Logos 37.0 Beta 1

New Features & Improvements for Subscribers

These 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 v37 is released to the stable channel.

• Bible Study Builder*
  • Bible Study Builder is a new tool that helps you create discussion questions for a small group Bible study. The questions sidebar allows you to type in a Bible reference, and it returns a list of possible questions that can be added to the Bible study editor. These questions come from Bible Study guides from the user’s library, and users can choose to generate more questions using AI if they wish.
  • From there, you can move questions into your Bible Study document, reorder them, edit them to reword them, and add your own questions, notes, or additional text or headings. At the end of this process, the output can be shared or exported.
  • Editing can be done online and offline. This feature is available on iOS and Android – phones, tablets, and iPads.

• Dashboard*
  • Added a series of new cards to the dashboard to help users jump in the application:
  • Help Center Card
    • Allows you to search for more information on features and find additional resources if extra help is needed.
  • Top Bible Card (only shows if you have less than two prioritized Bibles)
    • This card allows you to scroll through your owned Bibles and prioritize your top translation.
  • Get Started Card
    • Allows you to select what type of study you want to do and creates a layout to help you get the most out of the reference, topic, or lemma you select.

• Dynamic Toolbar*
  • Added support for 5 column paged view.
  • Added an expand/collapse caret to minimize or display the secondary toolbar.
  • You can now use the keyboard switcher in inline search and – for Greek/Hebrew dictionaries, etc. – in the reference box.
  • CMD+SHIFT+F/CTRL+SHIFT+F will now open the inline search.
  • CMD+G/Ctrl+G will now always select the reference navigator in a resource panel.
  • Added the option to share inline search results to a bibliography, visual filter, and word list doc in the send to menu on the share tab.

• Factbook
  • Factbook entries for a person will now include three new sections:
    • People, Places and Things.
    • Biblical Events.
    • Reported Speech.
  • Added ability to retain lens selection in saved shortcuts and links
  • The commentaries section is now restricted to theological commentaries when in the theological lens.
  • Where needed, verse references will now include details of the verse map they use (e.g., BHS Joel 3:1).

• Help Center
  • Added an “outdated content” warning label on old Help Center results.

• Smart Search
  • When a Smart All search returns 4 or more locked results within the top 10 results, a banner will now appear, to let you know that you could switch to a Books search if you only want to include results from your own library.

• Splash Screens
  • Added new splash screen designs for accounts with subscriptions.

Early Access Tweaks & Bug Fixes

• Dynamic Toolbar
  • Caps Lock will now switch Greek/Hebrew input to all-caps English.
  • Resolved a crash that would occasionally occur when opening a cloud resource on an account with the dynamic toolbar.
  • The ability to step through search results is now immediately available in the dynamic toolbar after conducting an inline search. Thread.
  • Corrected the amount of padding around items in various menus.
  • The History menu can now distinguish between long items in non-Bible resources. Thread.
  • Improved popup positioning when when program scaling is at 200% on Mac.
  • Added keyboard shortcut labels to various items that were missing them in the dynamic toolbar.
  • Added translations to the panel menu when accessed from the Info panel.
  • Clicking on the button for an open menu will now close it on the dynamic toolbar.
  • Popups opened after changing OS scaling will now open on the correct screen when using the app on a secondary monitor.
  • “Make new Passage List” in Share tab will now open a Passage List with the correct resource selected.
  • Focus will now be put on the Morph Builder menu when using keyboard navigation from an inline search.
  • A black bar will no longer cover the dynamic toolbar upon initial load on Mac.
  • Tooltips no longer flash when hovered over on Mac.

• Factbook
  • Bible references will now be listed in the Key Article section.
  • A delay will no longer occur when selecting an autocomplete entry and pressing Enter.

• Help Center
  • Removed support links from the app menu.
  • Updated Help Center search placeholder text to ‘Ask about Logos/Verbum’.

Changes & Improvements

• About Panel
  • Updated wording to indicate Subscription tier and owned Libraries.
• Factbook
  • Results from Factbook and a Factbook Search will now have similar results.
• First Run Dialog (which shows immediately after installing for the first time)
  • Updated design for first run dialog screens, including an updated UI for Updated UI for selecting Full, Quick, and Minimal downloads.
  • Added video page with an introductory video on how to use the application.
  • Added new while you wait screen with links to additional information on how to use Logos to its full potential, access the web application, and install the mobile application.
• Lexicon resources
  • Added a keyboard switcher for Lexicon resources in the resource navigation box.
• Settings
  • “Show Keyboard” Selector in Program settings will be respected for inline search.
• Toolbar
  • The title of the visual filter group “From other books with corresponding text” has been restored to “Corresponding Notes and Highlighting” in the original resource toolbar.

Bug Fixes

• Resource Panel
  • The application will no longer hang when navigating between visual filters when a passage list filter is turned on.