1.7.0 Release

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The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7.0. This is the first release in the next development series of Scribus and brings these major changes and bugfixes:

Changes

• User Interface

• The Qt Advanced Docking System (https://github.com/githubuser0xFFFF/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System) was introduced to Scribus. This supports customized window layouts and full-featured window docking. Palettes can be dragged and dropped to create personalized window layouts for your workflow with auto-hide functionality.
• Implemented SVG-based icons for improved usability and clarity no matter the screen resolution. In combination with a newly designed icon set, the icon set file has also been expanded to include a mapping, which also allows additional options for color manipulation without having to recompile Scribus or edit the individual icons. Graphical elements in SVG files that do not have an inline color definition are overwritten in Scribus with the current UI text color. Optionally, this "override color" can also be defined in the iconset file for dark and light user interfaces.
• Support for light/dark user interface modes now properly implemented with underlying support from Qt6
• Redesigned palettes and their individual panels, making the more consistent and easier to use. The XYZ Panel has a new Base Point Widget. For normal frame objects, 9 anchor points are displayed; for line objects, the widget switches to a 3 anchor point mode. In addition, the widget rotates with the rotation angle of the document object.
• Redesigned page palette with page previews and improved layout. The area of document pages in the Arrange Page Panel has been expanded with a toolbar in order to be able to carry out relevant actions more quickly, such as inserting, moving, copying and importing pages. In addition, the document pages are now displayed in small thumbnails, which can be displayed in three different sizes by right-clicking.
• Redesigned New Document dialog with refreshed page size sets and visualisation.
• General user interface enhancements including improved element visibility and aesthetics, such as selected frame colors and informational label visibility.
• Improved page ruler design fixing clarity on higher DPI screens, and improvements to tab/indent marker interaction.
• Add new white-space review mode to visualise page coverage
• Implementation of a new style-based Table of Contents and Indexing functionality, which supports multiple Tables of Contents and Indexes, support for multiple styles, along with page number and item combination, auto separators and capitalization.
• Add functionality to include user defined scripts to the menus.
• Enabled saving to previous versions of Scribus file formats

Additional Notes

The complete changelog is available here: https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=117

Highlights

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/1.7.0/
• 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-1.7.0.tar.xz
Source	scribus-1.7.0.7z
macOS (Intel), macOS 12 and higher	scribus-1.7.0.dmg
macOS (Apple Silicon), macOS 13 and higher	scribus-1.7.0-arm64.dmg
Windows 64 Bit	scribus-1.7.0-windows-x64.exe
Windows PortableApps.com Format	ScribusPortable_1.7.0.paf.exe
Linux 64 bit AppImage [1]	scribus-1.7.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage
OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS	.exe

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Release Dependencies

The versions of packages listed below are those we have packaged Scribus 1.7.0 with on macOS and Windows, but may be higher than minimum requirements.

boost	1.76
cairo	1.17.6 (minimum 1.14)
freetype	2.13.2
harfbuzz	10.1.0
hunspell	1.7.2
icu	74.2
lcms2	2.16
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 (minimum 0.9.0)
poppler	24.04.0 (minimum 22.04.0)
python	3.13.1 (minimum 3)
Qt	6.8.1 (minimum 6.4.0)
tiff	4.7.0

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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.