Butterfly 2.4.1-rc.1 released

Oct 27, 2025

Linwood Butterfly

🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app

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Butterfly 2.4.1-rc.1 is here with the second batch of bug fixes.

This is a release candidate for the upcoming Butterfly 2.4.1 stable release. Please test this release candidate and report any issues you find.

This release is a step towards making Butterfly to have a stable ground to build upon for the next 2.5 release.

Add templates tbfly export option (#931)
Add option to selectively export templates (#931)
Improve empty description in pdf dialog (#943)
Fix templates cannot be imported in tbfly format (#931)
Fix flickering while drawing (#935)
Fix issues with eraser tool creating artifacts (#935)
Fix eraser tool creates elements with duplicate IDs (#935)
Fix color palette dialog not updating and loading correctly (#938)
Fix background lines don’t render last row or column if only partially visible (#932)
Fix files in grid view not having correctly spacing
Fix concurrent file system operation, causing templates being initialized multiple times (#940)
Fix file name goes into second line in file list view in desktop mode (#941)
Fix file is duplicated when name is the same (#951)
Fix thumbnail does not capture center of viewport (#946)
Fix pages cannot be removed sometimes
Fix default page will be recreated on opening (#952)
Fix error when trying to import archive
Fix temporary tool will be resetted although it is the same index making duplication in selected tool not working (#953)
Fix absolute read only files not being correctly saved (#949)
Fix absolute read only files being saved on closed
Fix imported documents have file extension in their name