The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.2.3 - Open Source Page Layout. The Scribus team urges all users and distros to use this latest stable release. The 1.2.3 release is focused on minor enhancements, bugfixes and additional documentation.

Building on the 1.2.2.1 version released in July, 1.2.3 refines the 1.2 series with many fixes and some enhancements :

Scribus now supports the proposed openicc specification for color management profiles.

The 1.2.3 release also adds updated English documentation, along with many updated GUI translations.

Many locale and Unicode fixes and enhancements

After this release, the Scribus team will concentrate work on the 1.3.x development series, with a release of 1.3.1 imminent. We will continue to maintain the 1.2.x series, and already are working on version 1.2.4, with further enhancements to come.

The Scribus Team would also like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting and n@...859... GmbH, Hamburg for gracefully sponsoring our Scribus Documentation site, our Bug Tracker and Anonymous CVS server. Also, a note of thanks to University of Salford - School of Media, Music and Performance for providing continued hosting of www.scribus.net and upgrading the server hardware.

Getting Scribus 1.2.3:

You can:

Download source tarballs and document templates and some rpms from our Sourceforge Download page http://scribus.sourceforge.net

Visit the downloads page on http://www.scribus.org.uk for the same.

Download from our Scribus Docs mirror. http://docs.scribus.net

For Debian and Ubuntu repositories, visit Scribus Debian Repository. http://debian.scribus.net

The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, testers and contributors to making this our finest release to date.