Logos 38.0
Version: 38.0.578
Release Date: December 3rd, 2024
Logos Subscribers
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New Features & Improvements for Subscribers
These features require a license.
- Bible Study Builder
- Added a trash can icon to remove blocks in a BSB document.
- 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 "Get Started" 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.
- First Run Dialog
- Installing Logos for the first time using French UI will now display a video introduction.
- 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.
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.
- Questions added to Bible Study Builder documents from the side panel will now include basic formatting, including links to abbreviated references (e.g., v35). Previously, only full references (e.g., John 3:35) would be linked.
- Panels can now be rearranged when they are dragged over a Bible Study Builder panel.
- The link to Bible references will now automatically be removed if the reference is partially deleted (e.g., “John 3:16” will no longer link to that verse if “3:16" is deleted).
- 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.
- Layouts
- Layouts without a specified Insights preference will now default to the user’s last setting.
- Toolbar
- The Dynamic Toolbar “New” tag will be hidden after four weeks of being initially displayed in v38.
- Sermon Builder
- "Null" text will no longer appear in slides generated from Popular Quotes.
- Extra newlines will be removed when a Passage block is split.
- The Media tool will now show more relevant results when Find Media is clicked.
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.
General Changes
Changes & Improvements
- Banners
- Dismissed banners on the Dashboard will no longer reappear.
- 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 supported 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 highlighted when the "same root" option is selected and the corresponding words visual filter is turned on. View discussion.
- Inline Search
- The application will no longer crash when conducting an inline search with an active parallel resource that doesn't support inline search. View discussion.
- 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.
- 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.
- Executing a right-click within a panel that contains a link will no longer crash the application.
- Sermon Builder
- Undoing a change to a Passage block type will no longer cause a sync error. View discussion.
Mac Bug Fixes
- Bible Study Builder
- Selecting a block within a Bible Study Builder document now correctly selects the entire block.
- Program Settings
- Tooltips in program settings will no longer stay open when scrolling away.
Windows Bug Fixes
- Inline Search
- Korean characters will no longer be duplicated when entering search queries into the inline search using an IME (input method editor).