Ubooquity 1.6.0, with SSL support (HTTPS)

26 october 2014 Release

Ubooquity 1.6.0 is available.

[UPDATE] If you use the "Modern" theme, you will have to download the new version of this theme on the themes page.

New features

SSL support : You can now access your files in a more secure way by using the HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP. To do that you will need to get a SSL certificate (either by buying one or generating a self-signed one), generate a Java keystore and configure Ubooquity to use it.
Reverse proxy : If you want to use reverse proxy, you can now choose the prefix which will be added at the beginning of every URL served by Ubooquity.
"New comics/books" links : two new links on the home page which will take you to a page containing the latest comics and books added to your collection.

Miscellaneous

Added an option to disable files auto scan at startup (if you want your files scanned only when you press the "scan" button).
Failed logon attempts for the webadmin page are now displayed on a single line so that they are easier to parse with fail2ban.
Log files rotate when they reach 1 MB instead of 5 MB.
Removed session limitation restricting a user to a single active session (you were automatically logged out of a device when logging into another). You can now have several sessions on different devices at the same time.
Removed port range restriction (ports under 1024 are now authorized).
Fixed advanced preferences page in webadmin.
Fixed several bugs related to user rights management.
Fixed a bug preventing the comic pages displayed in the online reader from being wider than 1200 pixels.
Fixed online reader keyboard shortcuts in Chrome.
Fixed a bug which was degrading perfomances of the online reader when a scan was in progress.

No OPDS support yet, and the online reader has not been improved much either. But work is in progress and these features/improvements will probably be delivered in the 1.7.0 version.

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Ubooquity 1.5.0, now with themes and better PDF support

23 june 2014 Release

Ubooquity 1.5.0 is available.

New features

Better PDF support: Cover rendering is now working for all types of PDF files (image-only PDF as well as text+images PDF files)
PDF in the "books" section can be read online, like comics. Ubooquity now uses two different PDF rendering engines: one for comics (image-only PDF), one for books (text+images PDF). Depending on the type of your PDF file, be careful to put it in the right section to have a correct display when reading them online (if you just download them, it makes no difference).
Ubooquity now supports themes. A new lighter theme can be donwloaded on the Themes page. This pages also explains how to install and create new themes.

Miscellaneous

Improved image quality on high pixel density devices
Miscellaneous performance improvements
Better user access logging (see this tutorial on how to customize your logs)

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Ubooquity 1.4.0, with mobi and PDF ebooks support

11 april 2014 Release

Ubooquity 1.4.0 is here.

Here is a list of what has changed.

New features

Support for mobi files. Let me know how it works for you, I have not many mobi files to test this feature.
Support for PDF files in the books section. The difference with PDF as comics is that PDF books get their metadata displayed (although I did not find many PDF with proper metadata) and their cover rendered instead of being just a extracted picture.

Miscellaneous

Web administrator password field characters are now hidden.
Debug mode has been removed as the bug it was supposed to help solve (partially displayed covers) was not really a bug.
Default display mode for books is now "by folder" (instead of "flat"), same as the one used for comics. The difference with comics default display mode was confusing.
IP address of users trying to login are now written to the log file, to help identify potential attacks.
The number displayed on folders (in "folder" mode) now recursively includes all files in the folder and in its subfolders.
The number displayed on foldersis now displayed even if over 99.
Added a loading icon between pages when reading comics.
Slightly improved layout on smaller screens.

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Ubooquity 1.3.2 is available

15 march 2014 Release

No new big shiny feature in this release, but a lot of work under the hood to improve file scanning (making it more tolerant to unusual files) and general application quality.

Here is what has changed:

A "debug" mode can be activated in the options, adding a button to force cover thumbnail regeneration for a specific book or comic book (more details in the Documentation)
New actions available in the options: "clear comics database" and "clear books database" in case you want to rescan your entire collection
Epublib (the library previously used to read books metadata) has been replaced by in-house code, allowing a lot more books to be recognized by Ubooquity
Empty directories and files without cover are now displayed and accessible (basically, Ubooquity will display a file even when the parsing of metadata fails)
When comics image extraction fails, Ubooquity will now try to guess the real format of the file (it appears a lot of users have files with a wrong extension)
Small aesthetic improvement of raw files display
[Bug fix] On some versions of Linux, when using Ubooquity in command line mode, the CPU load was continuously very high.
[Bug fix] Some Jpeg images appeared with a pink hue