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
- SVG-based icons for improved usability and clarity no matter the screen resolution. These can also be manipulated during runtime for coloring, and support light and dark interface modes.
- Implementation of the Qt Advanced Docking System (https://github.com/githubuser0xFFFF/Qt-Advanced-Docking-System). This supports customized layouts and full featured window docking. Palettes can be dragged and dropped to create personalized window layouts for your workflow.
- Redesigned palettes and their individual panels, making the more consistent and easier to use.
- Redesigned page palette with page previews and improved layout
- Redesigned new document dialog with page size sets and visualisation
- Improved page ruler design
- Add user-owned scripts functionality
- Add new white-space review mode
- Implementation of a style-based Table of Contents and Indexing functionality
- Enable saving to previous versions of Scribus file formats
- Improvements to basepoint manipulation
- Support for light/dark modes
- Moved to Qt6
Additional Notes
The complete changelog is available here: https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=117
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 |
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 |
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.