1.5.8 Release

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The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.8.

Please note that while some bug fixes still may be backported to the 1.4.x branch, we do not plan an official release of this version anymore. If you think you need the changes, you have to check out the SVN repository and build 1.4.9svn from source.

Most important changes

General

  • UI Improvements for dark mode and some icon updates and some window interactivity
  • Improvements to PDF export and output
  • Improvements for undo and redo of tables
  • Improvements to improve compatibility with later versions of dependent libraries
  • Improvements to the build system
  • Translation updates


Technical/OS-related updates

  • macOS: Scribus 1.5.8 now includes Python 3.

The complete changelog is available here: https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=112. More details are available from the Scribus Commit Mailing List archive (http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-commit/), beginning with revision 24637 in April 2021.

Primary Download Locations

Download Verification

Description File Name Sha256sum Sha1sum
Source scribus-1.5.8.tar.xz
Source scribus-1.5.8.7z
OS X 10.15, Intel x64 scribus-1.5.8.dmg
Windows 32/64 Bit scribus-1.5.8-windows.exe
Windows 64 Bit scribus-1.5.8-windows-x64.exe
Linux 64 bit AppImage [1] scribus-1.5.8-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Windows PortableApps.com Format ScribusPortable_1.5.8.paf.exe

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 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), freieFarbe e.V. (Germany), bauwerk Kommunikationsdesign (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.

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