new-usemame/Calibre-Web-NextGen v4.1.46

v4.1.46 — Book sources from OPDS catalogs and download clients, personal ratings and reviews, Did not finish and On hold

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Book sources that import from OPDS catalogs and download clients, personal ratings and reviews, Did not finish and On hold reading states, and a batch of KOReader, Kobo and metadata fixes.

docker pull ghcr.io/new-usemame/calibre-web-nextgen:v4.1.46

Upgrading

1. KOReader plugin 4.1.46. Update CWNG Sync from KOReader's Updates Manager, or download it again from the admin page. The update brings the Library mode responsiveness and pull-progress fixes below.
2. Database changes run automatically at first start. This release adds new tables (personal ratings, private reviews, a marker for the built-in shelf date upgrade) and new columns (shelf sharing permission, support-link settings, default fonts, custom-column visibility, managed Calibre server settings, highlight text anchors). No manual step is needed. Existing accounts keep their current permissions, links and sync settings.
3. Two defaults changed. The general cache in Docker now defaults to /config/cache (an explicit CACHE_DIR is unchanged). New accounts sync only selected shelves to a Kobo; existing accounts keep their setting.
4. Optional new settings, all off or unchanged by default. Book sources, the managed Calibre content server, the support-link override and filename matching for KOReader do nothing until an administrator turns them on. Generic OIDC can now be configured through GENERIC_OAUTH_* environment variables (or GENERIC_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET_FILE).
5. No new dependencies in this release.

New

Book sources

• Find books pulls a book straight into your library from an OPDS catalog. Administrators add catalogs under Admin → Book sources, test them and choose who may use them. Requests wait for approval unless the account has auto-approve, and each one ends with an import receipt. Off by default.
• More ways to fetch. Search several catalogs at once; search a Newznab/Torznab indexer (Prowlarr and Jackett presets) and import through SABnzbd; use NZBGet, qBittorrent or Transmission; choose individual books from a completed download (#2459); import DRM-free MOBI 6 books where enabled.
• Torrent and magnet support. Pure-v2 and hybrid torrent files, direct pure-v2 and paired hybrid magnets (qBittorrent with libtorrent 2.0), and v1 torrents with per-file hints now import. Unsupported clients refuse before submission and can be retried.
• OPDS 1 and OPDS 2 detail pages can be opened before requesting a book, and OPDS 2 language maps use your account locale (#2463).
• Busy download clients no longer strand requests. Polling is bounded, completed downloads survive tracker errors and NZBGet repair warnings, and final-directory moves wait without resubmitting.

Reading and shelves

• Did not finish and On hold states in the New UI and Classic keep your position, highlights and notes. Filter them in the catalog, Advanced Search, smart shelves and OPDS (#1081).
• Personal half-star ratings for every reader, in Classic and the New UI, without changing Calibre metadata. Household averages include only readers who choose to share.
• Private book reviews on the book page in both UIs (#917).
• Open a book without saving progress (lookup mode), and remove a book from Currently Reading without losing saved positions.
• Smart and ordinary shelf pages in the New UI with matching editors, sharing, device sync and OPDS visibility options.
• Drag books onto sidebar shelves in the New UI, with a touch handle and keyboard picker (#946, thanks @KucharczykL). Add books on a shelf opens a searchable picker.
• Shift+click selects a run of books (#2266), and Select all covers the whole current view (#2268).
• Series links on book cards open the series page (#1007). Choose a shelf or smart shelf as the source for Discover picks (#1229, thanks @chloeroform).
• Filter Authors and Series by book count. Browse custom columns, including trees, in the New UI (thanks @Rol3333, #2363).

Library management

• Bulk Edit can remove tags, authors, publishers or languages (#1703, thanks @magdalar). A server-rejected field now shows as failed.
• Export a filtered book list as CSV or TXT (#1059). Find ISBNs inside book files from the metadata editor (#303, thanks @briffaantoine).
• Tag imported books by their ingest folder (#1495). Sort by configured numeric and date custom columns, and restrict views with Boolean and enumeration custom columns.
• Large PDF conversion now gets time proportional to page count, up to 12 hours.
• Custom OPDS download filenames from a metadata template (thanks @trallen, #2373).
• Optional managed Calibre content server for Calibre clients, disabled by default (thanks @benjitobz, #2210).

Readers, sync and administration

• Word-based reading apps sync positions and highlights with KOReader, the web reader and Kobo. A Calibre book id also works as a KOSync document key.
• Match KOReader reading by filename for converted or edited sideloaded copies, an optional Advanced setting (#1444).
• Literata font in both EPUB readers (thanks @sgreadly), uploadable reader fonts for the whole server, and default body and display fonts for new accounts (#751).
• Generic OIDC without secrets in the database, and a custom support URL that replaces or hides project links.
• Choose which custom fields appear on New UI cards and tables. Book detail can hide the original imported filename. The View settings menu now holds Export and a switch for the shelf drag handles (#2475, thanks @kanjieater).

Fixed

Kobo, KOReader and sync

• Kobo sync no longer fails on reading positions that carry a time zone (#2457).
• KOReader stays responsive while Library mode loads a large book list, with a progress notice (#2329). Pull progress restores a position the device saved itself (#2380).
• Edits to a highlight from KOReader advance its revision.
• Calibre Web Companion 2.3.1 and similar apps can sign in again (CSRF token on /login).
• Selecting text while a synced book opens no longer loses the selection.

Metadata and import

• Automatic metadata fetch no longer fails on an existing rating value (#2435, thanks @Godferdom), no longer applies the next volume of a numbered series, and fills in books with an "Unknown" author (#2479, thanks @splitsec2).
• Changing the value of an identifier a book already has is saved (#2387, thanks @garionjb).
• A large library no longer delays startup looking for half-written covers (#2509).
• Convert Library and ingest no longer delete each other's files; Convert Library and the EPUB Fixer start again after a killed run; Cancel stops the running conversion (#2425, #2424, thanks @splitsec2).
• Kindle EPUB Fixer keeps book content when removing Amazon markers (#1528, thanks @sltvtr), keeps stylesheet encoding correct, and removes commented-out XML declarations that blanked Kobo pages (#2506, #2507, thanks @sgreadly). Single-book repairs now enforce admin and CSRF checks and save their history.
• ACSM tickets run installed Calibre import plugins (#1228). Conversion choices match the installed Calibre plugins.
• Higher-resolution Kindle covers are tried first.
• Requests no longer keep a different edition with the same title, or duplicate an EPUB that only differs in ZIP packaging.

Interface and accounts

• Covers load from the browser cache again (#2386, thanks @Dirk71).
• Renaming an account to a different letter case works (#2437, thanks @Godferdom).
• Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian letters sort and filter after Z (#521, #1050, thanks @chloeroform).
• Smart shelves and Tags use one name across Classic, the New UI and OPDS (#1498, #1511).
• Long series names no longer hide the book number on cards (#2051, thanks @magdalar).
• Recently Added and Recent Publications shelves keep moving with the date (#2370, thanks @trallen).
• Unsupported smart-shelf rules stay visible in the New UI (#1617, thanks @alva-seal). Sharing your own shelves no longer needs permission to edit public ones.
• EPUB footnotes follow publisher styles and Go to note works at larger text sizes (#2255, thanks @futsiang76).
• Stats and Activity follow your account language (#1173, thanks @standhaftsohnsergius).
• OPDS search honors the signed-in reader's restrictions. Custom date fields use their stored calendar day.
• Fresh containers started as a non-root user complete setup. Windows and macOS processor names no longer trigger a false architecture warning (#2232, thanks @Rol3333). Bare-metal logs are no longer written twice (#1613, thanks @Thovi98).
• Classic metadata and search controls have accessible names; light-theme count badges are readable.

Security

• Text typed by another user, such as a username or book title, no longer runs as code on the admin Tasks page (#1076, thanks @aguspatur22, #2209). Smart-shelf names and icons are also escaped in Classic headings.

Full details in CHANGELOG.md.