BibleTime

All users of BibleTime are encouraged to upgrade, especially users still using BibleTime version 2.11.2 or earlier.

Notable changes since version 3.0.2:

• MacOS build improvements
• Fixed license.html being installed twice
• Partially worked around a libsword bug which limited download durations to 10 seconds
• Fixed bug which made it impossible to active toolbar buttons using keyboard
• Fixed some out-of-bounds memory read
• Fixed a number of input parsing and output generation errors, including invalid memory reads
• Fixed search scopes not being properly translated
• Fixed version information in installed metadata files
• Updated translations

Source code and binaries for BibleTime 3.0.3 can be found here.

Details of bibletime-3.0.3.tar.xz:

• File size: 1620012 bytes (1.54 MB)
• MD5SUM: 07c4f717f15be1418c0e3f434ee2983c
• SHA1SUM: 4af0d3f999b8848986ead5b7b2708bb70ff11460
• SHA256SUM: 80e5e4ccb69a95201036442dd3f13dffcfcb0f001be1222ce7eefcb30fcc2692

Glory be to God and thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

All users of BibleTime are encouraged to upgrade, especially users still using BibleTime version 2.11.2 or earlier.

Notable changes since version 3.0.1:

• Fixed a build-error caused by an C++11 incompatibility (bug #332)
• Fixed copying of text disabled with Qt versions earlier than than 5.13 (bug #334)
• Fixed some undefined behavior and out-of-bounds memory errors
• Fixed missing documentation in Windows
• Updated translations
• Added ability to copy docs into build during install and packaging

Source code and binaries for BibleTime 3.0.2 can be found here.

Details of bibletime-3.0.2.tar.xz:

• File size: 1631828 bytes (1.56 MB)
• MD5SUM: 026794966a22c59bf8a814f3efaf9a62
• SHA1SUM: 5bc1cb264af3efcbfbb4f7086892b7ba683ab04a
• SHA256SUM: fc93639d4fc3183e1846dacacd7eede8c80d09962285d81325cf896ebf48609e

Glory be to God and thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

All users of BibleTime are encouraged to upgrade, especially users still using BibleTime version 2.11.2 or earlier.

Notable changes since version 3.0:

• Improved tuning of scrolling speed.
• Improved handling of fonts to fix many bugs, including a switch to Qt's native font chooser widget in settings dialog, because of many serious bugs in our legacy implementation.
• Improved sample text in settings dialog.
• Improved behavior of the mag view to be more similar to pre-3.0 behavior.
• Increased maximum column count from 4 to 10.
• Removed the orphaned and broken tests for BibleTime.
• Updated translations, including a new user interface translations to Japanese and Ukrainian, a new Handbook translation to Russian, and a new Howto translation to Ukrainian.
• Fixed DisplayView.qml getting incorrectly installed under /usr/bin/ on some platforms.
• Fixed some compatibility issues with different Qt versions.
• Fixed a crash when editing personal commentary.
• Fixed highlighting of selected text.
• Fixed dragging of links.
• Fixed modules rearranging themselves.
• Fixed logic related to clicking on verse numbers.
• Fixed custom font of first column being incorrectly applied to all columns.
• Fixed preview in settings dialog displaying text in red.
• Fixed lexicons not being displayed.
• Fixed drag and drop in mag view and search dialog.
• Fixed no text being displayed for some ThML modules.
• Fixed undefined behavior and crashes from opening menus to select works by working around a broken QMenu interface (QTBUG-77273).
• Fixes to handling of languages, including a caching discrepancy which caused some settings not being properly applied before restarting BibleTime.
• Fixed saving of chapters not working properly.
• Fixed handling of nested tags for OSIS works.
• Fixes to handling of PageUp/PageDown keys when scrolling out of bounds. Note that when BibleTime is compiled against Qt 5.9, one might still experience a trivial glitch where only part of the module is displayed. Pressing PageUp/PageDown again may help to work around this.

Source code and binaries for BibleTime 3.0.1 can be found here.

Details of bibletime-3.0.1.tar.xz:

• File size: 1630180 bytes (1.55 MB)
• MD5SUM: fb20bfefe40204296aaaadb43ebf4838
• SHA1SUM: 649c1f6baedefdc708a12a3a25d71a213263f08c
• SHA256SUM: 6b2e28f267e08ff9b7041a01317560c3435395a160250bcb94d62f1194574a20

Glory be to God and thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since 2.11.2:

Enhancements:

• Text windows now have continuous scrolling from the beginning to end of a module. At the end of a chapter just keep scrolling to see the next chapter.
• You don't have to open the Personal Commentary for writing. Edit it in a normal text window or even when it is a parallel column in a text window.
• Automatic text scrolling up or down with variable speed and pause.
• Copy to clipboard by choosing the beginning and ending reference.
• A search filter was added in the "Install Works" page of the Bookshelf Manager.
• You can select text from a single column when using parallel texts in a window.
• Added a user interface to delete or create search indices.
• The first time the Bookshelf Manager is used in a session, the remote libraries are updated.
• Improved popup menus and icons for module chooser buttons and text window headers.
• Show module unlock information in about text when available.
• Improved unlocking of modules.

Bugs fixed:

• Locked Bible not unlocking properly.
• Place not being saved in Daily Devotional.
• Problems with MAG window references using hebrew modules OSHB and OSMHB.
• Unable to create a search scope for deuterocanonical books.
• Searching with quotes not working.
• MAG windows Strongs references not working unless config settings were saved.

Note that the BibleTime source code no longer bundles the generated documentation (handbook and howto). We have amended the build system to generate the documentation by default, but this can optionally disabled. See README.md for details.

Build requirements:

• C++11 compiler
• Qt 5.9 or later
• Sword 1.8.1 or later
• Clucene 0.9.19 or later
• CMake 3.10 or later
• po4a (for handbook and howto)
• xsltproc (for handbook and howto)
• docbook-xsl (for handbook and howto)
• docbook-xml (for handbook and howto)
• fop (for handbook and howto PDF generation)

Source code and binaries for BibleTime 3.0 can be found here.

Source archive details:

• Filename: bibletime-3.0.tar.xz
• File size: 1568732 bytes (1.50 MB)
• MD5SUM: c90bcafa7938ff0257a8599c3d9cb024
• SHA1SUM: 848bc1679767d767e35c2e8798ae23833edb9e34
• SHA256SUM: d6beef62ad44b255e3dc4c5e89214bf01a0e85c9136073b0be12fca3d2b22622

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since 2.11.2:

Enhancements:

• Text windows now have continuous scrolling from the beginning to end of a module. At the end of a chapter just keep scrolling to see the next chapter.
• You don't have to open the Personal Commentary for writing. Edit it in a normal text window or even when it is a parallel column in a text window.
• Automatic text scrolling up or down with variable speed and pause.
• Copy to clipboard by choosing the beginning and ending reference.
• A search filter was added in the "Install Works" page of the Bookshelf Manager.
• You can select text from a single column when using parallel texts in a window.
• Added a user interface to delete or create search indices.
• The first time the Bookshelf Manager is used in a session, the remote libraries are updated.
• Improved popup menus and icons for module chooser buttons and text window headers.
• Show module unlock information in about text when available.
• Improved unlocking of modules.

Bugs fixed:

• Locked Bible not unlocking properly.
• Place not being saved in Daily Devotional.
• Problems with MAG window references using hebrew modules OSHB and OSMHB.
• Unable to create a search scope for deuterocanonical books.
• Searching with quotes not working.
• MAG windows Strongs references not working unless config settings were saved.

Note that the BibleTime source code no longer bundles the generated documentation (handbook and howto). We have amended the build system to generate the documentation by default, but this can optionally disabled. See README.md for details.

Build requirements:

• C++11 compiler
• Qt 5.9 or later
• Sword 1.8.1 or later
• Clucene 0.9.19 or later
• CMake 3.10 or later
• po4a (for handbook and howto)
• xsltproc (for handbook and howto)
• docbook-xsl (for handbook and howto)
• docbook-xml (for handbook and howto)
• fop (for handbook and howto PDF generation)

Source code and binaries for BibleTime 3.0 RC 1 can be found here.

Source archive details:

• Filename: bibletime-3.0_rc1.tar.xz
• File size: 1554532 bytes (1.48 MB)
• MD5SUM: e7b1da5da0c85fb861b210ca43a82eb5
• SHA1SUM: e64a0b0769ce7b3fadaddcab3838dca7df5c38fc
• SHA256SUM: 14245b4a529d92bc31bca2b78813e057022fbc9dd58a32615b318a4d4cb2fb1c

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since 2.11.2:

Enhancements:

• Text windows now have continuous scrolling from the beginning to end of a module. At the end of a chapter just keep scrolling to see the next chapter.
• You don't have to open the Personal Commentary for writing. Edit it in a normal text window or even when it is a parallel column in a text window.
• Automatic text scrolling up or down with variable speed and pause.
• Copy to clipboard by choosing the beginning and ending reference.
• A search filter was added in the "Install Works" page of the Bookshelf Manager.
• You can select text from a single column when using parallel texts in a window.
• Added a user interface to delete or create search indices.
• The first time the Bookshelf Manager is used in a session, the remote libraries are updated.
• Improved popup menus and icons for module chooser buttons and text window headers.

Bugs fixed:

• Locked Bible not unlocking properly
• Place not being saved in Daily Devotional.
• Problems with MAG window references using hebrew modules OSHB and OSMHB
• Unable to create a search scope for deuterocanonical books
• Searching with quotes not working.
• MAG windows Strongs references not working unless config settings were saved.

Build requirements:

• C++11 compiler
• Qt 5.9 or later
• Sword 1.8.1

Source code for BibleTime 3.0 beta 2 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-3.0_beta2.tar.xz
• File size: 3646880 bytes (3.48 MB)
• MD5SUM: 1874d442546791b5611343fbcf2aed73
• SHA1SUM: 031546bdef274b2939f3132de66acd84bf81e791
• SHA256SUM: 2f37d1062c516872bba12292317bdd45a05ed8c942e24020308a8e0584e4cfe9

Mac, Windows, Snap and Flatpak versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since 2.11.2:

Enhancements:

• Text windows now have continuous scrolling from the beginning to end of a module. At the end of a chapter just keep scrolling to see the next chapter.
• You don't have to open the Personal Commentary for writing. Edit it in a normal text window or even when it is a parallel column in a text window.
• Automatic text scrolling up or down with variable speed and pause.
• Copy to clipboard by choosing the beginning and ending reference.
• A search filter was added in the "Install Works" page of the Bookshelf Manager.
• You can select text from a single column when using parallel texts in a window.
• Added a user interface to delete or create search indices.
• The first time the Bookshelf Manager is used in a session, the remote libraries are updated.

Bugs fixed:

• Locked Bible not unlocking properly
• Place not being saved in Daily Devotional.
• Problems with MAG window references using hebrew modules OSHB and OSMHB
• Unable to create a search scope for deuterocanonical books
• Searching with quotes not working.
• MAG windows Strongs references not working unless config settings were saved.

Build requirements:

• C++11 compiler
• Qt 5.9 or later
• Sword 1.8.1

Source code for BibleTime 3.0 beta 1 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-3.0_beta1.tar.xz
• File size: 3709500 bytes (3.54 MB)
• MD5SUM: 42083cd7d86769af1beeab4913fd2807
• SHA1SUM: cd68d262ccc56a19b9650af4160a5bc9e608add5
• SHA256SUM: 2661f3ae4bfd727d1a406184cdf91488c0e544f4afb9fc288510698d8cb4f9fb

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

This flatpak is available at flathub.org. Be sure to follow the "setup guide" before installing BibleTime. This flatpak works on numerous operating systems. See the "setup guide" for more details.

NOTE: This flatpak of BibleTime runs in a confined filespace. It will not find your $HOME/.bibletime or $HOME/.sword directories. It will use the $HOME/.var/app/info.bibletime.BibleTime directory to find .bibletime and .sword. It is possible to move your current .bibletime and .sword to this directory and then make a symbolic link to $HOME/.bibletime and $HOME/.sword.

On behalf of the BibleTime team,
Gary Holmlund

Notable changes since 2.11.1:

• Updated translations. Thanks to all translators!
• Improved compatibility with Qt 5.11 (including bug #140).
• Fixed crash when clicking on "full syntax" (#134).
• Fixed Mag not always working with Hebrew / Strongs (#132).
• Fixed BibleTime startup on some versions of Windows (#119).
• Fixed Bookshelf Wizard buttons not being translated (#131).
• Fixed application icon directory to match the FreeDesktop standard.
• Fixed bug which prevented installing of works (#124).

Source code for BibleTime 2.11.2 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-2.11.2.tar.xz
• File size: 2533472 bytes (2.42 MB)
• MD5SUM: e0aed5f3b672c89ee5e06ffeb505e1ae
• SHA1SUM: 75b0a3be9f392b568bbf974d8cf59db128fa7b20
• SHA256SUM: d178197ce87c8211733409fb28fa6ed0220800bbf06944ebb8fe85bf78ddabe8

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since 2.11:

• Enhanced packaging for Windows.
• Enhanced some error messages.
• Updated translations. Thanks to all translators!.
• Improved build-time detection of Qt WebEngine.
• Fixed crash with Qt 5.9 (workaround for QTBUG-61213).
• Fixed apocryphal books not being properly displayed (#12).
• Fixed paragraphs being displayed incorrectly (#37).
• Fixed some greek dictionary modules not working in mag (#52).
• Fixed windows not starting on some Windows 7 computers (#90).
• Fixed a bug which hindered changing to second tab in Tabbed view (#91)
• Fixed Qt "More Info..." tab being blank (#92)
• Fixed crash when closing module display window with Qt 5.8 (#94)
• Fixed images not being displayed (#95).
• Fixed reloading of "All Text Windows" shortcuts not working (#102).
• Fixed problem with Save - Yes/No dialog and editing a Personal commentary (#105).

Source code for BibleTime 2.11.1 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-2.11.1.tar.xz
• File size: 2438788 bytes (2.33 MB)
• MD5SUM: 6a94566c93983ff05e41f1a00b62156d
• SHA1SUM: 84c55479c99fd23b048ddd1d9c1fd5b51f31887d
• SHA256SUM: c6e85ea0256e1abf1a9edb1b03596b4a8b51a20b252367d920431a3d2cf42ef0

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since the 2.10 series:

• Redesigned bookshelf manager
• Many bugfixes and optimizations

Build requirements changes:

• A C++11 compiler is now required
• Qt 5 or later is now required
• xml-po is no longer required

Source code for BibleTime 2.11.0 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-2.11.0.tar.xz
• File size: 2403136 bytes (2.29 MB)
• MD5SUM: 196335c6c2f3abae4bfddd675dd05a30
• SHA1SUM: 3ecb8d02aae20f949bdce01d8c0a343d9f10f645
• SHA256SUM: 8794db413ce927d8e664a873efbab62f8764a1f27b62d62165cb455ef55f1a32

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

Merry Christmas on behalf of the BibleTime team!
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since the 2.10 series:

• Many bugfixes and optimizations
• Redesigned bookshelf manager

Build requirements changes:

• A C++11 compiler is now required
• Qt 5 or later is now required
• xml-po is no longer required

Source code for BibleTime 2.11 RC 2 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-2.11_rc2.tar.xz
• File size: 2389884 bytes (2.28 MB)
• MD5SUM: 088988723ccf0c141669f00ab9f31f6e
• SHA1SUM: f8f38c6470957e121f042120d1328273eda4275b
• SHA256SUM: 0028fc1fde8b6df52aad99a3ac897b6a576b454bf48d8a85faaaf6f06ec9652b

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since the 2.10 series:

• Many bugfixes and optimizations
• Redesigned bookshelf manager

Build requirements changes:

• A C++11 compiler is now required
• Qt 5 or later is now required
• xml-po is no longer required

Source code for BibleTime 2.11 RC 1 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-2.11_rc1.tar.xz
• File size: 2388520 bytes (2.28 MB)
• MD5SUM: 06311be681d59c9ab189f27b8ba30233
• SHA1SUM: 7bc8532fb4bdddde7f20cfdbaef2eb6755c0884d
• SHA256SUM: e11336f8006875817fbeadbe640cc145299b5853689246d3b2adccbf44b41110

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since the 2.10 series:

• Many bugfixes and optimizations
• Redesigned bookshelf manager

Build requirements changes:

• A C++11 compiler is now required
• Qt 5 or later is now required
• xml-po is no longer required

Source code for BibleTime 2.11 beta 1 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-2.11_beta1.tar.xz
• File size: 2508404 bytes (2.39 MB)
• MD5SUM: 135b5c42bb7f97a9ae7a2f879995a810
• SHA1SUM: a60d41deab5ffed65b5bc4aeebbcfa808bf2df81
• SHA256SUM: f7547e9fc3384ad2a58b8f605d6589a3b1d3dd88106a441d9013381ff70f2bca

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

All users of BibleTime are encouraged to upgrade, especially users still using BibleTime version 2.10.0 or earlier.

Notable changes since 2.10.0:

• Implemented support for localized module config entries.
• Fixed an OSIS rendering bug.
• Fixed some HTML rendering issues.
• Fixed key chooser bug in book windows.
• Fixed double loading of some settings.
• Fixed Text Filter settings not being saved.
• Various install manager bug fixes.
• Various other minor fixes and optimizations.

Source code for BibleTime 2.10.1 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-2.10.1.tar.xz
• File size: 3252680 bytes (3.10 MB)
• MD5SUM: ef4d189d53fd1608c56f4827947ffcf0
• SHA1SUM: 94f6f98f27ccfceee88c985bc393777b6a81d3f9
• SHA256SUM: 86d2d53913c08bce9f67c0d897639091d84e9d330527636cecd2b9008bf7ca91

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since 2.9.2:

• Enhancements:
  • Uses Sword library version 1.7.
  • Changed source code archive format from .tar.bz2 to .tar.xz (~40% size reduction).
  • Added Find context menu for search within each window. Matching words are highlighted and navigated using next or previous buttons.
  • Added support for HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP transports in BibleTime.
  • Implemented saving of font family and size in HTML commentary editor.
• Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed problem where certain alternate versification bibles did not display old testament.
  • Fixed Windows Control Panel version was to be correct.
  • Fixed search analysis save dialog filters.
  • Fixed search analysis save asking for overwrite confirmation twice.
  • Optimized and enhanced search analysis to output proper XHTML.
  • Fixed widget ending up disabled after removing install source.
  • Mag Window uses current module if no default cross reference is set.
  • Fixed a bug in the HTML commentary editor which resulted in text formatting from the cursor to be applied to the whole selection.
  • Allow comboxboxes on config dialog desk page to resize.
  • Fixed some lexicons never working.
  • Fixed high stack memory usage on indexing.
  • Fixed unexpected exception with encrypted modules.
  • Fixed application freeze during installation of works.

Source code for BibleTime 2.10.0 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-2.10.0.tar.xz
• File size: 3252312 bytes (3.10 MB)
• MD5SUM: 56c31c506a004e262187d42ffab67e1a
• SHA1SUM: 95eda0130ba7b273d2b1b8561682870772221902
• SHA256SUM: 89763b17e91b6fe8a791c69d9357bcaf548abb7c1007a1c47efd834a2ec9f1fc

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

Merry Christmas on behalf of the BibleTime team, :)
Jaak Ristioja

Notable changes since 2.9.2:

• Enhancements:
  • Uses Sword library version 1.7.
  • Changed source code archive format from .tar.bz2 to .tar.xz (~40% size reduction).
  • Added Find context menu for search within each window. Matching words are highlighted and navigated using next or previous buttons.
  • Added support for HTTP, HTTPS, SFTP transports in BibleTime.
  • Implemented saving of font family and size in HTML commentary editor.
• Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed problem where certain alternate versification bibles did not display old testament.
  • Fixed Windows Control Panel version was to be correct.
  • Fixed search analysis save dialog filters.
  • Fixed search analysis save asking for overwrite confirmation twice.
  • Optimized and enhanced search analysis to output proper XHTML.
  • Fixed widget ending up disabled after removing install source.
  • Mag Window uses current module if no default cross reference is set.
  • Fixed a bug in the HTML commentary editor which resulted in text formatting from the cursor to be applied to the whole selection.
  • Allow comboxboxes on config dialog desk page to resize.
  • Fixed some lexicons never working.
  • Fixed high stack memory usage on indexing.
  • Fixed unexpected exception with encrypted modules.

Source code for BibleTime 2.10 RC 1 can be found here.

Details:

• Filename: bibletime-2.10_rc1.tar.xz
• File size: 3238308 bytes (3.09 MB)
• MD5SUM: 370b1831b2076ae89741bf12cece0ac9
• SHA1SUM: 89e924a7cf47f056b7c738caf152b8a7f9b4b089
• SHA256SUM: 8a715e45cb543e9c33cb4afd28192a2e4e2a01e90f913390058b2e82194e9a1b

Mac and Windows versions will also be uploaded soon. :)

With best regards, and on behalf of the BibleTime team,
Jaak Ristioja