1.6.1 Release

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.1. We are releasing Scribus 1.6.1 primarily to fix some text wrapping and hyphenation issues discovered since 1.6.0 was released.

Changes

• Fixes to text wrapping, primarily evident on later versions of mac OS (13/14)
• Fixes to hyphenation
• Update to tell Windows installer to not reboot on installation of the Visual C++ Redistributable package
• Update DublinCore input fields for Document Information tagging
• Clarification of specific PDF/X export versions
• Some scripter improvements
• Update to poppler 24.01 in our builds.

Additional Notes

The complete changelog is available here: https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=120

Primary Download Locations

• Installation packages for Windows, macOS, a Linux AppImage, and the source code are available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.6.1/
• Packaging for the various Linux distributions, will come as those distributions update their packaging. We recommend updating the respective repository data on a regular basis.
• Windows Portable App: http://portableapps.com/apps/office/scribus_portable#test
• OS/2 / eComStation / ArcaOS:

Download Verification

Description	File Name	Sha256sum	Sha1sum
Source	scribus-1.6.1.tar.xz	e09dd78e6db61d01b9321108fededbccd6ec0ab352dd5bafdb8b041f0ef79e99	2c23d6a9d602545433bf3cd5724148f68145e7d2
Source	scribus-1.6.1.7z	df0c9b188343e16c10deaac4b54e4f7d35faf9dba0dd0043bb169259ff63d4e5	249863de970b7673dff57e82ed351edb4aeeda4d
macOS (Intel), macOS 12 and higher	scribus-1.6.1.dmg	b6f788c30b1ca8f628f3d1851859e1831705520e36b59090e5705b7ebc7fcfeb	1810610b13d1c01fc799c594097068eeae73ec0c
macOS (Apple Silicon), macOS 13 and higher	scribus-1.6.1-arm64.dmg	2de62c9312bc0a9532bf6db6eb479b0cb56b10434a0e6aa47de059d3c881ecc8	729ecb46aea8a982113cb704fd157732c60f8d17
Windows 32/64 Bit	scribus-1.6.1-windows.exe	82e7bed899524f2084f698f90fbfc41269c1d3b7c9f22ee8434866f0a51f1cfa	f38d6ba057cac6682851f5299c91f43e0fa96bc7
Windows 64 Bit	scribus-1.6.1-windows-x64.exe	7eaa92581a8262a2f339b7cc4cb8982fa52454d27e6738e23ec14a66db2a8fed	01a22f1f404c7dfe39925a49e177444067d87b1e
Windows PortableApps.com Format	ScribusPortable_1.6.1.paf.exe
Linux 64 bit AppImage [1]	scribus-1.6.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage	dc636f3c93fad729d35abdb15ec9ff6529d154b18b8e640ca926a5f064a0338e	9c0443af32285b639666c2ea6d4d5cb4426deec9
OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS	.exe

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Future

Scribus 1.7.x is the new unstable series. While we will maintain Scribus 1.6.x as a stable version, most development will focus on 1.7.x and features and Qt6-based enhancements. 1.7.0.svn is developing relatively quickly with the integration of a new palette and docking system, new SVG based icons and many more features.

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Release Dependencies

The versions of packages listed below are those we have packaged Scribus 1.6.1 with on macOS and Windows, but may be higher than minimum requirements.

boost	1.76
cairo	1.17.6
freetype	2.13.2
harfbuzz	8.3.0
hunspell	1.7.2
icu	74.1
lcms2	2.15
libcdr-0.1	0.1.7
libfreehand	0.1.2
libetonyek	0.1.2
libmspub	0.1.4
libpagemaker	0.0.4
libqxp	0.0.2
librevenge	0.0.5
libvisio-0.1	0.1.7
libzmf	0.0.2
podofo	0.9.8
poppler	24.01.0
Qt	5.15.12
tiff	4.6.0

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Credits

The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites.

The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg (Germany), freieFarbe e.V. (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. Thank you to Liersch Studio (Germany) for the new website design.

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