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Following 2 months of work, the display and text rendering code has been replaced. Due to the magnitude of the change there may still be bugs, so please report them in the usual way.

These changed allow a number of significant new features to become available:

• Text over video now works correctly.
• Changeable image and video backgrounds now have a proper start and finish.
• Text enhancements are now available like colours and styles (bold, italic, etc).
• Spell checker for songs and custom slides.

This morning we are pleased to announce the release of OpenLP 2.0 Alpha 2!

Please remember to read through the Frequently Asked Questions before using OpenLP - it answers many questions you might have about the new version. The download page will be updated later today.

OpenLP alpha 1 is now available in the Stable repository of Fedora 12 and testing repository of Fedora 13.

OpenLP has now been sponsored by Fedora and the Alpha 1 release is now available in the testing repository under the tag OpenLP-1.9.1.1-1.fc12.

If you are use Fedora give it a go and provide feed back.

Following the success of alpha1 and comments in testing, a number of improvements have been added:

The latest version (723) now has the ability to store Notes against a service item.

Right click one the item title and select "Notes" .

Over the last few weeks the alerts framework has been extended, adding new requested features.

These features include.

• The ability to change the alert Font size.  The Background will resize to fit.
• The ability to place the alerts at the Top or Bottom of the screen
• The ability to store all alerts issued.
• The ability to add / amend / delete from the alerts history.
• The ability to select and resubmit an existing alert.  This does not re-save it unless the text has been changed.

In version 2 of there is a pluging called "SongUsage" which records all Live songs and when they were used.  This is to help with the production of yearly usage returns.

The Plugin geneates a CSV file which can be procesed using OpenOffice.

This can replace the existing utility which extracts the data from the service files.

In the last few weeks a number of requested features have been added to the 2.x code base.

Work on the 2.0 version is moving forward at great speed with new developers helping out.

In the last few weeks code has been added to run Impress presentations on Linux. Work is underway to get this to also work on Windows. Powerpoint and PowerPoint Viewer will come later.

In the latest merge a new Audit plugin has arrived to audit songs used during a service. This will record what was actually used during a service. More work is needed on this component but the foundations are complete.