1.6.3 Release

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.3. This is a bugfix release with the following changes:

Changes

• General Issues:
  • Preferences for guide and baseline colors not read.
  • Crash on opening PDF and selecting the option to import text as text.
  • Corrupt PDF generation fixed.
  • Various GUI issues, including nonresponsive fields in menus.
• Localisation Updates:
  • Updated translation files
  • Updated outdated URLs and ensured non-HTTPS URLs were fixed.
• User Interface (UI) Improvements:
  • Resolved shortcut issues.
  • Fixed increased width in Color Management menu after multiple uses.
  • Addressed problems with item attributes and spin box functions.
• Undo/Redo Functionality:
  • Fixed crash on undoing last paragraph deletions in Story Editor.
  • Resolved and issue with restoring frames and bookmarks.
• Build System:
  • Addressed compilation issues when building against newer versions of poppler.
• Scripting Enhancements:
  • Added new Python functions for unit conversion and baseline adjustments.
  • Improved image export quality settings.
• Graphics/Image Frame Bugs:
  • File manager issues with external drive detection.
  • "Update Image" functionality fixed.

Additional Notes

The complete changelog is available here: https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=124

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/1.6.3/
• 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-1.6.3.tar.xz
Source	scribus-1.6.3.7z
macOS (Intel), macOS 12 and higher	scribus-1.6.3.dmg
macOS (Apple Silicon), macOS 13 and higher	scribus-1.6.3-arm64.dmg
Windows 32/64 Bit	scribus-1.6.3-windows.exe
Windows 64 Bit	scribus-1.6.3-windows-x64.exe
Windows PortableApps.com Format	ScribusPortable_1.6.3.paf.exe
Linux 64 bit AppImage [1]	scribus-1.6.3-linux-x86_64.AppImage
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 1.6.3 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	74.2 (from 74.1 in 1.6.1)
lcms2	2.16 (from 2.15 in 1.6.1)
libcdr-0.1	0.1.8
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	0.1.8
libzmf	0.0.2
podofo	0.9.8
poppler	24.04.0 (from 24.01.0 in 1.6.1)
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.