A small update for Ubooquity v2 (new 2.1.5 version)

13 october 2024    Release

A new minor version of Ubooquity v2 was published to further improve the security of cookies for user and admin sessions.
It is available on the download page.

Vulnerabilty in Ubooquity 2.1.2. Please update to 2.1.4. Ubooquity 3 is safe.

15 september 2024    General, Release

I have been informed today of a severe vulnerability in the last available version of Ubooquity 2 (version 2.1.2).

A fixed version is available on the usual download page, version 2.1.4.

Please update as soon as possible.

Ubooquity 3 is not impacted by this vulnerability and can be used safely.

Ubooquity 3 (BETA)

15 october 2023    General

A BETA version of Ubooquity 3 is available.

Due to the high number of changes made since the last release, a few bugs might still be around.
Wait a few weeks for the next stable release(version 3.1) if you want to minimize the risk of issues.
Until that stable release is available, the download and documentation pages of this site will still reference Ubooquity 2.
Documentation specific to version 3 is mentionned below.

New requirements and migration from version 2

The minimum Java version required to run Ubooquity is now Java 17.

When coming from Ubooquity version 2, your preferences (in the preferences.json file) will be automatically converted to the new preference format (in the preferences-2.json file) without erasing them. The whole database will have to be recreated though, meaning your collection will have to be rescanned.
Themes from version 2 are not compatible with version 3, you should revert to the default theme (in the settings) if you use a custom theme.

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New features

• Comics and books sections have ben unified. When sharing a folder, you have to select a category (comics, books, magazines, documents or others), but this category will just be used to group the files on the home page, Ubooquity no longer treats your files differently depending on their section/category.
   
• Reading progress is now displayed in the library and details views, with "mark as read/unread" buttons in the details.
  
  
   
• Themes have been made much more flexible, with full control over the HTML files. See the dedicated documentation for more details, and the variable reference for a complete list of the data you can use in your custom themes:
  • How to create a theme (v3)
  • Templates variable reference
     
• Thumbnail compression level can now be adjusted in the settings.
   
• Two new API endpoints (callable using a secret API key, see the advanced settings page for details and examples) were added:
  • one to remotely trigger a collection scan
  • one to remotely trigger a server shutdown.
     
• Duplicate files detection: at the end of each scan Ubooquity will list in the logs the duplicates it found (files with the same name and size).

Other changes

• Fixed display of transparent images in DJVU documents.
• Upgraded all dependencies.
• Made epub parsing more resilient.
• Improved handling of files with incorrect extensions.
• Reimplemented the desktop UI in Swing since Java 11+ does not support JavaFX out of the box anymore.
• Ubooquity is now developped in Kotlin, although a lot of Java code is still there. Full code conversion/rewrite will be done progressively.
• A lot of miscellaneous small bug fixes.

Ubooquity is not affected by Log4shell

13 december 2021    General

You might have heard about Log4shell, a critical vulnerability in the widely used Log4j logging library.

Ubooquity does not use this library (logging is done with Logback), so it is not affected by this vulnerability.

Ubooquity 2.1.2

11 october 2018    Release

Ubooquity 2.1.2 is available.

To upgrade, just stop Ubooquity and replace the Ubooquity.jar file.

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Change log

Bug fixes:

• fixed 'writers' replaced by 'publication date' in comics metadata
• fixed comic metadata reading bug

New features:

• new option to bypass Calibre individual book folders (try it if you share a Calibre library)

Miscellaneous:

• "__MACOSX" folder in archives are now ignored (they used to prevent cover display)
• OPDS pages now have unique ids
• improved security
• updated internal RAR library (RAR 5 files are still not supported though)