BibleTime 3.0 RC 1

The BibleTime team is proud to announce the immediate availability of BibleTime version 3.0 RC 1, which is the first release candidate in the stable 3.0 series of BibleTime.

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.
• Dark mode - At startup BT detects if the operating system theme is dark and automatically switches to Dark mode.
• 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)

Details:

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

Windows:

• Filename: BibleTime-3.0.0_rc1-win32.exe
• SHA256SUM: f360689628e6688c2cadadba209add3115702bb32b4fec2b4f6b44809f070034

MacOS

• Filename: BibleTime-3.0.0_rc1.dmg
• SHA256: 6cbb79ac8eaac85d1c49015bf474b346b509f2a38c3c73d5b82c47c62ccc33d9

Snap

• Search for and install from the snap store:
  snap search bibletime
  sudo snap install --candidate bibletime

Flatpak

• Install like this:

1. Follow the flathub setup guide for your operating system.
   https://flatpak.org/setup/
2. Install the rc1 version of BibleTime. There are several large runtime libraries that
   it will want to install. They are necessary.
   flatpak install info.bibletime.BibleTime
3. Run BibleTime
   flatpak run info.bibletime.BibleTime