The OpenLP developers are pleased to announce the second release candidate of
OpenLP 3.1. This release candidate contains a multitude of bug fixes, a number
of enhancements, and even a new feature or two. There are also a number of
changes under the hood which puts OpenLP in a good position for the future.
Wait, what happened to the first release candidate?!
We had some issues with the packaging of RC1, and we caught a couple
regressions (bugs that cause a feature not to work like it previously did),
and so we had to build a new release.
Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, "Rejoice!" Let your
gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious,
but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your
requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.Philippians 4:4-7
Note
Windows 7 is no longer supported! (Microsoft does not support it
either.)
In order to make use of newer technologies, features and optimizations in the
libraries that OpenLP uses, we have had to drop support for Windows 7.
Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 in January 2020, and Python stopped
supporting Windows 7 with the release of Python 3.9 in October 2020.
Warning
Download on macOS is damaged
macOS reports OpenLP as damaged, due to the OpenLP app not being signed. If
you encounter this problem, you can try the following solution:
From Applications / Utilities run Terminal
In Terminal, type in the following command:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/OpenLP.app
In some cases, you may need to append sudo
to the above command
This should allow you to start OpenLP normally
Warning
Video/media playback on macOS
OpenLP uses VLC for video and media playback. At this stage VLC is not bundled
with OpenLP, so you will need to download and install it yourself.
You can download VLC from the VLC
website.
Warning
Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint
The main view in the web remote does not update automatically on Ubuntu 22.04
due to Ubuntu/Mint shipping an old version of python3-websockets. This can be
fixed by downloading and installing an updated version of the package from
the official Ubuntu
archive.
Warning
Wayland on Linux
OpenLP at present does not behave well under Wayland so the recommendation is
to run under X11. If you can't run in X11 (or prefer to run it in XWayland),
you should start it with QT_QPA_PLATFORM
environment variable set to xcb
,
although the Main View from the Web Remote will not work.
Warning
Video backgrounds
Video / streaming backgrounds and background audio in songs currently do not
work together. You may experience either the video not working but the audio
works, or the audio doesn't work while the video does.
Note
Debian/Ubuntu builds will be coming soon
We will update this blog post once the Debian/Ubuntu package has been built
__Windows
__macOS
Implement a filelock for shared data folder.
Add Datasoul song importer
Add Footer Content as Extra First Slide
Add authors in powerpraise importer
Add the list of associated songs to the delete dialog in the song maintenance form
Update some system messaging to clarify severity of messages
Change SongSelect import procedure to import when clicking download on webpage
New theme adjustments: Add letter spacing to main area; add line and letter spacing to footer
Allow the remote interface update notification to be turned off.
UI: Move "Live" / "Preview" and current item onto one line
Migrate from FontAwesome4 to Material Design Icons v5.9.55
Highlighted slidecontroller buttons
Rework the songs settings, so that they're not as squashed.
Updated translation strings.
Fix presentations not being able to return from Display Screen
Fix the deadlock on macOS
Fix issue #1618 by ignoring the messages if the event loop is not running
Fix issue #1382 by waiting for the service_manager to become available, or giving up after 2m
Try to fix an issue with MediaInfo perhaps returning a str instead of an int
Fix issue #1582 by running the search in the original thread
Try to fix an issue that only seems to happen on macOS
Fix bug # 1601 by allowing loading the same presentation file multiple times from 2.4.x service file
Don't crash when a permission error is raised during generation of the sha256 hash
Fix endless loop at the end of a PowerPoint presentation
Fix song search by author
Fix issue #1297 by reducing the number by 1024 times
Add detection for presentation files that were uploaded from the cloud.
Ignore the thumbnails if the path doesn't exist (fixes #914)
Fix for #1495 task: wrapped C/C++ object of type QTreeWidgetItem has been deleted
Fixing Images not being able to be inserted on Service
Minor fix for EasyWorship import
Improve Powerpoint detection by trying to start the application instead of looking it up in the registry.
Skip missing thumbnails when loading a service
Upgrade internal VLC processing to support looping and stooping of media correctly.
Upgraded to Python 3.11, Windows 10+
Upgrade images plugin to use the same shared code as media and presentations
Display API abstraction
Fix various building issues on macOS
Refactor database models to use declarative modeling
Refactor database queries to support SQLAlchemy 2.0+
Remove dependency on PIL/Pillow since the latest version does not support PyQt5
Make the media toolbar reusable
Bypass image db updates if the db has already been upgraded
Refactor last instances of TestCase-based tests
Update resource generation for ARM64 platforms (e.g. Apple M2)
Upgrade to Pyro5
Fix an issue where an item's parent is None
Fix the 415 errors due to a change in Werkzeug
Update CI to use the GitLab container registry
Display Custom Scheme
Implement new message websocket endpoint
Adding foundational support to Footer per slide