Releases: kovzol/bibref
2026-01-13
This version contains relevant fixes for the Qt version:
- fix diagram crash when the edited statement is incorrect,
- icons are shown properly in the Windows version.
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- Windows installer and zip.
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app or install the released flatpak file directly.
The program can also be used online in the following versions:
- Qt GUI (recommended if GUI is preferred)
- No GUI, double-tab, no mouse (recommended if no GUI is required)
- Autocomplete with mouse
- Simple
- Minimalistic
Known issues:
- #22 - update: this has been fixed in a new disk image on 2026-02-08
- #25
2025-12-23
This version contains relevant changes for the Qt version:
- fix diagram crash when the config file is empty,
- info window on available Bible editions is improved.
The Qt web version loads significantly faster and it provides proper error handling. (The program uses WASM exceptions instead of asyncify now.)
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- Windows installer and zip.
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app or install the released flatpak file directly.
The program can also be used online in the following versions:
- Qt GUI (recommended if GUI is preferred)
- No GUI, double-tab, no mouse (recommended if no GUI is required)
- Autocomplete with mouse
- Simple
- Minimalistic
Known issues:
2025-12-20
This version contains relevant bug fixes for the Qt version:
- application crash on certain getrefs inputs has been fixed,
- menu options are correctly disabled/enabled on macOS now,
- busy cursor is shown properly on all platforms.
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- Windows installer and zip.
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app or install the released flatpak file directly.
The program can also be used online in the following versions:
- Qt GUI (recommended if GUI is preferred)
- No GUI, double-tab, no mouse (recommended if no GUI is required)
- Autocomplete with mouse
- Simple
- Minimalistic
Known issues:
2025-12-07
This version contains the following improvements (most of them are related to the Qt version):
- Update to SWORD modules LXX 3.2 and StatResGNT 1.4
- Change cursor on waiting for finishing an action
- Autocompletion for the commands lookup, tokens, raw, extend, getrefs (in Qt)
- Better input window user experience
- New menu: Help > Technical information
- Zoom factor is applied for Qt WebEngine diagrams
- Some Hungarian translations have been fixed
- Minor bug fixes
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- Windows installer and zip.
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app or install the released flatpak file directly.
The program can also be used online in the following versions:
- Qt GUI (recommended if GUI is preferred)
- No GUI, double-tab, no mouse (recommended if no GUI is required)
- Autocomplete with mouse
- Simple
- Minimalistic
Known issues:
2025-09-14
This experimental version improves rendering of the HTML/SVG diagrams by showing the tooltip information when the mouse hovers a fragment.
Currently, there are only Mac and Linux versions to download. They use Qt's WebEngine (which provides a full subsystem to render websites, based on Chromium), therefore, the new version requires significantly more disk space than the previous versions.
It is possible to change the way of rendering in Edit > Preferences (the old method is still supported).
As a minor change, Bible editions are listed with their description and version number in the Help menu.
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app or install the released flatpak file directly.
2025-08-22
This version allows the user to use graphical user interface (GUI) in German. Also, it is possible to change the GUI language in Edit > Preferences.
Some entries in the BRST database have been fixed.
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- Windows installer and zip.
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app or install the released flatpak file directly.
The program can also be used online in the following versions:
- Qt GUI (recommended if GUI is preferred)
- No GUI, double-tab, no mouse (recommended if no GUI is required)
- Autocomplete with mouse
- Simple
- Minimalistic
2025-08-08
This version adds a new check in the statement verifier subsystem, to find missing OT headline cover of a segment.
Accordingly, some entries in the BRST database have been fixed. Minor issues on uniqueness in some OT verses have also been corrected.
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- Windows installer and zip.
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app or install the released flatpak file directly.
The program can also be used online in the following versions:
- Qt GUI (recommended if GUI is preferred)
- No GUI, double-tab, no mouse (recommended if no GUI is required)
- Autocomplete with mouse
- Simple
- Minimalistic
2025-07-14
This version introduces the nearest12 command which allows searching for a subtext that is the closest possible one to another fix text. For example, you know that a certain quotation, given in the New Testament, has an Old Testament counterpart. Also, you know that the Old Testament passage is given in a certain verse or a longer passage in a chapter in a given book. Then, you put the longer Old Testament passage in clipboard 1 and the fix New Testament passage in clipboard 2, and call the command nearest12 to find the best possible match for the New Testament text. Comparison is based on the Jaccard distance computation. Read more on this in the wiki.
Also, bibref now provides a prototype to be accessible as a Python module. It is located in https://github.com/kovzol/bibref/tree/master/py. An example to use bibref as a Python module is shown in the project https://github.com/kovzol/isbtf-lxx-nt-tools. The module calls an installed instance of the bibref executable via Python's pexpect module.
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- Windows installer and zip.
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app or install the released flatpak file directly.
The program can also be used online in the following versions:
- Qt GUI (recommended if GUI is preferred)
- No GUI, double-tab, no mouse (recommended if no GUI is required)
- Autocomplete with mouse
- Simple
- Minimalistic
2025-04-19
- This release fixes an annoying bug when looking up KJV passages (it was displayed in the wrong font).
- Also, the default statement in the Statement Editor was incorrect (now this is fixed).
- Icon handling has been unified now, so the maintenance of the Windows version has been a bit easier now.
- A major improvement is the availability of bibref as a full featured web application, based on the Qt framework,
by providing a GUI version without downloading and installing the application.
(All features work, except direct rendering of the BRST diagram, this is available only via exporting at the moment.) - Finally, the Inconsolata font is used now to display the BRST statements.
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- Windows installer and zip.
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app shortly or install the released flatpak file directly.
The program can also be used online in the following versions:
- Qt GUI (recommended if GUI is preferred)
- No GUI, double-tab, no mouse (recommended if no GUI is required)
- Autocomplete with mouse
- Simple
- Minimalistic
2025-04-08
This release is a bugfix update:
- Improve Latin text input
- Fix BRST entries and the tests accordingly, where references to the same OT book appeared (see example)
You can download bibref for the following platforms:
- Windows installer and zip.
- MacOS disk image.
- Linux users can use the Flathub app shortly or install the released flatpak file directly.
The program can also be used online in the following versions: