Ubooquity 1.8.0

22 june 2015    Release

Ubooquity 1.8.0 is available.

Update: 1.8.0 has been replaced by 1.8.2 which contains a bug fix for the reverse proxy feature

New requirements

Starting with this version, Ubooquity requires Java 7 or later.

New features and improvements

• Cache management
  Ubooquity now provides caching information to your browser. This will avoid unnecessary file transfers and save bandwith.
• "host" option
  By default, Ubooquity binds itself to all available network interfaces. This new command line parameter allows you to specify the hostname Ubooquity should use when configuring its binding.
  Example: if you launch Ubooquity on your local machine (with the address 192.168.0.42, for instance), you will be able to access it with your browser on localhost:2202 and 192.168.0.42:2202. Now if you add "--host 192.168.0.42" to your command line, localhost:2202 won't work anymore.
• "workdir" option
  This new command line parameter allows you to specify where Ubooquity should create its own files (database, logs, preferences, cache, etc). The "user.dir" method, sometime mentionned on the forum to achieve the same result, is not reliable. You should use the new setting instead.
• Comics folder customization
  When displaying your comics grouped by folder, you can now add images and text to customize the appearance of theses folders. (cf forum request)
  
  
  
  Add a "folder.jpg" image (also works with png and gif) in your folder to have this image displayed instead of the usual cover.
  Add a "folder-info.html" file in your folder to have its HTML displayed on top of the content of the folder. The HTML can use other elements contained in the folder (like images, style sheets, etc) as long as their source path starts with "[[FOLDER]]" (e.g. src="http://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/[[FOLDER]]/dcComicsLogo1.png" ).
  If you want to give it a try, download this example folder. Unzip it, share it, and see how it's done.
  To use this new feature, "Folder metadata display" has to be enabled in the advanced options.
• New comics reader
  The comics reader has been rewritten from scratch to make it more usable and add "fit to width/height" options, as well as an automatic split of double pages. (cf forum discussion)
  
  
   
• New command line format
  Command line paramaters should now be passed with a "--" prefix instead of "-" (although the old syntax is still working). Here is the complete list of available parameters:
  

  Option                           Description
  ------                           -----------
  --debug                          Activate debug mode
  --headless                       Prevent Ubooquity from displaying a
                                     desktop user interface
  --help                           Display command line help
  --host <hostname or IP address>  Specify the hostname or IP address to
                                     which Ubooquity is going to bind
                                     itself to
  --port <Integer: Port number>    Specify on which Ubooquity is going to
                                     listen
  --webadmin                       Activate the web administration page
  --workdir <directory path>       Specify the working directory of
                                     Ubooquity
  

• Extended exclusion pattern
  The settings previously called "Folder exclusion pattern" (now "Scan exclusion pattern") has been modified to include files as well. Now, any file or folder whose path matches the regular expression defined by this parameter will be ignored by Ubooquity. (cf forum request)
   

Fixed bugs

• Fixed "raw files" not working on Linux/Mac OS (cf forum)
• Fixed a problem with rendering PNG files using color type 6 (cf forum)
• Fixed reverse proxy for OPDS feeds (cf forum)
• Fixed database path bug (cf forum)
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

Please note that the log format override method has changed (more specifically, the log configuration name has changed).

Get it on the download page

Ubooquity 1.7.6, bug fixes

29 march 2015    Release

Ubooquity 1.7.6 is available.
Just minor bug fixes.

Fixed bugs

• Fixed option to bypass single root folder
• Apply "java.awt.headless" system flag when using headless option

Get it on the download page

Ubooquity 1.7.5, minor release

21 march 2015    Release

Ubooquity 1.7.5 is available.

This is a minor release: a few bug fixes and a few very specific features.

Fixed bugs

• Problem with special characters (e.g. accents) in user names with iOS
• Incorrect comics file name when downloading (happened when comics contained metadata, the downloaded file name was the title instead of being the original file name)
• Incorrect sorting of comics titles containing accents
  This bug is fixed only on new databases. This means that if you want to have this bug fixed when updating Ubooquity, you will have to manually delete the file "ubooquity-4.h2.db" in your working directory (after having stopped Ubooquity of course). Since this file contains the scanned comics and ebooks data, this operation will trigger a full rescan of your collection.

New features

• Limited* support for WebP images in comics
• Limited* support of DJVU files
• New advanced option to exclude folders from scan using regular expressions
• New advanced option to bypass root folder page when there is only one root folder

* Limited by the platform Ubooquity will run on. Both feature were succesfuly tested on Windows, but they don't work on Raspberry Pi (Linux). So they might or might not work depending on your setup. These limitations come from the libraries I use, nothing I can do about it.

Technical stuff

• Added an OPDS tag for "current folder content" (should be used by Chunky reader in the future)
• Allowed use of fonts and SVG files in themes, for better customization possibilities

Get it on the download page

A word of warning for Java 6 users. This the last version supporting Java 6. Next version will require Java 7 to run. (Java 6 has been obsolete for many years anyway)