We're happy to announce the fourth release candidate of OpenLP 3.1. This
release fixes or improves some of the biggest bugs and issues we've seen in
OpenLP. This is the last release candidate before the final release of OpenLP
3.1.
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the
Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the
Good News.1 Corinthians 9:18
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 prepend 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
Fix irregular service theme saving (closes #1723)
Fix AuthorType not getting translated
Fix bug in _has_header
Fix issues with upgrading 2.9.x databases
High DPI fixes
Fix error when no Bible is available while importing from PlanningCenterOnline
Check before initialising a None Bible
Fix #1700 by typecasting the calls to Paths
Make PathEdit handle None values
Fix external DB settings
Fix alerts
Fixes #1325 - Handling of Missing VLC.
Better handling of attempts to load invalid SWORD folder or zip-file
Ensure a path set in PathEdit is a Path instance
Fix OpenLyrics import to trim leading whitespace in verses
Fix SongSelect browsing by implementing missing JavaScript APIs
Do not start the same presentation again when it's already live
Prevent key error when unblank screen at start of presentation
Fix the startup order to prevent issues in Windows and Portable builds