The Scribus Team is deeply saddened to announce the loss of our friend and colleague Peter Linnell who in the end lost his long battle against cancer. The complete changelog for 1.5.4 is available here.Peter “mrdocs” Linnell (1963–2019) (Image courtesy Alexandre Prokoudine) Many potential stability and security issues revealed by Coverity scans have been fixed.Thanks to the work of the Document Liberation Project and particularly David Tardon, experimental import filters for ZonerDraw vector drawings (versions 4 and 5) and QuarkXPress documents (versions 3 and 4) have been added.Several new commands have been added to the scripting engine, so as to make the document creation via scripts easier and more versatile.Many bugs regarding fringe uses have been fixed in the PDF library, both for print PDFs and PDF forms.The Barcode plug-in has been updated and offers new features.Existing import filters have been upgraded to support the LAB color model (where applicable).Scribus is the first DTP software that supports this demanding standard. CxF3 files cannot only store palettes in different color models (e.g., RGB, CMYK, LAB) and output intents, but also allow for storing spectral colors, which enables even greater colour precision. Scribus can now handle color palettes in the new ISO standard CxF3 (See: ).Color precision for fill colors has been expanded to 64 bit floating point.Scribus 1.5.4 is in many ways a new milestone on our way to the next officially stable release 1.6.0. The complete changelog for 1.4.7 is available here. All future development efforts will go into the upcoming new stable version 1.6.x. Scribus 1.4.7 is almost exclusively a bugfixing and update release and will be the last iteration of the Scribus 1.4.x line.

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.4.7 and 1.5.4.

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