CHANGELOG

5.5.2:

Fixed KindleGen detection on macOS 10.15
Fixed multiple smaller issues

5.5.1:

Fixes some stability issues

5.5.0:

Added support for WebP format
Added profiles for Kindle Paperwhite 4 and Kobo Forma
All archives are now handled by 7z
Removed MCD support
Fixed multiple smaller issues

5.4.5:

Fixed EPUB output for non-Kindle devices

5.4.4:

Minor bug fixes

5.4.3:

Fixed conversion crash on Windows

5.4.2:

Added Kindle Oasis 2 profile
Allowed metadata editor to edit directories
Fixed image stretching when HQ Panel View option was enabled
Fixed possible problem with directory sort order

5.4.1:

Minor bug fixes and tweaks
Implemented new binary build pipeline

5.4:

Reimplemented high quality Panel View option
Improved webtoon splitter
Fixed page splitter

5.3.1:

Small increase of output quality
Improved error reporting
Internal changes and tweaks

5.3:

Vastly improved output compatibility for non-Kindle devices
Enabled old pinch zoom for Kindle devices
Re-enabled Panel View support for Kindle Keyboard
Partially re-enabled OS X file association mechanism
Fixed multiple smaller issues

5.2.1:

Improved directory parsing
Tweaked margin detection algorithm
Improved error reporting

5.2:

Added new Panel View options
Implemented new margin detection algorithm
Removed HQ Panel View mode
Fixed multiple smaller issues

5.1.3:

Added Kobo Aura ONE profile
Fixed few small bugs

5.1.2:

Fixed error reporting

5.1.1:

Fixed multiple GUI bugs

5.1:

GUI now can be resized and high DPI support was somewhat improved
Added profile for Kindle Oasis
Implemented new error reporting mechanism
CLI version now support additional cropping options
Fixed permission issues on Windows
Fixed multiple smaller issues

5.0.1:

Fixed Panel View placement issues
Decreased application startup time
Fixed multiple smaller issues

5.0:

Major overhaul of internal mechanisms and GUI
Added cover upload feature
Tweaked Webtoon parsing mode
Fixed multiple smaller issues
Migrated build enviroment to PyInstaller

4.6.5:

Fixed multiple Windows and OS X issues
Allowed Linux release to use older PyQT5 version

4.6.4:

Fixed multiple Windows specific problems
Improved error handling
Improved color detection algorithm
New, slimmer OS X release

4.6.3:

Implemented remote bug reporting
Minor bug fixes and GUI tweaks

4.6.2:

Fixed critical MOBI header bug
Fixed metadata encoding error

4.6.1:

Fixed KEPUB TOC generator
Added warning about too small input files
ComicRack Summary metadata field is now parsed
Small tweaks of KEPUB output

4.6:

KEPUB is now default output for all Kobo profiles
EPUB output now produce fully valid EPUB 3.0.1
Added profile for Kindle Paperwhite 3
Dropped official support of all Kindle Fire models and Kindle for Android
Other minor tweaks

4.5.1:

Added Kobo Glo HD profile
Fixed RAR/CBR parsing anomalies
Minor bug fixes and tweaks

4.5:

Added simple ComicRack metadata editor
Re-enabled Manga Cover Database support
ComicRack bookmarks are now parsed
Fixed glitches in Kindle Voyage profile
Fixed problems with directory locks on Windows
Fixed sorting anomalies
Improved conversion speed

4.4.1:

Fixed problems with OSX GUI
Added one missing DLL to Windows installer

4.4:

Improved speed and quality of conversion
Added RAR5 support
Dropped BMP and TIFF support
Fixed some WebToon mode bugs
Fixed CBR parsing on OSX

4.3.1:

Fixed Kindle Voyage profile
Fixed some bugs in OS X release
CLI version now support multiple input files at once
Disabled MCB support
Other minor tweaks

4.3:

Added profiles for Kindle Voyage and Kobo Aura H2O
Added missing features to CLI version
Other minor bug fixes

4.2.1:

Improved margin color detection
Fixed random crashes of MOBI processing step
Fixed resizing problems in high quality mode
Fixed some MCD support bugs
Default output format for Kindle DX is now CBZ

4.2:

Added Manga Cover Database support
Officially dropped Windows XP support
Fixed Other profile
Fixed problems with page order on stock KOBO CBZ reader
Many other small bug fixes and tweaks

4.1:

Thanks to code contributed by Kevin Hendricks speed of MOBI creation was greatly increased
Improved performance on Windows
Improved MOBI splitting and changed maximal size of output file
Fixed No optimization mode
Multiple small tweaks nad minor bug fixes

4.0.2:

Fixed some Windows and OSX specific bugs
Fixed problem with marigns when using HQ mode

4.0.1:

Fixed file lock problems that plagued some Windows users
Fixed content server failing to start on Windows
Improved performance of WebToon splitter
Tweaked margin color detection

4.0:

KCC now use Python 3.3 and Qt 5.2
Full UTF-8 awareness
CBZ output now support Manga mode
Improved Panel View support and margin color detection
Added drag&drop support
Output directory can be now selected
Windows release now have auto-updater
Names of chapters on Kindle should be now more user friendly
Fixed OSX file association support
Many extensive internal changes and tweaks

3.7.2:

Fixed problems with HQ mode

3.7.1:

Hotfixed Kobo profiles

3.7:

Added profiles for KOBO devices
Improved Panel View support
Improved WebToon splitter
Improved margin color autodetection
Tweaked EPUB output
Fixed stretching option
GUI tweaks and minor bugfixes

3.6.2:

Fixed previous PNG output fix
Fixed Panel View anomalies

3.6.1:

Fixed PNG output

3.6:

Increased quality of Panel View zoom
Creation of multipart MOBI output is now faster on machines with 4GB+ RAM
Automatic gamma correction now distinguishes color and grayscale images
Added ComicRack metadata parser
Implemented new method to detect border color in non-webtoon comics
Upscaling is now enabled by default for Kindle Fire HD/HDX
Windows nad Linux releases now have tray icon
Fixed Kindle Fire HDX 7" output
Increased target resolution for Kindle DX/DXG CBZ output

3.5:

Added simple content server - Converted files can be now delivered wireless
Added proper Windows installer
Improved multiprocessing speed
GUI tweaks and minor bug fixes

3.4:

Improved PNG output
Increased quality of upscaling
Added support of file association - KCC can now open CBZ, CBR, CB7, ZIP, RAR, 7Z and PDF files directly
Paths that contain UTF-8 characters are now supported
Migrated to new version of Pillow library
Merged DX and DXG profiles
Many other minor bug fixes and GUI tweaks

3.3:

Margins are now automatically omitted in Panel View mode
Margin color fill is now autodetected
Created MOBI files are not longer marked as Personal on newer Kindle models
Layout of panels in Panel View mode is now automatically adjusted to content
Fixed Kindle 2/DX/DXG profiles - no more blank pages
All Kindle Fire profiles now support hiqh quality Panel View
Added support of 7z/CB7 files
Added Kindle Fire HDX profile
Support for Virtual Panel View was removed
Profiles for Kindle Keyboard, Touch and Non-Touch are now merged
Windows release is now bundled with UnRAR and 7za
Small GUI tweaks

3.2:

Too big EPUB files are now splitted before conversion to MOBI
Added experimental parser of manga webtoons
Improved error handling

3.2.1:

Hotfixed crash occurring on OS with Russian locale

3.1:

Added profile: Kindle for Android
Add file/directory dialogs now support multiselect
Many small fixes and tweaks

3.0:

New QT GUI
Merge with AWKCC
Added ultra quality mode
Added support for custom width/height
Added option to disable color conversion

2.10:

Multiprocessing support
Kindle Fire support (color EPUB/MOBI)
Panel View support for horizontal content
Fixed panel order for horizontal pages when --rotate is enabled
Disabled cropping and page number cutting for blank pages
Fixed some slugify issues with specific file naming conventions (#50, #51)

2.9

Added support for generating a plain CBZ (skipping all the EPUB/MOBI generation) (#45)
Prevent output file overwriting the source one: if a duplicate name is detected, append _kcc to the name
Rarfile library updated to 2.6
Added GIF, TIFF and BMP to supported formats (#42)
Filenames slugifications (#28, #31, #9, #8)

2.8

Updated rarfile library
Panel View support + HQ support (#36) - new option: --nopanelviewhq
Split profiles for K4NT and K4T
Rewrite of Landscape Mode support (huge readability improvement for KPW)
Upscale use now BILINEAR method
Added generic CSS file
Optimized archive extraction for zip/rar files (#40)

2.7

Lots of GUI improvements (#27, #13)
Added gamma support within --gamma option (defaults to profile-specified gamma) (#26, #27)
Added --nodithering option to prevent dithering optimizations (#27)
EPUB margins support (#30)
Fixed no file added if file has no spaces on Windows (#25)
Gracefully exit if unrar missing (#15)
Do not call kindlegen if source EPUB is bigger than 320MB (#17)
Get filetype from magic number (#14)
PDF conversion works again

2.6

Added --rotate option to rotate landscape images instead of splitting them (#16, #24)
Added --output option to customize EPUB output dir/file (#22)
Add rendition:layout and rendition:orientation EPUB meta tags (supported by new kindlegen 2.8)
Fixed natural sorting for files (#18)

2.5

Added --black-borders option to set added borders black when page's ratio is not the device's one (#11).
Fixes EPUB containing zipped itself (#10)

2.4

Use temporary directory as workdir (fixes converting from external volumes and zipfiles renaming)
Fixed "add folders" from GUI.

2.3

Fixed win32 EPUB generation, folder handling, filenames with spaces and subfolders

2.2:

Added (valid!) EPUB 2.0 output
Rename .zip files to .cbz to avoid overwriting

2.1

Added basic error reporting

2.0

GUI! AppleScript is gone and Tk is used to provide cross-platform GUI support.

1.5

Added subfolder support for multiple chapters.

1.4.1

Fixed a serious bug on resizing when img ratio was bigger than device one

1.4

Added some options for controlling image optimization
Further optimization (ImageOps, page numbering cut, autocontrast)

1.3

Fixed an issue in OPF generation for device resolution
Reworked options system (call with -h option to get the inline help)

1.2

Comic optimizations! Split pages not target-oriented (landscape with portrait target or portrait with landscape target), add palette and other image optimizations from Mangle. WARNING: PIL is required for all image mangling!

1.1.1

Added support for CBZ/CBR files in Kindle Comic Converter

1.1

Added support for CBZ/CBR files in comic2ebook.py

1.0

Initial version