e-Sword Version History

I thought that this list of e-Sword release dates might be interesting for somebody.

Version	Released	Replaced
1.0	April 2000	August 2000
2.0	August 2000	January 2001
3.0	January 2001	May 2001
4.0	May 2001	September 2001
5.0	September 2001	December 2001
5.5	December 2001	April 2002
6.0	April 2002	October 2002
6.5	October 2002	March 2003
7.0	March 2003	March 2005
7.5.2	March 2005	July 2005
7.7.7	July 2005	December 2006
7.8.2	December 2006	December 2006
7.8.3	December 2006	1 January 2007
7.8.5	1 January 2007	5 January 2008
7.9.01	December 2007
7.9.12	December 2007
7.9.2	5 January 2008
7.9.3	17 January 2008	19 January 2008
7.9.4	19 January 2008	30 January 2008
7.9.5	30 January 2008	25 January 2008
7.9.63	February 2008	February 2008
7.9.74	February 2008	25 February 2008
7.9.8	25 February 2008	11 October 2008
8.0.0 (beta)5	20 August 2008	28 August 2008
8.0.1 (beta)6	28 August 2008	17 April 2009
8.0.2		1 October 2008
8.0.37	1 October 2008	11 October 2008
8.0.4	11 October 2008	19 November 2008
8.0.5	19 November 2008	29 December 2008
8.0.6	29 December 2008	17 April 2009
9.0.08	1 (?) April 2009	17 April 2009
9.0.1	17 April 2009	7 May 2009
9.0.2	7 May 2009	27 May 2009.
9.0.3	27 May 2009
9.0.4

1This was a beta release.

2This was a beta release.

3This was a beta release.

4This was a beta release.

5This was a beta release.

6This was a beta release.

7This was a beta release.

8This was a beta release.

The end of an e-Sword Era

Bible Import Tool v 3.5 was released on 11 June 2006. That was the final version of BIT to be released.

Earlier today Ben announced that future versions of BeST would not directly import material from the Internet.

This is the end of getting NLT (1st Edition), NLT (2nd Edition), NIV, NIV-UK, and several other bibles for e-Sword, gratis. http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/ is a list of most of the Bibles that are affected.

This era has lasted almost five years. (BIT was released either late in 2002, or early in 2003.)

xan

jonathon