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).
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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)
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.
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
Update (march 16th): Just released version 1.3.2.1 to fix a bug affecting default cover for comics.
Ubooquity 1.3.1, minor release
10 december 2013 Release
The "online reading" feature introduced in the previous version was not working for PDF comics. This problem is fixed in this maintenance release..
Ubooquity 1.3.0, with an online comic reader !
23 october 2013 Release
Ubooquity 1.3.0 is available.
The main new feature is the addition of an online comic reader. Instead of downloading the whole comic file, you can read it directly in your browser. No more waiting for the download to complete before starting to read.
