[scribus] Forthcoming Scribus releases

[john Culleton]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:53:40 +0100 (BST)
"robwhite.watford at tiscali.co.uk"
<robwhite.watford at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Craig,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I appreciate the effort that you 
> guys are putting into each release. It's just
> that I was looking for a chance to claim an
> official Scribus 1.5.0 tee shirt on release
> day. ;-)
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >----Original Message----
> >From: 
> cbradney at scribus.info
> >Date: 22/09/2014 19:39 
> >To: <scribus at lists.
> scribus.net>
> >Subj: Re: [scribus] Forthcoming Scribus
> >releases
> >
> >Hi 
> Rob
> >
> >
> >> 
> >> But can some kind soul please confirm that
> >> the UI is 
> getting a 
> >> major overhaul and that 1.6 alpha will have
> >> no backwards 
> compatibility 
> >> with 1.4? 
>

And to answer your compatibility question 1.5.0
and 1.6.0 will read files from earlier versions
but earlier versions won't read files from these
two later versions. It were always thus--forward
da, backward nyet.

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John Culleton
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