News
Sign-up form now hosted on the Scripture Forge site
New Features: The sign‑up form for draft generation is now hosted directly on the Scripture Forge site rather than linking to an external Smartsheet form. Source and reference projects can now be selected from available Paratext projects instead of being entered manually. Improvements: Navigation for generated drafts has been improved,… Read More
Improvements for formatting options and adding drafts to projects
Improvements: Users will now be reminded to configure formatting options before requesting a new draft when no formatting settings exist for the previous draft. Project admins can add a draft to a book even if they have not been explicitly granted edit permissions for that specific book or chapter. Bug… Read More
Bug fixes for adding drafts to projects and importing questions
Bug Fixes: Users now receive a warning during the Add to Project workflow if they select a project they do not have permission to edit. Notes can now be imported from Paratext as Community Checking questions after the note tag is changed. When using the back button during question importing,… Read More
Last selected destination project is now prefilled when importing drafts
Improvements: The project selected for importing generated drafts is now remembered and automatically filled in the next time you import another draft. Application load times have been improved through a new compression service. Bug Fixes: When formatting options have not been configured, the option to create a new draft will… Read More
Draft generation add to project improvements
Improvements: Adding generated drafts to a project is now more intuitive and uses a cleaner dialog The previously selected books to translate are no longer chosen by default when starting a new draft generation request. Bug Fixes: Resolved notes are no longer included when importing Paratext notes to create Community… Read More
Guidance for early New Testament draft generation
New Features: New guidance is now available to help early New Testament projects understand when and how to use incremental drafting and quality estimates. Improvements: Book ranges are now listed consistently across all steps of the draft generation workflow. Bug Fixes: Community checkers are now routed to the first book… Read More
Offline for maintenance on 25 Feb
Scripture Forge will be unavailable for about 1-2 hours on 25 February 2026 starting at 16:30 UTC for scheduled maintenance. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your patience and prayers!… Read More
Better default verse reference selection for community checking questions
Improvements: When adding a Community Checking question, the selected verse is now used as the default verse reference. Draft completion status is now reported more reliably on the Generate Draft page, even if the internet connection is interrupted. Added support for the BJCree font. Bug Fixes: Audio comments created offline… Read More
Scripture Forge will be unavailable for about 1-2 hours on 12 February 2026 starting at 16:30 UTC for scheduled maintenance. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Update: Maintenance is complete. Read More
Improved guardrails for selecting training data
Improvements: Improved detection of books that can be used for training data so that empty books are no longer accidentally selected. The Translation Overview page now shows a clearer error message when progress cannot be displayed due to lack of internet connectivity. Read More