If your church uses a third-party sermon archive, such as Sermon Audio, you can now display this on the sermons page instead of the standard Church Social sermon archive.

To enable this feature, go to the "Sermons" settings page, disable the sermon archive (if it isn't already), and then add your third-party HTML embed code.

We have fix a scrolling issue with our search input controls. Previously, if you clicked on the scroll bar in the search input dropdown to scroll through the list of possible items, it would immediately close the dropdown. This has now been resolved.

There is a new "Empty trash" button on the file trash page, which lets you permanently delete all the files in the trash much more quickly. Previously you had to permanently delete each file one at a time.

The families report now has a new "birthdays" column, which lists all the birthdays of the members within that family.

Last week we deployed an update to the app that created a bug where you couldn't edit a family's shepherding groups (wards/districts) from the edit person page in the People section. This issue has been fixed.

Church Social now has a new "statistician" role, which lets churches grant people access to the people and reports sections without making them a full administrator. You can find this setting when editing a person, under the "Access & Privacy" heading.

Statisticians are able to create, edit, and delete people and reports. However, they are not able to edit access roles or office bearer roles. These roles must still be set by an administrator.

Further, to prevent a statistician from gaining access to a "higher" role, they are also not allowed to edit the login information (email and password) for administrators, office bearers or treasurers.

You can now create private groups. Private groups are exactly the same as invite-only groups, except that their membership list is hidden, and only group members are allowed to send messages to those groups. This is helpful for groups where it really doesn't make sense for everyone in the congregation to know who is part of that group.

The following group types can be private:

• Bible studies
• Clubs
• Committees
• Mailing lists

Office bearer and shepherding groups don't have this setting, as they are always invite-only.

The group pages have been updated to now display member photos, as well as the latest messages sent to that group. Note, group messages are only visible to the recipients of those messages.

Church Social now has a new "report manager" role, which lets churches grant people access to the reports section without making them a full administrator. You can find this setting when editing a person, under the "Access & Privacy" heading.

Note, report managers are able to create, edit and delete custom reports.

When editing a person's membership information, Church Social now automatically suggests previously used churches in the "previous church" and "left to church" inputs. These churches are now also included in the "baptism church" and "profession church" suggestions, and vice versa.

We have fixed in issue in some web browsers where search inputs were glitchy, making it difficult or even impossible to click an option in the search dropdown menu using a mouse.

Further, we also fixed an issue where hitting "escape" to close a search input would also close the popup dialog it is in. Now it will only close the search input.

When creating or editing sermons, you can now create new authors and series directly on those pages. To do this, click the "add new" button beside the author and series inputs.

We have fixed a bug with the "groups" attribute in the people report, where it would incorrectly include previously removed group members.

You can now add images to sermons and sermon series. This can help add some visual interest to you sermon archive. To start, these images are only visible within the app, but we plan to also add them to the embeddable sermon archive, WordPress plugin, and our REST API.

Previously when using one of the bulk importers within the app, it was possible to make changes to your Excel or CSV file, and then hit "Refresh" within Church Social to upload and validate the file again. Unfortunately, this behaviour was broken recently in Google Chrome as a result of a new security restriction they added.

We have fixed this issue by removing the "Refresh" option, and making it clear that you now need to reselect the import file from your device.

This update has been applied to the people importer, schedule importer, contribution importer, and library importer.