On Tuesday 21 April 2009 02:36:06 am mrdocs wrote: > The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of > Scribus 1.3.3.13 and the first beta release of 1.3.5 from > the development series. > > > -- 1.3.3.13 / stable release -- > > This release add the following: > * Several fixes and improvements to gradients and PDF > export. * More translation and documentation updates. > * Improvements to the Scripter to enable more features. > > In addition to the release of a new stable version, the > Scribus Documentation Team has recently completed its > task and published a 450-page printed Official Scribus > Manual for Scribus 1.3.3.x. The book is the most complete > documentation of Scribus's many features so far. It's > available for orders directly from the publisher > (http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1.3manual) or via online > bookstores. > > -- The first 1.3.5 beta release -- > > Concurrently, the team is pleased to announce the long > awaited first beta of the 1.3.5 development branch which > will eventually lead towards the next stable 1.4.x > release. > > 1.3.5 is a major release with many new features, a > rewritten canvas and text layout engine and a complete > port of Scribus to QT4. Almost 1000 bugs and feature > requests were resolved during this release. Notably, > performance and stability are dramatically improved on > MacOSX. > > While we are not announcing a complete string freeze for > the 1.3.5 release, we would encourage translators to > begin the process as the time to 1.3.5 release is close > with all roadmap issues now resolved. We expect a total > string freeze within a week. > > 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 packaging 1.3.5svn > releases if they are marked as experimental or > development only.
Since 1.3.3.13 still doesn't work here I suggest that the 1.3.3.12 release still be kept available. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com
