Scribus 1.4.4 Released, Providing Minor Updates and Several Bugfixes. New Industry Partnership Announced

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.4, as well as a new partnership with a leading vendor of newspaper systems.

Scribus 1.4.4 is mostly a bugfixing release, but also adds a feature update. It will be the last release in the 1.4.x branch, and the Scribus Team will from now on solely focus on the development of the next major version 1.6. We expect to make available a first beta release (version number 1.5.0) in the course of 2014.

Most Important Changes

The Barcode plug-in has been updated to reflect the latest changes in the underlying Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript (BWIPP).

Several issues related to the user interface and canvas display have been resolved.

A severe issue with the spellchecker, resulting in a crash, has been resolved.

The handling of transparencies in Photoshop-generated TIFF files has been improved.

The Autoquote script has been rewritten.

For a complete list of changes see: http://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_bug_page.php?filter=99610

New Industry Partnership with SCS

Primary Download Locations

Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X and the source code are available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.4
Debian/Ubuntu repository: Debian and Ubuntu
Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
A ZIP archive for OS/2 Warp 4 and eComStation is available under: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus/1.4.4
A portable version for Windows is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Scribus%20Portable/
Packaging for *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana is beyond our influence. We recommend updating the respective repository data on a regular basis.
All download options are listed at: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download

Download Verification

Description	File Name	Sha1sum
Source	scribus-1.4.4.tar.xz
Source	scribus-1.4.4.7z
OS X Leopard or higher (DMG)	scribus-1.4.4.dmg
OS X Leopard or higher (PKG)	scribus-1.4.4.pkg
Windows 32/64 Bit	scribus-1.4.4-windows.exe
Windows 64 Bit	scribus-1.4.4-windows-x64.exe
Windows PortableApps.com Format	ScribusPortable_1.4.4.paf.exe
OS/2 and eComStation	scribus-1.4.4-os2ecs.zip	)

Credits

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

We are grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (France) and Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring.

The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg (Germany), GiveLife Color System (Spain), and Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA) as Special Supporters and donors of color palettes 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.

Porting Scribus to OS/2 and eComStation is being supported by Mensys BV (The Netherlands) and Serenity Systems (USA).

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