Release Notes

0.4.8

Bug fixes:

• Fix extra data size calculation when multiple flag bits are present
• Properly handle extra data in uncompressed text records

0.4.7

Bug fixes:

• Mobipocket unpacks now correctly account for the extra data that can be appended to PalmDoc-compressed text records that should not be made part of the decompression process.

0.4.6

Bug fixes:

• EReader HTML conversion now creates (semi-valid) XHTML output and better handles paragraphs
• EReader font marker handling improved
• Missing config file options are properly handled
• Documentation fixes

0.4.5

Bug Fixes:

• user script tests avoid smoke tests that tend to break on non-libraries

0.4.4

Bug Fixes:

• split_metadata now writes split components into the directory where the source file is located instead of the current working directory. The old behaviour could cause failure when running as CGI.

0.4.3

New Features:

• gen_opf() now accepts a 'mediatype' argument to override autodetection of the mime type of the 'textfile' argument.

Bug Fixes:

• The opffile argument in gen_opf() was not being set correctly
• unpack_ereader now forces the appropriate mime type instead of letting it be autodetected. Fixes incorrect setting of text/plain on HTML output on Windows systems.

0.4.1 - 0.4.2: minor bugfixes only

0.4.0

New Features:

• IMP support!
  • It is now possible to unpack unencrypted IMP files both into .RES directories and into HTML files. Encrypted IMP files can still be unpacked into .RES directories.
  • .RES directories can be repacked into IMP files.
  • IMP metadata can be edited in-place
  • LZSS compression and decompression is now available as a general library component, though this may be split out into a separate module in the future.
  • Thanks go to Nick Rapallo for assistance with this feature set, and Jeffrey Kraus-yao for most of the original reverse-engineering work.

Bug Fixes:

• Mobipocket files with EXTH headers but no EXTH records now unpack correctly.

Library and Syntax Changes:

• Some of the input and output options in the 'ebook' command-line tool have been standardized to '--input' or '-i' and '--output' or '-o'. Check the documentation for exact syntax.
• EBook::Tools::Unpack::usedir() has been moved into EBook::Tools as a procedure, not a method.
• The known uid check in EBook::Tools::search_knownuids() has been factored out into the twigelt_is_knownuid() twig search procedure. This causes a lot of 'undefined value' warning spew from XML::Twig to be bypassed and has the added advantage of removing a loop

  It does, however, slightly change the search behaviour -- previously, the highest priority known UID in the array was selected if multiple known UID identifiers were found. Now, the first dc:identifier matching any known good UID is used instead. It's possible to reclaim the old behaviour by sorting the returned array, but on afterthought, it is probably better to let the user file order determine the package id by default.

0.3.3

• Fixed bugs relating to find_in_path() on MSWin32 systems and Data::UUID

0.3.2

• EBook::Tools should now in theory no longer require Perl 5.10 (minimum requirement is now Perl 5.8.8)

0.3.0

New Features:

• Configuration file and directory support
• Mobipocket HUFF/CDIC support
• Unpacking DRM-protected Mobipocket files now just skips the encrypted text, but still extracts the unencrypted images
• EBook::Tools now takes advantage of several external helper files, if they are made available:
  • Mobipocket generation possible if mobigen is available
  • Unpacking interface supports MS Reader (.lit) if convertlit is available
  • Downconverting interface supports MS Reader and Mobipocket if convertlit and MobiDeDRM are available, respectively.
  • See README.Helpers.txt for more information
• excerpt_line() procedure available to show just the beginning and end of a paragraph or other long line of text
• ':all' export tag is available for all modules to export all procedures at once.

Library Changes:

• EReader.pm: write_* methods now return the filename(s) written instead of just returning 1
• Unpack.pm: gen_metadata() no longer calls split_metadata() if the raw option is specified
• Tools.pm: fix_languages() now creates a <dc:language> if none exists (this isn't mandated by the standard, but mobigen requires it)

Bug Fixes:

• Unpacking an eReader book now correctly adds the text to the OPF manifest

0.2.0

New Features:

• eReader unpacking support
• New unpacking option --htmlconvert
• ebook stripscript command to remove <script> and <noscript> blocks from HTML

Library Changes:

• parse_mobi_header() hash keys relating to language have been changed
• format-specific code is now in separate modules

Bug Fixes:

• ISBN is no longer added twice in unpacked OPF files

0.1.0 - Original release