New features

Full text search: A new cards based view of full text search results with book covers
To perform a full text search, click the “FT” button on the left of the search bar. The old compact result view can be re-activated by clicking the button to the left of the search bar in the Full text search window.

A new “word-prefix” completion mode that shows matches that have any word starting with the typed in letters
Closes tickets: 2144422

Bookshelves: Add option to have the height of books be constant per group
Edit book: File list: Allow using Ctrl+Left/Right to move an item to top/bottom of the list
Bug fixes

Fix notes being lost when changing the lookup name of custom column
Closes tickets: 2146404

E-book viewer: Fix using the slower/faster buttons causing a chapter skip when using the Piper neural speech backend
Content server viewer: Fix annotations being not synced to the server in some Android devices when using the Firefox browser
Windows: Force kill calibre.exe on quit to workaround hang in interpreter shutdown on some systems
TXT Output: Fix asciiize option not applying to generated inline Table of Contents
E-book viewer: Disallow background images from the internet. This was an unused feature anyway (CVE-2026-33205)
TXT Input: Ensure resource files are read only from book contents (CVE-2026-33206)
Only apply changes to text fields in the book list when the new value is different from the old
Closes tickets: 2144489

Completions: Update list of completion suggestions when cursor is moved
Closes tickets: 2144486

New news sources

L’Humanite by Kabonix
Telerama by Kabonix
Le Parisien by Kabonix
Improved news sources

BusinessLine
Naked Capitalism
Le Canard Enchaine
Le Monde
Courrier International
L’Equipe by Kabonix