[Indlinux-group] Fwd: [scribus] Scribus 1.5.2 released

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Old message but look out for Scribus 1.5.3 release.

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From: "Christoph Schäfer" <chr...@gm...>
Date: Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:21 AM
Subject: [scribus] Scribus 1.5.2 released
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The Scribus Team is very pleased to announce the release of the
development version Scribus 1.5.2, which is another major step onto
the next fully-featured version 1.6.0. In terms of stability, 1.5.2
can be already be regarded as robust. The Scribus Team encourages the
wide-spread use and testing of version 1.5.2 in as many environments
as possible. User feedback will help us to release a rock-solid
version 1.6.0.


Most Important Changes
======================

- The text layout engine has been rewritten from scratch in
preparation for support of complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew,
Chinese and Hindi coming in Scribus 1.5.3 and later. We are more than
grateful for the magnificent work that the Oman House of Open Source
Technology team, led by Khaled Hosny, completed.

- Within the context of the text layout system rewrite, some new text
features introduced with the 1.5.0 release have been stabilized and
improved.

- Improvements to the canvas rendering on Hi-DPI screens.

- The Autosave and File Recovery system has seen large improvements
and is now highly configurable.

- The Resource Manager, as well as the official Scribus Resources pool
have been expanded significantly, because Scribus 1.5.2 provides
direct access to the more than 300 (mostly commercial) color palettes
of the Open Colour Systems Collection in the LAB color space. We would
like to thank dtp studio oldenburg and the initiative freieFarbe for
making these color palettes available under a CC license. The Resource
Manager user interface has received some enhancements.

- The Resource Manager now verifies resource downloads from Scribus
servers with SHA256 checksums.


A complete changelog is available here:
https://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_bug_page.php?filter=161020

A full data sheet (PDF) is available here:
https://wiki.scribus.net/wiki/images/9/93/Scribus-specs-152.pdf


Caveats
=======

- Please note that the online help system hasn't been updated yet, and
it probably be won't be until the final release of Scribus 1.6.0.
However, with Scribus 1.5.2, Scribus now supports downloading of the
online help manual and as this work is completed within Scribus 1.5.3,
we will decouple the release of the help manual from the main
application which will allow more regular updates to the help system.

- Some newly introduced features since 1.5.0, like footnotes, tables,
ordered/un-ordered lists are "program-stable", i.e., they won't crash
Scribus 1.5.1, but not "feature-stable", which means they may
sometimes not work as expected for the time being.

- There will be more wide sweeping changes coming in 1.5.3 relating to
text system updates for the complex language system support. People
using Scribus 1.5.1 or 1.5.2 should ensure they keep document backups
and the old versions installed prior to testing 1.5.3.svn and the
1.5.3 release when it arrives.


Dependencies
============

- Qt 5.3 or higher is now required

- cairo 1.14 or higher is now required

- Other dependencies will be reviewed in 1.5.3



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/1.5.2/

- 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.


Download Verification
=====================

Please visit the official announcement on
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.5.2_Release for Sha256 and Sha1
checksums.


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) and freieFarbe (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 Mensys
BV (The Netherlands) and 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.



An HTML version of this announcement with screenshots is availble
here: https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.5.2_Release

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