OpenLP 1.9.9 Beta - Changelog

What's new in OpenLP 1.9.9 Beta:

April 5th, 2012

· Transparent themes, for background videos (theme video backgrounds not yet possible)
· On-the-fly changing of backing tracks
· Repeating of backing track list
· Use VLC for displaying videos - not on Mac OS X yet, unfortunately. (Note: To be able to use this feature the VLC media player has to be installed on your computer.)
· Search songs by song book/number
· Configurable automatic service file names using the date
· The reference format used to look up Bible verses has been localised, and can be changed along with the interface language
· Configure the "next slide" action when at the end of the current item in the slide controller to either move to the first slide again, to the next slide of the next item, or nothing.

What's new in OpenLP 1.9.7:

October 14th, 2011

New features:
· Basic support for audio files on songs.
· Internal database upgrading (no more re-importing of your database).
· Drag and Drop support has been enhanced from the desktop into all plugins and Services.
· It is now possible to change to the colour surrounding small images used for themes or when displayed from a service.
· The Song database now records when a song is created and edited.
· Song Usage can now record when a song is used or printed.
· The Android client is now available on the Android Market
· More visible indication if song usage is active or not.
· Tooltips in the service manager, including theme name, notes and media playing time.
· The spell checker is active in notes as well.
· The First Run Wizard can be re-run.
· Settings can be exported and imported.

Major bugs that have been fixed:
· Render performance improvements.
· Image displaying performance improvement.
· Formatting tags now work on second slide when slide is split.
· You can update the song's theme by double-clicking on the top level item in the service manager after setting a new theme.
· The manual is now packaged with OpenLP on Windows.
· Various fixes around the First Run Wizard, including better handling of no connectivity.
· Various fixes for the Bible and songs imports.

What's new in OpenLP 1.2.8:

December 29th, 2010

· Some theme import corrections
· Correction for loading of OOS where the name of a song in the OOS existed multiple times in the song DB
· Correction for corruption of OOS when no theme selected for storing in the OOS
· Correction for handling of embedded items in a PowerPoint slide in Office 2007 and above

What's new in OpenLP 1.2.7:

December 29th, 2010

· Updates to increase PPT compatibility with Office 2010

What's new in OpenLP 1.2.6:

September 18th, 2010

· Updates to increase PPT compatibility with 2007

What's new in OpenLP 1.2.5:

September 18th, 2010

· Prevented the creation of the ".lit" file in the openlp.exe directory causing Windows 7 issues
· Correction made to the bundled PPT presentation
· Correction made to display configured Bible permissions.
· Audio component updated due to bugfixes

What's new in OpenLP 1.2.4:

January 25th, 2010

· Corrected the Bible CSV import bug where verses containing comma's were not imported properly
· Added *.mp4 to the list of video file extensions
· Powerpoint XP compatibility updated
· Changed Powerpoint handling so that if an instance of Powerpoint is already running at startup, that is used instead of trying to create a new instance. Also, in this case, Powerpoint will not be shut down when OpenLP closes.
· Fixed Author import bug from .usr SongSelect files

What's new in OpenLP 1.2.3:

January 25th, 2010

· Correction for theme edit bug where the horizontal and vertical alignment sometimes went haywire
· Correction for error when loading a image file for a theme background which contain international charaters
· Improved handling of Bible imports to avoid importing a bible with the same name as an existing bible.
· When displaying verses in the Live window, the slide list now auto-scrolls up to show the next slide in the same way as the lyrics slides.
· Correction made to the Add Song Wizard which resulted in songs not being saved.
· Change made to the SongSelect web import. The mechanism for importing songs now monitors the lyrics export to file function in the webpage. The reason for the change is because the lyrics are now embedded as a PNG file and not as raw text.

What's new in OpenLP 1.2.2:

January 25th, 2010

· Correction for bug prevent song information display from being deactivated
· Added option to ignore saving the unsaved OOS content when selecting to open a new OOS
· Fixed bug preventing the theme export to use any folder outside of the Documents and Settings folder. Theme can now be exported to any folder.

What's new in OpenLP 1.2.1:

January 25th, 2010

· Correction for First Run Wizard monitor selection exception
· Correction for Blank Screen message displayed on wrong monitor on startup
· Correction for missing Bible Verse search button

What's new in OpenLP 1.2.0:

January 25th, 2010

· Facility to play audio files added to the media manager.
· Added full audio playback controls to the live slide control bar.
· Added a facility to link audio files to lyrics so that when the lyrics slide is opened, the audio controls automatically appear on the slide control bar.
· Added the facility to import CCLI SongSelect files (both .usr and .txt formats).
· Added an embedded web-browser for importing lyrics from the CCLI SongSelect website.
· Enhanced the "First Run Wizard" such that the desired language can be selected and used throughout the setup process.
· Extended the Bible Verse display by adding a "single verse per slide" option.
· Enhanced the international language handling capabilities
· Fixed a few miscellaneous bugs along the way.