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Logos 38.0 Beta 1

Version: 38.0.502
Release Date: November 6th, 2024

Subscribers

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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 placeholder 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.

General Changes

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 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. 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 duplicated when entering search queries into the inline search using an IME (input method editor).