[CREATE] Scribus 1.5.3 released

Wed May 31 16:36:52 UTC 2017

Hi Christoph

Congrats on the great release, it brings many things we've wanted for
years. :)

As soon as we can build it in Archlinux [1] we'll switch to it as our daily
driver.

Cheers

[1] https://github.com/scribusproject/scribus/issues/89

2017-05-29 1:01 GMT-03:00 "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>:

> The Scribus Team is proud to announce the release of development release
> 1.5.3, another major step on the way to Scribus 1.6.0.
> In addition to being a milestone in terms of typographic features, the
> Scribus Team is convinced that 1.5.3 has become stable enough to be used in
> new workflows and documents in a similar way to the transition from 1.3.3.x
> to 1.4.0 after the release of version 1.3.6. However, care must be taken,
> because this is still a development release.
> Scribus 1.5.3 is very fast and has been thoroughly tested. Generally,
> everything that works reliably in 1.4.x also works in 1.5.3, but it's
> faster and more versatile. On top of that, it includes additional and
> already overwhelmingly reliant features galore.
>
> Most Important Changes
> ======================
> - The most important change isn't immediately visible, namely a completely
> rewritten text layout engine, which supports complex scripts like Arabic,
> Hindi or Thai, as well as providing access to advanced OpenType features,
> such as ligatures and alternate glyphs.
> - Altogether, about 500 languages and/or scripts are supported. Please
> note that as of version 1.5.3, Scribus is supposed to render these diverse
> writing systems, which still needs thorough testing by those who are
> familiar with them.
> - Typing on the canvas and text rendering in general has become a lot
> faster.
> - Previews for fonts are now available in font selectors.
> - The "Text" tab has been removed from the Properties Palette and is now a
> separate UI palette.
> - The performance of copying and pasting objects in/from/to files with
> huge color palettes has been vastly improved.
> - An import filter for Krita's KRA format has been added.
> - Scribus now follows the XDG standard for configuration files. Therefore,
> the Scribus preferences directory has moved from ~/.scribus/ to a new
> default location: ~/.config/scribus/
> - Color selectors display the color values as a tooltip.
> - A longstanding problem with the launch option for an external image
> editing program has been resolved. Until version 1.5.3 it was necessary to
> manually close the external program before it could be started again from
> within Scribus. This is no longer necessary.
> - The "Wikipedia RAL Classic" color palette has been updated, this time
> using Wikipedia's LAB color values.
> - A script called "Caption" has been included, which adds a text frame to
> an image frame, based on the latter's proportions.
> - The "Autoquote" scripts now supports inverted guillemets via the "de-g"
> parameter.
> - Code improvements have been made based on recommendations from using
> both the Coverity scan tool (https://scan.coverity.com/) and the "clazy"
> tool (https://github.com/KDE/clazy). These changes improved efficiency,
> removed bugs and improved security.
> - Countless bugs, mostly introduced with the new features in earlier
> releases of 1.5.x, have been fixed. For details see the 1.5.3svn changelog (
> https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=102)
>
> New Dependencies
> ================
> - As of version 1.5.3, the minimum Qt version to compile the program is
> 5.5.
> - harfbuzz and libicu, as well as the related development packages are now
> required.
>
> Caveats
> - Some newly introduced features, like footnotes, may not function as
> desired, at least not yet.
> - The file format may undergo some changes between the current release and
> 1.6.0, so we advise caution when it comes to workflows that use automated
> document generation or parsing.
> - Vertical writing systems aren't supported for the time being, but
> support will be added in a later release.
> - The Online Help hasn't been completely updated, and it won't be until
> the final 1.6.0 release.
>
> Special Credits
> ===============
> - This version builds significantly on the code from 1.5.2 with the work
> that the Oman House of Open Source Technology team, led by Khaled Hosny,
> delivered.
> - 1.5.3 uses all of the remainder of the code, and we have Fahad Al-Saidi
> to thank for his continued work and especially for the bug triaging and
> code changes.
> - Andreas Vox introduced a layout cache to speed up text rendering.
> - William Bader has fixed the issue of launching several instances of an
> external image editing program.
> - Contributions to GUI translations via participants on the Transifex
> translation platform
>
> Primary Download Locations
> ==========================
> - Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X, a Linux AppImage and the
> source code are available here: https://sourceforge.net/
> projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.3/
> - Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/
> repositories/home:/mrdocs
> - OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/
> repositories/home:/mrdocs
> - Packaging for other Linux distributions, *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana
> is beyond our influence. We recommend updating the respective repository
> data on a regular basis.
> - Windows Portable App: http://portableapps.com/apps/
> office/scribus_portable#test
>
> Download Verification
> =====================
>
> Please visit the official announcement on https://wiki.scribus.net/
> canvas/1.5.3_Release for Sha256 and Sha1 checksums.
>
> Expectations for Scribus 1.5.4
> ==============================
> - An entire rebuild of the palette system used in Scribus, enabling a
> cleaner and more flexible GUI
> - Updates to dependencies, with a likely increase to Qt 5.6
> - Migration of build systems or targeted versions of operating systems to
> later versions
>
> 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 and
> Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring.
>
> The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp
> studio Oldenburg (Germany), Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA),
> the Newspaper Association of America (USA), Software Consulting Services
> (USA), freieFarbe e.V. (Germany), bauwerk Kommunikationsdesign (Germany) as
> Special Supporters and donors of color palettes and other content 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 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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