Scribus 1.5.6 has been released yesterday.
A lot of small bugs have been reported and fixed; on top of it, Scribus 1.5.6 brings several interesting improvements and new features.
As you probably know, the latest major stable release of Scribus is now almost 10 years old...
Scribus 1.4.8 has been released with an important fix for Ghostscript 9.24 and 9.25 (and possibly also later version of Ghostscript) and a couple of fixes for the font handling on Windows.
Scribus can resize image frames to their content, but if you want things to be correctly aligned it won't assist you as much as it could. I've submitted two one patches for making it easier to fit an image in a frame or to to fill it.
2018 was a calm year for Scribus. There have been one minor release for both the stable and the development branches, regular bug fixes, and a couple of bigger refactoring efforts.
Scribus 1.5.4 has been released with quite a few improvements in the color handling (64 bit internal representation, CxF3 support, import LAB colors) and a new import filter for QuarkXPress 4 and 5 documents (thanks to the Document Liberation Project).