[scribus] Announce Scribus 1.3.7 Released

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2010 22:43:05 schrieb mrdocs:
> On 6/3/10 10:23 PM, mrdocs wrote:
>  The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.7.
>  This new release brings us closer to version the next stable release 1.4.
>
>  During this development period the team focused on stabilty and
> correctness.
>
>  Almost 50 bugs have been resolved since the release of 1.3.6. In addition,
>  Scribus 1.3.7 provides some minor enhancements:
>
>  * New Scripter functions
>  * Usability improvements
>  * Translation updates
>  * Updates to the documentation
>  * PDF bookmark export fixes
>  * Text layout fixes
>
>  The Scribus Team considers this version to be quite stable and ready for
>  many real-world use cases. However, since there are still some
>  annoyances that prevent us from releasing version 1.4, more cautious
>  users may want to prefer to stick with the officially stable version
>  1.3.3.14.
>
>  The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and
>  improvements in our 1.5.0 development branch. Features that can be
> backported may become part of the 1.4 milestone.
>
>  ==Important Information==
>
>  Please note that we have branched our code repository:
>
>  * 1.3.8svn code (the next iteration of the development version and
>  prossibly the last before the release of 1.4) is available from the
>  "Version135"branch: (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/branches/Version135/)
>
>  * trunk (=experimental) is now versioned 1.5.0svn
>  (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/trunk) and continues to undergo heavy changes.
>  Please use this branch for testing only!
>
>  The Scribus Team recommends that all distributions package Scribus
> 1.3.3.14 as "Scribus" or "scribus". We recommend the additional packaging
> of 1.3.7 only if it is marked as a development version and can be installed
> alongside an existing Scribus 1.3.3.14 (for example as "scribus-ng").
>
>  An important reminder:
>  If you are working with 1.3.3.x and decide to implement some design
>  features available in 1.3.7, you should only work with a copy of your
> file, since once it is saved in 1.3.7 format, you will not be able to open
> it again with 1.3.3.x.
>
>  Similarly, if you are working with a team, try to make sure that all team
>  members use the same Scribus version -- this will avoid many headaches and
>  extra work.
>
>  ==Primary Download Location==
>
>  Windows and Mac OSX installers, as well as the source code are available
>  here:
>
>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel
>
>  OS/2 installers will be added soon.
>
>
>  ==Further Download Options==
>
>  - Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net
>
>  - Fedora 11, 12, 13 RPMS:
>  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
>
>  - openSUSE 11+ and SLED RPMs:
>  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
>  * Note installing 1.3.7 on SLE11 requires upgrading Qt to 4.5.2, which
> will automatically be provided via yast
>
>  - Mandriva 2010 RPM:
>  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Mandriva_2010/
>
>  ==Source Verification==
>
>  sha1sum scribus-1.3.7.tar.bz2 9a5c68c0d72d4ced86900a80725f34aeb1e4a481
>
>  sha1sum scribus-1.3.7.7z 3b74067c4b1cc62a1e917dcd01f3a49fb626b079
>
>  ==Credits==
>
>  The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting (Norway)
> for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites.
>
>  We are also grateful to Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring.
>
>  Moreover, the Scribus Team is pleased to name Resene Colours (New
> Zealand), dtp studio (Germany), Serenity Systems (USA), Vectorportal
> (Russia) and Marabu-Druckfarben (Germany) as Special Supporters.
>
>  Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users,
> translators,  testers and contributors who helped us with this important
> release.
>
>
>  ==About Scribus==
>
>  Scribus is an award-winning, cross-platform Open-Source page layout
>  application with a focus on high-quality and commercial-grade PDF and
>  PostScript output. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus runs natively on
>  Mac OS X, OS/2, many forms of UNIX and Windows 2000/XP/Vista by now.
>
>  Underneath a user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional
> publishing  features, such as CMYK colour, spot colours, separations, ICC
> colour  management, printing marks and versatile PDF creation, including
> PDF/X.
>
> Encouraged by professionals and beginners alike, the Scribus Team,
> supported by a large and constantly growing number of enthusiastic
> contributors from all over the world, is dedicated to improve "one of the
> most powerful and useful open-source projects out there" (TechRepublic).
>
>  ==Links==
>
>  - Scribus Website: http://www.scribus.net
>  - Scribus Wiki: http://wiki.scribus.net
>  - Scribus Developer Blog: http://rants.scribus.net/
>  - Bugtracker: http://bugs.scribus.net
>
>  - Scribus General Mailing List:
>  http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus
>  - Scribus Development Mailing List:
>  http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus-dev
>
Also, import filters for Mac PICT files and Calamus Vector Graphics (CVG) have 
been backported from 1.5svn.

Christoph