The SWORD Project

The SWORD Project for Windows

Scribe — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:39:47 MST

CrossWire is happy to announce the immediate availability of The SWORD Project for Windows, v1.5.11. This update includes many bug fixes, the addition of fast indexed searching, image support, and improved locale functionality.

Get it here: http://crosswire.org/sword/software/biblecs

SWORD 1.5.11 Released

Osk — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:32:04 MST

The newest revision of The SWORD Project is now available.

End users should check their favorite frontends for updates soon. Developers, download the source code here:

http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/source/v1.5
ftp://crosswire.org/pub/sword/source/v1.5

Have a look at the ChangeLog.

RSS News Feed

Osk — Tue, 1 Apr 2008 07:30:55 MST

CrossWire is happy to announce the immediate availability of an RSS news feed, compatible with all of the most popular news readers like Google Reader and the readers built into popular browsers like Firefox, IE7, and Opera. You can use thew new feeds to stay informed about the latest updates to CrossWire releases. You should find a link to the RSS feed in the left menu panel.

(If you aren't familiar with RSS, you can read a semi-technical explanation at Wikipedia OR you would watch this explanation of RSS in Plain English over at YouTube.)

SWORD 1.5.10 Released

scribe — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:30:14 MST

The newest revision of The SWORD Project-- supporting all the latest new and cool modules, and touting fabulously useful new features-- is now available for public consumption.

End users, you should see your favourite frontend updated and available soon. Developers, download the source code here:

http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/source/v1.5
ftp://crosswire.org/pub/sword/source/v1.5

Have a look at the ChangeLog.

BibleDesktop 1.0.7

DM Smith — Sun, 1 Jul 2007 11:02:31 MST

BibleDesktop, the portable JSword-based Bible study tool, for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, now supports Parallel Bibles. And as an added bonus, you can visually compare 2 or more Bibles of the same language. See the JSword Change Log for more details and other improvements.

You can download it from here.

BibleDesktop 1.0.6

DM Smith — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:58:51 MST

Happy Easter!

BibleDesktop, the portable JSword-based Bible study tool, for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, has been improved!!! This release completes our support for all Sword modules, except Personal Commentary. See the JSword Change Log for more details.

You can download it from here.

BibleTime 1.6.3b

Joachim — Sun, 4 Feb 2007 02:36:43 MST

BibleTime 1.6.3b has been released today. It contains several important bugfixes. Binary packages for Fedora, Mandriva and SuSE are available at www.bibletime.info.

GnomeSword 2.2

tee — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:43:29 MST

Merry Christmas from the GnomeSword development team!

Release 2.2 (STABLE) of GnomeSword Bible study software is available. GnomeSword builds on the support of Crosswire Bible Society's cross-platform open source tools for scriptural study, to provide a high-quality study environment for those working within the GNOME desktop.

This stable release is the culmination of the extended 2.1.x unstable/development period.

Check it out here

NET Bible Available

scribe — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:18:48 MST

We are pleased to announce that bible.org has produced a SWORD module of their NET Bible and is offering both a free version with limited notes, and a for-pay version with their complete note set.

These modules are distributed directly from bible.org. You can find instructions to add these modules to your SWORD library by visiting the bible.org SWORD NET Bible page.

To find out more about the NET Bible, visit the bible.org NET Bible page.

The SWORD Project for Windows 1.5.9

scribe — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:52:22 MST

CrossWire Bible Society is pleased to announce the long awaited release of The SWORD Project for Windows version 1.5.9.

This new version utilizes the latest SWORD engine to provide access to the exciting new Bible releases from CrossWire. Many bugs have also been fixed. Some of the more noticeable new features include:

the ability to create a search index on a text which will allow very fast and more powerful searching.
quick access toolbar buttons to show and hide features of a text
chapter and book introductions are diplayed when present in a text

Download the latest software here: http://crosswire.org/sword/software/biblecs