[scribus] [scribus-dev] Announcement: Scribus 1.4.3 Released - Debian and Ubuntu packages

Tue Jul 30 21:42:32 UTC 2013

Slight correction about the Debian/Ubuntu installs. Please see 
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Debian for the information on how to get 
Scribus for any of the seven supported Debian and Ubuntu releases. Do 
not try to download .deb files from http://debian.scribus.net/ .

Regards,

Alex

On 07/30/2013 05:23 PM, Craig Bradney wrote:
> Dear Scribus users,
>
> We have finally released Scribus 1.4.3., which includes some new features and many bugfixes (more in
> the official announcement below).
>
> A coloured HTML version can be found at http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.4.3_Release.
>
>
> Scribus 1.4.3 Released
> Providing a Port to Haiku OS, New Professional Color Tools and QR Barcode Support
> =================================================================================
>
> The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.3. Like the previous version,
> this is mostly a bugfixing release, but there are also some important enhancements.
>
>
> What's new?
> ===========
>
> - Scribus has been ported to the Haiku operating system. For more information see:
> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Installing_Scribus_on_Haiku
>
> - The Barcode Writer has been updated and supports many more barcodes, including QR.
>
> - The Galaxy Gauge (TM) color matching system and color tools have been included.
>
> - New color palettes from government agencies (Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom)
> have been included.
>
> - More Open Source color palettes have been included.
>
> - Improvements to the build system.
>
> - Improvements to the Preflight Verifier.
>
> - The A4 page size limit of TeX-rendered graphics in Render Frames has been removed.
>
> - The Short Words plug-in now supports Danish.
>
> - Many updates to the Online Manual.
>
>
> Most important bugfixes
> =======================
>
> -   Disabled hyphenation on some Linux distributions is working again.
> -   Some unit conversion issues have been fixed.
> -   Display issues related to Ubuntu's Unity interface have been fixed.
> -   Some fixes to wrong or irritating UI behavior.
> -   Memory management in connection with the new Hyphenator has been optimized.
> -   Issues with the Clang compiler have been fixed.
> -   Scribus now supports Pillow as an alternative to the Python Imaging Library.
> -   Many translation updates.
>
> For a complete list of changes see: http://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=86 and
> http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-commit
>
> The Scribus Team would like to thank Giovanni Mugnai for porting Scribus to Haiku, as well as
> Christian Hitz for updating the Barcode Writer.
>
> We are also especially grateful to Scientific Illustration Services, Inc. (USA) and Mike Wofsey for
> making the Galaxy Gauge (TM) color matching system and related color tools available to Scribus
> users under an Open Source licence and for joining the group of Scribus's Special Supporters.
>
>
> Primary Download Locations
> ==========================
>
> -   Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X and the source code are available here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.3
>
> -   Debian/Ubuntu repository: http://debian.scribus.net/
>
> -   Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
>
> -   OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
>
> -   A ZIP archive for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation is available under:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.3
>
> -   A portable version for Windows is available from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Scribus%20Portable/
>
> -   An installer for Haiku will be available soon under:
> http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/productivity/desktop-publishing/scribus-publishing-and-layout
>
> -   Packaging for *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana is beyond our influence. We recommend updating the
> respective repository data on a regular basis.
>
> -   All download options are listed at: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download
>
>
> Download Verification
> =====================
>
> Description                   File Name 	         Sha1sum
> Source 	                      scribus-1.4.3.tar.xz       30c111762790e4407c13236bbb4b06f04e907f71
> Source                        scribus-1.4.3.7z           e24276e6d9c07ce7a3577368f51eabf9ee523af8
> OS X Leopard or higher (DMG)  scribus-1.4.3.dmg          380dbd4ba8ed3e9d617a066ff73cc7bc04c3edb3
> OS X Leopard or higher (PKG)  scribus-1.4.3.pkg          6ee83abc4f9d1c7f9530ea4bf8bfd68f1d13f0eb
> Windows 32/64 Bit             scribus-1.4.3-windows.exe  32eab419819964d8f6c8c84e7009f1c0fdffd0fe
> Windows 64 Bit                scribus-1.4.3-windows-x64.exe
>                                                           4daecac93b9a4a40c2af6b1092cabd01c1b9a15c
> Windows PortableApps.com Format ScribusPortable_1.4.3.paf.exe
>                                                           a4544c73a303e25d03692bc1ee856b59a3409a4f
> OS/2 and eComStation          scribus-1.4.3-os2ecs.zip   a146a95a7401ad6af3a67e8c2f65c4d4 (MD5SUM)
> Haiku Installer               Scribus143_Haiku_Installer.zip 	n/a
>
>
> Credits
> =======
>
> The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their continued hosting of all of
> the Scribus websites.
>
> We are grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (France) and Linux New Media
> (Germany) for sponsoring.
>
> The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg
> (Germany), GiveLife Color System (Spain), and Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA) as
> Special Supporters and donors of color palettes since the 1.4.x release, just like we are grateful
> to the owner of Vector Portal for the permission to distribute some of his work as Scribus Templates.
>
> Porting Scribus to OS/2 and eComStation is being supported by Mensys BV (The Netherlands) and
> Serenity Systems (USA).
>
> Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and
> contributors who helped us with this release.
>
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