Logos 35.0 Beta 1

Logos Pro New Features & Improvements

These Logos Pro features require a license. If you don’t already subscribe, you can get a temporary license for the features marked with an asterisk during the beta period by becoming a follower of this Faithlife group. The license will expire when v35 is released to the stable channel.

• Factbook
  • Commentaries section*
    • The Passage Guide’s Commentaries section is now available for Factbook reports on a Bible reference.
    • Working online will return Cloud Book commentaries in results. When the Logos app is offline, it will include Personal Book commentaries.
• Help Center*
  • Help Center is a new feature to help you answer questions about how to use Logos.
  • The start page has links for popular topics and tutorials.
  • Help Center searches all Logos training materials in one place. We are still adding more content to the search index.
  • At time of release, it supports:
    • The Logos Help resource and dataset documentation Training articles from support.logos.com.
    • Video tutorials from MP Seminars’ QuickStart videos.
    • Mobile Ed courses, and other select sources.
• Insights*
  • New Cross Reference card has been added to the insights tool when working online.
• Summarization
  • An article picker has been added to the summarization tool. It’s now possible to see what level of the article is being summarized and change to a different level if you wish.
  • The maximum length of an article to be summarized has increased from just over 10,000 words to around 100,000.

Logos Pro Tweaks & Bug Fixes

• Insights
  • Resource links in Insights now respect set application language.
• Summarization
  • Summarization will now show error state when the article is too long to summarize.

Improvements

• Resource Prioritization
  • Cloud books, Print Library books, and other unowned books will now be visible in the Prioritize Books pane. thread
• Factbook
  • Factbook now supports any Bible reference range, not just fixed pericopes.
  • Pericopes suggested by Factbook autocomplete now come from your preferred Bible.
  • The order of items in Factbook autocomplete is now improved.
• Home Page
  • Temporarily changed the name of the Home page to Dashboard.
  • Note: We’ve decided to revert this change in version 35. It will remain “Home” in beta 2, and become “Dashboard” in a later version.

Bug Fixes

• Canvas
  • Text in the hex code color selector in the Canvas tool is now visible.
• Collections
  • Collections that have been undeleted will now properly load in the application.
• Courses
  • The application will no longer crash when working through MacArthur Bible Study courses.
• Dark Mode
  • Corrected the panel background color in dark mode for unavailable resources in offline mode.
• Search
  • Search Fields are no longer missing from Basic Search for the NA28 Critical Apparatus. thread
  • Searching place:Jerusalem in a Maps search will no longer create duplicate results.
  • Document search will now find Bible references from ref.ly links in notes.
  • The application will no longer crash when clicking on text in a Bible when resource panel is linked with a search panel.
  • Search result summaries will no longer be duplicated when summarizing multiple results at a time.
  • Search result links will now execute by clicking enter when the keyboard is in focus.
  • Non-Bibles will no longer be included as additional versions in Bible search when adding a series.
• Visual Filters
  • Icons will now appear in certain Bibles when the Verse of the Day visual filter is turned on.

Mac Bug Fixes

• Notes
  • The New Note button in the Notes tool is no longer clipped.
• Resources
  • A flashing black bar will no longer occur in unowned resource previews. Thread.

Windows Bug Fixes

• Search
  • Add versions picker on will now reset the scroll position to the top each time it is re-opened.