New
Logos version 36
Logos version 35
Desktop
Early Access Subscribers
New Features & Improvements for Subscribers
- Factbook
- Lenses
- Lenses allow users to switch between various aspects of a topic, like Biblical or Theological. This filters which sections are shown, and can affect what Key Article is shown.
- Sections for Bible References
- People, Places, and Things, lists all the Biblical Entities from the passage.
- Biblical Events lists all the things that happened in the passage, replacing the old Events section for Bible references.
- Reported Speech is a brand new section that collects the sayings of Bible characters in the passage.
- UI
- Factbook has a new look and feel, including a featured image for many topics.
- Lenses
- Help Center
- “Help about this feature” (or F1 from an active panel) now opens the Help article in Help Center.
- Added an “Open Help” link to the bottom of the Contextual Help page.
- Insights
- The insights panel will open by default in resources with no prior side panel settings saved.
- Cross References card is now available when running the application offline.
- Smart Synopsis
- Smart Synopsis collects answers from your top results in Smart Search and uses AI to combine them into a single response, with supporting citations to Logos books.
- Smart Synopsis is like the “Search Summary” feature, but where a Summary condenses a single article, Synopsis consolidates the results from several different sources, providing a more complete answer. This is especially useful when there are different perspectives on a topic.
- Run a Smart Search, especially for a topical word or a short question you want to answer.
Early Access Tweaks & Bug Fixes
- Factbook
- Fixed text wrapping on small screens for several new or rebuilt Factbook sections.
- Insights
- Hebrew text will now be right-aligned in insights cards.
- Summarization
- The text for the Summarization Not Available alert will now wrap when resizing the side panel.
General Changes
Changes & Improvements
- Fonts
- Added support for the Accordance font if it is installed.
- Home Page
- Renamed the Home page to Dashboard.
Mac Bug Fixes
Windows Bug Fixes
- Books
- Links in unowned resources will now open to the store.
- Passage Analysis
- The application will no longer crash when opening Passage Analysis in Version River view with more than 12 resources selected.
Mobile - iOS
Early Access Subscribers
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 v36 is released to the stable channel.
- Factbook
- Lenses*
- Lenses allow users to switch between various aspects of a topic, like Biblical or Theological. This filters which sections are shown, and can affect what Key Article is shown.
- Sections for Bible References*
- People, Places, and Things, lists all the Biblical Entities from the passage.
- Biblical Events lists all the things that happened in the passage.
- Reported Speech is a brand new section that collects the sayings of Bible characters in the passage.
- Lenses*
- UI*
- Factbook has a new look and feel, including a featured image for many topics.
- Smart Search Synopsis*
- Smart Synopsis collects answers from your top results in Smart Search and uses AI to combine them into a single response, with supporting citations to Logos books.
- It’s like the “Search Summary” feature, but where a Summary condenses a single article, Synopsis consolidates the results from several different sources, providing a more complete answer. This is especially useful when there are different perspectives on a topic.
- Run a Smart Search, especially for a topical word or a short question you want to answer.
- Synopsis will take the top 5 results**, and provide an answer with citations.
- You can also copy the Synopsis and citations to the clipboard using your preferred citation style.
- Help Center
- Improvements to the buttons
New
- The home page has been renamed to Dashboard with a new icon.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Reference Scanner was stuck in the scanning mode when no references were found.
- Fixed an issue where the “Share” button in the Insights Panel was creating a crash on iPads.
- Fixed an iOS 18 beta issue where the Library kebab menu wasn’t working after scrolling.
Mobile - Android
Early Access Subscribers
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 v36 is released to the stable channel.
- Factbook
- Lenses*
- Lenses allow users to switch between various aspects of a topic, like Biblical or Theological. This filters which sections are shown, and can affect what Key Article is shown.
- Sections for Bible References*
- People, Places, and Things, lists all the Biblical Entities from the passage.
- Biblical Events lists all the things that happened in the passage.
- Reported Speech is a brand new section that collects the sayings of Bible characters in the passage.
- Lenses*
- UI*
- Factbook has a new look and feel, including a featured image for many topics.
- Smart Search Synopsis*
- Smart Synopsis collects answers from your top results in Smart Search and uses AI to combine them into a single response, with supporting citations to Logos books.
- It’s like the “Search Summary” feature, but where a Summary condenses a single article, Synopsis consolidates the results from several different sources, providing a more complete answer. This is especially useful when there are different perspectives on a topic.
- Run a Smart Search, especially for a topical word or a short question you want to answer.
- Synopsis will take the top 5 results**, and provide an answer with citations.
- You can also copy the Synopsis and citations to the clipboard using your preferred citation style.
- Help Center
- Improvements to the buttons
New
- The home page has been renamed to Dashboard with a new icon.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Reference Scanner was not opening when the app was in landscape mode for some devices.
- Fixed a crash when tapping the “Re-scan” button.
- Fixed an issue where ref.ly links weren’t opening within the app when tapped on from the Notes tool.
- Added padding to the bottom of Help Center to fix the last result from being partially covered.
- Fixed a crash when highlighting or adding a note for some users.
- Fixed an issue where the bottom toolbar was covering up some notebooks and the selection buttons at the end of the list.
New
Logos version 35
Logos version 35
Desktop
Early Access Subscribers
New Features & Improvements for Subscribers
Continue reading below, see more in this article, or watch a demo.
- Factbook
- Commentaries Section
- The Passage Guide’s Commentaries section is now available for Factbook reports on a Bible reference.
- Commentaries Section
- Help Center
- Help Center is a new feature to help you answer questions about how to use Logos.
- The start page has links for popular topics and tutorials.
- Help Center searches all Logos training materials in one place. We are still adding more content to the search index.
- At time of release, it supports:
- The Logos Help resource, dataset documentation and glossaries.
- Training articles from support.logos.com.
- Video tutorials from MP Seminars’ QuickStart videos.
- Mobile Ed courses, and other select sources.
- Insights
- New Cross Reference card has been added to the insights tool when working online.
- Summarization
- An article picker has been added to the summarization tool. It’s now possible to see what level of the article is being summarized and change to a different level if you wish.
- The maximum length of an article to be summarized has increased from just over 10,000 words to around 100,000.
Early Access Tweaks & Bug Fixes
- Insights
- Resource links in Insights now respect set application language.
- Summarization
- Summarization will now show an error state when the article is too long to summarize.
General Changes
- Offline Factbook
- Factbook now supports any Bible reference range, not just fixed pericopes.
- Pericopes suggested by Factbook autocomplete now come from your preferred Bible.
- The order of items in Factbook autocomplete is now improved.
- Resource Prioritization
- Cloud books, Print Library books, and other unowned books will now be visible in the Prioritize Books pane. Thread.
- Search
- Invalid queries in precise searches will trigger feedback informing you that the search is invalid.
Bug Fixes
- Canvas
- Text in the hex code color selector in the Canvas tool is now visible.
- Collections
- Collections that have been undeleted will now properly load in the application.
- Courses
- The application will no longer crash when working through MacArthur Bible Study courses.
- Dark Mode
- Corrected the panel background color in dark mode for unavailable resources in offline mode.
- Factbook
- Factbook and Bibles will now navigate together when put into a linkset.
- Search
- Search Fields are no longer missing from Basic Search for the NA28 Critical Apparatus. Thread.
- Searching place:Jerusalem in a Maps search will no longer create duplicate results.
- Document search will now find Bible references from ref.ly links in the Notes tool.
- The application will no longer crash when clicking on text in a Bible when resource panel is linked with a search panel.
- Search result summaries will no longer be duplicated when summarizing multiple results at a time.
- Search result links will now execute by clicking enter when the keyboard is in focus.
- Non-Bibles will no longer be included as additional versions in Bible search when adding a series.
- Sermons
- Slide text will now appear in your sermon when launching into Preaching Mode.
- Sermon Assistant now correctly generates new outlines even after an outline has been inserted.
- Slide text will now appear in your sermon when launching into Preaching Mode.
- UI
- Improved contrast for inline buttons.
- Visual Filters
- Icons will now appear in certain Bibles when the Verse of the Day visual filter is turned on.
Mac Bug Fixes
- Factbook
- The top autocomplete suggestion is now selected when typing in the search box.
- MacOS 15 (Sequoia)
- The application will no longer crash when opening context menus.
- Notes
- The New Note button in the Notes tool is no longer clipped.
- Resources
- A flashing black bar will no longer occur in unowned resource previews. Thread.
Windows Bug Fixes
- Search
- The Add version picker will now reset the scroll position to the top each time it is re-opened.
Mobile - iOS
Logos Pro (early access) Subscription Features
Help Center
- Help Center is a new feature to help you answer questions about how to use Logos.
- The start page has links for popular topics and tutorials.
- Help Center searches all Logos training materials in one place. We are still adding more content to the search index.
- The “About” menu has had some options removed, including Touch Gestures, which has been moved to Help Center.
- Help Center has been added to the “More” menu (the three horizontal lines in the bottom right corner).
- At time of release, it supports:
- The Logos Help resource and dataset documentation Training articles from support.logos.com.
- Video tutorials from MP Seminars’ QuickStart videos.
- Mobile Ed courses, and other select sources.
New Commentaries in Factbook
- Book covers and clearer titles make it easier to distinguish between different commentary series.
- Different grouping options for era, purpose, and denomination orient the perspective of each commentary.
- Inline text previews help you scan the articles to help answer the question you have about the passage.
- Factbook now accepts any Bible reference, and auto-complete now suggests pericopes from the user’s Top Bible.
New
- “Help” is now “About” for all users.
- We’ve added full citation functionality. You can change the citation style in Settings located in the More menu.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where Read Aloud wasn’t pronouncing certain words correctly.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when the Insights Panel was open.
- Fixed an issue where the Parallel Passages cards were not localized.
- Fix page numbers not showing in results of Books searches.
- Fixed an issue deleting clippings from a clippings document.
- Fixed an issue where nothing would happen when long-pressing on a link in a note.
- Fixed an issue where the selection menu would quickly dismiss on iPadOS 18 beta.
- Fixed an issue where the delete (trash can) icon wasn’t always deleting the highlight.
- Fixed a bug where the citation settings were not always visible.
Mobile - Android
Logos Pro (early access) Subscription Features
Help Center
- Help Center is a new feature to help you answer questions about how to use Logos.
- The start page has links for popular topics and tutorials.
- Help Center searches all Logos training materials in one place. We are still adding more content to the search index.
- The “About” menu has had some options removed, including Touch Gestures, which has been moved to Help Center.
- Help Center has been added to the “More” menu (the three horizontal lines in the bottom right corner).
- At time of release, it supports:
- The Logos Help resource and dataset documentation Training articles from support.logos.com.
- Video tutorials from MP Seminars’ QuickStart videos.
- Mobile Ed courses, and other select sources.
New Commentaries in Factbook
- Book covers and clearer titles make it easier to distinguish between different commentary series.
- Different grouping options for era, purpose, and denomination orient the perspective of each commentary.
- Inline text previews help you scan the articles to help answer the question you have about the passage.
- Factbook now accepts any Bible reference, and auto-complete now suggests pericopes from the user’s Top Bible.
New
- “Help” is now “About” for all users.
- We’ve added full citation functionality. You can change the citation style in Settings located in the More menu.
Improved
- Improved the error message when trying to open a locked book in All Search.
- We have dropped support for Android 9 and Fire OS 7.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where Print Library books weren’t selectable from Search, Books, Select a Book.
- Fixed an issue where the Inline Search option was visible from the top toolbar when offline.
- Fixed an issue where the Parallel Passages cards were not localized.
- Fixed a crash when clicking on a Bible search result.
- Fixed an issue where you couldn’t delete a clipping while in edit mode.
- Fixed an issue where the “Select a book” option in the Search tool was ellipsizing unneccessarily.
- Fixed an issue where a note anchor wasn’t opening to the correct Bible.
- Fixed an issue where the selection menu (not the Insights Panel) was covering selected text when the selection is at the bottom of the page.
New
Logos version 34
Logos version 34
Desktop
Logos Pro
Logos Pro New Features & Improvements
- Insights
- The Insights Tool is now available while working offline
- Sermon Assistant
- An additional Sermon Assistant option has been added that helps you get started with sermon prep by suggesting an outline based on a passage and/or theme. Thread.
- Added Help Cards to appear for first-time Sermon Assistant subscribers.
- Summarization
- An “out of credits” message now appears in the summarization side panel when a user has run out of credits.
- Updated limits on Summarization Tool, allowing users to summarize longer articles.
Logos Pro Tweaks & Bug Fixes
- Insights
- Corrected styling for Insights tool icon.
- The Parallel Passages card will no longer get stuck in a loading state when scrolling through a resource.
- Any cards with no results will now stay hidden until they have results to show.
- Updated resource tooltips in the insights tool.
- Resources opened from the related resource card in the Insights panel will now be put in a link set with the original resource.
- The Parallel Passages card will now match the set application language.
- Parallel Passages will now be included for single verses as well as verse ranges.
- Search
- Performing a Smart Book Search and clicking on a result heading will now navigate to the beginning of the result preview.
- Performing a Smart Search with a non-English UI while running an English query will now generate results in English.
Changes & Improvements
- Community Notes
- The Community Notes tool has been removed from the app. Any Community Notes you created are now stored in Notebooks in the Notebooks tool. Thread.
- Operating System
- MacOS 11 (Big Sur) is no longer supported. Thread.
- Search
- Improved filtering of collection in the Add Version picker.
- The ‘Add Versions’ picker now can match item subtitles when filtering.
- Sermons
- Added touch-specific UI for Application cards for iPad and Microsoft Surface Pro devices.
- Visual Filters
- Visual filters have been re-grouped into three main categories; Markers, Emphasize, and Reformat.
Bug Fixes
- Autocomplete
- Canvas
- The application will no longer hang when accessing the Canvas tool when it is unowned.
- Favorites
- The application will no longer crash when opening Favorites sidebar inside a resource panel.
- Notifications
- AI credit reset date will always be included in the notification window when 80% or more of monthly credits have been used.
- Search
- Added additional padding in overflow More menu for additional Search kinds.
- Changing the passage selection in a bible search will no longer pop up the auto-complete drop down.
- The application will no longer crash if a search is executing while having no books downloaded.
- The application will no longer crash when navigating to a Timeline Resource via the Title link in the search result.
- Entering text into Add Version Picker in a Bible or Morph Search will now hide sections that don’t produce results.
- Precise syntax autocompleter will no longer remove the reference operator.
- Sermons
- Launching Preaching Mode will now respect the application theme set within the desktop application.
- Popular quotes can now be dragged and dropped into your sermon builder.
- Translation
- Resolved a bug that caused the translation tool to occasionally fire off multiple requests per translation, causing user AI credits to deplete. Thread.
- Courses
- Accessing the NT253 course will no longer crash the application.
- Layouts
- The application will no longer crash when opening a Lectionary Layout.
- Opening a saved layout with a deleted sermon will no longer crash the application.
- Help Card
- Resolved various crashes related to Help Cards.
Mac Bug Fixes
- Library & Search
- The caret icons will no longer be cut off from the filter side panel.
- Search
- The application will no longer crash when clicking the button to remove an inline-search for: fear* *
- The application will no longer crash when turning off notes in the Visual Filter within the book LXX Swete.
- Install
- Installing an intel build on an ARM machine will no longer cause the application to crash.
Mobile - iOS
Logos Pro Subscription only
Insights
- Insights brings the most important related books and passages right into your Bible, making them accessible in just a single click. The Insights Panel helps you use Scripture to interpret Scripture and better understand its context. This can, for example, provide background information on Jewish weddings when reading John 2:1-12 or show that 1 Peter 2:25 alludes to Isaiah 53:6.
Sermon Builder
- An additional Sermon Assistant has been added. This helps you get started with sermon prep by suggesting an outline based on a passage and/or theme.
Improved
- Improved the Greek and Hebrew fonts in Exegetical guides
- Improved the sign-in process for users by making the sign-in screen the default screen
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where the Word Info cards wouldn’t load when opening the Insights panel in a split tile
- Fixed a crash that occurred when switching apps while the Insights Panel was pinned
- Fixed an issue where the recently-used highlights row wasn’t returning back to the beginning of the row in the Insights Panel
- Fixed an issue where you weren’t able to select multiple lines of text in a note
- Fixed a crash when scrolling the selection menu.
- Fixed an issue where the highlight style wasn’t changing correctly.
Mobile - Android
Logos Pro (early access) Subscription Features
Insights
- Insights brings the most important related books and passages right into your Bible, making them accessible in just a single click. The Insights Panel helps you use Scripture to interpret Scripture and better understand its context. This can, for example, provide background information on Jewish weddings when reading John 2:1-12 or show that 1 Peter 2:25 alludes to Isaiah 53:6.
Improved
- Improved the Greek and Hebrew fonts in Exegetical guides
- Improved the sign-in process for users by making the sign-in screen the default screen
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where longer chunks of text were getting selected instead of a single word
- Fixed an issue where the ISBN scanner was not visible in the Verbum app
- Fixed a crash from a large note anchor
- Fixed an issue where the Insights Panel wasn’t showing in paging mode on tablets
- Fixed a crash on startup when the Insights Panel was already open
- Fixed an issue where the wrong resource was opening from Search
- Fixed an issue where Parallel Passage cards weren’t being translated into the correct language.
- Fixed a crash when clicking on a Bible search result.
New
Logos version 33
Logos version 33
Desktop
Logos Pro
Logos Pro New Features & Improvements
- Insights sidebar
- Insights gives quick access to related books and passages from the right sidebar of Bibles. Currently, it requires an internet connection.
- Sermon Assistant
- Sermon Assistant can now generate suggested sermon Applications.
- The sidebar in Sermon Assistant can now be resized.
Logos Pro Tweaks & Bug Fixes
- Branding
- Updated Splash Screens and Feature Set wording to say “Logos Pro (early access)”.
- Search
- Summarizing a non-english resource will summarize based on the language set in your program settings.
- Sermon Assistant
- Illustration input boxis bigger.
- Sermon Assistant types will only be displayed if appropriate licenses are unlocked.
- After clicking “generate,” the focus will remain within the generated results.
- Sermons exceeding 10,000 words will display a message indicating that the generated questions may not cover the entire sermon.
- Theme Switching
Additional Changes
Changes & Improvements
- Search
- Replaced the existing additional versions picker with a new control and drag & drop functionality for Bible and Morph search.
- Resources such as Personal Books, Media, Interactives, Timeline and Clause Visualization will no longer show a summarize button.
Bug Fixes
- Factbook
- Indexer
- Resolved an indexer crash that some users with Personal Books were experiencing.
- Performance
- Improved memory performance during extended use.
- Search
- Adding a book to your Hidden Books section will no longer be included in an all search.
- Newly downloaded books will no longer return Results Changed Unexpectedly error message. Thread.
- Running a smart all search will no longer result in hit-highlighting appearing in a book.
- Performing a Clause search without a query will no longer cause a crash.
- Executing a Bible or Morph query will no longer return an empty layout.
- The application will no longer crash when executing an inline search.
- The application will no longer crash when expanding the Timelines section in a Books search.
- When there is no filter text within the Resource Picker. The Top Books will be ordered based on prioritization followed by downloaded books.
- Refined the load time when accessing the collection picker in a Books Search.
- Sermons
- The Sermon builder tool should keep the block type intact when deleting content above a Heading block, whether by pressing delete or backspace.
- Sermon document tags are now searchable in a Docs search. Thread.
- The application will no longer hang when clicking delete or close from the panel setting menu.
- The application will no longer crash when clicking on the style menu.
- Translation Tool
- Error messages in the translation tool now match the set application language.
- The application will no longer crash when opening/closing panels with the translation side panel open.
Mac Bug Fixes
- Layouts
- The application will no longer crash when loading certain layouts.
Windows Bug Fixes
- Documents
- The list of groups in the share pop up can now be scrolled through when sharing a document.
- Search
- The application will no longer crash when switching to Grid view in a Bible Search panel.
Mobile - iOS
Logos Pro (early access) Subscription Features
Smart Search
- Just like the search engines you’re familiar with online, Smart Search doesn’t just search for the words in your query – it uses AI to search for articles that discuss the meaning of those words and then shows the most relevant place in that article in the search snippets.
Search Result Summarization
- With one click, you can turn any brief search snippet into an AI-generated summary of the entire article, allowing you to understand better what each article covers.
Sermon Assistant – Applications Generator (iPad only)
- Sermon Assistant is an AI-powered tool that helps preachers overcome creative block and makes it easier to create materials to help the congregation better engage with the message. The Applications Generator suggests several short sermon applications as ideas to adapt or customize.
Improved
- Tapping a highlight will select the highlight instead of toggling the toolbars.
- Improved the sorting of bibles in parallel books.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where some Bibles didn’t have abbreviations in Text Comparison
- Fixed an issue where the Inline Search button was showing in the selection menu when offline.
- Pasting content from a Bible will include the verse content (regression from v32).
- Fixed an issue where the minimized toolbar title in a Bible reading plan didn’t reflect the current reading.
- Fixed an issue when scrolling in certain screens in the “more” menu would dismiss the menu.
- Fixed an issue where the playback and audio speed buttons overlapped on certain phones.
- Fixed an issue where passage list previews were truncated at certain font sizes.
- Fixed an issue that prevented removing note filters.
- Fixed an issue where canceling a search while offline sometimes caused a crash.
- Fixed an issue that might cause a Bible Word Study to fail when the selected text contained leading whitespace.
- Fixed an issue with crashes in offline search.
Mobile - Android
Logos Pro (early access) Subscription Features
Smart Search
- Just like the search engines you’re familiar with online, Smart Search doesn’t just search for the words in your query – it uses AI to search for articles that discuss the meaning of those words and then shows the most relevant place in that article in the search snippets.
Search Result Summarization
- With one click, you can turn any brief search snippet into an AI-generated summary of the entire article, allowing you to understand better what each article covers.
Improved
- Improved performance and speed for users with a large amount of Notes
- Added the gesture back into the app where tapping on a highlight will select the entire highlight.
- Improved the sorting of bibles in parallel books.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where the Inline Search button was showing in the selection menu when offline.
- Fixed a crash in the Faithlife Study Bible when tapping on “Arabah”
- Fixed an issue where the “Done” button was hidden by the toolbar in Additional Highlights modal
- Fixed an issue where tapping “All Open Books” in Search didn’t do anything
- Fixed an issue where canceling a search while offline sometimes caused a crash.
- Fixed an issue that might cause a Bible Word Study to fail when the selected text contained leading whitespace.
New
Logos version 32
Logos version 32
Desktop
Logos Pro (early access) Subscription Features
- About
- The About screen will show “Early Access” as the Feature Set.
- AI Credits
- The three features above use AI and are subject to a generous fair use cap from a single pool of credits. * The translation tool now also shares that pool of credits.
- When a user has used 80% or more of those credits, a notification will display in the main app nav bar.
- Application Theme
- Changing light/dark mode will no longer require a restart. It can be switched from the usual menu, or by pressing F4.
- Sermon Assistant
- An AI-powered Sermon Assistant is now available in the right sidebar of Sermon Builder.
- It can generate suggested sermon illustrations to be inserted into Sermon Builder, based on a user prompt.
- It can also generate suggested discussion questions, based on the user’s sermon.
- Smart Search
- Smart Search is a new online-only search engine that uses AI to return highly relevant results without requiring any additional syntax. (AI is used only to find relevant results. No additional text is generated with AI.)
- Smart Search powers All Search and is the new default for Books Search.
- The existing search engine (now called Precise Search) is used in Bible and Morph search, and is optional in Books Search.
- Splash Screens
- Updated Splash Screens to indicate Early Access if a user has opted in.
- Summarization Tool
- It is now possible to see an AI-generated summary of any article that is shown in the search results.
- Summaries are also available when reading books, by opening the right sidebar.
Changes & Improvements
- Books
- When no other panels are open, the first panel to open will be placed on the left hand side.
- Search
- Updated Spanish and Korean translations in the Search Cookbook.
Bug Fixes
- Books
- Opening a cloud book while offline will now provide a better message indicating why the book can not be read.
- The application will no longer crash when navigating to an OT reference from NA28GBS when linked with Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia.
- When double click is set to “look up” it will now open your preferred Lexicon.
- The application will no longer crash when right clicking on Syriac words.
- Charts
- Menu items in the Charts tool are now responsive.
- Search
- Autocompleted terms in search templates will no longer be wrapped with mismatching quotes.
- In All Search, the Factbook card will no longer get stuck in loading state when searching for a Bible reference.
Mac Bug Fixes
- Highlighting
- The Inductive/Precept section will now draw all examples correctly.
- Indexer
- The Verbum application will no longer crash while indexing.
- Layouts
- Fixed a bug that caused the layout window state to be saved as a minimized view if the window had been minimized at some point. Any layouts currently saved with a minimized state will continue to minimize the application until they are updated.
- Search
- Scrolling within the panel while the multi-resource picker is open will no longer automatically close the add versions popup and disable the button for selecting it again.
- Sermons
- Text formatting is now preserved after typing an ellipsis in sermon builder.
- Text
- Corrected rich text formatting throughout the application.
Windows Bug Fixes
- Indexer
- Resolved an indexer crash caused by registry keys.
- Print/Export
- The application will no longer experience crashes caused by different print configurations.
Mobile - iOS
Logos Pro (early access) Subscription Features
Summarization Tool
- It is now possible to see an AI-generated summary of any article that is shown in the selection menu.
- Summaries are available when reading books.
Sermon Assistant on iPad
- An AI-powered Sermon Assistant is now available in Sermon Builder.
- It can generate suggested sermon illustrations to be inserted into Sermon Builder, based on a user promp.
- It can also generate suggested discussion questions, based on the user’s sermon.
AI Credits
- The Summarization tool and the Auto-Translation tool are subject to a generous fair use cap from a single pool of credits.
- When a user has used 80% or more of those credits, a notification will display in the “More” menu.
New
- Single tap gesture now (again) shows and hides toolbars. Double tap to select a verse or sentence, long press to select a word. Please provide feedback in this forum.
- We’ve added book previews in the store.
Improved
- We’ve begun replacing usages of “resource” with “book” for clarity.
- Improved minimal toolbars and single-tap gestures in non-resource panels.
- Improved Bible Word Study guides not always returning lexicon matches for Hebrew lemmas.
- Improved animations between the layout editor and reading views.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where BDB entries were missing on Bible Word Study from the LHB
- Fixed an issue where BDB was showing the wrong entry for a Hebrew lemma
- Fixed an issue where a book wasn’t showing results for “h:elohim” in BWS
- Fixed a highlighting issue in the MacArthur NASB
Mobile - Android
Logos Pro (early access) Subscription Features
Summarization Tool
- It is now possible to see an AI-generated summary of any article that is shown in the selection menu.
- Summaries are available when reading books.
AI Credits
- The Summarization tool and the Auto-Translation tool are subject to a generous fair use cap from a single pool of credits.
- When a user has used 80% or more of those credits, a notification will display in the “More” menu.
New
- Single tap gesture now (again) shows and hides toolbars. Double tap to select a verse or sentence, long press to select a word. Please provide feedback in this forum.
- We’ve added book previews in the store.
Improved
- We’ve begun replacing usages of “resource” with “book” for clarity.
- Bible Word Study guides now return matches for Hebrew lemmas.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where the highlight styles were taking a while to show up in the selection menu.
- Fixed a crash that would occur if you removed the last tab in the Tabs View.
- Fixed another crash that would occur if you removed the last tab in the Tabs View.
- Fixed an issue where BDB was showing the wrong entry for a Hebrew lemma
- Fixed an issue where a book wasn’t showing results for “h:elohim” in BWS
New
Logos version 31
Desktop
Changes & Improvements
- Citations
- Improvements to citation translations in Chinese.
- Context Menu
- There is now a copy command in the context menu for URLs.
- Program Settings
- Added the ability to bring up a search bar in program settings using CMD/Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut.
- Reading View
- Updated verbiage from “Reading View” to “Full screen” across all panels and documentation.
- Search
- Searching Chinese text will return results for Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
- Translation tool
- AI Translation now uses a new backend system for tracking usage. The monthly usage limit has not changed.
- Instead of a usage indicator in the tool itself, when a user has used 80% or more of their monthly limit, a notification will display in the main app nav bar.
- Workflows
- Textboxes now respect the preferred Notes font family and font size.
Bug Fixes
- Context Menu
- The Factbook option will now consistently appear in the context menu for selected Lemmas.
- Hidden Resources
- Updated Resource Panel UI for hidden resources.
- Information Tool
- Results in the translation section of the Information tool are now grouped by language.
- Library
- The multi select info in the Add to Library tab will now correctly update as books are selected/deselected.
- Passage Lists
- Corrected background colors for rows in Passage Lists.
- Resource
- The resource will now select and navigate to the typed reference at the top of the resource navigator list instead of selecting the current location.
- The application will no longer crash when selecting print/export.
- Search
- Additional version columns are no longer misaligned when the search panel width is narrowed.
- Including a question mark at the end of a search query will no longer cause performance issues.
- Search results will no longer include duplicate results.
- Morph search tab now uses “in” rather than a bullet before the reference range picker.
- Sermons
- Check marks indicating selected options are now present for passage blocks in sermon builder.
- Sermons with multiple Bible references will no longer export onto one single slide in Powerpoint.
- Workflows
- Textboxes will no longer lose focus after a long pause between typing.
Mac Bug Fixes
- Library
- The application will no longer crash when deselecting books in the Add to Library tab.
- Corrected styling for dividers in the popup menu when right clicking on resources in the Library.
- Media Tool
- The Upload Media button will consistently show the open file dialog inside of the media tool.
- Resources
- The application will no longer crash when opening the Daily Dose videos by Robert L. Plummer (Greek) and Adam Howell.
- The history drop down menu in the resource panel will now open.
- Search
- Search History items no longer appear grayed out.
- Text entered into the Bible picker drop down will no longer be cutoff.
- Start up
- Resolved a crash related to layout shortcuts that occurred on startup.
Windows Bug Fixes
- Home Page
- The application will no longer crash when creating a Sermon from the Home Page.
- Indexer
- Indexer no longer writes the wrong path to the RunOnce registry value.
- Print/Export
- The application will no longer crash when selecting Print as shown on screen when printing grid view search results.
- Start up
- The application will no longer crash when an invalid proxy is set.
- Workflows
- Spell check indicator is now properly aligned in textboxes.
Mobile - iOS
New
- Anonymous users will now see cards promoting the benefits of registering for a free Logos account.
Improved
- Labels have been added to the main toolbar icons.
- If you’ve made links between notes in Logos desktop with ref.ly links, those links now work on mobile.
- We’ve made improvements to the active reference that is used to trigger links between books.
- Offline Search now considers all words in a query as individual terms to find, thus a search for [faith hope love] (no brackets) will now yield results in 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians.
- Offline search is faster, especially All Books searches.
- The order of items in the omnibox search has changed.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue where new highlights were not immediately visible.
- Keyboard shortcuts to apply styling to text in Sermon Builder have been fixed.
- Fixed an issue preventing Sermon Presenting mode from working when offline.
- Using Text-to-Speech in a resource with interlinear lines will now read just the top line.
- Fixed an intermittent crash when using Text-to-Speech.
Mobile - Android
New
- Anonymous users will now see cards promoting the benefits of registering for a free Logos account.
Improved
- Labels have been added to the main toolbar icons.
- Long-press a link in a note should now navigate properly.
- We’ve made improvements to the active reference that is used to trigger links between books.
- The order of items in the omnibox search has changed.
New
Logos version 30
Desktop
Changes & Improvements
- Bible Word Study
- Added Greek Words and Hebrew Words guide sections for Latin lemmas.
- Context Menu
- Updated the Proclaim icon in the context menu.
- Library
- Improved order of results when sorting the Library details view by Rank.
- Passage Lists
- Added the ability to add selected passages from a Bible to Passage Lists.
- Search
- Added a “Remove all” option from the multi-resource picker.
- Sermons
- Updated text style for tooltip keyboard shortcuts.
- Added the ability for a custom target time to be input prior to sending a Sermon to Preaching Mode.
- Added the option to show red letters in scripture blocks added to Sermons.
- Settings
- Added clarification in program settings that beta releases always send feedback.
- Spell Check
- Added common verse and page abbreviations to spell check dictionaries.
Windows Changes & Improvements
- Application
- Logos now requires a version of Windows which Microsoft supports. At the time of this release, the list of supported versions is:
- Windows 11 version 21H2 or newer
- Windows 10 version 21H2 or newer
- Logos may continue to run on some older versions of Windows, but will not be eligible for troubleshooting from technical support, or fixes for Logos bugs that are specific to those unsupported versions of Windows.
- Logos now requires a version of Windows which Microsoft supports. At the time of this release, the list of supported versions is:
Bug Fixes
- Application
- Ensured compatibility with Windows Server 2019 v1809
- The application will no longer crash when opening the Home page and syncing down a sermon document change.
- The application will no longer crash when editing document information.
- Autocompleter
- The autocompleter in the Text Comparison, Copy Bible Verses, and Passage Analysis, Sentence Diagram tool will no longer return inaccurate or stale results.
- Bible Word Study
- Incorrect Guide sections will no longer be shown for Latin lemmas
- Latin surface text words are no longer suggested for Guides, as they’re not supported
- Guides
- The application will no longer crash when opening the Bookstore section in a Topic Guide.
- Highlighting
- The shadow highlight effect is no longer broken in Dark Mode.
- Notes
- The application will no longer crash when filtering in Notes.
- Font sizes are no longer overridden when pasting in text with multiple font sizes.
- Bible reference links are no longer overwritten when pasted into a note.
- Text copied from a resource and pasted into a note will no longer be bolded if the original text was not bolded.
- Copied text will now consistently paste into notes.
- Psalms Explorer
- Psalms Explorer will no longer break when in a link set.
- Search
- The search autocompleter no longer requires non-English versions of datasets to return results for Label search terms.
- Resolved a bug with display of search result’s reference preview when searching for reverse interlinear data.
- Clicking on a search hit link in Bible search now navigates to the result, not just the reference.
- Sentence Diagrammer
- Various Dark Mode styling bugs have been corrected in the sentence diagramming tool.
- Sermons
- Exporting to different aspect ratios no longer causes issues with slide formatting.
- Added correct padding between the overflow button and the right side of the sermon panel.
- Custom media can now be applied to slides.
- Selecting the revision history will no longer result in displaying a blank page.
- The Sermon builder panel will no longer go blank when changing font styles.
- Shortcuts
- Resolved a bug that resulted in the inability to add certain web links to the shortcuts menu.
- Tools
- The application will no longer crash when activating the Advanced Timeline with a link set.
- Various Dark Mode styling bugs have been corrected in the Sentence Diagramming tool.
- Word Find
- The application will no longer crash when selecting hint text in a Word Find document.
Mac Bug Fixes
- Application
- Items in the panel menu are now properly displayed on Sonoma without being cropped when hovered over.
- Factbook
- Selecting an item from the dropdown menu in Factbook will no longer be ignored for the top result in the list.
- Documents
- The application will no longer crash that when attempting to drag and drop items in the documents panel.
- Layouts
- The check mark that indicates the selected layout is now present in the Layouts menu.
- Localizations
- The cursor will no longer move to a previous word when typing in Korean in Notes and Sermons.
- Quotation marks will now automatically close when typing in Korean in Notes and Sermons.
- Guides
- The hover popup for the ± symbol in the Word by Word section of Exegetical Guides is no longer missing a tooltip.
- Passage Analysis
- Passage Analysis icons are no longer missing.
- Resources
- The application no longer crashes when clicking on the Red/Blue filter in a stereoscopic resource.
Windows Bug Fixes
- Interlinears
- The reverse interlinear pane now consistently shows for reverse interlinears that are unowned, un-downloaded, or unavailable in applicable resources.
- Print/Export
- The application will no longer crash when generating print previews.
Mobile - iOS
New
- Added a new Parallel Books button, next to the reference box, that allows you to quickly change between Bible translations, Study Bibles, Bible Commentaries, and more.
- Replaced the Search button with a Bible button on the main toolbar, and added a search button in book title bars.
Improved
- Removed the Notebook for Highlight setting when not signed in.
- Display help text in the reference scanner if permissions to access the camera are denied.
- The Add to Favorites button was removed from the kebab menu when there is nothing to favorite.
Deprecated
- Removed the Community Notes Visual Filter and menu item.
Bug Fixes
- Changes to interlinear lines are now immediately visible.
- In paging mode, selecting text across columns from a book will not truncate the pop-up menu.
- The application will no longer crash when downloading all books.
- The linkset setting in a reading plan will properly display.
- Abbreviated titles will correctly display in the Notes tool, Clippings, and when copying and pasting text.
- The Bible button in the workspace editor will only open the preferred Bible picker if a preferred Bible hasn’t been set, otherwise it will just open the preferred Bible.
- Certain free-to-use books are now fully accessible.
Mobile - Android
New
- Added a new Parallel Books button, next to the reference box, that allows you to quickly change between Bible translations, Study Bibles, Bible Commentaries, and more.
- Support specifying a language for the application different from the device language (Android 13 and higher).
- Replaced the Search button with a Bible button on the main toolbar, and added a search button in book title bars.
Improved
- The Add to Favorites button was removed from the kebab menu when there is nothing to favorite.
Deprecated
- Removed the Community Notes Visual Filter and menu item.
Fixed
- Navigation of ref.y links with a reference and an offset.
- Links within the Lexham Bible Dictionary will navigate correctly when the book is downloaded.
- The Bible button in the workspace editor will only open the preferred Bible picker if a preferred Bible hasn’t been set, otherwise it will just open the preferred Bible.
- Abbreviated titles will correctly display in Clippings.
- Certain free-to-use resources are now fully accessible.
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Desktop
Improved
- Home page
- Reduced the number of cards shown in the Home page “Explore” section.
- Panels
- Improved contrast for Link Set icons.
- Sermons
- All toolbar buttons are accessible when the Sermon panel is set to smaller widths.
- Keyboard shortcuts are shown in the preset styles menu.
- Startup
- Updated wording on the syncing popup when opening and closing the application.
Bug Fixes
- Atlas
- Resolved a bug that caused Atlas filtering to not work.
- Autocomplete
- Resolved a bug that caused autocomplete controls in Copy Bible Verses, Resource panels, and other various panels to ignore valid query inputs.
- Dark Mode
- Resolved a bug that caused Discourse terms visual filter to be difficult to read in dark mode.
- Documents
- Resolved a bug that caused a calendar option to appear when selecting the “At your own pace” when creating a Reading Plan document.
- Improved document filtering speed.
- Explorer
- Resolved a bug that caused duplicate events to appear for certain pericopes in the Explorer tool.
- Factbook
- Resolved a bug that caused the indicator dots in the drop down menu in Factbook sidebar to be incorrectly aligned with the currently selected item.
- Footnotes
- Resolved a crash that occurred when hovering over a footnote in The Net Bible First Edition Notes.
- Guides
- Resolved a crash that occurred when changing the resource in the word by word section of an exegetical guide.
- Resolved a bug that caused the Commentaries section of Guides to blank out and reload when clicking “more” in author view.
- Notes
- Resolved a bug that resulted in headers in the Notes sidebar to not display the correct translations for the set language.
- Changed the name of Resource header to Books in the Notes sidebar.
- Scaling
- Resolved a bug that caused content scaling settings to impact buttons and menus in various panels.
- Search
- Resolved a bug that caused extended load times for searches returning a large number of results.
- Resolved a bug that caused broad reference matching to not be added to the Charts tool.
- Self Tests
- Resolved a crash that occurred when Printing/Exporting a Self Test.
- Sermons
- Resolved a bug that caused sermons to export to the incorrect aspect ratios when sending to Powerpoint.
- Resolved a bug that caused incorrect text wrapping on the choose a template prompt.
- Resolved a bug that caused the text of the Post button to be cut off when the application language was set to German.
- Resolved a bug that caused the text cursor to move to the middle of a line when selecting the Insert Inline option.
- Resolved a bug that caused the Insert Inline option to revert previously set formatting.
- Resolved a bug that caused the application to hang after exporting a sermon to Proclaim.
- Resolved a bug that caused passage information to not populate on the title slide.
Mac Bug Fixes
- Bible Sense Lexicon
- Resolved a bug that resulted in the inability to scroll in the Bible Sense Lexicon Tool.
- Context Menu
- Resolved a crash that occurred when clicking on expanders in the Context Menu.
- Resolved a bug that caused incorrect formatting for Hebrew lemma morph searches within the context menu.
- Dark Mode
- Corrected styling for the Report Typo popup in Dark Mode.
- Footnotes
- Resolved a crash that occurred when following a footnote reference when in Reading View mode.
- Search
- Resolved a bug that caused the analysis view to be broken in Morph Search on Mac.
Windows Bug Fixes
- Documents
- Resolved a crash that occurred when clicking and dragging in a Word Find Document.
- Footnotes
- Resolved a bug that caused footnote popups to be displaced.
- Guides
- Resolved a bug that caused the Preposition Use section of a Bible Word Study to be difficult to read in Dark Mode.
- Passage List
- Resolved a bug that caused the resource selector text to be cut off.
- Print/Export
- Resolved a bug that caused various Print/Export panel views to be broken.
- Startup
- Resolved a crash that occurred at startup on Windows when in a different resolution.
Mobile
iOS & Android
iOS & Android
- We’ve made several updates pertaining to signing in and/or creating an account.
- You will now sign in or create an account using our new sign-in portal.
- If you are opening the app for the first time, you will see a new pop-up giving you the option to choose the Bible translation you prefer to read.
- In an effort to help you get to the Bible quicker, we’ve removed several informational screens that you previously would see when opening the app for the first time.
Android Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash in Search tool, for some users, when showing results for an All Search.
iOS Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Reading Plan Overview might not show the correct next reading.
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Desktop
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Application
- Updated Logos icon
- Updated splash screen images for Logos.
- Updated default avatar image.
- Replaced most references to “Faithlife” with “Logos”.
- Application title changed from Logos Bible Software to Logos Bible Study.
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Layouts
- Merged similar Home Page and QuickStart Layouts.
- User modifications to the removed Passage Study and Topic Study QuickStart layouts are preserved via a new saved layout
- Added a Factbook panel to various QuickStart Layouts.
- Added the ability to open QuickStart Layouts to a reference from the command box.
- Daily Devotional and Search QuickStart Layouts can be added to the Home Page.
- Merged similar Home Page and QuickStart Layouts.
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Passage Lists
- Various improvements to Passage Lists:
- Added the ability to add duplicate passages.
- Verse-mapping is now supported, (e.g., Passage Lists knows that Joel 2:28 in an English Bible is Joel 3:1 in a Hebrew Bible).
- Passage Lists uses the multi-resource version picker.
- Various improvements to the UI.
- Sort option has been added to the Passage List toolbar.
- A “Too Many Items” alert will popup when attempting to drag/drop more items than what is supported.
- Various improvements to Passage Lists:
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Search
- Added the following options when selecting resources in Morph Search:
- Top Greek New Testament
- Top Hebrew Bible
- Top Greek Septuagint
- Added Book Type as a section in the collection picker for Morph and Bible searches.
- Added Language as a section in the collection picker for Morph, Bible, and Books searches.
- Added the following options when selecting resources in Morph Search:
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Sermons
- Added the ability to create a line break in Sermon Builder with SHIFT+ENTER on the keyboard.
- Updated button styling for Media Tool on Mac.
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Home Layout
- Cards in the home layout display the updated Logos icon.
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Memorization
- The Memorization Tool is now its own panel, accessible via the Tools menu.
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Additional Changes
- Faithlife Assistant is no longer available in the application.
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Bug Fixes
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Context Menu
- Resolved a bug that caused Bible search to be suggested in the context menu for headwords. Thread.
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Factbook Tags
- Resolved a crash that occurred when adding a Factbook Tag to Orthodox Church. Thread.
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Factbook
- Resolved a bug that caused the Christian History Factbook section to incorrectly use localized data.
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Guides
- Resolved a bug that kept results in Parallel Passages guides from wrapping at smaller panel widths. Thread.
- Resolved a crash that occurred in the Important Words section when running a Passage Guide on a reference with verse parts.
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Highlighting
- Improved color styling for Highlight icons in Dark Mode.
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Layouts
- Resolved a crash that occurred when opening the Bible Reading Plan layout with an Atlas open and linked to certain bibles.
- Resolved a crash that occurred when adding Search and Devotional Layouts to the Home Page. Thread.
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Library
- Resolved a bug that caused filtering by type to not work when viewing resources in cover view in the Library.
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Links
- Resolved a crash that occurred when following L4 links.
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Memorization
- Improved styling to various components in Dark Mode.
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Notes
- Increased the number of tag filters that are visible in the notes sidebar.
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Reading Plans
- Resolved a crash that occurred when creating a shared custom reading plan. Thread.
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Resources
- Resolved a crash that occurred in The Greek New Testament According to Majority Text. Thread.
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Reverse Interlinears
- Resolved a bug that caused the reverse interlinear pane to occasionally fail to load.
- Resolved a bug that caused the first word in a verse to remain highlighted in the RVI pane after clicking on other words in the verse. Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused the resource panel to jump locations when the Reverse Interlinear ribbon was open and a large number of reading plan markups were present in the same location in a resource.
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Search
- Resolved a bug that caused the pericope view in inline search to be broken after downloading the latest pericope sets resource.
- Resolved a bug that resulted in morph picker showing morphologies that were unsupported in a resource.
- Resolved a bug that caused Basic Search to ignore the specified range for certain resources.
- Resolved a bug that caused adjacent search terms to be merged together in search preview.
- Removed the logic that uses the abbreviated title when there isn’t space for the full title when executing a Books Search.
- Resolved a bug that caused “Send Searches Here” settings to be ignored and resulted in a new Search panel being opened when a word in a resource was double clicked. Thread.
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Sermons
- Resolved a bug that resulted in the incorrect keyboard shortcut being shown when hovering over styling tools in Sermon Builder. Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused slides to flash on and back off when opening a Sermon despite having the Show Slides preference set to off.
- Resolved a bug that resulted in duplicate tool tips to appear in Sermon Manager.
- Resolved a bug that caused sermons with multi page slides to not export to Powerpoint.
- Resolved a bug that caused images that were dragged/dropped into a sermon to be uneditable.
- Resolved a bug that resulted in the inability to export Sermons to PowerPoint.
- Resolved a bug that caused the full title of a resource to appear in a reference slide for certain Sermon themes.
- Resolved a bug that caused author’s names to appear in the citation location on a Sermon slide.
- Resolved a bug that caused duplicate text to appear in Sermon slides.
- Resolved a bug that caused Sermon slides to flicker upon opening.
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Touch Screen
- Improvements to scrolling in popups on touch screen devices.
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Users
- Resolved a bug that caused the current user to be cleared when selecting Clear Users from the account menu.
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Passage Lists
- Resolved a bug that caused added passages to not insert below the currently selected passage.
- Resolved a bug that caused the kebab menu icons to be misaligned.
- Resolved a bug that kept resources from opening to a filtered list when navigating to them from an item in a Passage List.
- Resolved a bug that caused single lines of text to not be centered.
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Search
- Resolved a bug that caused areas of Morph Query documents to not be translated when the application was set to French.
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Windows Bug Fixes
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Toolbar
- Resolved a bug that caused the application logo in the Toolbar to be clipped.
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Toolbar
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Mac Bug Fixes
- Layouts
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Bible Browser
- Resolved a bug that caused the offline warning in Bible Browser to be illegible in Dark Mode.
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Documents
- Resolved a bug that resulted in the info side panel getting stuck in an always open or unopenable state when accessing the Documents menu.
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Notes
- Resolved a bug that inhibited dragging images into notes from certain web browsers.
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Panels
- Resolved a bug that resulted in the scrollbar on panels being difficult to click and drag at higher program scaling on Mac.
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Print/Export
- Resolved a bug that caused resource text to be illegible in print/export view in Dark Mode.
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Resources
- Corrected styling of play button on video resources.
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Word Lists
- Resolved a bug that caused alert banners in Word Lists to be illegible in Dark Mode.
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Context Menu
Mobile
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Android & iOS
- We’ve updated the Logos icon, splash screen and colors to reflect our new Logos brand.
- We’ve added language-specific books to the default layouts that show when initially installing the app.
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iOS
- We’ve added auto-complete suggestions to the search tool. When entering a search query, auto-complete and recent searches are shown and filtered in a selectable list.
- Fixed a crash with Text Selection on iOS versions before 15.2
- Fixed a crash with a localized message in ISBN scanner
- Fixed a crash with Top Bibles in a Bible Search Panel
- Fixed an issue where Auto Complete wasn’t working in “All Search”
- Fixed an issue with the visibility of the cursor in the sign-in screens
- Fixed an issue with the editing of input boxes in resources
- Fixed an issue for some Interlinear resources missing the Bible Text Only – One Verse Per Line view setting
- Fixed a a layout issue for Link Set controls in the Resource menu for large system text sizes
- Changed the Favorites access for unauthenticated users
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Android
- Added Clear button to remove Search tool history.
- Various Search Auto-Complete improvements
- Fixed an issue where Read Aloud was reading “St.” as “Street” instead of “Saint”
- Fixed an issue where the checkmark wasn’t showing for selecting top bible
- Fixed an issue where the reference box wasn’t showing initial results
- Fixed a crash when opening the app for Chromebooks
- Fixed an issue where some library filters were not working
- Fixed an issue with setting top bibles when offline
- Fixed an issue with note formatting on some devices
- Localized Report Typo strings
Web
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Application
- Updated "Logos Bible Software" site name to "Logos Bible Study"
- Changed the green default profile avatar to a blue default avatar.
- Refreshed the blue color used in links and buttons
New
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Desktop
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Reverse Interlinears
- Added new means of indicating availability of reverse interlinears for applicable resources.
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Search
- Print functionality has been added to Bible Search.
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Sermons
- Updated font coloring for edited scripture text in Sermon builder.
- Added the following fields to the info panel for Sermon Manager and Sermon Builder:
- Number in Series
- Tags
- Target Duration
- File Links
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Bug Fixes
- Links in the about panel link to the correct storefront based on the language set in the application.
- Resolved a bug that caused the theme and splash screen to reuse the status of the last user when switching between accounts.
- Resolved a bug that caused some collections to not be properly saved when running a morph search.
- Resolved a bug that caused an extensive list of resources to show up in a person lookup from the context menu. Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused Delete and Duplicate to be too close to each other in Document context menus.
- Resolved a bug that resulted in bad data being displayed in Word By Word guides. Thread & Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused an unnecessary letter “E” to appear in the rows when setting prioritization limits in the Library.
- Resolved a bug that caused footnote text to not paste in when copying and pasting into Notes. Thread.
- Resolved a crash that occurred when generating and clicking HTML links in Notes. Thread.
- Improved wording for error message that occurs when a Clause Search is unavailable. Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused footnotes to be included in search results when only a partial match was present.
- Resolved a bug that caused the autocomplete menu for Factbook Tags search to display items that don’t return results for Factbook.
- Resolved a bug that caused the morph picker to not work in Bible inline search.
- Resolved a bug that caused Document results to incorrectly appear under canvas when filtering by document type. Thread.
- Resolved a bug that kept search templates from executing when hitting the enter key.
- Resolved a bug that kept illustrated search results from appearing in the right-hand column.
- Resolved a bug that caused crossref:passagelist:=”Passage List” to ignore the match equals. Thread
- Resolved a bug that caused Sermon builder to show a blank screen when dragging and dropping images from the Media Tool. Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused the RVI banner to flash when opened.
- Resolved a bug that caused duplicate RVI purchase banners to appear.
- Resolved a bug that caused the incorrect resource to appear in the banner when a reverse interlinear is available to purchase.
- Resolved a bug that caused the purchase banner to not appear when a reverse interlinear license was not owned.
- Resolved a bug that caused the RVI button to appear on cloud resource previews.
- And more.
Mobile
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Android & iOS
- We’ve refreshed Saved Layouts, making it easier to create and manage your layouts (Feedback Request).
- We added a button to close all open tabs (Feedback Request).
- We’ve disabled the default swipe-to-highlight behavior. You can still enable this setting from resource settings.
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iOS
- Improved the error message when attempting to register with an email address of an existing account.
- Fixed an issue in translation cards when selecting a single word, where the translated word wasn’t displayed
- Fixed a crash when saving layouts
- Fixed an issue where adding a verse to a passage list would open multiple verse pickers
- Fixed an issue that prevented “Change Resource” to switch between different documents of the same kind (i.e. between two different passage lists)
- Fixed an issue where navigating in Text Comparison would scroll to a different verse
- Fixed an issue for some users where the notes visual filter might not stay enabled
- Fixed a regression that removed the ability to delete a highlight when selected
- Fixed an issue truncating text in Text Comparison
- Fixed an issue showing the selection menu in Faithlife Study Bible popup articles and tabular data
- Fixed an issue that would cause the text selection menu to sometimes not appear
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Android
- The loading time of Search Kinds has been improved.
- Fixed an issue where changing a resource kept the Bible reference
- Fixed an issue where the resource margin updated on tablets when the number of columns changed
- Fixed an issue where the animation was lost when opening a new worksheet
- Fixed an issue when sharing to Twitter
Web
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Quick Action Buttons
- Added one-click buttons to open your top commentary, study bible, bible dictionary, devotional, and Text Comparison tool.
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Search
- Added a basic collection picker that has three ways of filtering your search to a specific set of books.
New
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Logos version 24
Desktop
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Favorites
- Website title will appear as the name for URL Favorites.
- Count is displayed for number of items that will open when “Open All” is selected from the menu.
- Updated cursor preview for drag and drop actions.
- All subfolders will be opened when a folder is dragged and dropped outside of the Favorites panel.
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Search
- Morph Picker selections appear in alphabetical order.
- Morph Picker popup triggers in Bible Search kind when typing ‘@’ or the prefix for a morph data type reference.
- Improvements to speed of milestone searches across large libraries.
- Improvements to speed of reference range searches.
- Improvements to speed of milestone searches with reference supersets.
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Sermons
- Updated styling for Media Tool buttons.
- Improvements to applying custom backgrounds to slides.
- Content is preserved when editing slide backgrounds.
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UI/UX Changes
- Updated wording for features section in the About panel.
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Windows-only
- Added IME support on Windows for resource panel, workflow panel, and various additional areas where IME was previously unsupported.
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Many Bug Fixes
- Resolved a bug that caused BibTex citation style to incorrectly import into Zotero.
- Resolved a bug that caused areas of Clippings documents to be unlocalized.
- Resolved a bug that caused the ALT+D/OPT+CMD+L keyboard shortcut to not open the command box. Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused the loading indicator to be missing from the Factbook Tags section in the Factbook panel.
- Resolved a bug that caused the Factbook tag tooltip to show duplicate results for Dataset and user-generated tags.
- Resolved a bug that caused the Add Factbook Tags option to appear in the context menu for Personal Books.
- Resolved a bug that caused deleted Factbook tags to still show up in the Factbook Tags section. Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused the Undo popup to cut off at certain panel widths.
- Resolved a bug that caused the website icon to be lost when adding URL Favorites. Thread.
- Improved loading times for Favorites icons.
- Resolved a bug that caused certain color names in the highlight tool to be unlocalized.
- Resolved a bug that caused the Church History Ontology dataset to appear in Add to Library.
- Resolved a bug that caused the note indicator to show at the start of a chapter when a note was added to a specific verse. Thread, Thread, & Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused the note indicator to show at the start of a chapter when a note was added to a specific verse in Bibles.
- Resolved a bug that resulted in trailing punctuation causing autocomplete to generate invalid queries.
- Resolved a bug that caused previously deleted resources to not index when redownloaded. Thread.
- Resolved a bug that caused an infinite loading bar in grouped view when viewing results for a book that is currently being indexed.
- Resolved a bug that caused field.root: queries to lose localization when selected from the autocomplete menu.
- Resolved a bug that caused a syncing error when saving a search from a passage guide connected to a large collection.
- Resolved a bug that caused menus to disappear when attempting to interact via touch.
- And more.
Mobile
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Android & iOS
- Extended support for Factbook cards with additional card types and Factbook tags.
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Many Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue where invoking a Bible Word Study from a Word Info card opened the wrong lemma
- Resolved a bug that would prevent starting a reading plan from within a resource
- Resolved an issue where the reference box was not being updated correctly
- Resolved an issue when minimizing or switching apps caused changes in the location within a book
- Resolved an issue with opening the wrong panel
- Resolved a crash when search panels were being reused
- Resolved a crash when viewing some note anchors
- Resolved unlocalized text
- Resolved Text Comparison not working with Top Bibles
- And more.
New
Logos version 23
Desktop
- Factbook
- Improved quality of Key Article Sections for author pages.
- Increased number of resources that return results for the Key Article section.
- Notes
- Added support for Shift+Enter within a list.
- Search
- Improvements to parsing queries with large numbers of terms.
- Added support for exact matching with passagelist keywords.
- Added support for stacking textual field keywords with passagelist keywords.
- Terms that follow match in the match.xyz: search query will be checked for typos.
- Splash Screens
- Application build month and year have been added to the Splash Screen.
- UI Changes
- Sermons
- Renamed “Publish” button to “Export”.
- Panel tabs
- Dragging multiple panels now shows a count. (Shift+click to select and drag a full stack of panel tabs.)
- Favorites
- Updated styling for multi-item drag preview.
- Many Bug Fixes
- Audio resource crash
- Crash when pasting rich text into a note.
- Crash when copying the URL for a Book Search when all result sections were collapsed.
- The indexer caused the latter half of multi word search hits to be treated as separate hit counts when searching for lemmas in translations with reverse interlinears.
- Non-Greek text in Greek resources were not translatable.
- Duplicate Factbook Tags to appearing in the context menu
- And many more fixes!
- Sermons
Mobile
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Android & iOS
- Ability to add Print Books to your Print Library by manually enter the ISBN and by adding in your Library
Logos version 22
Desktop
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Search Improvements
- Bible results in Passage View can now be exported to a spreadsheet.
- New Search panels initialize to last used search settings
- Updated search result groups to infinitely scroll.
- Added new ways to group results in books search
- Added Print Library and Cloud resources to the collections picker in Books Search.
- Print/Export is now available in Bible and Morph searches
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Favorites
- Added an option to undo a deleted item.
- Added the ability to create duplicate Favorites.
- Added the ability to create a copy of a Favorites item from dragging and dropping while holding the Control key on Windows or Options key on Mac.
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Splash Screen
- Updated splash screens to reflect the owned feature set and program version number.
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Version number
- Updated the application versioning scheme. Thread.
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UI Improvements
- Renamed “Local Books” to “Downloaded Books” in collection picker.
- Renamed “All Resources” to “All Books” in Morph Search.
- Improvements to drop shadow styling in the Windows application.
Mobile
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Android & iOS
- Performance improvements for reference detection.
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iOS
- VoiceOver now works in the selection menu.
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Android
- Report Typo feature has been added back into the selection menu
Logos 10.1
Desktop
- More Search Types: Several more search types have been added to the top of the search panel. The added search types are Factbook, Docs, Maps, Factbook Tags, and Bookstore.
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Improved Autocomplete: We’ve made more than a dozen improvements to autocomplete to make it even easier to enter the search syntax you need. Autocomplete will now suggest:
- Bible passages, after the bible: keyword
- Highlighting styles after the highlight: keyword
- Passage lists after the passageList: keyword
- Speakers after the speaker: keyword
- Addressees after the addressee: keyword
- Label attributes after any label keyword (try sermon: or journalArticle:)
- More Flexible Favorites: It’s now possible to add references to favorites. To add them, open the Favorites panel from the Tools menu, then click on the Add button. You’ll see all the references in your open panels listed at the bottom of that menu. Just click on one to add it as a Favorite.
Mobile
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Android & iOS
- Auto Translation Cards: You can now automatically translate your books.
- Print Library Book Search: View a preview of Print Library books with an “All” or “Books” search using the Search tool.
- Favorites Button in Selection Menu: The Favorites button has been added to the actions row of the Selection Menu for non-Bible books.
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Android
- Discover Tab: Visit this tab for more info on book purchases.
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iOS
- Dictionary Cards: Double-tap to select a word and you will see the dictionary definition of that word in the Dictionary Card in the Selection Menu.
- Canvas Image Export: You can now export your Canvas images.
- Draw on Screen for iPhone
Logos 10.0 Mobile
Here’s an overview of the new features in Logos 10 on mobile. We’ve worked hard to deliver a consistent experience regardless of the platform you’re on, making it easier for you to continue your study no matter where you are and which device you have with you. Some features will be free for all users and some will be available in paid packages. Check out the feature comparison chart for a full breakdown.
Features
- More Tiles on Tablets: New layout modes for tablets allow you to have up to six books and tools on your screen at the same time.
- New Panel Linking: You can now have up to three link sets (A, B, C) with the option to link resources as follow-only.
- Canvas on iPad: You can now create, edit, and save Canvas documents on your iPad!
- Draw on Screen on iPad: You can now markup your text with pen, pencil and highlighter with several color options. You can copy, share, and save the image to photos or in a new note.
- Sermon Manager on iPad: Manage your sermons on the go.
- Read Aloud: Nearly every resource can now be turned into an audiobook.
- New Text Selection Menu: Highlighting, note-taking and word information cards have never been quicker to access and easier to use!
- Print Library Catalog: You can add your print books into your Logos library by scanning their ISBN barcodes from the mobile app. You can search inside those books on the Desktop app.
- Reverse Interlinears on Android
- Adjustable Margins
- Simpler Search: A simpler search syntax and clearer UI makes searching quicker and more intuitive, opening up the power of Logos Search to you
- Advanced Timeline: A refreshed Timeline makes it simpler for you to focus on the events that matter most and see them in historical context.
- Popular Quotes on iPad: When writing sermons in Sermon Builder, you will be able to search for helpful quotations that can be inserted into your sermon.
- Church History Themes: A combination of a new dataset and resources will help you to understand theology in its historical context.
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Logos 10.0
Here’s an overview of the new features in Logos 10. Not all features are available on every platform, but we’ve worked hard to deliver a consistent experience regardless of the platform you’re on, making it easier for you to continue your study no matter where you are and which device you have with you. Some features will be free for all users and some will be available in paid packages. Check out the feature comparison chart for a full breakdown.
- Advanced Timeline: A refreshed Timeline makes it simpler for you to focus on the events that matter most and see them in historical context.
- Auto Translation: Instant translation opens a whole new world of resources.
- Church History Themes: A combination of a new dataset and base package resources will help you to understand theology in its historical context.
- Factbook Tags: Artificial intelligence adds millions of tags to the books you already own.
- Favorites: A refreshed favorites tool makes it even easier to add and find the passages that are important to you.
- Improved Speed: Native support for Apple Silicon gives a good performance increase across the board for everyone with an M1 processor. .NET 6 support gives everyone using Windows a good performance increase across the board.
- Modern UI: A simpler, more customizable interface makes Logos more accessible to you, gives you more space, and makes common tasks more accessible.
- Print Library Catalog: Bring the power of Logos to your print Library.
- Questions and Answers: A new Questions and Answers dataset helps you locate answers to common - and not-so-common - questions about the Bible.
- Popular Quotes: When writing sermons in Sermon Builder, you will be able to search for helpful quotations that can be inserted into the sermon.
- Sermon Import: You can import existing sermons into Logos to then take advantage of Preaching Mode, automatic slide creation, and Sermon Manager planning and wider integration into Logos.
- Simpler Search: A simpler search syntax and clearer UI makes searching quicker and more intuitive, opening up the power of Logos Search to everyone.
- Logos logo button is now the "Go" box
Logos 10.0 Web
Here’s an overview of the new features in Logos 10 on the web. We’ve worked hard to deliver a consistent experience regardless of the platform you’re on, making it easier for you to continue your study no matter where you are and which device you have with you. Some features will be free for all users and some will be available in paid packages. Check out the feature comparison chart for a full breakdown.
- Advanced Timeline: A refreshed Timeline makes it simpler for you to focus on the events that matter most and see them in historical context.
- Auto Translation: Instant translation opens a whole new world of resources.
- Church History Themes: A combination of a new dataset and base package resources will help you to understand theology in its historical context.
- Modern UI: A simpler, more customizable interface makes Logos more accessible to you and makes common tasks more accessible.
- Popular Quotes: When writing sermons in Sermon Builder, you will be able to search for helpful quotations that can be inserted into the sermon.
- Sermon Import: You can import existing sermons into Logos to then take advantage of Preaching Mode, automatic slide creation, and Sermon Manager planning and wider integration into Logos.
- Simpler Search: A simpler search syntax and clearer UI makes searching quicker and more intuitive, opening up the power of Logos Search to everyone.
Logos 9.0 Mobile
Introducing Logos 9.0 for mobile, which implements the following suggestions:
Logos 9.0 Desktop
Introducing Logos 9.0 for desktop, which implements the following suggestions:
UI
UI
Sermons
Factbook
- Add more kinds of data to Factbook
- Add Factbook visual filter to resources
- Add Factbook info box to Search results
- Add Factbook to Go Box
Documents
Other