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Revision as of 21:12, 8 January 2025


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.
    • Various GUI issues, including non-responsive fields in menus.
    • Updated non-HTTPS URLs to current versions.
    • Crash on opening PDF and selecting the option to import text as text.
    • A case of corrupt PDF generation was fixed.
  • Localisation Updates:
    • Updated translation files
  • 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 an 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, baseline adjustments and text styling.
    • Improved image export quality settings.
  • Graphics/Image Frame Bugs:
    • File manager issues with external drive detection.
    • "Update Image" functionality fixed.
    • Improvements to CMYK image import

Additional Notes

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

Primary Download Locations

Download Verification

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Source scribus-1.6.3.tar.xz 0ae58ced410101e82655e3b4c20a070cf1767145ada233dcef7c20b8ba6bd487 a6a0f61bd54724177985787a10a6efee74e21fae
Source scribus-1.6.3.7z 502d8abec399c900b231df375f87cd5356d27f168b2db085337ed0ee5a19b1d9 fb840fce1996134a63470f4dc72af451877518f1
macOS (Intel), macOS 12 and higher scribus-1.6.3.dmg
macOS (Apple Silicon), macOS 13 and higher scribus-1.6.3-arm64.dmg 68929bc13c65c4462e04ae6dd785ce9d9be38c459bac7fe0ef4b6b71bf48d981 ac9308b2bccb6a3dda4fe04df4ab5ff3f1ce3edf
Windows 32/64 Bit scribus-1.6.3-windows.exe 83ba45cafc478653ce9ad420446d7fd0b016efa591be622f24f9cbe11b3c7e81 4a97a3809e9649d200701e13e98b4c6a38e0bda8
Windows 64 Bit scribus-1.6.3-windows-x64.exe cca5c3e4d5769a6917c2ed99ca52d3b3b46404192d689ee30413fe9dee796c7b 4426b22ebb26f39b6a3db6c1d4e8d2e1dbd1a702
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

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.


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

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.