Track every enhancement, fix, and feature landing in SongChoice. New changelog entries appear here within minutes of deployment.
Released March 30th, 2025
Completely rewritten from the ground up to use the latest web technologies!
Released December 20th, 2023
[IMPROVED] More asynchronous changes.;
[NEW] New caching engine.;
Released December 4th, 2023
[IMPROVED] Asynchronous database connections throughout;
Released June 9th, 2023
[IMPROVED] Security improvements throughout the site;
[IMPROVED] Efficiency changes to many pages;
Released May 19th, 2023
[IMPROVED] Support for OpenGraph throughout the site.;
[IMPROVED] Wording throughout the site.;
[IMPROVED] FULLTEXT searches implemented to give faster and more complete search results.;
[IMPROVED] Quartz installed to allow for CRON jobs to work again on the new server.;
Released April 12th, 2023
[NEW] Ability to switch between vocals and no vocals on YouTube videos.;\r
[IMPROVED] Database code optimised;\r
[IMPROVED] The service details page now displays the date correctly.;\r
[FIX] Blank cells fixed on the service list page.
Released January 3rd, 2023
[NEW] Lyrics API;\r
[IMPROVED] .NET is now at 4.8;\r
[FIX] Wrong previously sung calculations;
Released May 9th, 2022
[NEW] Donations now supported!;\r
[IMPROVED] A refresh of images and other assets (more to come!);\r
[IMPROVED] YouTube support on song pages;\r
[IMPROVED] Better communication about lyrics;\r
[IMPROVED] Removal of Twitter code;\r
[FIX] Message bar sometimes hidden;\r
[FIX] Security updates;
Released October 26th, 2019
[NEW] API system;\r
[NEW] Donations button added to homepage;\r
[IMPROVED] Song author can now be searched from songs page;\r
[IMPROVED] Notes now more prominent;\r
[FIX] Author search now returns relevant responses;
Released November 21st, 2017
[NEW] Changelog page;\r
[NEW] View audit logs in the admin panel;\r
[NEW] Church specific notes;\r
[NEW] Church specific tags;\r
[IMPROVED] The 'This Sunday' module now handles multiple services in one day;\r
[IMPROVED] You can now use the reports page to count how many songs you sang in that time period;\r
[FIX] Added better details for failed registration passwords;
Released September 6th, 2017
[NEW] Song lyric previews;
[NEW] Apple music support;
[NEW] YouTube support;
[NEW] Select your preferred music service;
[NEW] Create a songlist for sharing;
[IMPROVED] Better trace logging;
[FIX] Admin panel sorting now works;
[FIX] Automated email system fixes;
Released August 4th, 2017
[NEW] Ability to filter out Public Domain songs in reporting;\r
[NEW] Sub-tags are now supported in the tagging engine;\r
[NEW] Filters have been added to the songs page;\r
[NEW] Theme search is now in beta;\r
[NEW] Automated announcement emails (like the one you're reading now);\r
[NEW] Ability to send out weekly song emails;\r
[NEW] Ability to manage a church (includes adding logos and editing membership);\r
[NEW] Ability to delete a service;\r
[IMPROVED] SongChoice emails now look a lot nicer;\r
[IMPROVED] Tables across the site now use the DataTables javascript library;\r
[IMPROVED] More subtle design changes (e.g. look at those checkboxes);\r
[FIX] Caching now works on the song table;\r
[FIX] Adding songs with apostrophes does not cause weird errors;\r
[FIX] Extra spaces are removed on title fields;
Released October 5th, 2016
[NEW] Reporting suite, for use in CCL reporting;\r
[FIX] Urls in tweets now function properly;\r
[FIX] Hover in account management failed after view changed;\r
[IMPROVED] Hover for menu items;
Released September 28th, 2016
[NEW] Merge song for administrators;\r
[FIX] Null error on edit user;\r
[FIX] Persistent login;\r
[FIX] Sorting the search results now does not error;
Released September 12th, 2016
[NEW] Redesign for whole site;\r
[NEW] User account module;\r
[NEW] Next service module;\r
[NEW] We recommend module;\r
[NEW] A new recommendations section of the website, suggesting songs and ways to play them;\r
[IMPROVED] Database calls now are more efficient;\r
[IMPROVED] Improved caching around entire site;\r
[IMPROVED] Descriptions now available for tags;\r
[FIX] Search results now work more logically;
Released February 15th, 2016
[NEW] Invite someone to your church via the management page;\r
[NEW] References on a song page now sort by bible reference (rather than just alphabetical);\r
[NEW] You are now able to sort columns in the search results;\r
[FIX] Admin panel null caused churches to be displayed incorrectly;\r
[FIX] Editing a song now resets the songs cache immediately;\r
[FIX] Song of songs can now be parsed as a reference;
Released January 20th, 2016
[NEW] Robots.txt implementation added;\r
[NEW] New tags added;\r
[FIX] Clicking on an expired validation email caused site to error;\r
[FIX] 404 error on bootstrap fonts;\r
[FIX] User control panel layout now responsive;\r
[FIX] The iPad layout was broken;\r
[FIX] The save service layout was broken;\r
[FIX] Adding a song with no duplicates was not possible;\r
[FIX] OpenSearch configuration now matches the latest specification;\r
[FIX] Search results now has pagination;
Released January 13th, 2016
[NEW] 'What's new' dialog;\r
[NEW] Enhanced error logging;\r
[NEW] Error handling throughout site;\r
[NEW] Ability to edit a saved service;\r
[NEW] Bootstrap redesign;\r
[NEW] Ability to change a registered email address;\r
[NEW] Sitemap generation;\r
[IMPROVED] Adding a song is much nicer now;\r
[IMPROVED] Admin panel improvements;\r
[IMPROVED] New refactored permissions;\r
[IMPROVED] New look tags;\r
[FIX] Updating a service actually updates, rather than removing and adding a new one;\r
[FIX] Numerous reference search fixes;