1.6.2 Release

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The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.2. This is a bugfix release with the following changes:

Changes

  • Updates to typography and non-breaking spaces
  • Updates for the Python Scripting engine, adding some functionality and fixing memory leaks
  • Updates for compatibility with newer version of third party dependencies including poppler, boost, and python
  • Fix of a crash with Master Pages
  • Update to harfbuzz, lcms2, poppler, python in our builds.


Additional Notes

The complete changelog is available here: https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=120

Primary Download Locations

Download Verification

Description File Name Sha256sum Sha1sum
Source scribus-1.6.2.tar.xz
Source scribus-1.6.2.7z
macOS (Intel), macOS 12 and higher scribus-1.6.2.dmg
macOS (Apple Silicon), macOS 13 and higher scribus-1.6.2-arm64.dmg
Windows 32/64 Bit scribus-1.6.2-windows.exe
Windows 64 Bit scribus-1.6.2-windows-x64.exe
Windows PortableApps.com Format ScribusPortable_1.6.2.paf.exe
Linux 64 bit AppImage [1] scribus-1.6.2-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 1.6.2 with on macOS and Windows, but may be higher than minimum requirements.

boost 1.76
cairo 1.17.6
freetype 2.13.2
harfbuzz 8.5.0 (from 8.3.0 in 1.6.1)
hunspell 1.7.2
icu 74.1
lcms2 2.16 (from 2.15 in 1.6.1)
libcdr-0.1 0.1.7
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 0.1.7
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.