Logos 38.0 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 v38 is released to the stable channel.

• AI Credits
  • The AI credit ring will now be shown at all times in the toolbar.
• Bible Study Builder
  • Improved the print output for Bible Study Builder documents.
  • Added a metadata sidebar for Bible Study Builder documents that contain an About section and a Leader & Occasion section.
  • Bible references will now show in the search input rather then the Pericope title.
• Dashboard
  • Cards on the dashboard are now fully draggable.
  • Renamed the “Get Started Card” to “Get Started Wizard” in the add card dropdown on the dashboard.
• Dynamic Toolbar
  • Added up/down steppers to inline search.
  • Added a working indicator to inline search.
  • Added “Reference” as place holder text to keep the reference navigator from being empty when a Bible location is not in a milestone.
• Factbook
  • Summarization is now supported in the Commentary and Dictionary section.
  • Added a newly updated Dictionary section that includes:
    • Group by setting for Book or Author
    • Resource summarization
  • Bible commentaries added to your Print Library will now display a PLC icon in the commentaries section.
• Help Center
  • Updated the header message for unavailable resource panel.
  • Opening cloud or unlicensed results from the Help Center or the Library panel will now display a preview of the article or resource.
• New Sermon Builder
  • Improved passage blocks that are always editable.
  • Improved performance for CJK languages and IME input.
  • Removed Passage slide insertion button from the toolbar.
  • The new Sermon Builder will not ship to stable for v38, and will remain in beta throughout the v39 cycle.

Tweaks & Bug Fixes

• Bible Study Builder
  • Undoing an added BSB question with a verse reference will now correctly be removed when clicking the “undo” button.
  • Backspacing in an empty block will now remove the block.
    • Undoing a added BSB question with a verse reference will now correctly be removed when clicking the “undo” button.
• Dynamic Toolbar
  • The navigation box is no longer present in resources that have no milestones.
  • The toolbar is now the correct size when waking up the screen with a dual monitor set up.
  • Resolved multiple bugs pertaining to share options available with and without text selected in a resource.
• Factbook
  • The author section will now redirect properly when clicking an entry.
  • The application will no longer crash when re-expanding certain headers.
  • Commentaries preview page numbers will now reflect the best milestone range(s).
  • Overlapping page ranges in commentaries will now be combined into a single range.
  • Key Passage links will now open to your Bible rather then your commentary.
    • The application will no longer crash if your All search results contain a Sermon card.

Mac Tweaks & Bug Fixes

• Dynamic Toolbar
  • The reference box no longer takes two clicks to gain focus.

Windows Tweaks & Bug Fixes

• Dynamic Toolbar
  • The keyboard language popup in the navigation box can now be opened when the autocomplete menu is open.
  • The parallel resource popup can now be consistently accessed with one click when focus is elsewhere in the toolbar.

Changes & Improvements

• Factbook
  • Added a newly updated Dictionary section.
• Interlinear
  • Added CTRL+I/CMD+I keyboard shortcut to turn on inline interlinear view in supported resources.
• Share To
  • Updated Facebook and X icons for the share to options throughout the application.
• Splash Screens
  • Updated versioning number formatting on splash screens.

Mac Changes

• The minimum supoorted operating system is now macOS Ventura (13).

Bug Fixes

• Application Alerts
  • Corrected dark mode styling for the “There was an error communicating with the server” banner.
• Corresponding Words
  • All instances of “righteousness” will now be higlighted when the “same root” option is selected and the corresponding words visual filter is turned on. Thread.
• Inline Search
  • The application will no longer crash when conducting an inline search with an active parallel resource that doesn’t support inline search. Thread.
• Library
  • The Library popup no longer closes when selecting “Prioritize books” from the Library panel menu.
• Print/Export
  • Margins are now preserved when printing/exporting a Sermon or Bible Study Builder document.
• Program Settings
  • Tooltips in program settings will no longer stay open when scrolling away.
• Reading Plans
  • Changing the cadence in a Reading Plan will no longer cause the panel to crash.
• Resource Panels
  • The left and right sidebars now remember which sidebar kind was last active when opening the panel.

macOS Bug Fixes

• Bible Study Builder
  • Selecting a block within a Bible Study Builder document now correctly selects the entire block.

Windows Bug Fixes

• Inline Search
  • Korean characters will no longer be duplciated when entering search queries into the inline search using an IME (input method editor).