1.5.1 Release

The Scribus Team is very pleased to announce the release of the development version Scribus 1.5.1, which 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.

Most Important Changes

An instantly visible improvement is a new and modern icon set, which almost exclusively uses grayscale variants.

Scribus 1.5.1 also provides some exciting new features, the most important of which are:

Support for the CIE L*a*b* and CIE HLC color models, which are also available in the color editor;

Support for SwatchBooker's SBZ file format, which means, among others, that all color palettes from the Open Colour Systems Collection (http://dtpstudio.de/downloads/OCSC_1_0.zip) can be used inside Scribus with their original colour model (CIE L*a*b*) intact. Moreover, Scribus 1.5.1 can now use Adobe Color Book files (ACO), as well as Adobe Swatch Exchange files (ASE).

The import filter for XPress Tags is finally working as expected (some minor glitches notwithstanding) and has been tested with XTG files from XPress 3 to 2015;

Two oft-requested text import filters have finally made their way into Scribus, namely RTF and DOCX;

Scribus 1.5.1 enables applying a background color for selected text and also offers this option for character and paragraph styles;

The ODT importer has been rewritten from scratch and now not only supports more ODT features, but is also much more tolerant with ODT files written by programs other than LibreOffice or OpenOffice.

An experimental version of an import filter for FreeHand files has been added;

PDF import has been massively improved;

The font embedding code, as well as the related user interface, has been completely rewritten;

The Resource Manager for online resources provides a new option to show the licence for the respective resource before downloading.

As of version 1.5.1, Scribus includes two new color palettes, namely CIE LAB and CIE HLC. They are the first palettes in Scribus to use CIE L*a*b* color values, and they refer to affordable color fans that use an open and non-proprietary color model. We plan to use CIE L*a*b* for all of our palettes (where possible) in the future.

In addition, Scribus 1.5.1 includes many bugfixes, most of which are related to newly introduced features in 1.5.0. The Scribus Team also subjected version 1.5.1svn to a Coverity scan to detect potential security and stability issues. Many of these have already been addressed in this release.

An overview is available here: http://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_set.php?type=1&temporary=y&project_id=1&fixed_in_version=1.5.1svn (reported bugs and feature requests) and here: http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-commit/ (actual changes, including unreported bugs).

Caveats

Please note that the online help system hasn't been completely updated yet, and it probably be won't be until the final release of Scribus 1.6.0.
Some newly introduced features since 1.5.0, like footnotes, are "program-stable", i.e., they won't crash Scribus 1.5.1, but not "feature-stable", which means they may sometimes not work as expected for the time being.

Primary Download Locations

Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X, a Linux AppImage and the source code are available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.1/
Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
Packaging for other Linux distributions, *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana is beyond our influence. We recommend updating the respective repository data on a regular basis.

Download Verification

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Windows 32/64 Bit	scribus-1.5.1-windows-r2.exe	dc3568cb7f29d19a62dc93914c3550ed5bbc59db5577c17c63d78e61a2743ddb	95fe842e3b26f5ec19f48ea47431f7fe8525b425
Windows 64 Bit	scribus-1.5.1-windows-x64-r2.exe	e175b18dfd9bc47841fb9915f3e4571ea64e5e73316999946fa86758dcaf3f22	65996202452fc253b5a3955ff33699d1313b9767
Windows PortableApps.com Format	ScribusPortableTest_1.5.1.paf.exe	aa8ec26c8297d8e006eb31d9f65da8ecff8bd24fc9fb716bd074f7ab748b5130	cec6f6f9983bd34a81a137649ea2f1d0567648b9
Linux AppImage [1]	scribus-1.5.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage	0a4fb4f3336456dc708d47e25dff2c17ed62b9b1372d09dcdda129ffdb8680bb	c8ada38414e8e1c0b91f1439cf0282df48ab8da8

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 and Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring.

The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg (Germany), Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA), the Newspaper Association of America (USA), Software Consulting Services (USA) and freieFarbe (Germany) as Special Supporters and donors of color palettes and other content 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).

For this release, the Scribus Team takes a deep bow to Dezso Markon for his wonderful artwork.

Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release.