Waaahoo! Congratulations everyone, I've been looking forward to this. 1.3.5 is a fantastic release!
:) Andy On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> 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. > > > Scribus 1.4.0 is planned to be released based on 1.3.5 code. > > > 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 additional packaging of 1.3.5svn releases if they > are marked as experimental or development only. > > -- Primary Download Location -- > Binaries, Source and some rpms (updated May 18, 2009): > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235 > > -- Further Download Options -- > Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net > Ubuntu users are advised to see: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running > > Fedora 9, 10 RPMS: > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_9/ > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_10/ > > openSUSE 10.x, 11,11.0,11.1, SLE 10, 11 RPMs: > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs > > Mandriva 2009 RPM: > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Mandriva_2009/ > > -- Source Verification -- > > sha1sum scribus-1.3.5.rc1.tar.bz2 89f86c059309202341912bbc6978de390fcc0a71 > sha1sum scribus-1.3.5.rc1.7z ff29600d54ba60dee3a4a8b2f6eedc7fcc2a5135 > > The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net/?verby > Consulting for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. > > The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, > translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this > release. > > About Scribus: > > Scribus is a cross-platform open source page layout application with a > focus on high quality commercial grade PDF and postscript export. > Originally developed on Linux, Scribus runs natively on Mac OS X, > OS/2, most forms of Unix and Windows 2000/XP. > > Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports > professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, spot colors, > separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus > was the first page layout application on the planet to directly support > PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard. > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090519/a9b22c38/attachment.htm>
