I am proud to announce the release of Release Candidate 1. This is the first in our release candidate series. Once we are satisfied that no more bugs exist in openlp.org, we will release the final version of 1.0. Remember to post your bug reports in the forum topic.

Many thanks once again go to Derek for his part of the development of openlp.org 1.0. I don't think we'd be where we are now without him.

Just insofar as the next version of openlp.org, we follow the Linux kernel's versioning system, with stable releases being even numbers, and development releases being odd numbers. So that means that the next stable version of openlp.org will be 1.2. All new features will be in the development version, version 1.1, while we maintain the 1.0 branch, just bringing out bug fixes for any bugs that may still arise.

Some of the first jobs we will be doing in version 1.1 will be a major code cleanup. This means that internally we will be tidying up the openlp.org code, which often results in faster code, and making openlp.org more flexible internally. We also will be moving to SQLite 3. Currently our song and bible databases are all in SQLite 2.8 format, and we want to upgrade to make use of the updated features in version 3.

We will obviously also bring in a number of the features that have been requested so far. We have a nice long list of features, and we would like to implement as many of those as is possible. Once again, however, we will have to make a call on some features, on whether or not they make sense to be included, and on how long they will take to implement versus getting a product out.

Hope this helps to clear up what direction we are headed in for the short run.

Yes folks, that moment has finally arrived! I have released openlp.org 1.0 beta 6. This is the last beta release of openlp.org, the next release will be Release Candidate 1, where we hope to have the majority of bugs out of the system.

One of the big highlights of this new release is the translation. Want openlp.org in your own translation? Just copy the english.xml file, open it and replace the strings in there with translations of your own language, import the new xml file, and then select your new translation!

There are a number of other small improvements here and there, including a few feature requests. Plenty bugs have been squashed too, although I doubt it's all of them.

Well, download openlp.org from the download page, and post your bugs to the forum topic.

Howdy folks...

We've found a few more bugs, so we haven't released yet. That said and done, I think that we will release in this week, even if there are still known bugs, just to get the release out there.

Also, I didn't have the time I thought I would have, since my fiancée arrived on Thursday and so I was otherwise occupied. So yes, as if to confirm what I already knew, a woman can take up a lot of a man's time - not that I'm complaining!

Well, thanks to Derek's sharp eyes, we've managed to weed out a few more bugs, and now all that remains is some minor testing from us to make sure there are no show-stopper bugs, and then on Sat (12 May) I will release beta 6.

Please note that we have not yet managed to fix the CCLI SongSelect problem. That was a hack at best, and now CCLI have changed their authentication method on the SongSelect, which means that we can no longer log in. We're gonna have a look at that "bug" in the release candidates, but Derek and I are leaning toward just leaving it broken until the next version of openlp.org. Then we'll have a look at it again.

Many thanks to Derek for his sharp eyes! Derek had another glance over my code and spotted a few things, and managed to get the translation working. I'm now busy cleaning up the code, finishing it off, and hopefully should be releasing beta 6 later this coming week.

openlp.org 1.0 beta 6 contains the last of the new features. After beta 6 we will be releasing release candidate 1, and from there we have maybe 1 or 2 more release candidates, and then it's 1.0 final! I'm looking forward to releasing version 1 and I know you are too!

Well, we're still working on beta 6. It's almost there... I implemented the internationalization, but to my dismay it's not working. I'm going to look into it further to see if I can work out what's wrong. So hopefully, if I can figure that out soon, we can have beta 6 out by the end of this week, next week the latest.

Thanks also to a post in the forums, we think we might have solved the CCLI SongSelect login problem. We're gonna also be looking at fixing that this week. Derek has also managed to pick up another 2 bugs and has fixed one of them in the mean time.

Like I think I mentioned in my previous blog post, we're going to RC1 next release, so that's gonna call for intense testing. So get your testing gear out, and pile into beta 6 and RC1 when they are released.

Howzit Folks,

Beta 6 is almost upon us. I'm just trying to find some time to finish off the last few things. Some of the bugs from beta 5 are gonna be carried over to beta 6, because we haven't been able to solve them yet. There are also a few more new features.

Our next release is RC1 - the first release candidate. We're hoping to resolve the remaining bugs, and any new ones from beta 6 from now on. Please note that this also means that there will be no more new features. We have made our feature freeze final, and any new features will be added in version 1.1, the development version of 1.2, which will be commenced once we have released 1.0 final.

I'm really excited to be bringing  out our first ever proper version of openlp.org, version 1.0. Thanks for sticking with us, and bearing with us on this long road to 1.0!

Howdy folks,

Yes, I have been sucked into FaceBook, YASNS [Yet Another Social Networking Site]. So, since I have been dragged into it, I decided to make the best of it and created an openlp.org group . You're welcome to join!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Howdy folks,

Some new things: Well, we're now using activeCollab as our main project management tool. It's much easier and less confusing to use than SourceForget.net , and it helps us keep track of everything that's going on. I've even changed the "Project Page" link to point to our activeCollab instance. If you'd like to check out what's happening, log in with username/password guest/guest. You should be able to view everything.

Some old things: Progress on beta 6 is good. We've actually introduced a few new things in it that we decided couldn't wait, and would need to be in 1.0 final in any case to make it a decent software release.

That's all from my side for now.

God bless!

Well, it seems that my little database creator tool had a little bug in it, but I have now resolved it. You can download the latest version from the download page on SourceForge.net.