News 2009-07-06

=Scribus 1.3.5 Release Candidate 3 Available= The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the third release candidate of Scribus 1.3.5 (1.3.5.RC3) This release adds the following over the previous release candidate:   Fixes to the story editor  Some PDF/CJK export fixes  Scripter and Image Frame fixes Import/export plugins for text and image frames updated  As noted with the prior RC announcements, please note we have branched our code repository:  1.3.5 will be released from the new branches/Version135 branch (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/branches/Version135/) trunk is now versioned 1.5.0svn and remains the development area (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/trunk) and has already undergone many changes in the last month  Please update your notes/scripts to reflect this change. 1.3.5 will be a major release with many new features, a rewritten canvas and text layout engine and a complete port of Scribus to Qt4. Almost 1100 bugs and feature requests were resolved during this release period. Scribus 1.4.0 will be released based on 1.3.5 code. 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 additional packaging of 1.3.5svn/1.5.0svn releases if they are marked as experimental or development only. Primary Download Location Windows and Mac OSX installers Binaries, Source and some RPMs are available here (updated July 4, 2009): http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235 Further Download Options  Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net Ubuntu users are advised to see: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_running</li> Fedora 10, 11 RPMS: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_10/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_11/</li> openSUSE 11.0+ RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs </li> Mandriva 2009 RPM*: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Mandriva_2009/ * 2009.1 are not yet available because of issues with podofo on Mdv 2009.1</li> Source Verification The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release. </ul>