On Sunday 26 April 2009 09:32:48 pm John Beardmore wrote: > mrdocs wrote: > > -- 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. > > Huge thanks ! This certainly feels nicer than the earlier windows svn I > tried. > > Is the way to enable spell checking under windows documented anywhere > though ? > > > Many thanks again, J/.
There is an issue with building the spell checker components at the moment on Windows. Hopefully we can solve it before release. Peter
