Version History
Here you can find the changelog of Universalis since it was posted on our website on 2014-03-05.
The latest version is 2.176 and it was updated on soft112.com on 22 April, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 2.176
posted on 2024-03-12
You will now be alerted in the About Today page whenever a new podcast is published.
version 2.175
posted on 2024-02-08
St Patrick falls on a Sunday this year. We have now accounted for the complications this causes for the calendars of Ireland and New York.
version 2.174
posted on 2024-01-10
The Solemn Blessing is now shown at the end of the Mass on days that have them. The same applies to the Prayers over the People for Lent.
People who are viewing the original Greek next to the English in the Gospel at Mass will now see the Greek next to all the other New Testament readings at Mass as well.
version 2.173
posted on 2023-12-10
Some calendar updates for Singapore.
version 2.172
posted on 2023-11-23
Minor updates and bug corrections.
version 2.171
posted on 2023-09-17
We have made updates to the liturgical calendar for southern Africa.
Users of Android 13 once more have access to alerts and notifications, and to audio.
version 2.168
posted on 2023-08-08
The Collect of the day is now shown in the About Today page as well as the Readings at Mass page.
version 2.167
posted on 2023-07-27
Some minor updates to the foreign-language texts.
version 2.166
posted on 2023-07-03
Some updates to the foreign-language texts.
version 2.165
posted on 2023-05-30
Minor bug corrections and improvements.
version 2.164
posted on 2023-02-27
Some more foreign-language text updates.
version 2.143
posted on 2022-05-01
The menu buttons within the text now work correctly in Screen Reader mode.
version 2.141
posted on 2022-04-22
Several corrections and improvements, in English and in foreign languages.
version 2.138
posted on 2022-02-12
Some more calendar updates.
version 2.137
posted on 2022-01-11
Updates to some of the more exotic local calendars.
version 2.136
posted on 2022-01-07
People who listen to the spoken audio of Vespers can now hear the Invitatory Psalm if it is selected for that hour.
version 2.135
posted on 2021-11-29
“Journey into Light: The Challenge and Enchantment of Catholic Christianity” by Roderick Strange is now available for purchase as a Daily Book.
version 2.132
posted on 2021-11-10
General updates and corrections.
version 2.130
posted on 2021-09-07
More foreign-language texts have been added.
version 2.128
posted on 2021-07-16
Carmelite feasts which have specific Mass readings of their own can now be read in both English and American.
The Spiritual Communion prayer is now optional. There is a menu button for it in the Mass Today page just after the end of the communion rite.
The Irish-language texts of Compline are now complete and definitive.
version 2.127
posted on 2021-06-14
General improvements in texts, calendars, and features.
version 2.126
posted on 2021-03-15
Updated versions of most of the audio files are now available.
For those of you who like to read the Gospel in Greek in parallel with the English, we now have the text of the scholarly Nestle-Aland edition.
version 2.124
posted on 2021-02-26
Some updated texts and various small corrections.
version 2.123
posted on 2021-02-09
The three new Memorials of Doctors of the Church have been added to the calendar.
version 2.121
posted on 2021-02-05
We have corrected some minor misprints in the Mass readings.
version 2.120
posted on 2021-01-27
If you are in the USA, you will now see American-language concluding prayers in the Hours.
version 2.119
posted on 2021-01-11
The Mass Today page now contains a Spiritual Communion prayer for those who are following a Mass remotely.
version 2.118
posted on 2020-12-29
We have moved the Epiphany in Scotland to Sunday 3 January 2021.
version 2.117
posted on 2020-12-16
Corrected some small anomalies in the Mass Today page
version 2.114
posted on 2020-11-23
Corrected an error in the Mass texts for Advent Sunday.
version 2.112
posted on 2020-11-22
The new Daily Books feature is here! This lets you read one of a number of spiritual classics, in daily instalments, as part of your prayer routine. To try it out: in the toolbar, tap on the “Information” button, and then select “Daily Books” from the menu.
version 2.109
posted on 2020-11-07
We have updated some more foreign-language texts.
version 2.107
posted on 2020-10-01
Updates to local calendars and some foreign-language texts.
version 2.106
posted on 2020-09-14
Following the recent decision of the Bishops, Saint John Henry Newman is now shown as a feast in England and Wales.
version 2.105
posted on 2020-08-30
General calendar updates.
The Liturgy of the Hours is now available in Malagasy as well as the other languages.
version 2.104
posted on 2020-08-10
There have been some updates to the calendars, notably for New Zealand and for the Discalced Carmelites.
For those of you who subscribe to the spoken audio and also use one of the Carmelite calendars, many antiphons and prayers have now been recorded.
The “Authors of Second Readings” thread in the About Today page is now complete.
version 2.103
posted on 2020-07-15
A small bug corrected in the selection of hymns in the Hours on ferial days.
version 2.101
posted on 2020-06-05
Minor corrections, and expansion of some of the foreign-language texts.
version 2.100
posted on 2020-05-18
Several of the foreign-language versions have been updated and extended.
version 2.99
posted on 2020-05-15
Corrected a bug which affected line-breaking in "Modern Display Mode".
version 2.98
posted on 2020-05-01
Added the Votive Mass in Time of Pandemic: it is accessible from the “Special” button in the calendar screen.
The audio system was sometimes over-enthusiastic and told you an update was available when in fact there had been no change since your last download. This has now been corrected.
version 2.97
posted on 2020-03-30
We have corrected a bug which caused trouble with audio downloads for some people.
version 2.96
posted on 2020-03-20
Small corrections and improvements.
version 2.95
posted on 2020-03-15
Updates and minor bug corrections.
version 2.94
posted on 2020-02-24
Some minor corrections and updates.
version 2.92
posted on 2020-01-21
Some more Danish texts have been added, and also the local calendar for the diocese of Northampton.
version 2.91
posted on 2019-12-31
Danish-language texts are now available for the Liturgy of the Hours.
version 2.90
posted on 2019-12-04
There are now more of Dom Henry Wansbrough’s commentaries available for the readings at Mass during Advent.
version 2.89
posted on 2019-11-28
Users of older 32-bit devices had difficulty hearing some of the psalms in the spoken audio of the Office of Readings. This problem has now been resolved.
version 2.88
posted on 2019-11-19
The new Rosary page is now fully active, including illustrations and spoken audio from Downside.
There are various other improvements and bug corrections.
version 2.87
posted on 2019-11-08
On a very few devices (notably Lenovo tablets), Universalis would crash when you tried to open it. This has now been corrected.
version 2.86
posted on 2019-10-08
There is a new page in the Hours menu, called “Spiritual Reading”. It gives a variety of readings for today. Try it!
version 2.85
posted on 2019-09-18
The About Today page now includes the Novena for the Newman Canonisation, which runs from 4 to 12 October.
version 2.84
posted on 2019-09-02
version 2.83
posted on 2019-08-26
Better diagnostic information for downloads.
version 2.82
posted on 2019-08-05
On some versions of Android, pressing the Play button at the bottom of the screen, and then pressing “Find out more”, gave you a blank screen instead of information about the audio subscription. This has now been corrected.
version 2.77
posted on 2019-07-22
We have added an alternative download mode for people who have difficulty downloading the spoken audio. It is “Direct Download”, in the Settings screen.
version 2.71
posted on 2019-06-20
The Readings at Mass have been made clearer when alternative readings are available.
version 2.25
posted on 2018-01-16
If you have a subscription to spoken audio in English for Morning and Evening Prayer, this now includes the daytime Hours (Terce, Sext and None; Mid-Morning, Midday and Afternoon Prayer) as well.
We have added the Swedish liturgical calendar and made corrections to the calendar for the Philippines.
version 1.43
posted on 2016-12-19
V1.43: Sorry, a small extra bug needed correcting. In the daytime hours, the menu button for switching between Psalms of the Day and Complementary Psalms wasn't working. It is working now.
version 1.10
posted on 2013-06-03
Several fixes and updates