Scribus 1.4 released

Hopefully, 1.4 release cycle will fade into memory as an aberration and 1.6 will come soon enough to alleviate the apprehension you are expressing. The Qt3-Qt4 transition started off fast, but the resulting codebase took a long time to refactor and stabilize. In the interim many new features were introduced, which produced their own regressions and so on. Last but not least, the active 'core coder' part of the team has not increased even though the size of the codebase has. So the lack of manpower was a large factor as well.

Soon enough builds from the 1.5.0svn tree will pop up in our upstream repositories and in the SF.net project download area as 'scribus-ng' or such, so users who don't absolutely need deadline driven collaborative team production level stability will be able to use the new features. It has been one of the goals of the Scribus Team to keep the developmental tree stable for such users since the beginning of the project.