Code View context menu should show clips even if word is misspelled.
    - Implement issue 1870: Saved Searches should use mode settings from Find & Replace.
    - Implement issue 1927: Add support for basic replacement Clips (e.g. span) in Book View.
    - Implement issue 20: Embedded fonts support.
    - Implement issue 1926: Upgrade to Qt5.
    - Implement issue 1924: Add dockable Clips window to select clips.
    - Implement issue 1925: Don't force well formed checks unless absolutely necessary.
    - Implement issue 1843: Preview should be real-time display of Code View.
    - Fix issue 1989: Problem with nested index entries.
    - Fix issue 1964: Correcting a word using spellcheck does not make file go to "not saved" state.
    - Fix issue 1961: Generate TOC should not create IDs for headings when it only points to filenames.
    - Fix issue 1857: CSS Highlighting inline styles inconsistent.
    - Fix issue 1946: Highlight misspelled words checkbox should be available in Preferences.
    - Fix issue 1943: Reports can crash if file has non well-formed xml.
    - Fix issue 1883: TOC window does not jump to right location for some entries.
    - Fix issue 1906: "Delete unused image files" deleting background images.
    - Fix issue 1874: Using Delete Unused Stylesheet Classes deletes pseudo-elements.
    - Fix issue 1939: CSS parser does not match wildcard selectors consistently.
    - Fix issue 1935: Improve speed of Index Editor autofill by removing progress dialog.
    - Fix issue 1891: Opening the Saved Searches expands all groups.
    - Fix issue 1934: Go To Style does not work with CSS filenames that have spaces in them.
    - Fix issue 1933: No message is displayed if Go To Style can't find a style.
    - Fix issue 1932: Replace All needs to be run twice in some cases.
    - Fix issue 1930: Fix Metadata language dropdown selection incorrect matching.
    - Fix issue 1775: Sigil-0.6.0 edit very slow with Thai e-Pub.
    - Fix issue 1764: Sigil crashes on KDE after rearranging text sections.
    - Fix issue 1720: Book View highlights text apparently randomly.
    - Fix issue 1923: CSS validation should use EPUB 2 profile.
    - Fix issue 1922: Invalid EPUB warning dialog is not long enough.
    - Fix issue 1918: Support import of tab separated entries for Index Editor.
    - Fix issue 1917: Keep selection when deleting unused images if an HTML file was selected.
    - Fix issue 1916: Allow Go To Style to work for link type text/x-oeb1-css.
    - Fix issue 1869: Backspace in Preferences - Shortcuts causes crash.
    - Fix issue 1818: Hyperlink of URL with & causes invalid code.
    - Fix issue 1824: Cursor position changes when saving the book.
https://code.google.com/p/sigil/