Logos 40.0
Version: 40.0.351
Release Date: February 24th, 2025
New Features & Improvements for Subscribers
Dynamic Toolbar
- For menus with a toggle, clicking anywhere in the menu’s header will switch the toggle.
Factbook
- The Sermons section now includes sermon outlines in its results. You can switch between full text sermons and sermon outlines using the buttons at the top of the section.
- Outlines can be grouped by author and reference.
Insights
- Added Insights support for the following resource types:
- Original Language Bibles
- Ancient Versions of the Bible
- Textual Commentaries
- Bible Commentaries
- Study Bibles
- Added a new Textual History section to Insights which requires a Logos Max subscription.
- This improvement brings vital information about the original languages and the textual background of passages directly into your Bible study.
- This new section can be accessed in Modern, Ancient, and Original Language Bibles, Textual and Bible Commentaries, and Bible Apparatus resources.
- This section contains four new card types:
- Textual Commentary
- Bible Apparatus
- Original Language
- Ancient Version
Search
- Smart Bible Search is a new search mode that helps you search your Bibles using AI to return highly relevant results without requiring any additional syntax.
- Ability to search individual Bibles using natural language.
- Bible Search will use the Smart search engine by default, unless:
- The entire query parses as a Bible reference.
- The entire query is in Greek or Hebrew.
- The query contains special syntax.
- The entire query is an axact phrase/in quotes.
- All search queries that use quotation marks will no longer switch to precise search.
- Smart Bible search doesn’t support Save as Passage List, Visual Filter, and Word List, so these options have been removed from the panel menu. We plan to restore Save As Passage List in a future version.
Other Improvements for All Users
Accessibility
- Screen readers are now supported across the Dynamic Toolbar.
- Added screen reader labels to numerous tools and features.
- Keyboard navigation now works when entering and exiting the dynamic toolbar.
- Added the ability to follow the keyboard focus in and out of the resource toolbar.
Notes
- Creating a link in the notes tool that contains a URL with ‘*’ will now be included in the entire link.
Search
- Non-subscribers can enjoy three free searches using Smart Bible Search.
Sermon Builder
- Non-subscribers receive one free use of each Sermon Assistant feature.
- Slides will now be generated for users with new accounts.
- Answers are now hidden in Handouts when printing Handouts with the “Hide answers” option selected.
- Pressing backspace at the beginning of an indented line will now outdent the line.
- TABing while adding an inline Bible verse will no longer crash the window.
- Text selection after style change is improved.
- Crash is prevented after opening the styles menu without any saved styles.
- Copy-paste from cloud-based resource (and other external sources) will no longer add an extra new line in the editor.
- Copy-paste from sermon to plain text will no longer add extra new lines.
Unowned Resources
- Updated the panel interface for unowned resources.
Toolbar
- Old resource panel menu now shows a single option to copy location.
Enable Logging
- Added support for enabling diagnostic logging via Program Settings.
Panels
- Updated styling on panel notifications across the application.
- Added a warning banner to the resource panel when resource versions differ from search results.
- Added subscription link to unlicensed feature panels.