What is new
Every version of Lechem, documented — 168 releases, newest first.
The latest — 0.178.2 · 2026-08-03 08:05
- Now it tells you
- new install(0.178.2)
The app never told you a newer version was out. On a phone without Play, it now says so on your home screen.
It speaks only when there is something to do. Nothing downloads itself, and the choice stays yours.
Later quiets it for the day, not for ever, and it never speaks on Shabbos.
Your Hebrew birthday printed the year in Western digits. In Hebrew and Yiddish it now reads in letters.
The line under the birth field, the one you watch as you type, changed with it.
How a version reaches you
📦 marks a release that needs a new install on the phone. ⚡ marks one that arrives over the air into the app you already have. The distinction is the app's own, and it is kept here because it decides whether you have to do anything.
Everything before it
| Version | When | What changed | How it arrives |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.177.2 | 2026-08-02 19:45 | תשפ״ו, not 5786 | new install |
| 0.176.2 | 2026-08-02 18:55 | Your date, whole | new install |
| 0.175.2 | 2026-08-02 23:40 | A machine word, off your screen | new install |
| 0.174.2 | 2026-08-02 22:05 | A name off, a door shut, a reason told | new install |
| 0.173.2 | 2026-08-02 18:10 | Where you are, and the whole word | new install |
| 0.172.2 | 2026-08-02 08:20 | One nightfall, asked once | new install |
| 0.171.2 | 2026-08-01 05:40 | The sky where you are standing | new install |
| 0.170.2 | 2026-07-31 16:10 | Your nusach, your words, and the day you are actually in | new install |
| 0.169.2 | 2026-07-31 03:00 | It no longer says it is not erev Shabbos when it is | new install |
| 0.168.2 | 2026-07-30 01:30 | The app finally tells you when there is an update | new install |
| 0.167.2 | 2026-07-29 07:30 | The Jewish day turns at nightfall, not at midnight | new install |
| 0.166.2 | 2026-07-29 06:00 | Built at a moment somebody chose | new install |
0.177.2 — תשפ״ו, not 5786
The Hebrew year was written in Western digits beside a day in gematria. It now reads תשפ״ו.
On a yom tov the Chitas screen said This Shabbos is, and then printed machine output.
In the morning your date was still cut. The zman line now shows then too, so nothing is dropped.
That adds one row to the morning screen. Nothing is hidden, but the board has no room to grow.
0.176.2 — Your date, whole
The date on your home strip was cut short. It read 19 Av · Sun, and stopped.
The zman was printed twice on one screen. The strip now gives back the copy, and keeps the time.
When the line below is not carrying that zman, the strip keeps its label. Nothing is lost.
0.175.2 — A machine word, off your screen
The app was printing the raw code no-city at you as if it were a sentence. In all three languages.
With no city, every screen in the app now stays quiet about it if it knows where you are.
A hand-installed copy was told Shabbos could not be worked out. That was the other build’s message.
0.174.2 — A name off, a door shut, a reason told
Tehillim Mechulak: a name typed by mistake can come off. Nobody else’s perakim move when it does.
A women’s mikvah or seat section could open for a man if its record was spelled another way. Shut.
With no city the app told you it could not tell whether Shabbos is in. True, and the wrong reason.
0.173.2 — Where you are, and the whole word
The app asks where you are first. It used to ask for a city, and could not tell you a zman until you gave one.
A town name beside a zman was printing backwards in Hebrew and Yiddish. Monsey read yesnoM.
Favourites showed half of each name. Fifty-five were cut, fifteen of them on this phone.
The mark steps aside on a very narrow phone instead of being cut in half. Nothing changes at this width.
0.172.2 — One nightfall, asked once
Yaaleh Vyavo was offered on a day the app itself said had not begun. One nightfall now, asked once.
Times follow where you are standing, not where you live. The widget and the Shabbos lock too.
When a time is not from where you are, it now names the town it came from.
If the widget reading has gone old it shows no time at all, rather than the wrong one.
Your backup now says how many voice recordings it is not carrying, instead of nothing.
Tehillim Mechulak: add the names, split a sefer between them, hand each man his portion.
Favourites: pin any screen to Home, take off what you do not use. Search still reaches all of it.
0.171.2 — The sky where you are standing
Times come from where you are. With no city the app was quietly using Monsey's.
The app asks where home is. The first screen never asked about place at all.
Your record keeps a copy of itself, and a wiped phone finds it.
The second night of Rosh Hashanah said the first day, and lost the tick you had just made.
Krias Shema and Shemoneh Esrei record when you said them. The early is marked; the late is not.
The licht screen said it could not tell you the time, with nothing to press. Now there is.
English section names were painting right to left. Fifteen in the catalogue, eight in the list.
The Spanish privacy screen was showing English.
0.170.2 — Your nusach, your words, and the day you are actually in
If you daven Nusach Ari, the app marked Nusach Sefard as yours. It now names your nusach, and says plainly where it has no edition of it.
Modeh Ani showed no words at all. It now shows them, from the same siddur the morning screen uses.
The hundred names every bracha it counts. Mincha and Maariv used to show as "Other" — that was 42 of them.
A mikvah visit written late at night stays under today until morning, instead of disappearing at midnight.
With no city set you can see that a new version exists again. Nothing that acts was opened.
0.169.2 — It no longer says it is not erev Shabbos when it is
With no city set, the licht screen said tonight was not an erev Shabbos. It now says it cannot tell, and offers to set your city.
Reminders could go off on Yom Tov, and syncing could move data on Shabbos. Both now hold back when the app cannot tell where you are.
Eleven screens read "I cannot say" as "you are clear". Each one now asks the one place that owns that answer.
0.168.2 — The app finally tells you when there is an update
Shabbos Mincha showed two pieces. It now runs the whole order, and a piece whose words are not in yet says so instead of being left out.
An update now shows on your home screen. Until now it lived only inside Settings, so nobody ever saw one.
"Later" now waits a day and comes back — and a newer version still speaks up.
The Jewish day now turns at nightfall, not midnight. All evening the daf, the parsha and Rosh Chodesh had been a day behind.
Krias haTorah and the fast days are in — every selichos set, Yom Kippur Katan, and the Kel Malei of the twentieth of Sivan.
0.167.2 — The Jewish day turns at nightfall, not at midnight
From sundown until midnight the app was a day behind — Rosh Chodesh, the daf, the parsha and the Omer all read as yesterday. It now turns at nightfall, by the shita you set.
The fast days are in: every selichos set, Yom Kippur Katan, and the Kel Malei of the twentieth of Sivan.
When a reminder cannot be handed to the phone, the screen now says so instead of showing a list that was never accepted.
0.166.2 — Built at a moment somebody chose
The release now refuses to build while any lane still holds a file, so no half-finished work can be packaged.