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03 February 2025 - Bloom
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 6.0 during its Beta phase! We’re excited to announce that it is now officially released.
This update brings significant changes, which is why we’ve jumped from version 5.6 to 6.0.
See what’s new in 6.0: Release Notes
Upgrading
How to Upgrade
If you’re using an older Release version, Bloom should automatically prompt you to update. If not, you can download version 6.0 from the Bloom downloads page. As always, you... read more 03 February 2025 - Bloom
If you’re running Bloom on the beta channel, you’re a vital part of the Bloom team. Your feedback helps ensure that when the beta becomes the release version, users without easy access to technical support receive a polished, reliable product. Thank you!
See what’s new in 6.1 Beta
Getting the Beta
If you already have a beta version, Bloom will automatically prompt you to update. If not, you can download the latest beta from... read more 02 December 2024 - Paratext
The Paratext Newsletter: Sharing helpful info, updates, and announcements about Paratext
Training Videos Are Now Available in Arabic!
The Arabic team has been hard at work, creating a brand new set of training videos in Arabic. They have completed more than 65 videos, with more to come (pending additional funding ). Please share the Arabic training videos with your colleagues working in Arabic speaking areas. فيديوهات التدريبNew... read more
29 November 2024 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.16.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes.
The main highlight is adding an ability to control which footnote symbols are used for authors using the new symbolOverride... read more
14 November 2024 - Paratext
It is with great joy we announce to you the availability of Paratext 9.5 beta! On behalf of the entire development team, we hope that this software is a blessing to you in your work for God’s kingdom and glory.
Download and Install 9.5 Beta
You can download Paratext 9.5 Beta from the downloads page today!What’s New in Paratext 9.5 Beta?
Support for whitespaces and invisible characters*
This feature allows teams to view and edit... read more 07 November 2024 - Bloom
The October 2024 newsletter from SIL’s Dictionary & Lexicography Services (DLS) includes Rapid Word Collection (RWC) Workshop News by Kevin Warfel. Here’s one of the RWC workshops mentioned:
Marsha Relyea Miles organized a RWC workshop in Papua New Guinea for speakers of the Aruamu language in August. This was the first workshop to use The Combine’s fledgling laptop-as-server option.
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21 October 2024 - Webonary
This newsletter highlights Picture Dictionaries.
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24 September 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.3 for Android and iOS. Download links:
Android / Google Play Store
Android / F-Droid client
Android / APK for sideloading
iOS / Apple App Store
Adapt It Mobile 1.17.3 is a patch release, containing fixes for the move forward / backwards buttons in the Gloss and Free Translation editors (#600, #601). You can find more information about these changes in our issue tracker.
Need help getting... read more
18 September 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.2 for Android and iOS. Download links:
Android / Google Play Store
Android / F-Droid client
Android / APK for side-loading
iOS / Apple App Store
Adapt It Mobile 1.17.2 is a patch release, containing a fix for the following:
Fixed an issue where the back button was navigating to the wrong screen from some settings pages (#598).
You can find more information in our issue tracker.... read more
06 September 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.17.1 for Android and iOS. Download links:
Android / Google Play Store
Android / F-Droid client
Android / APK for sideloading
iOS / Apple App Store
Adapt It Mobile 1.17.1 is a patch release, containing a fix for a versification bug that was causing a hang when importing USFM for the book of Joshua (#595). No other changes were made for this release.
You can find more information in our issue... read more
28 August 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile release 1.17.0 for Android and iOS. You can download Adapt It Mobile from the following sources:
Android / Google Play Store
Android / F-Droid client
Android / APK for side-loading
iOS / Apple App Store
What’s new in release 1.17.0
If you have a bluetooth keyboard, you can now select the words in a phrase you want to merge and start typing. Adapt It Mobile will... read more 27 August 2024 - FLExTrans
FLExTrans -- A Linguist-Friendly Machine Translation System for Low-Resource Languages
See the full and up-to-date website at: https://software.sil.org/flextrans/ Low-resource languages have largely been left out of the machine translation revolution. Because of insufficient text data, the results of using statistical machine translation are subpar. FLExTrans is a transfer-based machine translation system that doesn't rely on lots of text data... read more 13 July 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce Adapt It Mobile patch release 1.16.4 for Android! You can download version 1.16.4 from the following links:
Android / Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaptit.adaptitmobile
Android / F-Droid client: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.adaptit.adaptitmobile
Android / APK for side-loading: https://github.com/adapt-it/adapt-it-mobile/releases/download/v1.16.4/app-release.57.apk
Apple... read more
11 July 2024 - Solid
Solid is a Windows program that can be used to check, clean up, and convert standard format lexicon data.
Solid 1.0 is a bug fix release based on updated SIL dependencies. It should be used instead of older versions. This release fixes a crash on startup and adds the ability to resize the marker settings panel.
There is no dedicated team developing Solid – this is unsupported software with no guarantee of future bug fixes or enhancements. That said, you are welcome to submit issues to our... read more
28 June 2024 - Bloom
If you run Bloom on the beta channel, you are a crucial part of the Bloom team. Your help ensures that folks who don’t have easy access to technical support get a solid product when the beta becomes the release version. Thank you!
See what’s new in 6.0 Beta
Getting the Beta
If you already have a beta version, Bloom will automatically ask to update itself. Otherwise, you can get the beta from the Bloom downloads page. As... read more 20 June 2024 - Bloom
Thank you to everyone who helped us test Bloom 5.6 while it was in Beta. It is now the Release.
See: What’s new in 5.6
Upgrading
If you are using an older Release version, Bloom should automatically ask to update itself. Otherwise, you can get 5.6 from the Bloom downloads page. As usual, you can have the Release & Beta versions installed at the same time, and open books in either one. If you are on the beta channel, you can stay there. We will... read more 12 June 2024 - Adapt It
Feature changes and new features in 6.11.1
The parser of input source text has been extensively revised. It’s more capable, and works well with a greater variety of novel (but correct) USFM markup structures. The filtering and un-filtering (hiding and showing) of certain markers has been significantly revised. Previously, this function did not handle well situations where multiple adjacent markers were filtered, for example, when \ms (major section head... read more 06 June 2024 - Adapt It
The Adapt It development team is pleased to announce the release of Adapt It Mobile 1.16.3 for Android and iOS, available today through the Google Play store and Apple Store. Download links:
– iOS App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adapt-it-mobile/id1031605993?ls=1&mt=8– Android / Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaptit.adaptitmobile– Android / F-Droid client: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.adaptit.adaptitmobile– Android / APK... read more
20 May 2024 - Paratext
Imagine printing a high-quality draft of Scripture, complete with pictures, formatting, and other important details in just minutes. PTXprint makes this possible, and it now replaces the “Print Draft” option in Paratext 9.4.
Scripture printed during a PTXprint workshop
It is easy to get overwhelmed with all the possibilities. However, the default settings are typically adequate for a quality draft printout, though you may want to make a few adjustments.
To help you get started printing drafts... read more
09 May 2024 - XLingPaper
XLingPaper version 3.15.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, please see:
Using a new version of XeLaTeX; and
Some changes you may need to make in your documents.
This new version of XLingPaper has a number of improvements and bug fixes.
The main highlights are:
Add the SortReferences command to sort a references master list file.
Add the... read more