[scribus] Announce: Scribus 1.3.5RC1 and code repository branched for future releases

[Alison Saylor]

Nice work!  Thank you!

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote:
> The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of
> Scribus 1.3.5 (1.3.5RC1)
>
>
> This release adds the following over the previous beta release:
> * Major locale updates for decimal handling
> * Preferences are reset due to the locale changes
> * Updates to style management
> * Fixes for text formatting, undo/redo, and some crash fixes
> * General speed increases
> * More translation updates
>
> Please note we have now branched our code repository:
> * 1.3.5 will be released from the new branches/Version135 branch
>  (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/branches/Version135/)
> * trunk is now versioned 1.5.0svn and remains the development area
>  (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/trunk)
> Please update your notes/scripts to reflect this change.
>
>
> 1.3.5 will be a major release with many new features, a rewritten canvas
> and text layout engine and a complete port of Scribus to Qt4. Almost
> 1100 bugs and feature requests were resolved during this release period.
> Notably, performance and stability are dramatically improved on MacOSX.
>
>
> Scribus 1.4.0 is planned to be released based on 1.3.5 code.
>
>
> With 1.3.5, the minimum Qt version supported is Qt 4.4.0, so
> installing it on older Linux distributions may be difficult. In
> addition, users should be warned that 1.3.3.x cannot open 1.3.5 files.
> So users are recommended to only use backups or duplicate copies when
> opening older version files with 1.3.5.
>
>
> We now recommend all distributions package only Scribus 1.3.3.13. We
> would only recommend additional packaging of 1.3.5svn releases if they
> are marked as experimental or development only.
>
>  -- Primary Download Location --
> Binaries, Source and some rpms (updated May 18, 2009):
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235
>
>  -- Further Download Options --
> Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net
> Ubuntu users are advised to see:
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running
>
> Fedora 9, 10 RPMS:
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_9/
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_10/
>
> openSUSE 10.x, 11,11.0,11.1, SLE 10, 11 RPMs:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
>
> Mandriva 2009 RPM:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Mandriva_2009/
>
>  -- Source Verification --
>
> sha1sum  scribus-1.3.5.rc1.tar.bz2 89f86c059309202341912bbc6978de390fcc0a71
> sha1sum  scribus-1.3.5.rc1.7z  ff29600d54ba60dee3a4a8b2f6eedc7fcc2a5135
>
> The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby
> Consulting for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites.
>
> The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users,
> translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this
> release.
>
> About Scribus:
>
> Scribus is a cross-platform open source page layout application with a
> focus on high quality commercial grade PDF and postscript export.
> Originally developed on Linux, Scribus runs natively on Mac OS X,
> OS/2, most forms of Unix and Windows 2000/XP.
>
> Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports
> professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, spot colors,
> separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus
> was the first page layout application on the planet to directly support
> PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard.
>
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