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

[Craig Bradney]

John Culleton wrote:
> On Monday 18 May 2009 18:02:17 Craig Bradney 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.
> 
> So will the next stable release be 1.3.5 or 1.4.0? 
> 

1.4.0 will be the next stable (post 1.3.3.x)

1.3.5svn is/was our development branch, hence 1.3.5 will be a
development release. After 1.3.5 we will stabilise this code to get it
to a level where we think it can be released as 1.4.0.

Craig