[scribus] Announce: Scribus 1.3.3.13 and First 1.3.5 Beta Release

[mrdocs]

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