1.5.2 Release

The Scribus Team is very pleased to announce the release of the development version Scribus 1.5.2, which is another major step onto the next fully-featured version 1.6.0. In terms of stability, 1.5.2 can be already be regarded as robust. The Scribus Team encourages the wide-spread use and testing of version 1.5.2 in as many environments as possible. User feedback will help us to release a rock-solid version 1.6.0.

Most Important Changes

• The text layout engine has been rewritten from scratch, which means that Scribus is now capable of rendering most complex scripts, including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese and Hindi, as well as many more regional writing systems. The new text layout engine also works for PDF and PostScript export. We are more than grateful for the magnificent work that a programming team in Oman, lead by Khaled Hosny, did for us.

• Within the context of the text layout system rewrite, some new text features introduced with the 1.5.0 release have been stabilized and improved.

• The Autosave and File Recovery system has seen large improvements and is now highly configurable. Moreover, Autosave intervals are now being displayed in the UI.

• The Resource Manager, as well as the official Scribus Resources have been expanded significantly, because Scribus 1.5.2 provides direct access to the more than 300 (mostly commercial) color palettes of the Open Colour Systems Collection in the LAB color space. We would like to thank dtp studio oldenburg and the initiative freieFarbe for making these color palettes available under a CC license.

• Vector tools and creative text tools like "Text on Path" have been massively improved and now also work with complex scripts.

Caveats

• Please note that the online help system hasn't been completely updated yet, and it probably be won't be until the final release of Scribus 1.6.0.
• Some newly introduced features since 1.5.0, like footnotes, are "program-stable", i.e., they won't crash Scribus 1.5.1, but not "feature-stable", which means they may sometimes not work as expected for the time being.

Primary Download Locations

• Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X, a Linux AppImage and the source code are available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.1/
• Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
• OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs
• Packaging for other Linux distributions, *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana is beyond our influence. We recommend updating the respective repository data on a regular basis.

Download Verification

Description	File Name	Sha256sum	Sha1sum
Source	scribus-1.5.2.tar.xz
Source	scribus-1.5.2.7z
OS X 10.9/Mavericks or higher, Intel x64	scribus-1.5.2.dmg
Windows 32/64 Bit	scribus-1.5.2-windows-r2.exe
Windows 64 Bit	scribus-1.5.2-windows-x64-r2.exe
Windows PortableApps.com Format	ScribusPortableTest_1.5.2.paf.exe
Linux AppImage [1]	scribus-1.5.2-linux-x86_64.AppImage

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 and Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring.

The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg (Germany), Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA), the Newspaper Association of America (USA), Software Consulting Services (USA) and freieFarbe (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.

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

The Scribus Team takes a deep bow to Dezso Markon for his wonderful artwork.

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