[scribus] Announcement: Scribus 1.3.5.1 Released

Thu Aug 13 10:38:27 CEST 2009

Will future major stable releases be able
to open and read 1.3.5 development version files ?
JLuc

Christoph Schäfer a écrit :
> ==SCRIBUS 1.3.5 RELEASED==
> 
> After almost 2 years of intensive work, the Scribus Team is proud to announce 
> the release of Scribus 1.3.5. This release is a major development version on 
> the road to milestone 1.4, which will be based on 1.3.5.
> 
> Following many testing cycles, the Scribus Team considers this version to be 
> fairly stable and ready for many real-world use cases. For example, the cover 
> of the Official Scribus Manual has been created with a release candidate of 
> 1.3.5. However, since there are still some rough edges, more cautious users 
> may want to prefer to stick with the officially stable series 1.3.3.x, which 
> will see its final bugfix release soon.
> 
> The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and improvements in a 
> new experimental branch. Once tested and confirmed as working flawlessly, 
> they will be backported and become part of the 1.4 milestone.
> 
> In comparison to the latest developer release, Scribus 1.3.5 provides the 
> following major changes and enhancements:
> 
> - 1.3.5 is based on Qt 4 (the minimum required to run 1.3.5 is Qt 4.4.0)
> - A native OS X version, available as DMG file (Universal Binary)
> - Improved menu integration with OS X
> - Large parts of the canvas and text code have been rewritten
> - A new frame type called Render Frames, which allows for rendering markup 
> languages like LaTeX or POV-Ray inside Scribus
> - Added import filters for the following vector formats:  Adobe Illustrator, 
> Xfig, WMF
> - Added import filters for colour palettes, including allowing palette import 
> from EPS/AI files
> - Major improvements to the handling of solid colours, as well as new colour 
> palettes
> - Drag and drop improvements
> - PDF 1.5 presentation effect support
> - Optional embedding of PDF and EPS files
> - Transform effects for items
> - Path tools for shapes
> - Added more additional default shapes, line patterns and arrowheads
> - A new line editor for custom line styles
> - A new Quick Start Guide in the Help Browser, as well as other major updates 
> and enhancements to the online help
> - Significant enhancements to existing features like the Scrapbook, the Image 
> Manager or the Font Preview
> 
> 
> Furthermore, about 1100 feature requests and bugs, large and small, have been 
> resolved. Detailed overviews of the changes are available here:
> 
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/1.3.x_Roadmap
> 
> and here:
> 
> http://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php
> 
> ==Important Information==
> 
> Please note that we have branched our code repository:
> 
> - 1.3.5 code is available from the "Version135" branch 
> (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/branches/Version135/)
> 
> - trunk (=experimental) is now versioned 1.5.0svn 
> (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/trunk) and has already undergone many changes
> 
> Please update your notes/scripts to reflect this change.
> 
> The Scribus Team still recommends that all distributions package only Scribus 
> 1.3.3.13 or 1.3.3.14svn. We recommend the additional packaging of 1.3.5 only 
> if it is marked as a development version and can be installed alongside an 
> existing Scribus 1.3.3.x (for example as scribus-ng).
> 
> An important reminder:
> If you are working with 1.3.3.x and decide to implement some design features 
> using 1.3.5, you should only work with a copy of your file, since once it is 
> saved in 1.3.5 format, you will not be able to open it again with 1.3.3.x. 
> 
> Similarly, if you are working with a team, try to make sure that all team 
> members use the same Scribus version -- this will avoid many headaches and 
> extra work.
> 
> ==Primary Download Location==
> 
> Windows and Mac OSX installers, as well as the source code are available here:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel
> 
> 
> ==Further Download Options==
> 
> - Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net
> 
> - Fedora 10, 11 RPMS: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
> 
> - openSUSE 11.0+ and SLED RPMs: 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
> 
> - Mandriva 2009 RPM*: 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Mandriva_2009/ 
> 
> *) A package for 2009.1 is not yet available because of a dependency issue.
> 
> ==Source Verification==
> 
> sha1sum scribus-1.3.5.0.tar.bz2 654f68f7651697de480c43ad8e1875e5284c8ec1
> 
> sha1sum scribus-1.3.5.0.7z ae278e2bec8d402117849373e10877ec63ce8655
> 
> ==Credits==
> 
> The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting for their 
> continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites.
> 
> As of July 2009, the Scribus Team is also pleased to welcome Resene Colours 
> (New Zealand) and Marabu-Druckfarben (Germany) as Special Supporters and 
> donors of colour palettes, most of which will become part of the 1.4 release. 
> 
> Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, 
> testers and contributors who helped us with this important release.
> 
> 
> ==About Scribus==
> 
> Scribus is an award-winning, cross-platform Open-Source page layout 
> application with a focus on high-quality and commercial-grade PDF and 
> PostScript output. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus runs natively on 
> Mac OS X, OS/2, many forms of UNIX and Windows 2000/XP/Vista by now.
> 
> Underneath a user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing 
> features, such as CMYK colour, spot colours, separations, ICC colour 
> management, printing marks and versatile PDF creation, including PDF/X.
> 
> Encouraged by professionals and beginners alike, the Scribus Team, supported 
> by a large and constantly growing number of enthusiastic contributors from 
> all over the world, is dedicated to improve "one of the most powerful and 
> useful open-source projects out there" (TechRepublic).
> 
> ==Links==
> 
> - Scribus Website: http://www.scribus.net
> - Scribus Wiki: http://wiki.scribus.net
> - Scribus Developer Blog: http://rants.scribus.net/
> - Bugtracker: http://bugs.scribus.net
> 
> - Scribus General Mailing List: 
> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus
> - Scribus Development Mailing List: 
> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus-dev
> 
> - Scribus IRC Channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#scribus
> - Scribus Development IRC Channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#scribus-dev