New features

• Content server: Add a checkbox in content server user preferences to prevent a user account from changing its own password via the web interface
• Restoring database: Improve performance by an order of magnitude
• Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to permit displaying the sort value for series in the Tag browser
• Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within the last decade plus support AZW3
• Add ‘Search “not in”’ and ‘Filter "not in’" buttons to Manage authors and Manage Items

Bug fixes

• Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused terminal windows to popup momentarily when adding PDF files or converting them Closes tickets: 2115246

• E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image Closes tickets: 2115057

• Tag browser: Fix clicking on categories to search for books by first letter of series not working correctly for non-English language books Closes tickets: 2116006

• Edit metadata individually: Ensure Next/Previous buttons work even if something re-orders the books in the book list. They will now iterate over the books as they were at the time the dialog is created Closes tickets: 2115111

• Windows: Generate catalog: Workaround for systems where a broken antivirus or similar holds open files in the catalog library causing a permission denied error Closes tickets: 2115084

New news sources

• La Presse by quatorze

Improved news sources

• Economist
• 1843
• Financial Times
• PC World
• Muy Interesante Mexico
• Hindu Business Line
• Business Standard
• Hindustan Times
• The Week
• Times of India
• Hindustan
• Financial Times
• Reason