Releasegeschiedenis

Q&A / QR

• Fix code-review findings in file dialogs, QA tab, and autostart

Media

• Fix clear-cut issues in ATEM media pool upload
• Merge main into feature/atem-media-pool-upload (code-review fixes)
• Merge origin/main into feature/atem-media-pool-upload
• Add ATEM media pool upload for lower thirds

Schedule

• Add autosave/restore for schedules

Pictures

• Fix all transition types for Pictures and Presentation tabs

Presentations

• Add slideshow controls and loading spinner to Presentation tab

Localization

• Replace hard-coded ATEM button labels with string resources and icons
• Localize ATEM capacity and reachability strings across all locales
• Add ATEM integration strings and UI support

Settings

• Add Go Live USK toggle in ATEM settings and the Lower Third tab
• Grey out Send to ATEM when unreachable; show clip capacity in settings
• Add launch-at-login setting on the System tab
• Add Background button that opens settings on the Backgrounds tab
• Detect clip pool capacity on Test Connection; fix slot list parsing

UI / General

• Fix in-app updater failing to launch downloaded MSI
• Add EULA and migrate license acceptance
• Add FEATURES.md listing app features
• ATEM uploads: surface API/Companion uploads in the UI and fix corruption
• ATEM: render lower thirds at the lottie's own resolution
• ATEM: persistent keepalive, upstream-key control, Companion triggers
• Add Companion-orchestrated lower-third sequence with ATEM DSK control
• Compact ATEM upload defaults into a single row
• Add quick-upload mode for Send to ATEM
• Speed up ATEM uploads with RLE compression and a pre-rendered cache
• Fix ATEM upload protocol; verified against hardware
• Fix code-review findings: search freeze, download security, silent failures
• Fix greyed-out menu bar on macOS after startup
• Fix racy directory writability check and add read-only status
• Use native OS file dialogs via FileKit on Windows/macOS
• Add seamless in-app update download and install

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• Windows: ChurchPresenter-26.3.89-WINDOWS-x64.msi
• macOS (Apple Silicon / M-series): ChurchPresenter-26.3.89-MACOS-arm64.dmg
• macOS (Intel): ChurchPresenter-26.3.89-MACOS-x64.dmg
• Linux: churchpresenter_26.3.89_amd64-DEBIAN-x64.deb

Songs

• Fix song preview not loading when search bar is active

Bible

• Add bible and timer strings to CS/RO/RU
• Fix parallel Bible layout collapsing when secondary verse is missing

Schedule

• Add schedule undo/redo and per-item notes
• Remove book emoji from ScheduleItem displayText
• Add dictionary items to schedule and UI

Localization

• Add inline note editor, actions, and i18n
• Add setup wizard and UI strings to locales

Settings

• Add VLC setup step & settings UI enhancements
• Import AppSettings and simplify type refs

UI / General

• Show setup wizard only if prerequisites missing
• Add animations, live preview pulse & tab styling
• Add 'Getting Started' setup wizard
• Adjust About dialog layout and button styles

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• Windows: ChurchPresenter-26.3.57-WINDOWS-x64.msi
• macOS (Apple Silicon / M-series): ChurchPresenter-26.3.57-MACOS-arm64.dmg
• macOS (Intel): ChurchPresenter-26.3.57-MACOS-x64.dmg
• Linux: churchpresenter_26.3.57_amd64-DEBIAN-x64.deb

Songs

• Extend per-placement layout to Bible book and chapter column widths
• Extend per-placement layout to Songs lyrics panel and Bible split panel
• Show full cell text in tooltip on hover for Songs tab columns
• Add delete option to Songs tab right-click menu with confirmation dialog
• Remove max width limits on Songs tab columns

Q&A / QR

• Localize 'Style' and use empty default QR
• Add QA localization and use resources
• Add draggable separators to QA and STT tab right panels

Bible

• Fix split browse mode highlighting secondary bible verse
• Fix split browse mode highlighting extra verse in Psalms

Settings

• Fix macOS startup crash by setting Skiko Metal backend at runtime
• Fix macOS startup crash by explicitly setting Metal rendering backend in distribution
• Use radio buttons for theme menu
• Add six new themes and UI support
• Run settings directory scans and writable checks on IO thread

Build

• Add Specific Time timer mode and fix Announcements tab issues
• Pin macOS runners to macos-15; convert Intel build to GitHub-hosted

UI / General

• Add draggable separators to Canvas tab left and right panels
• Extend per-placement layout to Lower Third list panel width
• Store separate panel layouts for maximized vs windowed window states
• Switch Windows Skiko rendering backend from Direct3D to OpenGL
• Only include successfully built platforms in release notes

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• Windows: ChurchPresenter-26.3.36-WINDOWS-x64.msi
• macOS (Apple Silicon / M-series): ChurchPresenter-26.3.36-MACOS-arm64.dmg
• macOS (Intel): ChurchPresenter-26.3.36-MACOS-x64.dmg
• Linux: churchpresenter_26.3.36_amd64-DEBIAN-x64.deb

Songs

• Move favorites add-to-schedule button next to title text
• Fix play count showing same value for all songs in a directory
• fix song list offset caused by settings button width
• added compser and writter columns
• song soting
• Add column reorder, visibility toggle, and header alignment in Songs tab
• Add song favorites panel and column reordering to Songs tab

Recents

• Fix recents UI not updating live by removing remember from ordered list
• Fix ExperimentalFoundationApi compile errors on RecentsRow composables
• Fix clear recents not working and add tooltip to clear button
• Add clear recents button to Pictures, Media, and Presentations tabs
• Add recents row to Pictures, Media, and Presentations tabs

Q&A / QR

• Fix coding standards: hardcoded strings and emoji icon in MediaTab, QAPresenter, LivePreviewPanel, PresentationTab
• Improve cooldown field: digits-only, spinner arrows, shorter label
• Replace cooldown spinner with OutlinedTextField in QA settings
• Fix text color label alignment in QA display styling
• Add QR code foreground/background colors and label text color in QA tab
• Prevent Escape from clearing QA state when display is locked
• Block hiding QR code when display is locked to QA
• Add editable QR code message to QA tab

Media

• Add stop button to media tab (pauses and rewinds, enabled when loaded)

Bible

• Auto-pause Bible live output on chapter/book change
• Fix Bible tab split mode live panel hiding verse list at narrow widths
• Widen verse search box in Bible tab to fixed 220dp
• Update ChurchPresenter-Converter submodule: add Fix Known Bible Verses
• Add split browse mode to Bible tab

Presentations

• Remove debug println from PresentationTab LaunchedEffect

Displays

• Allow locking a blank screen to prevent new content from appearing
• Auto-clear lower thirds display after animation finishes
• bug fix ' display
• Add per-screen lock feature for output displays

Localization

• Fix coding standards: extract hardcoded strings in AboutDialog to resources
• Fix coding standards: hardcoded strings, inline Color, submodule pointers
• Fix coding standards violations: wildcards, emojis, hardcoded strings
• Added new languages
• added translations

Settings

• Cache loaded settings in memory to avoid redundant file I/O on dialog open
• Fix lower thirds preview not resetting when switching same-content files
• Refactor settings tabs UI styling

Build

• Clarify macOS release notes: label ARM vs Intel builds
• Apply release notes generator to self-hosted build workflow
• Run release notes generator automatically in CI release job
• Update ChurchPresenter-Converter submodule: fix Psalm 146:6 text error
• Update ChurchPresenter-LottieGen submodule
• Update submodule refs for coding standards fixes
• Update LottieGen submodule: ease-in-out easing
• Update LottieGen submodule: smoother animations
• Update ChurchPresenter-LottieGen submodule

UI / General

• Replace platform dropdown with per-OS checkboxes, all pre-selected; pass platform flags to release notes generator
• Auto-refresh Lower Third file list on external changes; fix loading UX
• Reduce Lottie memory by sharing composition across windows; enforce GPU backend
• Fix release notes generator to diff previous release to latest
• Fix coding standards violations across codebase
• Fix Unicode encoding error on Windows console
• Show ask-developers message when all crossword puzzles are completed
• Suppress JavaFX unnamed module warning at startup
• Fix deprecation warnings: tooltip anchor position and clipboard suppress
• Fix jumpy lower third playback by passing live state lambda to painter
• Added tooltips
• release notes generator
• Adjust paddings, divider and history row styles

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• Windows: ChurchPresenter-26.3.14-WINDOWS-x64.msi
• macOS (Apple Silicon / M-series): ChurchPresenter-26.3.14-MACOS-arm64.dmg
• macOS (Intel): ChurchPresenter-26.3.14-MACOS-x64.dmg
• Linux: churchpresenter_26.3.14_amd64-DEBIAN-x64.deb

UI / UX

• Added right-click context menu for verses
• Added right-click context menu to songs list
• Added shift-drag reorder to schedule list
• Added picture reorder & keyboard navigation
• Clipped PicturesTab Box with RectangleShape
• Hid songbook UI when there is a single songbook
• Disabled hold when Go Live or double-click is triggered while paused
• Fixed book selection not syncing when swapping bibles

Integrations

• Added OBS Studio WebSocket integration and settings

Localization / Strings

• Added QA/STT strings and i18n-ized UI
• Added new shortcut strings and dialog entries
• Added localization string resources to Converter and LottieGen submodules

Build / CI

• Added GA4 analytics config to CI and build
• Excluded .gradle dirs from prepareAppResources file scan
• Updated ChurchPresenter-Converter submodule

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• Windows: ChurchPresenter-26.2.204-WINDOWS-x64.msi
• macOS: ChurchPresenter-26.2.204-MACOS-arm64.dmg
• macOS: ChurchPresenter-26.2.204-MACOS-x64.dmg
• Linux: churchpresenter_26.2.204_amd64-DEBIAN-x64.deb

STT (Speech-to-Text) Tab

• Added new STT tab with live transcription/translation display
• Added word highlighting to STT tab preview, including Unicode/Cyrillic word boundary support
• Fixed word highlighting (spacing, partial word matches, mid-word breaks for Cyrillic)
• Fixed vertical position, auto-scroll, and scrollbars in STT tab preview
• Fixed STT reconnection bug and improved URL input UX
• Fixed STT tab not responding to "clear display" from preview panel
• Fixed translation not showing (reads translated_text field from STT app)
• Updated STT default settings
• Replaced transparent toggle with background opacity slider in STT tab
• Added scrollbars to STT tab preview

Q&A (Questions & Answers)

• Added Q&A voting system with admin controls and UI improvements
• Added remote QA admin actions and submitter device info
• Added QA "clear display" remote action
• Added question input and sort dropdown to desktop Q&A tab
• Broadcast QA updates via WebSocket
• Show live vote scores and update on vote
• Allow users to undo votes by pressing the same button again
• Styled QA links as rounded buttons
• Fixed voting page DOM rebuild causing wrong-question votes
• Replaced transparent toggle with background opacity slider in QA tab

Stacked / Side-by-Side Layout

• Added stacked mode: 50/50 split with bottom-aligned content per half
• Fixed stacked mode to use 50/50 vertical split
• Fixed vertical alignment in stacked mode
• Applied position alignment within each stacked half
• Side-by-side columns now calculate height independently

Text / Drip Feed

• Switched presenter from max segments to max lines, fixed vertical alignment
• Fixed max lines clipping text incrementally
• Fixed text not showing latest lines in preview and presenter
• Fixed text showing from start instead of end
• Fixed flashing: calculate clip height from style instead of onTextLayout
• Fixed max lines clipping and added line spacing setting
• Fixed extra spaces between words when word highlighting is enabled
• Set default drip feed speed to 140ms
• Used Constraints.Infinity instead of hardcoded max height

Bible & Songs

• Added Bible source to canvas tab with verse picker and styling
• Fixed arrow key navigation in Songs and Bible tabs on macOS
• Fixed ARM Mac click reliability in Bible and Songs tabs, and remaining tabs
• Fixed initialPassClickable blocking nested button clicks
• Fixed add-to-schedule button click in Songs tab and left-justified it
• Improved schedule song display, add-to-schedule button, and songId for numberless songs
• Fixed auto-fit height, song edit list order, schedule song ID and display

Converter

• Added ChurchPresenter-Converter as submodule with integrated build and window
• Moved Converter from About dialog to Help dropdown menu
• Passed main app theme to Converter window
• Documented ChurchPresenter-Converter submodule in README

CCLI

• Added CCLI report UI and event logging
• Added CCLI strings and update report UI
• Added CCLI report and statistics localization

Lottie-Gen

• Replaced HTML/JS Lottie-Gen with native KMP LottieGen app
• Cleaned up old Lottie-Gen references

Other Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed Clear Display bar not showing on web admin
• Fixed tooltip popups blocking clicks and stealing arrow key focus
• Inherited theme from parent when embedded in ChurchPresenter
• Showed warning when no lower third folder configured
• Kept drawing tool active after completing a shape
• Made displayed URLs selectable in UI
• Fetched word highlighting on connect via REST API
• Filtered disabled color groups from word highlighting

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• Windows: ChurchPresenter-26.2.167-WINDOWS-x64.msi
• macOS: ChurchPresenter-26.2.167-MACOS-arm64.dmg
• macOS: ChurchPresenter-26.2.167-MACOS-x64.dmg
• Linux: churchpresenter_26.2.167_amd64-DEBIAN-x64.deb

Q&A Feature

• Added full Q&A feature with web submission, admin panel, and projection display
• Added public Q&A access via Cloudflare Quick Tunnel with OS/arch-aware tunnel downloader
• Added key/fill output support for Q&A presenters
• Send WebSocket decision responses; improved QA display state (resets on Escape/Clear, defaults to bottom center)

Video & Audio

• Introduced shared video output and master decoder
• Fixed video aspect ratio squeezing and audio glitchiness

UI Improvements

• Added tab visibility menu and removed the settings dialog tab
• Moved picture settings inline to the Pictures tab
• Used TooltipIconButton for tab visibility and Q&A UI controls
• Fixed clamping of selected tab index synchronously
• Fixed dark-on-dark text for tunnel status labels

Localization

• Localized Q&A UI strings and added them to several languages
• Localized time unit strings
• Added stage monitor & QA public access strings

Analytics & Other

• Added GA4 analytics reporter with build integration
• Always send play/pause commands
• Fixed deprecated API warnings and redundant null-safety operators

Remote & Sync

• Added remote Bible enrichment, display sync, and song ID lookup
• Synced song verse selection between desktop and mobile clients

Songs

• Fixed song number overlay and search-by-number functionality
• Fixed filename sanitization and loading indicator

Statistics

• Added statistics dialog with XLS export

UI & Settings

• Added tab visibility settings
• Fixed toast notification clipping

Code Quality

• Fixed crashes, resource leaks, race conditions, and dead code (code review pass)
• Fixed pre-existing build errors
• Hidden rebuild option added

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• Windows: ChurchPresenter-26.2.102-WINDOWS-x64.msi
• macOS: ChurchPresenter-26.2.102-MACOS-arm64.dmg
• macOS: ChurchPresenter-26.2.102-MACOS-x64.dmg
• Linux: churchpresenter_26.2.102_amd64-DEBIAN-x64.deb

UI Improvements

• Added expandable text editor dialog for canvas text sources
• Fixed scrollbars being invisible in dark mode

Bible

• Fixed dual-numbering cross-reference lookup
• Fixed click reliability issues

Tab State

• Preserved tab state across tab switches (no more reset when switching tabs)

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• Windows: ChurchPresenter-26.2.74-WINDOWS-x64.msi
• macOS: ChurchPresenter-26.2.74-MACOS-arm64.dmg
• macOS: ChurchPresenter-26.2.74-MACOS-x64.dmg
• Linux: churchpresenter_26.2.74_amd64-DEBIAN-x64.deb

WebSocket & Networking

• Replaced HTTP API calls with a single persistent WebSocket connection
• Added exponential backoff reconnection and support for all event types
• Added retries for sendAction; iOS ping support
• Added server status screen and permission checks
• Added appVersion header to requests
• Fixed response timeout (ApiException on timeout)
• Wait for WebSocket readiness before sending actions

Bible & Songs

• Added Bible hold/clear buttons, display sync, song detail fixes, and section labels

Photos & Uploads

• Added cross-platform photo picker and upload
• Added upload progress overlay and tracking
• Added file-size limit and error reporting
• Used a separate HttpClient for uploads
• Resolved pictures by filename and sync uploads

Connect / QR Pairing

• Added Connect setup UI and flow (QR pairing)
• Auto-open first-launch settings and persist flag
• Added certificate setup UI and openUrl support
• Show connect setup after splash on first launch

Analytics & Crash Reporting

• Added multiplatform Analytics & event tracking
• Added GA4 screen_view analytics
• Added network error reporting and recording
• Added Crashlytics custom key support and iOS bridge

Build & Performance

• Enabled R8 and added ProGuard rules
• Added localized strings for multiple languages
• Added schedule refresh trigger for schedule drawer
• Handled missing Play Services in QR scanner