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New features - Conversion: Add support for reading images in the JPEG XL format - Conversion: Add support for CSS Level 4 selectors - Edit book: Check book: Add a check for dangling ARIA references and update ARIA references when auto fixing invalid ids Closes tickets: 2170895 - MOBI/AZW3/PDB Output: Speed up compression, making conversion to these formats faster - Content server/E-book viewer: Honor the prefers-reduced-motion setting of the operating system - Speed up adding books and starting calibre in large libraries with the Tag browser hidden - Catalogs: Use calibre as the creator of generated catalogs and record the generation date as the publication date Closes tickets: 2022353 - Create your own Adventure: Improve the character selection screen Bug fixes - PDF Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of some PDF files Closes tickets: 2170990 - EPUB 3 conversion: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused invalid navigation markup to be generated Closes tickets: 2170400 - 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 - PDF Output: Fix a blank page at the end of chapters in some multi column layouts Closes tickets: 2170285 - Amazon and Google Images metadata sources: Get them working again using camoufox - Various robustness and edge case improvements int he database backed around data files, notes and formats - Fix…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.17.0

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New features - Read aloud: Add the high quality Kokoro voices, which sound much more natural than the Piper voices, especially for English To use them, select the Piper backend in the Read aloud configuration and choose one of the Kokoro voices. The voice will be automatically downloaded the first time it is used. - News download: Support for downloading news from websites that block automated access by using the camoufox browser Some news sites, such as The New York Times, The Economist and The Atlantic, block all lighter weight ways of fetching their pages. Recipes for these sites now use the camoufox browser, which is automatically downloaded the first time such a recipe is run. Recipe authors can use it by setting browser_type = 'camoufox' in their recipes. - PDF Input: Support for right-to-left text and better handling of multi-column pages - Add support for reading images in the AVIF format - Tag browser: A new option to sort hierarchical tags that have only children but no actual books as folders, before all other tags at their level Closes tickets: 2144044 - Edit book: Check book: Allow skipping of problems of a particular type Closes tickets: 2120771 - Edit book: ToC View: Indicate what ToC entries, if any, are in the file being currently edited - Edit book: Check book: When auto fixing invalid ids also update CSS selectors - E-book viewer: Add an option to display the immediate parent ToC section in headers/footers Closes tickets: 2169454 - E-book viewer: Allow…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.16.0

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New features - A "Create your own adventure" writing game -- interactive storytelling with an AI managing the world you create This is a little different from the usual run of calibre features. It started out as a way to test the AI backends in calibre but turned into something fun to use. As always with AI features its completely optional and not even loaded unless you explicitly run it. Go to Preferences->Toolbars & menus and add the "Create your own Adventure" to the main toolbar to use it - E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Allow selecting multiple highlights and right clicking to change their style Closes tickets: 2167215 - Cover grid: Allow choosing which corner of the cover emblems are placed on in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover grid->Layout Closes tickets: 2167194 - E-book viewer: An optional button to add to the sidebar to easily switch between saved window sizes, add it by right clicking the sidebar and choosing customize Closes tickets: 2166717 - E-book viewer: When creating highlights with notes, show the notes as a tooltip when the mouse hovers over the highlights. Controlled via the setting to hide mouse over tooltips in the Miscellaneous section of the viewer preferences Closes tickets: 2159668 - A new CLI flag to add and delete a book from a specified path in the system temp dir when running calibre.exe Bug fixes - E-book viewer: Fix Read Aloud stopping at some full screen images Closes tickets: 2165923 - E-book viewer: In flow mode when using Read Aloud be…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.15.0

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New features - Allow generating book covers using AI with different cover styles such as romance, sci-fi, pulp fiction etc. To use it select a book and click Edit metadata and then the "AI Generate" button. Note that you will have to configure an image generating AI provider the first time you use this feature. - Edit book: File browser: When hovering the mouse over an image file show a floating preview of the image next to the file browser - Tags editor: have searching ignore accents Closes tickets: 2164853 - AI: Add Anthropic and Grok backends for Claude and Grok models - AI: Remove GitHub backend as service has been discontinued Closes tickets: 2163567 - Edit metadata dialog: Always scale up cover preview to fill available space while maintaining aspect ratio Bug fixes - Content server: OPDS: Fix a regression that caused first line of comments to be missing Closes tickets: 2165075 - Undo delete books: Show a progress bar when more than five books have to be undeleted Closes tickets: 2164811 - Linux: Binary builds: Fix hyperlinks in labels not working on some Linux systems Closes tickets: 2164584 - Get books: Fix a regression that broke show in store Closes tickets: 2164586 - Fix cover images with empty EXIF records not showing on Kindle lockscreen Closes tickets: 1943495 - Fix a regression in 9.11 that broke configuring the Folder device driver Closes tickets: 2163674 - Google AI: Fix the checkbox to allow search grounding invisible in the config dialog Closes tickets…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.14.0

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Bug fixes - PDF Output: Fix a regression in calibre 9 which caused links in PDF to scroll to a target location minus the top margin, thus ending up a few lines above the target - Content server: Fix an error when uploading a data file to a book with no existing data files Closes tickets: 2162628 - Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke searching in the builtin viewer Closes tickets: 2162644 - Content server: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the conversion options sections to be missing Closes tickets: 2162647 - Book details panel: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke drag and drop of covers Closes tickets: 2162711 - Windows: Fix a crash caused by some third party plugins trying to send notifications in non-GUI threads Closes tickets: 2162935 - Bulk metadata dialog: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the yes/no buttons to be hidden for Yes/No column edit controls Closes tickets: 2162638 - Edit book: Compress Images: Fix error when converting GIF to JPEG on Windows - Linux: Preload html5-parser to avoid errors on systems that ship ancient libxml2 when converting to PDF Improved news sources - Nautilus Magazine

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.13.0

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New features - macOS: Add sharing of books via AirDop to the Connect/Share button - Content server: Add support for plugins that can add new endpoints to the server backend - Edit book: Compress images: Add an option to convert GIF images to JPEG/WebP - ToC Editor: Add a button to sort the entries in the Table of Contents Closes tickets: 2161171 - Content server: OPDS: Add kind metadata to feed links Closes tickets: 2161117 - Kobo driver: Add support for latest Tolino firmware Bug fixes - E-book viewer: Fix an issue causing text area width to change when using section titles in header/footers and the text is too long to fit in the space Closes tickets: 2160341 - When adding books via calibre.exe fix --with-library not working. Now calibre will switch to the specified library and only then add the book Closes tickets: 2162073 - When evaluating recursive templates inherit python template policy - Fix inability to input more than ~30K characters in custom tag like columns Closes tickets: 2161833 - Fix some menu separators not rendering on some systems with high res monitors - Content server: fix unstyled flash when transitioning between series/author views in dark mode - Content server: Prevent unauthenticated users from updating annotations - Edit metadata dialog: Fix right click menu->Remove format not working Closes tickets: 2160467 - Edit book: fix typo in string format that broke convert PNG to JPEG function - Linux binaries: Preload libxml2 to ensure the correct version…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.12.0

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New features - Allow exporting annotations in the HTML format as a standalone web page that can be viewed in any browser with support for light/dark themes, searching and filtering by highlight style - E-book viewer: Ask AI: Allow using the {selected} placeholder when typing free form queries to the AI as well Bug fixes - E-book viewer: Fix text area not always resizing correctly when window is resized when the scrollbar is enabled - Fix a regression in the previous release that broke python templates in the book details panel - Fix a regression in the previous release that caused default values for custom columns to not be used when adding new books Improved news sources - Scientific American - Phoronix

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.11.0

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New features - Content server: A new "modern" interface with a sidebar to ease navigation - Content server: When used with HTTPS allow installation as a PWA (Progressive Web App) - Edit book: Saved searches: When filtering the list of saved searches match by keywords Closes tickets: 2156386 - CSS parsing: Add support for CSS Level 4 selectors Closes tickets: 2156213 - Cover grid: When using an image larger than the viewport as a texture scale it to fit the viewport Closes tickets: 2154669 - Annotations browser: Allow restricting displayed annotations by custom annotation styles as well Closes tickets: 2154593 - Edit book: Compress images: Add option to convert PNG images to JPEG or WEBP Bug fixes - E-book viewer: Fix IME on Windows not working when typing in notes for highlights Closes tickets: 2049604 - Conversion: Heuristics: Improve performance in some pathological cases - SNB Input: Fix error on some input files - Windows: fix rare crash when too many notifications are displayed at once - Fix duplicating of books not duplicating value from enumerated columns when the column has a default value defined Closes tickets: 2103999 - Fix a regression in 9.8 that caused errors from AI plugin providers to be silently swallowed and not displayed to user - Fix CSV export invalid when exporting comments field Closes tickets: 2155175 - Disallow Python templates when reading book metadata (CVE-2026-53511) Improved news sources - The Week - Economist Espresso - Horizons

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.10.0

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New features - A new option to keep the current search when switching Virtual libraries under Preferences->Searching Closes tickets: 2151262 - Pages column: Add support for accurate page counting of fixed layout EPUB files - Add from ISBN: Ignore space around the colon used to separate identifier type from value Closes tickets: 2150806 - Get books: Update and improve the WolneLektury store Bug fixes - E-book viewer: Fix incorrect search match offsets in normal search mode when the text contains non-BMP Unicode characters Closes tickets: 2152227 - Content server: Apply null metadata when serving book files. Matches behavior of save to disk Closes tickets: 2152879 - Linux: Fix SSL certificate loading not working on Fedora 44 - Bulk metadata dialog: Fix backspace key not working in number input boxes when set to Undefined New news sources - Various Hungarian and Czech news sources by bubak - SuperInteressante by Pedro Henrique Souza Improved news sources - Indian Express - Business Standard - BBC - New Criterion - Associated Press - Pro Publica - LA Times - Washington Post - New Yorker - TLS Magazine - Asian Review of Books - VOX - The Conversation - Chicago Tribune - New Republic Magazine - Indian Express - TIME Magazine

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.9.0

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New features - Content server: In the /mobile view allow clicking on book titles/covers to see book details - Edit book: Allow reset of zoom to 100% by right clicking in the preview panel - macOS Tahoe: Have the calibre app icon automatically use a dark look when the system is in dark mode - AI: Support for arbitrary local providers that export an OpenAI compatible interface Bug fixes - Native TTS engine: Normalize text to NFKC so that word tracking works when the native engine reports spoken word with different normal form - When converting GIF images to PNG workaround bug in PIL causing exception when checking if the GIF is animated Closes tickets: 2148533 - Preserve existing conversation with AI when there is an error talking to it Improved news sources - Hacker News - The Atlantic - Scientific American - Mediapart - Hindu

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.8.0

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New features - Annotations browser: Allow grouping results by any field - E-book viewer: Handle native pinch to zoom gesture on touchpads the same as the pinch to zoom on touchscreens. Default action is to change font size. - Content server: Implement full offline mode when using HTTPS connections to the content server Bug fixes - E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused annotations/last read information to not be saved in e-book files Closes tickets: 2146912 - AI: Make the GitHub backend a bit more robust Closes tickets: 2147495 - AI: OpenRouter backend: Fix reasoning level "auto" disabling all reasoning Closes tickets: 2147008 - Content server: Read book: Fix regression causing error during searching Closes tickets: 2147261 - Content server: Fix opening results from full text search not working Closes tickets: 2146829 - Fix a couple of minor regress in the new Full text search view introduced in the previous release - MTP driver: Linux: Fix a rare crash when connecting devices with large collections - Fix cover not being set when adding files to existing book records with no cover New news sources - Cenital by Rodrigo Pazos Improved news sources - The Week - The Age - Financial Times - Mint

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.7.0

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New features - Full text search: A new cards based view of full text search results with book covers To perform a full text search, click the "FT" button on the left of the search bar. The old compact result view can be re-activated by clicking the button to the left of the search bar in the Full text search window. - A new "word-prefix" completion mode that shows matches that have any word starting with the typed in letters Closes tickets: 2144422 - Bookshelves: Add option to have the height of books be constant per group - Edit book: File list: Allow using Ctrl+Left/Right to move an item to top/bottom of the list Bug fixes - Fix notes being lost when changing the lookup name of custom column Closes tickets: 2146404 - E-book viewer: Fix using the slower/faster buttons causing a chapter skip when using the Piper neural speech backend - Content server viewer: Fix annotations being not synced to the server in some Android devices when using the Firefox browser - Windows: Force kill calibre.exe on quit to workaround hang in interpreter shutdown on some systems - TXT Output: Fix asciiize option not applying to generated inline Table of Contents - E-book viewer: Disallow background images from the internet. This was an unused feature anyway (CVE-2026-33205) - TXT Input: Ensure resource files are read only from book contents (CVE-2026-33206) - Only apply changes to text fields in the book list when the new value is different from the old Closes tickets: 2144489 - Completions…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.6.0

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New features - Allow creating a column to display reading progress Closes tickets: 2142135 Reading progress comes from the calibre E-book viewer. To create the column, go to Preferences->Add your own columns, click the plus button and finally click on the "Read progress" link. - Annotations browser: Allow filtering by highlight style - E-book viewer: Add an option to display the pages from the paper book page list (when available) while also showing the last page number Closes tickets: 2142728 - Edit book: Add a tool to remove unused images, similar to the tool to remove unused CSS - Tolino driver: support new firmware version - E-book viewer: Add a reset button to the reading stats panel Bug fixes - Fix overridden icons from config directory not switching between dark/light variants on theme change Closes tickets: 2143063 - Fix: Use MOBI fallback for KFX format when downloading news periodicals - Edit book: Restore focus to editor after showing search count popup message - Fix a bug in KEPUB markup removal when there are empty kobo spans - RB Input: Ensure files are extracted within container dir (CVE-2026-30853) - Book list: Fix ctrl+shift+arrow key not moving the currently selected book. Fixes #2142950 New news sources - Truthout by PaulB223 Improved news sources - Naked Capitalism

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.5.0

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New features - E-book viewer: Add "reading stats" to show reading progress Closes tickets: 2142715 - Edit book: Nicer UI for changing the entries in the insert tag menu - Cover grid: Option to draw emblems on top of cover in Preferences->Look & feel->Cover grid->Emblems - Cover grid: Add option to draw text flush with bottom of rendered cover Bug fixes - DOCX Input: Fix paragraph/list margins in documents created by LibreOffice that do not have Word 2007 compatibility Closes tickets: 2142611 - ODT Input: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke conversion of images Closes tickets: 2142345 - Content server: When banning IPs for repeated login is enabled, only use the IP address not any HTTP headers as the ban key (CVE-2026-27824) - Content server: Sanitize content disposition received as query parameter (CVE-2026-27810) Improved news sources - WIRED Daily - TOI Print Edition

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.4.0

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New features - Windows installer: Detect running calibre processes and ask user to shutdown calibre before proceeding with installation to avoid reboots post installation - Improve Preferences->Tweaks getting rid of the need for double apply - KEPUB Output: When converting to KEPUB preserve cover aspect ratio regardless of the setting for it in the EPUB Output to match the behavior of KEPUB files from Kobo Closes tickets: 2141251 Bug fixes - Make the new pages column value available in save to disk/send to device templates Closes tickets: 2141151 - Hanvon N10 device driver: Fix calibre unable to put its metadata files onto the device Closes tickets: 2141625 - Amazon metadata download plugin: Fix incorrect series index from amazon.com - Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that broke output to PDB/TCR/zTXT files Closes tickets: 2142195 - Windows: Fix calibre not exiting on quit when the wireless device driver is used in calibre 9 Closes tickets: 2141994 - Fix error in page counting when using the calibredb command to add a book - Completion: When sorting completion matches in contains mode ensure matches are sorted first by distance from beginning and then sub-sorted alphabetically Closes tickets: 2141170 - Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 9 that caused tooltips to not follow the color scheme Closes tickets: 2141766 - PDF Input: Fix PDF Outline not being converted to Table of Contents in output document when using the calibre engine Closes tickets: 2141197 - ODT Input: Ensure…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.3.1

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New features - Windows installer: Detect running calibre processes and ask user to shutdown calibre before proceeding with installation to avoid reboots post installation - Improve Preferences->Tweaks getting rid of the need for double apply - KEPUB Output: When converting to KEPUB preserve cover aspect ratio regardless of the setting for it in the EPUB Output to match the behavior of KEPUB files from Kobo Closes tickets: 2141251 Bug fixes - Make the new pages column value available in save to disk/send to device templates Closes tickets: 2141151 - Hanvon N10 device driver: Fix calibre unable to put its metadata files onto the device Closes tickets: 2141625 - Amazon metadata download plugin: Fix incorrect series index from amazon.com - Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that broke output to PDB/TCR/zTXT files Closes tickets: 2142195 - Windows: Fix calibre not exiting on quit when the wireless device driver is used in calibre 9 Closes tickets: 2141994 - Fix error in page counting when using the calibredb command to add a book - Completion: When sorting completion matches in contains mode ensure matches are sorted first by distance from beginning and then sub-sorted alphabetically Closes tickets: 2141170 - Windows: Fix a regression in calibre 9 that caused tooltips to not follow the color scheme Closes tickets: 2141766 - PDF Input: Fix PDF Outline not being converted to Table of Contents in output document when using the calibre engine Closes tickets: 2141197 - ODT Input: Ensure…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.3.0

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New features - ZIP Output: Change the template engine used for HTML templating from templite to Mustache, for greater safety and performance. Note that this is a breaking change if you use custom templates with ZIP output (CVE-2026-25731) - Check library: Add an option to rebuild the annotations search index Closes tickets: 2139555 Bug fixes - CHM Input: Ignore internal files that have paths that end up outside the container. Prevents path traversal attacks with malicious CHM files (CVE-2026-25635) - EPUB Input: Ensure font obfuscation processing happens only on files from the EPUB, preventing path traversal attacks from malicious EPUB files (CVE-2026-25636) - Windows: Workaround for bug in Qt 6.10 causing Read Aloud in the E-book viewer to crash when stopped and restarted Closes tickets: 2139521 - Fix drag and drop of books into bookshelf view not working Closes tickets: 2139529 - Bookshelf: Fix bookshelf view blank on some macOS systems Closes tickets: 2139403 - E-book viewer: Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that broke the Go to page function Closes tickets: 2139576 - E-book viewer: Fix google dictionary lookup results not legible Closes tickets: 2140541 - E-book viewer: Fix PageUp/PageDown keys needing to be pressed repeatedly at internal HTML file boundaries in flow mode - Bookshelf: Avoid rendering during initial show while the view is still being resized - Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that caused mouse wheel to scroll a full row at a time in the Cover grid - News…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.2.1

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New features - ZIP Output: Change the template engine used for HTML templating from templite to Mustache, for greater safety and performance. Note that this is a breaking change if you use custom templates with ZIP output (CVE-2026-25731) - Check library: Add an option to rebuild the annotations search index Closes tickets: 2139555 Bug fixes - CHM Input: Ignore internal files that have paths that end up outside the container. Prevents path traversal attacks with malicious CHM files (CVE-2026-25635) - EPUB Input: Ensure font obfuscation processing happens only on files from the EPUB, preventing path traversal attacks from malicious EPUB files (CVE-2026-25636) - Windows: Workaround for bug in Qt 6.10 causing Read Aloud in the E-book viewer to crash when stopped and restarted Closes tickets: 2139521 - Fix drag and drop of books into bookshelf view not working Closes tickets: 2139529 - Bookshelf: Fix bookshelf view blank on some macOS systems Closes tickets: 2139403 - E-book viewer: Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that broke the Go to page function Closes tickets: 2139576 - E-book viewer: Fix google dictionary lookup results not legible Closes tickets: 2140541 - E-book viewer: Fix PageUp/PageDown keys needing to be pressed repeatedly at internal HTML file boundaries in flow mode - Bookshelf: Avoid rendering during initial show while the view is still being resized - Fix a regression in calibre 9.0 that caused mouse wheel to scroll a full row at a time in the Cover grid - News…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.2.0

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New features - This is a pure bugfix release fixing various regressions in calibre 9.0 Bug fixes - macOS: Fix crash when pasting cover image Closes tickets: 2139397 - Fix restore database not working Closes tickets: 2139455 - Windows: Fix the Read Aloud feature in the E-book viewer not working when using the Piper engine Closes tickets: 2139399 - Fix using icon themes in "For dark and light" mode not working Closes tickets: 2139454 - Fix covers in the Cover grid slightly stretched on high DPI screens - Amazon metadata download: Fix publication date not being retrieved form amazon.co.jp Closes tickets: 2139414 Improved news sources - Economist

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.1.0

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New features - A new Bookshelf view with your books arranged on shelves showing their spines. Click the Layout button in the bottom right corner of the calibre window to switch to Bookshelf view. - Viewer: Add an "Edit book" button to the viewer controls to edit the current book when the current book is in an editable format such as EPUB, AZW3 or KEPUB. It opens the editor at the approximate location that is currently being viewed. - Linux: Add momentum based scrolling for the book list when using high resolution scroll devices like touchpads - TXT Output: Add an option to replace images by their alt attribute text Closes tickets: 2137504 - EPUB: Support reading cover images from so called "Open Manga Format" non-conformant EPUB files produced by some Japanese publishers. - Add a tweak to change the font size of the AI chat widget Closes tickets: 2138862 - E-book viewer: Allow typing in a page number to go to instead of forcing the user to scroll through existing page numbers - Kobo driver: Support for updated firmware Bug fixes - KEPUB Output: Add some CSS to fix rendering of tate-chu-yoko text on Kobo devices - Only show the Sort button on the search bar if the Sort By action has not been added to the search bar by the user Closes tickets: 2138770 - EPUB3 metadata: Handle identifiers that use HTTP URLs without the url: prefix Closes tickets: 2137122 - Edit book: Check book: Fix spurious unreferenced warnings for SMIL media overlay audio files - Edit book: Reports: Have…

Manifest: manifests/c/calibre/calibre/9.0.0