06 february 2016 Release
Ubooquity 1.9.0 is available.
New features and improvements
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Online epub reader
You can now read epub files online the same way you already could with comics and PDF books.

Miscellaneous
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The online comics reader manages double page splitting much better than before
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Thumbnails dimensions are now limited in the default and Modern themes. You don't need to manually resize your custom folder images anymore
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Better favicons for bookmarks
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Ubooquity is now fullscreen on Android devices when launched from a home screen shortcut
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Changed skin of the GUI (should me more usable on Linux)
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Fixed reverse proxy for PDF books online reader
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Raw files are now alphabetically sorted
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New logs: scan statistics and online reader accessed books/comics
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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Update: 1.8.0 has been replaced by 1.8.2 which contains a bug fix for the reverse proxy feature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
Fixed bugs
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Fixed "raw files" not working on Linux/Mac OS (cf forum)
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Fixed a problem with rendering PNG files using color type 6 (cf forum)
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Fixed reverse proxy for OPDS feeds (cf forum)
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Fixed database path bug (cf forum)
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Miscellaneous minor bug fixes
Please note that the log format override method has changed (more specifically, the log configuration name has changed).
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29 march 2015 Release
Ubooquity 1.7.6 is available.
Just minor bug fixes.
Fixed bugs
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Fixed option to bypass single root folder
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Apply "java.awt.headless" system flag when using headless option
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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
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Problem with special characters (e.g. accents) in user names with iOS
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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)
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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
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Limited* support for WebP images in comics
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Limited* support of DJVU files
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New advanced option to exclude folders from scan using regular expressions
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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
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Added an OPDS tag for "current folder content" (should be used by Chunky reader in the future)
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Allowed use of fonts and SVG files in themes, for better customization possibilities
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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)
14 december 2014 Release
Ubooquity 1.7.0 is available.
This upgrade will trigger a complete rescan of your of comics and ebooks files. You will not lose your settings, but depending on the size of your collection, it could take time.
If you use the "Modern" theme, you will have to download the new version of this theme on the themes page.
New features
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Comics Metadata : Ubooquity now reads and displays comics metadata in the ComicRack format. You can write such metadata in your comics with applications like ComicRack (obviously) or ComicTagger.
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Better PDF support : Ubooquity now embeds two new libraries which will improve PDF support, especially for documents containing JPG2000 images or using cryptography features (not fully encrypted PDF though). They will no longer generate errors when scanned and their cover will be displayed correctly.
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OPDS feeds : You can activate OPDS feeds in the "advanced" option of Ubooquity. Your feeds will be available at the following addresses (port and IP are just examples):
http://10.0.0.1:2202/opds-comics
http://10.0.0.1:2202/opds-books
These feeds support authentication through HTTP Basic Authentication (same credentials as the ones you already use). This authentication method is not as secure as the one already used by Ubooquity, so be carefull if you use OPDS feeds on an open network without activating the SSL/HTTPS feature.
I have done some tests with a few ebooks/comics readers with OPDS support. Unfortunately the OPDS specification is not followed at 100% by all the applications. Here are the results of my tests:

Note that the the "Comics online reading" column corresponds to a feature not supported by the original OPDS standard but is an extension developped for Ubooquity and Challenger Comics Viewer. More details here.
Miscellaneous
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Added an option to automatically minimize Ubooquity interface at startup.
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Added an option to hide empty folders.
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Improved ebooks metadata display (publication date, language, file format).
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Trailing slashes and backslashes are now automatically removed when entering shared folder paths in the web administration page.
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Fixed a rare bug which added a pink overlay on some comics images.
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Fixed a bug on folder images: Ubooquity now always uses the first image found in the directory or its subdirectories.
The improved comics online reader development is still in progress.
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