Proclaim

Version 10.6.3 Stable

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A patch release fixing three faults on the Servers screens, one of which stopped you setting up a server at all. If you manage servers in Proclaim, take this one.

You could not choose a server type

Picking a type when creating or editing a server replaced the screen with an error page. There was no way past it, so a new server could not be set up and an existing one could not be changed.

Two separate faults were behind it, and both are fixed. The type you choose is now stored correctly, and the form returns to your server with that platform's own settings ready to fill in.

Publishing a server from the list did nothing but show an error

Changing a server's status from the Servers list — publishing, unpublishing, archiving, trashing, or bringing a trashed server back — produced an error page instead. Checking in a server someone had left open did the same.

Every other list in Proclaim was unaffected; the Servers list alone was pointing at something that did not exist. It now works as the other lists do.

Health checks no longer report content you have thrown away

System Health counted trashed messages, media files and images as work still to do. Most visibly, a restricted media warning could be raised about a sermon that had been deleted — a security notice about content nobody can reach.

Trashed content is no longer counted. Unpublished and archived content still is, because that is content that will show again.

Findings now tell you what to do about them

Several health findings described a problem and stopped. They now say what the remedy is, and where it does not lie with Proclaim they say that too — an unenforced protected media folder is a web server setting, and the finding says so rather than implying a switch exists somewhere in the component.

The protected media folder also no longer warns that files kept there are publicly downloadable when nothing is kept there.

Finding the media a warning is about

When Proclaim reported that restricted recordings were reachable by anyone holding their address, the button opened the whole media library. On a site with thousands of files that is not something you can act on.

It now opens the list filtered to restricted media, with a Visibility filter you can see and clear like any other. On our test data that is the difference between 112 rows and 14.

Settings that were never reachable

Two fields were asked for by a screen but never declared by its form, so they simply did not appear:

  • The site-wide Custom CSS tab showed a description and no editor. It never worked, no site could have saved anything in it, and it has been removed. Custom CSS on a template is unaffected and is where styling belongs.
  • The Comments screen offered an Access field that could not appear. Comments take their visibility from the message they belong to, which is now also how the moderation list decides what to show you — previously it could hide comments left by visitors from anyone who was not a Super User.

Requirements

Joomla 5.4 or later, PHP 8.3 or later. Unchanged.

Changes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.6.2...v10.6.3

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Version 10.6.2 Stable

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Released on: Friday, 28 August 2026
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A patch release fixing a permissions problem introduced in 10.5.8. If you use Proclaim's per-section permissions, or if the Assets screen has been showing large numbers in the Parent Drifted column, this one matters.

The Assets screen was reporting healthy records as broken

Proclaim's Permissions → Assets screen lists, per table, how many records inherit their permissions and how many carry rules of their own. Since 10.5.8 it has also been reporting almost all of them under Parent Drifted, alongside a row of Section permission records marked as needing cleanup.

Nothing was actually wrong with those records. The screen was checking them against the wrong expectation: it asked whether each record's permissions hang directly off Proclaim, when since 10.5.8 they correctly hang off their section — Messages, Teachers, Media Files and so on. Everything filed correctly was reported as misfiled.

The giveaway, if you saw it, was that the Parent Drifted number matched the Custom Rules number exactly on every row.

⚠️ Clean Up was undoing your per-section permissions

This is the part worth reading if you have pressed that button.

Because every record looked misfiled, Clean Up set about "repairing" them. It deleted the section permission records — the ones that hold your per-section settings — and moved every record's permissions back onto Proclaim itself. A rule set on, say, Messages then had nothing left to apply to.

It did this quietly, and it could run during an update as well as from the button.

Clean Up now leaves correctly filed records alone, keeps your section permission records, and repairs only what is genuinely misfiled.

If your permissions were already flattened

Updating restores the section permission records by itself. Records that were moved off them are put back the first time you run Clean Up on the Assets screen, or the migration wizard — it is not done automatically, so nothing changes underneath you without being asked for.

Your per-section settings themselves are not recoverable if the records holding them were deleted, so it is worth checking Permissions after updating and re-applying anything that has gone.

Requirements

Joomla 5.4 or later, PHP 8.3 or later. Unchanged.

Changes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.6.1...v10.6.2

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Version 10.6.1 Stable

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Released on: Friday, 28 August 2026
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A patch release fixing three problems. If you have installed 10.6.0, this is worth taking.

The "servers waiting to be migrated" notice would not go away

If Proclaim told you that servers were waiting to be migrated, migrating them did not clear the message. Neither did unpublishing or deleting the servers it was pointing at. The notice appeared on the dashboard, in System Health, and at the end of a restore, and it stayed there.

The count was looking at the wrong thing. When Proclaim finishes migrating a server it retires it, but the record keeps its original type — so the count went on including every server you had already dealt with. It could only ever have reached zero if you deleted the records outright.

It now counts servers that are genuinely still waiting. Migrating them clears the notice, and servers you have trashed or unpublished yourself are no longer counted against you.

If you have been looking at that message since updating to 10.6.0 and could not work out what was left to do: the answer may well be nothing, and this release will say so.

The Assets screen showed a spinner that never finished

Opening Permissions → Assets showed a loading spinner and left it there. Pressing Refresh loaded the table, and it behaved from then on, so the problem only appeared on the first visit after an update or a new login.

Nothing was actually loading. The screen was waiting for information it had never asked for. It now requests it when you open the screen, which is what the spinner was always claiming.

Browse opened without searching for your message

On a media file, Browse is meant to start by searching for the message you are working on, rather than showing you the whole channel. It had stopped doing that and opened on an unfiltered list, so you had to type the title in yourself every time.

This affected the YouTube, Vimeo and Wistia browsers, and the series box in the message wizard alongside them. All four now fill in the title again.

Unlike the two above, this one was not introduced by 10.6.0 — it broke when the underlying Joomla field changed, and had been quietly doing nothing for some time.

Requirements

Joomla 5.4 or later, PHP 8.3 or later. Unchanged from 10.6.0.

Changes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.6.0...v10.6.1

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Version 10.6.0 Stable

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Released on: Friday, 28 August 2026
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System Health

Proclaim now has a System Health panel on its Administration screen. It runs 24 checks and shows you what it found, including the ones that are passing.

Until now the dashboard carried eight separate notices with three different ways of dismissing them, and once you cleared one the information was gone rather than merely quiet. Health checks stay put. Clearing a notice on the dashboard never removes it from Health, so "why is that field missing?" or "why did nothing sync?" always has somewhere to be answered.

What it reports on: your database schema, scheduled tasks, permissions, media protection, template files, the scripture library, server connections, YouTube quota, and configuration settings whose effects are easy to mistake for a broken feature.

Three are worth calling out because nothing reported them before:

  • Restricted media that is still reachable. An access level controls the link, not the file. A restricted recording stored under your site's web root is readable by anyone who has the address, and no screen said so.
  • YouTube daily quota. The quota resets on a fixed schedule, so running out is not something that retries — a sync simply stops part way and looks like a sync that found nothing.
  • Backups. How long since Proclaim last took one. A restore drops every Proclaim table before it writes anything, so that is worth knowing before you need it.

Uninstalling Proclaim no longer leaves the job half done

⚠️ If you have "drop tables on uninstall" enabled, please read this.

Uninstalling would delete Proclaim's permission records and then stop, leaving every table in place. Your sermons were still there but nothing governed access to them, and the tables that should have gone remained. This had been the case since March.

It now drops the tables first and clears the permission records afterwards, so an interruption leaves the recoverable half of the job undone rather than the unrecoverable one. Three tables the uninstall had never removed are now cleaned up too.

The uninstall also no longer touches anything belonging to another extension whose name happens to begin the same way as Proclaim's.

Restores tell you what is still outstanding

A finished restore used to report one line saying it worked. It now lists what was actually restored — tables, scheduled tasks, template files, configuration — and separately what still needs your attention, or says plainly that nothing does.

It will tell you if media records were restored without their files, which is the normal state after moving to a new server: a database backup carries the records, not the recordings.

Template layouts

Custom template layouts were being written where the front end does not read them, so an edit could appear saved and change nothing. They are now written to the folder the site actually renders from, and exporting a template and importing it again produces the template you exported.

Fixes

  • Playlists are now included in Proclaim's permission maintenance. Their permission records were invisible to the Assets screen and to the clean-up tools, and a backup could not reattach them.
  • The layout editor's element controls no longer run off the edge of a narrow card. They collapse into a menu instead, so every control stays reachable — including by keyboard.
  • The permissions Clean Up screen now shows the section rows it would remove, instead of reporting fewer than it was about to act on.
  • Simple Mode no longer discards a message's description, scripture references or teachers when saving.
  • One copy of each translation is shipped, rather than two that could disagree.

Accessibility

Element controls in the layout editor meet the minimum target size, and remain operable by keyboard when collapsed into a menu.

Requirements

Joomla 5.4 or later, PHP 8.3 or later.

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Version 10.5.10 Stable

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Released on: Wednesday, 19 August 2026
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Proclaim 10.5.10 is a maintenance release about installing and updating: what the installer does to your update settings, what happens when a step fails partway, and what a backup is allowed to touch.

Your site was being pointed at a channel that can never offer it an update

The Proclaim installer's finish step rewrote the component's update settings to a channel that stops at 9.2.8 — 9.x to 10.x is a migration rather than an in-place update, so that channel is not meant to announce 10.x at all. It ran on essentially every pass of the routine, including the "no database changes detected" one.

The same step also undid the cleanup that removes the old component-owned update entry, which is why the old stream kept coming back after it appeared to have been removed. It was removed, then written straight back.

Updates belong to the Proclaim package, which declares its own channel. Where the package is installed the component now keeps no update entry of its own, so your site polls once instead of twice and Proclaim stops showing up as a separate component update. Component-only installs, which predate the package, still get a channel — the one carrying current releases.

If your site accumulated a stale entry, updating removes it for you — the package's finish step retires component-owned update entries once the package holds one on the current channel. There is nothing to do by hand.

A failed step no longer throws the whole install away

If a postflight step failed, Joomla rolled the entire install back — after the files were already copied and the database already migrated. That turned a small, recoverable problem into a half-installed site.

Postflight failures are now reported rather than fatal. The install completes, and you are told what did not finish.

Relatedly, an update that finds a migration's work already done now skips it and carries on, instead of treating it as a failure and aborting.

Backups leave the scripture library alone

Proclaim's backup and restore identified tables by name prefix, which swept in four tables belonging to the CWM Scripture library. Restoring a Proclaim backup could therefore overwrite scripture data Proclaim does not own — including on sites where another extension shares that library.

Backup and restore now cover Proclaim's own tables only.

The update report covers the whole update

10.5.9 began timing and reporting migrations. That report now covers the rest of the postflight work too, so the summary at the end accounts for the whole update rather than one phase of it.

Also fixed

  • Seed data aliases are written as readable text rather than hex, so they are legible in a database client.
  • Table-existence checks now ask the database directly instead of matching a name pattern, which could match tables belonging to another extension.

Scripture

Ships CWM Scripture Library 1.1.18 and the CWM Scripture package 1.2.11.

For developers

Most of this release is work on the release gate itself — the install, upgrade, frontend and uninstall probes that run before every Proclaim release. Several were passing while asserting nothing, or stopping at the first failure and hiding the rest; those are fixed and are why the user-visible fixes above were found. Every migration is now executed against a scratch database on each pull request, which nothing did before.

Changes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.9...v10.5.10

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Version 10.5.9 Stable

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Released on: Friday, 14 August 2026
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Proclaim 10.5.9 is a maintenance release, and its subject is the update itself. Updating Proclaim is now much faster on a site with real content, and the update tells you what it did instead of leaving you watching a spinner.

Updating is faster, and it explains itself

Every Proclaim update used to re-run every data migration written since 10.0, each one reading whole tables to discover it had nothing to do. On a site with years of sermons in it, that is what made a routine update take minutes.

Each migration is now gated on the version you are updating from. It runs once, on the update that actually needs it, and is skipped from then on.

The update also reports on itself now. When it finishes, it lists which migrations ran, which were skipped and how long each took, together with the time spent unpacking and copying files before that. The same record is written to a log file, so an update can still be looked at days later, on a site that has already been updated.

The download button may look different

If you never chose a style for the sermon download button, it was rendering as an outline button — a style the settings form does not offer and you could not have picked. It now renders solid, matching what the form says it is, and the label is readable against the button colour.

This is visible on upgrade. If you prefer a different style, Proclaim's options now offer every variant the button can actually use.

Also fixed

  • Comment moderation buttons in the admin no longer depend on inline scripts, so they keep working on sites that enforce a Content Security Policy.
  • Removed a superseded layout and two dialogs that nothing could open.

Scripture

Ships CWM Scripture Library 1.1.18 and the CWM Scripture package 1.2.10.

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Version 10.5.8 Stable

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Released on: Friday, 14 August 2026
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What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.7...v10.5.8

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Version 10.5.7 Stable

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Released on: Monday, 10 August 2026
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What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.6...v10.5.7

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Version 10.5.6 Stable

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Released on: Saturday, 08 August 2026
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What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.5...v10.5.6

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Version 10.5.5 Stable

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Released on: Sunday, 02 August 2026
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Same-day follow-up to 10.5.4: closes an SSRF (server-side request forgery) gap in the podcast download-tracking proxy introduced by that release.

10.5.4 replaced the tracking redirect with a server-side proxy for externally-hosted media, so the tracking link itself could correctly answer the Range/HEAD requests Apple Podcasts uses to validate a show. That proxy fetched the configured media URL itself and relayed the response to the caller, rather than sending the visitor's own browser/app to fetch it — a real difference in capability: an admin-configured server path pointed at an internal host (by mistake, or via a compromised admin account) could have turned the public tracking endpoint into a gateway into the site's internal network.

This release adds a guard that resolves the target host and refuses anything that isn't a public, routable address before any request is made, pins the connection to prevent DNS-rebinding around that check, stops following redirects (which could point anywhere the guard never validated), and restricts the proxy to HTTP/HTTPS only.

No action needed beyond updating. Sites that only ran 10.5.4 briefly, with no internal hosts configured as media servers, were not meaningfully exposed in practice — but updating removes the gap regardless.

Changes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.4...v10.5.5

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Version 10.5.4 Stable

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Released on: Sunday, 02 August 2026
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A bug fix release. If your podcast has download tracking enabled, this release fixes a defect that could cause Apple Podcasts to stop accepting new episodes and remove previously-published ones from your show.

Podcast download tracking broke Apple Podcasts compliance

When Track Downloads was enabled on a podcast, every episode's audio link in the RSS feed pointed to a tracking URL with no file extension (...&task=cwmpodcast.track&media_id=123) and could not itself answer the "byte-range" requests Apple's crawler uses to validate a show. Apple's own publishing guide states the file extension "determines whether or not content appears in the podcast directory" — on at least one production site this caused new episodes to stop appearing in Apple Podcasts, and earlier episodes to be shown as "no longer available."

This release fixes both issues:

  • Tracked episode links now carry a real file extension (e.g. .mp3), routed through a new, cosmetic-only URL path that still resolves to the exact same tracking/counting logic as before.
  • The tracking link itself now correctly answers Range and HEAD requests — the way Apple Podcasts and podcast apps check that streaming/scrubbing works — instead of only working after being redirected to the real file.

No action needed beyond updating. If your podcast previously stopped appearing correctly in Apple Podcasts, allow a few days after updating for Apple to re-crawl and restore it.

Podcast owner/identity fields were scattered and one was invisible

Author, Editor Name, Editor Email, Publisher, and Copyright — all fields describing who is behind a show — were spread across three different tabs with no indication of how they relate. The Copyright field was fully wired into the database and feed since 10.5.1 but had no visible form control at all, so it could only ever fall back to the site name. All five fields now live together in the Feed Owner tab, and Copyright is editable.

Changes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.3...v10.5.4

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Version 10.5.3 Stable

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Released on: Saturday, 01 August 2026
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A bug fix release. If your site has been running Proclaim since before March 2026, two settings screens have been silently discarding your input since then — this release repairs the database and both screens start saving correctly.

Podcasting 2.0 fields wouldn't save

Filling in Funding/Donation URL, Funding Button Text, Content License, License URL, Publisher Name, Podcast Index Verification, or Publishing Schedule on a podcast and clicking save showed "Item saved" — and then reopening the podcast showed the field empty again. The database columns for these fields were added to fresh installs back in March 2026, but sites that already existed at that point never received them, so every save of these fields was silently discarded. This update adds the missing columns; the fields will save normally afterward.

Linking a teacher to a Joomla user account had the same bug

Teachers → User Account had an identical gap: on any site that existed before March 2026, choosing a Joomla user to link to a teacher record never persisted. Fixed by the same database update.

No action needed beyond updating — both fixes are automatic once the update completes.

Changes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.2...v10.5.3

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Version 10.5.2 Stable

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Released on: Saturday, 01 August 2026
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What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.1...v10.5.2

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Version 10.5.1 Stable

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A follow-up to 10.5.0, and worth taking if you publish a podcast. Auditing a live feed against the RSS and Apple specifications turned up five further faults in what Proclaim writes — including episode dates that were eight hours from the truth on any site whose host sits in a different time zone from the one you configured. It also settles two things 10.5.0 itself got wrong during the update.

More podcast feed corrections

  • Episode dates use your time zone. Dates were written in the server's time zone rather than the one set in Global Configuration. On a site configured for Chicago but hosted on a machine set to Los Angeles, every episode was published two hours adrift on the clock and eight hours adrift as a moment in time — and podcast apps sort episodes by that moment.
  • The channel address is absolute. If your podcast's link is set to a menu item, Proclaim wrote a partial address such as /resources/sermons.html. RSS does not allow that, and feed validators reject it.
  • Seasons work in Apple Podcasts. Season and episode numbers were written in a form Apple ignores, so episodes never grouped into seasons there. They are now written in both forms.
  • The copyright line names you. Every feed said © (2026) All rights reserved. — stray brackets, and naming nobody. Podcasts gain a Copyright Holder field; leave it empty and Proclaim uses your site name, so existing feeds gain a real owner without you editing anything.
  • The feed language is no longer tied to Joomla's. The language was limited to the languages installed in Joomla, and Joomla installs British English — so every church outside the UK published its sermons as British English with no way to correct it. Podcasts now have a Feed Language covering the codes directories act on. Apple and Spotify use it for language and territory targeting, so it is worth setting.

Rebuild your feed after updating and the corrections are in it.

Two things 10.5.0 got wrong while updating

  • A successful update no longer reports a failure. Updating showed a red "Could not delete folder" warning beside the success message. Joomla cannot remove a cache folder that the page doing the clearing is still using, and said so in a way that looked like something had gone wrong. Nothing had.
  • The cache notice no longer repeats itself. The message naming a caching plugin Proclaim cannot clear for you listed the same plugin twice.

Changes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.5.0...v10.5.1

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Version 10.5.0 Stable

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If you publish a podcast, this release is worth taking. An audit of a live feed found four faults that make podcast directories reject episodes or ignore their details, and all four are fixed here. Alongside them, Proclaim can now re-read a media file's size, type and length on demand — so records that were wrong, or that went stale when you replaced a file, can be put right without editing them by hand.

Your podcast feed now passes validation

Four faults, each invisible until a directory refuses the episode.

  • Episode length is written correctly. A sermon of 27 minutes 7 seconds was published as 00:27:7 rather than 00:27:07. Apple's validator rejects that outright; several apps fall back to reading the length from the file, and some simply show nothing. Any episode whose seconds, minutes or hours were entered as a single digit was affected — in the feed we audited, one episode in eight.
  • Episode files are described accurately. The file type published with each episode came from whatever had been stored on the record, and the fallback value Proclaim used — audio/mpeg3 — is not a real media type. Feeds were also declaring M4A files as MP3. The type is now worked out from the file itself, so it matches what subscribers actually download.
  • Episode identity is declared as an identity. The tag podcast apps use to recognise an episode was being offered without saying what it is, which entitles an app to treat it as a web address and try to fetch it. It is now marked as an identifier, which is what it has been since 10.4.0.
  • Addresses use https. On any site that had not changed the setting, every address in the feed — artwork, links, the episode files themselves — was written as http://. On a secure site that means a redirect for every one, and browsers may warn about the artwork. New installs and any site that never touched the setting now use https://.

Nothing needs doing to pick these up: rebuild your feed after updating and the corrections are in it.

Correcting media file details

Size, type and length are detected when you add a media file. Until now, if a detail was wrong — or the file was replaced later — there was no way to ask Proclaim to look again.

  • Re-detect Metadata. A button on the media file edit screen reads the size, type and length from the file again and replaces what is stored. This is the one to use when a file has been replaced but kept its name, where the stored details are stale rather than missing.
  • Re-read every file. The Fix Missing Metadata tool, under Podcasts → Validate, gains a Re-read every file option that applies the same thing in bulk. It is off by default and says why: it reads every file, so it is slower, and on YouTube or similar it spends one API call per video.
  • Clearing a detail asks for it again. Emptying the file size and saving now re-runs detection for it — the obvious thing to try, which previously did nothing at all.
  • Mismatches are reported. Feed validation now tells you when a file's stored type disagrees with the file itself, and the fix button beside it corrects those records rather than passing over them as already set.

The sermons list

  • The filter panel starts closed. It was opening on every visit, pushing the sermons themselves down the page. It now opens when you ask for it, or when a filter is actually applied — matching the rest of Joomla.
  • Filtering is half the work it was. Each change of a filter was quietly asking the server for results twice. Now it asks once, so results arrive sooner on a busy site.

Smaller corrections

  • Choose Playlist(s) no longer appears on media files whose server cannot hold playlists, where it could only ever be an empty box.
  • Lengths entered by hand are stored properly, which also makes those records visible to the tools meant to repair them. A length typed as 7 was being read as "already set" by every repair and detection routine in Proclaim, so precisely the records that needed fixing were the ones being skipped.
  • The file-type list no longer offers audio/mp3, which is not a registered type and was the only MP3 choice available — which is how feeds came to publish it in the first place. Existing records keep working; re-detect them when convenient.
  • Caches are cleared after an update, and any third-party cache Proclaim cannot clear is named so you can clear it yourself. A page held in cache can otherwise point at script files the update replaced.

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Version 10.4.1 Stable

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If you have ever downloaded a Bible translation for offline use, please read the first section — earlier updates were deleting those downloads, and this release stops that. It also fixes the Bible version switcher, which has not worked on sermon pages since 10.3.0, and repairs media icons that were rendering as empty boxes.

Downloaded Bible translations are no longer lost when you update

Updating Proclaim was deleting every Bible translation you had downloaded for offline use, along with the cached passages fetched from online providers. The Local Translations panel came back looking like a fresh install, with nothing marked as downloaded.

The cause was in the scripture library rather than Proclaim itself. Joomla has no way to update a library in place — it uninstalls the old one and installs the new one — and the library's uninstall step removed its own database tables. On a real uninstall that is correct. On an update it destroyed data, silently, every time.

This release blocks that on all three paths an update can take: through the Proclaim package, through the scripture package, and through Joomla's Update Manager when only the library is updated. There is no configuration to change.

If a previous update already wiped your translations, they do not come back on their own:

  • The two translations Proclaim ships with — King James Version and World English Bible — re-download by themselves shortly after this update, through the scheduled task that handles background downloads.
  • Anything else you had downloaded needs downloading again, from Proclaim → Admin Center → Scripture. Your settings, API keys and provider choices were never affected — only the downloaded verse text.

Cached passages from GetBible or API.Bible are also protected now. Losing those was less serious, since they refill themselves, but each one cost a fresh request to the provider.

The Bible version switcher works again

Switching translations on a sermon page did nothing at all. The dropdown opened, you chose a version, and the passage never changed — no error, nothing in the log.

It broke in 10.3.0 when the scripture code moved into its own library and the switcher's script started looking for its settings under a different name than Proclaim was publishing. Confusingly, it did work on pages where the Scripture Links plugin had already run, which is why the fault came and went depending on the page.

The scripture autocomplete in the sermon editor was broken by the same mismatch — its book list has been empty since 10.3.0 — and is fixed too.

Both need at least one translation available: if an earlier update wiped your downloads, download one first or the switcher will still have nothing to switch to.

Media icons render properly again

YouTube, Vimeo and video icons were showing as empty boxes or blank squares on sermon pages and in the media list.

An earlier migration converted stored icon settings to Font Awesome 6 but put brand icons in the wrong font family, where the glyph simply does not exist. This release corrects the stored settings for you when you update, and Proclaim now handles the brand icons correctly whatever is in your database — including on sites whose settings were imported from another install and never converted at all.

Accessibility

Two buttons in the administrator failed the WCAG 2.2 AA contrast requirement: the Fix database action on the control panel notice, and any warning-coloured button placed inside a coloured alert. Both are corrected, and the accessibility scan now checks every button style in every alert context on each release, rather than only the ones a page happens to show.

Removing the scripture library is now refused while Proclaim needs it

If you try to uninstall CWM Scripture Library while Proclaim or the Scripture Links plugin is installed, Joomla now refuses and tells you which extension still depends on it. Previously the uninstall succeeded and took the shared Bible tables with it, leaving Proclaim unable to display scripture.

Uninstall the extensions that use it first, and removal works as before. The library also detects extensions that use it without registering, so a third-party extension's downloaded translations are protected too.

Under the hood

  • Release packages are now checked against their sources, so a file left behind by an old build cannot ship in a release. The published 1.1.6 scripture library had carried three such files for months.
  • The upgrade test suite now plants a downloaded translation, cached passages and an unregistered dependent extension before upgrading, and fails if any of them are harmed — including a deliberate check that the old fault is still detectable, so the protection cannot quietly stop working.

Changes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.4.0...v10.4.1

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Version 10.4.0 Stable

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Proclaim can now run your YouTube live stream. If your church streams straight to YouTube — no restreaming service in between — Proclaim creates the weekly broadcast for you, and after this release the entire admin area also meets the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standard, verified by automated scans on every view.

Live broadcasts on YouTube

Set up once, then going live each week is two steps: tick a box, start your encoder.

  • Proclaim schedules the broadcast. On a new media file, switch on Create Live Broadcast and save — a broadcast appears on YouTube, scheduled at the media file's date, titled after the sermon. Nothing is ever created automatically; you switch it on per sermon.
  • Your encoder is configured once. Proclaim provisions one reusable stream for the server, and the connection details — RTMP address and stream key — live in the server's new Live Streaming settings, with the key kept masked until you choose to reveal it. Point OBS (or your hardware encoder) at it once and it works for every broadcast after.
  • Optionally, going live is automatic. With the server's "Go live when the encoder starts" switch on, starting the encoder starts the stream — no YouTube Studio visit at any step. It is off by default so a sound check cannot go live by accident.
  • The recording takes care of itself. The broadcast's address is the media file's address, so when the stream ends, your sermon page plays the recording — and playlist assignment and description sync treat it like any other video.
  • No orphans left behind. Delete the media file before the stream happens and Proclaim removes the scheduled broadcast from YouTube too. A broadcast that is live or already recorded is never touched — a recording is never deleted.
  • Restreaming churches are unaffected. If Resi, Restream or similar creates your broadcasts, set the server to External (the default) and none of this appears — the restreamer stays in charge.
  • Uses your existing YouTube account connection — no re-authorisation needed.

Accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA

Every administrator screen and every public page now passes automated WCAG 2.2 Level AA scans — contrast, labels, names, focus — and the scans run on every release so it stays that way.

  • Reordering works without dragging. Every orderable list (sermons, teachers, locations, and the rest) has Move Up / Move Down buttons beside the drag handle, and the layout editor's blocks and landing-page sections have movement buttons too — full keyboard and single-tap support.
  • Low-contrast text, unlabeled form fields, and inaccessible tooltip and dialog markup were fixed across the admin — including three problems in Joomla itself that Proclaim now repairs on its own screens and has reported to the Joomla project.

Fixed

  • The media file Options tab no longer shows a stray, non-functional Live Broadcast section for YouTube servers.
  • Opening a brand-new Topic no longer prints a PHP deprecation notice on servers that display errors.
  • The Terms of Use page no longer prints PHP warnings when opened without a media file to download.
  • Assorted spelling corrections in admin text.

For developers

  • A REST API acceptance test now installs the real release package on a disposable Joomla site — in continuous integration, nightly — and proves the API answers correctly before any release ships. The same guard runs in composer test:release.
  • The E2E suite's login is retried, session-cached, and scoped to the sites a test run actually uses; local prerequisites are documented in tests/e2e/README.md.

Changes

What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.3.6...v10.4.0

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Version 10.3.6 Stable

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Proclaim's REST API works in this release. On every earlier 10.3.x release it returned "not found" at every address, on every site — so if you tried it and gave up, that was not your configuration.

Upgrading is recommended for every site. Two admin faults below could stop you reaching Proclaim's settings at all.

The REST API

  • Turning it on is one step — enable the Web Services - Proclaim plugin under System → Plugins. There is no separate Proclaim setting to hunt for.
  • Reads need an API token by default. If you want an open, read-only feed, switch on Allow public reads in that same plugin. Creating, updating and deleting always require a token either way.
  • Twelve kinds of content are available. Sermons, teachers, series, podcasts, media files, topics, locations and study types can be read and written. Playlists, comments, servers and templates are read-only on purpose.
  • Nothing is exposed that the caller could not already see. Every response is limited to the access levels of whoever is asking, so restricted content stays restricted. Media-server credentials and commenter email addresses are never returned to anyone.
  • Changes are recorded. Edits made through the API appear in Joomla's Action Logs alongside edits made in the admin, each marked with where it came from, so an audit shows both together.

Fixed

  • Proclaim's Options screen could fail to open with a "Cannot access offset of type string on string" error, depending on how a site's text-filter settings were stored.
  • Saving Options could lock you out of Proclaim entirely, returning you to the licence screen no matter how many times you accepted it. A site already stuck can clear the Joomla cache and accept once more.

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Version 10.3.5 Stable

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Released on: Monday, 27 July 2026
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What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.3.4...v10.3.5

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Version 10.3.4 Stable

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Released on: Monday, 27 July 2026
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What's Changed

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Joomla-Bible-Study/Proclaim/compare/v10.3.3...v10.3.4

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