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Scribus Changelog

What's new in Scribus 1.5.5

Aug 6, 2019
  • Unlike previous versions of 1.5.x, changes in this version have taken place mostly under the hood and include a large refactoring effort to make the code easier to read, easier to maintain and to increase speed. In addition, many bugs have been fixed, the most noticeable ones being related to the new text engine and its handling of complex scripts.

New in Scribus 1.5.3 (May 30, 2017)

  • 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 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, harfbuzz-icu 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.

New in Scribus 1.5.2 (May 18, 2016)

  • 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.

New in Scribus 1.5.1 (Feb 14, 2016)

  • Scribus 1.5.1 is another major step onto the next fully-featured version 1.6.0. In terms of stability, 1.5.1 can be already be regarded as robust. The Scribus Team encourages the wide-spread use and testing of version 1.5.1 in as many environments as possible. User feedback will help us to release a rock-solid version 1.6.0.

New in Scribus 1.4.6 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Scribus 1.4.6 finally supports SVG blend modes.
  • Improvements to Scribus’s PDF export.
  • Improvements to hyphenation.
  • Translation and documentation updates.
  • As of version 1.4.6, Scribus includes four new color palettes, namely CIE LAB and CIE HLC, both of which are available in a CMYK and an sRGB version. They refer to affordable color fans that use an open and non-proprietary color model.

New in Scribus 1.5.0 (May 24, 2015)

  • Most Important Technical Changes:
  • Scribus 1.5.0 uses Qt 5 as its UI toolkit. The minimum version to compile Scribus from source is Qt 5.4.
  • The file format has undergone significant changes and may change even further before the release of 1.6.0. Thus, files created or edited in 1.5.0 cannot be opened in earlier versions of Scribus. Potential changes to the file format on the road to 1.6.0 notwithstanding, the Scribus Team will work very hard to make sure that files created by 1.5.0 and the following technology previews can be opened reliably in the next stable release.
  • Unfortunately we cannot offer GraphicsMagick and Open Scene Graph support for all platforms yet, whereas on Linux (and probably *BSD), GM and and OSG have become new dependencies.
  • Scribus will detect an installed version of UniConvertor and use it to import some of the vector formats supported by this program into Scribus.
  • Most Important New Features:
  • The user interface has been overhauled and restructured in many places. For example, the context menu takes a lot less screen estate than before, and the Document Setup / Preferences dialog has been rewritten from scratch. The Scribus Team is aware of the remaining deficiencies and will work on resolving these issues before the release of 1.6.0. In some cases inconsistencies in the UI (e.g. the "Drop Shadow" tab in the Properties Palette) have been deliberately left in place to receive feedback from users as to which way they prefer.
  • Scribus can now store bitmap images within its native file format. Previously it was only possible to link to external images.
  • Scribus 1.5.0 now offers a "Symbol" or clone feature similar to Adobe Illustrator: If one master object (Symbol) has been modified, all of its copies (clones) are being modified as well.
  • With the new "Weld" feature, objects can be combined and moved without being "grouped", i.e., each object remains fully editable.

New in Scribus 1.4.4 (May 29, 2014)

  • PDF/X-1a export.
  • The Barcode plug-in has been updated to reflect the latest changes in the underlying Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript (BWIPP).
  • The Autoquote script has been rewritten and enhanced. It now provides more options and adds thin spaces to French texts where appropriate.
  • A script to align images in frames has been added.
  • Full support of the OpenICC Directory Proposal (http://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=OpenIccDirectoryProposal).
  • The handling of transparencies in Photoshop-generated TIFF files has been improved.
  • Page borders can now act as guides (and thus be used for snapping of items).
  • The CMYK color palette created by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) for newspaper advertisements has been integrated into Scribus.
  • A new color palette for professional geographers has been added.
  • Export to various bitmap formats has been re-enabled on Mac OS X.
  • Several issues related to the user interface and canvas display have been resolved.
  • Adjustments for Windows 8.x.
  • An issue with the spellchecker, resulting in a crash, has been resolved.
  • Documentation and translation updates and improvements.

New in Scribus 1.4.0 RC5 (Jun 19, 2011)

  • Fixes were made for the Story Editor, Styles, and buggy fonts.
  • Support was added for CUPS 1.5.

New in Scribus 1.4.0 RC3 (Mar 30, 2011)

  • Crash bugs were fixed.
  • A lot of undo updates were made (including updates to text undo).
  • Usability fixes were made.
  • A move was made to 140 versioned preference files.
  • A number of older bugs were triaged and fixed.

New in Scribus 1.3.8 (Jul 28, 2010)

  • During this development period the team focused again on stability and correctness.

New in Scribus 1.3.7 (Jun 4, 2010)

  • 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

New in Scribus 1.3.6 (Mar 29, 2010)

  • Compared to the work on Scribus 1.3.5, the development of Scribus 1.3.6 was focussed on stabilising the code base, and especially on weeding out issues that were mostly due to the porting of the code from Qt3 to Qt4.
  • Almost 150 bugs have been fixed since the release of 1.3.5. In addition, Scribus 1.3.6 provides some minor enhancements:
  • New Scripter functions
  • Usability improvements
  • Translation updates
  • More colour palettes
  • Updates to the documentation
  • Build instructions for OpenSolaris
  • 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.

New in Scribus 1.3.5.0 (Aug 13, 2009)

  • 1.3.5 is based on Qt 4 (the minimum required to run 1.3.5 is Qt 4.4.0)
  • A native OS X version, available as DMG file (Universal Binary)
  • Improved menu integration with OS X
  • Large parts of the canvas and text code have been rewritten
  • A new frame type called Render Frames, which allows for rendering markup languages like LaTeX or POV-Ray inside Scribus
  • Added import filters for the following vector formats: Adobe Illustrator, Xfig, WMF
  • Added import filters for colour palettes, including allowing palette import from EPS/AI files
  • Major improvements to the handling of solid colours, as well as new colour palettes
  • Drag and drop improvements
  • PDF 1.5 presentation effect support
  • Optional embedding of PDF and EPS files
  • Transform effects for items
  • Path tools for shapes
  • Added more additional default shapes, line patterns and arrowheads
  • A new line editor for custom line styles
  • A new Quick Start Guide in the Help Browser, as well as other major updates and enhancements to the online help
  • Significant enhancements to existing features like the Scrapbook, the Image Manager or the Font Preview

New in Scribus 1.3.5 RC3 (Jul 8, 2009)

  • The changes are as follows: Several fixes and improvements to gradients and PDF export, translation and documentation updates, and improvements to the Scripter to enable more features. A 450-page printed Official Scribus Manual for Scribus 1.3.3.x is now available for order, and is the most complete documentation of Scribus' many features so far.