June 19th, 2011· Fixes were made for the Story Editor, Styles, and buggy fonts.
· Support was added for CUPS 1.5.
March 30th, 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.
July 28th, 2010· During this development period the team focused again on stability and correctness.
June 4th, 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
March 29th, 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.
August 13th, 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
July 8th, 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.