Quelea Changelog

What's new in Quelea 2020.0

Aug 20, 2020
  • Fix Openlyrics import when more than one "lines" tag specified per verse
  • New options dialog
  • Remove USR songselect import (USR files no longer offered)
  • Add Propresenter import (4, 5 and 6 supported at present)
  • Add ability to export song list
  • Fix title bug on plain text import song that only contain one section
  • Add ability for importers to use zip file or regular file
  • Fix importers to accept windows-encoded zip files
  • Fix export to PDF fonts issues (# instead of some characters)
  • Fix non-Latin and accented character input for song lyrics on Linux systems
  • Increase maximum thumbnail preview size from 500 to 1000
  • Update "Support / Discussion" link from the previous Quelea Google Group to the current Quelea Community
  • Fix wrapping bug for Bible passages and other single-line sections in the selection lists
  • Update SoF parser to work with SoF 6
  • Fix planning center integration
  • Add support for setting a song sequence
  • Add an indicator for the item that currently is live
  • Add option to use a fade transition between text items

New in Quelea 2018.1 Beta (May 21, 2018)

  • Fix bug with Sunday Plus importer
  • Fix bug with VideoPsalm importer
  • Fix bug with OpenSong importer only showing one song when exported on Mac
  • Fix Java 9 compatibility
  • Fix "is" being recognised as chords
  • Fix resize bug on some Linux distributions
  • Fix VLC bug in Linux
  • Fix drag / drop bug in Linux
  • Fix EasyWorship parser to use CP1252
  • Use new logo in about dialog
  • Don't show option to add DVD on a Mac
  • Add ctrl+click option to set logo image on Mac
  • Add Worship Him importer

New in Quelea 2017.1 (Sep 22, 2017)

  • Fix bug with themes not saving
  • Fix potential deadlock bug when editing a song as a video background is playing
  • Fix focusing bug when video backgrounds are playing

New in Quelea 2014.1 (Oct 6, 2014)

  • Added remote control functionality
  • Added Youtube support
  • Added PDF export option for songs / schedule
  • Added DVD / Bluray support
  • Added ability to import more than one presentation at a time
  • Added ZionWorx import
  • Added Easyworship import
  • Added Openlyrics import / export
  • Added song translation support
  • Improved text wrapping algorithm for bible text
  • Added option for displaying verse numbers in bible text
  • Added Hungarian translation
  • Added additional options for specifying the notice colour, speed, font, size and position
  • Added VLCARG file support - ability to create video "files" that pass arguments directly to VLC
  • Added ability to stretch videos
  • Added more shadow options
  • Added manual entry to help menu
  • Bugfix - italic font property now saved when selecting an image or video background
  • Bugfix - no longer possible to add empty bible passages
  • Bugfix - quick edit cursor doesn't show on bible passages anymore
  • Bugfix - bible search now filters out duplicate results correctly
  • Bugfix - long notices now behave correctly
  • Bugfix - printing now works properly for songs and schedules
  • Bugfix - shadows now display correctly
  • Bugfix - Cancelling the confirm exit dialog by pressing "x" no longer exits Quelea without saving
  • Various other minor bug fixes

New in Quelea 2014.0 (Jan 30, 2014)

  • Rewritten interface in JavaFX
  • Rewritten video support
  • Added option to keep the same size text for each part of a song
  • Added option to set the maximum font size manually
  • Added option to set spacing between lines
  • Added video background support
  • Clear text option now fades
  • Black option now fades
  • New logo option added, can easily fade live view to any given image
  • Added loop button for presentations
  • Changed to more efficient database format
  • Added more / better sample images
  • Added sample videos
  • Added test patterns dialog to calibrate display
  • Theme panel has had a major revamp, now much easier to use
  • Text position and text alignment can be set separately per song
  • Rewritten import dialogs to look much nicer
  • Opensong import
  • OpenLP import
  • Easyslides import
  • Plain text import
  • Kingsway import fixed
  • Added Czech, German, Swedish and US English translations
  • Previews now preserve aspect ratio of main display
  • Fix interface to display UTF-8 characters properly
  • Fix schedule files / imports to deal with UTF-8 characters properly
  • Rewritten bible search dialog
  • Theme selector rewritten / bugs fixed
  • Add option within interface to change language
  • Window position now saved between runs
  • Search by author as well as title and lyrics
  • Bundled JRE

New in Quelea 0.6 Beta 3 (Jan 13, 2014)

  • The bugs with "phantom" entries sometimes appearing in the lyrics and schedule display, the background video sometimes restarting whenever you changed verse, having to reselect the override theme if you edit it, the lyrics sometimes being too wide for the preview display, the Kingsway worship parser not working, not being able to add bibles or images sometimes, not being able to select a video outside of the "vid" folder, not being able to select "mov" videos, the song entry window sometimes growing higher than the screen height - they've now all been fixed!

New in Quelea 0.6 Beta 2 (Jan 8, 2014)

  • A bug fix release - the bugs to do with non-english characters not always being preserved properly should now be fixed, as well as a few other miscellaneous bugs (a few minor bugs with schedules, videos, images and the database have also been fixed.)
  • There's also a couple of additional abstract images in the library.

New in Quelea 0.6 Beta 1 (Sep 28, 2013)

  • A few bugs fixes.

New in Quelea 0.6 Alpha 8 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • A lot of bug fixes and minor usability improvements.

New in Quelea 0.6 Alpha 7 (Jul 25, 2013)

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New in Quelea 0.6 Alpha 6 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • The bugs with the theme select window now should have been fixed,
  • The bugs with selecting bibles now should have been fixed,
  • The occasional lockups when the database was loading should have been fixed
  • The internationalization bugs should be fixed
  • Loads of other minor bits.
  • It's now also got another translation into Swedish thanks to Arvid, one into American English

New in Quelea 0.6 Alpha 4 (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Another alpha is up with a few more bugfixes, including one particularly big one that meant themes often didn't save and subsequently caused Quelea to hang on startup.

New in Quelea 0.6 Alpha 2 (May 2, 2013)

  • A few bugs have been fixed, the most notable with clear / black screen not working properly all the time.

New in Quelea 0.6 Alpha 1 (Feb 21, 2013)

  • Includes video background support

New in Quelea 0.5.4 (Oct 15, 2012)

  • Small bugfix release, Powerpoint presentations don't disappear from schedules anymore!

New in Quelea 0.5.3 (Oct 2, 2012)

  • Fixed bug where some valid schedules silently failed to open
  • Fixed ratio between text selection to lyrics
  • Fixed bug with loading new bibles via interface
  • Fixed bug with importing some opensong bibles

New in Quelea 0.5.2 (Sep 5, 2012)

  • Better powerpoint support, including support for the new PPTX format and transitions / animations using openoffice
  • Vastly improved collection of provided images
  • Fix "edit song" -> cancel clearing text bug
  • Fix flickering background
  • Fix clear screen options
  • Fix file filter on export menu
  • Intermittent video bug with Linux preventing Quelea from starting has now gone away
  • Change a couple of icons to make them more usable
  • Anti-alias small text as well as large
  • Various other bug fixes

New in Quelea 0.5.1 (Mar 23, 2012)

  • Video errors are now more clearly displayed
  • Large number of images in img folder now doesn't lock Quelea up
  • Can now drag image over song / bible passage to set its theme
  • Quick edit can now delete sections (just delete all of the text in the section to do this)
  • Now have the option to display text with a shadow
  • Long labels have been split up so messages don't go off the end of the screen
  • The number of monitors is reloaded on the fly without need for restart - Quelea will now pick up when you plug in an extra monitor, or remove one.
  • Themes can be edited from the quick theme menu
  • The quick edit shortcut has changed from 'alt' to 'control' as part of the fixes to get it working properly on Linux.
  • Various other minor bug fixes.