Release notes

Every release is listed here, newest first. Only the current version is on the download page — one version, so that what a church downloads and what is current are never two different things.

1.5 — 10 September 2026

The stream to your video mixer actually carries the verse. NDI appeared correctly in vMix, OBS and NDI Studio Monitor — named, found, and completely black. The frames were being built and then rejected on the way out, so the source looked healthy and carried nothing. It sends properly now. If you tried NDI before and concluded your network was at fault, it was not.

The NDI source stays available between readings. It used to disappear the moment you took a verse off the screen, which meant it could not be added to a scene before the service — there was nothing there to add until somebody projected something. It now stays on the network the whole time NDI is switched on, carrying nothing while nothing is up.

See what the stream is sending, without leaving the app. Settings → NDI → Check the stream now opens a window showing the picture going out, drawn over a checkerboard so a transparent background is obvious at a glance, plus whether the source is visible on the network. A black background and a transparent one look identical in most monitors; here they do not.

The NDI colour settings show the colours actually in use. With NDI set to follow the projector, the panel still displayed its own colours — so it could show yellow while the stream carried something else. It now shows what will really go out, and your own NDI colours are kept for when you switch back to them.

The program tells Windows who made it. The download now carries publisher details rather than none at all. This does not remove Windows’ warning about software it has not seen before — that needs a signing certificate, which is being worked on — but it is the first step towards it.

1.4 — 6 September 2026

Word search that finds things. Type a word and the results now appear where the passage sits — the whole set at once, in Bible order, Genesis to Revelation. Before, a handful arrived in a small list over the search box and more appeared underneath as you paged, which is hard to read and easy to lose your place in.

It looks in the other Bibles you have. Searching for a word your translation simply does not use returned a few odd results and nothing else. Now the program tells you it is not in the Bible you are reading, finds it in the others installed, and marks each result with the translation it came from — so you get the reference, and can put it on screen in your own wording. Searching for whole words first also means a short word no longer drags in every name that happens to start with the same letters.

The passage stays still. Tapping a verse used to re-centre the whole passage, so the line you were following moved and the next tap could land on the wrong verse. It now moves only when you project, and when you open a new chapter.

A tidier window. The search box sits directly above the panel that answers it, the book-order buttons moved next to the books they order, and the row across the top of the window is gone — so the passage and the number pads are taller, which matters most on a small screen.

The tablet remote answers on port 80. That means the address is just http://192.168.1.5/ with nothing to type after it. If another program on the church PC already uses port 80, the remote quietly moves to the next free port and tells you which.

Also: the read-me that comes with the download had been left behind by two renames and has been rewritten. On the Remote tab, Add and Remove moved above the list of people, where they can be reached on a small screen.

1.2 — 3 September 2026

Control from a phone or tablet. The program answers a browser on the church network, so someone in the congregation can pick and project verses from where they are sitting. Each person signs in with their own name and password; the tablet cannot reach Settings at all. How it works · Setting it up

Updates from inside the program. Settings → Updates checks, downloads only what has changed, and installs it the next time the program starts. Your settings and your Bible library are not part of an update and are never touched. What that means

• English by default. The interface starts in English; Romanian is one setting away, and the reset button offers the language on its own if someone picks one nobody at the desk can read. Languages
• The settings window fits a laptop. It used to open taller than a 1366×768 screen, with the OK button under the taskbar. It now opens small and can be resized.
• The mouse wheel scrolls the page instead of editing what it passes over. Scrolling through Settings could silently change a frame rate or a translation. Now a value only changes if you click it first.
• Bigger, clearer stepper arrows on every number field — they were about four pixels wide and impossible to tap.
• Bible downloads come from this project's own server, with eBible.org as the fallback, so a slow day at eBible no longer means no Bibles.

1.1 — 2 September 2026

• The Bible library. F2 browses free Bibles by language and installs them without a rebuild or a restart — or installs a file your church already has. Adding translations
• NDI needs nothing installed. The NDI library ships with the program, so ticking the box in Settings is the whole setup. NDI and streaming

1.0 — 1 September 2026

The first release: book, chapter and verse in three taps with nothing that scrolls; the projector borrowed rather than occupied; two languages at once, each with its own colours; NDI output with a transparent background; and Cornilescu 1924 and the King James Version included.

Getting a new version

From 1.2 onwards the program updates itself — Settings → Updates, or the Update ScriptureCaster shortcut in its folder. Coming from 1.0 or 1.1, the first step is manual and takes a minute: how updating works.