21 september 2025 General
Thanks to Gary, a first theme for Ubooquity v3 is available !
It's a highly customizable theme that even adds audiobooks support to Ubooquity.
The theme and its documentation can be downloaded from their dedicated forum thread.
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.
Ubooquity 3 is not impacted by this vulnerability and can be used safely.
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.
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.
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.
02 september 2014 General
The ubooquity website now has a dedicated forum, hosted on UserEcho.
This forum is meant to gather your feedback (questions, ideas, bugs...) in a single place so that discussions between users can take place more easily than in the comments section of the news. It also has a few interesting features:
Private messages can also be directly sent to me through the forum. I will keep the contact page online for now, but they are redundant.
The only drawback: you will have to sign in to the forum before being able to post or send a message. But you can do that using a lot of different account provider (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, OpenID...) or by directly creating a UserEcho account, so it should not be a big problem.
Go to the forum by clicking the "Forum" link in the top menu or the "Feedback" label on the right side of your screen.