CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

25.1.1

🛠️ Improvements and Tweaks

• 🛠️ Fix moving items between media lists: Resolved an issue where media items could get lost when transferring them between lists.
• 🛠️ Improve day mapping logic: Fixed a potential error in the friendlyDayToJsDay function.

🔧 Improvements to Codebase

• 🔧 Simplify Electron imports: Refactored imports to improve code readability and maintainability.
• 🔧 Expand test coverage: Added tests for fs utils and fixed the getParentDirectory test.
• 🔧 Dependency updates: Updated dependencies and refreshed the yarn.lock file.
• 🔧 Repository maintenance: Updated the .gitignore file.

25.1.0

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• 🖼 Media Window Title Change: The media window title has been changed. If OBS Studio is set to capture the media window by title, it may stop working. Please update your OBS Studio window capture settings if necessary.

✨ New Features

• 📅 Open Previous Dates: Allow opening previous dates of the current week, which is useful when the meeting day is moved later in the week.
• 🛑 Error Banner for OBS Studio: Add an error banner when OBS Studio is not connected on a meeting day, ensuring users are alerted.
• 📚 Group Media by Publication: Group media from the same referred publication for a cleaner and more organized media overview.
• 🎵 Duplicate Song Warning: Show a warning if songs are listed more than once in the media list for weekend meetings.
• 🔄 Future Schedule Planning: Enable the planning of future meeting schedule changes, which is useful for yearly schedule changes or for the circuit overseer's visit to a neighboring congregation.

🛠️ Improvements and Tweaks

• 📘 Bible Import Documentation: Add Bible import features to the documentation website to help users understand and utilize this feature.
• 🔧 Force Close Option: Allow force closing the application when the UI is unresponsive, improving user control during freezes.
• 🖋 Local Font Fallback: When offline, correctly fallback to a local font file if available, ensuring smooth icon rendering.
• 🪟 UI Improvements for Small Windows: Enhance the user interface for smaller windows for better accessibility.
• 📖 Hide Empty Tabs: Hide empty study Bible media tabs to declutter the interface.
• 🤝 Sign Language Behavior Alignment: Align sign language behavior with JW Library Sign Language, by automatically hiding the media window and not showing the yeartext.
• 🔊 Sign Language for Audio Bible: Add support for sign language in the audio Bible feature, increasing accessibility.
• 🧹 Automatic Cache Cleanup: Automatically clean up old dates and cache periodically, keeping the application streamlined.
• 🇵🇭 Preparations for Tagalog: Make preparations for supporting the Tagalog language, expanding the app's accessibility.
• 🚫 Hide Cast Button: Remove the cast button on the media window to simplify the user interface.
• 🔍 Better Zooming: Improve first manual zoom-in by keeping the image centered, reducing the first zoom factor, and ensuring smooth transition.

🔧 Improvements to Codebase

• 🛠 Sorting Logic Refactor: Refactor sorting logic for improved stability and better performance.
• 📅 Media Calendar Refactor: Refactor the media calendar page for improved maintainability and ease of updates.
• ✅ Unit Tests: Add unit tests for better code stability and reliability, ensuring new changes do not break existing functionality.
• 📄 Documentation Auto-Refresh: Automatically refresh the documentation website on new releases, ensuring users always have the latest information.
• 🧹 Improved ESlint Config: Update ESlint configuration for cleaner and better code, maintaining high code quality standards.

24.12.2

New Features

• 🌐 Allowed opening the website and navigating to a specific page before presenting.
• 💾 Added option for MP4 conversion of non-video media.
• 📦 Added code signing and notarization for macOS version to enable auto-updates.
• 🎥 Display elapsed/remaining time during video playback.
• 🎥 Added manual time entry for custom durations.
• 🚩 Introduced a banner when auto-updates are disabled to inform users.
• 📅 Enabled beta update options and banner for users who want early access to new features.
• 🔍 Autofocus search fields in dialogs.
• 🌐 Added initial support for Haitian Creole, Kinyarwanda, and Slovak languages.

Improvements and Tweaks

• 💻 Improved app icons for better visual consistency.
• 📄 Enhanced page titles across the app for clarity.
• 🖼️ Improved about modal icon size and media window title.
• ⚙️ Improved toggle settings and layout on small windows.
• 🖱️ Introduced auto-scroll when dragging media to window edges.
• 🎥 Added an option to hide icons from OBS scene switcher.
• 🛠️ Added beta icon for pre-release versions.
• 🛠️ Adjusted video progress bar styling for accuracy.
• 🖥️ Restricted media window maximization to multiple screens.
• 🎵 Fixed custom audio duration setting issues.
• 🌐 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 attention styling.
• 🎛️ Removed size notification from media window and replaced it with a tooltip.
• 🖱️ Restored double-click action on media window with improved results, preventing unintended maximize behavior.
• 🛠️ Added separate loading states for Study Bible.
• 🖼️ Unified grid styling for song, Study Bible, and audio Bible views.
• 📜 Fixed missing strings for Hebrew, Aramaic, 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 enforcement.
• 📦 Fixed download popup scroll issue and spinner icon glitches.
• 🎨 Improved banner color consistency.
• 📜 Correctly handled media language fallback order.
• 🖼️ Display intro pictures from lff , bt and lmd when appropriate.
• 🎥 Fixed issues where certain images didn’t render properly in MP4 exports.
• 🎥 Correctly load OBS scenes in select inputs.
• 📦 Resolved ffmpeg setup issues to avoid unnecessary binary downloads.
• 🎥 Fixed media shortcuts for CO visit.
• 🔍 Improved study Bible lookups and loading UI.
• 🔧 Improved pan-zoom handling.
• 🚀 Made event listeners passive for better performance.

Improvements to Codebase

• 🛠️ Refactored and simplified media item code for maintainability.
• 📦 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.
• 🌐 Cleaned up old locales and removed incomplete translations.
• 🖼️ Set correct window icons in development mode.

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.

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.
• 📂 Added auto-export media to folder functionality.
• 📖 Included non-book media (e.g., appendices, introductions) from the study Bible.
• 🌐 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.
• ✏️ 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.
• 🖼️ Implemented extra media indicators and improved visual feedback for media items.
• 🎤 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.
• 🖼️ 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

• New language: Pangasinan (thanks @lorenpajarits!)

Bug fixes

• Exclude songs with described audio from background music playback

23.12.0

New or improved features

• New language: Iloko / Ilokano (thanks @bridenkenn!)
• New language: Tagalog (thanks @bridenkenn!)

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