kjvstudy.org/kjvstudy_org/data/changelog.json

{
  "entries": [
    {
      "date": "July 2026",
      "title": "The Fine-Print Edition",
      "items": [
        "A complete redesign in the manner of a finely printed Bible: warm paper and ink, a deep binding-green accent, bronze and gilt details, with red reserved for the words of Christ.",
        "Every page of the site moved onto one shared design system — reading pages, study tools, resources, indexes, and the about pages — with dark mode rendered as candlelight rather than gray.",
        "The biblical geography page traded its modern web map for a hand-drawn, engraved-style plate of the biblical world, with an inset of the Holy Land and Paul's journeys traced westward.",
        "The books index gained canon statistics (66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,102 verses) and genre-inked cards; key verses across the site are set as gilt scripture plates.",
        "The 404 page now offers the parable of the lost sheep, rubricated.",
        "This changelog was added."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "July 2026",
      "title": "Framework housekeeping",
      "items": [
        "Upgraded to Responder 9 and adopted its newest framework features.",
        "Improved the OpenAPI examples throughout the JSON API.",
        "Cleaned up stale build artifacts from the earlier static-site era."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "June 2026",
      "title": "The Responder port & the Passage Workspace",
      "items": [
        "Ported the entire application from FastAPI to Responder, deleting the old stack and re-registering every route.",
        "Moved to Python 3.14 with the granian server.",
        "Introduced the Passage Study Workspace — a focused desk for any verse, span, or chapter, with commentary, cross-references, original-language previews, and private notes saved on your own device.",
        "Added Starred Pages for keeping a personal shelf of verses and chapters.",
        "A season of DRY cleanup: shared macros, partials, and helpers extracted across the codebase."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "April 2026",
      "title": "Performance season",
      "items": [
        "Switched serving to granian with Rust-level static file handling.",
        "Added a disk cache for generated PDFs and server-side caching for the homepage.",
        "Optimized the name-linking filter from hundreds of passes to a single regex."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "March 2026",
      "title": "Reflections and tuning",
      "items": [
        "Added “A Note from Claude” — reflections from the AI assistant behind the site.",
        "Added Bible text indexes and removed O(n) lookups for faster pages.",
        "Kept the verse of the day fresh by exempting the homepage from caching."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "January–February 2026",
      "title": "Static strength",
      "items": [
        "Pre-rendered resources, stories, topics, and study guides as static pages.",
        "Capped search results at fifty per page to keep rendering fast.",
        "Hardened the deployment behind nginx."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "December 2025",
      "title": "Commentary completed",
      "items": [
        "Verse-by-verse commentary reached every one of the 31,102 verses in the canon — a hundred-batch effort across the whole Bible.",
        "Poetry formatting with stanza breaks arrived for all forty-five books containing poetic passages, from Job and the Psalms to the embedded songs of the prophets.",
        "The Verse of the Day gained daily devotionals with meditations, applications, and prayers.",
        "Listen buttons brought text-to-speech to verses, chapters, stories, topics, and resources.",
        "Dynamic Open Graph images and richer SEO schema for sharing."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "November 2025",
      "title": "The study tools buildout",
      "items": [
        "Strong's Concordance arrived: fourteen thousand Hebrew and Greek entries with definitions, KJV usage, derivations, and every verse occurrence.",
        "The interlinear Bible: word-by-word original language for chapters and verses, with parsing and transliteration.",
        "Comprehensive keyboard navigation across the entire site — every grid, list, and reading page.",
        "Dark mode extended to every page.",
        "A statistics page and public JSON API."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "June 2025",
      "title": "Reading everywhere",
      "items": [
        "Chapter pages became fully responsive, with keyboard support for tablets and iPads.",
        "Custom scrollbars and smoother sidebar behavior."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "May 2025",
      "title": "The family tree",
      "items": [
        "A GEDCOM-driven genealogy from Adam to Jesus Christ, with an interactive, collapsible tree.",
        "Margin-notes layout for Bible chapters — the beginning of the site's Tufte-inspired reading apparatus."
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "April 2025",
      "title": "Genesis",
      "items": [
        "The project began: verse and reference models, the Bible text engine, the first browsing interface, and the first tests.",
        "The complete 1769 Oxford Standard text of the Authorized Version, all 31,102 verses."
      ]
    }
  ]
}