Today we are proud to announce that OpenLP 3.1.0 "Superb Seth" has been
released. On the surface, this might not seem like such a big release, since
there seem to be very few new features, but if you dig a little deeper, the
sheer number of bugs squashed tells another story. We have also made a number
of changes under the hood to help carry OpenLP into the future.
Since version 2.0, OpenLP has supported the concept of "plugins" or "addons",
but due to some limitations, these plugins have always had to be deeply
integrated into OpenLP. With the release of 3.1, OpenLP now has support for
community plugins, so that users can write their own plugins without needing
them to become part of OpenLP.
As more and more churches are using OpenLP in a distributed fashion, more and
more people are running into issues when using OpenLP from multiple locations
at the same time. In order to ease their pain, we have implemented a locking
mechanism which prevents more than one user from using OpenLP at the exact
same time. Hopefully this will tide users over until OpenLP has a better
mechanism for sharing data.
It is because of Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his mercies don't fail. They are new every morning. Great is your
faithfulness."Yahweh is my portion," says my soul. "Therefore I will hope in him."
Lamentations 3:22-24 WEB
Please read through the following issues carefully, so as to reduce the burden
on the OpenLP developers.
Microsoft does not support them anymore 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 and 8.
Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 7 in January 2020 and Windows 8 in July
2023, and Python stopped supporting Windows 7 with the release of Python 3.9
in October 2020.
This also makes life easier for our tiny development team.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
To download OpenLP 3.1.0, go to the Downloads
section of the homepage.
Please Note
Linux releases of OpenLP typically trail a little behind the Windows and macOS
releases, due to our team not building them. Please be patient, and reach out
to the package maintainers if the package is still not up to date after 2 or 3
weeks.
Support for Community Plugins
Implement a filelock for shared data folder.
Add Datasoul song importer
Add Footer Content as Extra First Slide
Better support for High DPI displays with fractional scaling
Allow Wayland to set the window icon
Made the Wordproject import more robust
Better handling of missing VLC
Better handling of attempts to load invalid SWORD folder or zip-file
Don't build manual, use online manual instead
Update some system messaging
Move "Live" / "Preview" and current item on one line
Add authors to Powerpraise importer
Add the list of associated songs to the delete dialog in the song maintenance form
New theme adjustments: Adding letter spacing to theme main area; adding line and letter spacing to footer
Implementing new message websocket endpoint for faster remote operation
Migrate from FontAwesome4 to Material Design Icons v5.9.55
Highlighted slidecontroller buttons
Correct About references and remove unused bits
Improve PowerPoint detection by trying to start the application instead of looking it up in the registry.
List view grid tests + horizontal scroll handler on small height
List view with grid view mode + using this list view within thememanager
Defining theme manager view mode default as 'List'
Allow the remote interface update notification to be turned off.
Invalidate the service item cache when the theme changes
Fix "wrapped C/C++ object of type QTreeWidgetItem has been deleted"
Fix irregular service theme saving
Fix AuthorType not getting translated
Fix a PermissionError that occurs on Windows 10/11
Fix First Time Wizard loop on Windows
Fix traceback on bible import when no bible available
Fix external DB settings
Fix alerts
Fix trimming leading whitespaces
Ensure a path set in PathEdit is a Path instance
Inject String.replaceAll javascript implementation if needed into webengine when browsing SongSelect.
Do not start the same presentation again when it's already live.
Prevent key error when unblank screen at start of presentation.
Fix the multiselect in the images plugin
Fix saving of songs
Fix spelling in songimport.py
Bypass image db updates if the db has already been upgraded
Fix a couple of macOS issues
Change SongSelect import procedure to import when clicking download on webpage
Don't crash when a permission error is raised
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 2 minutes
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
Allow loading the same presentation file multiple times from 2.4.x service file.
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
Ignore the thumbnails if the path doesn't exist (fixes #914)
Fix an issue where an item's parent is None
Fix the 415 errors due to a change in Werkzeug
Fix translations loading on linux system-wide installation
Add detection for presentation files that were uploaded from the cloud.
Fix Datasoul translate strings
Skip missing thumbnails when loading a service
Minor fix for EasyWorship import
Fix stopping and looping of videos
Replace appdirs with platformdirs
Update SQLAlchemy usage to be 2.x compatible
Migrate Images plugin to use shared folder code
Migrate to using SQLALchemy declarative in Songs, Bibles, Custom, Images, Alerts, Song Usage
Fix portable builds by re-arranging when the settings are created
Fix bug in _has_header of Bible CSV import
Fix issues with upgrading 2.9.x databases
Fix OpenLP startup by reordering statements
Check before initialising a None Bible
Make PathEdit handle None values
Spoof the SongSelect webengine user agent
Update AppVeyor for Mac to install Pyro5 instead of Pyro4
Silence error when shutting down threads
Re introduce the selective turning off logging - correctly this time.
Fix some issues with building on macOS
Make some forward compatibility changes
Refactor last instances of TestCase-based tests
Add test coverage for __main__.py and remove some unused files
Update appveyor.yml to use Python 3.11.
Fix an issue with the arguments of with_only_columns
Remove dependency on PIL since the latest version does not support PyQt5
Fixing freezing screenshot test
Fallback code for display screenshot code (used on '/main' Web Remote)
Update resource generation for ARM64 platforms (e.g. Apple M2)
Enumeration Conversion
Upgrade to Pyro5
Update CI to use the GitLab container registry
Display Custom Scheme
Fix bug in icon definition - Typo only
Take account of VLC on macOS being bundled with OpenLP
VLC - Cleanup - Stopping and looping correctly.
Fixing Images not being able to be inserted on Service
Reusable Media Toolbar
Adding foundational support to Footer per slide
Merge CustomXMLBuilder and CustomXMLParser
Fix tests on Windows failing due to MagicMock in Path
Fix selected=True not being set at new Transpose API Endpoint
Rework the songs settings, so that they're not as squashed.
Remove WebOb -- we don't need it