[scribus-dev] Announcement: Scribus 1.4.3 Released

[Craig Bradney]

Dear Scribus users,

We have finally released Scribus 1.4.3., which includes some new features and many bugfixes (more in
the official announcement below).

A coloured HTML version can be found at http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.4.3_Release.


Scribus 1.4.3 Released
Providing a Port to Haiku OS, New Professional Color Tools and QR Barcode Support
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The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.3. Like the previous version,
this is mostly a bugfixing release, but there are also some important enhancements.


What's new?
===========

- Scribus has been ported to the Haiku operating system. For more information see:
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Installing_Scribus_on_Haiku

- The Barcode Writer has been updated and supports many more barcodes, including QR.

- The Galaxy Gauge (TM) color matching system and color tools have been included.

- New color palettes from government agencies (Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom)
have been included.

- More Open Source color palettes have been included.

- Improvements to the build system.

- Improvements to the Preflight Verifier.

- The A4 page size limit of TeX-rendered graphics in Render Frames has been removed.

- The Short Words plug-in now supports Danish.

- Many updates to the Online Manual.


Most important bugfixes
=======================

-   Disabled hyphenation on some Linux distributions is working again.
-   Some unit conversion issues have been fixed.
-   Display issues related to Ubuntu's Unity interface have been fixed.
-   Some fixes to wrong or irritating UI behavior.
-   Memory management in connection with the new Hyphenator has been optimized.
-   Issues with the Clang compiler have been fixed.
-   Scribus now supports Pillow as an alternative to the Python Imaging Library.
-   Many translation updates.

For a complete list of changes see: http://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=86 and
http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-commit

The Scribus Team would like to thank Giovanni Mugnai for porting Scribus to Haiku, as well as
Christian Hitz for updating the Barcode Writer.

We are also especially grateful to Scientific Illustration Services, Inc. (USA) and Mike Wofsey for
making the Galaxy Gauge (TM) color matching system and related color tools available to Scribus
users under an Open Source licence and for joining the group of Scribus's Special Supporters.


Primary Download Locations
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-   Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X and the source code are available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.3

-   Debian/Ubuntu repository: http://debian.scribus.net/

-   Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs

-   OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs

-   A ZIP archive for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation is available under:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.3

-   A portable version for Windows is available from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Scribus%20Portable/

-   An installer for Haiku will be available soon under:
http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/productivity/desktop-publishing/scribus-publishing-and-layout

-   Packaging for *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana is beyond our influence. We recommend updating the
respective repository data on a regular basis.

-   All download options are listed at: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download


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

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Source                        scribus-1.4.3.7z           e24276e6d9c07ce7a3577368f51eabf9ee523af8
OS X Leopard or higher (DMG)  scribus-1.4.3.dmg          380dbd4ba8ed3e9d617a066ff73cc7bc04c3edb3
OS X Leopard or higher (PKG)  scribus-1.4.3.pkg          6ee83abc4f9d1c7f9530ea4bf8bfd68f1d13f0eb
Windows 32/64 Bit             scribus-1.4.3-windows.exe  32eab419819964d8f6c8c84e7009f1c0fdffd0fe
Windows 64 Bit                scribus-1.4.3-windows-x64.exe
                                                         4daecac93b9a4a40c2af6b1092cabd01c1b9a15c
Windows PortableApps.com Format ScribusPortable_1.4.3.paf.exe
                                                         a4544c73a303e25d03692bc1ee856b59a3409a4f
OS/2 and eComStation          scribus-1.4.3-os2ecs.zip   a146a95a7401ad6af3a67e8c2f65c4d4 (MD5SUM)
Haiku Installer               Scribus143_Haiku_Installer.zip 	n/a


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 (France) and Linux New Media
(Germany) for sponsoring.

The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg
(Germany), GiveLife Color System (Spain), and Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA) as
Special Supporters and donors of color palettes 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.