v4.0.0-beta.8

Unfortunately this release failed to install successfully and has been yanked

See details here: #335

Original Release notes

We're excited to release beta 8! In addition to a variety of bug fixes, we've also made various optimizations. With this release, we drop winetricks and use our own native calls to wine functions. This speeds up install dramatically! We're talking about jumping from 30+ seconds for some actions to 2 seconds. A nasty bug fixed is one that crashes on certain resource downloads.

The really big news though is that this release adds both a snap definition and a flatpak definition. We still need to add the flatpak to flathub, but the snap is already in snapcraft. These new install options mean we now support every distro where either one of these is supported.

We also now have our own nix.shell. In the future we hope to change this to a flake, but the shell is working even now.

There's also a new TUI color scheme: "System". Rather than overriding your terminal colors, the TUI will accept whatever your terminal has set. It gives the TUI a natural feel.

Update right away!

In general, the project is moving away from getting core functionality working to squashing the last bugs and getting our available installation channels properly set. We see the 4.0.0 release as being on the horizon.

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4.0.0-beta.8

• Fix dynamic linking in subprocess calls. (#292 #293) [N. Shaaban]
• Remove need for manual dependency installation on arch/alpine/fedora (#143 #236 #293). Alpine still needs to be fixed [N. Shaaban]
• Fixes wine binary installations (#286 #288) [N. Marti]
• Removed need for winetricks, and removed it's subcommand. Added a wine subcommand (#254 #170 #177 #258 #267) [N. Marti]
• Fix wine version parsing when wine is compiled manually (#291) [N. Marti]
• Fix setting TUI Color scheme (#259 #297 #278 #302) [T. H. Wright, N. Shaaban]
• Create snap definition (#239 #298) [N. Marti]
• Create a flatpak definition (#309 #307) [N. Shaaban]
• Default downloads to XDG_CACHE_HOME rather than ~/Downloads (#237 #298) [N. Marti]
• Fixes issue where WINE_EXE isn't respect on clean installs (#306) [N. Shaaban]
• Added nix-shell for running from source on NixOS. Desktop shortcuts won't get created. (#306) [N. Shaaban]
• Remove "Running Logos" status message in the TUI so menu is still interactive after starting Logos (#302) [N. Shaaban]
• Handle resize in more cases on the TUI (#304) [N. Shaaban]

v4.0.0-beta.7

You may need to install the cabextract package from system package manager in order for this release to install successfully.

What's Changed

• fix: resolve resource download issues by @ctrlaltf24 in #283
• fix: wine AppImage updates to v10 by @n8marti in #282

v4.0.0-beta.6

Support for Logos v39+

• Clean installation
• Recovering from failed v38->v39 upgrades
• Since upgrade to versions v39 fail, this release also disables application updates (and automatic resource downloads) when Logos is started from the installer. We hope to have a more comprehensive solution for this in the future, for now we want to keep your install stable.

Misc changes

• Upgrade to wine 10-rc5. Fixes menu bug for some users, as well as fixes an issue installing clean.
• Refactor of code for more robust configuration handling. Legacy configuration keys are migrated, environment variables remain unchanged.

v4.0.0-beta.5

Includes various bug fixes. Prevents installs of Logos 39+.

Other known bug fixes are coming in #206.

v4.0.0-beta.4

This release fixes some issues with ICU files.

v4.0.0-beta.3

Thanks to @ctrlaltf24, we have a lot of regressions fixed with this release. This should help stabilize the program. Its main benefit is fixing #191.

v4.0.0-beta.2

With this release, our project now has a unique name: Ou Dedetai, which comes from the Koine Greek of 2 Tim 2:9, which says that the Word of God is not bound. Since our application installs FaithLife's Logos ("The Word" in Greek) program, it only seemed appropriate to pun this verse by naming ourselves also with Greek ("Not Bound" in Koine is ou dedetai). Our program seeks to unbind Logos (the Program) from Windows so that users may run the software on their operating system of choice.

With this release, we no longer specify ourselves as a Linux-focused piece of software, as our hope is that our software will also run on other non-Linux operating systems, like BSD, once we finish up issues like #14.

This release also permits our application to be installed via pip by converting our project to pyproject.

You can use pip like so as long as you have Python 3.12 available on your system.

python venv .venv/oudedetai
./.venv/oudedetai/bin/pip install ou_dedetai@git+https://github.com/FaithLife-Community/LogosLinuxInstaller

v4.0.0-beta.1

With this release, we change from Alpha to Beta!

The code is now considered relatively feature complete and stable. As it is beta, bugs are still likely to be found.

There are too many fixes since Alpha 14 to name them all. Here are some highlights:

• Added a Logos state manager to detect when the program is running
• Upgraded the Wine AppImage to 9.19 devel, which resolved some issues we saw
• Fixed numerous graphical issues with the TUI
• Fixed the CLI, which now functions as a complete UI comparable to a single-use TUI or GUI
• Added OpenSUSE Zypper support
• Added a docker build file

v4.0.0-alpha.14

This release is primarily aimed at bug fixes and streamlining the dependency installation routines. We uncovered numerous bugs as we went as well as faulty assumptions.

Further, we found issues with both Fedora and Arch install routines that cause them to fail to install their dependencies properly. Our research turned up no fixes for these issues and they will require further research. We have implemented a method for handling these issues, but ultimately the Fedora and Arch user will have to install their dependencies manually. The program should report to the user what command they need to run to accomplish the task.

v4.0.0-alpha.13

We are exceptionally thankful for this release! In this release our Python program now supports installing versions of Logos 30 and up. We are incredibly thankful for @tbleher's work in finding the issue and the fix. Multiple hands have touched the changes that made it into this PR and we have fixed numerous other issues as well.

There are some outstanding issues, such as Fedora and Arch system's not functioning properly in installing their dependencies, but we didn't want to hold up the Logos 30+ release to fix these.

Please note that you may need to delete your config from prior installs before proceeding. If you encounter the installer hanging, this is a likely source for the problem.