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kovidgoyal · 08-03-2014, 12:18 AM

Hi all,

calibre 2.0 is ready for testing. It is based on the next generation of Qt (the graphics toolkit calibre uses). This will bring many benefits to calibre going forward, but before I release calibre 2.0, I would appreciate it if some of you could help beta test it. Some of the major new features in calibre 2.0 are:

1) Support for Android phones and tablets on OS X, calibre should now detect and connect to them, just as it already does on windows and linux

2) The calibre command line tools no longer need a running X server on linux, so no more need to use xvfb-run

3) Thanks to bug fixes in Qt, the calibre viewer and editor no longer have problems with embedded fonts where the font family name inside the font does not match the name used in the @font-face rule.

4) Qt has changed the look & feel of its widgets (buttons/scrollbars/boxes/etc.) to a new "Fusion" theme that is supposed to be more "modern". As with most things UI related, I suspect some of you will like the changes and some of you will not.

The betas are available from: http://download.calibre-ebook.com/betas/

Most calibre third-party plugins have already been ported to work with calibre 2.0 and indeed this beta has been used and tested by many people already, so you should have no problems. But just in case you do, it is perfectly safe to uninstall the beta and go back to the main calibre release, if needed.

The betas are just like normal calibre releases and can be installed in the same way, except for linux, for which instructions are below.

Do let me know if you have any problems, or even if everything works as normal.

You can see the history of testing of this beta as well as porting of third-party plugins here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=242223

Status of porting of third party plugins:
http://plugins.calibre-ebook.com/porting.html

Linux installation instructions:

Spoiler:

Thank you all for your help.

08-03-2014, 12:18 AM	#1
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,994 Karma: 22669822 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Beta testers for calibre 2.0 needed Hi all, calibre 2.0 is ready for testing. It is based on the next generation of Qt (the graphics toolkit calibre uses). This will bring many benefits to calibre going forward, but before I release calibre 2.0, I would appreciate it if some of you could help beta test it. Some of the major new features in calibre 2.0 are: 1) Support for Android phones and tablets on OS X, calibre should now detect and connect to them, just as it already does on windows and linux 2) The calibre command line tools no longer need a running X server on linux, so no more need to use xvfb-run 3) Thanks to bug fixes in Qt, the calibre viewer and editor no longer have problems with embedded fonts where the font family name inside the font does not match the name used in the @font-face rule. 4) Qt has changed the look & feel of its widgets (buttons/scrollbars/boxes/etc.) to a new "Fusion" theme that is supposed to be more "modern". As with most things UI related, I suspect some of you will like the changes and some of you will not. The betas are available from: http://download.calibre-ebook.com/betas/ Most calibre third-party plugins have already been ported to work with calibre 2.0 and indeed this beta has been used and tested by many people already, so you should have no problems. But just in case you do, it is perfectly safe to uninstall the beta and go back to the main calibre release, if needed. The betas are just like normal calibre releases and can be installed in the same way, except for linux, for which instructions are below. Do let me know if you have any problems, or even if everything works as normal. You can see the history of testing of this beta as well as porting of third-party plugins here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=242223 Status of porting of third party plugins: http://plugins.calibre-ebook.com/porting.html Linux installation instructions: Spoiler: Download the .txz tarball (either 32-bit or 64-bit depending on your computer) and run the following command Code: sudo rm -rf /opt/calibre/* && sudo tar xvf /path/to/downloaded/calibre-tarball.txz -C /opt/calibre This assumes you have previously installed calibre to /opt/calibre (as is the default). Thank you all for your help.