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Quelea Changelog

What's new in Quelea 2022.0

Apr 30, 2022
  • Upgrade to Java 11 / OpenJFX 17 as base
  • Implement global default translation option
  • Bugfix: Resources with the same name in different folders no longer clash
  • Bugfix: Schedules containing verses from Revelation no longer break
  • Bugfix: Corrupt bibles now show a sensible error message when they're imported
  • Bugfix: Preview pane now refreshes between previewing database songs and schedule songs
  • Bugfix: OpenLyrics importer now read verse order/sequence.
  • Bugfix: Corrupt schedule warning sometimes thrown with schedules containing powerpoint presentations
  • Bugfix: Quelea song packs now export song sequences correctly
  • Feature: Register global open file handler
  • Feature: Videos now uncheck black / logo buttons when autoplayed
  • Feature: CORS enabled on mobile lyrics endpoint so custom webpages can access lyric content
  • Various code quality fixes courtesy of Hacktoberfest contributors - thanks to everyone who contributed!

New in Quelea 2022.0 Beta 1 (Dec 5, 2021)

  • Upgrade to Java 11 / OpenJFX 17 as base
  • Implement global default translation option
  • Bugfix: Resources with the same name in different folders no longer clash
  • Bugfix: Schedules containing verses from Revelation no longer break
  • Bugfix: Corrupt bibles now show a sensible error message when they're imported
  • Bugfix: Preview pane now refreshes between previewing database songs and schedule songs
  • Feature: Register global open file handler
  • Feature: Videos now uncheck black / logo buttons when autoplayed
  • Feature: CORS enabled on mobile lyrics endpoint so custom webpages can access lyric content
  • Various code quality fixes courtesy of Hacktoberfest contributors - thanks to everyone who contributed!

New in Quelea 2021.0 (Sep 10, 2021)

  • Fix "schedule cannot be opened" issue on Mac
  • Fix bible passages on stage display sometimes having a very small font size
  • Fix bible passages on web display sometimes having a very small font size
  • Fix Mac crash when switching windows whilst dialog windows were open
  • Church CCLI num can now be specified in options dialog
  • Support OSIS XML bible format
  • Song list export now also includes song CCLI number (where specified)
  • Add option to move preview and live panel dividers independently
  • Add ability to hide stage clock
  • Scale maximum font size on preview/live to more accurately represent projection window
  • Add customisable shortcuts option
  • Fix bug with visibility of timer dialog in dark mode
  • Fix bug with quick edit
  • Fix issue with image name conflict when saving / opening a schedule
  • Add support for Beblia XML bibles
  • Add support for 66 book bibles without explicit book names
  • Auto-detect charsets for bible & song imports
  • Add option to have background colour around text

New in Quelea 2021.0 Beta 2 (Aug 30, 2021)

  • Fix "schedule cannot be opened" issue on Mac
  • Fix bible passages on stage display sometimes having a very small font size
  • Fix bible passages on web display sometimes having a very small font size
  • Fix Mac crash when switching windows whilst dialog windows were open
  • Church CCLI num can now be specified in options dialog
  • Support OSIS XML bible format
  • Song list export now also includes song CCLI number (where specified)
  • Add option to move preview and live panel dividers independently
  • Add ability to hide stage clock
  • Scale maximum font size on preview/live to more accurately represent projection window
  • Add customisable shortcuts option
  • Fix bug with visibility of timer dialog in dark mode
  • Fix bug with quick edit
  • Fix issue with image name conflict when saving / opening a schedule
  • Add support for Beblia XML bibles
  • Add support for 66 book bibles without explicit book names
  • Auto-detect charsets for bible & song imports
  • Add option to have background colour around text

New in Quelea 2021.0 Beta 1 (May 10, 2021)

  • Fix "schedule cannot be opened" issue on Mac
  • Fix bible passages on stage display sometimes having a very small font size
  • Fix bible passages on web display sometimes having a very small font size
  • Fix Mac crash when switching windows whilst dialog windows were open
  • Church CCLI num can now be specified in options dialog
  • Support OSIS XML bible format
  • Song list export now also includes song CCLI number (where specified)
  • Add option to move preview and live panel dividers independently
  • Add ability to hide stage clock
  • Scale maximum font size on preview/live to more accurately represent projection window
  • Add customisable shortcuts option
  • Fix bug with visibility of timer dialog in dark mode
  • Fix bug with quick edit
  • Auto-detect charsets for bible & song imports
  • Add option to have background colour around text

New in Quelea 2020.0 (Aug 19, 2020)

  • Fix Openlyrics import when more than one "lines" tag specified per verse
  • New options dialog
  • Remove USR songselect import (USR files no longer offered)
  • Add Propresenter import (4, 5 and 6 supported at present)
  • Add ability to export song list
  • Fix title bug on plain text import song that only contain one section
  • Add ability for importers to use zip file or regular file
  • Fix importers to accept windows-encoded zip files
  • Fix export to PDF fonts issues (# instead of some characters)
  • Fix non-Latin and accented character input for song lyrics on Linux systems
  • Increase maximum thumbnail preview size from 500 to 1000
  • Update "Support / Discussion" link from the previous Quelea Google Group to the current Quelea Community
  • Fix wrapping bug for Bible passages and other single-line sections in the selection lists
  • Update SoF parser to work with SoF 6
  • Fix planning center integration
  • Add support for setting a song sequence
  • Add an indicator for the item that currently is live
  • Add option to use a fade transition between text items

New in Quelea 2019.0 (Mar 22, 2019)

  • Display warning if items are skipped when parsing schedule
  • Display CCLI number in schedule PDF export
  • Removed paradox requirement when importing Easyworship databases
  • Format song list in accordance with search
  • Display preview of song in song list
  • Remove schedule email functionality
  • Add support for extended chord symbols
  • Add support for extra tags in plain text parser
  • Add support for looping a video
  • Add scrollbar to global themes panel
  • Add options to manage notices
  • Allow setting of different global themes for songs and bible passages
  • Allow a custom theme set on a song to override a global theme
  • Allow a global theme to be used as the basis for a custom theme on a schedule item
  • Persist the global themes that are set between Quelea invocations
  • Performance improvement when calculating universal font size
  • Add dedicated Mac release
  • Fix display of bible passages
  • Fix bug with Java versions newer than 8 on MacOS
  • Fix bug where missing media from one schedule item prevented all following items from loading
  • Fix bug where spaces in first line of chords were removed
  • Fix bug with chord alignment in songs
  • Fix bug with Freeworship importer
  • Fix bug with VideoPsalm importer
  • Fix inconsistent behaviour when enabling copied schedule item
  • Fix bug with incorrect theme appearing in theme edit dialog after opening a schedule
  • Fix line spacing bug with importing some XMM based bibles
  • Fix hue adjustment bug
  • Fix broken links in help menu
  • Fix bug with XML bible verses containing new lines
  • Remove reference to manuals from help menu

New in Quelea 2018.1 (Jun 7, 2018)

  • Fix bug with Sunday Plus importer
  • Fix bug with VideoPsalm importer
  • Fix bug with OpenSong importer only showing one song when exported on Mac
  • Fix Java 9 compatibility
  • Fix "is" being recognised as chords
  • Fix resize bug on some Linux distributions
  • Fix VLC bug in Linux
  • Fix drag / drop bug in Linux
  • Fix EasyWorship parser to use CP1252
  • Fix freeze on some OS's when opening help menu websites
  • Fix deb installer icon
  • FIx issue with loading bibles on Ubuntu
  • Use new logo in about dialog
  • Don't show option to add DVD on a Mac
  • Add ctrl+click option to set logo image on Mac
  • Add Worship Him importer

New in Quelea 2015.3 (Aug 3, 2015)

  • Add new Spanish and Slovakian translations
  • Add ability to change the percentage size of the small bible/song text
  • Add ability to select overflow traversal through whole schedule using up/down keys
  • Add more features to Remote Control, include schedule list and add bible or song
  • Add ability to display multiple chapter/verses from the same bible book on a single slide using a comma
  • IPv6 addresses only show as a last resort
  • Top / Bottom for notices now the correct way around
  • Auto-play now works
  • Improve bible passage text layout
  • Add songpro importer
  • Add SoF importer
  • Kingsway importer now pulls translations out and adds them to the imported song correctly
  • Additional Remote Control features for use in Quelea Android App
  • Fix search behaviour to ignore non-alphanumeric characters in index and search string
  • Fix long search time when searching for a non-indexed (non-alphanumeric) character
  • Songs matching search in titles now appear before other results
  • Option to use 12H or 12H clock
  • Bible book selection box is now filterable with key presses
  • Video tab can be shown in the library panel using an option in the settings
  • Hovering over videos in the video library tab now shows a pop-up with filename
  • Fix changing the bible passage theme by right clicking
  • Fix "switch versions" functionality on bible passages
  • Fix live videos restarting when song in schedule is edited
  • Fix search index not working with non-ascii characters
  • Fix behaviour where empty bible passages could be added to schedule
  • Fix issue with schedule not opening when a presentation it refers to is missing.
  • Fix issue with Quelea not loading if some songs in database are corrupted
  • Fix Remote Control to work more reliably on Internet Explorer.
  • Fix issue with using special XML characters in timer file names

New in Quelea 2015.2 (Apr 27, 2015)

  • Update bundled JRE to final released copy (not EA)
  • Added video library tab
  • Added timer save functionality, and timer library tab
  • Fix issue with some badly designed fonts not clearing properly
  • EpicWorship songpack importer added
  • Greater customisation options added for 'Small Text' (information) display
  • Fix versioning issue (only the major version number was reported in some places)
  • Fix bug with bible passages appearing on just one line in mobile lyrics view
  • Update Easy Worship importer to preserve CCLI / copyright info
  • Enable static video previews in live / preview panel
  • Fix QSP / save files to now contain full song information (was missing some fields such as CCLI / Copyright / Key / Notes)
  • Chord notation now accepts H, unicode sharp / flat signs and (is) in place of "#" (Josef's suggestion, conventionally used in some European countries)
  • Translation now saved with song in schedule
  • Fix Opensong importer (some databases with foreign characters did not work)

New in Quelea 2015.1 (Feb 26, 2015)

  • Fix clear / logo / black screen crash (Bundled with 8u40 on Windows to fix memory issues related to Java bug - must be run with 8u40 for this to work on unbundled versions.)
  • Fix video control display issues
  • Fix issue with library bible panel never showing the last verse of a chapter
  • Fix chord spacing when exporting to PDF
  • Fix occasional NullPointerException when dragging
  • Fix issue with reset video not being called on correct thread
  • Fix issue with deleting a saved location folder causing a crash
  • Fix issue with visual glitches in lyrics area
  • Fix issue where right clicking on the schedule didn't always display the correct context menu
  • Fix issue where copy / pasting lyrics from some websites / sources didn't split into sections correctly
  • Add option to disable fading of lyrics on stage view

New in Quelea 2015.0 (Feb 7, 2015)

  • Moved to Java 8
  • Changed to new skin (Modena) and updated splash screen
  • New feature - Quickly change bible translations via right clicking on schedule list
  • New feature - Broken bibles can be sent to devs for analysis
  • New feature - QR code generator added for mobile lyrics URL
  • New feature - Allow non-breaking lines in song lyrics
  • New feature - Position of UI elements persists across invocations
  • New feature - Song translations can now be exported to PDF
  • New feature - Videos can now auto-play on being set live
  • New feature - Schedule can now auto-advance when an item is sent live
  • New feature - Item can be automatically previewed on image change
  • New feature - Edit theme button now appears on each schedule item
  • New feature - Countdown timers
  • New feature - MediaShout importer
  • Bugfix - Quick Edit now works properly
  • Bugfix - FX UI element labels are now translated (such as colours)
  • Bugfix - Translations now show properly when section headings are used
  • Bugfix - Quelea no longer locks up when copying a video background
  • Bugfix - window now remembers maximised state
  • Bugfix - Memory leaks fixed
  • Bugfix - Fix handling of bibles with missing verses
  • Bugfix - DVDs and Blurays now work
  • Bugfix = Youtube videos are now saved in schedules properly
  • Bugfix - Fixed issue with small text not having a shadow
  • Bugfix - Creating a new schedule clears the file (so that "save" will then not save over the previously open schedule.)
  • Bugfix - Chord lines are no longer affected by the auto-translator
  • Bugfix - Partial translations now display properly
  • Various other minor bugfixes

New in Quelea 2014.1 (Oct 6, 2014)

  • Added remote control functionality
  • Added Youtube support
  • Added PDF export option for songs / schedule
  • Added DVD / Bluray support
  • Added ability to import more than one presentation at a time
  • Added ZionWorx import
  • Added Easyworship import
  • Added Openlyrics import / export
  • Added song translation support
  • Improved text wrapping algorithm for bible text
  • Added option for displaying verse numbers in bible text
  • Added Hungarian translation
  • Added additional options for specifying the notice colour, speed, font, size and position
  • Added VLCARG file support - ability to create video "files" that pass arguments directly to VLC
  • Added ability to stretch videos
  • Added more shadow options
  • Added manual entry to help menu
  • Bugfix - italic font property now saved when selecting an image or video background
  • Bugfix - no longer possible to add empty bible passages
  • Bugfix - quick edit cursor doesn't show on bible passages anymore
  • Bugfix - bible search now filters out duplicate results correctly
  • Bugfix - long notices now behave correctly
  • Bugfix - printing now works properly for songs and schedules
  • Bugfix - shadows now display correctly
  • Bugfix - Cancelling the confirm exit dialog by pressing "x" no longer exits Quelea without saving
  • Various other minor bug fixes

New in Quelea 2014.0 (Jan 30, 2014)

  • Rewritten interface in JavaFX
  • Added option to keep the same size text for each part of a song
  • Added option to set the maximum font size manually
  • Added option to set spacing between lines
  • Added video background support
  • Clear text option now fades
  • Black option now fades
  • New logo option added, can easily fade live view to any given image
  • Added loop button for presentations
  • Changed to more efficient database format
  • Added more / better sample images
  • Added sample videos
  • Added test patterns dialog to calibrate display
  • Theme panel has had a major revamp, now much easier to use
  • Text position and text alignment can be set separately per song
  • Rewritten import dialogs to look much nicer
  • Opensong import
  • OpenLP import
  • Easyslides import
  • Plain text import
  • Kingsway import fixed
  • Added Czech, German, Swedish and US English translations
  • Previews now preserve aspect ratio of main display
  • Fix interface to display UTF-8 characters properly
  • Fix schedule files / imports to deal with UTF-8 characters properly
  • Rewritten bible search dialog
  • Theme selector rewritten / bugs fixed
  • Add option within interface to change language
  • Window position now saved between runs
  • Search by author as well as title and lyrics
  • Bundled JRE
  • Many more bugfixes

New in Quelea 2014 Beta 4 (Jan 22, 2014)

  • Mobile Lyrics:
  • Deciding what backgrounds to use for projection can be a political and administrative nightmare in some churches - you've often got the simplicity camp that maintain it's always white on black, the accessibility camp that to everyone else seem to have an unnatural fascination with yellow on blue, the young cool crowd that just want the latest cool motion backgrounds, the 80's camp that like pictures of cheesy sunsets...
  • But whatever the group that ends up winning, there may still be some in the congregation who find it difficult to read words in that format. Even if it's decided as a policy that, to help dyslexic viewers all the text will be yellow on blue, this doesn't always solve things for everyone, and could arguably end up making it worse for others. This W3 study showed that the Yellow / Blue combination doesn't even represent the combination with the lowest fixation time for dyslexic individuals, and it's one of the higher fixation times for the non-dyslexic participants. Of course, there may be other reasons why people struggle to see lyrics on a projector - poor projector placement, short sightedness, glare on the screen and so on.
  • Quelea aims to solve this in a way we haven't seen anywhere else, by running a server that pushes out the lyrics to a particular web page - the lyrics can then be displayed on a mobile device with whatever colour combination the user chooses. They update in real time without the need to refresh, and because it's a web page rather than an app it's completely device independent, working on Android phones and tablets, Ipods, Iphones and Ipads (or any other device that can display web content.) We hope that this goes a long way to improving accessibility for those who struggle to read words on a screen.
  • The web page also gives you the option to display chords, so can be used as a mobile stage view. We envisage this also being a core use of this feature, since while Quelea has had the option to display chords on a stage view separately for some time, many churches don't run a separate monitor feed for musicians, making it hard to make use of this feature.
  • To turn this feature on in Quelea 2014, simply go to Tools, Options, select the "Mobile Lyrics" tab, then check the checkbox to enable the server. (You'll need to restart Quelea for the change to take effect.)
  • Logo button:
  • As well as the black and clear buttons available in the live panel, a logo button is now also present, which fades to a custom logo image. Right-clicking on this button allows you to choose the logo image from anywhere on your computer.
  • More accurate preview:
  • The previews previously just filled whatever space they had, whatever the aspect ratio. The aspect ratio is now matched to the display pane's view, making for a more consistent preview
  • Rewritten theme panel:
  • Remember that ghastly theme panel we had before? It's now much nicer, and with more options too for selecting the position of the text on the screen as well as its alignment
  • One subtle but (we think) important change is that of the font selection dialog. Previously it just blindly displayed every font on your system, which means the selection box is filled with perhaps hundreds of fonts, when you can only ever sensibly use a handful.
  • The selection can of course be changed, just click the ".." button and you'll be taken to a dialog where you can easily choose the fonts that you use often to appear.
  • While we're talking of fonts, it's also worth mentioning that Quelea bundles some nice fonts by default now, and one of them, Noto Sans Bold, is set as the new default. After some research this seemed like one of the best free fonts out there for this type of display, and it has support for a wide array of languages.
  • Video Hue Control:
  • There's also a useful little feature tucked away on the video background side of things - a hue slider has been added that will change the hue (in simple terms, the colour) of the video selected
  • wouldn't recommend using this feature with real life backgrounds, but for abstract videos (which I think work much better in practice regardless) this can work very well indeed for using the same video file, but adding a bit of variety by changing the colour. The hue adjustment will fade nicely in the live view rather than jumping, so you can experiment with things such as "warming" the colour of the video slightly for the final verse of an uplifting song. The still image preview of the video will update as you drag the hue slider along, so you'll be able to see the exact hue of the final video from the preview.
  • To restore the video to its original colour, simply make sure the hue slider is all the way to the left
  • Better font control:
  • One of the most requested features we've had so far is better control over text placement. So as well as the alignment and position options already mentioned, we now have additional controls in the options dialog for selecting line spacing and the maximum font size to use
  • Fading is good:
  • Previously, the clear and black options just cut in straight away, which looked a bit ugly - they now fade in instead (this also applies to the new logo view.)
  • More import options:
  • We have three new importers built in - Quelea can now import from OpenLP, Opensong and Sunday Plus
  • Loop Powerpoint presentations:
  • Previously there was no built in way to loop powerpoint presentations, for instance for rolling notices at the start of a service. When a presentation is displayed, a control is now added to the live view header that allows this to be done easily
  • Test patterns:
  • Another small but handy feature is the inclusion of a few test patterns to help calibrate your projector (or other display equipment.) We've included some colour bars, contrast bars, a focus grid and a position calibration image. Hopefully these will be of use to churches in their setup phase to get everything working as best it can. If you want to try these out, simply click on the Tools menu, then "Test Patterns"

New in Quelea 0.5.4 (Oct 16, 2012)

  • Small bugfix release, Powerpoint presentations don't disappear from schedules anymore!

New in Quelea 0.5.3 (Sep 29, 2012)

  • Fixed bug where some valid schedules silently failed to open
  • Fixed ratio between text selection to lyrics
  • Fixed bug with loading new bibles via interface
  • Fixed bug with importing some opensong bibles

New in Quelea 0.5.2 (Sep 6, 2012)

  • Better powerpoint support, including support for the new PPTX format and transitions / animations using openoffice
  • Vastly improved collection of provided images
  • Fix "edit song" -> cancel clearing text bug
  • Fix flickering background
  • Fix clear screen options
  • Fix file filter on export menu
  • Intermittent video bug with Linux preventing Quelea from starting has now gone away
  • Change a couple of icons to make them more usable
  • Anti-alias small text as well as large
  • Various other bug fixes

New in Quelea 0.5.1 (Mar 22, 2012)

  • Video errors are now more clearly displayed
  • Large number of images in img folder now doesn't lock Quelea up
  • Can now drag image over song / bible passage to set its theme
  • Quick edit can now delete sections (just delete all of the text in the section to do this)
  • Now have the option to display text with a shadow
  • Long labels have been split up so messages don't go off the end of the screen
  • The number of monitors is reloaded on the fly without need for restart - Quelea will now pick up when you plug in an extra monitor, or remove one
  • Themes can be edited from the quick theme menu
  • The quick edit shortcut has changed from 'alt' to 'control' as part of the fixes to get it working properly on Linux
  • Various other minor bug fixes

New in Quelea 0.5 (Feb 29, 2012)

  • Better searching, better UI and much faster algorithm
  • Reworked UI, no ribbon
  • Added missing labels
  • Added stage view
  • Added volume / status bar to videos
  • File filters now case insensitive
  • Startup speed improvements
  • Corrupt powerpoints handled properly with error
  • Missing labels added to language file
  • Dialog to check whether to save the schedule before quitting
  • Time displayed on video panel
  • Kingsway importer bug fixed
  • Add bible bug fixed
  • Grammar on spellcheck message fixed

New in Quelea 0.4.2 (Dec 22, 2011)

  • Custom position for projector window
  • Text now in languages file
  • Convert first line of Kingsway songs to sentence case rather than all caps
  • Add "single line" mode to song panels
  • Better errors/checking for old/missing Java version
  • RSV bible names now in English (not quite sure how they ended up in German last time!)
  • Canvas now resizes properly
  • Fixed minor repainting bugs
  • Fixed layout bug in options
  • Various other minor bugfixes

New in Quelea 0.4.1 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • Better Windows installer
  • Bugfix with chords
  • Bugfix with bibles

New in Quelea 0.4 (Sep 6, 2011)

  • Tag support
  • Better menu to override themes on schedule
  • Chord support with transpositions
  • Print off any song in any key with / without chords
  • Kingsway song importer
  • Force lines to be of certain types in editor if Quelea guesses wrongly

New in Quelea 0.3.1 (Aug 25, 2011)

  • Fix a couple of video bugs
  • Fix memory options to improve performance on Windows

New in Quelea 0.3 (Aug 25, 2011)

  • Beginnings of video support (though this is still in early stages)
  • Powerpoint support - again in early stages
  • Much improved UI using ribbon
  • Email schedules directly from Quelea
  • Accessibility improvements, lyrics can now be outlined and a warning displays if background / foreground colours are picked that are too similar
  • Title / author of songs can now be displayed on the slide
  • Improved importers now work concurrently and in the background (so you can carry on working while they import)
  • Ability to import lyrics from "the Source" worship book
  • Ability to add bibles through interface
  • Better theme support, ability to override theme for a service
  • Lyrics are now displayed in the centre of the slide
  • Various other bugfixes such as the bugs with the theme editor

New in Quelea 0.2 (Aug 24, 2011)

  • Various bug fixes
  • More UI improvements (more keyboard shortcuts, better indication of whether preview or live panel is currently selected)
  • Bible support. Quelea uses the Zefania bible format, the same one that Opensong uses. Its bibles are therefore interchangeable with Quelea, and any bibles from the Zefania download site can just be dropped in and used.
  • The ability to import songs from the survivor songbooks (in PDF format)
  • Improved song input with spellchecking, ability to replace weird apostrophes with normal ones, ability to remove lines of guitar chords, highlighting of title lines
  • QSP (Quelea song pack) support. Song packs can be created from any number of songs in the database and then imported elsewhere.
  • Saved schedules now include used resources (such as song backgrounds) in the schedule file, so now they can be transferred between machines whilst keeping all the original backgrounds.