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Changelog

24.12.1

New and Improved Features

  • 🛠️ Improved announcements feature to allow for scopes.
  • 🚩 Warn users when auto-updates are disabled or beta updates are enabled.
  • 💻 Improved macOS icons for better visual consistency.
  • 🎥 Added time entry for custom durations
  • 🎥 Display elapsed/remaining time during video playback (#3661).

Fixes

  • 🖥️ Restricted media window maximization to when using multiple screens.
  • 🌐 Immediately applied urlVariables upon change.
  • 🔄 Resolved issues with spinning loader icon and refresh button placement in media dialogs.
  • 🎨 Improved drag-and-drop loader styling for consistency.
  • 🖼️ Adjusted about modal update toggle placement and logo styling.
  • 🎛️ Removed size notification from media window and replaced it with a tooltip in the display popup.
  • 🖼️ Unified grid styling for song, Study Bible, and audio Bible views.
  • 📜 Fixed missing strings for Hebrew and Greek scriptures.
  • 📜 Resolved Bible book name display issues in certain cases.
  • 🖼️ Fixed long filename layout issues in media items.
  • 🛠️ Ensured dynamic modal height with friendly overflow.
  • 📦 Fixed download popup scroll issue and spinner icon glitches.
  • 🎨 Improved banner color consistency.
  • 📜 Correctly handle media language fallback order.
  • 🖼️ Displayed intro pictures from lff and bt and lmd when appropriate.
  • 🌐 Initial support for Haitian Creole.

Code improvements

  • 📦 Improved error handling and messaging across the app.
  • 🛠️ Enhanced code structure by moving and optimizing utility functions.
  • 📄 Updated documentation for contributing guidelines and download links.
  • 🛠️ Improved workflows for beta release cleanup and CI schedules.
  • 🚀 Made event listeners passive for better performance.
  • 🌐 Cleaned up old locales and removed incomplete translations.

24.12.0

New Features

  • 🧹 Added cache folder customization in settings and the wizard for better data control.
  • 🎤 Introduced audio Bible import functionality (#3569).
  • 📂 Added auto-export media to folder functionality (#3474).
  • 📖 Included non-book media (e.g., appendices, introductions) from the study Bible (#3559).
  • 🌐 Enabled Italian language support.
  • 🎨 Updated icon assets and introduced new media player icon.

Fixes

  • 🖼️ Move subtitle settings to ensure better grouping in settings.
  • 🖱️ Resolved hover color issues for list items.
  • 📜 Fixed study Bible style tweaks and harmonized video title displays with study Bible tiles.
  • 🎬 Corrected ordering issues for meetings with extra media.
  • 🖥️ Fixed window offscreen issues by resetting window position when necessary.
  • 🎛️ Fixed slider tooltip position glitch to ensure proper display.
  • 🚪 Properly handled public talk media so it is displayed correctly in the list.
  • 🔄 Resolved issues with combined properties from JWPUB files.
  • 🎵 Fixed S-34mp menu position for better usability.
  • 🛠️ Fixed menu actions to disable them as needed when media is active and adjusted menu icon placement.
  • 🖼️ Corrected window flicker issues during screen transitions.
  • ⚙️ Fixed media access status logic to avoid unnecessary calls on Linux.
  • 🛠️ Resolved zoom limit enforcement for better usability while presenting the website.

Improvements & Chores

  • 🔨 Refactored and optimized code for reusability.
  • 📚 Improved documentation.
  • 🖼️ Implemented custom scrolling styles and logic instead of using q-scroll-area repeatedly (#3525).
  • ✏️ Cleaned up SVGs and resolved typos in the documentation.
  • 🛠️ Refactored error handling across Electron processes, including thumbnails and fetch contexts.
  • 🚀 Improved DX (Developer Experience) with streamlined workflows and templates.

This release includes critical fixes, exciting new features, and numerous under-the-hood improvements to enhance performance, usability, and developer experience. Enjoy!

24.11.5

New Features

  • 🌐 Added a notification to offer translation help for missing translations (#3426).
  • 🖼️ Implemented extra media indicators and improved visual feedback for media items (#3452).
  • 🎤 Added support for missing media from JW playlist files and ensured they are added correctly from the watched folder.
  • 📚 Added support for Study Bible media.
  • 🖋️ Added context menu button for easy access to media actions in the media list.
  • 🎧 Added a portable Windows version of the app for easier use on portable setups when needed.
  • 🎶 Ensured JW playlist item repeat settings are honored.

Fixes

  • 🖼️ Fixed hover effects to work across the entire media item and properly set the menu target.
  • 🎤 Resolved incorrect song attributes by setting the default to false.
  • 🎬 Correctly handled watched playlist files to prevent issues with media management.
  • 🖥️ Fixed duplicate fetch calls to optimize media fetching logic.
  • 📅 Corrected calendar day labels that were appearing incorrectly in certain scenarios.
  • 🎧 Fixed media permission prompts on macOS to only appear when needed.
  • 📝 Fixed CSP font-src issues and ensured fonts are correctly handled.
  • 📜 Prevented duplicate error messages from being shown during media fetch.
  • 🖼️ Fixed thumbnail file handling by preventing unnecessary writes to watched folders.
  • 🛑 Prevented excessive window jumping on macOS by adjusting fullscreen logic.
  • 🧭 Fixed congregation finder scroll positioning to ensure correct navigation in modals.
  • 🌍 Corrected URL search params parsing to fix incorrect URL behavior.

Chores and Refactors

  • ⚙️ Improved code readability across the app to make the codebase cleaner and more maintainable.
  • ⚡ Optimized performance of Quasar imports for faster app startup and reduced bundle size.
  • 📜 Updated contributing guidelines for clearer instructions on how to contribute.
  • 🛠️ Refactored locale handling to make it more efficient and reliable when migrating locales.

Documentation

  • 📚 Added direct download links in the docs for easier access to required files.
  • 🖥️ Updated the installation documentation for clarity and ease of access.

24.11.4

New Features

  • 🎼 Added song grid view to replace the song list for easier navigation and selection.

Fixes and Improvements

  • ✏️ Minor rephrasing of various UI text for better clarity.
  • 🛑 Implemented quit verification logic for macOS Cmd-Q to prevent accidental exits.
  • 🎵 Added loading indicator to song picker when refreshing songs for a smoother experience.
  • 🎶 Improved search and filters in public talk media and song pickers to allow for partial text matches.
  • 🌐 Adjusted website aspect ratio on macOS for better display (#3283).
  • 🖼️ Fixed thumbnail file path errors that caused media thumbnails to fail in some cases.
  • 📜 Properly reset media import progress and drag-and-dropper.
  • 🎬 Ensured new watched media is added to the bottom of the list when sorted.
  • 🖋️ Improved fetch error handling for more robust error messages.
  • 🌐 Fixed font URLs to default to empty when urlVariables are missing.
  • 🔗 Fixed base URL checks to skip unnecessary fetches when everything is already configured properly.
  • 🎶 Improved font-src CSP for dynamic font loading.
  • 🖼️ Fixed cursor indicator errors during website presentation.
  • 📂 Caught folder watcher errors to prevent unexpected app behavior.
  • 🌐 Request media permissions on macOS before showing the website window.

Chores and Refactors

  • 🚀 Greatly improved performance responsiveness on remote video popup and added pagination for better UX.
  • 🌍 Moved from localeCompare to Intl.Collator for enhanced sorting and locale handling.
  • 🛠️ Improved types for better type safety across the app.
  • 🗂️ Added missing publication file types for better compatibility.

24.11.3

New features

  • 🖱️ Added mouse cursor indicator and click animation during website presentation.

Fixes

  • 📅 Fixed calendar day labels to display accurately based on user settings.
  • 🎶 Ensure the the requested section was used when adding extra media for the midweek meeting.
  • 🎵 Updated opening song button to ignore watched media.
  • 🔢 Fixed an issue where incorrect values would show up in some menus.
  • 🔗 Added base URL validation for improved setup accuracy.
  • 🌐 Cleared up language inconsistencies across the interface.
  • 🗄️ Improved user data folder management.

24.11.2

New features

  • 📂 Added folder watcher feature to monitor a specified folder for new media, useful for syncing media from a cloud folder.
  • ➕ Added feature to add media to specific meeting sections using a new button on the Public Talk, Circuit Overseer, and Living as Christians headers.
  • 🎬 OBS Studio scenes can now be activated either immediately, or after media has stopped playing.

User interface

  • 🖼️ Improved audio file management to show thumbnails and enable time slider and custom durations.
  • 📅 Added first day of the week setting to customize the starting day in calendar views.
  • 🎶 Changed "concluding song" label to "closing song".

macOS improvements

  • 🔒 Added prompt to request media access for website presentations on macOS.
  • 🌐 Adjusted website window behavior to avoid forced-on-top setting when presenting a website.

Fixes and improvements

  • 📋 Improved handling of long filenames
  • 🖥️ Fixed handling of multiple monitors on Windows
  • 🔗 Fixed URL handling to correctly process urlVariables errors.
  • 🌍 Fixed JWPUB import (such as S-34) for certain languages.
  • 🛠️ Fixed initial congregation selection issue.
  • 🖼️ Cache extracted thumbnails intelligently to prevent having to extract them repeatedly.
  • 🧩 Improved performance by replacing adm-zip with decompress.
  • 🛠️ Improved error handling and Sentry capturing.
  • 🔐 Enhanced type safety and IPC code cleanup.
  • 🛑 Updated to cancel pending downloads before closing the app.

24.11.1

User Interface

  • Fixed issue where music button didn't automatically start music in some cases
  • New Announcements feature to be used when needed (for updates, etc.)
  • Refined public talk section to stay visible during WE meetings
  • Centered website window on the primary screen
  • Improved tooltip for media scrubber to show information about scrubbing
  • Fixed nav drawer display quirks

Media and Scene Management

  • Added Instant Scene Picker toggle in settings and improved scene switching when presenting websites
  • Fixed JW Playlist Import to respect languages specified in playlist
  • Resolved issues with Hidden Media and Additional Media visibility in the menu

Download and File Management

  • Switched to Electron's Built-in Download methods, replacing Axios for improved performance
  • Enhanced File Dialog Filters
  • Optimized Drag-and-Drop Import to show informative progress bars whenever appropriate
  • Addressed Sorting issues with downloads

macOS and System Improvements

  • Added feature to notify macOS users of new versions when available
  • Updated macOS build artifacts for better distribution
  • Improved Window State handling for full-screen windows on macOS
  • Added debug statements and debug options for macOS

Behind the Scenes

  • Removed Axios and Synchronous FS Calls to greatly improve performance
  • Enhanced Code Documentation for better readability and maintenance
  • Added Type Checking for better code stability and optimized Type Imports
  • Addressed Sentry issues and removed redundant log output

Miscellaneous Improvements

  • Cleaned up Console Logs and reduced redundant messages
  • Updated Contributing Guidelines and Readme
  • Improved Download Error Handling to avoid unnecessary warnings on expected failures

24.11.0

✨ New Features

  • feat: Presenting the website is now supported on macOS 🚀
  • feat: Introduced keyboard shortcuts for stopping, pausing, and resuming media playback 🚀
  • feat: Added support for setting the web address from which media should be downloaded 🚀
  • feat: Added OBS Studio instant scene picker and overhauled scene picker functionality in settings
  • feat: Expanded documentation website to support more languages

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

  • fix: Intel Mac systems are now supported! 🚀
  • fix: Various UI adjustments, such as image zoom reset icon visibility
  • fix: Corrected issues in media handling, including hidden media visibility, JW video categories, and background music updates on profile change
  • fix: Image zoom now resets when media is stopped
  • fix: Enhanced date handling—fallback to today’s date for "Other" profiles, and hide the import button if no date selection was made
  • fix: Corrected window state logic for macOS, including the system menu bar
  • fix: Correct handling of undefined mediaLinks, nullable settings and other variable values in various functions

🛠️ Refactors & Chores

  • refactor: Switched to asynchronous file handling and removed synchronous file system calls, greatly improving responsiveness
  • refactor: Reorganized preload files for better modularity and IPC handling, and removed electron/remote dependency
  • refactor: Consolidated imports, optimized Quasar components, and improved type safety across the codebase
  • chore: Improved stability with enhanced security by disabling Node integration and enabling web security
  • chore: Documented codebase, improved Info.plist handling on macOS, and added minimum macOS version requirement
  • chore: Added Prettier formatting, code comments, and improved lint-staged configuration for better code consistency

📄 Documentation Updates

  • docs: Enhanced FAQ link texts and navigation for clarity
  • docs: Updated README to better guide contributors and included terms of use references

⚙️ CI/CD Enhancements

  • ci: Updated Husky configurations for pre-commit and pre-push checks, fixed type checks, and enhanced build scripts for x64 and ARM64 on macOS
  • ci: Refined artifact uploads and improved documentation generation

24.10.10

✨ New Features

  • new: Added keyboard shortcuts to navigate to the next/previous media item
  • new: Added a right-click menu to media items to hide media items and rename them
  • new: Trimmed video times are now respected in imported JWL playlists

🎨 UI/UX

  • fix: Improved pan-zoom behavior on double-click of image preview and scaling
  • fix: Corrected pan-zoom maximum zoom
  • fix: Hide media item actions in extra media menu and show only when there’s extra/hidden media
  • fix: Full-screen windows on macOS can now be shared and controlled in Zoom correctly
  • fix: Added tooltip to list all supported extensions
  • fix: Improved button popups to show active states
  • fix: Enhanced drag-and-drop sorting algorithm
  • fix: Added a progress bar during imports
  • fix: Made chips for paragraphs/songs take full width on very small screen sizes
  • fix: Updated verbiage for imported media notifications
  • fix: Optimized application menu for a better user experience on macOS
  • fix: Added progress indicators and ensured a smoother user experience
  • fix: Fixed download spinner color when menu active
  • fix: Improved the navigation drawer color for active items in dark mode

🛠️ Code Refactors and Improvements

  • fix: Dark mode setting was incorrectly detected as missing in some cases
  • refactor: Removed unused strings and formatted codebase for consistency
  • fix: Fixed typos, corrected errors, and improved linting throughout the codebase
  • fix: Properly support .mov files and all possible image types (reference)
  • fix: Optimized OBS integration by adding 'previous scene' restore functionality
  • fix: Resolved potential drag/drop issue when no path is found
  • fix: Disabled a Windows shortcut workaround that is no longer needed
  • fix: Improved migration logic, ensured safe parsing, and refactored migration to simplify the process
  • refactor: Implemented secure IPC communication for better application security
  • refactor: Made send and log functions generic for better reusability
  • chore: Ignored certain spellcheck (cspell) rules and fixed language order
  • chore: Bumped Pinia dependency and other dependencies

📝 Documentation Updates

  • docs: Improved navigation in FAQs and other documentation pages
  • docs: Updated issue reporting link to point to the issue list
  • docs: Added steps for correctly fetching the latest version
  • chore: Updated Crowdin and docs configurations
  • chore: Updated CONTRIBUTING.md and added terms of use reference in the README

📄 Updated Files

  • Updated CHANGELOG.md and cleaned up unused strings

24.10.9

✨ New Features

  • feat: Added an option to delete all extra media files for the currently selected day

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

  • fix: Sentry improvements to properly track errors
  • fix: Eliminated the return of the dreaded yellow outline 🟡
  • fix: Corrected hover color for some buttons
  • fix: Addressed some typos
  • fix: Properly detect the CO visit date immediately after loading a profile instead of waiting to change the selected date
  • fix: Hide overflow text from title bar behind ellipsis

🌍 New Translations

  • Many languages got updated translations, including Ukrainian, Swahili, Russian, and Dutch (listed in reverse alphabetical order)

🛠️ Chores & Miscellaneous

  • chore: Removed unused strings to clean up the codebase

24.10.8

🔧 Fixes & Improvements

  • new: Improved music stopping logic to prevent a new song from starting if one is already playing
  • new: Show feedback when setting and removing a custom background
  • new: Hide overflow from app title behind ellipsis for cleaner appearance
  • new: Show OBS Studio connection state on relevant fields in settings
  • new: Prevent configuring scenes if OBS Studio is not connected
  • fix: Properly retry errored-out meetings as needed
  • fix: Restored and improved highlight color for selected media
  • fix: Resolved layout glitch where banners and loaders sometimes conflicted
  • fix: Improved storing and retrieval of app settings and download history
  • fix: Corrected strings in app theme menu
  • fix: Made "congratulations" message translatable

🌍 New Translations

  • Hungarian: Now supported with full translation 🎉
  • Progress updates on translations across multiple languages

🛠️ Chores & Miscellaneous

  • chore: Added Pinia to Sentry for better state tracking
  • chore: Enable zip format for better macOS updates

24.10.7

🔧 Fixes & Enhancements

  • fix: Resolved a navigation style bug on initial load
  • fix: Moved the songbook cache setting to a better place in settings
  • fix: Truncate long OBS Studio scene titles
  • fix: Prevented issues with font caching that prevented icons from showing up in some cases where the app was offline
  • fix: Allowed copy-paste shortcuts to work seamlessly
  • fix: Import button label now displays correctly on menu buttons even with smaller windows
  • fix: Reverted Formkit drag-and-drop, fixing issues with file dropping into the app
  • fix: Minor grammar improvements and corrections in the UI
  • fix: Select menu values weren't displaying as expected in some cases
  • fix: The wrong application data directory was being used in some cases
  • new: Remember media window position between sessions
  • new: Added developer console to allowed shortcuts

🛠️ Chores & Miscellaneous

  • chore: Updated Crowdin configuration file for better translation management
  • chore: Improved developer experience (DX) and updated target settings
  • chore: Fixed rebuild failing on Linux
  • chore: Re-added missing files from a previous build
  • chore: Migrated to a new and improved way to persist settings

📝 Documentation & CI

  • docs: Fixed the issue creation link in the bug report template
  • ci: Updated Mergify configuration for automation improvements
  • ci: Updated Crowdin and other build-related YAML files
  • chore: Performed redirects on every session on docs website

📄 Updated Files

  • Updated README.md

🎉 24.10.6 🚀

✨ New User Interface

We've completely revamped the app! Say goodbye to complicated workflows and hello to a fresh, intuitive design! The new interface makes everything super easy and enjoyable to use.

🎥 Simplified Media Management

Managing media is now a breeze! We've eliminated all those tricky steps like media prefixes and confusing option clicks. Now you can drag and drop with ease. Everything is designed to help streamline tasks, especially for audio-video attendants.

🌟 Key Goals of this Update

  1. Simplicity: We've made the app as easy as possible to use.
  2. Functionality: Everything you need to play and manage media for meetings is included.

24.4.8

New or improved features

  • Option to disable checking for updates

24.4.7

Bug Fixes

  • Keep the highest found number of Kingdom songs

24.4.6

Bug Fixes

  • Correctly fetch media from public watchtowers

24.4.5

Maintenance

  • Update deprecation banner

24.4.4

Maintenance

  • Show deprecation banner advising of new version

24.4.2

Maintenance

  • Update Zoom SDK before the old one is deprecated

24.4.1

New or improved features

  • New language: Chinese Mandarin (Simplified) (thanks @heymenshan!)

Bug fixes

  • Prevent recursively processing midweek meeting references

24.4.0

Bug fixes

  • Dynamically get the correct number of Kingdom Songs

24.2.0

Bug fixes

  • Correctly sanitize filenames with an apostrophe
  • Correctly save time values when only changing the hour
  • Disabled save button while saving
  • Exclude songs with described audio from song picker

24.1.0

New or improved features

Bug fixes

  • Exclude songs with described audio from background music playback

23.12.0

New or improved features

Bug fixes

  • Correctly process JWL playlist items with special characters
  • Correctly validate video timestamp

23.11.0

New or improved features

  • Preparations for the new Meeting Workbook format
  • Skip Bearing Witness media for Circuit Overseer visits

Bug fixes

  • Only save Meeting Workbook headings if they are actually present

23.10.1

Bug fixes

  • Fix edge case where mwb images would not be fetched correctly

23.10.0

New or improved features

  • New language: Afrikaans (thanks @DickyBird69!)
  • New language: Greek (thanks @jimrp!)
  • New language: Romany (Southern Greece) (thanks @jimrp!)

Bug fixes

  • Correctly fetch some Watchtower footnotes
  • Correctly get Meeting Workbook headings when an uneven result is returned
  • Download media in correct order for some languages

23.8.1

Bug fixes

  • Updated dependencies

23.8.0

New or improved features

  • Added ability to drag-and-drop JW Library playlists directly into the media management screen
  • Playing audio files will no longer fade out the yeartext

Bug fixes

  • Improved fallback for when languages weren't fetched or updated successfully
  • Improved JSON file reading, writing and error catching

23.6.1

New or improved features

  • 🚀 Ability to import playlists from JW Library
  • New language: Slovenian (thanks @brobic74!)
  • Support .heic files
  • Support .m4v files

Bug fixes

  • Correctly fetch tracts

23.5.0

New or improved features

  • Only auto release beta releases when there are actual changes (features, fixes, translations)
  • Option to exclude media from footnotes in Watchtower Studies
  • Support .webp files

Bug fixes

  • Always include lff lesson header image
  • Use correct paragraph number for referenced videos

23.4.4

Bug fixes

  • Fetch missing referenced videos for Watchtower Studies

23.4.3

Bug fixes

  • Correctly fetch (sign-language) videos for Watchtower Studies

23.4.2

Bug fixes

  • Always ignore correct song for circuit overseer visit
  • Correctly fetch jw languages when missing
  • Correctly fetch some media that's in a different language than the publication

23.4.1

New or improved features

  • More complete translations
  • The main M3 window now allows for a smaller window width

Bug fixes

  • Correctly present media that has been sorted

23.4.0

New or improved features

  • Ability to force updates to install critical bug fixes when necessary

Bug fixes

  • Correctly download songs for Watchtower editions February 2023 and later
  • Correctly download songs that appear multiple times per week
  • Correctly toggle subtitle position
  • Don't try to fetch media items on startup when offline
  • Fix OBS optional image scene for obs-websocket V4

23.3.2

Bug fixes

  • Fix global layout bug for input fields
  • Fix "select video from the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses" feature not working in some use cases

23.3.1

New or improved features

  • The tabs in settings have an icon for easier recognition
  • Zoom and pan has been reworked to be accurate whether using the mouse-wheel or double click

Bug fixes

  • Don't try to fetch non-existing meeting media for the week of the Memorial
  • Subtitles are now individually rendered according to their intended positions by default
  • Zoom and pan is now reset when changing or "stopping" pictures
  • Various minor bugfixes

23.3.0

New or improved features

  • 🚀 Zoom integration! Automate various Zoom actions, like toggling video/microphone/spotlight or allow to un-mute (see #1303 for details). It's still a beta feature, so make sure you test it thoroughly before use during meetings. Also, always verify that the automation was executed successfully.
  • A new optional setting to configure a OBS Studio scene to be used for showing images (useful to show a picture-in-picture style overlay)
  • New language: Romanian (thanks @baciucristian!)
  • New prefix schema: {heading number}-{part number}-{media number}. Media for the Treasures section starts with 01, Apply Yourselves starts with 02, and Living as Christians with 03.
  • Support showing .jfif images

Bug fixes

  • Always link to the correct M³ release from the update notification and settings screen.
  • Correctly install beta updates on macOS
  • Ignore .title files when converting media to MP4

23.2.2

New or improved features

  • 🚀 Quickly access the manage media screen while presenting (top bar > > Manage media)
  • 🚀 Option to automatically start playing background music before meetings
  • Added an option to enable beta updates
  • Improved the video custom start/end time feature
  • Ability to start playing the first media item a custom number of minutes and seconds before the meeting starts
  • When presenting the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses, the website controller will now more accurately depict what is shown on the media window
  • The circuit overseer date picker now allows selecting Tuesdays, and weeks will start on the correct day depending on the user's language
  • Several UX improvements

Bug fixes

  • Activate OBS Studio media scene when presenting the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Immediately toggle subtitles when toggled in settings
  • OBS Studio scene shortcuts won't change the scene while media is active
  • Show a warning when congregation server web address is invalid
  • Show a warning when OBS Studio scene does not exist

23.2.1

New or improved features

  • 🚀 Videos can now be added directly from the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses! Useful, for example, to add Governing Body Update videos for presentation during midweek meetings
  • 🚀 Added subheadings to presentation mode, simplifying navigation between meeting parts
  • Added a representation of the mouse cursor while presenting the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses on the external monitors (still a beta feature)
  • Option to automatically play the first media item a predetermined number of minutes before a meeting's start
  • Option to manually reconnect to OBS Studio while in presentation mode
  • Zooming and panning a picture will now be done more gradually on the external monitors, to avoid abrupt picture motion for the audience
  • Several enhancements to the subtitle feature
  • Several minor UI improvements

Bug fixes

  • Only try to create new directories on synchronization server once per save action
  • Prevent closing M³ when presenting the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses
  • When a directory is locked on synchronization server, show a friendly warning
  • System theme will now be used on the initial congregation selection screen

23.2.0

New or improved features

  • 🚀 New field which allows selecting the date of the next visit of the circuit overseer; when that week comes, the midweek meeting will change to Tuesday automatically and unnecessary media (closing songs and CBS media) will be skipped as well
  • Added a loading indicator while files are being renamed
  • Improved app icon for macOS (thanks @advenimus!)
  • Improved media prefixes for weekend meetings (reserve 01 for public talk opening song, and 02 for public talk images)

Bug fixes

  • Allow to clear Zoom scene
  • Catch download errors and show friendly warnings
  • Correctly parse synchronization server response
  • Disable pause button until video started
  • Fixed some spelling mistakes
  • Show a friendly warning when a directory can not be accessed

23.1.1

New or improved features

  • 🚀 A new OBS scene selector for making the display of Zoom participants easier (see #987 and #1022 for details)
  • 🚀 You can now set a custom cache location to store publications and media cache
  • Added informational icons with tooltips for settings that are not immediately clear
  • New language: Slovak (thanks @madroots!)
  • New language: Ukrainian (thanks @mchaplyak!)
  • Small UI improvements

Bug fixes

  • Better checks for OBS integration
  • Fixed the logic to recognize printed images
  • Force refresh of yeartext and fonts the when clearing the cache
  • Media from the Enjoy Life Forever brochure is correctly ignored again when appropriate
  • Show a warning when the media folder could not be opened automatically from M³
  • Show a warning when the yeartext is not available in your language
  • The media window no longer has rounded corners in windowed mode for macOS (thanks @riggles!)
  • Video scrubber correctly shows progress when pausing a video
  • When starting shuffle music more than one hour before the meeting, the countdown now works correctly
  • Several other small bug fixes

23.1.0

New or improved features

  • 🚀 A song can now be added to the media list directly from the media presentation screen, for use during meetings
  • 🚀 Added option to include printed media whenever available
  • Images from lff for parts other than the Congregation Bible Study can once again be excluded
  • Improved the look and feel of the settings screen
  • "Click again" tooltips now stay visible when clicked, making it clear that a second click is required
  • Enjoy Life Forever videos are now only included during the Congregation Bible Study
  • Added a clear warning when a file is locked on a congregation server

Bug fixes

  • Correctly sort folders and files in the congregation sync directory tree
  • Fixed incorrect filename sorting when adding or uploading media files
  • Delete/hide actions in congregation server are now only activated on corresponding button click, and not filename click
  • Fixed an issue where media from some JWPUB files wouldn't be imported properly in some edge cases
  • Fixed an issue where the wrong language for media would be used in some edge cases
  • Refresh languages from the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses when they were not correctly fetched before
  • Set OBS Studio scene correctly when using keyboard shortcuts
  • Fixed an issue where the OBS Studio scene would sometimes be set to "nothing"
  • Clear download and cache statistics after every media sync