diff --git a/academic/bibletime/README b/academic/bibletime/README
index 7c0c672c33..b6137880cc 100644
--- a/academic/bibletime/README
+++ b/academic/bibletime/README
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ BibleTime is a Bible study application for Linux.  It is based on the K Desktop
 Environment and uses the Sword programming library to work with Bible texts,
 commentaries, dictionaries, and books provided by the Crosswire Bible Society.
 
-This version requires sword version 1.7.0 or higher.
+This version requires sword version 1.8.1 or higher, and qt5.9 or higher.
+Homepage: http://bibletime.info/
diff --git a/academic/bibletime/bibletime.SlackBuild b/academic/bibletime/bibletime.SlackBuild
index a0c3c992fb..0863a554c0 100644
--- a/academic/bibletime/bibletime.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/bibletime/bibletime.SlackBuild
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 # Modified by Robert Delahunt [twinreverb[at]puresimplicity.net
-# Modified 2018 by Tim Dickson (dickson.tim@googlemail.com)
+# Modified 2018/9 by Tim Dickson (dickson.tim@googlemail.com)
 
 PRGNAM=bibletime
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.11.2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-3.0_beta1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -76,9 +76,12 @@ find -L . \
  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
 mkdir build
-#patch CMakeLists.txt so it works with version of qt5
-# available on slackbuilds.org
-sed -i "s/VERSION 5.9/VERSION 5.7.1/g" CMakeLists.txt
+#patch CMakeLists.txt so it works with verson of cmake on slack14.2
+#these patches can be removed once cmake gets to 3.10 or higher
+sed -i "s/VERSION 3.10/VERSION 3.5/g" CMakeLists.txt
+sed -i "s/^CHECK_IPO_SUPPORTED(RESULT HAVE_IPO)/SET(HAVE_IPO FALSE)/g" CMakeLists.txt
+sed -i "s/^INCLUDE(CheckIPO/#INCLUDE(CheckIPO/g" CMakeLists.txt
+sed -i "/TARGET_COMPILE_FEATURES/s/.*/SET(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)/" CMakeLists.txt
 cd build
   cmake \
     -Wno-dev \
diff --git a/academic/bibletime/bibletime.info b/academic/bibletime/bibletime.info
index d3b6e7eb3a..d1f8804237 100644
--- a/academic/bibletime/bibletime.info
+++ b/academic/bibletime/bibletime.info
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 PRGNAM="bibletime"
-VERSION="2.11.2"
+VERSION="3.0_beta1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.bibletime.info/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/releases/download/v2.11.2/bibletime-2.11.2.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="e0aed5f3b672c89ee5e06ffeb505e1ae"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/releases/download/v3.0_beta1/bibletime-3.0_beta1.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="42083cd7d86769af1beeab4913fd2807"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="sword qt5"
 MAINTAINER="Tim Dickson"
 EMAIL="dickson.tim@googlemail.com"
+