Category Archives: Upgrades

Builder 1.07 Update Note: What If Builder Won’t Start After the Update?

In the days after the 1.07 release, we’ve received some sporadic reports of Lutheran Service Builder installations not functioning properly after upgrading with the new Installer. If this should happen to you, it’s important to note that it’s not difficult to fix and can usually be easily remedied with some very simple steps without the [...]

Lutheran Service Builder 1.07 Upgrade Now Available

The upgrade for Lutheran Service Builder bringing it to version 1.07 is now available through the automated update service. The update is approximately 75MB in size and may take longer than usual to download, due to a high influx of traffic to the update service. Users of Lutheran Service Builder should be prompted to download [...]

Tutorial: Backing Up Your Saved Services and Elements

Every effort is made prior to every upgrade and update to ensure that the integrity of your data will not be compromised, and upgrades to Lutheran Service Builder are only released to the public when the team here at Concordia Publishing House is certain that the upgrade process will in no way harm your installation [...]

1.07 Preview: Changes to the Psalms in Year A

The update for Lutheran Service Builder to version 1.07 contains many wonderful fixes to how Builder handles moving information from the included databases into your documents. This has also afforded us a great opportunity to use the distribution of 1.07 as the launching point for providing service planners and staff with the propers for Year [...]

A Preview of 1.7’s Improved Loading Time

As previously mentioned in this space, the primary improvement planned for the 1.7 update is a marked improvement to Lutheran Service Builder’s loading time. To illustrate what we’ve working on over the past six months or so, I’ve created a small video to showcase the dramatic increase we are seeing in alpha-testing, and we hope [...]

1.06 Upgrade Week Status Report

We’re pleased to announce that the 1.06 update has gone extremely well by all accounts, and the number of users who have updated their installations is growing every day. Since Monday morning, well over 1000 installations have initiated a download of the automatic update.
We’ve been busy here working through a few issues that still remain [...]

Patch Day: Lutheran Service Builder 1.06 Now Available

The update to Lutheran Service Builder to version 1.06 went live at 6:00 a.m. this morning, and your installations of Builder should prompt you to download the update the next time you start it up. The update is approximately 70MB in size and may take longer than usual to download, due to a high influx [...]

Lutheran Service Builder Version 1.06: Upgrade Notes

Version 1.06 of Lutheran Service Builder is now complete and will be pushed to the automatic update servers this upcoming Monday for download and installation. The standalone download location linked at the top of this page will also be updated around that time to provide users with a standalone update. Users who have the automatic [...]

Status Update on 1.06 and First Information on 1.07

Some questions have rolled in as to the status of the 1.06 update and when to expect it (seeing as it contains several fixes to outstanding issues in 1.05 that are affecting some users). A release was scheduled and plans were made to roll out the update, but 1.06 has been sidelined for a little [...]

How to Receive Notification When Lutheran Service Builder is Updated: Part One

A very common question I’m asked is how Lutheran Service Builder users can be informed of updates to Builder and other related news items when they happen. We’ve taken steps recently to try and improve our communications channels (this blog being the prime example), but there’s still some confusion as to how many methods of [...]